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The competition was an activity within the framework of the locality’s Spring culture and cuisine festival 2023. The jury included historian Duong Trung Quoc; Master Chef Vo Quoc, President of the France - Vietnam Cuisine Academy; Master Chef Le Quoc Dinh, an instructor at the France - Vietnam Cuisine Academy. At the event, each team was required to prepare a tray of traditional dish of Vietnam to offer to the progenitor of Ngu Xa bronze casting. This was the first competition that had been held in the second food quarter in the capital city. According to Truc Bach ward’s representative, the competition aimed to popularize Vietnamese culinary culture to both domestic and foreign tourists. It also helped restaurants diversify their menus and dishes and improve their food processing quality, ensuring the nutrition and service quality of the Dao Ngoc - Ngu Xa Food Quarter in general as well as the restaurants in particular. The festival also featured other unique cultural and … [Read more...] about Special dishes introduced at Dao Ngoc – Ngu Xa cuisine competition

After Meta, Amazon, Twitter, and Tesla, Xiaomi has become the next name to join the list of leading tech companies forced to cut staff. In a December 20 announcement, a Xiaomi representative confirmed that about 10 per cent of the total workforce will be affected by the reduction policy implemented by the company to “optimise full-time and organisational rationalisation”. Tech group lay-off wave reaches Vietnam, illustration photo/ source freepik.com Xiaomi had over 35,300 employees as of the end of September, according to its third-quarter earnings report. It is expected that about 5,000 Xiaomi employees will ultimately be affected in the near future, mainly those working in the smartphone and internet service business units. The decision by the fifth-largest smartphone vendor in the Chinese market comes after seeing a 9.7 per cent drop in Q3 results on-year. Xiaomi is not the only tech company in Asia to start laying off staff. A week earlier, online commerce … [Read more...] about Tech group lay-off wave reaches Vietnam

People shop for street food in Chinatown - Illustrative image (Photo: Reuters) Bangkok (VNA) - The Thai Government predicts inflation to decline further this year, as the headline inflation in January cooled to its lowest rate in nine months. The Ministry of Commerce announced on February 6 that last month’s consumer price index (CPI), a key indicator of consumer inflation, rose 5.02% from a year earlier, down from 5.89% in the previous month and marking the lowest growth since April 2022. The headline inflation growth is projected to be below 5% in February, helped by growing domestic demand from the tourism boom, the ministry's Trade Policy and Strategy Office deputy director-general, Wichanun Niwatjinda, said. The ministry also expected the headline inflation growth to range between 2 and 3% this year, he added. In 2022, headline inflation hit a 24-year high of 6.08%, with the core rate at 2.51%./. VNA … [Read more...] about Thailand expects this year’s inflation down

Tremors that inflicted more suffering on a border area, already plagued by conflict, left people on the streets burning debris to try to stay warm as international aid began to arrive. But some extraordinary survival tales have emerged, including a newborn baby pulled alive from rubble in Syria, still tied by her umbilical cord to her mother who died in Monday's quake. "We heard a voice while we were digging," Khalil al-Suwadi, a relative, told AFP. "We cleared the dust and found the baby with the umbilical cord (intact) so we cut it and my cousin took her to hospital." The infant is the sole survivor of her immediate family, the rest of whom were killed in the rebel-held town of Jindayris. The 7.8-magnitude quake struck Monday as people slept, flattening thousands of structures, trapping an unknown number of people and potentially impacting millions. Whole rows of buildings collapsed, leaving some of the heaviest devastation near the quake's epicentre between the Turkish … [Read more...] about Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 7,800 as rescuers battle cold

Their first destination was the Milan Cathedral, built in 1386, which is the third-biggest church in the world on February 3. The brothers walk around while balancing head-to-dead in formal clothing at the Victor Emmanuel II Monument at the Piazza del Doumo Square. Quoc Co takes a walk with Quoc Nghiep standing on his shoulders at the Giureconsulti Palace. The two pose nonchalantly at Arco della Pace, the city gate of Milan. Performing at Sforzesco Castle. Co holds his brother in the air with one arm on Dante Street. The brothers said they were taking time to relax and visit Milan before returning to Vietnam on Tuesday. On February 2, the two brothers walked the 50-cm wide and 10-m long surface in 1 minute and 55 seconds in Milan to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese circus brothers perform in Milan after setting last world record

A vendor counts banknotes at a market in Vientiane, Laos, on January 9, 2023. (Photo Xinhua/VNA) Vientiane (VNA) – The inflation rate in Laos surged to 40.3% in January, a record high in the last 23 years, according to the Statistics Bureau under the Lao Ministry of Planning and Investment. According to the agency, the depreciation of the Lao currency kip against USD and Thai baht and the soaring prices of fuel, gas, and other imported goods are among the main factors driving inflation. High fuel prices have pushed up production costs in the country because it has to import machinery, animal feed, and fertilisers at increasingly high prices. Laos’s consumer price index has spiked unexpectedly since the beginning of last year. Inflation in May 2022 was recorded at 12.81% before rising to 23.61% in June, 25.62% in July, 30.01% in August, 34.05% in September, 36.75% in October, 38.46% in November and 39.27% in December. Overall, Laos's average inflation in 2022 is up to … [Read more...] about Laos’s inflation continues to rise in January, hits 23-year record