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Data from travel platform Mustgo, which partners with 100 hotels in the south central beach town, showed two- and three-star hotels in the downtown fully booked for the week. The four-star Anya Quy Nhon reported no rooms on Friday and other high-end hotels are almost full. The fourth season of VnExpress Marathon Quy Nhon will take place on Sunday, attracting more than 10,000 runners. Return air tickets from Hanoi, HCMC to Quy Nhon cost from VND3 million ($130) per person. Quy Nhon has emerged as a rising star on the Vietnamese tourism map thanks to its long, sandy beaches and crystal blue waters. … [Read more...] about Quy Nhon hotels nearly full ahead of summer travel rush

The visit was in the program themed “10th Trust and Aspiration for the Fatherland -  Overseas Vietnam (OVs) to Truong Sa,” which concluded on April 23 in Khanh Hoa province. This was the tenth trip jointly organized for OVs by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs (SCOV), and the Naval Command. According to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Minh Vu, since 2013, the SCOV and the Naval Command have brought over 500 OVs to visit Truong Sa island district and the DK1 platforms. Mr. Vu highlighted these visits which have helped confirm Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and give OVs chances to exchange with their compatriots at home, thus enhancing the great national unity bloc. During the visits, OVs have donated nearly VND 1.3 billion in both kind and cash to assist Truong Sa troops and islanders in reducing their difficulties. Receiving the donations from OVs, Rear Admiral Pham Van Hung, Deputy … [Read more...] about OVs visit Truong Sa, DK1 platforms

On the morning of November 30 last year, Minh, now 29, received an email from his employers at DoorDash, the largest online food delivery company in the U.S. The company announced that it was letting him go. Just a day earlier, Minh was still the leader of one of the company’s finance management team. When he received the email, Minh had already studied and worked in the finance field in the U.S. for over a decade. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting, a master’s in data science, is a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), as well as a Certified Public Accountant. "Though the layoff wave at that time was staggering many tech firms, I still couldn’t believe my eyes. I was aware of the financial situation of the company [DoorDash], and it was good," Minh said. The next thing he did was call his manager, hoping the letter may have been a mistake. The manager said they were surprised by the news and promised to look into the matter. Ten minutes later, it was … [Read more...] about Vietnamese worker back on feet after US layoff

SABECO in Forbes' top 50 listed companies in 2023 This is the 11 th year it has released this list in the country. The rankings are based on last year’s audited consolidated financial reports of the companies listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange and the Hanoi Stock Exchange. Forbes Vietnam said total after-tax profit of the 50 firms stood at over VND228 trillion ($9.7 billion) while their combined revenue VND1.49 quadrillion ($64.8 billion), respectively rising 18 per cent and 24.9 per cent from the 2022 list. In 2022, profits of listed companies in general and those in the top 50 hit a record level. Of these, 2022 is a year when SABECO recorded a record profit after tax since its establishment in 1975. The company recorded a nearly 33 per cent increase in net revenue and a 40 per cent increase in net profit compared to 2021, despite the impact of the pandemic as well as fluctuations in the domestic market. On the journey of 148 years of development, an important … [Read more...] about SABECO in Forbes top 50 listed companies

Hoang Quang Phong, Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry speaks at the opening ceremony of the exhibition. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The 11th Hanoi International Plastic, Rubber, Printing, and Packaging Industry Exhibition (Hanoi PlasPrintPack 2023) was opened in Hanoi on June 8, attracting 200 companies with 340 booths. The companies are from 11 countries and territories including China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan (China), Hong Kong (China), Thailand, the UK, and Vietnam. Speaking at the opening of the exhibition, Hoang Quang Phong, Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said that along with the development of the domestic manufacturing industry, the plastic, packaging, and printing industries also see rapid growth. They are supporting industries with great potential and require high-tech products, modern production processes, and management to increase competitiveness in the market. Ho Duc … [Read more...] about Over 200 companies join Hanoi PlasPrintPack 2023

Police in Hanoi have arrested four suspects and seized more than 62kg of synthetic drugs, cracking down on a ring that smuggled drugs disguised as food and home appliances from European countries into Vietnam. The kingpin, 27-year-old Hoang Tien Dung, hailing from northern Hung Yen Province, was arrested during a coordination between the police of Hanoi and their colleagues in Hung Yen from May 4 to 7. To create a screen to hide his illegal drug smuggling, Dung set up an agency providing purified water and a night eatery in Hung Yen but used these facilities as the places to receive and deliver drugs, Hanoi police reported on Tuesday. Also detained with Dung were his two accomplices, Tran Van Tuan, 19, and Dao Ngoc Long, 35, both from Hung Yen. Tuan directly aided Dung in the illegal sale of smuggled drugs in Vietnam while Long acted as a middleman for Dung to deal with a suspect living abroad to buy drugs from European countries. Earlier on March 23, Hanoi police in … [Read more...] about Hanoi police bust ring smuggling drugs from Europe to Vietnam

A family in Thai Nguyen Province, northern Vietnam on Wednesday voluntarily handed over six tigers they had kept in captivity for nearly 20 years to the Hanoi Wild Animal Rescue Center in Hanoi. The Thai Nguyen Department of Forest Protection and its subordinate in Thai Nguyen City of the namesake province coordinated with the Hanoi Department of Forest Protection and the Hanoi Wild Animal Rescue Center received the six tigers from the family of Nguyen Khac Thuong, residing in Thinh Dan Commune, Thai Nguyen City. The six tigers would be sent to the Hanoi Wild Animal Rescue Center for further care. The prime minister on April 4, 2007 gave his nod to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s proposal to assign tigers illegally kept in captivity to households allowed to pilot the raising of tigers for preservation after detecting unlawful tiger raising establishments in southern Binh Duong Province. The authorities in Thai Nguyen in 2007 also detected Thuong’s illegal … [Read more...] about Family in Vietnam’s Thai Nguyen hands over 6 tigers to rescue center

Clients at a transaction office of BIDV. The bank's shares tumbled nearly 1.5 per cent on Thursday, leading the down trend. — Photo vietnamplus.vn Shares retreated from the morning trade on Thursday, weighed by strong selling activities after the VN-Index surpassed the key psychological level of 1,100 points. The market benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) ended the recent rallies to trade lower at 1,101.32 points, down 8.22 points, or 0.74 per cent. It had gained more than 34 points in the last five days. The breadth of the market switched to the negative zone, with 216 stocks slumping, while 127 ticker symbols finished higher. Liquidity, however, soared to the highest in the last six months. Particularly, the trading value on the southern bourse was nearly VND23.7 trillion (US$1 billion), equivalent to a trading volume of more than 1.3 billion shares. Many stocks in the VN30 basket, which tracks the 30 biggest ticker symbols in market … [Read more...] about Market corrects on profit-taking activities

In a video that has been circulating on the Internet since Wednesday, Jocelyn Chia joked about how Malaysian airplanes "cannot fly" during a stand-up performance at a comedy club in the U.S. "Malaysian Airlines going missing not funny huh?" she said in the video. "Some jokes don't land," she added, seemingly referring to the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines MH370, with 239 people on board now presumed dead. She also made crude remarks about Malaysia as a country, with quips like "they don't have Internet." The jokes drew quick criticisms from online communities and authorities from both Malaysia and Singapore alike. "This is so disrespectful and you shouldn't use the airlines as a joke to those families that had lost their loved ones," read one comment posted about the video on Facebook. "She shouldn’t make fun of MH370, that’s just bad taste," said another commenter on YouTube. In response to the incident, Malaysian Foreign Minister Zambry Abdul Kadir said Chia’s act … [Read more...] about Singapore comedian’s jokes about MH370 plane disappearance draw ire

Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City is expected to serve 150,555 flights and up to 23.9 million passengers in the summer’s peak season from June 1 to August 15. Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City is expected to serve nearly 24 million passengers in the summer's peak season. (Photo: VNA) The figure represents an increase of 6.64% in the number of flights and 7.6% in the number of passengers compared with the same period last year. A representative of Tan Son Nhat International Airport said the airport has prepared plans to meet the high demand. Accordingly, all units have been asked to pay attention to monitoring the flight schedule, frequency and density of flight operations in each time frame and arrange personnel to ensure airport services. They have been required to devise a plan to prevent flooding as well as how to handle it in case bad weather affects flights, the representative said. The airport also arranges … [Read more...] about Tan Son Nhat Airport prepares for summer peak season