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The Japanese four-member girl group Elfin’ will perform to open the seventh Japan – Vietnam Festival on April 17 and 18 at September 23 Park in District 1. Their performances will be broadcast from Japan. (Photo: courtesy of the organiser)

The event will offer a wide series of cultural and sports activities introduced by artists from the both countries.

The festival will open with performances of the famous Japanese four-member girl group Elfin’, which will be broadcast from Japan at 10am on April 17 and 18.

The featured events will be two music shows featuring Japanese singer Exile Atsushi, boy bands Da Pump and Amatou Dansi.

Takayuki Nakanishi, leader of Wadaiko Syo, a group of performers of Japanese drums, or taiko, will also perform at the event.

All performances of Japanese artists will be streamed from Japan.

Meanwhile, Vietnamese singers Dong Nhi, Ong Cao Thang and Minh Hang, boy group UNI5, and girl group SG048, will provide live performances on the festival’s main stage.

The festival will offer a Bon Odori dance to honour the spirits of the ancestors, and a Yosakoi dance performed at festivals and events.

In addition, the Awa Odori Vietnam Dance Association will provide dance performances from Japan, which will be broadcast at the festival.

The event will introduce visitors a workshop on the history of ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) and quan ho (love duet singing) performances.

The HCM City flower artist Shimaken will give a presentation on Japanese flower arrangement.

Japanese martial arts of Kendo, Alsok and Karate will also be showcased at the event.

The World Cosplay Summit (WCS) Vietnam will organise the TOUCH Cosplay Cup HCM City to find a winner in the national contest.

The organiser will also host exchange meetings between students from HCM City and Kitami City in Hokkaido.

The festival will include stalls showcasing Japanese cuisine, healthcare products, appliances and cultural products such as manga and dolls.

Authorities in An Giang Province are tightening monitoring of the local borders as two Vietnamese were found to have Covid-19 after crossing the border illegally from Cambodia.

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According to the guards at Long Binh Border Gate, they found the couple illegally crossing the border on April 13. The couple was quarantined immediately in Khanh An Commune. A quick test shows that both of them were positive for SARS-CoV-2. Their samples were later sent to An Giang General Hospital for a second test with the results also coming back positive. The samples have been sent to HCM City Pasteur Institute for confirmation.

The couple does not have the usual symptoms and are in stable health.

An Giang authorities proposed to transfer the couple to An Phu District Medical Station for quarantine and treatment, disinfect the vehicles, the border gate and the checkpoints.

Nguyen Thanh Binh, chairman of An Giang People’s Committee praised the border guards and locality authorities for their quick response. He then asked the health department to build a field hospital in Chau Thanh to avoid cross-infection at local hospitals.

The border guards were asked to strictly follow preventive measures and close the border gate after 6 pm.

An Giang authorities are investigating whether the couple had been in contact with anyone else.

On April 15, Vietnam reported 21 new Covid-19 cases including five in Ben Tre, two in An Giang, five in HCM City, one in Thai Nguyen, seven in Danang and one in Bac Ninh. All were quarantined on arrival.

Several planes have been damaged by flying birds while landing or taking off in some airports in the southern region.

A China Airlines plane

After landing at Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCM City, the technicians found a 30cm hole in a China Airlines Airbus 350. The technicians were unable to determine the time and location where the plane was struck by the bird. The managers at Tan Son Nhat Airport inspected the runway but didn’t find anything unusual.

On April 7, the technicians found blood near the engine of a Vietnam Airlines plane after it flying from Hai Phong to HCM City. They suspected that a bird might have hit the plane in the air.

In March, another plane of Vietnam Airlines had its engine broken after a Danang-Hanoi flight. They also found many bird feathers inside the engine.

The airport managers have used various measures to chase the birds away but it proved to be ineffective. Most of the cases are reported in Tan Son Nhat, Dong Hoi, Phu Quoc, and Vinh airports.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said migratory birds that fly at 300-500 metres high posed the most dangerous risks because they often fly across the runways.

The southern region has more bird strike cases because it has many large rice fields where the birds live.