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World MICE Awards 2021 revealed Ho Chi Minh City as Asia’s Best MICE Destination, Sheraton Grand Danang Resort in Danang City as Asia's Best Incentive Hotel 2021 and Vietnam Airlines as Asia's Best MICE Airline 2021. The results follow a year-long search for the world’s leading MICE brands. Votes were cast by MICE industry professionals and the public, with the nominee gaining the most votes in a category named as the winner. In October, World Travel Awards honored Vietnam as Asia's Leading Destination 2021 and Asia's Leading Sustainable Tourism Destination 2021. Also in October, World Golf Awards named Vietnam as ‘Asia’s Best Golf Destination’ and ‘World’s Best Golf Destination’./. VNA …

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The foreign enterprises shift their focus from surviving the pandemic to developing in the new normal. Six European enterprises have won awards for their resilience and contribution to Vietnam’s fight against the pandemic at the European Night-Business Resilience Awards 2021. Delegates at the event. Photo: EuroCham Vietnam For the best initiative to support Vietnam during the fourth wave of Covid-19, Becamex , Binh Duong-based industrial infrastructure developer, and Annam Group were recognized for their contributions to the country’s fight against the pandemic. The winners for best management initiative to support workers and their families were De Heus, a Dutch animal nutrition supplier, and Bosch, a German supplier, for their efforts in aiding staff not only through livelihoods support but also through policies ensuring their health and well-being during the recent outbreak. Two of the leading agri-food companies, Orlar and Les Vergers du …

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Huawei Vietnam received a certificate of merit for enterprises with an outstanding business culture. — Photo courtesy of the firm Huawei Vietnam Technology Co Ltd has received a certificate of merit for enterprises with an outstanding business culture that contribute to the “Building the Vietnamese business culture”, a campaign launched by the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. The award was presented at the annual National Forum on Culture and Business Forum (CBF) themed “Acculturation - Foundation for sustainable recovery and development”. Speaking at the event, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung said: “Building corporate culture is building competitive advantages, commercial advantages, and Vietnamese cultural identity in the field of the global economy. That aim can only be achieved when the business community develops harmoniously on economic, cultural, social, and environmental pillars in which culture is the core factor and the guiding foundation for …

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Celadon City is one of the most impressive projects bearing the typical ecological signature of Gamuda Land Among foreign investors in Vietnam’s real estate market, Gamuda Land is one of the most prominent names. It is the real estate development arm of Gamuda Berhad, the leading infrastructure and construction group in Malaysia and Southeast Asia, with a history of nearly half a century of developing large-scale transport infrastructure projects. Three out of the four biggest highways of Malaysia were built by Gamuda Berhad, which constructed and is currently operating and maintaining 230km of highways and subways serving millions of people every day. Around the world, Gamuda Berhad is present in many markets with highlighted projects, such as the Kaohsiung urban railway project in Taiwan, the Nam Theun 1 hydropower project in Laos, and the Dukhan highway venture in Qatar, among others. Gamuda Berhad is one of the largest corporations listed on the Malaysian Stock Exchange …

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Lorry carrying 39 Vietnamese migrants (Photo: AFP) Hanoi (VNA) – “One Year on: The Essex Lorry Tragedy” featuring the first anniversary of the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants who were found in the back of a lorry container in Essex, the UK, will be screened at an annual movie event in Pennsylvania , the US. The 2021 Erie International Film Festival will take place over nine days from December 10. It will feature around 60 independent movies, documentaries, animation productions and music videos. The documentary was written and produced by the multimedia team at Viet Nam News of the Vietnam News Agency in 2020. The documentary, which was screened on VNews TV to mark the anniversary of the tragedy, was first selected to be screened at the Pune Short Film Festival in India. It was then chosen to be shown at festivals in Goa, Kerela, Shantiniketan and the Alibag Short Film Festival in Maharashtra, India. “One Year on: The Essex Lorry Tragedy ” documentary …

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As one of the leading developers in the Vietnamese solar power industry, how do you see the country’s renewable energy potential and development goals? Samresh Kumar, chairman and CEO of SkyX Solar Renewable energy is one of the most promising industries in Vietnam with multiple tailwinds. The demand for renewable energy will continue to rise due to the country’s growing energy need as well as the government’s target to reduce carbon emissions. Vietnam will double its total capacity between 2020 and 2030, totalling 137-143GW by 2030. Vietnam has successfully demonstrated its capabilities to accelerate the development of clean energy solutions. It is now the largest solar energy producer in Southeast Asia, reaching 16,500MW in 2020. Additionally, it has just recently added 4,000MW of wind power projects in 2021 and more are expected to be added in the next few years. Solar and wind power development in Vietnam is highly competitive and there remain some regulatory …

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Denis Brunetti, president of Ericsson Vietnam There is no question that we humans are the main drivers of climate change. Due to the way we live, the way we consume and run our industries, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 has been rising extensively since the Industrial Revolution and climate change are widespread, rapid, and intensifying. The public and private sectors, therefore, need to work together to ensure a rapid transformation to a net-zero global economy. In the technology sector, Ericsson is leading the way by describing how innovative network performance can reduce energy use. For example, in our Ericsson Radio System, we are set to achieve a 35 per cent energy saving by 2022, compared to the legacy portfolio in 2016. We are also actively decreasing the company’s own carbon footprint. In 2020, we reduced our emissions by almost 60 per cent compared to 2016 and by over 70 per cent in comparison to 2012. This shows that halving emissions in less than 10 years is …

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Vietnam’s agro-forestry-aquatic product import-export hits over $82bil Vietnam’s agro-forestry-aquatic product exports and imports were estimated at nearly 82.67 billion USD in the first 11 months of this year, up 24.7 percent annually. Of the figure, around 43.48 billion USD was worth of exports, up 14.2 percent while nearly 39.18 billion USD was from imports, up 39 percent, resulting in a trade surplus of roughly 4.3 billion USD, down 56.5 percent year-on-year. The US was the biggest export market of Vietnam with over 11.9 billion USD, or 27.5 percent of the market share. It was followed by China with around 8.4 billion USD, accounting for 19.2 percent, and Japan with nearly 3 billion USD, or 6.9 percent. Share plunge as Omicron worries local investors Vietnamese shares plunged on Friday as the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant dampened investor sentiment, triggering worries about hits to a nascent economic recovery. The market benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi …

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There are about 60 million golf players worldwide, and Vietnam is completely capable of conquering this segment, according to Secretary-General of the Vietnam Golf Association (VGA) Le Hung Nam, Anticipating a growing golf tourism trend ways before the COVID-19 broke out, Vietnamese developers have invested heavily in building golf courses across the country, said Ha Van Sieu, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism. It is likely that golf tours will remain attractive to luxury travellers post-pandemic, he added, stressing the need for Vietnam to further accelerate investment in golf tourism, a type of service viewed as highly safe and low contact at the time of COVID-19. Nguyen Hoang Minh, Director General of Vietnam Golf Services (VGS) Corporation, said Vietnam had about 26,000 golf players between 2019 – 2020 and the number increased to some 51,000 this year, which only represents around 90 percent of the actual number The figure will be …

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