Over 20 million students nationwide enter new school year

Friday, 06/09/2019 09:10
(CPV) - Over 20 million students nationwide enter new school year, Vietnam Airlines is completing procedures for direct flights to US, remittances to Ho Chi Minh city reaches USD3.45 billion and Arab newspaper points out reasons why tourists should travel to Vietnam are hot news on September 5th.

Over 20 million students nationwide enter new academic year

More than 20 million students across the country began the 2019-2020 school year after brief ceremonies on September 5th, except students in central localities will start their school year on September 9th due to heavy rain and flood.  

An art performance at new academic year Son Tay high school (Photo: CPV)

Almost all schools across the country didn’t use balloons as their traditions in response to the “say no to plastic waste” campaign.

However, the ceremonies took place as usual with saluting the national flag, singing the national anthem, reading the State President’s letter on the occasion of beginning a new school year, beating the drum, musical performances and sport events.

Students and teachers at a new school year opening ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City 

The Ministry of Education and Training released that this new school year welcomes over 5.5 million kindergartners, more than 17 million primary, secondary, and high school students, over 1.5 million university students and 1.148 million teachers and lecturers.

Arab newspaper points out reasons why tourists should travel to Vietnam

Arab’s Sharwawsat in Arabic has just published an article mentioning 13 reasons why tourists should visit Vietnam.

Hoan Kiem lake in central Hanoi (Photo: svhtt.hanoi.gov.vn)

The article said that if tourists are still doubtful or hesitant to travel to Vietnam, there are 13 reasons to encourage them to visit this country, like: Vietnam has exempted visas for citizens from five European countries for three years with the temporary staying time not exceeding 15 days along with convenient electronic visa procedures; Hanoi is the most vibrant and typical capital of Vietnam with many unique historical relics and unique architecture; etc.

Vietnam Airlines is completing procedures for direct flights to US

Vietnam Airlines said that it has been continuously working to complete procedures to conduct direct flights to the US.

Photo for illustration (Photo: quangngaitv.vn)

The firm airline said it has been granted a foreign air carrier permit by the US Department of Transportation to operate flights to transport passengers and goods and parcels from Ho Chi Minh city and Hanoi to several destinations in the US, and those via points in Taipei (China’s Taiwan), and Japan’s Osaka and Nagoya.

Vietnam Airlines was authorized to fly to Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Seattle and Dallas-Fort Worth. It can also continue flights to Canada’s Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto cities.

In addition, the airline is also permitted to operate routes from destinations outside Vietnam, via Vietnam and other transit points to 25 destinations in the US in the form of code-share. The permission also allows the carrier to make charter flights between the two countries.

Up to now, it is the first and only airline in Vietnam to be granted with the permit by the US Department of Transportation.

Remittances to Ho Chi Minh city reach USD3.45 billion

The branch of State Bank in Ho Chi Minh city said that in the first 8 months of 2019, remittances to Ho Chi Minh city is estimated to reached USD3.45 billion and it is expected to reach over USD5 billion for the whole year.

Photo for illustration (Photo: tapchitaichinh.vn)

According to this unit, remittances are still flowing to Vietnam because the domestic macroeconomic is stable and the pressure to increase the exchange rate due to market sentiment has been removed. Therefore the recipients of remittances gradually moved from foreign currencies to keep Vietnam dong and open savings accounts./.

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