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Young Asian Chess champion 2019 Nghiem Thao Tam, 18, got a perfect score of 800/800 on the SAT Math II test and a band score of 7.0 on IELTS test. She has also won the third prize twice in the southern province of Ba Ria - Vung Tau contest for excellent students. Nghiem Thao Tam Having a father who is the leader of the chess team of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province in the 90s, Nghiem Thao Tam (12th grader at Le Quy Don High School, Ba Ria - Vung Tau) has had experience with this intellectual sport since her childhood. At the age of 7, Tam won a gold medal in the National Young Chess Champs. Realizing their daughter’s capabilities, Tam's family encouraged to her pursue the career of semi-professional chess. “When I was 7 or 8 years old, I achieved success in national and international competitions and set the provincial record as the youngest athlete to win multiple international medals. However, in the following 4-5 years, I only got into provincial and regional tournaments. At that time, I was very disappointed because I did not achieve the goals I wanted. There was even a time when I felt like I lost my passion and wanted to take a break to focus on studying at school,” Tam recalled. But then, Tam seriously thought about it and realized that she had to focus more of her time on chess instead of school in order to achieve great success. With the encouragement of her family, Tam decided to continue pursuing chess. As a result, in 2017, Tam won the gold medal for the National Chess Cup for Students. This was an important milestone to help her become more confident in herself and is a premise for many other great achievements later on in her career. Nghiem Thao Tam has won multiple medals at international tournaments, and a perfect score on the SAT Maths II. In 2018, Tam won the gold medal for the National Chess Cup for Students and two medals in the Asian Young Chess Championship. In 2019, Tam won three medals in the …

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Unique ceramic streets in Lien Mac village Residents of Lien Mac village in Hanoi’s Bac Tu Liem district have been busy collecting discarded materials such as ceramics, bottles, and dishes to decorate the village’s streets. The initiative was inspired by a group of painters and received a warm response from local people, especially in collecting materials and gluing the ceramic pieces together. The mosaic walls also help spread a message to everyone about environmental protection. The vivid and artistic artworks have already garnered major attention from local people and visitors alike./. VNA, NA Office release photo book on 14th legislature The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the National Assembly (NA) Office have coordinated in compiling and publishing a photo book on the 14th legislature. The 428-page book, titled “Quoc hoi khoa XIV - Nhung thanh tuu va dau an noi bat” (The 14th National Assembly – Outstanding achievements and imprints,” comprises nearly 1,000 photos featuring the past five-year journey of the legislative body. Such photos, together with infographics, give readers an insight into the NA’s performance in legislation, supervision, decision-making on the country’s major matters, and external affairs. The book also devotes pages to introducing 494 deputies to the 14th NA, who are grouped in provincial and municipal delegations of NA deputies. The book has been released at the end of the 14th legislature that created many hallmarks during the five-year tenure. The 14th NA concluded its 11th session - the last of this tenure - in Hanoi on April 8, with many important contents on reviewing the tenure's work, building laws and handling personnel matters completed over the course of 12 days./. Foreign scholars have high expectations for Vietnam’s new leadership Vietnam’s new leadership is expected to continue inheriting and building on impressive achievements made in the past tenure to carry the country forward, contributing …

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Tan Cang - Cat Lai Port in Thu Duc City. (Photo: SGGP) Small-scale logistics enterprises The country currently has about 4,000 professional enterprises. Of which, the leading multinational logistics enterprises in the world have already been present in Vietnam. The size of Vietnam's logistics service market is small, at about 2-4 percent of GDP, but its growth rate is extremely high, estimated to increase by 20-25 percent per year. Importantly, the Vietnamese economy is forecasted to still outperform in Southeast Asia in the next 10 years. The advantage of a coastline stretching from North to South and the fast-developing e-commerce industry are plus points for the development of logistics. It raised the question that why, up to now, Vietnam has not fully exploited the potentials of logistics. Mr. Ha Ngoc Son, Head of the Import-Export Management Department under the Department of Industry and Trade of HCMC, explained that the team of logistics enterprises is large but not strong. Their business is quite small. Most domestic enterprises only provide basic services, services for small supply chains with little added-value or outsourcing to foreign companies, and do not have differentiated services or programs. The financial potential of Vietnamese logistics enterprises is weak, with 80 percent of established enterprises having charter capital of a few billion Vietnamese dongs. They lack separate voices with shipping lines, so they are controlled in terms of price. In the long term, price competition will no longer exist. Instead, the quality and variety of service will be the decisive factor for the development of logistics enterprises. According to Mr. Ha Ngoc Son, the development of logistics in HCMC is facing many challenges because the infrastructure fails to meet its requirements and becomes an obstruction. The inland container depot (ICD) system has exceeded its designed capacity and five out of six ICDs in the city have decided to relocate, so they …

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