Passengers on the inaugural flights receive gifts from Vietjet. Photo courtesy of Vietjet HCM CITY — Budget airline Vietjet on Monday launched two direct flights from Hà Nội and HCM City to New Delhi. Vietjet is the first airline connecting the two biggest economic, cultural and tourist centres of Việt Nam and the capital of India. The HCM City-New Delhi route operates four return flights per week. The flight departs from HCM City at 7pm and arrives in New Delhi at 10.50pm. The return flight takes off from New Delhi at 11.50pm and lands in HCM City at 6.10am (all in local times). Meanwhile, three return flights per week are provided on the Hà Nội-New Delhi route. The flight leaves Hà Nội at 7.10pm and arrives in New Delhi at 10.50pm. The return flight takes off from New Delhi at 11.50pm and lands in Hà Nội at 5.20am (all in local … [Read more...] about Vietjet launches direct flights on Việt Nam-New Delhi routes
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Online audition contest “Dream Come True” to seek Vietnamese talents
The jury of the online audition contest “Dreams Come True” at the launching ceremony in HCM City last week. — Photo courtesy of the organiser HCM CITY — An online audition contest named “Dreams Come True” that targets to seek Vietnamese musical talents has just been launched in HCM City. The contest rounds and votes from the audience will all be done online on Youtube over two months. Winners will be announced in February. To enter the preliminary selection round, contestants should send their audition videos online. Once the videos have been submitted, the jury will select the top 40 candidates to enter the knockout round each week. Each week the contestants will have to go through a special challenge to gain the right to "survive" to enter the final round, with challenges to be announced at the end of each episode. Each episode of 60 minutes will be broadcast live on YouTube at 7.30pm every … [Read more...] about Online audition contest “Dream Come True” to seek Vietnamese talents
New Huế-Đà Nẵng bus route service to launch
New buses are operating in the central city of Đà Nẵng. A new bus route will be operating between Đà Nẵng and Huế serving up to 14,000 daily commuters from January of 2020. VNS Photo Công Thành ĐÀ NẴNG — The central city of Đà Nẵng and Thừa Thiên-Huế Province plan to launch a shuttle bus network to serve 14,000 commuters and tourists between the two cities each day from January of 2020. Đà Nẵng City’s transport department said the new public bus network was upgraded from current bus route between the two locals with new 29-seat buses with more convenient service for users. It said the new route will operate with total 57 vehicles from 5am to 9pm, and each bus trip will travel every 15 minutes. All buses will be installed with Global Positioning System (GPS) car tracking equipment and security camera on the route, it said. The … [Read more...] about New Huế-Đà Nẵng bus route service to launch
Vietnam to gain $11b from wood and forest product exports in 2019
Vietnam is likely to reach its export turnover target of US$11 billion from wood and forestry products this year as the main season for business is in the last six months of the year. Workers perfect wood products for export at the Woodsland Tuyen Quang JSC. — Photo hanoimoi.com.vn Businesses also have enough orders for production by year-end, said Nguyen Ton Quyen, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association.. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan also said to meet this goal, the Government has committed to creating favourable conditions for businesses, including domestic and foreign-invested enterprises, to develop and have solutions for origin fraud in the timber industry. According to the association, Viet Nam is expected to export timber and wood products to the EU valued at over $700 million this year, higher than the $680 million achieved in 2018. Before 2018, the EU market mainly … [Read more...] about Vietnam to gain $11b from wood and forest product exports in 2019
Kiên Giang’s U Minh Thượng seeks to revive freshwater fish populations
A farmer breeds bighead catfish in a pond in Kiên Giang Province’s U Minh Thượng District. – VNA/VNS Photo Lê Sen KIÊN GIANG — Authorities in the U Minh Thượng area in Kiên Giang Province are trying to bring back a famous endemic freshwater fish, cá đồng. The genus includes species like snakehead fish, bighead catfish, anabas, gourami, tank goby, featherfin fish and others, most of which live in rice fields and ponds but are now seeing their populations dwindling. In U Minh Thượng, which comprises An Biên, An Minh, Vĩnh Thuận and U Minh Thượng districts, their numbers have been falling in recent years because of several reasons like saltwater intrusion, the development of other hybrid species and habitat loss. Many rice fields in the area have seen farmers switch to shrimp, thus crowding out cá đồng. Local authorities have been making efforts to … [Read more...] about Kiên Giang’s U Minh Thượng seeks to revive freshwater fish populations