Global hotel operator Accor has announced plans to double the number of rooms under its management in Vietnam by 2012, underlining its confidence in the future of the country’s tourism industry.
It’s become a summer tradition for thrill-seekers to head to Vietnam’s Phan Thiet to enjoy windsurfing and kite-surfing, with some staying in the southern seaside city for the full six-month season.
State-owned Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) will spend VND4 trillion to build a huge breakwater at Ke Ga Deepwater Seaport whose construction is expected to begin in August this year.
Sand exporters have complained to the Prime Minister after falling foul of new regulation. In early November, sand batches were stuck at seaports after the Government told provinces on September 29 to stop exporting sand, construction gravel and materials for ground leveling.
The Vietnamese dragon fruit is headed back to Japan after 10 years away.The news was revealed in the official gazette of the Japanese Government on October 20, 2009. Vietnam once exported dragon fruit to Japan in large quantities in the years prior to 2000. However, the Government had prohibited the import of dragon fruit since 2000, asking Vietnam to settle the problem of fruit fly.
The economic stimulus package, restructure and a report on the socio-economic situation were at the top of the National Assembly’s meeting agenda yesterday, October 22.
Executive members of the Viet Nam Sea Ports Association (VPA) gathered for their annual meeting yesterday in the coastal city of Phan Thiet to discuss the future of the shipping industry.
Farmers in Binh Thuan are cashing in on their domestication and development of the steculia foetida. Farmers from the south-central province of Binh Thuan are reaping economic benefits from domesticating a strange tree named steculia foetida (also known in Vietnamese as cay trom).
Parkview Golf Resort Company has broken ground for a golf course and beach tourist complex in Son My Commune, Ham Tan District, Binh Thuan Province. The project will cover 176 hectares and cost US$150 million, according to company general director Pham Cao Phuc.
The Southern Fruit Research Institute is expanding international co-operation to help southern provinces improve fruit cultivation and increase farmers’ incomes, according to an industry expert.
A new EU regulation will shut Vietnamese seafood exporters out of a lucrative export market if they can’t figure out how to certify who caught fish and where.
The Transport Ministry has approved a plan for an expressway from HCM City's eastern suburbs to Phan Thiet that by 2014 will greatly speed motor travel to the south central coast.
Party leader Nong Duc Manh has successfully concluded his official visit to New Zealand with the adoption of an important agreement to upgrade bilateral relations to a comprehensive partnership.
Only two of 15 golf course projects in the southern province of Binh Thuan have become operational. The remaining, which have been licenced since 2003, are still inactive.
This is the first turbine to become operational in a wind power project invested in by the Vietnam Recycled Energy JS Company (REVN). REVN’s project has a total capacity of 120 MW, with 80 turbines.
After over one year under construction, the wind power project in Tuy Phong District, Binh Thuan Province, will be hooked up to the national electricity grid this month. The largest wind energy project SE Asia, once in operation, is expected to help boost regional socio-economic development and pave the way for further exploitation of renewable energy sources in the country.
A Binh Thuan Province hydropower dam project originally slated for completion in 2007 has yet to get off the ground. Asked about the delay, an official from the southeastern province’s Department of Industry and Trade, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “I can’t make any comment because this is sensitive information.”
The Department of Justice chief in the south-eastern province of Binh Thuan has been dismissed for acts of fraud dating back to the 90s, the province’s People’s Committee chairman said Friday.
The Binh Thuan Province Department of Industry and Trade said Monday it has signed a wind power development agreement with the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ).
Vietnam has exported nearly 30 tonnes of blue dragon fruits to the US market over the past two months, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
Inshore fishermen in the south-east coast Binh Thuan Province are facing losses, as their fishing areas are encroached by thuggish trawlers.Trawling is an age-old practice for fishermen in Binh Thuan.
