Oscar winning award

The Venada restaurant in the northern province of Ninh Binh has won the Grand Prize of the 11th international Yuan Ye Awards. An overview of the Venada Restaurant The Venada restaurant belongs to the Vedana Resort which features 135 villas, 5 condotel buildings, and 8 bungalows, with a total of 622 rooms. The resort which lies just outside the Cuc Phuong National Park, is designed by Vo Trong Nghia Co., Ltd. The Venada restaurant belongs to the Vedana Resort Situated on a large lake, the Venada restaurant covers 1,050 square metres and stands 15.85 metres tall. It is built from 36 bamboo frames that form a three-storey dome with the largest roof radius of 18.3 metres. The lake plays an important role in regulating the temperature for the restaurant and serves as a reservoir that stores rainwater running down from the nearby mountains, which is used to irrigate the 16.4-hectare site. The restaurant offers both indoor and outdoor spaces that bring different experiences for diners. The structure has overcome nearly 1,000 entries of more than 500 enterprises from over 20 countries and territories in the world to win the Grand Prize at the 11th Yuanye Awards. Established in 2010 in China, Yuanye Awards honours outstanding works and designers as well as encourage exchanges between different countries. …

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Chairman of Hanoi City’s People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh on March 01, 2021 promptly signed Decision No. 995/QD-UBND on granting the award. A letter from Hanoi Party Secretary Vuong Dinh Hue also acknowledged Nguyen Ngoc Manh’s brave act. On the evening of February 28, the unsupervised toddler named N.P.H climbed over the balcony of her family’s home on the 13th floor of Nguyen Huy Tuong Apartment Complex, Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi. She managed to grab the railings but let go just several seconds after. At the time, Nguyen Ngoc Manh, who was on a courier run in the complex, spotted the girl and quickly climbed onto the first floor’s roof to catch her. The girl was rushed to the hospital where X-ray results showed she had a dislocated hip joint and several broken bones, but no further trauma. Source: SGGP News …

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>>> First 35 volunteers receive injections of home-grown COVID-19 vaccine in second-stage trial The award ceremony was held at the Ministry of Health’s headquarters in Hanoi on the morning of February 27. The COVIVAC vaccine research and production project was launched by IVAC (under the Ministry of Health) in May 2020, on the basis of cooperation with the relevant universities, research institutes and international organisations. IVAC Director Dr. Duong Huu Thai said that COVIVAC is a liquid vaccine with or without adjuvants, without preservatives, and the production technology using the Newcastle disease virus (NDV) vaccine vector with the S gene of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine attached to produce vaccines in chicken eggs containing embryos. This technology is also used to produce vaccines to prevent seasonal flus circulating in Vietnam. The results of pre-clinical studies in India, the USA and Vietnam have shown both safety and efficacy. After seven months of study (May to December last year), IVAC has successfully produced three consecutive batches on a large scale, with 50,000-100,000 doses per batch. The vaccine batches for clinical trials have been assessed for quality by the manufacturers and the National Institute for Control of Vaccines and Biologicals, which has certified six batches of finished vaccines. COVIVAC has also undergone preclinical tests for toxicity, immune response, and protective effects on domestic and foreign laboratory animals. The COVIVAC vaccine phase 1 and phase 2 clinical research protocols have been approved by the National Ethical Council in Biomedical Research and the Ethical Councils at grassroots level. IVAC is expected to start conducting clinical trials this March and the process is due to be completed in October. Notably, the cost of this vaccine will be less than VND60,000 per dose. Currently, IVAC is upgrading existing factories to improve production capacity once entering large-scale production. …

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