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The number of international visitors to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has been on the rise but tourism businesses are struggling in the face of a severe shortage of high-skilled workforce. In the first quarter of this year, Vietnam’s southern metropolis received 1.8 million foreign visitors, up 36 times year-on-year, …

Authorities in the central tourist city of Da Nang plan to set up a food street near Nam O fishing village in Lien Chieu District to give a fillip to tourism. The 500-meter street, not far from Nguyen Tat Thanh Park, will be open from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. …

A Hanoi court sentenced 47-year-old Nguyen Lan Thang to six years in prison for “making, storing, disseminating or propagandizing information, documents, materials aimed at opposing the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.” The court also sentenced Thang, who was arrested in July last year, to two years of probation after serving the …