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There are only about 20 days until Tet, so more people are out and about shopping. To ensure safety, Tran Van Chung, deputy director of the Hanoi Department of Health, said that inspectors would focus on checking food businesses’ COVID-19 prevention and control in supermarkets, restaurants, shopping malls and markets. Those that fail to comply with pandemic preventive measures would be penalised. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 21

Hanoi (VNA) - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on January 21 stressed the significance of the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) and all-level People’s Councils for the 2021-2026 tenure, describing this as an important political occasion and a chance to exercise the people’s right to mastery. He delivered an address to a national teleconference held by the Politburo to disseminate and implement the Party and State’s direction and guidance documents on the general election. The leader emphasised that the election, slated for May 23, will follow the 13th National Party Congress, a major political event of the Party, the country, and all Vietnamese people that holds strategic significance for the continuation of comprehensive and synchronous reforms and faster and more sustainable development. Leaders chair the teleconference on January 21 (Photo: VNA) … [Read more...] about General election – A chance to exercise people’s right to mastery: Top leader

At an event held at the airport on Wednesday to announce the results of one year of work, the Air Defense Air Force Command signed an agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to hand over an area of 7.2 hectares at the airbase for the latter to decontaminate over the next two years. … [Read more...] about ​Vietnam, US finish first part of dioxin cleanup at Bien Hoa airbase

Nhâm Nhi Tết – Tân Sửu 2021 (Book for the Year of the Buffalo 2021), Đây Là Tết! (This is Tết!), and  Kể Chuyện Tết Nguyên Đán (Stories of Tết) are three new children’s books celebrating Tết printed by the Kim Đồng Publishing House. — Photo courtesy of the publishing house The book Nhâm Nhi Tết – Tân Sửu 2021 (Book for the Year of the Buffalo 2021) consists of interesting stories, poems, songs, paintings and illustrations about Tet and buffaloes by various writers. … [Read more...] about New children’s books about Tet released

Authorities in Vietnam on Wednesday said they had discovered a 250kg tiger being tortured at the home of a man who later admitted that he had bought the animal from another province in order to produce tiger balm. … [Read more...] about In Vietnam, man caught housing 250kg tiger