As planned, fully vaccinated people can now start planning a trip to Phu Quoc, one of Vietnam’s most beautiful tropical islands. From October, the island will welcome international visitors who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 But, Lam Van Thanh, Chairman of Kien Giang Province said that, the island is not be ready to welcome fully vaccinated foreign tourists next month as planned because the local vaccination rate has been low. “By the end of October, the island would not have ensured necessary conditions to carry out its planned tourism reopening plan. Only 35.2 percent of people aged 18 and above…
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The painting Sắc Thu Hồ Hoàn Kiếm (Fall in Hoàn Kiếm) by Trương Hán Minh, a master in thuỷ mặc (ink&wash) watercolour art. He died on Tuesday in HCM City. He was 71. Photo from the artist’s facebook HCM CITY — These days the city has been losing some prominent artists whose names have become attached to the art scene. People’s Artist and painter Trương Hán Minh and veteran film director Tường Lê both died on Tuesday in HCM City. Artist Minh, a master of thuỷ mặc (ink & wash) wartercolour art, died of cancer. He was 70. Lê died after 10 days of COVID-19 treatment in hospital. He was 58. Minh…
Vietnam recorded 11,527 in Vietnam on Wednesday, together with 11,919 discharged patients and 236 deaths. Thirty-five provinces and cities logged 11,525 domestic cases while the country recorded another two imported infections, the health ministry said. According to the health ministry, nearly 5,900 of the latest domestic cases were found in the community, with the remaining detected in sectioned-off areas or centralized quarantine facilities. ###: Hanoi streets start to get crowded again The business hub of Ho Chi Minh City reported 5,435 local infections, down by 1,086 patients from yesterday; Binh Duong Province 4,179, up by 570; Dong Nai Province 930; Long…
The HCMC Department of Health has sought six million doses of vaccines by October-end from the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. More stories at Vietnam Insider’s homepage. This is to achieve the target of fully immunizing all 7.2 million adults living in the city with two shots, the department said. As of last Sunday the city had more than 774,000 doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Sinopharm vaccines left. It expects to require around 472,000 doses for the first shot between Sept. 20 and Oct. 31 and 5.6 million doses for the second. Vietnam allows the mixing of AstraZeneca and…
President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc writes in the memorial book. — VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam values and supports the central role of the United Nations (UN) in the global governance system to respond to today’s common challenges and wishes to promote all-round cooperation with the organisation, President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said. President Phúc made the statement during his separate meetings with President of the UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York on September 21. He told the two UN leaders that Việt Nam is exerting utmost efforts in the fight against COVID-19, and putting…
Quang Ninh province home to UNESCO-recognized heritage site Ha Long Bay has resumed intra-provincial tourism and entertainment activities starting Tuesday, but only for vaccinated residents. The move comes after Quang Ninh has gone 85 days without any community transmission and over a million people aged 18 and above have got at least one dose of a Covid vaccine, local media reported. Also read: Ha Long Bay to be one of 12 nominees for Asia’s leading tourist attraction Quang Ninh authorities said, hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, cruise ships on Ha Long Bay and outdoor activities can resume operations but abide by pandemic…
Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways Inked $2 Billion GE Jet-Engine Deal, Bloomberg reported. Vietjet and the US engine supplier also signed US$260 million service contract Vietnam’s Bamboo Airways JSC will outfit its new Boeing Co. 787-9 Dreamliners with engines made by a General Electric Co. venture in a deal valued at around $2 billion, according to Bamboo Airways CEO Dang Tat Thang. The signing of the agreement witnessed by Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc during his trip to New York City this week to attend the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday in the U.S, according to Bloomberg. Bamboo Airways, which began…
Vietnam Markets I saw a great headline this week that read ‘American investor earns VND1,000 billion from Vietnam’s HOT stock’. The twist is brilliant suggesting that Vinhomes share is a ‘hot’ stock. Perhaps we should come at this from the correct perspective and give it the correct headline. My headline would have been ‘Fund manager exits Vinhomes stock on slowdown of Vietnam property market,’ which is the real story to consider here. Not that some US based fund manager made a profit of 43 million USD. It is the exit that is the important fact. Why? you should be asking…
Nguyễn Hải Huy in action for his former team Than Quảng Ninh. Photo nhandan.vn Peter Cowan One-club men are a dying breed in football and if even Lionel Messi couldn’t finish his career at his beloved Barcelona, what chance did Nguyễn Hải Huy have? It may not appear like the former Than Quảng Ninh captain has a lot in common with one of the greatest players to ever grace a football pitch, but appearances can be deceiving. Both stand about five feet and eight inches (1.70m) tall, both had a two-decade love affair with…
Many streets in Hanoi were packed with vehicles on Tuesday morning as the municipal authorities lifted the requirement for commuters to present travel passes after two months in effect. More stories at Vietnam Insider’s homepage. As social distancing regulations in Hanoi are downgraded from the prime minister’s Directive No. 16 to Directive No. 15, functional forces are no longer checking commuters traveling within the city for travel passes starting 6:00 am on Tuesday. On Tuesday morning, several streets in Hanoi were so crowded that congestion even happened in some areas. The intersection of Mai Dich Overpass – Ho Tung Mau…