Digitisation helps the museum reach a wider audience, promotes cultural heritage values and increases interaction between the museum and the public. VNA/VNS Photo HCM CITY — Most museums in HCM City are in the process of restoring, upgrading and rearranging their display systems after long closures imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The news that the War Remnants Museum, Southern Women's Museum, History Museum, Áo Dài Museum and HCM City Museum were ready to welcome international tourists was widely welcomed last month. The War Remnants Museum in District 3 has been one of the most popular draws in the city for international. In 2019, the museum welcomed about 3000 people a day, more than 70 per cent of them international tourists. Now, despite the pandemic situation having eased, the number of visitors has dropped to as low as 100 a day. Nguyễn Trần Tâm Hà, deputy director of the War Remnants Museum, said that to welcome international visitors … [Read more...] about HCM City museums seek to digitize, widen reach
Longmeadow garden open to the public
Build Ring Road 3 by 2025, parliamentarian urges
A map of the Ring Road No. 3 passing through HCM City and Đồng Nai, Bình Dương and Long An provinces. — Photo plo.vn HCM CITY — A senior National Assembly deputy has asked the four localities hosting the Ring Road No. 3 to speed up site clearance for ensuring its completion by 2025. Vũ Hồng Thanh, chairman of the National Assembly’s Economic Committee, stressed the urgency of the project during a recent working visit to the road’s construction site. “The four localities (HCM City and Đồng Nai, Bình Dương and Long An provinces that the road will run through) are committed to ensure the allocation of investment, including additional adjusted funds for the project,” he noted. The NA working team would report its assessment to the National Assembly for approval in the next session, he noted. Lương Minh Phúc, head of the HCM City Management Board for Traffic Works Construction and Investment, said HCM City and other provinces are preparing necessary documents to submit to the … [Read more...] about Build Ring Road 3 by 2025, parliamentarian urges
Science, technology, innovation pushed for economic development
Scientific research in universities needed pushing up to create a high-qualified human resource for the industrialised economy. Photo nhandan.vn HÀ NỘI – Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has signed Decision No. 569/QĐ-TTg dated May 11 issuing a strategy for scientific-technological development and Innovation to 2030. Accordingly, science, technology and innovation will further contribute to economic growth through scientific research and technological development activities of research institutes and universities. Innovation activities will also help improve management and organisational capacity in enterprises. The specific objective of the strategy is that science, technology and innovation play an important role in developing spearhead industries, especially the processing and manufacturing industry, making an important contribution to the restructuring of the economy towards modernisation and industrialisation by 2030 as well as take … [Read more...] about Science, technology, innovation pushed for economic development