A bicycle-sharing service kick-started on Thursday in HCM city’s district 1. The public bicycle rental service, run by Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Transport and Tri Nam Group, will be carried out in 12 months on a pilot basis, with 43 stations and 500 bicycles in the central district. The rent is
Vietnam’s economy should get back to GDP growth of 6.8% next year, CEO of HSBC Vietnam Tim Evans has said. The rebound will be driven by a return of strong foreign direct investment (FDI) into the market, mainly focusing on the manufacturing sector, he noted, adding it would benefit Vietnam’s exports,
Dr. Nguyen Trong Hieu, a senior lecturer on solar cells at Australia National University, has been honored with a science-technology prize in the field of new material technology by the Youth Union and the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology. Hieu, born in 1988, is among 10 outstanding young talents
Fully vaccinated foreign arrivals will only need to self-quarantine for 3 days, the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday. The new regulations will be effective from January 1, 2022, the day Vietnam is set to resume regular international flights on a pilot basis. According to the Ministry’s latest guidelines, all
A seminar was held in-person and online Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Russia, to review the project “Two centuries of friendship, 20 years of strategic partnership” between Vietnam and Russia. A seminar was held in person and online Wednesday in St. Petersburg, Russia, to review the project “Two centuries of
The Vingroup Big Data Institute (VinBigData) announced on Thursday that it has completed its Database of Genomic Variants for the Vietnamese Population project. The 4.5 million USD project was launched in December 2018 involving 40 scientists from universities and research institutes worldwide and hundreds of experts and volunteers in Vietnam. For
– The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday discussed the situation in South Sudan and the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission’s activities in Sudan. At the meeting, Pham Hai Anh, Chargé d’affaires of Vietnam to the United Nations, thanked the UN Secretariat and members of the committee on South Sudan
