SEA Games Artists perform during the closing ceremony of the 30th SEA Games in 2019. Việt Nam’s 31st Games has been officially postponed. VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Hà Nội have been postponed, the SEA Games Federation announced on Thursday. The announcement was made after an online meeting of the SEA Games Federation attended by sports officials of all 11 participating nations. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the biennial sports event, originally scheduled to take place from November 21 to December 2, will be postponed to next year. The new date is yet to be…
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Thu Hà & Paul Kennedy HÀ NỘI — The day John Hennigan saw a picture of a child with a cleft palate abandoned in an orphanage in northern Hải Dương Province, he knew that his life would change forever. “His incomplete smile shattered my heart,” the 37-year-old English teacher recalled. “I immediately knew that I wanted to adopt him.” John, who has been living in Việt Nam for five years, had always wanted to adopt a child. And the first time he met little Phạm Đăng Sơn (the name given to the baby boy…
Việt Nam Digital Agriculture Asociation (VIDA) launches the first ever report on the country’s agrculture in 2021 in Hà Nội yesterday. — VNS photo Minh Hương HÀ NỘI — Farmers need more training on digital technology to bring the industry to another level, experts have said. Nguyễn Đức Tùng, general secretary of the Việt Nam Digital Agriculture Asociation (VIDA), made the statement said at a launch ceremony for a report on digital transformation in agriculture in Hà Nội yesterday. “Việt Nam has adequate facilities and infrastructure to implement digital transformation in the agricultural sector,” he said, adding that farmers’ technology adaption was among the factors that needed most attention when building digital agriculture. According to the…
Dr Nguyễn Hoàng Minh works at the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting. — Photo Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment HÀ NỘI — Dr Nguyễn Hoàng Minh from the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting has become the first Vietnamese weather forecaster to receive an award from the World Meteorological Organisation. Minh was honoured for his work to develop a method for improving the capability of a coupled meteorological and hydrological model for rainfall and flood forecasts by generating ensemble precipitation predictions (EPPs) associated with radar-based rainfall prediction by considering spatial rainfall errors. The EPPs are generated as a kind…
Football Defender Brendon Lucas recently signed for HCM City FC. Photo record.pt HÀ NỘI — V.League 1 clubs have worked hard in the transfer market to prepare for the proposed return of domestic football at the end of this month. HCM City FC have made the biggest splash by signing Brazilian defender Brendon Lucas. The 26-year-old signed a one and a half year deal with HCM City for an undisclosed fee. Before coming to Thống Nhất Stadium, Lucas played 27 matches for Leixoes SC jersey in Portugal on loan from Portimonense, also in Portugal. HCM City also terminated…
Sparse traffic on Quang Trung Street, Gò Vấp District, HCM City, on the first day of social distancing. — VNA/VNS Photo An Hiếu HÀ NỘI — Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Wednesday issued an urgent dispatch on COVID-19 measures in the wake of the worsening outbreak in HCM City and other southern localities. He noted that recently, following the direction of the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Government, the Prime Minister and the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, localities across the country made great and resolute efforts to gradually put COVID-19 outbreaks nationwide under…
A person being tested for SARS-CoV-2. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội will apply stricter surveillance and management measures for arrivals from HCM City and other pandemic-affected regions from today. In an official dispatch, the chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee’s Chairman, Chu Ngọc Anh, requested that relevant agencies apply mandatory COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures. This includes monitoring and managing all people coming from pandemic-hit regions. The measures, to take effect from 6pm on July 7, state that all people who arrive in Hà Nội from HCM City and other pandemic-hit provinces must complete medical declarations and self-quarantine…
Olympics Hoàng Thị Duyên is to represent Việt Nam at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo baomoi.com HÀ NỘI — Hoàng Thị Duyên has been chosen as Việt Nam’s female weightlifter for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Three Vietnamese lifters qualified for the Games but one slot for a female competitor was stripped as a punishment from the International Weightlifting Federation and the International Testing Agency for doping violations in recent years. The Việt Nam Weightlifting Federation had to choose between Duyên (women’s 59kg) and Vương Thị Huyền (women’s 49kg), who are both SEA Games champions and have reached many medals from international competitions. According…
Candidates who will sit the national high school graduation examination on July 7-8 are tested for COVID-19 on July 3. VNA/VNS.Photo Thu Hoài HCM CITY— The HCM City Department of Health has developed a scenario to adapt to the increasing number of severely ill COVID-19 patients. If the number rises to 500, the department will allow Thủ Đức COVID-19 Treatment Hospital to admit severely ill patients. The hospital has only been admitting COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms. The department has told the hospital to evaluate machines and staff, especially those who can perform resuscitation well. The department has asked hospitals designated for treatment of COVID-19 patients…
Scientist Trần Ngọc Phúc wears the air purifier mask invented by himself. — Photo courtesy of Metran Khánh Dương HÀ NỘI — Face masks have become an inseparable part of our daily life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but many wearers wish they didn’t feel so stuffy while protecting their health. A Vietnamese scientist living in Japan has invented an air-purifying face mask that kills bacteria and viruses, while creating a flow of cool, fresh air for wearers. At the age of 74, Trần Ngọc Phúc, founder and chairman of Japanese medical equipment firm Metran, is still researching and inventing practical products. His…