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HCM City’s museums are offering online displays and tours as part of their effort to develop business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo courtesy of HCM City Museum of Vietnamese History By Thu Anh HCM CITY  HCM City’s museums are offering online exhibitions and virtual tours as part of their effort to develop business amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Áo Dài Museum in Thủ Đức City has launched a special exhibition programme called Á o dài (Vietnamese traditional dress) on its fanpage. The programme offers online displays featuring long robe designs in different periods dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Special collections of long robes belonging to political, cultural and artistic stalwarts like war heroine Nguyễn Thị Định, the first woman major general in the Việt Nam People's Army, former deputy president Nguyễn Thị Bình, and Trịnh Thị Hoà, former director of the HCM City History Museum, are included. The programme’s highlighted display features …

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The wonder of a waterfall in Kon Hà Nừng World Biosphere Reserve. VNA/VNS Photo Việt Nam’s Núi Chúa National Park and Kon Hà Nừng Plateau were recently recognised by UNESCO as Global Biosphere Reserves. This is a great honour for Việt Nam in nature conservation but also poses many challenges in terms of preserving and promoting the values of the two sites, experts and authority officials have said. Núi Chúa National Park is located in the districts of Ninh Hải and Thuận Bắc in the southern central province of Ninh Thuận. The reserve with a high density of natural population, land and sea, and the area inside the buffer zone (forest, sea and semi-desert) covers more than 31,000 hectares. Meanwhile, Kon Hà Nừng Plateau, a forest ecology system, is spread over more than 413,500 hectares in six districts of Gia Lai Province in Central Highlands. "This is a very special and meaningful event as after six years, our country has two more new World Biosphere reserves (the last one …

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HCM City to receive 56,555 tonnes of rice from national reserve The General Department of State Reserves under the Ministry of Finance has issued a document on the provision of over 56,555 tonnes of rice from national reserve to Ho Chi Minh City to support pandemic-hit residents. The department has signed contracts with the Phat Tai Company Limited in Dong Thap province, Thuan Minh Import-Export JSC in HCM City and Trung An High-Tech Agriculture JSC in Can Tho city to buy enough rice to supply to HCM City. The HCM City State Reserve Department is tasked to work with local authorities to distribute fee rice to people in need. Earlier, the General Department has given 14,500 tonnes of rice to the city. The distribution was completed on September 9./. Local students win ASEAN Youth Social Journalism Contest 2021 Vietnamese students Nguyen Nhat Vi and Pham Quang Vinh, both of whom are studying at RMIT University, have won third prize at the ASEAN Youth Social …

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