Many offers to sell coastal hotels in Da Nang have appeared on real estate forums these days. Most of them are located in districts Son Tra and Ngu Hanh Son. A hotel put up on sale On just one real estate website on February 22 many ads were listed. A 4-star hotel on Vo Nguyen Giap street, 600 square meters, with 19 stories, 125 rooms and 2 conference rooms is offered at VND440 billion. Hotels on the major streets of Ha Bong, Tran Bach Dang, Ho Nghinh, Vo Nguyen Giap and Ho Xuan Huong are offered at tens or hundreds of billions of dong. Hoang Lam, the owner of a hotel on Tran Bach Dang street, said accommodation service providers have been hit hard by Covid-19. “We have been struggling to survive by cutting costs. However, as capital is getting exhausted, hotel owners have to liquidate assets to pay bank debts,” he said. “Selling hotels is unavoidable as there is no source of revenue, and the operation cost is high,” he said. Do Van Hien from Dana Hotel, a broker, … [Read more...] about Unable to cover expenses during Covid-19, owners sell hotels at cheap prices
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Van Don Int’l Airport reopens from March 3
The Hanoitimes - The international airport is ready to resume operations after one month of closure to prevent Covid-19. Van Don International Airport will reopen from March 3 as the pandemic in the northern province of Quang Ninh is rolled back. Van Don International Airport reopens from March 3. Photo: Vietnam Airlines The airport plans to reopen routes connecting Van Don and Ho Chi Minh City and accept repatriation flights bringing in Vietnamese citizens and foreign specialists. Vietnam Airlines, the national flag carriers, will conduct the first flight on Wednesday on the Van Don-Ho Chi Minh City routes from March 3 to 7 and then increase number of weekly flights to three to be operated on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from March 18 to December 31. The flight will depart from Ho Chi Minh City at 13:00 and Van Don at 15:45. Earlier, the provincial authorities inspected the pandemic situation at the Van Don Airport on February 20 and asked the … [Read more...] about Van Don Int’l Airport reopens from March 3
World News in Brief: February 26
* China and India should firmly follow the right path of mutual trust and cooperation between neighboring major countries, and not go astray with suspicion and distrust nor fall back on a road of negative retrogression, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday. Wang made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, stressing that the two sides should maintain the strategic consensuses reached by their leaders. * As COVID-19 transmission rates seemingly decline across the European Region, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge expressed health concerns over "long-COVID" or "post-COVID" symptoms at a virtual press conference on Thursday. * Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Armenia in a telephone conversation with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday, the Kremlin said. * The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the US … [Read more...] about World News in Brief: February 26
Investors confident in Vietnam’s innovative startup ecosystem
Head of the Vietnam representative office of Genesia Venture s Hoang Thi Kim Dung speaks at a workshop on attraction of venture investment capital for innovative startups (Photo: hoilhpn.org.vn) Hanoi (VNA) - Investor s are confident in the potential of Vietnam's innovative startup ecosystem, and believe the country will become a big investment market in the region and the world, according to head of the Vietnam representative office of Genesia Ventures, an investment fund of Japan, Hoang Thi Kim Dung. According to a report published by Do Ventures - a venture capital fund that focuses on making investments in tech startups in Vietnam and Southeast Asia - in 2020, Vietnam's innovative startup ecosystem ranked third in Southeast Asia, after Singapore and Indonesia. Vietnam’s national innovation startup ecosystem is likely to earn a berth in the top 15 emerging ones in the Asia-Pacific region by 2030, the report said. The Prime Minister in 2016 approved a project … [Read more...] about Investors confident in Vietnam’s innovative startup ecosystem
Vietnam’s biggest coronavirus hotspot records four more cases
All of the four new patients had come into close contact with COVID-19 cases, the ministry said in its 18.00hrs update. The outbreak has been brought under control in Hai Duong as only several cases have been detected these days as opposed to dozens a week ago. Hai Duong has taken drastic anti-coronavirus measures, including a two-week social distancing order, starting on February 16. The virus recurred in Vietnam less than a month ago and has spread to 13 cities and provinces across the country. As many as 831 new infections have been since confirmed, including 647 cases in Hai Duong alone. The same day, 35 COVID-19 patients were discharged from hospital after making a full recovery from the disease. Of them, 27 are in Hai Duong province. Also on February 26 the Ministry of Health announced another imported case returning to Vietnam from overseas. The 24-year-old Vietnamese patient was said to have illegally crossed the land border into the Mekong Delta province of Dong … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s biggest coronavirus hotspot records four more cases