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Hua Quoc Hung, head of the HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (HEPZA), said the city would switch to newer models of IPs and EPZs to attract investment, ensuring it has appropriate incentives during the transition process. … [Read more...] about HCMC hopes to attract investment by allotting more land for infrastructure

Da Nang (VNA) - The Union of Friendship Organisations and the Vietnam-US Friendship Association in central Da Nang city, and the University of Foreign Language Studies at the University of Da Nang jointly held a ceremony on November 24 to mark the 25th anniversary of Vietnam-US diplomatic ties (1995-2020). Nguyen Ngoc Binh, President of the union, recalled the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties 25 years ago as well as the birth of the Vietnam-US Friendship Association - the first bilateral friendship association between Vietnamese people and foreign friends - in 1945. Vietnam and the US have overcome difficulties and differences to keep the relationship strong in all spheres and at all levels, he said. Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Ho Ky Minh said Da Nang has set up friendly and cooperative ties with three US localities - Oakland (California), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), and Houston (Texas). Da Nang has been a destination for many high-ranking US … [Read more...] about 25th anniversary of Vietnam-US diplomatic ties marked in Da Nang

The two Vietnamese returnees, a 24-year-old man and a 50-year-old man, arrived in Ho Chi Minh City from Romania on November 8 and tested positive for the novel coronavirus on November 22. … [Read more...] about Flight attendant among five new COVID-19 cases in Vietnam

Videos shared Sunday night on social media appeared to show a large crowd at the airport trying to push their way into a multi storey car park where the testing was taking place and being held back by a row of people wearing full hazmat suits. … [Read more...] about Hundreds of flights cancelled as Shanghai tackles virus outbreak

To make Vietnam a “dragon” of Asia, students should take the lead in doing something new that no one has done, and make new startup ideas. Sharing the same view, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said that startup models and support activities in the city are more diverse in different aspects of the socio-economic life. Through start-up support policies, HCM City now has a safe, open and effective investment environment with 440,000 enterprises, accounting for 32 percent of the country’s total number. To carry out a project to support students in starting business until 2025, the city’s high schools, vocational schools, colleges and universities add training programmes on startups. The city has also organised many workshops on startup and job fairs, and worked to better the startup ecosystem, added Phong./. … [Read more...] about National startup day for students held