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Localities in southwest Vietnam are tightening border management and security to minimize risk of COVID-19 spread as the pandemic situation in Cambodia becomes increasingly complicated. In Long An Province, the provincial People’s Committee has ordered competent authorities to carry out regular inspection at local hotels and accommodation facilities, as well as patroling along border trails and ports to promptly detect any border jumpers. Multiple quarantine centers have been reactivated with the capacity of up to 1,000 people, according to Huynh Minh Phuc, director of the Long An Department of Health. Local authorities have been in regular contact with their counterparts in the neighboring country to stay updated on the pandemic developments. A total of 36 checkpoints have been established along the 133-kilometer borderline in the province. The administration in Dong Thap Province has been advising Vietnamese people living in Cambodia to refrain from returning home during this period. Local authorities have also provided essential goods and medicine to overseas Vietnamese in difficult conditions. An officer is on duty along the Vietnam-Cambodia border. Photo : Khoa Nam / Tuoi Tre Twenty-one checkpoints and 18 patrol units with the participation of more than 220 officers have been set up to tighten security along the border. The province has administered 600 COVID-19 vaccine shots to medical staff and officers working in border areas. In An Giang Province, 187 working groups have been on duty to prevent the spread of COVID-19 via the Vietnam-Cambodia border. About 16 to 20 people travel from Cambodia to An Giang on a daily basis and all of them are quarantined upon arrival in accordance with regulations, said Colonel Bui Trung Dung, deputy commander of the provincial Border Guard Command. In Kien Giang Province, which shares a 56-kilometer border with Cambodia, thousands of officers have been mobilized to maximize border …

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Every day for nearly two decades, a 47-year-old woman has pulled cart containing up to 60kg of vegetables each for charity kitchens in Ho Chi Minh City. People call her 'the quiet veggie lady.' She quickly pulls her cart, heading to a kiosk inside Thu Duc Wholesale Market in Ho Chi Minh City as on the other end of the line, someone told Phuong that they saved her some bunches of leafy greens. The market’s traders have generously given 'Mommy Phuong' tonnes of veggies. 19 years collecting vegetables 'Mommy Phuong' is the way traders call Huynh Thi Thanh Phuong, a woman who has spent 19 years collecting vegetables for local charity kitchens. In the early days, she saw people throw vegetables, including those still edible, away. She sorted them out, for herself and for nearby pagodas which offered hot, free and vegan meals to the poor. Seeing what she did, sellers in Thu Duc Wholesale Market eventually started giving Phuong vegetables instead of throwing them all away. She always holds a mobile phone in her hand, waiting for a call from a seller. In her late 40s, Phuong can still run so rapidly that even some youngsters who give her a hand could not compete. She had to sort through and select vegetables that were still good at first; now, traders set aside bunches of good greens for her. There is even a seller lending Phuong her kiosk to gather vegetables which will later be donated to poor people, pagodas, churches, and child protection centers. The more vegetables the woman receives, the broader area she can help. On her productive day, vegetables can even be shipped to a pagoda in Dong Nai Province, about 30km away. Huynh Thi Thanh Phuong receives a bouquet of flowers from Scottish volunteer Mat Donald on International Women’s Day (March 8). Photo: Kim Ut / Tuoi Tre Giving hands As people get to know Phuong and her good deeds, she is gifted more agricultural products. Some days, the total amount reaches up to …

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President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc will chair a high-level open debate on enhancing cooperation between the UN and regional and sub-regional organisations which is scheduled on April 19. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — In his capacity as President of the United Nations Security Council in April 2021, Vietnamese State President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc will preside over a high-level open debate on enhancing cooperation between the UN and regional and sub-regional organisations in promoting confidence-building and dialogue in conflict prevention and resolution. The UNSC’s meeting will be held on April 19 in both in-person and online forms, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Việt Nam for the second time assumed the role of rotating President of the UNSC in the 2020-2021 tenure this month. On April 1, the UNSC adopted the April Programme of Work proposed by Việt Nam, under which the council will hold 15 open debates and 10 closed meetings discussing various peace and security matters in the world, including situations in the Middle East, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, West Sahara, Colombia, and Kosovo. Việt Nam is scheduled to chair four video-teleconferencing (VTC) open debates this month, with the first taking place on April 8 addressing the “Maintenance of international peace and security: Mine action.” There will also be debates on “Women and peace and security: Sexual violence in conflict” on April 14, and “Protection of civilians in armed conflict: Indispensable civilian objects” on April 27. More support for victims of sexual violence in conflict Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN, has called on the international community to further support victims of sexual violence in conflict. The victims should be assisted to access psychological, medical, training and legal services, integrate into the community and seek livelihood sources, Quý said while chairing an open debate of the UN Security Council (UNSC) …

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