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The Thai Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry has drafted the country’s first artificial intelligence (AI) ethics guidelines.

Dai Nam Thai Y Duong (Dai Nam Royal Medical Hall) located on Doan Thi Diem street, Thuan Thanh ward is a new tourism service introduced by the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on October 9.

International visitors who came to Ho Chi Minh City for health care make up 40 percent of the total number of foreign tourists to Vietnam for this purpose.

Traditional medicine and acupuncture, dental care, cosmetic surgery, pathological screening, and artificial insemination will be improved to make them Ho Chi Minh City’s main medical tourism products in the coming years, a recent workshop heard.

The 15th International Travel Expo HCM City (ITE HCMC), the largest travel event in the Mekong sub-region, opened its door to welcome tourism and travel community at the Sai Gon Exhibition and Convention Centre (SECC) on September 5. In his opening remarks, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen said this is a good opportunity to popularise Vietnamese people and culture to international friends.

Aside from cultural and historical tourism, Ho Chi Minh City also boasts potential for medical tourism thanks to the concentration of many leading hospitals of Vietnam, heard a workshop held on September 4.

The northeastern province of Quang Ninh on August 22 started the construction of a coastal road connecting its Ha Long and Cam Pha cities.

A workshop was held in Hanoi on August 20 to seek suitable measures for tourism operators and managers to promote development of Vietnam’s tourism sector in the context of new tourism development trends in the world.

Vietnamese enterprises are set to take part in the Vibrant Goa Global Expo and Summit to be held in October in Goa, India, delegates have told a seminar to introduce the event in Ho Chi Minh City.

The 2nd International Medical and Pharmaceutical Exhibition in Da Nang (Medi-Pharm Da Nang) opened in the central city on July 10.

Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and Korean Minister of Health and Welfare Park Neung-hoo held talks and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation in Seoul on March 14.

Vietnam’s medical equipment and pharmaceutical markets have seen double-digit growth in recent years and that momentum would continue, making the country increasingly attractive to foreign investors, experts have said.

There are a lot of potential for boosting cooperation, trade and investment in pharmaceuticals and health care between Vietnam and India, said experts at the Indian Pharma Exhibition and B2B meeting held in Ho Chi Minh City on January 21.

Ho Chi Minh City and Japan’s Aichi prefecture should accelerate cooperation in such potential sectors as engineering industry, electronics, information and technology (IT) and plastic chemistry, said Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong.

The 25th Vietnam Medi-PharmExpo 2018 opened in Hanoi on December 6, offering a productive bridge and an important trade promotion channel for local and foreign medical enterprises to share experience and expand their markets.

The advantage healthcare fair and an international conference on value of medical tourism opened in India’s Uttar Pradesh state on December 4.

About 130 officials, scientists and businesspeople from Daejeon city of the Republic of Korea (RoK) will attend the 11th General Assembly of the World Technopolis Association (WTA) slated for October 10-12 in the southern province of Binh Duong.

The Vietnam Tourism Dentistry JSC has launched the country’s official portal on dental tourism in a bid to build Vietnam into the world’s dental care tourism destination in the future.

The Vietnam Tourism Dentistry JSC has launched the country’s official portal on dental tourism, https://dentaltourism.vn, in a bid to build Vietnam into the world’s dental care tourism destination in the future.

Tourism has become one of the significant contributors to central Da Nang city’s socio-economic development, said Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Ho Ky Minh.