A passenger uses a smart card for automatic bus fare payment on bus route No. 86 in HCM City. — Photo courtesy of the Department of Transport HCM CITY — The HCM City People’s Committee plans to establish technical standards to develop a single smart card that could be used for all types of public transport. The city aims to create inter-linkages between automatic fare collection (AFC) systems as well as convenience for card users. If metro lines, rapid buses and water buses have many kinds of AFC systems, the cost to interlink these systems would be too high, according to city officials. The committee has sought clearance from the Ministry of Transport to give the city the authority to decide on…
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A doctor at Hùng Vương Hospital gives COVID-19 vaccine advice to an expecting mother in HCM City. — VNA/VNS Photo Doctor Trần Danh Cường, director of the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology talked to Sức khỏe & Đời sống (Health & Life) newspaper about COVID-19 vaccinations for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding Is COVID-19 dangerous to pregnant women? Do they face more risk of catching it than others? Studies conducted all over the world show that pregnant women face the same risk of catching SARS-CoV-2 as other people. However, once catching the…
Migrant workers on their motorbikes with heavy baggage on Sunday crowd at a checkpoint in HCM City intending to return home as the southern city announces extension of lockdown measures. — VNA/VNS Photo HCM CITY — On Sunday, as HCM City announced its plan to extend strict lockdown for another month until September 15, hundreds of migrant workers have packed their bags and personal belongings and rushed to the city’s gateways in a bid to leave for their hometowns in the surrounding provinces of Đồng Nai, Bình Thuận, and some central provinces. Using loudspeakers, police officers at the checkpoints on National…
HERO: Chinese swimming coach Huang Guohui (right) has trained No 1 swimmer of the country, Nguyễn Huy Hoàng (left) for the past five years. Photo danviet.vn Swimming HÀ NỘI — Chinese swimming coach, Huang Guohui, of the Vietnamese national swimming team died in quarantine after returning from the Tokyo Olympics. “Coach Huang passed away on August 11. We are in isolation, so we don’t know the situation yet and we are waiting for the result of the police investigation,” Trần Đức Phấn, head of the Vietnamese delegation to the Tokyo Olympics and deputy director of the Việt Nam Sport Administration,…
People wait for their turn to receive the injection. — VNA/VNS Photos Đan Phương HCM CITY — A total of 85,608 people in HCM City were vaccinated with Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine (Vero Cell) on Saturday, the municipal Department of Health announced on Sunday. The doses used are part of the first shipment of 1 million doses of the Chinese vaccine that were imported by HCM City-based Sapharco under the sponsorship of the private group Vạn Thịnh Phát and delivered to the southern city last month. Another one million doses of the 5-million-doses contract arrived at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport on Saturday,…
Freelance illustrator Nguyễn Vũ Xuân Lan, creator of the COVID-19 Vaccination Diary, a series of paintings that has recently gone viral. Photos courtesy of the artist By Lương Thu Hương A series of paintings depicting the experience of a young freelance illustrator receiving the coronavirus vaccine has recently gone viral on Vietnamese social media. Only one day after being posted on her Nguyễn Vũ Xuân Lan’s Facebook page, the series Nhật Ký Đi Tiêm (COVID-19 Vaccination Diary) received over 5,000 likes and nearly 1,000 shares. It has also been shared on the Facebook of UNICEF…
A household under quarantine in HCM City’s District 1. The city will pilot an initiative to provide home-based care for F0 cases staying at home next week, as the city’s medical facilities are struggling with COVID-19 admission. – Photo tuoitre.vn HCM CITY – The Ministry of Health plans to pilot an initiative to have COVID-19 patients treated at home with medicines, health supplements and care instructions in HCM City from August 16 at a time when COVID-19 treatment facilities are becoming overwhelmed. Tests will be carried out at home and in the community and medicines and health supplements will…
Nguyễn Hoàng Bảo Đại, 27, is the initiator of an AI model that can generate ten melodies in one second. Photo courtesy of Nguyễn Hoàng Bảo Đại Nguyễn Hoàng Bảo Đại, 27, is the third Vietnamese to be honoured as a Google Developer Expert in the field of Machine Learning. He is also the initiator of an AI model that can generate ten melodies in one second. Đại talks with Lương Hương about the project. Inner Sanctum: Please introduce yourself? My name is Nguyễn Hoàng Bảo Đại. I’m working as a natural language processing research scientist and…
FREE NUTRITION: Nguyễn Hoàng Phương offers free rice crepes and 100 meals with rice, meat balls, fried eggs and vegetables. Photo courtesy of Phương By Nguyễn Mỹ Hà We no longer live in ordinary times, so this is no longer an ordinary food review. Instead, it is a special column that will look out how managing basic food supply can keep people staying in quarantine and eventually stop the coronavirus from transmitting further. Since Hà Nội was locked down on July 24, many manual labourers and migrant workers, whose incomes have been cut, have…
The ancient tower of Mường Và in the northern mountain province of Sơn La’s Sốp Cộp District. – VNA/VNS Photo Nguyễn Chiến Mường Và Tower, the 400-year-old cultural heritage in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La, has long been seen as a masterpiece of architecture that connects the past with the present while upholding unique spiritual values. Located in Sốp Cộp District, the ancient tower is an attractive tourist destination that showcases the beliefs of the Lao ethnic minority. The tower sees locals come to pray for a peaceful and prosperous life and is said to contain sacred and mysterious…