A mobile music game from Vietnamese publisher Amanotes. Việt Nam’s mobile gaming market has huge growth potential due to the popularity of gaming and enormous number of smartphone users. – VNS Photo Việt Dũng HCM CITY – Việt Nam’s mobile game market has huge potential and games can become one of the country’s major exports, experts have said. According to the mobile market data and analytic platform App Annie, in 2020 game companies from Việt Nam ranked seventh in terms of downloads in the world and second in South East Asia. For every 25 games downloaded, one was made in…
Author: Kevin Le
Inside Century Synthetic Fiber’s plant. The company is on the list of recommended stocks of VNDIRECT in June. Photo courtesy of Century Synthetic Fiber HÀ NỘI — In the recent monthly outlook report for June, VNDIRECT Securities Corporation (VND) said that besides large-cap stocks, some mid-cap stocks from steel, real estate, financial services, textile and seafood industries will attract cash flows this month. In May, the market benchmark VN-Index on the Hồ Chí Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) continued its rally despite the outbreak of COVID-19 in late April. On May 31, the index closed at 1,328.05 points, up…
Gò Vấp hospital in HCM City temporarily stopped receiving outpatients from June 3. — VNA/VNS Photo An Hiếu Khánh Vân After wreaking havoc in a series of hospitals in the north in early May, COVID-19 infections are appearing at medical facilities in the south. It has forced the lockdown of two hospitals in HCM City four others to stop providing health check-ups and treatment for outpatients. Last month, 10 key medical facilities in the north were locked down in the space of 10 days due to new cases, including the leading COVID-19 treatment facility of…
A worker of the Việt Nam Electricity checking the power system. Power bills have been reduced until the end of this year as an effort to ease the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Reductions in electricity prices from June to the end of this year to support customers to overcome the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are estimated to total VNĐ1.57 trillion (US$67.67 million), according to the Việt Nam Electricity (EVN). On June 2 ,the Government issued Resolution No 55/NQ-CP to reduce electricity prices in response to the EVN”s proposal to support those heavily affected by…
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. — AFP/VNA Photo WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden outlined his plan on Thursday for the first of 80 million coronavirus vaccine doses that the US will distribute globally before July, with 75 per cent of shots disbursed via the COVAX scheme. In a fact sheet, the White House said that for the doses shared through COVAX, Washington would prioritize countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, South and Southeast Asia, and Africa as it aims to help stave off fresh surges of infections. “We are sharing these doses not to secure favours or extract concessions,” Biden said…
REAL DEAL: Carlo Ancelotti who this week left Everton to manage Real Madrid. AFP Photo Paul Kennedy There’s an expression I’ve heard a lot that is often, if not always, directed at me. It usually comes in hushed tones after I introduce a girlfriend or a date to someone I know. “He’s punching above his weight,” I can hear being muttered. The origins of this expression need no explaining. They are pretty obvious. But having never stepped foot in a boxing ring in anger, the phrase when uttered about me is simply pointing out…
By Nguyễn Mỹ Hà Even if you’re not a football fan, you will have come across images of Chelsea fans celebrating their team’s win over UK rivals Manchester City in the Champions League final on May 30. The Chelsea fans jumped and hugged one another in their joy. Few of them were wearing masks or any other form of respiratory protection during this deeply troubling COVID-19 time. Does this mean the UK is safe for people to drop their masks? “Looks like the UK has been doing very well, people can get together…
Painting entitled Việt Nam Joins Other Countries in the Fight Against COVID-19 by 11-year-old Nguyễn Hà Minh Anh. Photo courtesy of the painter Lương Thu Hương Artworks painted by children during the pandemic are being displayed in an online exhibition. The outbreak of the fourth wave of COVID-19 since late April has forced the annual exhibition, entitled Bé Vẽ Hà Nội (Children Paint Hà Nội), from Urban Sketchers Ha Noi to be held online in the organisation’s Facebook group, instead of at the Việt Nam National Museum of History as planned. Starting from June 1, the event features 80 works by…
Tourists visit a melaleuca forest in U Minh Hạ National Park. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Hưng MEKONG DELTA — Local authorities and environmental organisations in the Mekong Delta are making efforts to preserve and develop ecosystems vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Located in southern Việt Nam, the Mekong Delta has a diverse and unique ecosystem including marine ecosystems, islands, estuaries, wetlands, mangroves, delta islands, along with many biosphere reserves, national parks and nature reserves. The preservation, development and responsible exploitation of resources from unique ecosystems are vitally important for localities in the region, contributing to…
A wind power farm in Phú Yên Province. Renewable power developed strongly in Việt Nam in recent years, which was putting pressure on the power system and might need to be cut in the next five-year period. — Photo thuongtruong.com.vn HÀ NỘI — It is likely that Việt Nam will have to reduce renewable energy sources in the next five years, as booming development in recent years was weighing on the power system, according to a recent report by the Institute of Energy. The report showed that Việt Nam’s power system had a total power generation capacity of around 69 GW,…