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A special library has been opened in a flood-prone village just outside Hanoi, working to develop a love for reading among children, as well as keeping them safe whenever the area is inundated. The library is located in Nam Phuong Tien Commune in the outer district of Chuong My, one of the floodplains in northern Vietnam. Nhan Ly is also known as the center of floods during this period as the village always suffers greatly when nature starts pouring rain in summer. During this period of time, it is rather dangerous for children to spend time outdoors as there is a high risk of falling into water, leading to drowning, or being swept away by the stream. Hence, in the summer of 2018, Hallo World Library was established so as to ‘keep’ the children indoors without boring them, but rather ensuring their safety, according to its founders. ‘Inspired by floods’ During the flooding season in October 2017, co-founder of Hallo World Library Nguyen Quoc Tuan came to Phung Xuan Truong, an ‘unofficial’ teacher of the village, to propose the idea of creating a small reading corner for children in the neighborhood. Phung Xuan Truong, who only finished eighth grade in Vietnamese 12-year education system, teaches local children, thus considered their teacher, even though he has never taught at school. The two began a ‘trial mode’ for Hallo World in early 2018, and officially opened the library on March 16, 2018, shortly after the founders obtained the permit from the village’s authorities. Ever since, the library and its supporters were always doing their best to provide children with books and make books more accessible. Hallo World Library was inspired very differently from what most people would expect. It was inspired by floods. Having grown up in the village, Truong has experienced countless flooding occurrences. Whenever flood reappears, the electricity is cut, leaving children in boredom within four walls of their own house as schools close …

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Foreign ship arrivals down 6 percent in first two months Vietnam’s sea ports have berthed some 4,900 foreign vessels over the last two months, a decline of 6 percent year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Marine Administration. The fall was due largely to the impact of COVID-19, which is resulting in major fluctuations in the transport sector, a representative of the administration said. Despite the lower number of foreign ships, the volume of import and export goods through ports grew. In January and February, 35.3 million tonnes of imports and 26 million tonnes of exports were handled at ports nationwide. The former represented an annual increase of 14 percent while the latter was as same as that last year. In particular, nearly 1.3 million TEUs for exports and 1.2 million for imports were handled during the period, up 32 and 16 percent, respectively, year-on-year; the highest growth since the pandemic began. Meanwhile, the arrival of domestic vessels totalled 5,300, up 11 percent year-on-year./. Quang Ninh’s Van Don airport reopens on March 3 The Ministry of Transport has decided to allow Van Don International Airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh reopen from 6:01am on March 3 after the COVID-19 pandemic has been put under control in the locality and the airport is safe to transport passengers. The airport was temporarily shut down from January 29 after an airport security staff was confirmed positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the COVID-19 pandemic. The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines announced earlier that it will resume flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Quang Ninh on March 3, thus becoming the first to restart flights to the Van Don airport since the local COVID-19 outbreak began. From March 3 to 17, one weekly flight will ply the route between the two destinations, on Wednesdays. Flight numbers will be increased to three a week, on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, from March 18 until the …

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The Hanoitimes - Testing and evaluating students of online classes is one of the difficulties facing Vietnamese teachers amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) acknowledge online schooling, with validity equaling to face-to-face instruction, following months of remote teaching due to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to MoET, online teaching is not only an alternative for face-to-face instruction during the pandemic but also an important method to improve the quality of education from preschool to university level. Being the first option given its advantages in the context of a complicated and long-lasting Covid-19 pandemic, but teachers say distance learning has many issues which must be solved in order for it to be reliable and validated. Talking to Hanoitimes , Dao Van Diep, a teacher of Hanoi-based Lomonosov My Dinh Primary School said internet bandwidth and getting pupil’s motivation are the biggest challenge for distance learning. Dao Van Diep, a teacher of Lomonosov My Dinh Primary School in Hanoi, is teaching onlinewhile students are off from school due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Nguyen Ngan In the online environment, pupils might lose motivation for learning, Diep said, despite the biggest advantage of online classes which is online storage of all materials, discussion questions and tests which is easily accessible for students anytime and anywhere. “Other challenge of online classes is testing and evaluating students. I am struggling to find out what kind of test should be taken to best assess my students. When we let students take the test from a distance, it is very difficult to ensure they do the test honestly. We need the instructions from the Ministry of Education and Training on this matter,” Diep said. With the slogan "Closing school without stopping learning", in 2021, the MoET has encouraged educational institutions to move their activities online during …

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