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“Dien Xuong Nam Bo” (Folk Singing Genre of the Southern Region) is organized by the Soul Music and Performing Arts Academy’s Soul Live Project, a long-term cultural program that aims to expand Vietnamese traditional music and theater.  “Dien xuong”- a folk singing genre which originated in Vietnam’s Southern region. Photo: baonghean.vn The project includes a series of performances, talk shows and seminars featuring the history of “dien xuong”, including folk songs, dances and plays of different styles created and performed by southern farmers in the 18th and 19th centuries. The project has received support from dozens of cultural researchers, music and theater critics, and veteran performers of the region. The project’s first workshop will include Gia Dinh-Saigon: Songs and Dances in the Past, a 60-minute documentary featuring folk singing and dancing of the South performed by people from Gia Dinh-Saigon (now … [Read more...] about Art project preserves folk singing in Southern region

Nguyen Van Phuc of Dong Thap province’s Thap Muoi district said he planted IR 50404 rice this time and got a yield of seven tonnes per hectare, higher than last year. Harvesting the winter – spring rice crop in Kien Giang Province’s Chau Thanh District. (Photo: Vietnamnews) Besides, costs were lower than previous years because rice fields had plenty of sediments deposited meaning farmers could use less fertilisers, he said. Authorities had released floodwaters rich with sediments from the rising Mekong River into nearly half of the province’s rice farming areas between August and October last year. Besides depositing the sediments, this also helped destroy disease-causing pests. More than 197,000ha were planted in the province, 60 percent of them with high-quality rice varieties, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. Farmers have harvested more than 50,000ha so far with an average yield of 6.5 tonnes per hectare. … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta enjoys good start to rice harvest

Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Five domestic airlines reported nearly 5,000 delayed or cancelled flights, accounting for 17 percent of the total operated flights, in the first two months of the year. The number increased by 4.2 percent from the previous month and posted a 0.9 percent year-on-year rise. According to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV), Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Jetstar Pacific, Bamboo Airways and Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO) operated a total of 29,363 flights in the two-month period, up 22.8 percent from the same period last year. Of which, Jetstar Pacific had the highest rate of delayed or cancelled flights with 838, accounting for 25.5 percent of its scheduled routes. Vietjet took the second place with 2,677 delayed or cancelled flights, accounting for 21.5 percent of its total during the two-month period. National carrier Vietnam Airlines reported 1,343 delayed or … [Read more...] about Nearly 5,000 flights delayed, cancelled in two months

This is one of the goals set for the province under the Politburo’s Resolution No.54-NQ/TTW on the building and development of Thua Thien-Hue till 2030 with a vision to 2045. The province is also set to become one of the country’s hubs in the fields of science, technology, multidisciplinary education and training, national defence-security. Thua Thien-Hue is envisioned to become a festival city of Asia by 2045. The central province of Thua Thien-Hue During the 2021 -2025 period, Thua Thien-Hue should work to earn the status of a centrally-run city and complete the expansion of Hue city before 2022 as planned. The province should strive for an annual growth of 7.5-8.5 percent in gross regional domestic product while the total social investment capital will increase by 12 percent each year. By 2025, the rate of poor households will be reduced to 2-2.2 percent, forest coverage will reach 56 – 57 percent, the rate of trained workers in the workforce at … [Read more...] about Thua Thien-Hue aims to become a cultural, tourism centre of Asia by 2020

This was the focus of the Supporting Industry Forum 2019, held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 13. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Do Thang Hai said leather-footwear is one of the key exporting industries of Vietnam. With an annual export growth rate of over 10 percent, the industry earned the country approximated 20 billion USD in 2018 and over 10 billion USD in the first half of 2019. The Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association (Lefaso) forecast this year’s leather-footwear exports at some 21.5 billion USD, up 10 percent from 2018. Vietnamese footwear has been shipped to more than 100 countries, including 50 with imports worth over 1 million USD from Vietnam. The largest markets are the US, the EU, China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. Vietnam is the world’s second biggest footwear exporter, and this industry is now a great contributor to the national economy, Lefaso said, noting that many companies have expanded production, renovated technology and … [Read more...] about Forum urges leather-footwear sector’s actions to grasp chances