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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. — VNS
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Sep
13
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Duc Hung to showcase his nicest ao dai in the US
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VietNamNet Bridge – Inspired by colorful flags at Vietnam’s traditional festivals, Hanoi’s well-known fashion designer Duc Hung made a special collection of ao dai for his show in the US on September 15.
Duc Hung, one of the most famous ao dai designers left Vietnam to the US on September 8 to prepare for his show at the San Jose Center on September 15.
Hung said he had prepared very carefully for the show, in which his “fairies” will perform silk ao dai.
Hung said he called his models as “fairies” because the show would be arranged as a play, adapting from a fairytale of Vietnam “Tu Thuc meets the fairy.”
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Sep
13
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Hoi An launches car-free campaign
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The central city of Hoi An on Sept. 9 launched its first Car Free Day campaign, coinciding with its annual Nature Day in which over 5,000 people participated.
The ancient city was the first city in Vietnam to host a Car Free Day in an effort to make the environment in the tourism hub cleaner.
Participants rode on bicycles and pedicabs around the city's old quarter to raise awareness about environmental protection among local people and tourists.
"The campaign shows how committed local people are to environmental protection. The city has successfully organised a pedestrian street in the old quarter since 2002 and hosted the Nature Day for the past three years," said Hoi An City's People's Committee Deputy Chairman Nguyen Van Dung.
"We are honoured to be the first city in Viet Nam to join the Asian network of Car Free Day programmes. We also hope that the campaign will encourage people to use more environmentally friendly vehicles like bicycles and battery-powered bicycles and to walk more," Dung said.
The Car Free Day, which was debuted in La Rosshelle in France in 1997, has attracted the participation of 2,268 cities in 40 countries.
The city also set up 13 sites where people can change used nylon bags for new reusable bags in an action to say no to plastic bags.
A painting contest for children was held at An Hoi bridge as part of the response to Car Free Day./.
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