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Private company signs agreement to fund $41.2m pedestrian bridge in HCM City

  Rendering of the pedestrian bridge over Sài Gòn River, HCM City. The design was created by a consortium of Japanese-invested Chodai – Takashi Niwa Architects and Chodai Kisojiban Vietnam.  HCM CITY — HCM City’s transport department and HCM City-based private Nutifood Nutrition JSC on Monday signed an agreement on the company’s sponsorship of VNĐ1 trillion (US$41.2 million) for …

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Pearl Island seeks to revive plummeting tourism

A beach on Phú Quốc Island. — VNA/VNS Photo Huy Hải KIÊN GIANG — Phú Quốc, dubbed Việt Nam’s Pearl Island, is facing plummeting tourism due to high prices of airfares and other services, and losing its own unique identities, according to experts. After experiencing overheated post-COVID-19 development in 2022, …

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VNA joins fifth World Media Summit in China

The fifth World Media Summit (WMS) opens in Guangzhou, the capital of China’s Guangdong province, on December 3. — XINHUA/VNA Photo  GUANGZHOU – Deputy General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Đoàn Tuyết Nhung is leading the agency’s delegation to the fifth World Media Summit (WMS) that opened in …

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Điện Biên Airport reopens after 8 months of upgrades

Attending the opening of the upgraded Điện Biên Airport were Nguyễn Ngọc Canh, Vice Chairman of the State Capital Management Committee (left), Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thắng (second from left), Ambassador of Australia to Viet Nam Andrew Goledzinowski (third from left) as well as other officials. — Photo courtesy …

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VNU-HCM promotes training in high-quality IC design

A meeting to discuss research topics at the HCM City University of Technology’s lab for microchip and high-frequency systems. — VNA/VNS Photo Thu Hoài HCM CITY — Seeing strong demand for human resources in the semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) technology industry in Việt Nam, Việt Nam National University-HCM City (VNU-HCM) …

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Ministry to tighten inspections at fishing ports

Gành Hào fishing port in Đông Hải District, the southern province of Bạc Liêu. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will tighten inspections at fishing ports nationwide due to pending problems relating to the entry/exit of fishing vessels, according to representatives from the …

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