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Two local beauties have been named in the list of the leading 50 candidates of Miss Grand Slam 2021, as announced by Global Beauties. Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien, the first-ever Vietnamese beauty queen to claim the title of Miss Grand International, is one of two Vietnamese beauties to make the list. The other local beauty queen among the 50 most beautiful girls on the planet is Nguyen Huynh Kim Duyen, who is notable for claiming a Top 16 finish in Miss Universe 2021. Duyen will represent the nation by competing at Miss Supranational 2022 this July. Global Beauties selects 100 outstanding contestants from the world’s leading beauty pageants of Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Grand International, and Miss Supranational for its annual prize, with the winner ultimately being awarded the Miss Grand Slam title. Back in Miss Grand Slam 2018, Vietnamese beauty H’Hen Nie made the Top 10 finalists, marking the best ever achievement for Vietnamese beauty in the process. … [Read more...] about Two Vietnamese beauties among Top 50 of Miss Grand Slam 2021

Reyes played Vietnam’s Nguyen Tran Thanh Tu in the semifinals of the one-cushion carom event at the SEA Games in Hanoi o n Wednesday. In a 40-year profession al career, Reyes has won al most everything there i s to win, including the U.S. Open, Challenge of Champions and World Pool League Championship. He has been inducted in to the Billiards Hall of Fame. At the ongoing SEA Games in Hanoi , Reyes did n o t play the pool event , his favorite , and only one - and three-cushion carom since no one else in the Philippines was able to. Even b efore the games began, Reyes had admitted he had no chance to win a gold medal because the best cueists in Southeast Asia now are from Vietnam. And that was shown in th e semifinal. After leading 5-0 in the first turn, he was not able to keep up … [Read more...] about Billiards legend Reyes thanks Vietnamese fans for support

Hoa Phat Group and four commercial banks of Vietnam have been named in this year’s Forbes list of the world’s 2,000 largest companies (Global 2000). Customers conduct transactions at a branch of Vietcombank in Hanoi. (Photo: VNA) In the latest ranking, Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) ranks at the 950th position while Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Techcombank) stands at 1,874th. This year, Hoa Phat Group is named on the list for the first time with revenues of 1.5 billion USD and market value of 8.53 billion USD. The total capitalisation of the four Vietnamese banks on the list reached 46.84 billion USD, in which the market value of Vietcombank accounted for more than 36 percent.. Forbes said that despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict, the world’s top companies still managed to boost sales and profits last year. Besides, the stock values of … [Read more...] about Hoa Phat Group, four Vietnamese banks among world’s 2,000 largest companies

A team of three Vietnamese high school students has won an international prize on environmental sustainability. Team 'Adorbsies' of three Vietnamese high school students has won the first prize of an international environmental competition. From left: Adorbsies member Lương Anh Khánh Huyền, Trần Quỳnh Anh, Bùi Tú Uyên. Photos courtesy of the team Bùi Tú Uyên, Lương Anh Khánh Huyền and Trần Quỳnh Anh brought home US$100,000 from the Earth Prize competition, an initiative of the Switzerland-based Earth Foundation that encourages students to address environmental issues. Beating more than 650 teams across 114 countries and territories, the three girls’ idea of creating biodegradable menstrual pads from dragon fruit peel won the hearts of the judges for its practicality. “This was a very difficult choice for The Earth Prize Adjudicating Panel to make; but Team Adorbsies’ project is an idea turned into a solution that can make a genuine difference,” said Rina … [Read more...] about Vietnamese students champion international environmental competition

Nguyen Thi Oanh is the current forerunner of Vietnamese athletics. In SEA Games 2017, she clinched the double gold medal in the 800-meter and 1,500-meter distances and helped Vietnam dominate these categories ever since. In SEA Games 2019, she successfully defended her gold medals in these two events, and scored another in the 3,000-meter hurdle race. Overall, Oanh has won seven gold medals for Vietnam over three SEA Games. Nguyen Thi Oanh competes in the national athletics championship on Nov. 13, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Kim Hoa Nguyen Thi Huyen is another prominent name in athletics. In the most recent three SEA Games events, she won six individual and two team gold medals. Her favorite category is the 400-meter hurdles, in which she claimed gold in 2015, 2017 and 2019. With the same number of golds as Huyen, Dinh Phuong Thanh is the most decorated gymnast in Vietnam, with four golds in SEA Games 2015, two in 2017 and two in 2019. Behind Thanh is Le Thanh Tung, … [Read more...] about SEA Games: Meet the most prolific Vietnamese athletes

After nearly 300 years, two whale skeletons in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam have been restored and put on display for public view. It is common practice amongst Vietnamese fishermen to store the skeletons of whales that washed ashore in temples. There, locals worship the bones of these massive sea creatures. In Ly Son District, a string of islands off the coast of central Vietnam, two of these skeletons were recently completely restored for a public display. Grandfather fish Fishermen in Vietnam call whales ‘grandfather fish,’ implying that they are of a high status. In Ly Son, an area which holds whales in particularly high regard, locals are excited for their two recently restored whale skeletons to be put on display. “Very soon everyone will get to see the grandfather fish at the Tan temple,” said 79-year-old Pham Thoai Tuyen. According to Tuyen, whales only rest in peace where people have spiritual faith in them, thus Ly Son is an area of peace. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese whale worshippers rejoice as 300-year-old skeleton restored

Huynh Duc Linh, a Vietnamese physical education teacher, is pursuing his dream of teaching swimming to one million kids in Vietnam, spending the last six years teaching over 10,000 students. In 2019, Linh was informed of nine students from Nghia Ha Middle School in central Quang Ngai Province dying in a tragic drowning incident. Since then, Linh and his colleagues have tried to teach swimming skills to children, reaching their target of running courses for over 10,000 kids after six years. Recently, the government has called for far more actions to prevent drowning , making Linh and his team decide to pursue a bigger dream: teaching up to one million kids to swim. More than 2,000 under-16-year-old children drown a year in Vietnam, the World Health Organization cited an estimate in 2020. It’s not a rosy path Linh is the founder of Sapaga Company in Da Nang, a coastal city in central Vietnam, specializing in building swimming pools. Since he started the company, he … [Read more...] about Vietnamese PE teacher dreams of teaching 1 million kids to swim

Actor Trần Nghĩa Hiệp. Photo thethaovanhoa.vn Overseas Vietnamese actor Trần Nghĩa Hiệp (Hiep Tran Nghia) is well-known for award-winning roles in Đông Dương (Indochina), Platane , Leila and All About Actresses . His most recent role is an old Vietnamese-origin man in the short film Malabar . The film has been nominated for Best Short Fiction at the César 2022. Thể Thao Văn Hóa (Sports & Culture) daily reporter Nguyễn Huy chats with Hiệp about his acting career in France. Do you remember when you first engaged with art? I was born in 1942 in Thái Hiệp Thành District, in the southern province of Tây Ninh. My mother was a teacher and was a close friend with the owner of Thanh Minh Cải Lương (reformed drama) Troupe. Late cải lương star Thanh Nga and I were taught to sing by the owner's husband. His name was Năm Nghĩa. I sing traditional and bolero songs well. Năm Nghĩa wanted to turn Thanh Nga and me into a duo. But my mother did not want it. She wanted me … [Read more...] about Overseas Vietnamese artist preserves traditional culture

Ben Tre-born swimmer Pham Thanh Bao opened an impressive competition day of Vietnamese athletes with his an ecstatic performance in the men's 50m breaststroke event. The 21-year-old swimmer won a gold medal with a time of 28.28 seconds, beating strong rivals from Indonesia and Singapore. It was also his second gold at this year’s Games. Meanwhile, Tran Hung Nguyen pocketed a gold medal after his surprising performance in the men’s 200m medley event with a time of 2 minutes and 1.22 seconds. The 19-year-old swimmer competed with their strong rivals Kaewsriyoung Dulyawat of Thailand and Maximillian Wei Ang of Singapore in this event. The silver and bronze medalists in the day were Vo Thi My Tien and Hoang Quy Phuoc, respectively, who competed in the women’s 1,500m freestyle and the men’s 200m freestyle events. Closing the 5th day of competition, the Vietnamese swimming team pocketed a total of nine gold medals, 10 silvers and two bronzes, officially exceeding the set target of 8 … [Read more...] about Vietnamese swimming team exceeds gold medal target at SEA Games 31

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Washington D.C – Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan and Marc Mealy, Senior Vice President for Policy at the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC), co-chaired a seminar connecting agricultural enterprises of Vietnam and the US on May 13 in Washington D.C. The event took place on the sidelines of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s trip to the US to attend the ASEAN-US Special Summit. It was attended by representatives from agencies, businesses and associations in the agricultural sector of the two countries and several banks and investment funds, and representatives from some major US industry associations such as the Soybean Export Council, the Grains Council, the National Pork Producers Council and multinational agricultural corporations. At the seminar, a representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development informed participants about the priority strategy for the development of Vietnam's agricultural … [Read more...] about Seminar connects Vietnamese, US agricultural businesses