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Foreign tourists in Vietnam (Illustrative image. Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Egypt’s Wanna Explore Travel Limited has been licensed to provide services of operating tours and other direct support for air transportation in Vietnam. The project worth 300 million USD was registered in the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City. This is the first time an Egyptian business has invested big in Vietnam. To date, Egyptian firms have registered to invest more than 302 million USD in 11 projects in Vietnam.  This means Wanna Explore Travel’s project has made up most of Egypt’s investment in the Southeast Asian country./. VNA … [Read more...] about Egypt’s travel company invests 300 million USD in Vietnam

UNESCO World Heritage Ha Long Bay (Photo: VNA)   HCM City (VNA) - Travel agents in Ho Chi Minh City are offering a huge range of domestic and outbound tours for the upcoming Reunification Day holiday on April 30 and Labour Day on May 1, and many of them are fully booked. According to travel firms, the five-day holiday is a good opportunity for them to develop new domestic and outbound tours to sustain demand through this summer. Tran Thi Bao Thu, marketing and communications director of Fiditour, said her company was focused on tours to popular beach towns and islands such as Phu Quoc, Nha Trang, Da Nang, and Ha Long. This time of the year is ideal to visit these places with many activities being organised there to attract tourists. Most outbound tours to neighbouring countries and territories such as Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan have been fully booked, she said. Vietravel has many tour packages to new tourist destinations like Binh Lieu in Quang Ninh province … [Read more...] about Travel demand during upcoming holidays surges

A student studies for her high school entrance exam in HCMC, June 2, 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen. The World Economic Forum report titled "ASEAN Youth: Technology, skills and the future of work," released in Hanoi on Friday, surveyed 56,000 people aged 15-35 in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam last month to understand their views, priorities and concerns regarding jobs, skills and the future of work amid the fourth industrial revolution. Vietnamese youth were well ahead of the others with 63.6 percent believing their current education and skills need to be constantly updated, followed by Malaysians (52.6 percent) and Singaporeans (51.9 percent). The average for Southeast Asia was 52.4 percent. Vietnamese youth were also least likely to believe their education and skills would last another five and 10 years before they need retraining or for most of their life. This belief in the need to upgrade skills constantly can be thought of as … [Read more...] about Vietnamese youth most committed to lifelong learning in SE Asia: WEF

Rights groups reacted in horror Wednesday to the latest hardline move from the resource-rich nation on Borneo, which practises a stricter brand of Islam than its neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia. The tiny sultanate will implement the harsh new penal code -- which also prescribes amputation of a hand and foot for theft -- next Wednesday. Homosexuality is already illegal in Brunei but it will now become a capital offence. The law only applies to Muslims. The new penalty for theft is amputation of the right hand for a first offence, and the left foot for a second offence. Amnesty International Wednesday urged Brunei to "immediately halt" implementing the new penalties. "To legalise such cruel and inhuman penalties is appalling of itself," Brunei researcher Rachel Chhoa-Howard said in a statement. "Some of the potential 'offences' should not even be deemed crimes at all, including consensual sex between adults of the same gender." A notice on Brunei's Attorney General's Chambers dated … [Read more...] about Brunei to impose death by stoning for gay sex and adultery

Vietnam should extend visa exemption policies for foreign tourists to encourage more visitors to return. Viet Nam needs to extend further visa exemption policy for foreign tourists for attracting more foreign visitors coming back. — Photo baokhanhhoa.vn Tu Quy Thanh, General Director of the Federal Travel Company, said right now foreign tourists who receive visa exemptions are allowed to stay here for only 15 days, less than the average time they often want to stay. He says the visa exemption policy would need to be applied for up to 30 days like other countries because many tourists travel from the west, and 15 days is not long enough to stay here. According to tourism companies the visa policy should be reformed to create better conditions for tourists. Pham Ha, founder and chief executive officer of the Luxury Travel Company, said tourists staying longer would spend more and boost the economy. He believed the State should increase the amount of time they are allowed to … [Read more...] about Vietnam needs to extend further visa exemption policy for tourists