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A fireworks performance in Hanoi. The Hanoi Party Committee is mooting allowing only one high-altitude fireworks show instead of the 30 that were earlier planned for the upcoming Lunar New Year’s Eve – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – The Hanoi Party Committee, at a meeting on February 2, decided to cancel a plan to set off fireworks in 30 districts and towns in the city and came up with an alternative plan to display high-altitude fireworks for the upcoming Lunar New Year’s Eve without gatherings due to the Covid-19 outbreak in the city. The fireworks display will be broadcast live on…

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The new Covid-19 outbreak on days close to Tet could seriously affect the Hanoi flower market. Flower growers are worried as prices have dropped dramatically. Nguyen Thi Tuong and her flowers The flower village of Tay Tuu and the flower market of Quang An are still looking forward to merchants. Tay Tuu, the busiest flower village in Hanoi, is now quiet and deserted. Looking at the flower beds she has been growing for a year, which may have to be thrown away, Nguyen Thi Tuong, the owner of a flower garden in Tay Tuu Village, said she had sold all…

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Check out the news you should not miss today: Society — Authorities in Hai Duong Province, located in northern Vietnam, on Wednesday decided to put a whole commune with around 14,200 people in isolation in 21 days, starting from 6:00 pm the same day, after two locals with a complicated travel history tested positive for COVID-19.  — Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong on Wednesday commented that the city’s COVID-19 situation is not stressful at the moment and the southern metropolis will maintain festive events to celebrate the coming Lunar New Year, which falls on February 12, as…

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Hanoi’s cold weather tends to make everyone crave hot snacks in the afternoon, and one of the most popular is fried banana pancakes. The fried banana pancake is a popular snack in the late afternoon among Hanoians. – Photo 2dep.vn It is not hard to find any street-side eatery selling banana pancakes in the city. The set-up of every stall in Hanoi seems to look alike, with a bowl of flour mixed with sliced banana, a big frying pan full of oil and a rack displaying attractive golden-coloured cakes. A fried banana pancake stall on Hang Dieu Street is one of the…

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Nguyễn Đình Thắng, deputy chairman of the Việt Nam Association for Information Processing, speaks at a digital transformation seminar held in HCM City on Tuesday. — Photo HCM CITY — Vietnamese enterprises, especially small and medium-sized ones, should embrace digital transformation to survive but also improve their production and trading processes and business efficiency in the industry 4.0 era, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday. Trần Phú Lữ, director of the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of HCM City (ITPC), said Việt Nam has some 800,000 enterprises, of which SMEs account for 95 per…

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Nguyễn Đình Thắng, deputy chairman of the Việt Nam Association for Information Processing, speaks at a digital transformation seminar held in HCM City on Tuesday. — Photo HCM CITY — Vietnamese enterprises, especially small and medium-sized ones, should embrace digital transformation to survive but also improve their production and trading processes and business efficiency in the industry 4.0 era, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday. Trần Phú Lữ, director of the Investment and Trade Promotion Centre of HCM City (ITPC), said Việt Nam has some 800,000 enterprises, of which SMEs account for 95 per…

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Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam Chairs the meeting of the Steering Committee for COVID-10 Prevention and Control in Hà Nội yesterday. VNA/ Photo  HÀ NỘI — Representatives of the Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control yesterday said people can enjoy a peaceful Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday in the ‘new normal’ state if the health sector and pandemic prevention and control teams stay alert. Trần Đắc Phu, an adviser of the Centre for Emergency Public Health Event under the Ministry of Health, said the COVID-19 clusters in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh provinces have been basically put under control thanks to…

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The government, businesses and the public are enjoying many benefits from digital transformation activities. Vietnam aims to become a developing country with industry marching towards modernity and income surpassing the lower average level by 2025; a developing country with modern industry and higher average income by 2030; and a developed country with high income by 2045. With such important changes, VietNamNet introduces readers to a number of articles on the topic. Many people in green and red uniforms stop in front of a rice shop at the Ho Dac Di – Dang Van Ngu T-junction in Hanoi. Online transactions At…

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