Culinary tourism destinations

According to the HCM City Department of Transport, the ferry that connects Can Gio District in HCM City and Vung Tau City in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province will travel a distance of 15km in 30 minutes. The ferry can carry 250 passengers, 100 motorbikes and 15 cars. There will be 24 trips a day. The ferry will help shorten travel times. Travel from HCM City to Vung Tau often takes up to five hours on the highways. The people from Long An and Tien Giang provinces can take the ferry from Can Giuoc to Can Gio, keep going on Ly Nhon and Rung Sac roads to take a Tac Suat ferry to reach Vung Tau. Total journey time will take 2 hours and 30 minutes. It is hoped that after the ferry is opened, it will connect with other ferries like Binh Khanh to make a travel network and boost the local economy in the area. A connection with the highway and inland waterway is necessary to better develop the ferry. Experts suggested that the investor should open a shuttle bus and parking lots for passengers. … [Read more...] about New Can Gio-Vung Tau ferry carries hope for tourism boost

New York (VNA) – A 40-strong business delegation from the US will launch an investment promotion programme in Vietnam from March 3-6, aiming to expand trade and investment cooperation in the Southeast Asian country, according to an official from the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC). In a meeting with Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Ha Kim Ngoc on February 25, USABC Chairman Alex Feldman said the delegation will hold many activities to interact with officials from the Vietnamese Government, ministries and sectors, and work with local businesses and partners. It will also practically contribute to celebrating the 25th anniversary of Vietnam-US diplomatic ties, he added. In recent times, the Vietnamese Embassy in the US has increased economic diplomatic activities to promote investment, trade and tourism cooperation between the two nations. The embassy recently coordinated with a delegation led by Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh to work with … [Read more...] about US firms eye stronger investment cooperation in Vietnam

A bus carries 20 South Korean passengers to Danang International Airport. Flight VJ878 departed from Danang City at 11.55 p.m. on February 25, taking 20 South Koreans back home - PHOTO: VNA HCMC - Flight VJ878 departed from Danang City at 11.55 p.m. on February 25, taking 20 South Koreans, who had arrived in the central coastal city a day earlier from Daegu City, the epicenter of the Covid-19 outbreak in South Korea, back home. … [Read more...] about Danang sends 20 people back to South Korea

Dubai Airport - a major international transit hub, and home to the airline Emirates - has suspended all passenger and cargo flights to Iran for a week "as a precautionary measure". The United Arab Emirates has reported 13 cases, including an Iranian couple. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus: Iran’s deputy health minister tests positive as outbreak worsens

Trương Văn Kiệm, deputy head of the Cần Thơ Co-operative Alliance, said that under the collective farming model, farmers were supplied quality plant seeds and breeding animals, and provided cultivation techniques and disease prevention and control methods. … [Read more...] about Cần Thơ rice farmers switch to high-value crops