HCM City (VNA) - A number of bidding packages under the Green Transport Development Project, to develop a new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor in HCM City, are scheduled to be kick started in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the HCM City Management Board for Traffic Works Construction and Investment. Invested by the management board, the BRT project has total investment of over 121.2 million USD, lent from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), and nearly 423 billion VND (over 18.38 million USD) in reciprocal capital. A high-quality bus route, called BRT No 1, will be built along the Vo Van Kiet - Mai Chi Tho Highway, with technical characteristics and quality of service similar to light BRT systems around the world, fully satisfying all of the requirements of smart traffic. It is one of six BRT routes planned by the city’s government. With a total length of 26 km, 28 stops, and two transfer stations, and passing through the districts of … [Read more...] about HCM City accelerating work on bus rapid transit route
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Ha Nam targets 17,500 new jobs in 2021
At a recent employment session held by the Department and the Ha Nam Employment Service Centre, 47 businesses recruited 6,600 workers. According to Director of the Ha Nam Employment Service Centre Nguyen Quang Tuan, no enterprise in the province went bankrupt due to COVID-19. The province also sees increasing recruitment demand because a large number of new enterprises being established while existing enterprises expand production. The department has advised the provincial People’s Committee to synchronously and effectively implement policies, programmes, and schemes to create jobs and support young people in finding employment and starting a business, especially disadvantaged workers. Attention will also be paid to promoting career guidance as well as improving the quality of human resources training. Ha Nam created 23,300 new jobs last year, while more than 25,670 workers found jobs. Local authorities also issued work permits to 251 foreigners working at local … [Read more...] about Ha Nam targets 17,500 new jobs in 2021
Diplomatic corps, int’l organizations informed about 13th National Party Congress
Draft documents to be submitted to the 13th National Party Congress received high consensus as well as feedback from Party members, people from all walks of life, including overseas Vietnamese, as well as former Party and State leaders, National Assembly deputies, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, social-political organizations, scientists and managers, Quan noted. … [Read more...] about Diplomatic corps, int’l organizations informed about 13th National Party Congress
Vaccine nationalism puts world on brink of ‘catastrophic moral failure’: WHO chief
Observers say this board meeting, which last until next Tuesday, is one of the most important in the U.N. health agency’s more than 70-year history and could shape its role in global health long after the pandemic ends. … [Read more...] about Vaccine nationalism puts world on brink of ‘catastrophic moral failure’: WHO chief
Diplomatic corps, int’l organisations informed about upcoming National Party Congress
The congress would see the attendance of 1,587 delegates representing nearly 5.2 million Party members nationwide, Chairman of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations Hoàng Bình Quân said when briefing the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organisations about the preparations for the big event. … [Read more...] about Diplomatic corps, int’l organisations informed about upcoming National Party Congress