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HCMC proposes developing five new railway lines The Saigon Times A train is seen running on a rail track. The government of HCMC is working on a plan to propose the development of five new railway lines – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – The government of HCMC is working on a plan to propose the development of five new railway lines, with a focus on high-speed train routes, to cope with a high freight growth rate in the city. These five railway lines include the HCMC-My Tho-Can Tho route; the HCMC-Tay Ninh route connected with the HCMC-My Tho-Can Tho route at the Tan Chanh Hiep Station in HCMC; the Thu Thiem-Long Thanh airport route; a high-speed railway on the north-south route, with sections with high demand such as HCMC-Nha Trang to be developed first. The fifth route is a double-track rail line connecting the national railway line to the Hiep Phuoc Port in HCMC and the Long An international terminal. This plan is part of a scheme, which was recently passed by the city’s government, to develop the logistics sector in the city until 2025 with a vision toward 2030, the Office of the municipal government announced on March 3, reported Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper. According to the scheme, the logistics costs of some sectors in HCMC remained high. For instance, the seafood sector’s logistics costs accounted for 30% of its operation costs. Roads within HCMC and those linking the city with major economic zones in the south are facing overloading, thus extending the time needed to transport goods and raising logistics costs. …

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Thuduc House denies connection with companies to commit tax fraud By Van Phong & Dung Nguyen An office of Thuduc House. The firm has denied cooperating with other companies to commit tax fraud - PHOTO: TPO HCMC – Thu Duc Housing Development Corporation (Thuduc House), in its latest announcement, has denied any collusion with 70 companies to commit tax fraud as mentioned in a report by the General Department of Vietnam Customs. In response to the customs agency’s report on some southern firms’ appropriation of value added tax (VAT) refunds, smuggling and illegal cross-border cargo transport, Thuduc House said it had no connection with Saigon Southwest Trading JSC, a subsidiary of Saigon Trading Group, as well. As for the trade of electronic accessories, from 2018 to 2019, Thuduc House purchased the products from a domestic partner, An Lanh Phat Co., Ltd, through its subsidiary--Thuduc House Wood Trading JSC--and exported them to other countries. Thuduc House, Thuduc House Wood Trading and An Lanh Phat are operating legally, with seals, legal representatives and headquarters and have sufficiently paid VAT as well. Regarding the news that one of the importers of the products of Thuduc House could not import the products to Hong Kong and two others in Cambodia had no import data in 2018 and 2019, Thuduc House explained that it did not know if its partners had complied with their countries’ regulations and had no jurisdiction to ask them to prove their compliance with the law. According to Thuduc House, KGL Vietnam Company, which transports the products of Thuduc House, confirmed that it had transported the products to the Phnom-Penh International Airport in Cambodia and the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong and handed them over to the importers. The conclusions of the inspectors of the HCMC Tax Department and the report of the General Department of Vietnam Customs are being verified. Courts and investigative agencies have yet …

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Air passengers without online health declaration to be denied security screening The Saigon Times Passengers conduct check-in procedures at kiosks at the HCMC-based Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Air passengers who fail to make online health declarations while they complete check-in procedures online or at kiosks will be denied security screening at airports – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – Air passengers who fail to make online health declarations while they complete check-in procedures online or at kiosks will be denied security screening at airports. The security screening staff members at airports will have to ask these passengers to contact ground service employees to complete health declarations in line with the prevailing regulations, according to a dispatch sent by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) to the relevant agencies and units. CAAV also told local air carriers to work with the country’s airports to support passengers and give them guidelines on how to make online health declarations before they board the aircraft. Besides, the authority asked the airports to inform foreign airlines and units and organizations active at the airports about the regulation on security screening, Nguoi Lao Dong Online reported. Following the Transport Ministry’s directive on March 2, the CAAV wrote to the relevant agencies and units proposing that they closely collaborate with the provinces and cities to proactively apply Covid-19 infection prevention and control measures. The provinces and cities were also told to facilitate goods transportation and not to ban markets to make life easy for production and daily activities. …

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