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Ho Chi Minh City led the day's tally with 4,046 new cases, followed by Binh Duong (3,629) and Dong Nai (996). 180 deaths were recorded on Saturday, including 123 in HCMC, 34 in its neighbor Binh Duong and seven in Dong Nai. Other deaths were recorded in An Giang, Tien Giang and Tay Ninh (three each), Ben Tre and Da Nang ( two each), Binh Thuan, Kien Giang and Can Tho (one each). The national death rate over the past week has been 220 a day on average. The coronavirus death toll in Vietnam so far is 18,400. Also on Saturday, 10,590 Covid-19 patients were announced recovered, bringing the total tally of recovered cases so far to 516,449. The country has vaccinated over 37 million people with at least one Covid-19 vaccine shot. Over 7.5 million have been fully vaccinated. …

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Ashley Griffith, an English teacher from Manchester, England, who currently works in Vietnam, runs a Tik Tok channel showcasing what he truly loves about living in Vietnam. Griffith first began documenting his life in Vietnam after a student shared that he wanted to move to England. “[My student] said ‘I want to move there because everything is better in England and people say Vietnam isn’t a good country’,” he said. “Hearing those words made me upset because I’m an Englishman who wholeheartedly loves Vietnam. After that, I decided to dedicate my Tik Tok to showcasing everything that I love about Vietnam, including the food, landscape, people, and even fashion. The list is endless. “Now, I hope that student can see how magnificent Vietnam truly is, and how many amazing opportunities there are on offer here,” he added. In the year since he’s launched his @ashlongvn on Tik Tok, Ashley Griffith has earned a fandom of more than 223,000 followers. 97 percent of his views come …

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At Quang Tri Rubber Co., Ltd (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam exported 23,510 tonnes of rubber worth 41.87 million USD to the US in the first 7 months of 2021, up 61 percent in volume and 92.3 percent in value year-on-year. Notably, Vietnam is the fourth largest supplier of natural rubber to the US with 23,460 tonnes worth 41.65 million USD, up 60.8 percent in volume and 92.9 percent  in value over the same period of  2020. increase of 12 percent in volume and 27.6 percent in value. Indonesia, Thailand, Canada, the Republic of Korea and Ivory Coast were the largest suppliers of the product to the US./. VNA …

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The National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has adjusted the pandemic response strategy in the direction of safely, flexibly adapting to and effectively controlling COVID-19, implementing pandemic control and socio-economic development at the same time, and striving to bring the country back to the new normal situation by the end of September, stated Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is the head of the committee. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh addresses the meeting (Photo: VNA) Speaking at an online meeting on September 25 between the steering committee and officials from 10,400 communes, wards and townships, 705 districts, and 63 cities and provinces nationwide, the PM noted that so far, COVID-19 has been gradually put under control in the majority of localities, but complicated developments continue. Statistics of the committee showed that last week, the number of new cases reduced 9.7 percent to 72,236, while the death toll …

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Authorities of many big cities and provinces in Vietnam have apparently ignored a call by medical experts to stop mass COVID-19 testing, since the strategy is expensive and almost helpless in the current developments of the disease. The administration of Ho Chi Minh City has completed three campaigns of citywide COVID-19 testing since a new wave of infections hit Vietnam on April 27 and is going on with a fourth testing phase through September 30. So far, the city’s health workers, divided into 1,533 teams, have collected a total of two million real-time RT-PCR samples and over 9.5 million others using the rapid antigen testing method. In the fourth stage, residents of areas at very high and high risk in the southern city are tested every two days in one week, while people living in the remaining areas are subject to testing every four days during an eight-day period, from September 20. To facilitate the testing drive, the city has sought reinforcements of 1,000 medical …

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A Vietnam court has given capital punishment to a man who shot and killed an anti-drug police officer in the northern province of Thanh Hoa in February. The provincial People’s Court on Friday sentenced 40-year-old Sung A Chia to death on charges of murder while giving life imprisonment to his three accomplices, Sung A Tong, Thao A Minh and Phang A Pao, aged 21 to 30, for the same offense. All the four men resided in the province’s Muong Lat District. On February 6, the district police unit assigned five officers, including Major Vi Van Luan, to conduct patrols to detect people engaged in storage, transport and trade of drugs. When the team came to Muong Ly Commune, they spotted Chia and Tong standing on a road, with guns in their hands. The team, with Luan taking the lead, approached the two suspicious men and asked them to show their personal papers in suspecting that they were drug traffickers. Chia suddenly fired a bullet at Luan’s chest while Tong also opened fire …

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President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has proposed a number of solutions for developing countries to have access to more COVID-19 vaccines at the Global COVID-19 Summit themed “Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better". Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc. At the invitation of US President Joe Biden, President Nguyen Xuan delivered a speech at the Global COVID-19 Summit held on the sidelines of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22 (New York time). Vietnam is one of the few countries to be invited to speak at this important event. In his speech, the Vietnamese State leader applauded the decision to establish a global health security financial intermediary fund initially worth US$10 billion this year to ensure resources for the battle against the COVID-19. To cope with the pandemic, protecting people’s lives and health is the top priority so it is imperative to take drastic actions to early detect and quickly trace infection cases; …

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The resumption of domestic flights would be divided into four phases, according to a draft on the plan to resume transportation across localities with relaxed Covid-19 restrictions discussed Saturday. In the first phase, to be carried out in no more than 10 days, airlines would be allowed to resume air routes with a flight frequency not exceeding half that in the first 10 days of April, the time before the fourth coronavirus wave hit Vietnam. Seats on the planes must be distanced as well. In the second phase, also to be carried out in no more than 10 days, the frequency would be increased to not exceed 70 percent. The third phase would see flight frequency return to the level as seen in the first week of April (but not exceeding it), with no seat distancing required. The final phase would see airlines resume activities as normal. Air routes that had only one flight a day even pre-pandemic can resume operations as normal in all phases, with seat distancing required. …

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However, Covid checkpoints at gateways leading to HCMC would be still maintained, Tran Hoang Ngan, director of the HCMC Institute for Development Studies, and also a member of the prime minister's advisory group, said at an online meeting on Saturday about the city's economic recovery plan in the "new normalcy" period. "We would remove barriers installed in the inner area by September 30 to enter the new normalcy period from October 1 while Covid checkpoints would be installed at gateways to ensure the safety of the entire southern economic zone," Ngan said, adding that top city leaders have agreed on this issue at a meeting on Friday. "This would be a positive sign," Ngan said. Bui Ta Hoang Vu, head of the city's Department of Trade, said in the coming time the city plans to check people's departure and destination points, instead of inspecting travel documents on the road as previously. Road barriers would be removed; instead, functional forces would carry out random rapid …

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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is finalizing the draft code of conduct for Vietnamese artists. On September 10, the General Administration of State Administration of Radio, Television and Movies of China issued new rules for artists who perform advertising activities and act as the face of brands. According to the new regulations, Chinese artists who commit wrong behaviors are subject to administrative fines and banned from being involved in advertising activities for three years. That’s in China. How about Vietnam? Two months ago, several Vietnamese celebrities were criticized by the public for exaggerating the functions and effectiveness of products they advertised, mainly cosmetics, dietary supplements to support fat loss and treatment of stomach cancer, fibroids, cysts, sore throats. Only after the media raised its voice did some of the celebrities such as actor and event host Quyen Linh, People’s Artist Hong Van, Miss Vietnam Mai Phuong Thuy, …

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