Việt Nam will take part in Tokyo Olympics with 43 members of the delegation. — Photo baochinhphu.vn Olympics HÀ NỘI — A 43-strong Vietnamese delegation will head to the Tokyo Olympics later this month, led by deputy general director of the Việt Nam Sports Administration Trần Đức Phấn. The 43 members include 25 officials, coaches, and experts, along with 18 athletes in 11 sports. The athletes are Nguyễn Huy Hoàng and Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên (swimming), Thạch Kim Tuấn and Hoàng Thị Duyên (weightlifting), Nguyễn Thị Thanh Thủy (judo), Hoàng Xuân Vinh (shooting), Nguyễn Tiến Minh and Nguyễn…
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Bến Thành Market in HCM City’s District 1 was closed after the city started to apply strict lockdown from July 9. — VNA/VNS Photo HCM CITY — The number of new COVID-19 cases in HCM City is forecast to keep growing in the coming days, but with serious implementation of Directive 16 and adjustments to contact tracing, sample collection, and testing strategies, the city will contain the outbreak, according to Deputy PM Vũ Đức Đam. The head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control made the statement at a teleconference with the southern metropolis on Saturday. Social distancing measures under Directive 16…
Bảo Hoa, Minh Phương & Việt Thắng Keeping customers happy so they come back for more is essential to every service business. With that in mind, one food shop owner in Hà Nội has found a unique way to add a fun touch to his delivery service. Nguyễn Thanh Thế, owner of a phở bò (beef noodle soup) shop on Trần Tế Xương Street, hand-delivers meals to his customers. Instead of walking or using a bicycle, however, he uses a hoverboard. “The service industry always requires sellers to try and be creative to provide customers…
BEST BREAD: A beautiful sourdough bread loaf from La Saveur called tartine.Photo courtesy of the shop By Nguyễn Mỹ Hà When Hà Nội announced dine-in restaurants could open again last Monday, everyone rushed out to have their much-longed-for bowl of phở. While phở recipes are widely available online, traditional restaurants with secret recipes still have a strong allure. While restaurant owners and staff alike were thrilled to be back in business, the news that the capital had reported new community COVID-19 cases for the first time in 10 days on July 6 put a dampener on things.…
Illustration by Trịnh Lập By Peter Cowan The phrase “Think global, act local” has popped up in my head again and again over the last few weeks and months. More specifically, I’ve been thinking about the first half of the maxim oft-repeated by jargon-loving marketing executives and tree-hugging UN types alike. Thinking global, to me at least, means taking a step back and making sure you don’t miss the forest for the trees, to use yet another cliché. Those two words have arrived in my head whenever I’ve stumbled across one of…
People taking COVID-19 tests at hospitals and medical centres in HCM City began receiving their test results via the mobile application “Y Tế HCM” on July 10. VNA/VNS Photo by Thanh Vũ HCM CITY — The HCM City People’s Committee has established a 24/7 command centre for COVID-19 prevention and control consisting of 16 members led by the People’s Committee chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong. The centre is in charge of giving advice and issuing guidelines, plans and measures to prevent and control the pandemic; receiving information on the pandemic to provide forecasts about the situation; and dealing with fake news. It will conduct research and consider proposals for purchase of equipment for COVID-19 prevention and control, offer training…
A street vendor sells papaya fruits to a customer in Hà Nội. Informal workers are among those seriously economically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. VNA/VNS Photo Minh Sơn By André Gama, Social Protection Programme Manager, ILO Viet Nam All across the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about not only a global health crisis, but also an economic one. As governments act to control the pandemic, many of their efforts end up negatively affecting economic activities. Thus, governments have been forced compliment their efforts to protect public health with measures that support the livelihoods of their citizens. In Việt Nam, like…
Renting a house and spending on another house for rent is the type of investment of millennials in Việt Nam. Condominiums in Hà Đông Districts are among the common choices for such a rent in Hà Nội. — VNS Photo Minh Hương HÀ NỘI — Even though he has invested in real estate for more than 10 years and owns houses from the north to the south of Việt Nam, Nguyễn Kiên still lives in a rented house in Hà Nội’s Cầu Giấy District. As renting a house is increasingly common among millennials, more and more rental opportunities have popped up. Kiên…
A trainer from Tình Thương One-member Limited Liability Microfinance Institution shows trainees how to use Zalo at a training session in Thái Nguyên Province. — Photo courtesy of TYM Xuân Hương HCM CITY — In the northern and north-central parts of the country, Go Digital ASEAN has helped thousands of micro-entrepreneurs improve their capacity to use digital applications to market their products online and access business information and networks to better manage and expand their businesses amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Vũ Thị Anh Thơ, who runs a watch shop in Nam Định City, told Việt…
The U23 team celebrate Nguyen Quang Hai’s stunning goal in the 2018 AFC U23 Championship final. They’ll be hoping to go one better next year and win the tournament. Photo nld.com.vn Peter Cowan HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam will play fellow Southeast Asian side Myanmar in the qualifiers for the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup. At the draw held by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on Friday, coach Park Hang-seo’s men were placed in Group I to battle it out for a spot in the tournament, in Uzbekistan, in June next year. They will also take on Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei. Matches are slated to be held…