A high-profile Vietnamese environmentalist known for his fight against the energy industry on charges of tax evasion was arrested on Wednesday According to local media, Hanoi police have arrested Nguy Thi Khanh, 46 director of the Hanoi-based Green Innovation and Development Center (GreenID), for alleged tax evasion. She is one of the few voices in Vietnam willing to challenge plans to increase coal flow to boost economic development. Her organization GreenID, Vietnam’s best-known environmental NGO, convinced the government to lower some of its coal targets and sparked a national conversation about rising air and water pollution. On its website, Green…
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According to a report from the Municipal Ministry of Tourism, Vietnam’s largest city, HCMC, earned nearly VND3.1 trillion (US$136.4 million) in tourism revenues during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday. The report showed that from January 31, the last day of the previous lunar year, to February 6, tourist sites in the southern metropolis welcomed about 280,000 visitors, contributing about VND 300 billion ($13.2 million) to tourism revenues. the city. ###: Vietnam Will Reopen Its Tourism Industry Next Month During this period, approximately 500,000 hotel rooms were commissioned, generating an income of VND 1.2 trillion ($52.8 million). More than a…
The Hanoi administration has decided to reopen all cinemas across the capital from February 10, after months of closure due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The city also allowed other entertainment centers and art venues to reopen to visitors from the above date. ###: Vietnam Will Reopen Its Tourism Industry Next Month The municipal leadership requested that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Culture of Hanoi work closely with the Municipal Ministry of Health and places to run cinemas, entertainment centers and arts venues to strictly follow the COVID-19 recommendations. According to the Ministry of Health, moviegoers are…
Many factors go into making a business successful, and where it is located can be the first important decision for investors and entrepreneurs and Vietnam is one of the best options According to the US News & World Report, the ranking of the best countries to start a business is based on the results of a global perception-based survey and ranks countries based on scores of nearly 4,919 business decision makers in a compilation of five country features. : affordable, bureaucratic, cheap production costs, connected to the rest of the world and easy access to capital. After the recovery from…
More than 90 percent of workers have returned to work after the Tet holiday on Lunar New Year in Vietnam’s two largest economic centers, Hanoi and HCM City. According to the Hanoi Federation of Labor, about 90.24 percent of factories in Hanoi had resumed operations and 96.13 percent of workers had returned to work on the first day of work after the holiday on Feb. 7. The federation set up groups to inspect working conditions and discipline in the capital after Tet. ###: Vietnam Is Expected To Increase Labor Demand In 2022 Van Thi Thuy, an employee at Thang Long…
Plastic has invaded all parts of the ocean and is now found “from the tiniest plankton to the largest whale,” the wildlife organization WWF said on Tuesday (Feb. 8), calling for urgent efforts to create an international treaty on plastics. . Tiny bits of plastic have reached even the most remote and seemingly pristine parts of the planet: it sprinkles the Arctic sea ice and has been found in fish in the deepest reaches of the ocean, the Mariana Trench. ###: How Does the Rethinking Plastics Project Help Vietnam Clean Up Plastic Waste? There is no international agreement to address…
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asks the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) to consider and announce a detailed roadmap for the reopening of Vietnam’s tourism industry. The order was made in response to the Vietnam Tourism Association’s petition for possible solutions for the recovery of the tourism industry. After a two-year shutdown, plans are being finalized to fully reopen Vietnam to international tourism by March 31, rather than waiting until May. The story is that an earlier reopening will boost international arrivals towards Vietnam’s peak season, helping those in the travel industry that have struggled over the past…
Tet is on Vietnam, the G4 embassies of Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland are eager to share some stories about “Hope” for the New Year. Through G4 Embassies Share this:facebookLinkedInredditTwitterE-mail ### G4 Embassies Source: Vietnam Insider
As the economy recovers, the demand for labor is sure to increase. This is the prediction of Prof. dr. Andreas Stoffers – Country Director Vietnam of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom for the labor market in 2022. †More than 1.4 million Vietnamese were unemployed in 2021 due to effects of the fourth wave of Covid-19 – an increase of 17 percent – according to the General Bureau of Statistics (GSO)† What is the trend in the labor market in Vietnam in 2022? The Year of the Tiger is off to a good start. Vietnam achieved favorable growth results compared…
Vietnam climbs 28 points in the latest COVID-19 recovery index, reaching 90th position in the latest edition of Nikkei’s COVID-19 Recovery Index, released in early February. The latest increase is due to the high vaccination coverage and the first signs of recovery in tourism in the country, the VOV reports. According to Nikkei, the country is starting to make a comeback, despite still dealing with high levels of infections. “It is also moving towards coexistence with the virus, after easing return rules for overseas nationals and foreign workers late last month,” the website outlined. ###: Vietnamese students are going back…