The logo of Huế Traditional Craft Festival 2021, which has been cancelled due to COVID-19. Photo courtesy of the festival organiser THỪA THIÊN-HUẾ – The Huế Traditional Craft Festival 2021 has been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the central city’s People’s Committee has announced. The ninth edition of the festival is now scheduled for the latter half of July if the pandemic is brought under control, the committee said. This biennial event is slated to last for a month this year, up from about a week in previous editions. The festival initially planned to run from the end of May to June 26, aims…
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Investments into Vietnamese start-ups this year would increase. — Photo vneconomy.vn HÀ NỘI — The investment capital into Vietnamese start-ups this year would see a breakthrough despite a year-on-year decrease of 48 per cent in 2020 to reach US$451 million. The information was announced in the Việt Nam Innovation and Technology Investment Report 2020 jointly released by the National Innovation Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade and Do Ventures on Monday. The report said that 2020 was a challenging year but was full of opportunities for investment into innovation and technology around the world and in Việt Nam. It said…
Customers shop at a Co.opmart supermarket in Cần Thơ. Provinces and cities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have co-ordinated with relevant agencies and businesses to ensure the COVID-19 outbreak does not disrupt the supply of essential goods or causes price hikes. — Photo courtesy of baocantho.com.vn HCM CITY — Provinces and cities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have co-ordinated with relevant agencies and businesses to ensure the COVID-19 outbreak does not disrupt the supply of essential goods or causes price hikes, and plan to carry out food safety inspections to ensure people can shop…
Trần Tố Nga, 79, is a former war correspondent who was contaminated with Agent Orange during the time she was living and working in Việt Nam. — VNS Photos Duc Truong by Vân Nguyễn Former war correspondent Trần Tố Nga will continue her prolonged fight for justice for herself and other Agent Orange victims despite a court in France dismissing her lawsuit earlier this month. In 2014, Vietnamese-French citizen Nga, 79, filed a claim against the multinational corporations that manufactured and sold toxin Agent Orange, which was used by American troops during the war in Việt Nam. It took more than six…
Goalkeeper Đặng Văn Lâm will miss the upcoming World Cup qualifiers in the UAE. Photo baodansinh.vn HÀ NỘI — Park Hang-seo’s national team suffered a blow on Saturday, as starting goalkeeper Đặng Văn Lâm was forced to withdraw from the squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers in the UAE due to close contact with a COVID-19 patient. Lâm was identified as a close contact of a confirmed COVID-19 case, one of his teammates at Japanese club Cerezo Osaka. Cerezo Osaka has three goalkeepers, including Lâm, one of whom tested positive for the coronavirus. Although Lâm has tested…
Healthcare staff test those possible contacts with the COVID-19 cases related to a church in Gò Vấp District, HCM City. VNA/VNS Photo Thu Vân It’s a time of distress. A time of anxiety. A time of exhaustion. But it’s also a time for unity and social responsibility. More than a year since SARS-CoV-2 was first found in Việt Nam, the country is now facing the fourth wave of the pandemic, with the number of cases reported each day much higher than in previous waves. In the past few weeks, we’ve witnessed the courage and determination of the healthcare staff…
Hà Nội Plastics Joint Stock Company is focusing to invest in precision mechanics and mould production. — Photo courtesy of the firm Mastering technology helps Hà Nội Plastics JSC accelerate in the global value chain HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội Plastics Joint Stock Company (HPC) aims to constantly create, innovate technology and improve technical capacity, especially in the field of precision mechanics and mould production to further penetrate the global supply chain. The key to rapid growth of Hà Nội Plastics JSC “Independence and proactiveness in technology is a big dream of many businesses. And in order to realise that…
The opening ceremony of the SEA Games 22 held in Việt Nam in 2003. — VNA/VNS Photo Quang Hải SEA Games By Giang Thanh Việt Nam is slated to hold the 31st Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and the 11th ASEAN Para Games 11 in November and December this year. Organising these events is an opportunity to promote Việt Nam, but in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the region’s biggest sporting event is under threat. According to Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyễn Văn Hùng, preparing to host the 31st SEA Games and…
PLENTY OF CHOICE: Ordering food online has become popular since dine-in services were banned. Photo courtesy of Hồng Vân Nguyễn While social distancing regulations have yet to be imposed in Hà Nội, with dine-in services shut citizens have started to limit their travel to just the necessities. When you have to run some errands or work in a job that cannot be done from home, ordering food for your family and online grocery shopping has never been so easy. Sit safely at home, if you can afford to do that, and order online. Unlike clothes shopping when you…
Tuấn Anh dropped out of university in his senior year to open a workshop to fulfill his passion: to make interior decorations from motorbike and car scrap. VNS Photo Diệp Phan. By Xuân Đăng & Diệp Phan HCM CITY — A short drive from downtown HCM City is ABM Shop, an interior decor workshop located in Bình Thạnh District. This young company has managed to expand thanks to its unusual products — interior decorative items made from motorbike and car scrap. Shop founder Nguyễn Tuấn Anh, who was born in Đà Lạt and…