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Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (Photo: VNA) Beijing (VNA) – Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong ’s article “Several theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path towards socialism in Vietnam ” affirms the soundness of the path towards socialism of Vietnam, said a Chinese official. In his recent article on Vietnam’s contributions to human civilisation, Han Fangming, Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Chairman of Chahar Institute, a well-known think tank of diplomacy and international relations, the article systematically analyses the original ideal and development of socialism in Vietnam from the perspective of its reality. It points to the origins and goals of as well as persistence and firmness in a number of theories of Vietnam’s socialist-oriented market economy and the human-centered development strategy. Han wrote that the …

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Vegetables being loaded into a bus belonging to Bao Yen Construction Services Tourism Co., Ltd. in HCM City last week. Five such buses are being used to distribute vegetables around the city. (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - I was surprised to receive a call from an American friend who lives in Singapore, asking about the pandemic situation in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam’s current COVID-19 epicentre with a daily record of thousands of cases. He was concerned that the situation could spin “out of control”, comparing it to India or Indonesia. I told my friend that he had called at a good time as I had just read a news story from the Singapore-based The Straits Times, headlined “Vietnam grapples with public frustration over COVID-19 pandemic missteps and transparency”, mentioning the growing unhappiness about the pandemic control measures. The story, I believe, described the situation in a superficial way. I have closely observed the global situation, especially …

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Vietnam’s leading private conglomerate Vingroup will build a plant capable of producing up to 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses per year under a U.S. technology transfer, amid the country’s efforts to secure enough jabs for slowing COVID-19 infections. The vaccine plant will be constructed under a technology transfer agreement that Vingroup made with U.S.-based Arcturus Therapeutics, a company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapeutics for rare diseases and vaccines. The plant, to be located at the Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park in Hanoi’s Thach That District, will have a designed capacity of between 100 and 200 million doses a year. The mRNA-based vaccine developed by Arcturus is expected to undergo clinical human trials in August in Vietnam before being produced, the Ministry of Health said. If everything goes smoothly, the vaccine will be on the market next year. Unlike the Pfizer vaccine, which needs to be stored at temperatures of minus 75 to …

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The American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) on Tuesday sent a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden on behalf of 1,000 businesses to urge the donation of more COVID-19 vaccines to partner countries, including Vietnam. In the letter, Steve Lamar, president and CEO of the AAFA, stressed that the success of the U.S. apparel and footwear industry and three million American workers is directly dependent on suppliers with healthy workforces around the world. “Vietnam is the second-largest supplier of apparel, footwear, and travel goods to the U.S. market, accounting for 20 percent of all U.S. imports, a number that grows every year, even during the pandemic,” Lamar stated. He urged President Biden to dramatically ramp up distribution of vaccines, including America’s stockpile of Astra Zeneca vaccines, as well as testing supplies and personal protective equipment to Vietnam. Immediate and dramatic actions by the U.S. will not only save millions of lives worldwide but could …

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Vietnamese State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked health authorities to promptly authorize Nano Covax, a vaccine being developed domestically, to make the first made-in-Vietnam vaccine available soon amid surging COVID-19 cases. The president made the direction during a meeting at Ho Chi Minh City-based Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC, which he visited on Thursday to review its production progress. At the meeting, President Phuc emphasized the importance of the compliance with epidemic prevention and control rules and the acceleration of mass vaccination to prevent the rising coronavirus spread. The leader said the Party and State have been proceeding with securing vaccine supplies from abroad while speeding up domestic vaccine research and production, with a vision to ensure proactiveness in inoculation. Administrative procedures should be sped up so that the vaccine can be approved for emergency use soon provided it is safe for people, the president said. The …

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They are doing so at the urging of peers in an online community who say running the gauntlet of catching Covid-19 infections and being punished for not following unclear regulations for a pittance is a fruitless exercise. "It is not worth it, delivering something a few ten thousand dong (VND10,000 = $0.44) while taking the risk of getting infected or fined. So I advised fellow shippers to take a break, " said Hiep, a resident of HCMC’s District 7. Shippers say they find the city’s multiple Covid-safe regulations confusing. Tung, a driver who usually works in District 3 and Phu Nhuan, can earn up to VND2 million on certain days, especially with higher demand and less drivers. Before Monday, when a rule for shippers to deliver within one district took effect, Tung usually took detours to avoid checkpoints when making inter-district deliveries, but felt nervous whenever he did it. "I always felt like I was doing something fishy even though it was my job. I don’t feel at ease …

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The Cao Lan, one of two branches of the San Chay living in a number of northern mountain and midland provinces, often wear their traditional clothes to celebrate important life events, spring ceremonies, and festivals. The Cao Lan group often wear their traditional costumes during festivals. (Photo: svhtttuyenquang) The Cao Lan people live mostly in Thanh Son and Dap Thanh communes, or scattered throughout Ba Che District. During festivals, New Year celebrations, and call-and-response singing ceremonies, they always wear their traditional costumes. Women wear a calf-length shirt which has a brown top and indigo lower part.  When they go to festive events, they wear a red and indigo shirt. The shirt looks simple but actually it is sophisticatedly cut. It has a wrap collar that goes under the right armpit. Vi Thị Tuyen of Ba Che District’s Culture Office says, “The clothes of the Cao Lan have embroidery patterns of plants, flowers, the sun, the stars, and human …

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Hundreds of doctors have joined the Facebook group ‘Giup nhau mua dich’ (helping each other) to assist people during the Covid-19 pandemic. A volunteer of the group “Our family members are under concentrated quarantine. I plan to buy this medicine for storage. Please tell me if I can use the medicine,” a woman asked. “Please help us. Four family members have tested positive, including two children, seven years old and one year old. The younger child and I are at the Field Hospital No 4,” another entry said. “I don’t know where to contact to ask questions. I feel embarrassed,” she wrote. These are just some of hundreds posts on ‘Giup nhau mua dich’ group. People raise questions and ask for advice about every issue related to the pandemic. Nearly all entries and questions have been answered. The Facebook chat group was created one week ago, but the number of members has increased to more than 200 accounts. By the end of first half of July 23, there had been 400 posts. …

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Illustrative image (Source: British Council) Hanoi (VNA) – The British Council on May 26 debut its “Digital Learning Innovation Fund” that aims to optimise digital technologies in English learning , teaching and testing as part of a strategy to provide more equal education access to all amid the COVID-19 pandemic . The fund establishment is part of cooperation between the UK and Vietnam in implementing new in-depth studies and encouraging innovation, thus supporting the National Foreign Languages Project launched in 2008 with a remit to renovate foreign language teaching and learning in the national education system in 2025 and beyond. The ideal of the fund was first introduced in September 2020 at an online event on cooperation in English teaching between the UK and Vietnam. As of March 2021, the fund had received support from nine agencies of the UK and Vietnam in building initiatives, three of which have been selected to receive sponsorship in the first pilot …

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Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen (L) and Italian doctors (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – A series of online conferences themed “ Overseas Vietnamese join hands in overcoming the pandemic” will be launched on July 31 by a Vietnamese Italian expert team led by Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen. The activity aims to respond to the call by the Party and State leaders for the Vietnamese community’s support to the COVID-19 fight. In the first conference, the experts will share experience with Ho Chi Minh City in deploying family doctor system in Italy for treatment of COVID-19 patients. Speaking to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Italy, Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen said that since the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam, the Vietnamese Government has valued ideas and experience shared by overseas Vietnamese in pandemic prevention and control. She held that Vietnam showed strong performance in pandemic control in 2020 with low numbers of infections and deaths, and high number of …

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