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Tourists visiting Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage town, will be able to surf the internet for free from the end of this year, according to the Quang Nam Province Department of Information and Communications. Ho Quang Buu, the department director, said together with the Vietnam Data Communications Area 3 and Quang Nam Telecom it [...]
My college friend Nguyen Minh Chi is a tea lover – to put it mildly. Such is Chi’s passion for green tea, yellow tea, Oolong tea, black tea, white tea, blended tea (Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Jasmine tea) – you name it she likes it – that Chi’s idea of a perfect day out is [...]
Experts say they can see a new wave of smart travel links which will help heat up the high end resort real estate market in Vietnam. In 2010, the US-based RCI Group, the biggest vacation ownership group in the world, came to Vietnam to connect the three resorts of Ninh Van Bay Holiday Club [...]
The festival Nghinh Ong is organized annually in HCMC’s Can Gio District and this year the social and cultural event kicked off in the coastal town of Can Thanh on Friday with a Vietnamese goods fair, hosted by the Investment and Trade Promotion Center in HCMC (ITPC). According to La Quoc Khanh, deputy director of [...]
Experts say Vietnam needs to do more to attract more cruise tourists to Vietnam, the country with 3200 kilometers of coastline, and wonderful bays and beaches. For the last many years, Vietnam always appears as one of the destination points in the itineraries of cruise trips that tour the Asia Pacific region. However, the number [...]
Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar will co-operate with each other in organising tours to their world cultural heritage sites, officials said at a seminar on Tuesday. The seminar focused on ways to present the four nations together as the Land of World Cultural Heritages. “I highly recommend connecting the world cultural heritages in a [...]
A Vietnamese singer who is virtually unknown to the public has decided to rise from obscurity by having his name sprayed on public spaces in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces. Many walls, utility poles, bridges in HCMC’s Thu Duc District, Tan Binh District to District 12 and provinces of Tay Ninh, Dong Nai, [...]
A 34-year-old man had to be hospitalized Thursday after he was allegedly beaten on the head by a security guard at the Big C An Lac Supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City where he had been shopping. A reader yesterday told Tuoi Tre that Nguyen Van Duong, from Ho Chi Minh City’s District 11, took [...]
The VINASAT-1 satellite was successfully launched in 2008 and has become instrumental for the telecommunications industry. There are now developments for the VINASAT-2 satellite, and Viet Nam News sat down with Viet Nam Posts and Telecommunication’s External Relations Centre director Bui Quoc Viet to learn more. Can you tell us about the development process of [...]
Executives of Ernst & Young have urged Vietnam’s tax authorities to consider using advance pricing agreements (APA) with corporate taxpayers as a way to fight transfer pricing at both foreign-invested and domestic companies. The APA allows the taxpayer and the taxman to avoid future transfer pricing disputes by entering into a prospective agreement on the [...]