Vietnam wins big at International Mathematics and Science Olympiad
Videos Exhibition revives memory of victory against American aerial bombing An exhibition reminiscent of the victory over the aerial bombing conducted by US forces against the north of Vietnam in December 50 years ago is underway in the capital city of Hanoi. Society WB experts inspect Can Tho city development project A working delegation led by World Bank Managing Director of Development Policy and Partnerships Mari Pangestu paid a fact-finding trip to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on December 7 to check on the Can Tho City Development and Resilience Project. Society Vietnamese, Lao village leaders visit President Ho Chi Minh’s hometown Nearly 200 leaders of villages in 10 Vietnamese and 10 Laos localities along the shared border on December 7 visited the Kim Lien Relic Site in President Ho Chi Minh’s hometown of Nam Dan district of the central province of Nghe An, where they paid tribute to the late leader who laid the foundation for the special ties between Vietnam and Laos. Society Moscow State Linguistic University marks “Dien Bien Phu in the air” victory The Vietnam Club at the Moscow State Linguistic University (MGLU) held an event on December 6 to mark the 50th anniversary of the “Dien Bien Phu in the air” victory.
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December 06, 2022 14:03 UTC
French Senate President to pay official visit to Vietnam
Politics Prime Minister hails growing Vietnam-Nigeria ties Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hailed the development of bilateral ties while receiving Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo in Hanoi on December 5. Politics Tribute paid to late Chinese leader in Ho Chi Minh City A delegation led by Politburo member and Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen visited the Chinese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5 to share their sympathies and write in a condolence book in tribute to late General Secretary of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Central Committee Jiang Zemin. Videos Vietnam, RoK lift ties to comprehensive strategic partnership On the basis of important obtained achievements, with strong belief in the future of cooperation, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Republic of Korea (RoK) counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol jointly announced the lifting of the Vietnam - RoK relations to "comprehensive strategic partnership”, opening a new stage of development for the relationship between the two countries. Politics Official: Vietnam fully supports Laos’ development Vietnam always fully supports Laos’ renovation and development, said Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) Nguyen Xuan Thang while paying courtesy calls to General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith and Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh in Vientiane on December 5.
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December 05, 2022 17:25 UTC
Vietnam records 427 new COVID-19 cases on December 5
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Vietnam's COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,518,149 after 427 new cases recorded on December 5, according to the Ministry of Health.With 66 patients given the all-clear on the day, the number of recoveries climbed to 10,608,988.Meanwhile, there are 51 patients needing breathing support.No death from COVID-19 was recorded in the past 24 hours. The total number of fatalities stood at 43,177.With 6,164 doses administered on December 4, the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses injected so far rose to 264.720,297 million./.
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December 05, 2022 12:41 UTC
VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES DECEMBER 5
Vietnamese National Assembly delegation visits IranA delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly led by its Vice Chairman Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong is paying a working visit to Iran from December 2-6. Previously the ACAFP, the PVF Football Academy, and Vietnam Cable Television (VTVcab) signed a cooperation deal on September 22 in Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh City has topped the list of destinations with the highest number of tourists in the year to date. In the coming years, Vietnam will continue to fully implement the provisions of the Constitution and the laws concerning people with disabilities, as well as international commitments that Vietnam has signed. Vietnam Railways warns that passengers should not buy any tickets that are resold uncontrollably on the Internet via informal platforms.
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December 05, 2022 10:23 UTC
Vietnamese water puppetry introduced to French public
Stories about the daily life of farmers in rural villages, fairy tales, or legends in a scene of typical countryside of Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)Paris (VNA) – A special water puppetry and traditional music performance with the theme “Village stories" took place from December 1-4 in Paris to promote Vietnam’s traditional culture and raise funds for disadvantaged children in the country's remote mountainous areas. The performance "The dance of dragon, unicorn, tortoise and phoenix. Trieu Vinh Van, Chairman of the ALEDI Association, said the event aims not only to popularise the Vietnamese culture but also to contribute to enhancing cultural exchanges between the two peoples. After covering the expense of the performance, all the money raised will be contributed to ALEDI fund to help disadvantaged children in remote mountainous areas of Vietnam./.
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December 05, 2022 03:49 UTC
VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES DECEMBER 4
Several injured as stage collapses at Vietnam water music festivalAt least six people were injured after a stage of a music festival collapsed in Binh Duong province, southern Vietnam, on December 3 evening. Fonterra has been operating in Vietnam since 1980, specialising in supplying and distributing dairy and food products for restaurant and hotel chains. He informed Cronin that Vietnam is continuing to improve the legal system, creating best conditions possible for investors and ensuring fair competition. Bich Hanh crowned Mrs World Vietnam 2022Nguyen Thi Bich Hanh of Phan Rang city in the south-central coast province of Ninh Thuan won the Mrs World Vietnam 2022 title on November 30 at C30 Hoa Binh Stage in Ho Chi Minh City. Vũ viewed the workshop as a demonstration of regional commitment to international cooperation to cope with the challenges.
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December 04, 2022 16:06 UTC
Efforts made to promote Xam singing
Ninh Binh is a “cradle” of Xam singing, attached to late artisan Ha Thi Cau, the last Xam singer of the twentieth century. To promote the artform in a sustainable manner, Ninh Binh has been carrying out the “Restoring, preserving and developing Xam singing in the 2019 - 2022 period” project. Ninh Binh has held many classes in Xam singing in recent times, and taken the traditional art to schools. It also organises Xam singing contests throughout the year, to promote its popularity. Activities in teaching and performing for tourists allows Xam singing to be effectively preserved and promoted in Ninh Binh, contributing to Vietnam’s proposal that UNESCO recognise it as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity in need of urgent protection./.
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December 04, 2022 05:50 UTC
VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES DECEMBER 3
The 15th Vietnamese NA continued to establish the Vietnam - New Zealand Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group and maintained information exchange with the New Zealand Embassy in Vietnam. Apart from agricultural cooperation, Hall said Australian enterprises are interested in various fields in Vietnam such as health care, maternal and baby care, and preschool education in Vietnam. CEO of Intrinsic Innovations Vietnam Tuan Le said an advantage of Vietnam in approaching the Canadian market is a community of more than 260,000 Vietnamese expatriates there. About 17,000 students have graduated from RMIT University Vietnam and in the last five years nearly 3,000 Vietnamese students have graduated from the education establishment in Melbourne. The RMIT University Council has approved to significantly increase its existing investment in RMIT University Vietnam in 2023, he said, adding that this is the largest investment of RMIT in an overseas institution with the aim of developing RMIT Vietnam into a major international education hub in the region.
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December 03, 2022 16:52 UTC
Vietnam’s rice export to hit 7 million tonnes this year
Experts said prices of Vietnamese rice will continue to stay high as economic and political uncertainties will push up food demand. If the export volume is maintained at over 400,000 tonnes each month in the remaining two months, the whole year’s export volume of the agricultural product will reach from 6.8-7 million tonnes. Export businesses were urged to pay due attention to China, a big and promising market of Vietnamese farm produce. Recently, China has made changes in import requirements, from plant quarantine to packaging, tracking of origin and growing area codes. So far, a total of 22 Vietnamese firms have been licensed to ship rice to China, and Vietnam has proposed China expand the list./.
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December 03, 2022 14:29 UTC
Decline in orders kicking in for footwear, garment, textile industries
Enterprises in the textile, garment and footwear industries are facing difficulties on a variety of fronts, including a reduction in export orders. (Photo: VNA)Key export industries are forecast to witness a large decrease in orders, especially textile s, footwear, furniture, iron and steel and cement. (Photo: VNA)VNA– Enterprises in the textile, garment and footwear industries are facing difficulties on a variety of fronts, including a reduction in export orders, and the plight is likely to continue until the first half of next year.Pham Van Viet, Chairman of Viet Thang Jean Co., Ltd., reported that orders at his firm have decreased since June. Because customers cancel orders in light of high inventory, Viet Thang always has to closely follow market information.To maintain operations and ensure employees' income, the company is looking for orders in new markets. Key export industries are forecast to witness a large decrease in orders, especially textiles, footwear, furniture, iron and steel and cement.
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December 03, 2022 09:09 UTC
Vietnam in need of more village-based midwives
A village-based midwife helps a mother take care of her baby in Tu Mo Rong district in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum. (Photo: VNA)- Vietnam is in need of village-based midwives as the country has more than 7,000 remote and disadvantaged villages where women do not regularly get antenatal care at medical facilities.Many also still give birth at home. Dinh Anh Tuan from the Maternal and Child Health Department under the Ministry of Health said that it is necessary to train more village-based midwives because the country now has only 3,000.The need for village-based midwives is very high, he said.Therefore, the ministry plans to train more village-based midwives and continue strengthening the quality of staff in the future, he said.It will also update the knowledge and skills as well as provide necessary tools for helping women when they are giving birth, following Decision No. They will be on duty in the evening, he said.“It means that they will work as medical staff,” he said.The training process is strict and scientific, so the quality of village-based midwives has improved, he said.All of them meet the requirements, he said. "The midwives play an extremely important role, especially in remote and disadvantaged areas," he said.They are the bridge of the health sector, bringing safe maternal and childcare services to ethnic-minority women, he said.The midwives also bring mothers to medical facilities, helping them to receive antenatal care and delivery at medical facilities, he said.The village-based midwives contribute to ensuring the goal of safe motherhood of ethnic-minority women, he said.
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December 02, 2022 20:31 UTC
Vietnam, Algeria enhance parliamentary cooperation
NA Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai (L) and President of the People's National Assembly of Algeria Ibrahim Boughali. (Photo: VNA)Algiers (VNA) – A National Assembly (NA) delegation led by Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai is paying a working visit to Algeria from November 29 to December 4. On December 1, the delegation was received by President of the People's National Assembly (lower house) of Algeria Ibrahim Boughali who affirmed that the visit is an important milestone in relations between the two nations. Hai said that Vietnam in general and its National Assembly in particular always attach great importance to promoting relations with traditional friends in Africa, in which Algeria is one of its leading partners. He took this occasion to convey NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue’s invitations to President of the Council of the Nation (upper house) Salah Goudjil and President of the People's National Assembly (lower house) Ibrahim Boughali to pay official visits to Vietnam.
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December 02, 2022 17:46 UTC
VIETNAM NEWS HEADLINES DECEMBER 1
Over 763,000 Koreans visited Vietnam in the past 11 months, showing a 27-fold rise on year, making the RoK the biggest source of international arrivals to Vietnam. For her part, Romanian Ambassador to Vietnam Cristina Romila said Vietnam and Romania have had many dynamic political exchanges, marked by frequent high-level contacts. Vu viewed the workshop as a demonstration of regional commitment to international cooperation to cope with the challenges. The Ambassador emphasized that the upgrading of the Vietnam - Brunei relationship to a comprehensive partnership during the Sultan's visit to Vietnam in March 2019 is the clearest example of strengthening relations between the two countries. The event is organised by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam (TECO) and the Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS).
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December 02, 2022 16:00 UTC
Vietnam sends condolences over the passing of former Chinese leader
In their letters sent to top Chinese leaders and the family of the deceased, they affirmed that, Jiang was an eminent leader of the Chinese Party and State, who was dedicated to the cause of revolution and construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics. He also made important contributions to the normalization and development of Vietnam-China ties. The Party, State and people of Vietnam always appreciate and remember the great contributions of Jiang to the ties between the two Parties and countries, they wrote. They also sent wreaths to the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam in commemoration of his death. On the same day, a delegation of the Vietnamese Party, State, Government, National Assembly, Vietnam Fatherland Front led by President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, together with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Vo Van Thuong, among others, paid tribute to the late leader and wrote in a condolence book at the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam./.
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December 02, 2022 15:51 UTC
Vietnam reports 635 new COVID-19 cases on December 2
Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)– The national COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,517,124 with 635 new cases recorded on December 2, according to the Ministry of Health With 145 patients given the all clear during the day, the number of recoveries rose to 10,608,722.Meanwhile, there are 80 patients needing breathing support.No death from COVID-19 was recorded in the past 24 hours. The total fatalities stood at 43,176.With 87,588 doses administered on December 1, the total number of doses of COVID-19 vaccines injected rose to 264,635,919./.
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December 02, 2022 12:31 UTC