{"id":979,"date":"2026-05-08T08:52:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=979"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:52:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:52:03","slug":"vietnam-airlines-to-launch-direct-flights-between-sri-lanka-and-vietnam-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/05\/08\/vietnam-airlines-to-launch-direct-flights-between-sri-lanka-and-vietnam-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam Airlines to Launch Direct Flights Between Sri Lanka and Vietnam This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced that Vietnam Airlines will commence direct flight services between Sri Lanka and Vietnam within this year.<\/p>\n<p>He made this statement during a joint media briefing held with visiting Vietnamese President To Lam, who is currently in Sri Lanka on an official visit.<\/p>\n<p>President Dissanayake also stated that bilateral trade between the two countries is expected to reach 1 billion US dollars by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vietnamese President To Lam emphasized that Vietnam is keen to strengthen relations with Sri Lanka across all sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has announced that Vietnam Airlines will commence direct flight services between Sri Lanka and Vietnam within this year. He made this statement during a joint media briefing held with visiting Vietnamese President To Lam, who is currently in Sri Lanka on an official visit. President Dissanayake also stated that bilateral trade &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}