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Bac Giang takes lead in attracting manufacturing FDI By Van Ly An industrial zone in Vietnam - PHOTO: APH HANOI - Bac Giang has received the highest amount of newly registered foreign direct investment (FDI) in the manufacturing sector this year with US$589 million, closely followed by Quang Ninh with US$569 million and Bac Ninh with US$222 million, according to a report of Savills Vietnam. Despite a new outbreak of Covid-19 in Vietnam, new industrial zones have risen and key industrial projects have kickstarted their operations. Specifically, 2021 has witnessed new merger and acquisition (M&A) deals and improvement in industrial land supply, noted Savills Vietnam, which primarily provides property research and related services. By June 20, the country attracted US$15.27 billion in total registered FDI. The manufacturing and processing sector attracted a total of US$6.97, accounting for 45% of total inflows, with 273 new projects registering US$3.09 billion and …

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Support policies effectively implemented for pandemic-hit workers: Minister All policies supporting workers affected by the COVID-19 have been implemented in an integrated and effective way, ensuring people’s life, Minister of Labours, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung told the 15th National Assembly on July 25 morning. The strong surge in COVID-19 cases since April 27 has put enormous pressure on the economy and society, he said, citing the fact that employment rate reached 2.52 percent, with the services sector being the hardest hit. Some industries are shrinking further this year, such as travel, lodging service and transportation. About 70,000 enterprises in the economy have suspended operation or gone bankrupt. The pandemic has also been attacking industrial parks and export processing zones where a large number of workers are employed, Dung continued. He stressed that HCM City, Hanoi and many other localities have imposed full or partial lockdown and social …

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As COVID-19 has deprived Vietnam’s tourism sector of international visitors over the past year, a tour guide in Hanoi found a way to push on with his job, bringing authentic experiences to tourists through live streams. Le Hoang, 28, was blessed to have a job that he is passionate about. Being a tour guide to foreign visitors, he got to travel around Hanoi’s famous sightseeing places and coffee shops, sharing his love and knowledge of the capital city to others. It was not until early 2020, when the pandemic started hitting Vietnam, effectively blocking all international tourists from entering the country, that Hoang started to worry about his line of work. Yet coincidentally enough, the pandemic also opened up a new opportunity to the Hanoian tour guide. “In April 2020, a British tourist asked me to bring my signature coffee tour online," Hoang recalled. "That was the point I started thinking about online tours as a possibility.” Starting out with an ultimately …

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General Secretary of the Mexican Labour Party Alberto Ayana Gutiérrez (Photo: VNA) Mexico (VNA) – General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong ’s article “Several theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the pathway toward socialism in Vietnam” has proven that building socialism is a sound decision suitable with reality in the country by the CPV, said General Secretary of the Mexican Labour Party Alberto Ayana Gutiérrez. In an interview recently granted to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'s resident correspondent in Mexico, Gutiérrez said the Vietnamese revolution’s glorious victories over the past more than 90 years are the result of many factors, including the CPV’s political platforms, sound policies and guidelines based on creatively applying Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought in Vietnam’s reality, inheriting and upholding traditional values, cultural quintessence of humanity and loyal solidarity under the CPV’s leadership. …

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Illustrative image (Photo:AFP/VNA) Bangkok (VNA) - The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) said on July 27 that, in 2021, the country's tourism industry is experiencing its worst scenario as the number of international visitors may only reach 1 million. Meanwhile, if the COVID-19 situation continues to worsen, forcing the government to extend the lockdown order by three months, the number of domestic holidaymakers may drop to 50-60 million. Thailand has reopened its doors to vaccinated international visitors through the "Phuket Sandbox" and "Samui Plus" programmes, but it is estimated to welcome only 1 million tourist arrivals in 2021, a decrease of 82 percent compared to 6.7 million arrivals in 2020. TAT Director-General Yuthasak Supasorn said the country expected to welcome 3 million international visitors, but the real figure may be much lower than that. The tourism sector may meet only 30 percent of the 85 billion baht (2.5 billion USD) target revenue, a 74 percent …

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