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The number of Cambodian travelers entering Vietnam is on the high rise, with the primary purpose of these visits quickly shifting from medical tourism to vacation tourism. Vietnam currently welcomes over one million Cambodian tourists each year – a figure which has surged since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, many local travel firms claim the number of Vietnamese companies offering tourism geared toward Cambodian tourists remains limited. Extended stays According to Pham Ngoc Ha, deputy general director of Saco Travel Company, her firm has been facilitating travel for scores of weekend travelers from the Cambodian provinces which border Tay Ninh Province in southern Vietnam. Popular tourism attractions for these visitors were local pagodas and Ba Den Mountain in Tay Ninh. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of these tours lasted just one day. Now more and more Cambodian tourists are opting for four-day, three-night tours to Ho Chi Minh City and other major … [Read more...] about Vietnam a major destination for Cambodian tourists

A handicapped Vietnamese man has spent the last 10 years teaching other disadvantaged children art and music at a center for the disabled so as to improve their conditions and help them recognize the most basic objects around them. Truong Tan Dung, 37, is currently a teacher at a center for Agent Orange-infected and disadvantaged children in the central city of Da Nang. At the center, he is not only the teacher of a class with 15 most serious cases of the facility, but he is also in charge of maintaining and managing its equipment and computers. Crippled teacher of the disabled At the age of three, Dung suffered from polio causing paralysis in his lower body and sensory paralysis in both of his arms. The misfortune of his childhood continued as his mother soon passed away and his father left, so the disabled boy grew up with his grandmother. As Dung showed his painting talent quite early in his life, he was able to support himself through adolescence by selling … [Read more...] about In their shoes: Crippled Vietnamese teacher devotes life to disabled children

Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Thang (right) presents the insignia “For the development of Vietnam's transport sector” to Shimizu Akira, Chief Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency ( JICA ) Vietnam Office (Photo: baogiaothong.vn) Hanoi (VNA) - Shimizu Akira, Chief Representative of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Vietnam Office, was honoured with the insignia “For the development of Vietnam's transport sector” by the Ministry of Transport (MoT) on March 23. Addressing the event, Minister of Transport Nguyen Van Thang thanked Japan for its support for transport infrastructure development in Vietnam. Official development assistance (ODA) projects funded by the Government of Japan through JICA are all large and important, making significant contributions to the country’s socio-economic development and changes in its transport infrastructure, he said. The minister also thanked and acknowledged the efforts of Akira, who … [Read more...] about JICA Chief Representative honoured with insignia