Vietnamese lawmakers questioned the safety of projects to build golf courses in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Hanoi’s Gia Lam Airport at a National Assembly session on Thursday. NA Deputy Vo Thi Dung from Ho Chi Minh City delivered her question to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung about the [...]
Vietnam will have a total 115 golf courses by 2020, according to a plan that the Ministry of Planning and Investment recently submitted to the Prime Minister, Tien Phong reported Wednesday. Â The ministry was quoted as saying that compared to a decision approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in 2009, the new [...]
Gia Lam Airport in Long Bien District, Hanoi, where a golf course will be built A 117-hectare golf complex is being built on the site of a Hanoi, Tuoi Tre reported Thursday.  The project covers 75 hectares of land within the Gia Lam Airport in the Long Bien District, some eight kilometers from the capital. It was funded by the Long Bien Investment [...]
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Development has asked provincial and city administrations to halt construction on 27 golf courses not listed in the government’s zoning plan. The illegal golf courses are being built in 13 provinces and cities nationwide, according to the ministry. The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang tops the list with five [...]
The Da Lat Palace Golf Club in Lam Dong province won the Best Course in Vietnam award for the second consecutive year after a vote organized by the Vietnam Golf magazine. The Da Lat Palace Golf Club There are many criteria to evaluate golf courses: landscapes, services, design, challenging, skills and knowledge of caddies, etc. [...]
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung approved Vietnam’s golf course construction plan to 2020, which scheduled 89 golf courses for the country by 2020. Of this number, 19 golf courses are operating already. Twenty-nine others will locate in the northern part of the central region and the coastal area of the southern part of the central [...]
Nearly 90 golf courses will have replaced natural landscapes in Vietnam by 2020, according to a zoning plan recently approved by the Prime Minister. The new plan, which envisions 89 golf courses, is a reduction from the 116 that had been planned by the middle of this year. Nineteen golf courses are already in operation [...]
The Prime Minister has banned the use of rice fields for golf courses, especially those that yield two crops a year. Protected forest areas and those already zoned for industrial and urban areas should also be prohibited, the PM has told the Ministry of Planning and Investment that is drafting a golf course zoning plan [...]
LookAtVietnam – In a draft decision outlining rules on golf course construction until 2020 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung emphasized that fertile agricultural land is absolutely not for building golf courses. NA deputies decry use of golf courses to build villasGolf courses ‘a waste of land’ In cases where rice-growing land has been earmarked for golf projects, [...]
The Song Be golf course in Binh Duong Province The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has started an inspection of the golf courses in the southern province of Binh Duong. Phan Minh Tuan, who is overseeing the task, said the inspectors would look into the allocation of land for the golf courses and the [...]
