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Vietnam beat other regional rivals including Cambodia, China, Laos, and Thailand to win the title “Asia’s Best Cruise Destination 2021” at this year’s World Cruise Awards, the most prestigious prize in the global cruise tourism industry. World Cruise Awards, the sister event of World Travel Awards, recognize excellence in the cruise industry.

The awards are given based on votes cast by industry professionals and the public.

Earlier, World Travel Awards, dubbed the “Oscars” of the tourism industry, honored Vietnam as Asia’s Leading Destination 2021 and Asia’s Leading Sustainable Tourism Destination 2021.

 

 

 

Source: VOV5

 

Germany’s top diplomat warned on Saturday that time was running out to find a way to revive a 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, speaking after meetings with her counterparts from G7 countries. Talks have resumed in Vienna to try to revive the nuclear pact, with both sides trying to gauge the prospects of success after the latest exchanges in the stop-start negotiations.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Iran had resumed the talks with a position that set the negotiations back six months. The current round of talks in Vienna follow a pause of five months after the election of Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi.

Earlier, US officials said Secretary of State Antony Blinken had held a “productive” meeting with his counterparts from Britain, Germany and France on Friday, discussing the way forward for the Iran talks.

A senior State Department official said there was an “intense” conversation among the G7 countries, which were united in their position on the nuclear talks. The official added that US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley was heading back to Vienna for talks.

Iranian officials have previously said they were sticking to their tough stance.

Under the original nuclear deal, abandoned in 2018 by then-President Donald Trump, Iran limited its nuclear programme in return for relief from US, European Union and UN sanctions.

Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that Tehran was serious in its nuclear talks in Vienna.

 

Source: VOV5

 

 Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Karen Donfried will travel to Ukraine and Russia to discuss the Ukrainian situation. 

The US State Department said in a press release on Saturday that Donfried will emphasize that they can make diplomatic progress on ending the conflict in the Donbas through implementation of the Minsk agreements in support of the Normandy format.

On the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministerial Meeting in the UK, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that the G7 agreed that in order to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, parties need to return to the negotiating table, referring to the Normandy format — involving Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany. She said that they need to take every action to return to dialogue.

 

Source: VOV5

A national ceremony to commemorate the 110^th birth anniversary of General Vo Nguyen Giap will be held on December 22, marking 77 years of the Vietnam People’s Army. The event will include incense and flower offerings at General Giap’s Memorial Site and Tomb, Ba Doc Martyrs’ Cemetery, and the Temple dedicated to President Ho Chi Minh and Heroic Martyrs in the central province of Quang Binh.

The commemoration honors the legendary General’s profound contributions to national liberation, reunification, and construction, and socialism protection.

General Giap’s 110^th birth anniversary commemoration will be broadcast live on national radio and TV networks.

 

 

Source: VOV5

 

 At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the US Midwest and South, demolishing homes, levelling businesses and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble. The powerful twisters, which weather forecasters say are unusual in cooler months, destroyed a candle factory and the fire and police stations in a small town in Kentucky, ripped through a nursing home in neighboring Missouri, and killed at least six workers at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois.

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said the collection of tornadoes was the most destructive in the state’s history. He said about 40 workers had been rescued at the candle factory in the city of Mayfield, which had about 110 people inside when it was reduced to a pile of rubble.

Beshear said 189 National Guard personnel have been deployed to assist with the recovery. The rescue efforts will focus in large part on Mayfield, home to some 10,000 people in the southwestern corner of the state where it converges with Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas.

Saying the disaster was likely one of the largest tornado outbreaks in US history, President Joe Biden on Saturday approved an emergency declaration for Kentucky.

He told reporters he would be asking the Environmental Protection Agency to examine what role climate change may have played in fuelling the storms, and he raised questions about the tornado warning systems.

 

Source: VOV5

 

Vietnam will resume regular international commercial flights to a number of countries and territories in Asia and the United States starting January 1, 2022.

The Government’s Office announced that Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh gave the green-light to the plan at a meeting last week.

In the short term, flights will operate between Vietnam and Beijing/Guangzhou (China), Tokyo (Japan), Seoul (the Republic of Korea), Taipei (Taiwan, China), Bangkok (Thailand), Singapore, Vientiane (Laos), Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and San Francisco/Los Angeles (the US).

The flights will be operated based on the  Ministry of Health’s guidances on medical measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and ensuring safety, efficiency, and smoothness.

 

 

Source: VOV5

 

Currently, Tan An City (Long An province) is urgently speeding up the payment of compensation for the project of National Highway (NH) 62 – Hung Vuong intersection project.

As for the remaining households who have not yet agreed to the site clearance policy, the City People’s Committee continues to advocate, explain, create consensus and reach a general consensus. The City People’s Committee has approved the bidding documents, the units are organizing construction bidding according to regulations for 3 bidding packages (construction, supervision consultancy, electrical relocation), expected to award Bidding before December 18.

In addition, the city will organize to commend and reward organizations and individuals who have consensus and well implemented the implementation of this project, especially households who well abide by the policy of the State, contribute to accompanying the the development of the city.

In the direction of 2022, the city will fully implement the site clearance and construction work for the NH 62 – Hung Vuong intersection project according to the approved plan.

It is known that the city also organized to pay compensation for 99 out of 99 households, reaching 100 percent of the project of Ward 2 Park – Phase 2 before. When the project is implemented, there is high consensus and agreement from the people. In terms of progress, implementation steps, compensation, support, and resettlement procedures have basically reached the set schedule. The total cost of site clearance is nearly 200 billion VND, arranging resettlement for 84 households whose houses and land have been cleared. The project is finalizing according to regulations and started construction in November 2021. The whole area after the complete investment creates a clean, beautiful landscape; spacious features, highlight for urban city.

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Tan An City – Nguyen Quang Thai said that, for the construction of works in the city, on the basis of the direction of the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee, the City People’s Committee has developed a specific plan for each project with the highest political determination to clear the ground, create consensus from the people to ensure the handover of the site according to the construction schedule of the projects./.

 

Source: LONG AN PORTAL