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Co, 34 and Nghiep, 38 walked the 50-cm wide and 10-m long surface in 1 minute and 55 seconds in Milan, Italy, to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Hong Phuong, Co’s wife, said she normally just wanted the brothers to be safe, but this time, she wanted them to set the record. "Quoc Co and Quoc Nghiep had a brilliant career, so I think they deserve a complete ending," she said. During training before setting the new record, the Giang brothers failed three times. At a workout session in Ho Chi Minh City on January 19, they fell while training on a simulator. One day before going to Italy, they failed again during training. The two said they were stressed after another fail on Thursday. Quoc Co (blindfolded) and Quoc Nghiep in their successful record-setting act in Italy on February 3, 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Hai An The Giang brothers had received the invitation to perform at the Guinness World Record Show in Milan from the event’s organizer, Banijay … [Read more...] about Acrobatic Vietnamese brothers set new world record

After three consecutive years of hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Lim Festival is back in full swing, attracting thousands of visitors to the small neighboring province of Hanoi. Lim Festival in the northern province of Bac Ninh, home to UNESCO-recognized Quan ho (love duet) singing, is welcoming dozens of thousands of visitors. Held in Tien Du District, about 30km from downtown Hanoi, the festival takes place for two or three days with the main day falling on the 13th day of the first Lunar month [February 3 this year]. The most vibrant festival in northern Vietnam The Quan ho folk performance in a boat, Lim Festival 2023. Photo: Duy Khanh The festival includes a procession, rituals, and love duet singing, among others. The activities are held in communal houses, temples, and pagodas in Noi Due, Lien Bao, and Lim Town villages. The Lim Festival, one of the largest spring festivals in northern Vietnam, is a cultural feature of Bac Ninh. … [Read more...] about Biggest northern Vietnam festival attracts tens of thousands visitors

Vietnamese acrobat duo the Giang Brothers have set a new world record with their head-balancing act in their final international performance in Italy on February 3. Vietnamese acrobat duo the Giang Brothers have set a new world record with their head-balancing act in their final international performance in Italy on February 3. Giang Quoc Co, 39 and Giang Quoc Nghiep, 34, scaled 10 steps and continued to walk along a 40-cm wide and 10-m long surface, and then walked down 10 more steps. The brothers did their performance in 1 minute and 55 seconds while balancing each other with their heads while being blindfolded to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records. The Giang brothers performed the act in Milan following an invitation from the Guinness World Records organisation. They had three weeks to prepare for the performance. The Giang brothers failed three times during their training before setting the new record. Quoc Nghiep shared … [Read more...] about Vietnamese gymnast brothers set new world record

More than a year after breaking their own world record in Spain, the Giang brothers – a Vietnamese acrobat duo – set a new record of head-to-head balancing walk in Milan, Italy on Friday. Circus artists Giang Quoc Nghiep, 38, and Giang Quoc Co, 34, successfully walked up 10 stairs to a height of two meters, then passed through a crossbar that is 0.4 meter wide and 10 meters long, and then walked down 10 stairs in their performance in Milan on Friday afternoon (local time). After receiving the invitation to perform at the Guinness World Record Show in Milan from the event’s organizer, Banijay S.p.A Company, the acrobatic duo had three weeks for their preparation. The Giang brothers said that they had failed several times during training before coming to a success to earn another place in the Guinness Book of World Records. At a workout session at home, Co fell down but there was a thick cushion under him, while during their record-setting performance in Milan, there was no such … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s Giang brothers set new world record in Italy

President Joe Biden said he had issued an order on Wednesday to take down the balloon, but the Pentagon had recommended waiting until it could be done over open water to safeguard civilians from debris crashing to Earth from thousands of feet (meters) above commercial air traffic. "They successfully took it down, and I want to compliment our aviators who did it," Biden said. Multiple fighter and refueling aircraft were involved in the mission, but only one -- an F-22 fighter jet from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia -- took the shot at 2:39 p.m. (1939 GMT), using a single AIM-9X supersonic, heat-seeking, air-to-air missile, a senior U.S. military official said. The balloon was shot down about six nautical miles off the U.S. coast, over relatively shallow water, potentially aiding efforts to recover elements of the Chinese surveillance equipment in the coming days, officials said. The shootdown came shortly after the U.S. government ordered a halt to flights in and out of … [Read more...] about US fighter jet shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon with missile

Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son (R) meets with his Philippine counterpart Enrique A. Manalo (Photo: VNA) Jakarta (VNA) - Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son met with his Cambodian, Philippine and Malaysian counterparts on February 3 on the sidelines of the 32nd ASEAN Coordinating Council Meeting ( ACC-32 ) in Jakarta, Indonesia. During their meeting, FM Son and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn were pleased with the fruitful developments of the bilateral relationship in recent times, and agreed to continue promoting the exchange of high-level visits via all channels, enhancing people-to-people exchange; maintaining and optimising the effectiveness of existing bilateral cooperation mechanisms; fostering economic connections; strengthening cooperation between localities, especially those that share borders; and exerting effort to speed up tourism recovery. Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son (L) and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister … [Read more...] about FM meets Cambodian, Philippine, Malaysian counterparts

During their meeting, FM Son and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn were pleased with the fruitful developments of the bilateral relationship in recent times, and agreed to continue promoting the exchange of high-level visits via all channels, enhancing people-to-people exchange; maintaining and optimizing the effectiveness of existing bilateral cooperation mechanisms; fostering economic connections; strengthening cooperation between localities, especially those that share borders; and exerting effort to speed up tourism recovery. They also agreed to accelerate negotiations towards completing the remaining 16% of the land border demarcation and marker planting in order to build a common borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and sustainable development between the two nations; and closely coordinate at regional and international forums as well as sub-regional mechanisms, and support each other's candidacy to multilateral organizations. Sokhonn … [Read more...] about Foreign Minister meets Cambodian, Philippine, Malaysian counterparts

MUSIC & PERFORMANCES Hanoi-SiaM vol. 22: Aurora Borealis Feb 9, 8 pm Registration link ____________________________________________________________________________ EXHIBITION Quang Binh - Exhibition honouring General Vo Nguyen Giap Until Feb 20, HCMC-Exhibition ‘No more, not yet’ Opening: Feb 3, 06:30 pm EMASI Nam Long, 147 Street No.8, Nam Long Residential area, D7, Display: Feb – June, Wed & Fri, 10 am – 04 pm EMASI Nam Long (D.7) Tues & Thurs, 10 am – 04 pm EMASI Vạn Phúc (D.Thủ Đức) *and every last Saturday of the month From the organizer: Nguyen Art Foundation (NAF) proudly invites you to the opening of ‘No more, not yet’, an exhibition that looks back on Nguyen Thi Thanh Mai’s shapeshifting artistic practice in all its multiplicity. Winner of the Artist Excellence Award (inaugural edition, initiated by The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre and managed by … [Read more...] about What’s on February 6-12/2023

The figure showed an increase of 9.5 percent year on year and accounted for over one fourth of the country’s total import-export revenue. Of the figure, Vietnam’s export revenues were USD 78.98 billion, a rise of 8.4 percent over the previous year and accounting for 36.7 percent of the country’s total export value. Meanwhile, imports from G7 countries reached USD 34.03 billion, an increase of 12.3 percent and contributing 16 percent to total import revenue. As a result, in 2017, Vietnam enjoyed a trade surplus of USD 44.95 billion with G7 countries. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of Vietnam was invited to attend the G7 Outreach Summit in Charlevoix region, Canada’s Quebec state, from June 8-10. Vietnam and Bangladesh are the only Asian countries to be invited to the event, proving that G7 member states and the host, Canada, highly appreciate Vietnam’s role and stature. Source: VNA … [Read more...] about Trade revenue with G7 members totals USD 113 billion in 2017

Circus artists Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep (Photo: Ngo Tran Hai An/Vietnam+) Hanoi (VNA) – Circus artists Giang Quoc Co and Giang Quoc Nghiep on February 3 (Vietnam time) set a new head-to-head balancing walk plus blindfold record in Milan, Italy. They walked the 40-cm wide and 10-m long surface and climbed up and down 10 steps in 1 minute and 55 seconds. The brothers made the record at their first perfomance so they did not need to do it again. They walked the 40-cm wide and 10-m long surface and climbed up and down 10 steps in 1 minute and 55 seconds. Co, 34 years old, and Nghiep, 38 years old, said that the record making at this time will a milestone that closes their successful career. In 2021, the acrobat brothers set a new world record in head-to-head balancing in Catalonia, Spain. The Vietnamese artists, with Nghiep balancing atop Co's head, climbed 100 stairs in 53 seconds at Girona Cathedral, the same venue where they set their previous record … [Read more...] about Circus artists Quoc Co, Quoc Nghiep set new world record