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Ha Long People's Committee said they had read a complaint from Facebooker Linh Mai about poor service at OYO Hai Anh VIP Hotel. Mai said the hotel cancelled her booking without notification and there were signs that Hai Anh 10 cruise had increased prices illegally. On May 19, Mai's family booked two rooms from May 29 to 31. However, on May 29, Mai called the hotel and suddenly was told that her booking has been cancelled and no one wanted to take responsibility. On the following day, the family visited Ha Long Bay on the Hai An 10 cruise but complained that the prices were too high and the tour time had been cut short by an hour. They only had 30 minutes to visit Dau Go Cave. Vu Hong Son, vice chairman of Ha Long People's Committee, said after receiving the news, they had asked the Department of Culture and Information to work with the city police and related agency to investigate the accusations and report back by June 6. According to Son, even though Mai said they had reached an … [Read more...] about Ha Long authorities vow to punish cheating tour operators

HCM City (VNA) - HCM City’s Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee has expressed its appreciation of the southern city’s Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s active engagement in local COVID-19 response over the last year, Standing Vice Chairman of the committee Nguyen Thanh Trung told a conference on January 26. The conference was held by the Executive Board of the VFF committee to review Buddhist affairs last year and map out orientations for 2021. Trung said the VBS proved itself an important VFF member and became a symbol of national unity. Recognising its achievements in Buddhist affairs in 2020, he also praised the VBS for proactively supporting the city in combating COVID-19 and joining humanitarian, charitable, and social welfare programmes. Such efforts have helped inspire and promote patriotism and consolidate the national great unity while contributing to developing HCM City as a civilised, modern city with a good quality of life, he said. The conference … [Read more...] about HCM City’s Buddhist unit hailed for active engagement in COVID-19 response

Hanoi (VNA) - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong, head of the document sub-committee, has delivered the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee’s report on documents submitted to the 13th National Party Congress, pointing out many new and outstanding issues in the orientations for the next 10 years. He presented the report at the opening session of the congress, in Hanoi on January 26. The overall development goal for the 2021-2025 tenure and subsequent years is to improve the Party’s leadership capacity, ruling capacity, and combatant strength; build a clean and comprehensively strong Party and political system; enhance the people’s trust in the Party, State, and the socialist regime; inspire aspirations for a prosperous and happy country and bring into play the will and strength of the great national solidarity in combination with the strength of the era; comprehensively and concertedly promote reforms, industrialisation, and modernisation; … [Read more...] about New, outstanding issues in national development orientations for next decade

The National Assembly recently discussed the overall scheme for socio-economic development in the remote and mountainous areas and the areas in particularly difficult conditions. This will make an important contribution to linking the national socio-economic development goals in each period with the sustainable development goal No. 9 "Eradicating poverty in all forms everywhere" and the sustainable development goal No. 9 "Building solid infrastructure to promote open and sustainable industrialization and encouraging innovation" under the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda to 2030. … [Read more...] about If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved

In fact, the law has concretized the policies and thoughts of the Party and State on protecting national independence, territorial integrity and border security. It allows mobilizing not only the armed forces, but also the entire political system and people to protect national borders. The law serves as a legal basis for the Defense Ministry to make recommendations to the Government to invest in protecting border areas, build the border guard force and mobilize other forces and people to manage and safeguard national borders. It also creates a lever for the Government and local authorities to develop the economy and improve the living conditions of people living in border areas. Finally, the law contributes to building borderlines of peace, friendship and cooperation with Vietnam’s neighboring countries. … [Read more...] about The image of Uncle Ho’s Soldier shining in peacetime