Vietnam's star midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai officially joined the roster of French club Pau FC after passing a medical on Wednesday. The verified Facebook page of Pau FC, headquartered in Pau District, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Province, about 800 kilometers from Paris, published a post to introduce Hai to fans following his successful completion of a medical examination. “Vietnam international offensive midfielder (45 selections) joins Pau FC for the next two seasons. He will wear Pau FC’s No. 19,” the Facebook post reads. The Vietnamese midfielder’s two-year contract with Pau FC, which includes the option to extend for a third year, makes Hai the first Vietnamese player to sign for a professional club in France. Nguyen Quang Hai (C) holds his No. 19 jersey in this picture with Pau FC president Bernard Laporte-Fray (L) and vice-president Joel Lopez after joining the French club on June 29, 2022. Photo: Pau FC “The first important part has been completed. I have … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s playmaker Nguyen Quang Hai signs for French club
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HCMC completes first phase of developing shared databases
DoIC is working with World Bank to host a conference on developing a data strategy for HCMC from 2022-2025 https://data.hochiminhcity.gov.vn . The accessible databases here include electronic version of official documents and information on businesses and household businesses, secured transactions, house use right or land use right registration, hospitals, job certificates, schools and universities, educational services, foreign investment projects, public investment projects, market prices of essential commodities. DoIC is launching a virtual assistant service to aid officials to use these databases effectively for administrative procedure completion. Explaining difficulties arisen during the first development stage of these databases, Deputy Director Trinh shared that some content has not been done owing to negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the civil status database has been finished at the end of 2021, and the 1/2,000 and 1/5,000 geographic foundation … [Read more...] about HCMC completes first phase of developing shared databases
HCMC supports farmers to do business on e-commerce platforms
At the signing ceremony of cooperation agreement between the HCMC Farmers Association, HCMC Television (HTV), and the Management Board of HCMC High-Tech Agricultural Park The cooperation agreement also aims to encourage farmers to apply high technology and advanced techniques in agricultural production. Speaking at the conference reviewing the farmer movement in the first six months of this year which was held on June 29, Head of HCMC Commission of Mass Mobilization Nguyen Huu Hiep highly appreciated the HCMC Farmers Association ’s efforts in providing consultation and career training, offering loans, promoting trade and commercial activities, improving the movement’s quality and mobilizing farmers to unite each other to reduce poverty. The local farmers' associations at levels need to continuously provide consultation and career training programs, contributing to the effective implementation of the farmers’ movement; build a new collective model; support farmers to … [Read more...] about HCMC supports farmers to do business on e-commerce platforms
Vietnam’s travel firms see explosion of summer tours
Although the summer holiday has just started, travel firms and agents have already completed 60-70 percent of their business plan while air carriers have also increased their flights to meet high travel demand. However, travel firms and agents are facing new difficulties: increasing tour prices because of rising fuel prices and a shortage of human resources. Millions of tourists ready for their trips Tran Quoc Bao, deputy director of Saigontourist Travel Company, said the company has expected to serve more than 280,000 tourists this summer. The number of tourists will be higher as tourist demand at home and abroad is surging. Three-to-eight-day domestic tours offered by Saigontourist are available nationwide. The most popular ones are tours of beaches, tours of northeastern and northwestern regions, 'green' tours, and community tours. “As summer is the peak season, we have prepared financial and human resources to diversify and better our services to meet market … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s travel firms see explosion of summer tours
Reopening increases foreign interest in transport upgrade
Roads, airports, and seaports are being looked at by overseas companies in terms of investment feasibility, Photo: Shutterstock On June 16, Hoang Gia Khanh, deputy general director of state-owned railway giant Vietnam Railways (VNR), received a delegation of Austrian businesses at its headquarters who introduced new products and technology solutions aiming to seek opportunities in the local industry. The commercial counsellor of the Austrian Embassy in Hanoi said that businesses expect to intensify cooperation with VNR, specifically those in funding and upgrading projects, as well as machinery upgrading and maintenance. He added that besides official development assistance, the Austrian government also has other financial tools that can help VNR access financial resources and technologies. According to Khanh, investment demand for the industry’s infrastructure development is huge and he highly appreciates the products and technology of groups like Plasser & Theurer and … [Read more...] about Reopening increases foreign interest in transport upgrade
Radical and long-term measures needed to boost public investment disbursement
Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung Public investment has been disbursed slowly in the first half of this year which shows weaknesses in the guidance and direction of the localities. Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung spoke to Vietnam News Agency about the reasons for the situation and solutions to speed up the disbursement rate and implementation progress. Could you explain why the disbursement rate of public investment capital was low in the first half of this year? By the end of May, the disbursement rate of public investment reached 22.4 per cent of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister, below the Government’s expectation. This led the Prime Minister to set up six working groups to inspect and push for faster disbursement in the ministries and localities with low rates. However, in my opinion, to assess whether it is slow or not, it’s necessary to look at it in a broad perspective and across the whole period. For example, during the … [Read more...] about Radical and long-term measures needed to boost public investment disbursement