Viet Nam News The southern province of An Giang has given Việt Nam a cycling heroine. She is Nguyễn Thị Thật. People call her “the Queen of Vietnamese Cycling”. She won Việt Nam’s first women’s Asian gold medal at the Asian Road & Para-Cycling Championships 2018 in Myanmar. by Thanh Nga Nguyễn Thị Thật, “Queen of Vietnamese cycling” has marked 2018 by winning the country’s first-ever women’s Asian gold medal at the Asian Road & Para-Cycling Championships 2018 in Myanmar. She overcame 26 rivals, including powerhouses from China, Japan and South Korea, to take first place in the women’s 106-km road race in February. Thật, 25, from the southern province of An Giang, said the gold medal in Myanmar will be a driving force for her to take the gold in the upcoming Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 to be held in Indonesia from August 18 to September 2. With the aim of … [Read more...] about Viet Nam’s queen of cycling
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Viet Nam, RoK firms to boost technology transfer
Representatives of Vinh Phuc Investment Trading Company Limited and RoK’s Jeonwoo Precision Company Limited sign an agreement in the matching programme. — VNS Photo Phuong Thao Enterprises from the Republic of South Korea want to boost their co-operation with Vietnamese firms, especially ones working in the technology sector due to the huge potential in the Vietnamese market. The statement was made by Kyu-Min Baek, director of global innovation at the Korea’s Innobiz Association, at the Viet Nam – Korea small- and medium–sized enterprises (SMEs) technology matching conference held in Ha Noi on Thursday. The seminar was organised in the framework of South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s state visit to Viet Nam from March 22-24. The event is a chance for Vietnamese enterprises to access advanced South Korean products and technologies and promote opportunities for investment and business co-operation between enterprises from the two countries. Through … [Read more...] about Viet Nam, RoK firms to boost technology transfer
Viet Nam ride-hailing firms gear up to compete with Grab
After Grab’s takeover of Uber on March 26, some Vietnamese transport businesses are taking advantage of an opportunity to invest in the lucrative ride-hailing market. Pham Van Dung, head of TaxiGo application development, told the online newspaper dealstreetasia that Grab’s acquisition of Uber’s entire business in Southeast Asia is creating opportunities for other local businesses. “Customers always want to have different options,” he said. “The acquisition of Uber will bring us as well as the other parties an opportunity to participate more deeply in the market.” VATO allows customers to bargain price Tran Thanh Nam, the founder of Vivu Technology Development JSC, told Viet Nam News that Uber’s decision to withdraw from Southeast Asia prompted businesses to increase investment in ride-hailing applications. Nam also revealed that Phuong Trang Tourism Service and Transport JSC has invested almost US$100 million into Vivu and renamed it … [Read more...] about Viet Nam ride-hailing firms gear up to compete with Grab
Viet Nam cycling queen on a roll to Asian Games
Nguyễn Thị Thật competes in a domestic cycling tournament. — Photo courtesy of Nguyễn Thị Thật Viet Nam News by Thanh Nga Nguyễn Thị Thật, “Queen of Vietnamese cycling” has marked 2018 by winning the country’s first-ever women’s Asian gold medal at the Asian Road & Para-Cycling Championships 2018 in Myanmar. She overcame 26 rivals, including powerhouses from China, Japan and South Korea, to take first place in the women’s 106-km road race in February. Thật, 25, from the southern province of An Giang, said the gold medal in Myanmar will be a driving force for her to take the gold in the upcoming Asian Games (ASIAD) 2018 to be held in Indonesia from August 18 to September 2. With the aim of reaching her goal, Thật has refused many invitations to compete for foreign teams to focus on training for ASIAD. “Many international clubs have offered me to play for them but I … [Read more...] about Viet Nam cycling queen on a roll to Asian Games
Viet Nam promotes creative, high-quality tourism
Viet Nam’s tourism industry is expected to maintain a high growth rate this year but remaining sustainable while still achieving such growth rate is a big challenge. Viet Nam News’s Mai Huong speaks to Le Tuan Anh, deputy director general of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism’s international co-operation department, about the country’s tourism branding strategy. What is your assessment of Viet Nam’s tourism branding promotion in the past? In 2017, the Politburo for the first time issued a resolution on developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector by 2020 and the National Assembly passed amendments to the Law on Tourism. In the policy system, we have a comprehensive tourism development strategy to 2020 with a vision to 2030, together with regional development plans. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism also came out with a branding strategy for Vietnamese tourism by 2020 with a vision to 2030. Viet Nam’s tourism slogan, … [Read more...] about Viet Nam promotes creative, high-quality tourism