Senior Lieutenant General Tran Don speaking at the working session After inspecting the structure of President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and being briefed by the command's leaders on their task performance, General Don highly applauded the unit's achievements over the past time, especially in preserving President Ho Chi Minh's body and ensuring security for visitors. In addition, he valued works done by the unit's chain of command and party committee, notably building a strong unit in terms of politics, ideology and organization, and upholding the observation of regulations and discipline among their troops. General Don urged them to continue bringing into play their achievements, building a strong party organization and a comprehensively strong unit, enhancing ideological education for their troops to follow President Ho Chi Minh's morals, contributing to fulfilling their assigned missions in any circumstances. Translated by Huu Duc … [Read more...] about MND’s leader visits President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum’s Guard Command
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HCM City to build eight new logistic centres
Cargo being handled at Cat Lai Port in HCM City’s District 2 (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Ho Chi Minh City should draft a master plan to develop its logistics sector, said Pham Thanh Kien, Director of the municipal Department of Trade and Industry. Speaking at a conference held to discuss the development of the industry from now through 2025 recently, he said the city should learn from experiences in other countries and to develop the industry into one of its major sectors. HCM City should be developed into a logistics hub for the region, and the cost of logistics in Vietnam should be reduced to 16 percent of the country’s GDP (gross domestic product) by 2025, he said. Ho Thi Thu Hoa, Head of the Vietnam Logistics Research and Development Institute (VLI), said researchers for a project to develop the city’s logistics industry have carried out fact-finding tours of eight locations where the city’s logistics centres would come up. They include the Dong … [Read more...] about HCM City to build eight new logistic centres
HCM City to pay interest for hi-tech farms
Resolution No 10/2017 of the municipal People’s Council, which seeks to encourage investment to transform the farm sector into a modern, efficient and sustainable one in 2017-20, provides for the subsidy. The loan amount entitled to the support will be based on the investment scale and the regulations of the lending organisation. The subsidy will be equal to the average VND12 month deposit interest rate at four State-owned banks - Agribank, BIDV, Vietcombank, Vietinbank - plus 2%. If the lending interest rate is lower than the subsidy rate, the subsidy provided will be equal to the former. The subsidy will cover the following components: basic construction, machinery and equipment for agricultural production and processing, harvesting birds’ nest, buying new fishing vessels and upgrading machine capacity, replacing existing unproductive dairy cows, and seed and hi-tech agricultural production. The term of support will depend on the approved production cycle but not … [Read more...] about HCM City to pay interest for hi-tech farms
Vietnamese doctors provide free eye treatment for Cambodians
A Vietnamese doctor checks a patient's eyes (Photo: VOV) Phnom Penh (VNA) – Doctors from Vietnam’s military hospital 175 and Ho Chi Minh City eye hospital, on November 14 and 15, offer free eye checkups and surgeries and medicines to hundreds of poor Cambodian patients. The charity event, organised annually by the two hospitals since 2005, is taking place at the Royal Cambodian Army’s Preah Ket Mealea hospital. It is part of the Vietnam – Cambodia defence cooperation protocol for 2018. Nearly 50 doctors join the event, treating about 300 patients and giving medicines for some 200 others. General Ly Sovann, Director of the Cambodian hospital, said the event is effective and meaningful. Via such event and other cooperation programmes, doctors’ capacity at Preah Ket Mealea hospital has been improved, while Cambodian patients have received better treatment, he added.-VNA VNA … [Read more...] about Vietnamese doctors provide free eye treatment for Cambodians
PYCOGROUP holds Best Developer Competition in Vietnam
BizInfo PYCOGROUP holds Best Developer Competition in Vietnam Thursday, Dec 12, 2019,10:00 (GMT+7) PYCOGROUP holds Best Developer Competition in Vietnam On November 30, PYCOGROUP and its partners - MessageMedia, Ansarada and YellowPepper - held the first-ever Best Developer in Vietnam competition, highlighting the continuous growth of the tech industry in Vietnam and its future in the tech world. The competition aimed to unearth Vietnam's best programming talent through a series of competitive rounds, challenging both their programming and soft skills. It was an exciting day full of suspense for over 400 attendees, including contestants, judges, mentors and supporters. With over 500 registrations from all across the country, only one could be the best, Vo Phi Hung, who took home the title of Best Developer in Vietnam 2019. The second prize belonged to Do Tri Quoc from Hanoi and the third prize belonged to Tran Duy Thanh … [Read more...] about PYCOGROUP holds Best Developer Competition in Vietnam