It is no coincidence that the lyrics of the song “A moment in the hometown” have become familiar among generations of Vietnamese. Over the last hundred years, the ao dai has moved from real life to the cinema, music, and painting, and even become part of the Vietnamese soul at home and abroad. It is also because of her love for the ao dai that designer Minh Hanh devoted all of her fashion career to honouring the traditional dress. Promoting, introducing, and acting as general director of ao dai festivals, Hanh also considers it is her responsibility, together with researchers and other designers, to make the ao dai an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. Miss Vietnam 2010 Ngoc Han also identified her role in preserving and promoting national culture when choosing to research and design an ao dai for her career development. As a young designer, Ngoc Han puts her soul into her ao dai, using traditional natural materials and contributing to a woman’s beauty. Vietnamese women do not need to spend much time putting on an ao dai to show off their charm and elegance. The ao dai has found a place in the daily lives of Vietnam ese women, becoming part of the country’s spirit and identity./. VNA …
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Schools in HCMC to be reopened on March 1
Schools in HCMC to be reopened on March 1 The Saigon Times A security guard checks the body temperature of a student. Students in HCMC will return to school on March 1 - PHOTO: PLO HCMC – More than 1.74 million students in HCMC will return to school from March 1 after a long break due to the resurgence of Covid-19. The municipal government made the decision on February 24, asking the Department of Education and Training to coordinate with the Department of Health to instruct schools to take measures to ensure safety for students and teachers, the local media reported. Schools must ask students and trainees returning to the city from Covid-19-hit areas or having visited these areas to make health declarations. Those who deliberately make dishonest health declarations or fail to comply with quarantine regulations will be addressed in line with the law. In addition, the municipal government required schools to direct their students, teachers and employees to declare their health conditions online on a daily basis. The HCMC government had earlier decided to allow students to stay home and study online after the Tet holiday. On February 23, the municipal Department of Education and Training proposed the resumption of schools in the city from March 1. As of February 19, the local education sector reported a student infected with Covid-19, 74 students and teachers having direct contact with Covid-19 patients, 361 students and teachers having indirect contact with patients and 2,680 students and teachers returning from Covid-19-stricken areas. Meanwhile, the entire city has confirmed 210 Covid-19 cases, with 193 of them having recovered from the disease and 17 others being treated. In addition, the city is quarantining more than 1,300 people at centralized quarantine centers and 524 others at home. …
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Hai Duong conducts large-scale testing for COVID-19 from Feb 24
Health officials collect swab samples from a driver. (Photo: VNA) Hai Duong (VNA) – The northern province of Hai Duong, the country’s current largest hotspot of COVID-19, plans to conduct large-scale testing for the novel coronavirus, using Realtime-PCR technology, from February 24. The move aims to measure the spread of COVID-19 in the province to help it respond better to the disease while identifying safe areas to boost economic recovery. People targeted by the testing are divided into three groups: the high-risk group who are people from Chi Linh and Hai Duong cities, and Kim Thanh and Cam Giang districts; the medium-risk including people from the districts of Kinh Mon, Nam Sach and Binh Giang; and the low-risk comprising those from Ninh Giang, Thanh Ha, Tu Ky, Gia Loc and Thanh Mien. Hai Duong now has six labs for COVID-19 testing using Realtime-PCR, located in the provincial Centre for Disease Control, General Hospital, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Children’s Hospital, Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Hospital, and the Hospital of Hai Duong Medical Technical University. The province is now capable of collecting 50,000 to 60,000 samples and processing as much as 8,500 individual test samples on a daily basis. The results normally come out after 24 hours. Hai Duong recorded 625 cases of COVID-19 as of 16:00 on February 23, making it the hardest hit by the pandemic in the country to date./. VNA …
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