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A resident handed over a pangolin to competent authorities after noticing the wild animal in an alley in Ho Chi Minh City. Nguyen Thanh Hay, 50, who works as a neighborhood security guard in Binh Hung Hoa Ward, Binh Tan District, handed over the pangolin to the municipal Department of Forest Protection on Wednesday. Nguyen Thanh Hay holds the pangolin he found in an alley in Ho Chi Minh City, November 30, 2022. Photo: Ngoc Khai / Tuoi Tre Hay said he was patrolling along an alley early on Tuesday morning when he saw an animal looking for food in a pile of garbage. “I initially thought it was a weasel, but it was quite slow,” Hay recalled. “It curled up when I touched it with a stick.” Competent authorities receive the pangolin in Ho Chi Minh City, November 30, 2022. Photo: Ngoc Khai / Tuoi Tre The man then took the wild animal home and reported the case to local authorities. Forest protection officers said the animal is a male Javan … [Read more...] about Pangolin found looking for food in Ho Chi Minh City alley

The Ho Chi Minh City International Music Festival 2022 (HOZO 2022) combined with Hot Air Balloon Festival 2022 will create the biggest outdoor music festival ever held in the southern city. It will take place for four days and span 55,000 square metres in two locations: Nguyen Hue Walking Street (District 1) and Thu Thiem 2 Bridge Park (Thu Duc city). Impression of HOZO 2022 in Nguyen Hue Street. Photo: HOZO 2022 The event will receive support from Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, and Thu Duc People's Committee. From magnificent settings to extensive entertainment line-ups, it will create a unique experience for festival-goers and help to stimulate tourism in the city. The festival will run from 8am to 11pm daily. HOZO 2022 and Ho Chi Minh City Hot Air Balloon Festival boasts the model of a "festival within a festival," with the opening led by the largest Hot Air Balloon demonstration on December 8. … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City to hold its biggest outdoor music festival

The Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company will offer 3,500 more train tickets to meet the strong travel demand during Tet holidays. The additional tickets will be for the routes, including HCMC-Quy Nhon, HCMC-Hanoi on January 11-12, 2023 and HCMC- Quang Ngai on January 13, 2023. The company continues to offer special promotional programs for people under the preferential treatment policy, including Vietnamese heroic mothers, war veterans, wounded soldiers, disabled people, the elderly, children, members of trade unions, and passengers with membership cards; and provide a five- percent discount for passengers who buy return tickets and a discount of 20 percent to students. Some 65,000 seats are available, including 17,000 for trips from HCMC to Hanoi before Tet, mainly to train stations on this line consisting of Phan Thiet, Nha Trang; Quang Ngai before January 15; Tuy Hoa on January 12,13,20,21. Meanwhile, the trains from Hanoi to HCMC still have more than 48,000 … [Read more...] about Additional 3,500 train tickets to be offered for Tet holiday

During a working session with PT General Secretary Alberto Anaya Gutiérrez in Hanoi on November 30, Trang stressed that the PT leader's visit to and working session with VNA showed the close and profound sentiments between VNA and PT. She thanked PT for always supporting VNA’s resident correspondents to help the agency fulfill its task of reporting the Mexican situation to leaders of the Party and State, and people of Vietnam. As an official news agency of Vietnam, VNA pledged to make active contributions to the relations between the two nations in the coming time, Trang said. Gutiérrez, for his part, expressed his delight to visit and work with Vietnam and VNA again after three years of disruption due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. He said that with modern technologies and techniques, VNA has well accomplished its task of fully and promptly providing information about Vietnam for foreign friends as well as news for Vietnamese people and leaders at all levels, … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency, Mexican Labor Party boost cooperative ties

Temperatures will continue falling throughout the day as long as the front lingers, the add. According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, 16 northern Vietnam localities recorded temperatures below 15 degrees Thursday morning. At the northern border, Lang Son was the first locality to feel the impacts of the cold front, with temperatures dropping to 11-12 degrees in certain locations, and high-altitude ones like the peaks of Mau Son recording temperatures of 4.5 degrees. Other areas experiencing low temperatures include Trung Khanh in Cao Bang Province at 8 degrees, Dong Van in Ha Giang and Tam Dao in Vinh Phuc at 10 degrees. Five weather stations in Hanoi recorded temperatures of 15-16 degrees. As the cold front continues to impact the region, temperatures are set to fall further, with mountainous areas recording temperatures of below 3 degrees in certain locations, with chances of frost. U.S. weather forecast service AccuWeather estimates Hanoi’s … [Read more...] about Mercury dips to 4.5 degrees Celsius in northern Vietnam

Hoang announced his decision right after Vietnam's 2-1 win against Dortmund, which was considered a tribute match for him after he expressed his feeling that he was no longer fit enough to play for the national team. "The fans often said that I'm tireless and have no lungs. But the truth is I have lungs and every journey has an end. I want to conclude my wonderful journey that is filled with the most beautiful memories," Hoang wrote in a farewell letter. Nguyen Trong Hoang makes a pass in the friendly match between Vietnam and Borussia Dortmund in Hanoi on November 30, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Hieu Luong Hoang had stopped playing in September last year to treat a herniated disc. After over a year, he returned to the field on October 18 this year and played a few V. League matches before receiving a call up to the national team. Hoang played his first game for the national team in September 2009. In 14 years, he made 73 appearances, only behind Le Cong Vinh with 83 … [Read more...] about Veteran Vietnam midfielder retires from national team after 14 years

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is to work on a law on medical devices to increase efficiency of state management and create more favourable conditions for businesses. The focus is expected to be market authorisations (MAs) and drug tenders. Some legal barriers are expected to be settled imminently when in early November, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam signed Resolution No.144/NQ-CP on ensuring drugs, medical equipment, and reimbursement of healthcare costs and health insurance. The government asked the ministries of health, finance, and planning and investment to quicken amendment and supplementation of legal documents related to purchasing, tenders, manufacturing, and import of drugs and medical devices to deal with the legal barriers. Decree 98 will affect medical devices from various major markets, Le Toan The MoH is asked to work with the Ministry of Justice and other relevant ministries and agencies on preparation for building of draft amendments to the Law on … [Read more...] about Hopes rise for legal medical reform

Marketing authorisations (MAs) have been a pressing issue among multinationals and the Vietnamese government and the Ministry of Health (MoH) has made a number of actions to deal with it. What is the current situation? Tran Ngoc Anh, representative of the US-ASEAN Business Council Member companies of the US-ASEAN Business Council highly valued the issuance of Resolution No.12/2021/UBTVQH15 at the end of 2021, which enabled the continued use of MAs scheduled to expire before the end of 2022. The MoH then issued a list of about 10,000 drugs with MAs expired in 2021 and extended until the end of 2022, thus creating favourable conditions for the drugs to continue their imports into Vietnam and ensuring supply for hospitals to meet examination and treatment demands. Until now, all the issues related to MA for the drugs in 2022 have been dealt with. However, starting from January 2023, these 10,000 drugs and around 8,000 others will then expire. We are very concerned about … [Read more...] about The legal adaption measures expected from pharma groups

Vietnam’s urbanisation has grown by 7 per cent since 2011, and now the country’s urban population stands at 38 per cent. Prospects suggest populations in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi will expand by 4 million and nearly 3 million, respectively, over the next decade. Brandon Chia-Managing director, Sustainable Energy Solutions, SP Group At this rate, the Ministry of Construction expects housing demand to significantly rise by 70 million square metres each year. This is equivalent to 17,500, 30-floor buildings annually. To slow the harmful effects of construction and urbanisation to the environment, the government started to incentivise the construction of more energy-efficient buildings in line with the country’s National Green Growth Strategy as Vietnam commits to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. However, in 2021 the nation recorded just over 200 green building projects. Buildings in Vietnam account for up to 40 per cent of the country’s total energy consumption. … [Read more...] about Enabling green building development in Vietnam

At the International Exhibition of Science and Technology Innovation, more than 400 leading Asian scientific and innovative works were selected from 16 Asia Pacific countries. Countries and ideas that bring scientific and creative achievements were celebrated at the conference held at the Coex convention centre. The Korea Invention Promotion Association awarded a silver medal to Nam Cau Kien Eco-Industrial Park The Vietnamese delegation to the conference included works that have won the Vietnam Innovative Science Prize - Vifotec 2021 and were selected by the scientific council of the organising committee as the leading scientists and economists in Asia. Nam Cau Kien Industrial Park, Hai Phong, was awarded a special creative award by the Masaei Charitable Association for Pham Hong Diep. The investor of Nam Cau Kien Industrial Park has successfully built an ecological industrial park model and was awarded a silver medal by the Korean Invention Promotion Association for … [Read more...] about Nam Cau Kien Industrial Park honoured at international innovation exhibition