Domestic Press Highlights (08-08-2007) New bridge crosses Sai Gon River A new bridge will link District 4 with Thu Thiem, a new urban area in District 2. The bridge will run from District 4's Ton Dan Street and cross over the Sai Gon River to District 2. This will be the fourth bridge that will link HCM City's central areas with Thu Thiem. The three other bridges are under construction. The first one crossing the Sai Gon River to District 2 is scheduled to open for traffic later this year. The HCM City People's Committee approved the project for the new bridge on Monday. Tuoi Tre (Youth) Call for energy conservation sees results After encouraging consumers to be more energy efficient, Electricity of Viet Nam(EVN) has seen a drop of more than 287 million kWh of electricity used in the first half of this year. The savings achieved 92 per cent of EVN's goal. However, not all administrative offices are using energy efficiently, according to EVN inspectors. The company's statistics show … [Read more...] about New bridge crosses Sai Gon River
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New bridges to span Sai Gon River
Domestic Press Highlights (18-01-2008) New bridges to span Sai Gon River The HCM City authorities plan to build several bridges across Sai Gon River by 2010. This year, construction begins on Phu Long Bridge linking District 12 with Binh Duong Province, and on Binh Loi 2 Bridge connecting Binh Thanh District with Thu Duc District. Eight other bridges spanning the Sai Gon River will be built to link the city's centre with Districts 4 and 7. Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon ) HCM City plans to eliminate monopolies In an aim to cut service costs and increase competition, HCM City wants to eliminate monopoly practices in several industries. More investment will be sought for infrastructure, including electricity, water, post, telecommunications, transport, port and airport services. Creating incentive policies on land and tax to attract foreign investment in high-tech parks is also on the agenda. The city has proposed both policies to the Government. Tuoi Tre (Youth) Gov't aids ethnic … [Read more...] about New bridges to span Sai Gon River
Sai Gon Railway sells online tickets for Tet
The Sai Gon Railway Company has begun selling 80,000 online train tickets for the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Around 20 trains, each including 17 carriages, will be used every day to serve customers during the season, according to the company's deputy director Dinh Van Sang. To prevent crashes at the website www.vetau.com.vn, or at crowded ticket boxes, the railway will sell tickets at different times for different destinations. The company will also offer 38,000 tickets to serve retail customers. Sai Gon Giai Phong (Liberated Sai Gon) Job training for women in remote areas The Japanese Government will launch a US$200,000 project to build and upgrade a vocational training centre that serves women who live in remote areas, including Gia Lai, one of the country's poorest provinces. The centre will work under the province's Women Union, providing short - and long-term courses in different fields. A primary school in Duc Co District will also be upgraded. Thoi bao Kinh te … [Read more...] about Sai Gon Railway sells online tickets for Tet
Sai Gon Tiep Thi business as usual after Saigon Times gets publishing license
Sai Gon Tiep Thi business as usual after Saigon Times gets publishing license Nguyen Vu By Nguyen Vu - The Saigon Times Daily The front page of the first issue of Sai Gon Tiep Thi’s new edition HCMC – A new edition of Sai Gon Tiep Thi, a newspaper which has a prime focus on Vietnamese consumers and consumer markets, hit the newsstands this Monday after the old edition was shut down last Friday, meaning there is no interruption of its publication. The Ministry of Information and Communications on February 26, 2014 withdrew the license for the old edition of Sai Gon Tiep Thi at the request of the Investment and Trade Promotion Center of HCMC, the city government’s administering agency of the newspaper. The license withdrawal decision makes clear: “The administering agency requested stopping the operation of the newspaper over financial distress.” That explains why Saigon Times Group is tasked with continuing publication of Sai Gon Tiep Thi, … [Read more...] about Sai Gon Tiep Thi business as usual after Saigon Times gets publishing license
Spillover effects from the blocked way
The most heated issue mainstreamed on local media these days is undisputedly the gold price and the mechanism behind the gold fever. For days on end, the local gold price stays higher than the global price by some VND4 million a tael, or rather, the precious metal is some US$180 more expensive at home than abroad for a troy ounce. Long queues of gold buyers are seen lining up at gold shops to snap up all available, despite their being aware that they are taking the huge risks. For a country whose gold stock is estimated at up to 500 tons, the prolonged fever is phenomenal in the sense that no effective solutions are taken to douse the fire, and the central bank's reaction is quite muted. Just a tiny part of the gold stock, say experts, will be more than sufficient to quench the thirst, but it looks like that the central State Bank of Vietnam has chosen the way of inaction. In other words, the central bank has refused to unleash the treasure that has been blocked from flowing out … [Read more...] about Spillover effects from the blocked way