Still the ‘engine’ of the country’s economic development, southern provinces have seen growth slowing down. After many years of waiting, Vam Cong, the second cable-stay bridge across the Hau River, after Can Tho bridge, has been put into operation. Analysts say that it would help the southwestern provinces improve their capability of connecting with HCMC and Cambodia. However, there are still many things that need to be done as the area now has only 11 percent of total highway length, though it makes up 55 percent of the country’s GDP. Hai Phong story Hai Phong City in the north is called a ‘rising star’. Many Vietnamese and foreign groups, including VinFast, Sun Group and BRG, have chosen the locality to set up their production facilities. In 2018, the city attracted $2.5 billion worth of FDI, or 2.7 times higher than the year before. The strong rise of Hai Phong has close relations with the development of a series of infrastructure projects. … [Read more...] about Infrastructure development to give southern region a push
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Phu Long, MJ Group sign to promote wellness and beauty services
The partnership aims to provide leading health management and wellness services to promote wellness and holistic health for tourists as well as enhance the attractiveness of Vietnams tourism market, Phu Long said in a release. Phung Chu Cuong (left), General Director of Phu Long and representative of MJ Group signed the memorandum. Under the deal, inked on the sidelines of the Vietnam Tourism Summit, MJ Group will apply leading and comprehensive technology in health management to offer outstanding preventive health care services in newly-built high-tech health screening and health management centers with the aim to provide customers healthier lifestyles and better services. Phu Long plans to develop a mammoth resort destination across more than 200 hectares, including a 1.5-kilometre sandy beach on Phu Quoc Island, off the southern coast of Vietnam. This is where the worlds renown hotel and resort operators will converge to offer leading tourism products such as luxury hotels and … [Read more...] about Phu Long, MJ Group sign to promote wellness and beauty services
Domestic, global focus needed to address public health issues
A child gets vaccinated at a centre in HCM City (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - A combination of various public health and preventive medicine specialties should be paid attention to at the domestic and international levels to protect people’s health amid emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases globally, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son told a recent conference at the Pasteur Institute in HCM City. Problems in one country could affect other countries easier than in the past since pathogens and vectors now move further and faster than ever before through the global transportation network, he pointed out. The incidence of non-communicable diseases too has increased, including in Vietnam where they cause 70 percent of deaths, he said. “So the health sector in the country has expanded co-operation with other countries and adopted global scientific advances for the prevention and treatment of diseases.” The Government has invested in … [Read more...] about Domestic, global focus needed to address public health issues
Weekly roundup: Vietnam’s trash dilemma, exam fraud, trekking guide and more
Vietnam in danger of becoming a dump as China says no to trash China's ban on scrap imports has left the “developed” world scrambling for solutions and Vietnam facing the prospect of becoming a trash basket. Tragedy of errors: Hanoi hospital switches babies, accepts mistake six years later One of the mothers, divorced by her husband who blamed her for adultery, is not yet ready to return the ‘wrong’ child. When you want to take a hike in Vietnam Five trekking options from different regions in the country, some of which are not for the faint-hearted. Vietnam’s Cong Café to open first branch in South Korea The Cong Café franchise will open its first overseas branch in the Yeonnam-dong neighborhood in Seoul on July 31. The men who lorded over Vietnam's drug valley Before two drug lords were gunned down by the police last month, Long Luong Commune had been a narcotics haven for over a decade. Vietnam probes outrageous fraud in … [Read more...] about Weekly roundup: Vietnam’s trash dilemma, exam fraud, trekking guide and more
No room on water, no home on land for Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese
Truong Van Long is Vietnamese in name only. He was born in Cambodia and has lived there for decades, including many years in a floating house on the Tonle Sap lake where he still lives. But his days on the water are numbered. Citing concerns over pollution and overfishing last year, Cambodian authorities have moved hundreds of ethnic Vietnamese families in the central province of Kampong Chhnang to land. More than 1,000 ethnic Vietnamese families, including Truong Van Long’s, who are still on the water will be relocated to land in the coming months, provincial authorities have said. "Why move us from the water? We are not in anyone’s way, and there is nowhere else for us to go," said Troung Van Long, seated on the floor of his blue-colored houseboat. "The officials say we are polluting the water, but it is industries and city people who do that. We just want to make a living from fishing - we will starve if we are moved," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Ethnic … [Read more...] about No room on water, no home on land for Cambodia’s ethnic Vietnamese