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A total of 980 billion VND (42.14 million USD) has been poured into a water supply project in Hai Lang district, the central province of Quang Tri.

The Indonesian Government is encouraging the opening of direct air routes from Jakarta to Hanoi, as well as the operation of charter flights from the capital city and Surabaya, the second largest city of the country, to Da Nang, aiming to promote tourism between the two countries, according to Indonesia’s news agency Antara.

Hai Van Tunnel 2 is expected to be completed in 2020, helping speed up travel time for vehicles on the North-South road.

Officials attending a conference on August 20 underlined the need to promote connectivity among central localities so as to create a driving force for economic growth of the whole region.

The Prime Minister will chair a central region economic development conference on August 20 to propose measures for sustainable development in the central region, including the central key economic region, the Vietnam Government Portal (VGP) reported.

The International East-West Economic Corridor (EWEC) Trade and Tourism Fair opened in the central city of Da Nang on August 2.

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar co-chaired the 10th Mekong-Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Ministerial Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 1 within the framework of the 52nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM-52).

The authorities of Ho Chi Minh City and Tay Ninh province are building shopping malls and service facilities along the HCM City – Moc Bai Highway to raise revenue for construction of the highway.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith vowed to work for a breakthrough in bilateral trade during their meeting in Hanoi on June 1.

The Vietnam-Russia Business Forum took place in Saint Petersburg on May 29 with the participation of 18 enterprises from Vietnam and 60 firms of Russia.

More than 1,000 pavilions will be set up at the Vietbuild international exhibition, which will take place in the central city of Da Nang from May 15-19.

The Government of Thailand is striving to turn Thailand into a transport hub for six countries in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), following an infrastructure development project worth 100 billion baht (over 3 billion USD) in the Thai border provinces.

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue needs a long-term development plan, in which major breakthroughs should be made to create an improvement to the local socio-economic situation, according to Chairman of the Economic Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Nguyen Van Binh.

Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has affirmed that the Vietnamese government and north central localities are ready to offer all possible support to Japanese partners to expand their business operations there.

The Vietnam-Myanmar Joint Committee for Bilateral Cooperation held its ninth meeting in Hanoi on March 12, during which its members shared the view that the countries’ comprehensive cooperative partnership is becoming increasingly substantive.

The Chan May-Lang Co Economic Zone in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue attracted four projects with a total registered capital of over 15 trillion VND (652 million USD) in the first two months of 2019.

Chan May Port in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue is expected to welcome 40 cruise ships in 2019, including many luxurious vessels.

The central and Central Highlands regions have favourable conditions to develop various types of tourism such as resort, heritage, culture, sea and island, mountain and cave exploration, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a conference held in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on February 16.

Localities in the central region need to pay special attention to enhancing regional connectivity in their development policies, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested at a meeting of the Council for the Central Key Economic Region in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on February 15.

The central coastal region of Vietnam boasts huge tourism potential and efforts are underway to turn this sector into a driving force of local development.