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Confined to a quarantine center after coming into direct contact with a COVID-19 patient, an art teacher has spent his time giving a facelift to the walls of the facility in the north-central Vietnamese province of Ha Tinh. The photos of Le Duy Loi, an art teacher at Nguyen Tuan Thien Middle School in Ha Tinh’s Huong Son District, painting the walls of Son Trung Kindergarten in the same district went viral on social media platforms recently. Loi has been placed in centralized monitoring at Son Trung Kindergarten, which has been requisitioned for quarantine purposes, since June 12 as a direct contact of a virus infection case. The intuition of an art teacher, coupled with a lot of time to spare at the quarantine center, prompted Loi to create beautiful murals on the walls, of which the previous paint layer had mostly worn off. After receiving the approval of local authorities, the teacher asked his family members to supply him with drawing tools and paint. He painted whenever … [Read more...] about Quarantine-bound teacher turns isolation center’s walls into eye-catching murals in Vietnam

Vietnam’s Truong Thi Kim Tuyen beat her Uzbek opponent on Thursday night to claim the women’s 49kg weight class gold medal at the 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Lebanon. Tuyen eked out a win over Uzbekistan’s Madinabonu Mannopova with a score of 25-24. Ranked as the No. 1 seed in the 49kg weight class, Tuyen had a bye during the competition’s first round. In the second and third matches, the Vietnamese athlete overwhelmed her competitors from Tajikistan and Taiwan to make it to the finals. Tuyen will be Vietnam’s only taekwondo fighter competing at the Tokyo Olympic Games this summer. Vietnamese martial artist Truong Thi Kim Tuyen (second left) and other athletes on the podium during the medal ceremony at the 2021 Asian Taekwondo Championships in Lebanon. Photo: Vu Xuan Thanh / Tuoi Tre The 2021 Asian tournament, the 24th edition of the regional competition, has attracted 337 athletes from 28 countries and territories. It is due to last until Friday. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese athlete strikes gold at Asian taekwondo championship

Vietnamese police seized a total of 270 kilograms of ketamine, including 90 kilograms concealed in pig innards, from a Taiwanese-led transnational drug trafficking ring which had been using GPS tracking to monitor their transport operations. The seizure was reported at a meeting hosted by the Ministry of Public Security's Drug Crime Investigation Police Department in Hanoi on Thursday to review the department’s performance during the first half of 2021. The ring was led by a group of Taiwanese nationals who had been living in Ho Chi Minh City, said Major General Nguyen Van Vien, director of the department. The department was tipped off about the crime ring by Taiwanese law enforcement who said that several Vietnamese in Cambodia had been colluding with a syndicate in Vietnam to traffic drugs from there to Ho Chi Minh City before shipping them out of the country by road and air, the major general said. On May 19, a police team pulled over a car transporting 10 kilograms of … [Read more...] about Vietnam busts Taiwanese-led drug ring, seizes 90kg of ketamine stashed in pig innards

State-run electric giant Vietnam Electricity (EVN) and a consortium of contractors held a ceremony in Hanoi on Thursday to sign a cooperative agreement worth US$1.3 billion for the implementation of a package of the Quang Trach 1 thermal power plant project in north-central Quang Binh Province. Package No. 15, with a total value of VND30,236 billion ($1.3 billion), involves engineering, procurement, and construction of two 600W generators, as well as supporting facilities at the thermal power plant. It will be implemented by a consortium of contractors entitled MC-HDEC-CC1, consisting of Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation, South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering and Construction, and Vietnam’s Construction Corporation No. 1 JSC. The first unit is expected to be completed within 42 months, while the second is anticipated to wrap up within 48 months. The project consists of two generators with the combined capacity of 1,200MW, according to EVN. It is designed to provide 8.4 billion kWh … [Read more...] about $1.3bn investment poured into new thermoelectric plant in Vietnam

The headquarters of a district-level people’s committee in Ho Chi Minh City has stopped operating after a civil servant tested positive for COVID-19. The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control confirmed on Thursday that an officer of the People’s Committee in District 7 had contracted the novel coronavirus. Local authorities have tracked 51 people who came into contact with this case. The headquarters of the District 7 administration has halted all operations, and multiple public servants and officials are temporarily quarantined at the venue. Other staff members who have been working from home are required to fill out health declaration forms and undergo temporary self-quarantine. The district’s medical center has begun collecting samples from all workers at the headquarters for COVID-19 testing. People are banned from entering the headquarters of the People’s Committee in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, June 17, 2021. Photo: Nhat Thinh / Tuoi Tre … [Read more...] about In Ho Chi Minh City, district-level civil servant tests positive for coronavirus