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A corner of Dubai, UAE (Photo: vinanet.vn) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City wants to promote trade and investment ties with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as there is a huge room for both sides for cooperation, according to a trade official of the city administration. Cao Thi Phi Van, Deputy Director of the city’s Investment and Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC), said the UAE is a focus in the city’s plan to bolster trade with the Middle East and Africa. However, the country currently ranks only the 43rd out of 100 countries and territories landing investment in the city with nearly 10 million USD in 11 projects. In addition, the city’s exports to the UAE accounted for only one fifth of the total Vietnamese shipments to the nation. To expand access to this market, the ITPC has arranged for two business delegations led by Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong to visit the Middle East country in February and October this year. … [Read more...] about HCM City wants to step up trade, investment ties with UAE

Ho Chi Minh City will need an additional 60,000 bags of blood from now to the end of the year to serve treatment in local hospitals. (Illustrative image. Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City face a shortage of blood for medical treatment in the last two months of this year, according to Chairman of the city’s Red Cross Society Tran Truong Son.   Speaking at a communication event on voluntary blood donation on November 19, Son said as of November 15, the city’s humanitarian blood donation centre had received 237,537 bags of blood, equivalent to 302,888 blood units, meeting 91.36 percent of the year’s target. The rate of clean blood was 98.55 percent. This means the city will need an additional 60,000 bags of blood from now to the end of the year to serve treatment in local hospitals. Besides, the blood transfusion centre of Cho Ray Hospital, which supplies blood for medical treatment for not only the hospital but also southeastern provinces, … [Read more...] about HCM City lacks blood for medical treatment at year-end

Illustrative image (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Ho Chi Minh City's agencies are increasing inspections of healthcare facilities that abuse the health insurance fund by prescribing needless tests and overcharging.   The city's Department of Health and the Vietnam Social Security as well as other agencies are addressing violations and abuse of the fund in the remaining months of the year. Any facility found violating the country’s criminal code related to health insurance will be investigated and punished. The Government, for the first time, has allocated a certain level of funds to health facilities under the health insurance fund for coverage of treatment of insured patients. The Vietnam Social Security in the city has reported that expenditures from the fund covering treatment of insured patients at health facilities in HCM City totalled 13 trillion VND (560 million USD) in the first eight months of the year, accounting for 72 percent of the estimated funds … [Read more...] about HCM City cracks down on health insurance frauds

Hundreds of real estate projects in Ho Chi Minh City have been suspended over the last two years, with many reasons being flouted for delays. A mass of reviews and inspections of real estate ventures across Ho Chi Minh City has caused a serious backlog of delays The city’s People’s Committee has since been making efforts to break the cycle of stagnation in an attempt to generate a steady supply of condominium ventures into the market. Bich Ngoc reports. Khai Thinh Real Estate JSC was given more than 77,000 square metres of land to develop a complex of residential area and trading centre in District 7. More than 1,700sq.m of the space, mainly set aside for road infrastructure, is in public hands, occupying 2.2 per cent of the total. Due to the lack of guidelines, Khai Thinh cannot process the scheme, perhaps for many months. Similar delays are being suffered across many projects in the city, especially those which consist partly of publicly-owned land. According to … [Read more...] about HCM City real estate in need of jumpstart

The series of expos will include the Vietnam International Textile and Garment Industry Exhibition, the Vietnam International Footwear Machinery and Material Industry Exhibition,  the Vietnam International Textile and Apparel Accessories Exhibition, and the Vietnam International Dyeing and Chemical Industry Exhibition. A number of the world’s most popular brands from the footwear and textile industry will be on display throughout the events including ZSK and Nantex from Germany, BARUDAN from Japan, in addition to Tajima, Mingling, Luluxin, Jin Yue Lai, Hongfeng, Jinxin, Mingan, Sokiei, Changmeng, and Teng Yu Long. The expos will see a large number of firms introducing an array of cutting-edge technologies and machinery as well as presenting solutions that can be used within the textile and dyeing sector. A number of seminars and workshops will also be taking place during the events with several prestigious speakers set to give an in-depth analysis of the effects of the … [Read more...] about HCM City set to host series of textile and footwear expos