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Actors perform in a TV show featuring cải lương by Tô Thiên Kiều, one of the country’s few female directors and producers in theatre. — Photo courtesy of HCM Television LONG AN — Female director Tô Thiên Kiều is making her mark and producing TV shows featuring cải lương (reformed opera), a 100-year-old traditional music genre of the south, to attract people in HCM City and the Cửu Long (Mekong) River Delta region. “I hope my TV shows will help fans, particularly youth, love cải lương , a unique theatre that is the spirit of Vietnamese people in the South," said theatre scriptwriter-director Kiều, who has 20 years of experience in the industry. Kiều has overcome serious challenges and proven her ability to produce quality cải lương shows featuring Vietnamese culture and history. She believes cải lương and other traditional gernes of theatre should be expanded on social networks, including YouTube. Kiều and her staff are working with TV stations and entertainment …

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Construction of a double tunnel beneath the Nguyễn Văn Linh - Nguyễn Hữu Thọ Intersection in District 7 was one of HCM City’s key traffic projects licensed to continue working even amid the COVID-19 restrictions in the last few months. — VNA/VNS Photo Tiến Lực HCM CITY — By the end of the year HCM City aims to complete 11 construction packages of key traffic infrastructure projects which have been allowed to resume after the city relaxed its stringent COVID-19 prevention measures at the beginning of October. Among them are an overpass in front of the new Miền Đông (Eastern) Bus Station on the Hà Nội Highway in Thủ Đức City, infrastructure at the Nước Đen canal area in Bình Tân District, the new Hang Ngoài Bridge in Gò Vấp District, the first branch of the new Bưng Bridge between Tân Phú and Bình Tân districts, and upgrade of Đặng Thúc Vịnh Street in Hóc Môn District. The resumption of these projects is based on safe adaptation to the pandemic, according to the city’s …

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A view of the National Assembly discussions on Monday. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The National Assembly continued their working session on Monday, with discussions centred on the amendments to the Law on Criminal Procedures which is set to be voted on for adoption in this session. The amendments are mostly about realising Việt Nam’s commitments when it acceded to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and making changes to adapt to the COVID-19 era. The CPTPP said member countries’ relevant authorities could initiate legal action against violations of industrial property rights or trademarks without the need for a lawsuit from a third-party or from the infringed rights' holder. This is in conflict with the current law on criminal proceedings. Most agreed that changes to the law are needed to fit CPTPP provisions, but the handling of violations of geographical indications (as part of the industrial property rights category) – …

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Ambassador Phạm Hải Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN, spoke at a general debate of the Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee). — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam has called on the United Nations and other countries to pay greater attention to ensuring security and safety for UN peacekeeping forces, strengthening the application of information technology in operations, and defining tasks and resources for missions. Addressing a general debate of the Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee) on Monday (US time), Ambassador Phạm Hải Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN, underlined that peacekeeping operations were one of the important tools of the UN in maintaining peace and international security. Mentioning Việt Nam’s contributions to UN missions in Central Africa and South Sudan recently, he said that the ratio of Vietnamese female peacekeepers in the missions now stood at 20.6 per …

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Just under 4,000 new COVID-19 cases on Friday Awareness is key to keeping safe in Hà Nội in the new normal: experts 3,034 new COVID-19 cases in Việt Nam on Tuesday Hà Nội to open COVID-19 vaccination registration for children from age 3 Workers receive free COVID-19 rapid tests A hair salon in Hà Nội's Đống Đa District was locked down after new community COVID-19 infections were detected there last weekend. —VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — A senior medical expert has warned that even though social distancing regulations have been greatly eased in Hà Nội, the capital city is still at risk of further COVID-19 outbreaks. Trần Đắc Phu, senior expert of the Việt Nam Public Health Emergency Operation Centre, said the chances of further clusters emerging are increased as more migrant workers and students return to the city. Phu, a former head of the General Department of Preventive Medicine, said that as the COVID-19 vaccination rate in other localities was still …

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HCM City (VNS/VNA) - A TV series featuring doctors and frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19 will air in February. health workers have faced during the pandemic. A poster for Shipper - Ban Menh Thien Than (Shippers), a TV series featuring doctors and frontline workers in Vietnam in the fight against COVID-19 . The 15-episode show is directed by Huynh Tuan Anh and will air on Vietnam Television in February. (Photo courtesy of the producer) People’s daily life and difficulties in quarantine zones are also featured. The show's themes focus on love, unity, mercy, energy and belief. Ban Menh Thien Than features Meritorious Artists and theatre actresses My Duyen and Tuyet Thu as lead characters. Miss Asia USA 2006 Jennifer Pham and fashion model Phuong Linh are included. VNA …

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Five Vietnamese have been listed in the world’s top 10,000 scientists in 2021, the Vietnam News Agency quoted the findings of a study by researchers from U.S.-based Stanford University as saying. This year, Professor Nguyen Dinh Duc from Vietnam National University-Hanoi again takes the lead among the Vietnamese scientists, ranking 5,949th in the world and 96th in the field of engineering. Associate Professor Le Hoang Son, who is also from Vietnam National University-Hanoi, ranked 6,766th. Professor Nguyen Xuan Hung from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology stood at 6,818th. Meanwhile, Professor Bui Tien Dieu from Duy Tan University and Professor Vo Xuan Vinh from the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City were placed at the 9,488th and 9,528th positions, respectively. This is the third consecutive year that Prof. Duc, Prof. Hung, and Assoc. Prof. Son have entered the list of the top 10,000 scientists in the world. More than 20 other representatives from …

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At 6.40 am on August 15, through the Hue-S system, Hue City Smart City Monitoring Center received images from local residents that showed a man jumping from a train and running to Alley No 128 off Phan Chu Trinh Street in Hue City. The man was discovered quickly thanks to information from the public. He resided in Thuy Bieu Ward. In an attempt to evade the required concentrated quarantine, the man took a train from Kim Lien Station in Da Nang City and detrained, where he waited for his girlfriend to pick him up. The two individuals were taken to the local clinic, where they had to follow anti-pandemic measures. This was just one of the cases that show the efficiency of the use of technology in urban management. Director of the Thua Thien - Hue Information and Communications Department Nguyen Xuan Son said when the pandemic broke out, the province’s leaders asked to apply technology to disseminate information about Covid-19 prevention and control. There are two major …

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Economic experts say that for over 30 years of development, Vietnam has not yet built a strong team of private enterprises which play the role of a "launch pad" for the country's economic development. The report on "Strengthening the private sector’s capacity in the new period" published recently by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) shows an increasing number of private enterprises in the list of the top 500 largest enterprises in Vietnam in the past five years. Six private corporations are included in the list of large groups in Asia and the world. In addition, the private sector contributes up to 40% of the country’s GDP and creates millions of jobs. It has an increasingly important position of in the Vietnamese economy. In 2015-2020, the number of newly established private enterprises increased steadily every year, from about 70,000/year on average in the period of 2006-2014, to 120,000 in the period of 2015-2020. In 2011, there were about …

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In a bid to continue successfully controlling inflation this year amid a rise in local consumption, the government is taking drastic action, with the stabilisation of prices of key items in the market a priority. The government has ordered localities to use sound solutions to bring inflation under control. Although the four-month consumer price index (CPI) remains low, at 0.89% as compared to that of the same period last year, the Ministry of Finance (MoF) has just sent a document to leaders of localities nationwide requiring them to apply sound solutions to keep prices in the market on the right track. Close control Specifically, the MoF has asked the people’s committees of provinces and centrally-ruled cities to increase their management, monitoring, and stabilisation of prices, and take the initiative in calculating and formulating pricing schemes for items whose prices are determined by the government. The MoF’s fresh move is aimed at supporting the …

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