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Tourism Removing “cheap tour” bottlenecks By Nhan Tam Friday,  Dec 13, 2019,19:16 (GMT+7) Removing “cheap tour” bottlenecksBy Nhan Tam Truong Thi Hong Hanh, director of the Danang Tourism Department - PHOTO: NHAN TAM DANANG - At the ongoing 12th session of the Danang City People's Council, Truong Thi Hong Hanh, director of the Danang Tourism Department, talked about how a budget or zero-dong tour is designed in the central coastal city and reports her solutions. The Saigon Times: How is a low-cost tour designed? - Truong Thi Hong Hanh: A cheap or zero-dong tour is a competitive pricing tactic used by tour operators to attract more clients. Tourists can buy the tour at no charge, or it may only include a return air ticket. These tours often include shopping excursions, low-cost meals and sightseeing that is free of charge or low-priced. Travel companies can find many ways to offset their losses … [Read more...] about Removing “cheap tour” bottlenecks

After considering several solutions to expand its headquarters, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has decided to take up a proposal by U.S. architecture firm Gensler, which will not demolish a 130-year-building in downtown Saigon, but build on it. The city's Department of Planning and Architecture will work with the American firm to come up with the most feasible plan, the administration recently announced. This 130-year-old French colonial structure adjacent to the iconic Ben Thanh Market is the second oldest building in Saigon. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran. The department had proposed earlier that the city’s People's Committee invites international experts to make detailed plans on preserving the old building, which faced the threat of demolition as part of a proposed expansion plan for the city’s People’s Committee headquarters. In their petition, experts and other signatories had dismissed the argument that the building not being part of an official … [Read more...] about 130-year-old building to serve as ‘tradition house’ for HCMC administration

The stringent punishments against former top officials were handed out at a key meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee that is underway in Hanoi. Nguyen Bac Son, former Minister of Information and Communications, was retroactively stripped of his titles as member of the 11th Party Central Committee and Secretary of the ministry's Party unit for the term 2011-2016. Of the four modes of punishment typically meted out by the Party, this is the second highest. The highest is expulsion, followed by demotion, warning and a reprimand. Under Vietnam's regulations, officials punished by the Party would have their violations reviewed by the State and could be subjected to further administrative punishments. The action against Son was taken after the Politburo, the Party's decision-making body, in July asked the Central Committee to initiate "strict" disciplinary action against him for his violations in the acquisition of private pay TV firm AVG by the state-owned telecom giant … [Read more...] about Vietnam Party moves against top officials implicated in ongoing graft cases

Tran Van Minh, 63, leader from 2006 to 2011, and Van Huu Chien, 64, leader from 2011 to 2014, face charges for wrongdoing in connection with land and public property administration and use, the Ministry of Public Security said in a report last week. Its investigators found the two had signed a number of documents to transfer land use rights to Phan Van Anh Vu, a city real estate tycoon and briefly a fugitive from the law. The probe into the two former leaders in fact began with an investigation into Vu's dubious acquisition of public lands. During Minh’s time as chairman Vu established five real estate companies that managed to acquire a lot of public lands and secure housing projects. Minh allegedly enabled the tycoon to acquire the assets without going through any bidding process and often at below market prices. He then approved Vu’s sale of the lands. In all, Vu acquired 18 public property projects and seven land lots, causing an estimated loss of more than VND22 … [Read more...] about Former Da Nang leaders caused city $1.5 billion losses in land deals

300 gifts were sent to needy ethnic minority households in the communes of Tan Thanh, Thanh Hoa, Thien Hung, Bu Dop district Bu Dop is a needy border district, and over the past time, Army Corps 16 has carried out practical activities to help the locality build a new-style rural area, develop socio-economy, strengthen and consolidate defense-security as well as cement military-civilian ties, said Deputy-Permanent Secretary of the Bu Dop district Party Committee Pham Cong Duc. On this occasion, the unit also coordinated with the locality to organize art and sport exchanges, whereby they disseminated guidelines and policies of the Party and State to locals to fight plots and tricks of domestic reactionary and overseas hostile forces. In addition, the unit also instructed its Regiment 717 to hold a meeting with employees in 2018. At the meeting, the regiment’s units and employees exchanged solutions to improve productivity in the time to come. Translated by Minh Anh … [Read more...] about Army Corps 16 supports needy households