Licences to set up and provide 3G
telecom services were granted to Viettel, MobiFone, VinaPhone, and the joint venture between the EVN and
the Hanoi Telecom.
China plans to have a nationwide
express railway network in place by 2012, capable of carrying passenger
between Beijing and most capital cities in China within eight hours.
Domestic and foreign distributors are
flocking to invest in more supermarkets and commercial centres in the
provinces rather than just the major cities in the country.
While supplies of urban land in Vietnam ’s major cities are
almost exhausted little attention has been paid to using underground
space, a conference here was told on July 15.
The World Bank (WB) has selected five
major cities in the Mekong delta to help upgrade infrastructural
facilities and improve social welfare, according to Deputy Chairman of
My Tho city’s People’s Committee Nguyen Hoang Dam.
A transport strategy to enable a sustainable environment by 2020 calls on half of the population of major cities to use public transport by the end of the next decade.