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A hydropower plant managed by Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group. — Photo baodautu.vn Multi-sector company Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) is selling its ownership at a hydropower unit as it continues the path to become a pure agriculture business. HAGL will sell 248.5 million shares or a 99.4 per cent stake in HAGL Hydropower Co. The company wants to exit the sectors that have remained unprofitable and strengthen its agricultural activities, the firm said in a statement. But HAGL gave no information about the buyer. After completing the deal, HAGL will officially remove hydropower from its business portfolio. In recent years, the group has offloaded a lot of its assets to restructure loans. In 2017, HAGL sold its sugar unit to Thanh Thanh Cong Group for VND1.33 trillion (US$57.7 million). In 2018, HAGL signed a strategic deal worth VND22 trillion with Truong Hai Auto Corporation (Thaco), allowing the auto manufacturer to acquire its cattle farming and real estate subsidiaries. In 2019, Thaco … [Read more...] about HAGL decides to sell hydropower unit

He will first join the Vietnamese team at the upcoming King’s Cup in Thailand next Wednesday. Phuong had been loaned by Hoang Anh Gia Lai to Incheon for one season. But Hoang Anh Gia Lai’s JMG Global Academy managed to get him a trial at a second-tier French team, Nguyen Tan Anh, the club’s manager, told VnExpress. No further information has been revealed on what Phuong will be doing in France. "We discussed with Incheon United and got their approval. After the King's Cup, Cong Phuong will go to France," Anh said. In his final match at Incheon in the K-League on Saturday, he did not come off the bench. In the previous 14 matches he only played 352 minutes and failed to score, having only three shots at goal. But not everything was doom and gloom, and he did cause an impression within the team and garnered some praise from South Korean sports commentators. Phuong has flown directly to Thailand to join the national team ahead of their match against Thailand on June 5. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese striker parts ways with Korean club, headed for France

Vice Chairman of the Muong Te district People’s Committee Tran Duc Hien speaks at the press conference (Photo: VNA) Lai Chau (VNA) - The third Vietnam-Laos-China ‘con’ festival, themed “Colour of friendship”, will take place in Muong Te district, the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau from December 29-31. The sixth event of this kind will gather nearly 1,000 artists and athletes from the three countries. In addition to ‘con’ throwing competitions, the three-day festival will feature folk games, a show of traditional costumes, an exhibition and a trade fair on Vietnamese consumer products and cultural exchange activities. Speaking at a press conference in Lai Chau city on December 11 on the organisation of the festival, Vice Chairman of the Muong Te district People’s Committee Tran Duc Hien underlined the significance of the event, saying that it aims to enhance people-to-people exchange, solidarity and friendship among border … [Read more...] about Lai Chau to host Vietnam-Laos-China ‘con’ throwing festival

Amid opinions that Vietnam’s aviation market has developed too rapidly, Mr. Dinh Viet Thang, head of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV), said that the aviation market has been posting good growth and under control with ensured safety and profits for carriers. The Vietnamese aviation market still reflects correctly rising demand of the economy and is in line with annual economic growth rate. However, representatives of state management agencies, experts and enterprises thought that although the development of Vietnam’s aviation market is still under control, rapid development has been causing intense pressure on infrastructure. If this issue is not solved soon, it will cause lots of consequences. Among the network of 22 airports, overloading situation mainly happens at two major airports Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat, of which the situation is worse at Tan Son Nhat Airport. Mr. Lai Xuan Thanh, chairman of the Board of Management of the Airports Corporation of … [Read more...] about Congestion in aviation infrastructure needs resolving

Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong is 42 and she fears what middle age will do to her face. Like many of her friends, she sees cosmetic surgery as a way to extend her youthful looks. Phuong originally planned to undergo a face-lift procedure and nose job at a beauty clinic in Saigon's District 10 next month that would cost her more than VND80 million ($3,438). But she's changed her decision, fearing for her life after a series of plastic surgeries went fatally wrong at private clinics in Vietnam's southern metropolis. "I want to look younger and more beautiful as the Lunar New Year is coming near. But I'm afraid of dying and I don't dare to risk my life," the grocery store owner said.   "They (beauty clinic consultant staff) guaranteed that the surgery would be 100 percent successful and advised me to keep an optimistic mind. "But these recent deaths and accidents from plastic surgery in private clinics have really scared me. It seems that going under the plastic surgeon's knife in Vietnam is … [Read more...] about For better or worse: botched plastic surgeries scare Vietnamese women