VIETNAM NEWS DECEMBER 22
22/12/2020 09:44 GMT+7
Ten people prosecuted for illegally transporting VND30 trillion overseas
The Hanoi City police have caught ten people illegally transporting nearly VND30 trillion overseas, the local media reported.
The Hanoi City Party Committee Secretary has praised the Investigative Police Agency of the city for busting this illegal money transport racket.
Vuong Dinh Hue said this is a great achievement of the Hanoi Investigative Police Agency in the fight against crimes and in protecting the country’s security and social order and ensuring peace and happiness for the people.
This is also special in the city s effort to fight crimes and ensure security and social order before the thirteenth National Congress of the Communist Party commences.
Vietnam air passenger numbers nosedive in 2020
By Nguyen Quy December 22, 2020 | 09:00 pm GMT+7
A check-in area at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport is empty during the national social distancing period, April 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran.
Only 66 million passengers passed through the country s airports this year, a 43.5 percent decrease given the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis and unfavorable weather conditions.
Twenty-two airports across Vietnam accommodated 424,000 safe flights operated by 68 foreign and five Vietnamese carriers this year, down 548 flights from 2019, according to a report released Monday by the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.
They also handled nearly 1.3 million tons of cargo, down 14.7 percent year-on-year.
Monday, December 21, 2020, 08:43 GMT+7
A man rides a motorbike in the rain on Dien Bien Phu Street in Da Nang City, Vietnam, December 20, 2020. Photo: Tuoi Tre
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Vietnam Airlines seeks shareholder loans
By Dat Nguyen December 21, 2020 | 03:45 pm GMT+7
Medical staff disinfects an aircraft of Vietnam Airlines at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on March 13, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Ba Do.
Vietnam Airlines Group has called an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting next week to source low-interest loans to accelerate Covid-19 recovery.
At the meeting, to be held on Dec. 29, the flag carrier will seek loans from its shareholders that comprise the government with an over 86 percent stake, Japanese aviation company ANA Holdings with 8.7 percent, and other organizations and individuals.
The National Assembly in November approved a plan for the central bank to refinance Vietnam Airlines
Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam warns over fraud repatriation flights Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công
20/12/2020 18:34 GMT+7
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has warned that Vietnamese people who have been stuck in foreign countries due to the pandemic and wish to get back home should watch out for fake advertisements for tickets on repatriation flights.
Speaking at a meeting organised last week by the HCM City Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, Dao Duy Duong, deputy head of its legal department, said Vietnamese people who have been stuck in foreign countries due to the pandemic should only buy tickets from official sources.