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Medical workers sample a person in relation to a positive COVID-19 case, who exited Vietnam and is staying in Australia, in Hai Phong City, March 10, 2021. Photo: T.Thang / Tuoi Tre
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Politics Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong affirmed his country appreciates the strategic partnership with Vietnam during a phone conversation with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday.
Society Vietnam documented two imported cases of COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City and southern Long An Province together with one domestic infection in northern Hai Duong Province on Wednesday evening, raising the national caseload to 2,529 patient, with 2,004 recoveries and 35 virus-related deaths.
Pakistan begins anti-dumping investigation on Vietnam steel
By Dat Nguyen March 10, 2021 | 08:34 am GMT+7
Cold rolled steel being decoiled in a factory. Photo by Shutterstock/Matee Nuserm.
Pakistan has initiated an anti-dumping investigation on cold-rolled steel products from Vietnam with a proposed duty of 27.98 percent.
Its trade authorities have asked China Steel and Nippon Steel Vietnam, based in the southern province of Ba Ria–Vung Tau, to provide feedback to dumping allegations within 45 days starting February 25.
The alleged dumping of these products has hurt local producers, according to the Pakistan National Tariffs Commission.
Pakistan will issue a preliminary determination at the end of April.
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Press Release – VARD, one of the world’s major designers and builders of specialized vessels, is pleased to announce the successful handover of a second Expedition Cruise Vessel, Coral Geographer, to Coral Expeditions of Australia.
Following successful delivery of the sister ship Coral Adventurer in 2019, Australia-based Coral Expeditions ordered a second VARD 6 01 Expedition Cruise Vessel as part of its fleet expansion. The brand-new Coral Geographer is now ready to sail on new adventures after arriving from Vard Vung Tau, VARD’s shipyard in Vietnam. Her first maiden voyage with passengers will start from Cairns, Queensland, at the end of March.
In recent years, Ho Tram has emerged among the most attractive Vietnamese tourist destinations. One of the high-profile developers in this fast emerging tourist market is Asian Coast Development (ACDL) – ACDL controls the 164-hectare Ho Tram Strip Integrated Resort through its wholly-owned subsidiary Ho Tram Project Company Limited (HTP).
Ho Tram - a tourism mecca in the making CNN published an article entitled “Forget Phuket, these are the next-gen Asian tourist hotspots”, introducing four promising destinations in the near future. Along with Phu Quoc’s Long Beach, Ho Tram (Ba Ria-Vung Tau) was also named as one of the best beach stretches in the world.
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Accor has deepened its partnership with owner Novaland with three new hotel signings in Vietnam, with plans for seven more in the future.
The latest additions are the 248-room Mövenpick Phan Thiet and 250-room Novotel Phan Thiet within NovaWorld Phan Thiet, as well as Mövenpick Ho Tram, a 209-room hotel at Wonderland – NovaWorld Ho Tram, a complex under development by Novaland.
Novotel Phan Thiet will sit within the NovaWorld Phan Thiet complex, among a plethora of entertainment facilities
All three hotels will feature a range of recreational, wellness and F&B facilities, while Novotel Phan Thiet and Mövenpick Ho Tram will offer venues for meetings and events.