Sep
14
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Two international standard amusement parks for Da Nang
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Viet Nam’s Sun Group general director, Mr. Dang Minh Truong, said the group will build the 200 million USD Da Nang Asian Park near the 2 September Peace Monument. It will cover over 48 ha of land and over 40 ha of water.
World-known American architect Bill Bensley of the Bensley Design Group International Consultants Co is the master planner for the project. The group will be exempt from land lease fees.
There will be a 125m observation wheel named Da Nang View, numerous international standard rides and replicas of buildings from many Asian countries. A multi-function centre will show films, stage drama, have circuses and hold music performances. The park will feature water, sound and light shows, water puppets, sporting events and fireworks displays.
Mr. Truong said stage 1 of park will open in sixteen months. It is expected to welcome about 1.5 million visitors per year.
Construction of the Sun Group’s Ocean Park on the Son Tra Peninsula is underway. The park, which will include a water palace and a cable car will carry visitors from the cruise ship wharf to the top of Mt. Son Tra, is designed by the U.S Pacon’s Tree House Consultancy Co.
There will be models of famous ports and lighthouses from around the world.
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Sep
14
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City beefs up waterway transit system
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Tourists sightsee by boat along the Sai Gon River. HCM City will set up new waterway routes for tourism and later for public transit upon the completion of the dredging of major canals. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoang Hai
HCM CITY (VNS)— Waterway routes for tourists as well as residents will be set up in HCM City as soon as the dredging and widening of the city's major canals are completed.
The city has nearly 8,000 km of rivers and canals, accounting for 17 per cent of the city's total area, according to the Department of Transport.
Luong Minh Phuc, director of the city's investment management board for Urban Traffic Works, said the dredging of the Tau Hu – Ben Nghe and Doi – Te canals would be completed soon.
Initially, the waterway routes will be set up for tourism and later for public transport. The tourism route will connect with Vo Van Kiet Road to elevated roads that will be built in the future.
A tourism route on Tau Hu – Ben Nghe Canal is currently being created by the city, which is planting trees and designing along the canal.
Tran The Ky, deputy director of the Transport Department, said the city would open a waterway route on the canal when the dredging of Tau Hu – Ben Nghe Canal is completed by the end of this year.
The heights of bridges on the canal meet the transport safety regulations for boats.
The canal will become an important waterway transport route as it will link rivers and canals running to the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, the country's largest rice, fruit and seafood producer.
The route will run on the Sai Gon River, Vam Thuan River, Nuoc Len Canal, Doi and Te Canal to the Ben Luc River in the Cuu Long Delta province of Long An.
The aim is to help reduce pressure on road transport to and from HCM City and the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.
The city has also been conducting research on three inland waterway routes that will be depart from Nha Rong Wharf in District 4.
The first route will run on the Sai Gon River to the outlying district of Cu Chi, and the second route will run on the Tau Hu – Ben Nghe Canal to outlying Binh Chanh District.
The last route will run on Te Canal to the Cho Dem River intersection in Binh Chanh District.
Of the city's 200 ports and boat stations, the four largest are Sai Gon, Tan Cang, Ben Nghe and Nha Be.
Under the city's plan to develop ports by 2020, the Department of Transport will renovate ports for transporting passengers and goods along the Te Canal.
The department also plans to build several new ports for transporting goods, including the Nhon Duc Port in Nha Be District and Phu Dinh Port in District 8.
In addition, it will turn part of the Sai Gon Port at Nha Rong Wharf and Khanh Hoi Port into small tourism ports, and build an international passenger ship station at Phu Thuan Park in District 7.
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Sep
14
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Vietnam proposes Southeast Asian heritage network
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Vietnam UNESCO National Committee has proposed establishing a network to keep an eye on, develop and preserve heritage sites in Southeast Asia to raise public awareness on preservation of these areas and to sustain and protect the environment.
The proposal was offered at a conference on the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention and sustainable development which took place in the northern province of Ninh Binh on Tuesday, reports VietnamPlus.
The conference, co-organized by UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre and Vietnam UNESCO National Committee, aimed to encourage member countries to think about long-term plans on heritages.
Kishore Rao, director of UNESCO’s World Heritage Center, stressed that since the convention was established in 1972, 192 nations have signed up.
Participants at the conference agreed that the preservation of the world’s natural and cultural heritages need to be carried out regularly and continuously. To achieve sustainable development, the member countries are required to design master plans and set up a system to supervise the process of socio-economic construction and development, to avoid negative impacts on heritages.
They also highlighted the need for effective measures to balance heritage preservation, economic development and tourist attraction.
Addressing the conference, Pham Cao Phong, Secretary General of the Vietnam UNESCO National Committee, said that during the past 25 years, ministries, sectors, local governments and related agencies of Vietnam have effectively implemented the convention.
Many policies related to the field have been applied widely and deeply, contributing to promoting the image of UNESCO as well as protecting the country’s quintessence to transfer to younger generations.
On the occasion, the committee floated a proposal to establish a network to supervise, preserve and develop world heritages in Southeast Asia, aiming to raise public awareness and responsibility towards the heritages, encouraging them to protect the environment and develop the tourism economy in a sustainable manner.
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Arthouse Vietnam to bring local works to Art Expo Malaysia
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14/09/2012 09:38:14
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Sofitel Saigon hosts Indian Food Festival
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14/09/2012 09:36:28
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Top chef Pascal Pochon at Sheraton Saigon
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14/09/2012 09:33:46
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Early Mid-Autumn color at D5’s ‘lantern street’
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14/09/2012 09:31:58
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Japanese, Taiwanese artists join city’s dan tranh gig
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14/09/2012 09:29:32
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Contours of history
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14/09/2012 09:24:55
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Vietnam's Next Top Model top six revealed?
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14/09/2012 09:21:07
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Short-film fest to screen online
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14/09/2012 09:19:40
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Short-film fest to screen online
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14/09/2012 09:10:27
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