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A 3D scene of what the book street festival will look like in Ho Chi Minh City. During a recent press conference announcing details of the event, Tu Luong, Vice Director of the municipal Department of Information and Communications, said the book festival serves as a popular destination for many local people and foreign friends to enjoy. Guests are able to visit the occasion during the biggest and most important annual festival in Vietnam, which is set to get underway next month. The festival will be divided into three parts depending on genre, with children books to be put on display on Mac Thi Buoi street. The main area on Nguyen Hue street will feature a range of genres, whilst a specialized area for science, technology, economics, and culture, in addition to a coffee area, will be arranged on Ngo Duc Ke street. An image of the DK1 platform which will make an appearance for the festival To mark the occasion, prestigious publishers and distributors including Phuong … [Read more...] about Book street set to open in HCM City for Tet holiday

Doctors at HCM City’s Cho Ray Hospital perform transplants using organ taken from a brain- dead man. — Photo courtesy of Cho Ray Hospital (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - Doctors in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital successfully performed organ transplants for five persons using organs from a brain-dead donor on April 20. On April 4 the 43-year-old donor was admitted to Dong Nai General Hospital in critical condition following a traffic accident in Long Thanh district. The man had suffered a traumatic brain injury, and doctors said death was imminent. Since he had expressed a desire to donate his organs and his family wanted to make his wish come true, doctors called the organ transplant coordination unit at Cho Ray, said Ngo Duc Tuan, Director of Dong Nai General Hospital. On April 5 a crew of doctors and nurses from Cho Ray went to Dong Nai Hospital to collect the organs and performed the transplants the same night. The heart went to a 46-year-old woman from … [Read more...] about Brain-dead man donates organs, saves multiple lives

The Sunflower Festival on December 15 raised 1.5 billion VND for children with cancer in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – A fund raising event in Ho Chi Minh City on December 15 raised 1.5 billion VND (over 64,400 USD) for children with cancer in the country. The Sunflower Festival, the 12th of its kind, is among activities to mark the 12th year of the “Thuy’s Dream” programme held by the Vietnam Youth Union in coordination with the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. The Thuy’s Dream programme for children with cancer is named after Le Thanh Thuy – a high school girl known and admired for her long fight against bone cancer prior to her death on November 2, 2007. More than 3,000 people participated in the charity walk at the festival. For each participant, the Nutifood company donated 50,000 VND to help children cancer patients. The programme also presented 160 scholarships to children who returned to school after treatment, and 1,000 gifts … [Read more...] about Event raises 1.5 billion VND for children with cancer

A ceramic plant in Binh Duong province. Ceramic firms have stepped up investment to bolster their competitiveness in the domestic and export markets (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The fierce competition in both the domestic and export markets is forcing ceramic producers to improve their production process and product quality. Vietnam has 14 traditional pottery villages like Bat Trang, Phu Lang, Dong Trieu, Thanh Ha, Phuoc Tich, Bau Chuc, Bien Hoa, Tan Phuoc Khanh, Chanh Nghia and Lai Thieu. According to the Binh Duong Ceramics Association, the province has nearly 300 ceramic production facilities supplying 130-150 million pieces of products of all kinds to the market each year. Binh Duong is one of the provinces with a developed ceramic industry, and it earns some 150 million USD from exports and 70 million USD from domestic sales annually. Ceramic are among the province’s main export products with high value addition. Many producers there are investing in new … [Read more...] about Ceramic producers seek to sustain exports

    A Vietjet attendant hands out gifts to passengers on board. Photo courtesy of Vietjet   HCM CITY — Low-cost carrier Vietjet is providing domestic and international passengers with five million promotional tickets, priced from only zero đồng, between Monday and Sunday in order to join the jubilant Christmas and New Year atmosphere all over the world. These super-cheap airfares are up for grabs the whole day at www.vietjetair.com and applied to all Vietjet’s domestic and international routes including attractive destinations such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and Cambodia. as well as routes operated by Vietjet Thailand. Flight period is from December 23, 2019 to July 31, 2020. According to Vietjet, with just one click, passengers can discover festive decorations throughout Việt Nam; easily get into the exciting unique Christmas … [Read more...] about Vietjet launches big promotion with five million discounted tickets