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It is necessary to renovate the mechanism to better exploit the Cai Mep-Thi Vai ports, or some ports would be eliminated due to interminable losses. Price war leads to heavy losses According to Nguyen Uyen Minh, Director of the Ba Ria-Vung Tau branch of the Saigon Port Development Company, all the container ports in the [...]
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Bien Hoa-Vung Tau Highway Joint-Stock Company (BVEC), Vietnam, has just signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the loan for the Bien Hoa-Vung Tau Highway project. Accordingly, JICA will support 80 per cent of the total investment for the project of some VND 22.522 billion. At the same [...]
Vung Tau city’s department of industry and trade and the people’s committee have made a concerted effort to target rip-off restaurants and introduce new measures to protect tourists from being overcharged. Yesterday they publicized the names of seven restaurants that have been fined or complained by tourists for overcharging. These restaurants not only refuse to [...]
The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) inaugurated the first locally manufactured jack-up rig Saturday in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province. The country’s President Truong Tan Sang witnessed the event. A jack-up rig is a type of mobile platform that is able to stand still on the sea floor, resting on a number of supporting [...]
Con Dao, located in the East Sea about 97 nautical miles from Vung Tau City, is considered a beautiful pearl of Vietnam’s sea tourism. The Travel + Leisure magazine has recognized Con Dao as one of the world’s top 20 mysterious islands. Endowed with smooth beaches shaded by evergreen trees, fresh air, clear blue water, [...]
More than 600 volunteers took part in a beach cleaning day in Thuy Van beach in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province and Do Son beach in Haiphong City as part of the International Coastal Cleanup program by Coca Cola Vietnam last weekend. This is a campaign held annually to help raise awareness on environmental protection on [...]
The Ministry of Transport has agreed on a new location for the airport in Vung Tau city as suggested by the local government, the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) said. CAAV announced the ministry’s approval last week after Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang met with relevant agencies of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province. The [...]
With support from local people in Hoa Hiep Commune, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, 70 sets of remains of martyrs and their belongings have been found, said Nguyen Van Phuong, Deputy-Director of the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on September 12th. These martyrs were stationed at the foot of May [...]
Dilapidated fishing boats are being refashioned into tourism boats and restaurant cruisers in what experts say is a dangerous practice. A report by the Tuoi Tre said Monday that the new trend is to blame as a major cause for fatal boat wrecks. “Fishing boats and tourism boats are designed differently and have different technical [...]
The first completely indigenous made-in-Vietnam oil-rig in Dai Hung Mine, 265 kilometers from the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau is now complete and fully operational. Dai Hung oil-rig (Photo: Phan Hien) Dai Hung 2 oil-rig is the first large-scale deepwater project undertaken by solely Vietnamese engineers and workers using the latest innovative technology. The [...]