The Ho Chi Minh City Student Assistance Center has announced a free bus program to help 4,500 students in the city return home for the Lunar New Year (Tet) in February 2010. Quach Hai Dat, the center's director, said that bus tickets will be given to poor students from colleges and universities who regularly participate in social activities and are in good academic standing. One hundred bus trips including 70 leaving from HCMC and 30 from Hanoi will take students to their homes in the Mekong Delta, central region, Central Highlands, and northern areas. Students from central provinces like Quang Nam, Quang Binh, Phu Yen and Danang City, whose families have suffered after recent storms and floods, will be prioritized for the service. The center will list the students selected to receive bus tickets on January 11, 2010. … [Read more...] about 4,500 students to travel home free for Tet
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Lam Dong looks to 1.5 million tourists from delta
Lam Dong looks to 1.5 million tourists from delta Huynh Kim and Dao Loan By Huynh Kim and Dao Loan - The Saigon Times Daily CAN THO, HCMC – The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong expects to welcome 1.5 million travelers from the Mekong Delta region in the coming time after an air route linking Dalat City with Can Tho City was launched. Vietnam Air Services Company (Vasco) operated its maiden flight on the route on May 7, carrying 67 passengers on an ATR-72 aircraft from the Mekong Delta city to Dalat. “Our ambition is to raise the number of tourists from the Mekong Delta by 1.5 times,” said Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc, deputy director of Lam Dong Province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism. “Both localities should promote tourism products.” Last year, Lam Dong attracted 4.8 million visitors, including one million from the Mekong Delta region. According to surveys of the tourism department of Lam Dong Province and Vietravel, southern … [Read more...] about Lam Dong looks to 1.5 million tourists from delta
Swedes to raise presence in Vietnam
Scores of Swedish enterprises will come to Vietnam this year in the hunt for investment and business opportunities. According to the Swedish Embassy to Vietnam’s Political and Trade Section, the opportunities will be in the sector of medical equipment, clean energy, urban transport, and disaster relief. High profile companies such as Bactiguard, Boule, Elekta, Getinge, Pharmacure, Lioness, and Hemocure, which several years ago came to Vietnam in search of business opportunities in the medical equipment sector, will come back to the country this month 2015 for the same purpose. Bactiguard, which provides solutions in preventing transmitted diseases, said that by using its technology, Vietnamese hospitals could significantly save costs, reduce the usage of antibiotics, and find it easier to cure patients. Bactiguard’s entrance into the Vietnamese market is part of its business expansion to China, India, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East. While Boule wants to seek … [Read more...] about Swedes to raise presence in Vietnam
A journey to the homeland
A journey to the homeland By Ngoc Minh in HCMC Tet, the lunar new year of Vietnamese people and a long holiday marking the springtime, is welcomed by overseas Vietnamese as a chance to return to their homeland to gather and celebrate the new year with relatives. For this occasion, Ben Thanh Tourist recently launched a new tour named "a journey to the homeland" for locals, expats and especially overseas Vietnamese. The tour will start from HCMC to Phan Thiet to visit Doi Duong and Ca Na beaches and follow the new coastal road, Song Lo - Hon Ro, to reach Cam Ranh and Nha Trang. In Nha Trang, tourists will have a cable tour to Vinpearl Resort, come back to Nha Trang City to spend a night and then go to Tam Islet to bathe, jetski, parasail and dive. Leaving Nha Trang, tourists head to Quy Nhon to visit the historical sites of King Quang Trung and enjoy martial arts. Then tourists will head to Hoi An, Phong Nha - Ke Bang and Hue's former citadel. In Hoi An, visitors should not miss a … [Read more...] about A journey to the homeland
Thousands of people back to cities after Tet
Tens of thousands of people are now rushing to return back to the big cities like Ho Chi Minh City, Hue, Danang and Hanoi for work, study or business after a long Lunar New Year break with their families in their hometowns in the northern and central provinces. Hoards of them are finding it difficult to get bus and train tickets to return to the south, especially towards HCMC, according to SGGP newspaper. There are currently about 14 Thong Nhat trains running from the Northern provinces to HCMC every day, bringing in hundreds of people. At the Eastern bus station in HCMC yesterday, a total of 1,500 buses with 45,000 passengers from northern and central provinces arrived in the city. A similar situation prevailed in the other bus stations of HCMC, where passengers from the Mekong delta provinces were returning. Yesterday morning alone saw 20,000 people arriving at one of the stations. Migrant workers in particular flocked to bus and train stations to get tickets to go back to … [Read more...] about Thousands of people back to cities after Tet