Saigon Times Group launches online news site in EnglishThe Saigon Times Daily Pham Huu Chuong, deputy editor-in-chief of The Saigon Times Group, makes welcoming remarks at the ceremony - PHOTOS: THANH HOA HCMC – The Saigon Times Group today, November 2, introduced the online version of its English daily newspaper at https://english.thesaigontimes.vn on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of The Saigon Times Daily and the 27th anniversary of The Saigon Times Weekly. Pham Huu Chuong, deputy editor-in-chief of the group, said digital technologies have altered the way people get news. Therefore, the group has developed the online news website in English to instantly inform readers, especially foreign ones, of what is happening in HCMC and Vietnam as a whole. "Digital technologies have fundamentally changed the media landscape in our society. And the new media landscape has altered how people consume news, as mobile devices have become one of the most common ways to access … [Read more...] about Saigon Times Group launches online news site in English
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Sai Gon Railway sells online tickets for Tet
The Sai Gon Railway Company has begun selling 80,000 online train tickets for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Around 20 trains, each including 17 carriages, will be used every day to serve customers during the season, according to the company's deputy director Dinh Van Sang. To prevent crashes at the website www.vetau.com.vn, or at crowded ticket boxes, the railway will sell tickets at different times for different destinations. The company will also offer 38,000 tickets to serve retail customers. Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) Job training for women in remote areas The Japanese Government will launch a US$200,000 project to build and upgrade a vocational training centre that serves women who live in remote areas, including Gia Lai, one of the country's poorest provinces. The centre will work under the province's Women Union, providing short - and long-term courses in different fields. A primary school in Duc Co District will also be upgraded. Thoi bao Kinh te … [Read more...] about Sai Gon Railway sells online tickets for Tet
Sai Gon Tiep Thi business as usual after Saigon Times gets publishing license
Sai Gon Tiep Thi business as usual after Saigon Times gets publishing license Nguyen Vu By Nguyen Vu - The Saigon Times Daily The front page of the first issue of Sai Gon Tiep Thi’s new edition HCMC – A new edition of Sai Gon Tiep Thi, a newspaper which has a prime focus on Vietnamese consumers and consumer markets, hit the newsstands this Monday after the old edition was shut down last Friday, meaning there is no interruption of its publication. The Ministry of Information and Communications on February 26, 2014 withdrew the license for the old edition of Sai Gon Tiep Thi at the request of the Investment and Trade Promotion Center of HCMC, the city government’s administering agency of the newspaper. The license withdrawal decision makes clear: “The administering agency requested stopping the operation of the newspaper over financial distress.” That explains why Saigon Times Group is tasked with continuing publication of Sai Gon Tiep Thi, … [Read more...] about Sai Gon Tiep Thi business as usual after Saigon Times gets publishing license
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BlackBelt antivirus software to be distributed in VN, Cambodia Lancashire-based mobile antivirus software developer BlackBelt has signed an agreement with Vietnamese distributor MV Corp to sell its SmartPhone Defense product in Vietnam and Cambodia. The deal will see the antivirus software to be pre-installed on devices running Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems. It targets largest operators in the region including Viettel, VinaPhone, MobiFone, Metfone and Cellcard. SmartPhone Defense is currently available in the UK and other European markets, and has been rewritten in Vietnamese for its launch in the South East Asian countries. … [Read more...] about IT & Sci-tech News
SJC sells 975 kg gold on slipping gold prices
Saigon Jewelry Co (SJC) sold 26,000 taels of gold, or 975 kilograms, in the last 3 days when the world gold price started its downward trend. "Previously, we sold averagely 2,000 taels a day," Nguyen Cong Tuong, deputy head of SJC sales department, told Vietnam Economic Forum, an online publication of the Hanoi-based newswire Vietnamnet. All SJC shops in HCMC were in a state of overcrowding with hundreds of customers queuing up and waiting on plastic chairs arranged in a U-shaped circle around the cahiers. "For those who buy less than 10 taels, the payment was conducted immediately, but for those buying up to some hundreds of taels, we have to ask them to pay at bank branches near our shops since we were incapable to handle their huge piles of cash," Tuong told newswire Vneconomy. Strong local demand is said to have pushed the price up and widened the price gap between international and domestic gold price to some VND2.2 million ($105) a tael. The closing price on Wednesday … [Read more...] about SJC sells 975 kg gold on slipping gold prices