The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Can Tho City yesterday said that the flower street in the city was full of visitors. Asides from that My Khanh tourist village, Ong De eco-tourist site and Ninh Kieu wharf attracted lot of holidaymakers. Sam Mountain tourist site in Chau Doc city, An Giang province received thousands of visitors a day since the first day of the lunar year. Ms. Le Thi Cam Dao from Thot Not district, Can Tho city said that her family visited the mountain to worship Ba Chua Xu (the Holy Mother of the Realm) and pray for peace and luck. Kien Giang province also saw a high increase in the number of visitors during Lunar New Year festival. Rach Gia city in the province has been the rest stop of visitors during the journey to tourist destinations in other provinces such as Phu Quoc island, Ha Tien city and the Nam Du islands. Kien Giang province’s tourist department said that the number of visitors to the province increased about 30 percent in four days … [Read more...] about Tourist sites crowded in Mekong Delta during Tet holidays
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Football, National Day’s tours lure visitors
Tourist companies offer one day package tour on September at the price from VND11,900,000 (US$517) – VND14,900,000 (US$647), departing from Hanoi and HCM City. Meanwhile tours of one to two nights to famous destinations like Da Lat, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Nha Trang and Mekong Delta region for the National Day have also attracted many visitors. The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines plans to offer two additional flights from Hanoi to Jakarta and one additional flights from HCM City to Jakarta on September 1. The flight will be served by Airbus A321 aircraft. In addition, the carrier announced that it will increase 32 flights during the Vietnam National Day holidays (September 2) from August 31 to September 3, providing 6,500 more seats to meet the high demand on routes, such as Hanoi-Da Nang/Quy Nhon/Phu Quoc; HCM City-Quy Nhon/Nha Trang/Phu Quoc/Da Lat. The total number of seats during the period will be more than 151,000 seats. The Viet Nam Olympic team will meet UAE in the match … [Read more...] about Football, National Day’s tours lure visitors
Vietnamese women join slingshot vigilantes to fight sand thieves
On a summer afternoon on the Doi islet, a sand-theft prevention team starts the boat engine and heads for the Tien River from a small tributary. Sitting on the boat prow, Ho Thi Be, 68, quickly scanned the river banks, a rubber catapult in her hands. Nearby lay a bunch of stones she’d collected. For the past year, Be and her team have cooperated with the police and captured 10 barges of illegally mined sand, each with of 50-100 cubic meters of the precious construction material. “She is the oldest member of our team, also the most resilient. One time we were chasing a thief’s boat, she broke the boat light with a shot from her slingshot,” said Dao Thi Hong Thu, 54, another member of the team. Ho Thi Be and the rubber slingshot she used to break the lights of a sand dredging boat. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Nam Just beside Thu are several sharpened bamboo sticks, ready for use in case of unwanted close encounters with the sand thieves. In the Mekong Delta … [Read more...] about Vietnamese women join slingshot vigilantes to fight sand thieves
Social News In Brief 18/7
ACV plans to expand Tuy Hoa airport in Phu Yen province The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) is developing a plan to expand Tuy Hoa airport in the south central province of Phu Yen. The Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) is developing a plan to expand Tuy Hoa airport in the south central province of Phu Yen and build a new terminal with a capacity of 2.5 million passengers per year in the 2020-2025 period. Last year, more than 337,000 passengers arrived at the Tuy Hoa airport, equaling 61 percent of its present capacity. By 2020, the airport’s capacity will reach 600,000 passengers per year, and by 2030 will be 3 million per year, according to the scheme to develop airway transport by 2020, which has been approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The Ministry of Transport gave instructions to ACV to inspect and adjust the plan for different airports so that it is in accordance with what was approved by the PM. ACV Director Le Manh Hung said that at present, the … [Read more...] about Social News In Brief 18/7
Social News 5/4 (Hourly Updated)
Twenty-seven more communes and wards this year join family medical practice A health staff member takes blood for testing at An Hòa ward health station in Cần Thơ City’s Ninh Kiều District. Source http://soytecantho.vn The Department of Health in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ this year plans to expand a model of family medical practice clinics to 27 more communes and wards. Family medical practice clinics aim to provide comprehensive and continuous health care services to each local individual and family in order to reduce overcrowding of patients at city or central-level hospitals. These clinics are located at health stations in communes and wards. Each commune or ward has one health station. Cần Thơ aims to equip more than 80 per cent of its 85 health stations with these clinics by 2020. According to Dr Bùi Thị Lệ Phi, the department’s head, the city now has 18 commune-based health stations with family … [Read more...] about Social News 5/4 (Hourly Updated)