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Binh Thuan city's traffic police. The Prime Minister has called for enhanced road traffic safety during the holidays. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The Prime Minister has ordered authorities to build a safe and thorough plan to organise traffic during the upcoming holidays. As roads are expected to be crowded during the holidays, there will be a heightened risk of traffic accidents and congestion. To better serve demand and ensure safety, the Prime Minister has ordered ministries and government organisations to put in place a series of measures. Related authorities should have plans to ensure the capability, quality and safety of transportation services, especially road, water and air transport . Transportation services, bus stops, stations, airports and ports must adhere to safety regulations, implement digital ticketing services, improve service quality and ensure transparency of ticket prices, time and type of service. Congestion must also be reduced at bus stations, … [Read more...] about PM calls for enhanced traffic safety during National Day holidays

Hanoi will play a key role in connecting visitors to tourist destinations in Vietnam. The Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism needs to actively support major tourism businesses to build routes linking localities, and restart heritage digitalization with the participation of travel companies to create new tourism products. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the meeting. Photo: VGP This is one of the requirements made by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on August 17 at the meeting on removing difficulties and promoting tourism recovery so that the industry would become a key economic sector. The Deputy Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to urgently submit to the Prime Minister the adjustment of electricity prices so that accommodation establishments would be entitled to energy rates equal to those of manufacturing facilities. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, associations, and tourism businesses … [Read more...] about Vietnam deploys diverse solutions to revive tourism industry

Son viewed Tileuberdi’s Vietnam visit, which was made from August 17-18 on the occasion of the 30th founding anniversary of diplomatic ties, as momentum to strongly beef up traditional friendship and multi-faceted cooperation between the two countries. He welcomed the Kazakh delegation, which included representatives of Kazakh state management agencies in finance and investment who came to explore cooperation and business opportunities in the Southeast Asian nation. The minister suggested Kazakhstan support Vietnamese investors to operate in the market. For his part, Tileuberdi affirmed that Vietnam is a priority partner of Kazakhstan in the region, and that attaching importance to boosting the relationship is an important part of Kazakhstan’s foreign policy towards Asia-Pacific. He held that ample room still remains for Vietnam-Kazakhstan economic and trade collaboration, especially in agriculture, tourism, clean energy and high tech, lauding the plan to open a direct route … [Read more...] about Vietnam, Kazakhstan foster multi-faceted cooperation

This year's expo, with the theme “Growing Forward Together,” will take place at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center. It is expected to provide a great opportunity for Vietnamese travel agencies to recover and develop after the COVID-19 pandemic while connecting them with international partners and customers. 1,500 international delegates from travel agencies and brands, airlines, hotels, and resorts both at home and abroad have registered to attend the expo. Currently, the expo has 260 registered booths, and 210 among them are from foreign countries. The organizers have invited 160 international partners from 18 countries and territories such as the U.S., Australia, the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Romania, Poland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India, Thailand, and Singapore to join this year’s event. Within the framework of the expo, there will also be a high-level conference on tourism development policy with the participation of representatives of … [Read more...] about 16th International Travel Expo of HCM City to open on September 8

The platform comprises the two websites geodata-stnmt.tphcm.gov.vn and esb-stnmt.tphcm.gov.vn to store a total 450 resource and environmental data files of the whole city, including information on subdivision, land area, zoning plans, land use purposes and land subsidence, Bui Hong Son, director of the information-technology center under the Department of Natural Resources and Environment announced Wednesday. "This platform is similar to Google Maps, and businesses and citizens can use data from it, like ride-hailing firms use Google’s remote sensing data for their services," he said. Son said before the platform was launched, anyone that needs to get access to such data had to send a report to the department to ask for permission and wait for approval. Now with this platform, people can access information online for free while state agencies will be provided with accounts to download files if required. Deputy Chairman of Binh Tan District Vu Chi Kien said in the past two … [Read more...] about HCMC launches online land data platform

Workers checking a roof top solar system (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - As the energy industry has a crucial role in achieving net zero emissions by 2050, it requires a structural transition toward green growth. Therefore, Vietnam needs assistance from developed countries regarding both financial and technical issues . To detail the national green growth strategy, the Prime Minister on July 22 approved the national action plan on green growth for 2021-2030 with four important goals. The goals are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions per GDP, to green economic sectors, to green lifestyles and promote sustainable consumption, and to green the transition on the principles of equality, inclusion, and resilience. Speaking at the conference on the impact of COP26 on the energy transition towards green growth launched on August 17, Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc, deputy minister of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, said that resources are the biggest problem in realising the … [Read more...] about Vietnam needs extra 368 billion USD to achieve net zero emissions