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Currently, an extreme cold air mass is moving from the Northern to Southern region. As from tonight, the Northern, North- Central and South- Central regions will be covered with colder air temperature along with small rainfall and thunderstorm.  Notably, air temperatures in Northern mountainous provinces of Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Lang Son, Ha Giang and Lao Cai are forecast to plummet to 4-7 degrees Celsius, even below zero degree Celsius with risk of snowfall and freezing blanket in some places. … [Read more...] about North, Central Vietnam continue facing extra freezing cold in January

Hanoi (VNA) – Viet Van Tran, a photographer from the Lao Dong newspaper, has been selected to join others of a free-to-enter online Salon of Photography, entitled “The Connected World: 2020” capturing moments of time in the US and around the world this year. The event, a joint project between the Los Angeles Centre of Photography (LACP) and the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego to acknowledge the importance of photography and art in capturing historic world events, is scheduled to run from October 24 to December 31. Its 7-member jury selected 68 entries from 58 photographers for the exhibition out of those from 300 candidates around the globe. Van was the only Vietnamese at the event. His picture to be exhibited, titled “Noi am anh” (Obsession), captures the 6-year-old girl Khanh Han standing in front of a painting on the COVID-19 theme by her farther – painter Nguyen Tan Phat. The work was ranked among the top 20 best photos at the … [Read more...] about Newspaper photographer to display works at US-based exhibition

On landing and happily shaking hands with the chief technician, a positive indication of the fighter’s working order, Col. Dung, the regiment’s chief, wasted no time in commenting on the flight performance of Nguyen Cong Hoang, his student, that morning. After completing his training mission, Hoang did not retreat to the pilots’ resting room only a stone’s throw away, but stayed on to prep for his second flight. … [Read more...] about ‘Lair’ of Vietnam’s ‘King Cobra’ fighter jets – P1: A country prepared