Olympics Việt Nam’s Nguyễn Thùy Linh reacts after beating Switzerland’s Sabrina Jaquet in their women’s singles badminton group stage match during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Musashino Forest Sports Plaza in Tokyo on Wednesday. AFP/VNA Photo HÀ NỘI — Badminton player Nguyễn Thùy Linh ended her Olympic journey with an easy win over Switzerland’s Sabrina Jaquet in the women’s singles in Group P in Tokyo on Wednesday. Vietnamese Linh, world No 49, needed 33 minutes to beat Jaquet 21-8, 21-17 in the last match of the group. She avenged her previous defeat to the world No 46 rival at the Russian Open…
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Filip Graovac, Vietnam deputy country representative for The Asia Foundation. — Photo courtesy of The Third Space While large manufacturers and big businesses adopt digital tools to facilitate marketing and distribution of their products amid the COVID-19 outbreak, a majority of small business owners and underemployed youth in rural areas use their smartphones for communication and entertainment rather than for business due to a lack of digital skills. In that context, the Go Digital ASEAN programme was launched to equip micro and small enterprises and underemployed youth, particularly in rural and isolated areas, with crucial digital skills and tools, expand…
There was a risk that bad debts would increase as the COVID-19 pandemic was hitting enterprises very hard. — Photo nld.com.vn HÀ NỘI — The State Bank of Việt Nam is studying a proposal for developing a law on resolving the non-performing loans (NPLs) of credit institutions over the risk of rising bad debts as the COVID-19 pandemic weighs on production and business. Four years after implementing Resolution 42/2017/QH14 regarding resolving NPLs, the system’s overall bad debt ratio was reduced to below three per cent. However, the pandemic has heavily affected the financial situation of enterprises and businesses increasing the…
Vân Nguyễn Nguyễn Văn Tuấn, a resident of Hồ Chí Minh City’s Bình Chánh District, has been out of work for three weeks due to COVID-19 and is struggling to feed his family of four. His company had to close temporarily after tight social distancing regulations were imposed on businesses in the city. “Working from home is a luxury that workers like us can’t afford,” said Tuấn. “My wife and I were laid off and lost the primary source of income that we used to pay for food, rent and other expenses.” Now, thanks to new technology, Tuấn and hundreds of…
Đinh Vũ Tùng Lâm (fourth from left) at the 62nd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2021. All six members of the Vietnamese team brought home medals, including one gold, two silver and three bronze. VNA/VNS Photo Thu Vân HÀ NỘI — On his first day of elementary school back in 2009, Đinh Vũ Tùng Lâm was sent home after biting a friend on the ear. As a result, his teacher said that he could not attend regular school. Last week, however, that same boy, now in the 12th grade, won a silver medal at the 62nd International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2021. Lâm said…
A farmer preparing to collect latex in a rubber plantation in Bình Phước Province. VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Many Vietnamese rubber companies recorded outstanding growth in revenue and profit in the second quarter due to higher rubber prices. Analysts expect that rubber prices will remain high through 2021 on strong demand and tight supplies. Higher prices, higher profits In its second quarter results, Đồng Phú Rubber JSC (DORUCO, DPR) posted a rise of 11 per cent in net revenue to VNĐ218 billion (US$9.5 million). During the period, its consumption reached 2,431 tonnes, up…
An empty street at 7pm in District 4 on the first day (July 26) of HCM City’s stay-at home orders from 6pm to 6am. VNS Photo Bồ Xuân Hiệp HCM CITY — Lưu Thế Hiển, 28, a deliveryman in HCM City, said he was rushing to deliver the last shipment of the day before 5pm, when the booking application automatically turns off until 6am the next day. The city imposed a night restriction starting on Monday, and supermarkets, convenience stores and other essential services will only work from 6am to 6pm to contain the highly…
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Olympics Weightlifter Hoàng Thị Duyên competes at the Tokyo Olympics. She ranks fifth in the women’s 59kg category. AFP/VNA Photo HÀ NỘI – Weightlifter Hoàng Thị Duyên failed to make the top three as expected after the end of the women’s 59kg category at the Tokyo Olympics yesterday. Duyên, who was Việt Nam’s best hope of a medal, lifted 95kg in the snatch and 113kg in the clean and jerk. Her total of 208kg placed her in fifth position in the overall rankings at Tokyo’s International Forum. Prior to the Games, Duyên had the third-best result…
Olympics Việt Nam’s Nguyễn Thùy Linh plays hard in a match against Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu-ying. AFP/VNA Photo HÀ NỘI — Nguyễn Thùy Linh created several problems for world No 1 Tai Tzu-ying before losing her match at the Tokyo Olympics’ women’s singles badminton tournament yesterday. Unseeded Linh got ahead with the first points of the first set against Tai of Chinese Taipei in the Group P second-round match at the Musashino Forest Sport Plaza. The Vietnamese who came to her first Olympics under no pressure kept a gap of two points until the scores hit…