Vietnam’s national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has resumed its regular flights linking Hanoi and Beijing after a three-year pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline’s flight VN513 departed from Beijing at 3:30 pm and landed in Hanoi at 5.55 pm on Sunday. Before the resumption of the Beijing-Hanoi flight, Vietnam Airlines held a welcoming ceremony for the passengers on board at Beijing International Airport, with the participation of Vietnam and China's competent agencies and enterprises and over 100 passengers. The air carrier is operating the Hanoi-Beijing air route with a frequency of three round-trip flights a week. The airline will start increasing its frequency from mid-2023, while planning to open an air route connecting with Beijing’s Daxing International Airport. China is one of Vietnam Airlines’ biggest international source markets. The air carrier has reopened most of its air routes linking Vietnam to China, said a representative of the airline. The … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines restarts air services between Hanoi and Beijing
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Going digital and green in partnership with Ericsson
How can 5G and digital transformation impact the performance of industries such as manufacturing, logistics, agriculture and e-commerce over the coming years? Denis Brunetti, president of Ericsson in Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos As a critical digital national infrastructure, 5G has the potential to significantly transform society, industries, and the economy, as well as benefiting the environment. In the past, developing economies depended on traditional inputs to fuel growth, such as low-cost labour and natural resources. Moving forward, the new economy will increasingly depend on more sustainable inputs, such as science, technology and innovation, whereby data will become the new oil that creates as much as drives a more inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development, securing broader range prosperity for all. Through 5G, the introduction of Industry 4.0 will be accelerated across thousands of factory floors in Vietnam, enabling robots, digital twin … [Read more...] about Going digital and green in partnership with Ericsson
Railway sector sets plans to avoid losses this year
A train of Viet Nam Railways. — Photo courtesy of VNR The railway sector is striving to escape losses and divest capital in many companies in 2023, the Committee for Management of State Capital at Enterprises said about the Project on Restructuring Viet Nam Railways (VNR) from 2021 to 2025. The project has identified and evaluated the achievements and limitations on the basis of a comprehensive assessment. The restructuring of VNR in 2016-2020 includes the production and business performance, the level of safety, security and defence, development and investment, science and technology and digital transformation. It also sets out goals and plans for the restructuring of the corporation in 2021-2025, aiming at innovation, improved corporate governance, effective exploitation of resources, and enhanced labour productivity. Additionally, VNR tries to achieve and exceed the targets assigned by competent authorities, fulfil the obligation to pay the State budget, ensure enough … [Read more...] about Railway sector sets plans to avoid losses this year
Seven tonnes of ivory seized at Haiphong port
Authorities of the northern port city of Haiphong discovered seven tonnes of elephant tusks in a container at Nam Hai Dinh Vu Port this morning, March 20. This was the largest ivory smuggling case reported in Haiphong to date. The ivory were seized in Haiphong According to the Haiphong customs agency, they initially became suspicious about six containers sent to the port from Angola, including three which were declared to be transporting peanuts but had unclear addresses. After checking the containers, they detected a huge amount of ivory in one of them. The Vietnamese General Department of Customs are co-operating with concerned agencies on the investigation. Ivory is on the list of goods banned from being imported and exported in line with the Vietnamese government’s decree issued in 2018. A container containing 117 pieces of ivory tusk weighing 490 kilos was detected at Lach Huyen Port in Haiphong in early February this year. Haiphong authorities also … [Read more...] about Seven tonnes of ivory seized at Haiphong port