Customers select dragon fruits at a Co.opmart supermarket in HCM City. Co.opmart together with Saigon Co.op’s other retail systems, including Co.opXtra hypermarkets, Co.op Food, Co.op Smile and Cheers are offering a series of attractive promotions to celebrate Co.opmart’s 25th anniversary. — Photo Trung Chau Co.opmart supermarket chain has unveiled a series of promotions, including big discounts, on 5,000 essential items at nearly its 130 stores around the country from now until May 5 to celebrate its 25 th anniversary. The Saigon Union of Trading Co.operatives (Saigon Co.op), the owner of Co.opmart, is offering the birthday promotions also at its other retail systems, Co.opXtra hypermarkets, Co.op Food, Co.op Smile, Cheers 24/24 convenience stores, HTV Co.op, and Sense City. The highlights of the promotions, besides the discounts on the 5,000 items, include a ‘super sales programme’ on weekends with discounts of VND12,500 to nearly VND1.18 million (US$51) on many products such as soya bean cooking oils, fresh milk, detergents, fabric softeners, rice cookers, pillows, bed sheets, blankets, and suitcases and interactive activities to enhance connections with customers. Under the ‘Celebrating 25th birthday, big sales’ programme until May 5, many products such as cooking oils, seasonings, and oats will be sold at just VND1,000, VND5,000, VND15,000, or VND82,200 to customers buying fragrant rice, Thai hot pot sauce, cheese, and soy sauce. Customers choose fruits and vegetables at Co.opmart’s fresh food counter. — Photo Trung Chau The ‘Buy more, get huge discount’ programme from April 15 to 28 offers steep discounts on condensed creams, fish sauces, toothpastes, shampoos, stainless steel pots, and pillows when customers buy the second item of the same product. From April 15 to 25 customers buying two items of product they only have to pay for one under the ‘Buy two pay one’ programme. Under ‘Same price sale at VND25,000’, ‘Same price sale at …
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May Festival: Musical and dance performances to celebrate Uncle Ho’s birthday
Art performances aim at celebrating the 131st birth anniversary of great President Ho Chi Minh and the success of the 13th National Assembly Congress and People's Councils at all levels, term of 2021-2026. A series of artistic functions themed “May Festival” will take place in various venues throughout the city from 19 to 23 of May, according to an instruction of the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sport sent to relevant municipal departments and units recently. Hanoi will hold a series of event in May to exciting atmosphere to welcome major festivities and events of the capital and the country. Photo: Kinh te & Do thi. “The show are aimed at promoting national self-esteem among Hanoians; showcasing the deep respect and gratitude of the city’s people from all walks of life for President Ho Chi Minh’s great merits; and creating a joyful as well as exciting atmosphere to welcome major festivities and events of the capital and the country,” the department noted. These art shows, besides being interpreted by professional artists, will gather amateur actors and actresses, public servants, employees, soldiers, war veterans and students who live in Hanoi. They will perform repertoires of music and dance individually, in duet, trio, top choir, chorus, independent dance, solo or instrumental concert, among others. Notably, topics of the shows will show the beauty of the country and the people of Vietnam, acclaiming the “Hanoi Heroic Capital”, the “City for Peace” and the “Creative City of Hanoi”, expressing the deep affection and gratitude of Vietnamese people to the Communist Party and President Ho Chi Minh, and appreciating great achievements of Hanoi city and the whole nation in the progress of national building and development. The department encourages relevant units to organize art shows in commune or districts throughout the city, and in this way, disseminate the contents of the 13th National Assembly and People's Councils at all …
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Vietnam ranks 50th on global beauty chart
Global Beauties, a leading online magazine which focuses on beauty pageants, calculates Vietnam’s total points in terms of the achievements of various national representatives across the five major beauty pageants. The renowned competitions include Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, Miss Grand International, and Miss Supranational, along with beauty contests for men, such as Mr. World, Mister Supranational, and Manhunt International. The country’s ranking can largely be attributed to the outstanding performances put in by Vietnamese representatives during international beauty pageants. Notable achievements include H'Hen Nie finishing among the leading five contestants at Miss Universe 2018, Luong Thuy Linh’s Top 12 finish at Miss World 2019, Truc Diem’s Top 15 finish at Miss International 2011, and Khanh Phuong’s Top 25 finish at Miss Supranational 2017. This is in addition to Hoang Thuy’s Top 20 finish at Miss Universe 2019 and Nguyen Thi Huyen’s Top 15 finish at Miss World 2004. The United States tops the global beauty rankings according to Global Beauties with 146,643 points, followed by Venezuela with 138,075 points. …
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