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Jason Turnbull (left) and Rana Flowers, UNICEF representative to Vietnam, sign a long-term strategic partnership. Photo by Masterise Group What do you aim to achieve through the Innovation for Children project? Masterise Group recently announced Build A Better Future, its strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) programme designed with three pillars: environment, education, and humanitarian aid. As part of the long-term programme, the group is partnering with UNICEF Vietnam to launch the Innovation for Children project to provide Vietnamese children with a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable living environment. The project will be an integration of educational and environmental initiatives aimed at addressing three major issues: climate-smart communities, smart schools, and learning through leadership. A UNICEF report in 2021 revealed that children and young people in Vietnam are most at risk from climate change impacts, which are threatening their health, … [Read more...] about Masterise Group and UNICEF to innovate for children

With the recent inauguration of many pedestrian streets, themed spaces, and night tours, authorities in Hanoi hope to give the city’s night economy a major boost. Every evening at about 7:00 pm, Hanoi’s Old Quarter begins to bustle with tourists rushing between shops, food stalls, and entertainment venues. The Old Quarter’s evening rush holds such a footing in Hanoian culture that nicknames have even been given to certain areas. The intersection of Ta Hien and Luong Ngoc Quyen Streets, for example, is affectionately called 'International Intersection' while Ta Hien Street is known as 'Beer Street,' Gam Cau Street is known as 'BBQ Street,' To Lich street is called 'Mixed Fruit Street,' and Tong Duy Tan Street is dubbed 'Food Street.' Weekends in the Old Quarter are especially busy, with groups of tourists and locals gathering in the area for entertainment and food, art performance venues, and karaoke parlors. The pedestrian street around Hoan Kiem Lake has also been a major … [Read more...] about Hanoi seeks to develop night economy

There is a special Vietnamese woman in Japan. She has worked for a company for 16 years, where she is affectionately and respectfully called 'mother' not only by younger Vietnamese colleagues and students but also by her Japanese colleagues. At nearly 70 years old, the woman, whose name is Le Thi Minh Nguyet, is probably the oldest Vietnamese woman still working full-time in Japan. In fact, her age makes her as old as the grandmothers of the Vietnamese interns studying and working in the East Asian country. She is not called a mother because of her age, but because of her responsibility and commitment in her role as an interpreter and trainer at the Kantojoho Sangyo Kyodo Kumiai, also known as Kantojoho, union, which specializes in training and placing technical trainees for Japanese companies. Motherhood abroad One Sunday, Nguyet's only day off of the week, she spent the entire day leading some technical trainees to their third vaccination against COVID-19. Although she … [Read more...] about The story of a unique Vietnamese ‘mother’ in Japan

Read what is in the news today: Health -- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered the urgent rollout of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots following the detection of sub-variant BA.5 in Vietnam. -- The Ministry of Health confirmed 511 COVID-19 cases on Sunday, the lowest number of daily infections over the last 12 months. Society -- Rescue forces in southern Dong Nai Province said on Sunday evening that they had found the bodies of two teenagers and a child, who had drowned while taking a bath at a reservoir in Trang Bom District earlier the same day. -- A person went missing, three others were injured, and huge damage was recorded after a heavy rain swamped northern Dien Bien Province on Sunday morning, according to the provincial committee for natural disaster prevention and control. -- Hot and sunny weather with high temperatures ranging from 35 to 38 degrees Celsius is in the forecast for Vietnam’s northern region on Monday, according to the National Center for … [Read more...] about Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — July 4

Steel roll production lines at Hoa Phat Steel Sheet Co., Ltd, located in the Pho Nui A Industrial Park in the northern province of Hung Yen. Steel is one of key export products from Viet Nam to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. — VNA/VNS Photo Vu Sinh Vietnamese businesses have many opportunities to increase export goods to Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, according to the Trade Promotion Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, deputy director of the Export Support Center, said that Viet Nam had many favourable conditions for exporting goods to Thailand and Laos because the three countries were close geographically, and members of various free trade agreements. To meet the demand of customers in Thailand and Laos, domestic enterprises are recommended to export goods reaching technical standards and to have import certificates from authorities. They also need to apply advanced technology in processing and preserving products to ensure the quality of … [Read more...] about VN Trade Promotion Department lauds ASEAN export opportunites

The Japanese retailer sells Vietnamese agricultural products in some 350 of the group's stores and supermarkets across Japan and on its websites from July 1 to 3. AEON Group, the Japanese retailer, expected to sell about 30 tons of fresh lychee and 2.5 tons of fresh bananas from Vietnam during the three-day Vietnamese Goods Week in Japan. The Japanese retailer sells Vietnamese agricultural products in some 350 of the group's stores and supermarkets across Japan and on its websites from July 1 to 3. A number of Vietnamese fresh lychee are sold at AEON supermarket. Photo: congthuong.vn "Last year, we imported  five tons of fresh lychee from Vietnam and sold it only in large supermarkets. However, this year, we imported up to 22 tons of lychee and sold them in all AEON supermarkets throughout Japan," Soichi Okazaki, Executive Director of ASEAN Business at AEON, told the Vietnam News Agency . Okazaki added that Vietnamese lychee is very fragrant and … [Read more...] about Some 30 tons of fresh lychee sold at Vietnamese Goods Week in Japan