Meeting, Incentive, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) tourism should become a staple of Ho Chi Minh City’s tourism sector, as the lucrative business brings added value and contributes to the city’s sustainable development, experts said.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism recently recognised several new items as national intangible cultural heritage, raising the total number to 228.
Vice Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tat Thanh Cang has hailed the wholehearted support given by the Republic of Korea (RoK) – Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group to the two countries’ cooperation, helping foster relations between his city and the RoK.
The building of disaster risk assessment tools for enterprises is significant in improving their awareness of the risks, said a representative from the Asia Foundation.
The 11th APEC Senior Disaster Management Officials Forum (SDMOF 11) concluded on September 22 in central Nghe An province.
Child-centred disaster risk reduction is among effective measures to protect children, one of the most vulnerable groups to natural disasters, said a UNICEF official.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to allocate rice for local people in the central region hit by storm Doksuri, following his fact-finding trips to Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and Nghe An provinces.
Natural disaster management should be implemented in parallel with ensuring sustainable growth, and the UN SDG will not be completed without successful calamity prevention, APEC officials noted.
The Vietnam Dairy Products JSC (Vinamilk) has said that its revenue is expected to reach 51 trillion VND (2.24 billion USD) in 2017.
APEC economies's lessons and experiences in applying advanced science and technology in natural disaster fight were shared at the 11th Senior Disaster Management Officials Forum held in central Nghe An province.
The banking sector has raised a total of six billion VND (264,000 USD) for aid for victims of storm Doksuri in the central region.
About 200 officials from 21 APEC member economies have gathered in central Nghe An province to seek measures to strengthen affiliation in dealing with disaster risks.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee launched a donation campaign in aid of people in the central region, who have borne the brunt of storm Doksuri, in Hanoi on September 19.
The 11th APEC Senior Disaster Management Officials Forum (SDMOF) will convene in Vinh city, in the central province of Nghe An, on September 21.
Hanoi authorities on September 18 decided to allocate more than 7 billion VND (308,000 USD) from the local fund for emergency aid to people in the central region hit by storm Doksuri.
Only five of 35 planned mineral resources maps have been completed, making it challenging for the government to reach its 2020 deadline for completing the map projects, officials have said.
The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) on September 17 offered aid worth more than 1.5 billion VND (66,00 USD) to provinces affected by storm Doksuri.
Doksuri, the 10th storm arising in the East Sea and the strongest one hitting Vietnam in many years, claimed nine lives, leaving four missing and 112 injured, according to reports from affected localities by 10pm on September 16.
