Money well spent: Firms are expected to receive great value from advertisements during the three remaining matches of the Việt Nam national team in the 2022 World Cup Qualification. Photo zingnews.vn HÀ NỘI The cost to advertise during the broadcast of Việt Nam’s upcoming World Cup qualifying fixtures has soared, with Vietnam Television (VTV) charging prices normally only seen during the tournament proper. A 30-second advert during the three matches will cost firms up to VNĐ600 million (US$26,000), according to zingnews.vn. TVAd, TV Advertising and the Service Centre of VTV is offering a price of VNĐ240 million…
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Pangolin scales. — VNA/VNS Photo Hùng Võ HÀ NỘI — The People’s Court of northern province Hưng Yên on Wednesday sentenced a man to five years and three months in jail for storing 780kg of pangolin scales. The convicted man is Nguyễn Văn Long, 36, residing in Tân Tiến Commune in Hưng Yên Province’s Văn Giang District. During a raid on the house of Long’s older brother in September 2018, the Environmental Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security, in collaboration with local police, detected 32 sacks containing 780kg of pangolin scales without a certificate of origin. Long later…
Futsal HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam will face five-time Futsal World Cup winners Brazil in this year’s tournament in Lithuania. The Southeast Asian team were placed in Group D alongside futsal royalty Brazil, Panama and the Czech Republic during a draw held on Monday in Zurich. A total of 24 teams in six groups will compete in the tournament in September. The two best teams of each group and the top four third-placed sides will go through to the knockout rounds. “Group D is not too difficult but also not an easy one. If there are no surprises, Brazil will…
Mỹ Khê beach in the central city of Đà Nẵng. — VNA/VNS Photo Trần Lên Lâm ĐÀ NẴNG — Recently approved adjustments to the master plan for central Đà Nẵng City are thought to be about to open the door for it to map out its vision for the future. Under the adjustments, the city aims to become a major socio-economic centre of Việt Nam and Southeast Asia, a hub for entrepreneurship, innovation, tourism, commerce, finance, logistics, high-technology, IT, and supporting industries, a centre for culture-sports, high-quality education and healthcare, and science and technology, and a destination for regional and international events.…
Medical workers take testing samples for people in Thuận Thành District of Bắc Ninh Province. —VNA/VNS Photo BẮC NINH — The northern province of Bắc Ninh on Wednesday launched a production-residence-combined model in which workers don’t leave their factories after work or stay together at concentrated accommodations like dorms, hotels or schools. The move is expected to help authorities and employers with COVID-19 prevention and control, particularly to isolate and trace suspected COVID-19 cases. Meanwhile, healthy employees will still be at work and companies’ production will not be disrupted. Companies that apply the model can only…
Two children in an army concentrated quarantined area in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hùng HÀ NỘI — Every child aged up to 16 years old in COVID-19 concentrated areas is being given VNĐ80,000 (US$3.5) per day for daily meals during their 21-day quarantine. The financial support comes from the National Fund for Vietnamese Children and will be given to children quarantined from April 27 onwards. The support is expected to be offered until the end of this year. According to the Minister of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs Đào Ngọc Dung, more than…
Nguyễn Văn Toản (middle) trains with his teammates in Dubai, the UAE, to prepare for the coming 2022 World Cup qualifying matches. VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Linh Football Thanh Hà HÀ NỘI — Hundreds of thousands of people rushed to the streets with flowers, flags and pictures to celebrate Việt Nam’s Asian U23 Championship second-place finish in 2018. Nguyễn Văn Toản took big pieces of aluminium from his workshop to bang in celebration and joined the throng of supporters driving around Hải Phòng City. Toản was happy and proud of the team’s achievement but also a little sad when he thought that…
Sasikumar scored the decisive goal in the 1998 Tiger Cup final against Việt Nam to help Singapore won their first ever international title. File photo Football HÀ NỘI — A Singaporean football legend has said Việt Nam are no longer the underdogs of Southeast Asia. R Sasikumar, who scored the only goal in the final of the 1998 Tiger Cup (the predecessor of the AFF Cup) versus Việt Nam, told e-newspaper Zing that the Vietnamese side have significantly improved in recent years. “Việt Nam are no longer underdogs,” Sasikumar told Zing. “Việt Nam are undoubtedly one of the most progressive teams…
Medical workers from Vĩnh Phúc Province volunteer to go to Bắc Giang Province to support COVID-19 prevention and control. — VNA/VNS Photo Danh Lam HÀ NỘI — A further 241 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Việt Nam on Wednesday raising the total number of patients to 7,813, said the Ministry of Health. Of all the new cases, 12 cases are imported and were quarantined in Kiên Giang, An Giang and HCM City right after entering Việt Nam. The remaining 229 cases are domestic. As many as 157 of them were in Bắc Giang Province, 31 in Bắc Ninh Province, 31 in…
Italian Ambassador Antonio Alessandro writes to Việt Nam News on the country’s National Day Today, Italy celebrates the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Republic, when the Italian people chose to be a new country based on freedom, peace and democracy. All Italians, in Italy and abroad, celebrate this day with pride, joy and unity. We are grateful to international friends for sharing these feelings with us. Italy has begun to recover from the pandemic thanks to a massive vaccination campaign. Life is slowly returning to normality. Museums, theatres and cinemas have reopened. As restrictions to…