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☆ Vietnam aims to start work on high-speed rail lines to China by 2030
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) bids farewell to China's President Xi Jinping after their meeting at the Government Office in Hanoi on Dec. 13, 2023. Vietnam aims to start building two high-speed railway lines linking its capital Hanoi with China before 2030, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said, another sign of a recent warming of ties between the two Communist-ruled neighbors. China is Vietnam's largest trading partner and a vital source of imports for its manufacturing sector. The two countries are already connected via a system of highways and two railway lines that are old and need upgrading on the Vietnam side. One of the planned high-speed lines would run from Vietnam's port cities of Haiphong and Quang Ninh through Hanoi to Lao Cai province, which borders China's Yunan province, the ministry said in a statement released late on Tuesday.

Persons: Pham Minh Chinh, Xi Jinping, Lao Cai Organizations: Vietnam's, Government, Ministry of Planning, Investment Locations: Hanoi, Vietnam, China, Vietnam's, Haiphong, Quang Ninh, Lao, China's Yunan, Lang Son, China's Guangxi

☆ Vietnam is planning high-speed rail connections with China
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Vietnam aims to start building two high-speed railway lines linking its capital Hanoi with China before 2030, the Ministry of Planning and Investment said, another sign of a recent warming of ties between the two Communist-ruled neighbors. The two countries are already connected via a system of highways and two railway lines that are old and need upgrading on the Vietnam side. Earlier this month, Vietnam said it was seeking to learn from China to develop its first high-speed railway network and had sent its officials to work with Chinese railway companies. A massive high-speed railway line linking capital Hanoi with business hub Ho Chi Minh City is also being planned in the country. Trade between Vietnam and China in the first quarter of this year rose 22% from a year earlier to $43.6 billion, according to Vietnamese government data.

Persons: Lao Cai, Vuong Dinh Hue, Xi Jinping Organizations: Ministry of Planning, Investment, National Locations: Vietnam, Hanoi, China, Vietnam’s, Haiphong, Quang Ninh, Lao, China’s Yunnan, Lang Son, China’s Guangxi, Chi Minh City, Beijing, South China

☆ Gen Z is bringing the 'office siren' aesthetic to corporate settings, but some say the trend isn't practical for work
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The "office siren" corporate aesthetic is taking over TikTok, but it isn't necessarily new. It blends high-fashion corporate looks with '90s and 2000s vintage charm — fitting for Gen Z, which can't get enough of the Y2K era. The office siren look is bold red lips, pencil skirts, stilettos, turtlenecks, chunky jewelry, and tons of neutrals and blacks. She said the office siren aesthetic began taking off around the same time, coincidentally when she decided to post her outfits that aligned with the trend. "The office siren look is something that largely started in the office," Dwyer said.

Persons: Rachel Green, —, Elisabeth Kassab, STYLISTCHECK, TikTokers, Miu Miu, Julia Quang, Quang, you'll, Wears, Styles, Erika Dwyer, Dwyer, Anne Hathaway, Gisele Bündchen's, Rachel Varney, StyledbyRachel, Jennifer Aniston, Joan Clayton, Kate Moss, Calvin Klein, Getty Varney, Varney, she's, Ron Galella, Jan Jarecki Organizations: Service, BI, Fox, Bank, Getty Images, Penske Media, Getty

Vietnam has already rail connections to China, but the system is old with limited capacity on the Vietnam side. The upgraded railway would pass through the region where Vietnam has its largest deposits of rare earths, of which China is by far the world's biggest refiner. Chinese and Vietnamese rare earths industry experts discussed last week stronger cooperation on processing the minerals, according to Vietnamese state media. It is unclear how much China would contribute to the upgraded railway track in Vietnam and whether Hanoi would accept sizeable financing from Beijing on this. A strengthened railway link could also boost Vietnam's export to China, mostly of agriculture products, boost Chinese tourism to northern Vietnam and further integrate the two countries' manufacturing industries, which experts already consider as symbiotic, with factories in Vietnam largely assembling components produced in China.

Persons: Xi Jinping, Vietnam's, Wang Yi, Tran, Pham Minh Chinh, Wang Wentao, Francesco Guarascio, Khanh Vu, Phuong Nguyen, Stephen Coates Organizations: Vietnam's, China's Commerce, Initiative, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Hanoi, China, Haiphong China, Vietnam, HANOI, United States, Tran Luu Quang, Kunming, Haiphong, Beijing, China . China, Hong Kong, Washington, South

☆ China, Vietnam Consider Rail Link Through Rare Earths Heartland
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

By Francesco Guarascio and Khanh VuHANOI (Reuters) - China and Vietnam are working on a possible significant upgrade of their underdeveloped rail links to boost a line that crosses Vietnam's rare earths heartland and reaches the country's top port in the north, senior officials and diplomats said. Vietnam has already rail connections to China, but the system is old with limited capacity on the Vietnam side. The upgraded railway would pass through the region where Vietnam has its largest deposits of rare earths, of which China is by far the world's biggest refiner. Chinese and Vietnamese rare earths industry experts discussed last week stronger cooperation on processing the minerals, according to Vietnamese state media. It is unclear how much China would contribute to the upgraded railway track in Vietnam and whether Hanoi would accept sizeable financing from Beijing on this.

Persons: Francesco Guarascio, Khanh Vu, Xi Jinping, Vietnam's, Wang Yi, Tran, Pham Minh Chinh, Wang Wentao, Phuong Nguyen, Stephen Coates Organizations: Vietnam's, China's Commerce, Initiative Locations: Khanh, Khanh Vu HANOI, China, Vietnam, Hanoi, United States, Tran Luu Quang, Kunming, Haiphong, Beijing, China . China, Hong Kong, Washington, South

Parliament approved the higher tax rate as part of a global tax reform, and said the government would work on specific incentives in 2024. "The National Assembly is not issuing a separate resolution on investment incentives at this time," said Le Quang Manh, head of the assembly's financial commission. Vietnam's corporate income tax is already set at 20%, but it has offered for years much lower effective rates to large foreign investors. The Korean Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam said members were concerned about the new tax rate, but "none have expressed their intention to alter their investment in Vietnam". However, Thang Vu, a tax expert at consultancy Dezan Shira, said Vietnam could see a drop in foreign investment if it did not offer "adequate alternative economic benefits" to those affected by the new tax.

Persons: Le Quang, Thang, Dezan Shira, Khanh Vu, Francesco Guarascio, Miral Organizations: Samsung, Assembly, Korean Chamber of Commerce, Thomson Locations: Vietnam, Hanoi, HANOI, Korean

A smartphone with a displayed Intel logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. The source, who declined to be named because the information was confidential, said Intel had made that decision around July. Intel is also expanding its investment in chip packaging in Malaysia, one of Vietnam's main Southeast Asian rivals. "You cannot take for granted that because Intel has already invested here it will invest more," Chung Seck, partner at law firm Baker & McKenzie Vietnam told Reuters. Asked about the possible investment plan at the time, Intel told Reuters: "Vietnam is an important part of our global manufacturing network, but we have not announced any new investments."

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Joe Biden, Biden's, Tran Luu Quang, chipmakers, Chung Seck, Baker, McKenzie, Francesco Guarascio @fraguarascio, Max Cherney, Khanh, Miyoung Kim Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Intel, U.S, Reuters, Vietnam's, White House, Marvell, McKenzie Vietnam, Thomson Locations: Rights HANOI, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, United States, U.S, Hanoi, Europe, Malaysia, San Francisco, Khanh Vu

☆ 3 reasons social listening can be the best way to connect small businesses with customers and inspire products
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Erica Sweeney | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Social listening refers to monitoring your social media for customer feedback and industry trends. Social listening isn't easy, but small-business founders say it's worth your time. Here, two small-business owners explain how social listening benefits their companies. Sharma and Arias handle most of the social listening for their companies, with help from their small teams and the tools available within social platforms. "It's very manual," Arias said, adding that her customer-care consultant helped with day-to-day social listening and responding to comments and DMs.

Persons: SBOs, —, Ash Sharma, Sharma, Noa Arias, Bloomers, Shaula Alexander Yemini, David Wagner, Arias, Naomi Phan Organizations: Small, Service, New York, Cincha Locations: Oakland , California, New York City

☆ Four killed in Vietnam coal mine collapse
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

HANOI, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Four people have been killed in a collapse in a coal mine in Vietnam's mining centre of Quang Ninh, the state-run Thanh Nien newspaper reported on Sunday. The accident happened late on Saturday at a mine operated by Vang Danh Coal Company, a unit of Vietnam's state coal miner Vinacomin, Thanh Nien reported. The newspaper did not give a reason for the collapse. In March a similar accident happened at a Vang Danh-operated mine but no one was killed. Vinacomin said last year that mine accidents killed at least 17 miners in the first nine months of 2022.

Persons: Thanh Nien, Vinacomin, Phuong Nguyen, Robert Birsel Organizations: Thanh Nien, Vang Danh Coal Company, Thomson Locations: HANOI, Quang Ninh, Vang

☆ Read Your Way Through Hanoi
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Read Your Way Around the World is a series exploring the globe through books. Hanoi has always been a city of tales and legends. Cradled by the silky Red River, Hanoi is also a city of loss and survival: It was destroyed time and time again during the French Indochina War, then the Vietnam War, when thousands of tons of bombs were dropped onto the city. But once in Hanoi, you will feel the energy of a city that constantly renews itself. If you prefer to get to know Hanoi via fiction, “Dumb Luck,” by Vu Trong Phung — a sarcastic novel set in Hanoi during the colonial period — is considered a classic of Vietnamese literature.

Persons: ”, Emperor Ly Thai, Luke Nguyen, banh, Huong, Ho Xuan Huong, Nguyen Quang Thieu, Vu Trong Locations: Hanoi, Indochina, Vietnam

Vietnam targets LNG-sourced gas generating up to 22.4 gigawatts (GW) of power by 2030, enough to power 20 million households and account for nearly 15% of national power supply. Complicating LNG efforts, much of Vietnam's planned gas power investment is directed to the south of the country despite the under-served north's greater vulnerability to blackouts. Reuters GraphicsThe first plant due to come online, the Nhon Trach 3 facility being built by state-run PetroVietnam Power (PV Power) (POW.HM) near Ho Chi Minh City, is scheduled to begin operation in late 2024. Takafumi Akino of Tokyo Gas, which is building an LNG terminal and a gas plant in northern Quang Ninh province, predicted "hard negotiations". PV Gas said this month it was in talks with U.S. energy giant ExxonMobil and Russia's Novatek on LNG cooperation.

Persons: Thi, Kaushal Ramesh, EVN, Japan's Marubeni, Takafumi, Rystad's Ramesh, Francesco Guarascio, Khanh, Emily Chow, Florence Tan, Phuong Nguyen, Tony Munroe, William Mallard Organizations: European Chamber of Commerce, Reuters, Energy, Tokyo Gas, Industry, Plant, Foreign, Delta Offshore Energy, Gulf International Holdings, Delta Offshore, Gulf Energy Development, Buyers, PV Gas, ExxonMobil, Russia's, Gas, Thomson Locations: Vietnam, Hanoi, HANOI, China, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Ho Chi Minh City, Oslo, U.S, Tokyo, Quang Ninh, South, Southeast Asia, Asia, Khanh Vu

☆ Foxconn to invest $246 mln in 2 projects in northern Vietnam
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

HANOI, June 30 (Reuters) - The world's largest contract electronics maker and assembler, Foxconn (2354.TW), has received approval from Vietnam to invest $246 million in two new projects its northern province of Quang Ninh, the local authority said on Friday. The projects, by its unit Foxconn Singapore, will raise total investments by Foxconn in Vietnam to about $3 billion and will centre on the manufacture and assembly of telecom and electric vehicle (EV) parts, the provincial government said. The remaining $46 million is for a plant to produce electronics and telecommunication components, with production set to begin in October 2024. Foxconn, which has been in Vietnam for nearly two decades, also plans to set up a new factory in the central province of Nghe An. with an initial investment of $100 million, the provincial local authority said last month.

Persons: Foxconn, Phuong Nguyen, Khanh Vu, Martin Petty Organizations: Foxconn, Thomson Locations: HANOI, Vietnam, Quang Ninh, Singapore, Hanoi, Foxconn, Nghe

☆ Making Art Out of Bombshells and Memories in Vietnam
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Frank Rose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“It’s important to me to find my way through the world in relation to others,” Nguyen told me. Irvine, he was one of several art students mentored by Martinez who called themselves the Renegades. At CalArts, he worked with the Danish art collective Superflex. At this point in his career, Martinez suggested when I phoned him, they may have been doing him a favor. Much of the country went on lockdown in 2021, but for parts of that year you could still travel domestically.

Persons: ”, Vivian Crockett, Crockett —, —, ” Nguyen, Martinez, Phunam Thuc Ha, Matt Lucero, “ I’ve, ” Martinez, Nguyen, speck, He’d Organizations: New Museum show’s, Renegades, CalArts, Propeller Group Locations: Brazilian, New York, American, U.C, Irvine, Danish, Malaysia, Quang Tri

☆ How to put your best travel foot forward for Earth Day 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +20 min

But you don’t have to totally cut out travel or stay super close to home to be a good planetary citizen. You need a city that’s dedicated to getting it right to best enjoy an urban biking vacation. Here, we've curated 30 of our favorite corners, including the Thu Bon River, which flows through central Vietnam. A maze of rivers and caves, the UNESCO World Centre is defined by its craggy limestone facades and jade green water. Bruno De Hogues/Photodisc/Getty Images Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park: A UNESCO World Heritage, Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is heaven for spelunkers.

☆ Vietnam to conduct 'comprehensive inspection' of TikTok over harmful content
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

"TikTok, Facebook and YouTube are all cross-border social media with international standards. But when operating in Vietnam, the platform needs to abide by local regulations on both content and tax obligations," Do said. "This is an interdisciplinary inspection activity planned by the government and in line with Vietnam law for companies operating in Vietnam, not only TikTok," TikTok Vietnam said in an email. In a statement to Reuters, TikTok Vietnam also said it had upgraded its guidelines expected to take effect from April 24 to be more transparent about its rules and how it would enforce them. The app has nearly 50 million users in Vietnam aged 18 and above, the government said in a separate statement, citing data from a research company DataReportal.

☆ South Korea court orders first compensation for Vietnam war victim
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Hyonhee Shin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SEOUL, Feb 7 (Reuters) - A South Korean court ordered the government on Tuesday to compensate a Vietnamese victim of atrocities during the Vietnam War in the 1970s, when about 300,000 South Korean troops fought alongside U.S. forces. The ruling marked the first legal acknowledgement of South Korea's liability for atrocities during the war and could potentially pave the way for other victims to seek compensation. The Seoul Central District Court ordered the government to provide around 30 million won ($23,800) in compensation and additional funds for delay to Nguyen Thi Thanh, a survivor of killings of civilians by South Korean troops. A court official confirmed the decision but said the full verdict was not immediately available for release. Hanoi's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

☆ Vietnam downgrades Typhoon Noru to tropical storm, but warns of flood risks
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

HANOI, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Vietnam on Wednesday downgraded Typhoon Noru to a tropical depression, but warned residents to stay on alert because of the risks from flooding and landslides caused by heavy rain, the government said. The storm made landfall in the early hours with winds of 117kph (72mph) in the province of Quang Nam, home to the historic city of Hoi An and resort of Danang, the weather agency told state media. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but photographs posted on social media and on state media showed downed trees and mudslides blocking roads. Vietnam is also vulnerable to destructive storms and flooding because of its long coastline. Natural disasters - predominantly floods and landslides triggered by storms - killed 139 people and injured 150 others in the country last year, official data showed.

Residents who evacuated from their flooded homes sit on a roadside after Super Typhoon Noru, in San Ildefonso, Bulacan province, Philippines, September 26, 2022. REUTERS/Eloisa LopezHANOI, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Vietnam urged more people on Tuesday to evacuate as an intensifying Typhoon Noru barrelled towards the southeast Asian nation, after causing at least eight deaths and widespread flooding in the Philippines. The typhoon forced airports in Vietnam to close, causing travel disruption, while thousands were forced to evacuate their homes, according to official statements. Typhoon Noru, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines this year, also damaged 1.53 billion pesos ($26 million) worth of crops, government data showed. read more"There are still areas with floods," Daniel Fernando, governor of Bulacan province north of the capital, told DZRH.

☆ Țara cu 97 de milioane de locuitori care nu a înregistrat niciun deces din cauza coronavirusului. Care a fost abordarea de succes
▼ + stars: | 2020-05-30 | by ( ) albasat.md time to read: +8 min

După trei săptămâni de carantină, Vietnamul a ridicat restricţiile de distanţare fizică la sfârşitul lunii aprilie. Cronologie:La începutul lunii ianuarie, screeningul temperaturii era deja în vigoare pentru pasagerii care soseau din Wuhan pe Aeroportul Internaţional din Hanoi. Pe 1 februarie, Vietnamul a declarat epidemie naţională, cu doar şase cazuri confirmate înregistrate în toată ţara. Toate zborurile dintre Vietnam şi China au fost oprite, măsură urmată a doua zi de suspendarea vizelor pentru cetăţenii chinezi. Efortul de urmărire a contactelor din Vietnam a fost atât de meticulos încât au fost luate în calcul şi persoanele de contact indirecte.

Persons: Guy Thwaites, Chi Minh, Dam, îşi, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, OMS, cela, Pham, Thwaites Organizations: CNN, Mediafax, Universităţii Oxford, OMS, Pham, Aeroportul, Vietnamul, Partidului Comunist Locations: Asia, Coreea de Sud, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, China, Vietnamul, oraşul, Chi, ţării, Pham Quang Thai, Hanoi, Wuhan, Iran, Italia, Chinei, Vietnamului, străinătate

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