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The “City by the green river” tour, which has been introduced recently in Ho Chi Minh City, is an attractive option for visitors to the city during the opening days of the new year.
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Once branded “Hell on Earth” for the notorious jail which witnessed the most terrifying scenes of oppression during war time before 1975, Phu Quoc island in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang has now become the country’s first island city with tremendous economic and social development.
Wire tiger cages in Phu Quoc jail (Photo: VNA)
Before the liberation of the southern region on April 30, 1975, the US and its puppet administration in the South built Phu Quoc prison to confine Vietnamese revolutionary soldiers, who were subjected to barbaric forms of tortures such as nailing on hands, feet and even head, stabbing the burned copper wires into the skin, drilling teeth, and burning and burying alive.
Phu Quoc island city draws 16.5 billion USD in investment 09:45 | 15/01/2021
Phu Quoc island city draws 16.5 billion USD in investment - Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)
Kien Giang - Phu Quoc, Vietnamâs first island city, has attracted 372 projects to date with capital totalling some 16.5 billion USD.
Tourism, service, and urban areas are the most attractive sectors, according to the cityâs authorities, adding that investments in these fields helped Phu Quoc become a second-tier city.
Major economic corporations such as Vingroup, Sungroup, BIMgroup, CEOgroup, MIKgroup, and Milltol have made significant contributions to the islandâs economic growth over recent years.
Local trade-service production expanded by an average of over 19 percent each year during the last five years, doubling the rate in its home province of Kien Giang in the Mekong Delta. State budget collections rose an average of 19 percent annually and accounted for mo