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Twenty one animals
belonging to 11 endangered wildlife species were rescued in the first
quarter, according to the Cu Chi Wildlife Rescue Station in
They included the
yellow-cheeked crested gibbon (Nomascus gabriellae), pygmy loris (Nycticebus
pygmaeus), slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis), Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus
hermaphroditus), leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis), and Burmese
ferret-badger (Melogale personata).
In February the
centre released a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) back into the sea at Hai Tac
island in
It has upgraded its
facilities, installing a new fish tank and a new enclosure for civets and
creating more room for volunteers, many of them foreigners.
Two
students drown in Quang
Two primary school
students drowned in a fishing lake in
Vice chairman of
the communal people's committee, Dang Van Hung, said yesterday the two
victims, a boy and a girl both aged seven, fell into the lake while on their
way home from school in the evening.
Hung said local
residents later discovered the bodies of the students.
In March, three
junior secondary school students in Bac Tra My district's Tra Giang commune
also drowned while they were swimming in a river.
Ha Noi
preps for rainy season
Ha Noi Water
Drainage Company estimates that there are about 10 inner-city sites will be
vulnerable to flooding during the rainy season, which is expected to arrive
in June, earlier than usual.
General director of
the company, Nguyen Le, said that last year, more than 20 sites experienced
serious flooding after rain of up to 100mm.
Le said that
improved drainage works at many streets, including Nguyen Xien, Le Trong Tan,
Truong Dinh, Linh
Work had also been
done at the intersection of roads, including
Le said flooding
occurred in areas where new infrastructure projects were under way, such as
in
"The company
also plans to frequently inspect sewage outlets to the
Ha Noi's Department
for Agriculture and Rural Development began inspecting dyke systems and
irrigation projects early this month ahead of the rainy season expected in
June.
Hospital
provides free asthma treatment
The Bach Mai General
Hospital will provide free check-up consultations and treatment to newly
asthmatic patients on April 26, to mark Global Asthma Day (May 1).
Residents of Ha Noi
and neighbouring areas suffering from coughs, respiratory problems and chest
pains may register for appointments by calling 04.36291027 or emailing
duanbenhphoi@gmail.com.
Recent health
sector statistics have said
Concerted
effort needed to employ disabled workers
Authorities at all
levels need to work together with the whole society to provide vocational
training and create jobs for people with disabilities, Deputy Minister of
Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) Nguyen Trong Dam has urged.
At present, there
are some 6.7 million disabled people in
In 2013, about
80,000 people with disabilities gained vocational skills in jobs that suited
their condition, such as spa services, animal husbandry, mushroom
cultivation, carpentry, and making clothes and bamboo products.
Over the period,
chapters of the Viet Nam Association for the Support of Disabled People and
Orphans trained 2,900 people with disabilities and provided jobs for 1,100 of
them.
The association
organised 33 training courses in 16 provinces across the country.
Nearly 800 people
with disabilities from Hung Yen, Ha
More organisations
and businesses also employed people with disabilities. For example, the
Customs Division of District 1 in
According to MOLISA's
General Department of Vocational Training, around 1.5 million people in
Tran Quang Dung,
Chairman of the Association of People with Disabilities in the
Additionally, most
are only equipped with handicraft-making skills, but those with more advanced
skills struggle to find workplaces with suitable facilities.
A prejudiced
attitude among businesses towards the group was also stopping people with
disabilities from accessing vocational training, Dung added.
At a job placement
event organised for people with disabilities in Ha Noi yesterday, Nguyen Thi
Kim Oanh, a job consultant for the "Recovery of Working Capacity for
Peopl with Disabilities" project which has helped create jobs for 120
people over the past two years, said more companies had become willing to
employ people with disabilities, but it was very difficult to find suitable
applicants that met their requirements.
"The number of
highly skilled workers with disabilities remains limited," she said.
Oanh said training
courses for people with disabilities needed to be adapted to meet the demands
of the labour market and the limitations of people with disabilities.
Chairman of the
Viet Nam Association for the Support of Disabled People and Orphans Nguyen
Dinh Lieu said that society should know that people with disabilities were as
capable of working as well as able-bodied people.
He added that
providing the group with professional skills was an important mission for
managerial agencies and social organisations.
Blind
people need more supportive policies: VP
State agencies
needed to review existing legislation to make suitable changes to Government
policies towards the blind and offer them better support, said Vice President
Nguyen Thi Doan on Wednesday.
Doan made the
statement at a ceremony held in Ha Noi to mark the 45th anniversary since the
establishment of the Viet Nam Association for the Blind.
Her statement
mirrored that of Cao Van Thanh, the association's chairman, who said several
policies had become outdated.
Doan also took the
occasion to praise blind people and the association for their determination
to overcome difficulties, make remarkable achievements and contribute to the
country's development.
As chairman, Thanh
thanked the Government for its support over the past 45 years.
Thanks to that
support, the association had gone from only 100 members at the beginning to
66,440 members today, he said.
He said that 334
factories which produced a wide range of products and services such as
souvenirs and handicraft objects to stationery and spa services were
operating under the management of the association, employing more than 4,000
workers.
He added that
before, 95 per cent of blind people were illiterate, but now, tens of
thousands knew how to read and write.
He said the
proportion of the association's poor members remained high at 27 per cent,
and the intellectual capacity of its members was still low compared to
ably-sighted members of society.
Over the last 45 years,
the association has extended its branches to 52 of the country's 63
localities. The association plans to set up branches in the remaining
provinces to provide more widespread support for blind people.
Officials from the
Department of Finance, who met with People's Council members, said the city
provides a subsidy of more than VND10 million (US$480) a year for each
student in public kindergartens, but at private kindergartens parents have to
pay all the fees themselves.
Dao Thi Huong Lan,
the director of the department, said direct subsidies for private
kindergartens would cost the city an estimated VND1 trillion ($47 million)
this year, an amount hard to raise currently.
So there should be
indirect support for them, she said.
She suggested that
the city could extend their loan terms, waive or reduce land fees for them,
and offer free training for teachers at private kindergartens.
While the
Government announced the payment of an allowance for private kindergarten
teachers around the country from last year, it has yet to be paid at least in
the city.
Around 80 per cent
of kindergarten students in the city attend private ones.
Tien Giang
to preserve guild villages
The Mekong Delta
It will enable
production facilities to boost goods exchanges with other localities
nationwide to boost employment and increase resident incomes.
Under a long-term
strategy, the province will organise training courses to raise the capacity
of managing officials and labourers, and apply more technology to production.
It is also planning
to deploy nearly VND300 billion (US$14.1 million) between 2016 and 2020 to
preserve and develop trade villages, and another VND200 billion ($9.4
million) on management training courses and teaching vocational skills.
The province has 14
trade hubs, including five traditional villages. The trades, including
carving, knitting and girdle cake making (banh trang), now create jobs for
nearly 5,400 locals.
Lam Dong
subsidises vocational training
The Lam Dong
Province People's Committee has approved a project to provide vocational
training for rural labourers at a cost of more than VND115 billion (US$5.5
million) from 2014 to 2020.
About 7,000 -
10,000 rural labourers will be trained each year, with 60 per cent of them
expected to take jobs in the agriculture sector. The remaining 40 per cent
will work in industrial, non-agricultural sectors or as guest labourers in
other countries.
Under the project,
at least 80 per cent of the trainees will either continue their current job
at a higher income or be hired by another company.
Each worker will be
offered a grant of VND2-3 million ($95 - 140) to take a three-month
short-term training course.
The province has 10
vocational training centres and over 50 vocational training establishments.
About 70 per cent of vocational training courses focus on the agricultural
and rural sectors.
Since 2010,
Pedestrian
bridges to ease congestion
Thirteen more
pedestrian bridges and tunnels will be built in
One pedestrian
bridge would be built on
Recently,
It has also built
two tunnels for pedestrians, one in front of Linh Trung Export Processing
Zone and another under National Highway 1 and the Nguyen Van Linh roundabout.
Children
succumb to measles virus
A total of 108
children have died from measles and its complications so far this year out of
a total of 2,492 confirmed cases throughout the nation.
The health ministry
has been ordered to bring the situation under control as soon as possible.
This was announced
yesterday by Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at a meeting with hospital
chiefs and medical experts from the World Health Organisation.
One hundred and
three of the children who died were admitted to Viet Nam National Hospital of
Paediatrics, four to
Deputy Director of
the Viet Nam National Hospital of Paediatrics, Le Thanh Hai, said that 25
children had died directly from the infection, while another 78 had died from
its complications, including pneumonia and diarrhoea.
Hai said that the
hospital had 48 medical ventilators, but found itself overloaded with child
patients.
Authorities are now
considering how to reduce the load on the paediatrics hospital and how to
reduce the number of measles-related fatalities.
Nguyen Thi Minh
Chanh, director of
Chanh said that
measles attacked children under nine months, which was unusual. Normally,
measles attacked older children.
She advised parents
to maintain good daily personal hygiene for their children and to give them
healthy diets to strengthen their immune systems.
Director of the
National Hospital of Paediatrics, Nguyen Van Kinh, said that this year,
measles had created acute immuno-deficiency in child patients.
"So, it's hard
for children with measles to avoid contracting other diseases, leading to a
high mortality rate, especially for young babies," he said.
He announced an
additional medical regime to treat children with measles. This will involve
.giving gamma globulin injections to strengthen a patient's immunity.
At another meeting
on Tuesday, head of the Health Ministry's General Department of Preventive
Medicine, Tran Dac Phu, said the ministry had yet to announce a measles
epidemic.
He said the
ministry only announced an epidemic when at least two major localities in the
country reported that the spread of a disease had reached epidemic
proportions. "At present, no locality has reported an epidemic," he
stated.
Phu advised parents
to take their children to provincial hospitals first if they thought they had
the disease.
He said this would
help avoid overcrowding at central-level hospitals, which could complicate
treatment.
At the Tuesday
meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam ordered the health ministry to
provide the best facilities to treat the children.
Dam asked the
ministry to mobilise all medical ventilators from national reserves to help
in treatment.
In a related move,
health departments in
The city's health
department said that 59 children had been diagnosed with measles since early
this year, including 16 children under the age of one.
Failure to
address water pollution has consequences
"We now have
several regulations scattered over several legal documents," said Pham
Van Loi, head of the
This has meant that
efforts to control water pollution throughout the country have not been
effective, Loi said.
Many localities
hardly implement existing regulations on controlling water pollution, he
added.
He said concerned
agencies should learn from the experiences of other countries before issuing
effective regulations for managing water pollution in
Loi also suggested
the agencies to learn experiences from foreign countries before issuing the
set of rules on controlling water pollution.
Le Hoang Anh,
deputy head of the Centre for Environmental Monitoring said that surface
water in rivers in the northern region was highly polluted.
She cited the Nhue
and To Lich rivers as examples.
The pollution has
mostly been caused by untreated wastewater discharged by households,
industrial zones, hospitals, and craft village, she said, adding the
situation was almost the same in the southern region.
For instance,
wastewater discharged from industrial zones had polluted long stretches of
the
In the Cuu Long (
Anh suggested that
authorised agencies in the northern region step up installation and operation
of wastewater treatment systems for handling household waste in major cities
like Ha Noi and Hai Phong, as well as provinces like Quang Ninh.
In the southern
region, there is a need for greater focus on treating wastewater discharged
by industrial zones, she said.
Mekong Delta
authorities, meanwhile, should increase inspections of aquaculture farms as
well as agricultural production processes that generate polluting waste, she
added.
Loi said authorized
agencies should be asked to ratify and apply international conventions on
water pollution.
The two-day
workshop was jointly organised by the Centre for Environment and Community
Research, the Viet Nam Union of Scientific and Technology Associations and
Coalition for Clean Water and OXFAM.
Ministry
urges local departments to work harder against measles
The Ministry of
Health has pushed healthcare departments in all cities and provinces
nationwide to keep a close eye on measles that is currently developing in 61
out of 63 localities.
The ministry asked
local hospitals to set up clearly marked isolation wards for measles
treatment to prevent the disease from spreading, while focusing all resources
on ensuring the best conditions for patients.
According to Deputy
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long, as of April 16, there were as many as
3,126 measles cases nationwide.
Since the beginning
of this year, 108 deaths have been caused by complications arising from
measles. In total, 25 were killed directly by the disease, most of them under
the age of 10 who had not been vaccinated.
The outbreak of the
disease has resulted in the overloads at the National Hospital of Paediatrics
and other central hospitals.
The ministry
advised locals to apply preventive measures.
It also directed
local health departments to continue vaccination campaigns against measles to
make sure that 95 percent of total children are safe from the disease.
In a notice issued
on April 16, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung urged ministries and local
authorities nationwide to intensify measures against measles, blaming the
high death toll on the insufficient quality and quantity of vaccinations
administered.
In 2013,
Photo
exhibition explores lives of the disabled
An open-air photo
exhibition exploring the lives of 25 local workers with disabilities is well
underway in the southern
Opened on April 17,
the nine-day show is co-organised by the provincial Department of Labour,
Invalids and Social Affairs and Handicap International in Vietnam to mark
Vietnam’s Day for People with Disabilities (April 18).
In addition to
honouring their services to the nation, the event also encourages employers
to recruit the handicapped, helping them integrate into the community, said
department Director Le Thi My Phuong.
According to her,
Dong Nai is home to nearly 23,000 people with severe and extremely severe
disabilities, only 1,000 of them currently employed.
The exhibition will
be held at Amata and Bien Hoa 2 industrial zones in the province’s Bien Hoa
city from April 25 - May 9.
Labour
exports - leave workers uncared-for in the open
Many local people
have lost trust in labour export agencies and believe government officials
have not paid sufficient oversight and attention to guest workers needs.
As a result, many
question whether the guest worker programmes are making any significant
contribution to sustainable poverty reduction.
A work contract
between workers and intermediary agencies delineates the responsibilities of
both the worker and the agency.
In accordance with
the contract, the agencies are required to monitor the relationship between
employers and worker to ensure their rights and legitimate interests are not
being violated and that problems which inevitably arise, are promptly dealt
with and resolved.
However, poor and
ethnic minority Vietnamese workers in
Bhanuoch Lieu in
Poning commune, Lang village in Tay Giang district, Quang
They work under
harsh and brutal conditions exacerbated by the extremely and hot
and humid weather without electric fans and water.
Employers
continuously cursed at workers, even not let them go to toilet, he reported.
Zo Ram Nhung, Vice
Chairman of the Ga Ry village People’s Committee in Tay Giang district, Quang
“Some workers
are working these long arduous hours under the impression that they are
going to work their way up the ladder and earn a higher salary, but they are
moved into another low paying position at a new unfamiliar task and not
getting ahead. This is not fair for workers,” Nhung says.
In recent times,
guest workers in
Le Minh Thuy,
Deputy Director of Lien Viet Development JSC, southern branch, says that
workers often have the misconceived notion that they will get rich quickly
after working abroad and that will not have to work hard to do so.
In addition, they
are entering into an unfamiliar working environment and the work ethic of
foreign companies is different, which conditions lead to unfortunate
mistakes.
Many foreign
businesses readily acknowledge their responsibility for lax management and
admit that they need to provide more oversight for Vietnamese guest workers.
Recently, Tay Giang
district authorities held a meeting with labour export intermediary agencies
and workers who returned from
Nguyen Cong Thanh,
Vice Chairman of Tay Giang district People’s Committee
Nguyen Cong Thanh,
Vice Chairman of Tay Giang district People’s Committee, says relevant
authorities have drawn valuable lessons from sending ethnic minority workers
abroad and devised measures to force intermediary agencies to take their
responsibility
The dream of a
wealthy life thanks to labour exports and encouraging ethnic minority youth
to register to work abroad has gone by the wayside.
Now many ethnic
minority people are afraid of working abroad. Those who returned home are
advising others give up their dream and as a consequence many local
authorities in poor districts are no longer keen on the program.
Ho Minh Long,
Deputy Head of the Tay Giang district Department of Labour, Invalids and
Social Affairs, says the department asked 10 communes in the district to
register 10 workers.
Nearly half of the
110 registered workers have now returned home earlier that anticipated.
Particularly, in 2013, a target to register 3 labourers from each commune to
work abroad was not fulfilled.
Meanwhile
intermediary agencies have gone to each commune to encourage local people to
register to work abroad. What do the workers benefit from the program?
According to a
project to support poor districts in promoting labour exports, the State
finances poor and ethnic minority workers in terms of vocational, foreign
language and training fees, accommodation expenses, travel fees, making
procedures in applying for passports and visa fees.
Workers have to pay
around VND23 million to labour export companies. However, if they have recruitment
certificates from intermediary agencies and commitment to pay debts from
their family, the money will be subsidised by the local Bank for Social
Policy.
In case, workers
are forced to return home before scheduled, the loan will end up not being repaid
and become a burden on the State either to be granted an extension for
repayment or forgiven. Thus, the State suffers from losses.
Meanwhile, for each
worker that is sent to
In addition the
intermediary agency earns a fee from providing training for these workers
before sending them abroad.
Thus, the
intermediary agencies benefit tremendously from the programmes, but not
workers.
It is still not
clear and remains to be seen if the project to support poor districts in
promoting labour exports has made any significant contribution to sustainable
poverty reduction.
The agreement was
reached during talks in
Both sides said
they need to oversee signed agreements and increase committee-level
delegation exchange to share experience in legislation.
They will work
closely together to supervise the implementation of annual cooperation
agreements and big projects, and work out future cooperation programmes.
Sergei Levchenko
noted besides the close cooperation between the two countries and their
legislative bodies, the two committees have also developed fruitful
relations, contributing to strengthening the Russia-Vietnam comprehensive
strategic partnership.
Strategy for cruise
ship tourism under discussion
The development of
Vietnam’s cruise ship tourism was discussed at international seminar held in
Hue on April 16 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Thua
Thien Hue provincial People’s Committee, and the Asian Cruise Association
(ACA).
Local and foreign
delegates delivered 19 presentations on the development of the tourism
industry, focusing on cruise ship services in particular.
Every year Vietnam
welcomes approximately 200,000 visitors via cruise liners, which are
increasing in popularity among international tourists.
However, Vietnam’s
cruise ship services face a number of shortcomings, such as poor
infrastructure, and a lack of promotion and advertisement.
The country
currently has 39 seaports under zoning plans, but most of them are used for
cargo transport.
Culture, Sports and
Tourism Deputy Minister Ho Anh Tuan said the Vietnam Administration of
Tourism is drawing up an action plan to build seaports for tourism
development, adding that special attention will also be paid to developing
tourism infrastructure and increasing the quality of cruise ship services.
World class
cruise ship brings over 1,000 visitors to Hue
A Bahamas national
ship with more than 1,000 passengers and crewmembers on board docked in the
Chan May port in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on April 17.
This is the third
time that Silver Shadow, one of the world’s top 10 luxurious cruisers, has
made its landfall in Chan May port so far this year. The five-star ship’s
main routine in 2014 is to Asia and Alaska.
The passengers are
to visit a number of beauty spots and world cultural heritage sites in Hue
ancient capital, Hoi An, My Son and Da Nang.
During recent
years, Chan May port has been a favorite destination for international
cruisers in their cross-Vietnam journey.
Thua Thien-Hue
province is also working to develop entertainment services in areas
surrounding the port to make visitors stay longer in the locality.
Deputy PM
meets OVs in the UK
Deputy Prime
Minister Vu Van Ninh held a meeting with overseas Vietnamese and students in
the UK on April 16 as part of his visit to the country.
At the meeting,
Deputy PM briefed overseas Vietnamese on the country’s socio-economic
situation, especially Vietnam’s major achievements over 30 years of Doi Moi
(Renewal) process. Despite the global economic downturn, the country has
stabilized the macro-economy, curbed inflation, developed sustainably and
maintained social welfare policies.
Vietnam has
effectively implemented policies on compulsory education and medical
insurance as well as actively integrated into the global economy. At present,
Vietnamese goods are available in nearly 130 nations around the world.
Many foreign
investors are keen on investing in Vietnam while local businesses are
investing abroad and reaping success. Vietnam has also maintained its national
sovereignty and pursued cooperative and peaceful dialogues with its
international friends.
Vietnam-UK
relations have developed well in politics, economics, culture, education and
people-to-people diplomacy. Especially noteworthy, was the participation of
nearly 100 UK businesses at Vietnam-UK Business Forum, demonstrating their
keen interest in the Vietnamese market.
Ninh affirmed the
Party and Government’s policies which always consider overseas Vietnamese an
important part in the Vietnamese State, contributing to the country’s
socio-economic development.
He expressed his
hope that overseas Vietnamese in the UK will continue to unite and help each
other in their daily lives and business activities, creating a strong
community and further contributing to the country.
With more than
8,000 Vietnamese students in the UK, Ninh underscored the need for students
to achieve good academic results and said he considers them a highly potent
force for making positive contributions to the high quality human resources
ofthe nation.
Son Thanh,
President of the Vietnamese Association in the UK voiced his desire that the
Vietnamese Government will devise policies to help the Vietnamese community
abroad to further develop and maintain its identity.
Representatives of
Vietnamese students in the UK also delivered speeches thanking the Vietnamese
Government for giving them an opportunity to study in the UK and saying they
look forward to returning home and making contributions to the country.
Law
students join exchange with US Senate leader
Law students from
the Vietnam National University – Hanoi acquired general knowledge of the US
legal and judicial system at an exchange with visiting US Senate President
Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy in the capital on April 17.
Informing them of
key activities by the US Senate Department of Justice which he leads, Leahy
recalled the days when he pursued a law degree in his country.
He also drew their
attention to human rights issues mentioned in the Declaration of Independence
delivered by President Ho Chi Minh in 1945, stressing the significance of
protecting the values of equality, democracy and humanism that the world is
looking towards.
At the event,
students raised questions about Vietnam’s negotiations for the Trans-Pacific
Partnership deal and gender equality in labour in the US, among other legal
issues.
Japan to
help purify Xuan Huong lake in Lam Dong
The Japan-based
Pacific Corporation will donate the Jet Streamer system to clean up Xuan
Huong lake in the resort city of Da Lat, the Central Highlands province of
Lam Dong.
The move aims to
treat the lake’s lasting pollution, resulted from wastewater and agricultural
wastes generated by local residents and farms in an area of 2,800 hectares.
Although the city
has taken various measures to deal with this problem, there are no visible
improvements.
The lake, one of
the city’s popular tourist attractions, has a circumference of more than 5km
and covers the area of up to 38 hectares.
Vietnam
urged to build water pollution law
Vietnam needs to
soon build a strong and effective legal framework for preventing water
pollution as the problem is getting out of hand, experts warned at an
international workshop in Hanoi on April 17.
The function drew
more than 100 experts from Vietnam, the US and Thailand, alongside
representatives from businesses and non-governmental organisations.
Tran Viet Hung,
Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations,
said Vietnam is home to some 2,360 rivers and streams that are over 10km
long, as well as thousands of lakes. Those bodies of water are the source of
life for millions of people, as well as fauna and flora.
However, the water
sources are being degraded by over-exploitation and pollution, which is attributable
to a deficiency in the management and protection of the water environment.
He added that
current regulations are not strict enough to prevent actions contaminating
the water.
Director of the
Centre for Environment and Community Research Nguyen Ngoc Ly said the most
severe pollution can be seen in water bodies near industrial clusters, craft
villages and urban areas.
Since there are a
wide range of pollution factors and many rivers run from other countries into
Vietnam, the control of water pollution is complicated and requires a
feasible legal framework, she said.
She suggested
priority be given to dealing with pollution in small rivers pending the
building of a law on water pollution control.
Research shows that
some 9,000 people die of diseases caused by polluted water and poor hygiene
conditions in Vietnam every year. There are also nearly 200,000 new cancer
cases annually, with contaminated water one of the main suspected reasons.
Vietnam
strives to attract more foreign visitors by sea
The number of
foreign tourists to Vietnam by cruise ships is still relatively low and has
yet to meet the potential provided by the country’s advantageously long
coastline, a conference heard in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on
April 16.
According to Deputy
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho Anh Tuan, about 3-5 percent of
international tourists visit Vietnam by sea each year.
Asia is now
considered an attractive destination for big tourism ships with many modern
seaports, Tuan said, adding that an estimated 3.7 million foreigners will
choose cruise ships to go to Asian countries by 2017.
Vietnam defines its
maritime economy, including maritime tourism, as one of its key development
orientations in the time ahead. This is clearly reflected in the tourism
development strategy by 2020 with a vision to 2030, approved by Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
Accordingly, the
country will focus on increasing the quality of maritime tourism products,
improving the capacity of hospitality staff serving tourists by sea and
simplifying customs and administrative procedures they face, the deputy
minister added.
During the
conference, participants proposed encouraging investment in modern shopping
centres and entertainment services near beaches and seaports to lengthen
visitors’ stay and increase their expenditure.
They also suggested
relevant agencies coordinate with the Asia Cruise Association to attract more
international tourists using cruise ships to Vietnam.
Source: VNN/VOV/VNA/VNS
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