As part of its expansion strategy in Southeast Asia and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries, GoAir is considering bringing Indian tourists to Hanoi via the first direct link between the two countries, Arjun Dasgupta, GoAir vice president, said at a meeting in New Delhi last Sunday. No further details were revealed about the new routes. Currently, the airline operates Airbus A320 Neo aircraft, which have an endurance of around six-hours of flying time. In addition to its expansion plans, the airline has enhanced its fleet size and recently took the delivery of its 51st plane. Going forward, it plans to add at least one aircraft every month. This is the second Indian carrier that has revealed plans to operate direct flights to the Vietnamese capital this year. Earlier, budget carrier Indigo said it plans to launch daily direct flights between India's Kolkata City and Hanoi from October 3 onwards. Vietnam is one of the world’s … [Read more...] about Indian carrier GoAir plans direct flights to Hanoi
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Indian carrier plans direct flight from Kolkata to Hanoi
The first direct link between the two countries and cities aims to cater to increasing travel demands, said William Boulter, chief commercial officer of Indigo, the largest airline in India which accounts for nearly 50 percent of domestic market share. Vietnam is one of the world’s emerging tourist destinations. As such, the carrier is considering taking more Indian tourists to the Southeast Asian country in the near future, Boulter said at a ceremony organized by Vietnam’s Ambassador to India Pham Sanh Chau in New Delhi on Wednesday. Kolkata is the capital of West Bengal, India's fourth-most populous state. The number of Indian tourists to Vietnam remained low compared to other Asian countries such as China and South Korea, with only 130,000 arrivals in 2018, surging 30 percent year-on-year. China and South Korea are Vietnam's top feeder markets with 4.9 million and 3.4 million visitors last year respectively. Vietnam first allowed foreign tourists to apply … [Read more...] about Indian carrier plans direct flight from Kolkata to Hanoi
Nearly half WTO members agree to talks on new e-commerce rules
Nearly half WTO members agree to talks on new e-commerce rulesThe Saigon Times Daily An Afghan shopkeeper works on his laptop at his online shop in Kabul, Afghanistan June 4, 2018 – PHOTO: REUTERS DAVOS (REUTERS) - Impatient with a lack of World Trade Organization rules to cover the explosive growth of e-commerce, 76 countries and regions including the United States, the EU and Japan agreed on Friday to start negotiating a set of open and predictable regulations. China, which is locked in a trade war with the United States, signaled conditional support for the initiative but said it should also take into account the needs of developing countries, in comments likely to rile Washington. E-commerce, or online trade in goods and services, has become a huge component of the global economy. A WTO report put the total value of e-commerce in 2016 at US$27.7 trillion, of which nearly US$24 trillion was business-to-business transactions. On the sidelines of the World Economic … [Read more...] about Nearly half WTO members agree to talks on new e-commerce rules
India unlikely to impact balance of power in Asia: Hanoi conference
"The rise of India's economic and military power opens the possibility that the country could fill the void left by the U.S.,” Dr Sinderpal Singh of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore told a conference in Hanoi last week. But he expressed doubts about India's ability to meet the expectations of other countries that have the same objectives as he analyzed the strategic differences between India and the U.S. at the “India’s rise and its impact on regional security architecture” conference. First of all, while the U.S. looks at East Asia and the Indian and Pacific Oceans as major pillars in its strategy, India has a bigger view, asserting that those pillars must include the Indian Ocean and Africa. This has led to differences between the two, Singh said. For instance, India believes that Iran plays a key role in ensuring security in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but the U.S. does not agree with that. … [Read more...] about India unlikely to impact balance of power in Asia: Hanoi conference
Top Trump aides rush to disavow NYTimes ‘resistance’ article
Top Trump aides rush to disavow NYTimes 'resistance' articleThe Saigon Times Daily WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - Top aides to Donald Trump scrambled on Thursday to deny authorship of an anonymous New York Times opinion column that slammed the U.S. president’s leadership style and described “a quiet resistance” to him within his own administration. By early afternoon, eight senior officials had disavowed the piece, including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Mattis, while hammering the author for writing it and the Times for publishing it. Trump seethed about the piece and presented it as one more jab from the ranks of disgruntled critics in denial about his presidential successes, even as Washington was consumed with speculation about who wrote it. First Lady Melania Trump said in a statement on Twitter, “To the writer of the oped - you are not protecting this country, you are sabotaging it with your cowardly … [Read more...] about Top Trump aides rush to disavow NYTimes ‘resistance’ article