Lunar new year

Truong Thi Le Trinh (Photo courtesy of Truong Thi Le Trinh) Hanoi (VNA) — FIFA has invited Vietnamese female referee Truong Thi Le Trinh to manage an international women’s football tournament, AG Cup 2018, to be held in Portugal from February 24 to March 7. Trinh, 33, was awarded the Women’s Assistant Referee of the Year in 2017 by the ASEAN Football Federation. She is the only women’s assistant referee in ASEAN to receive certification with FIFA standards to reach the Elite 2018 level, allowing her to officiate at the final round of FIFA Women’s World Cup in France in 2019. Trinh, who was born in the southern province of Long An, practiced during the Tet Lunar New Year to prepare for the AG Cup. She said that her physical strength and skills would be tested when acting as referee in Portugal. If she passes, she will begin her duties. Trinh was awarded FIFA-level referee certification in 2012 and became an AFC … [Read more...] about Vietnamese to referee int’l football cup in Portugal

At  the Keo pagoda festival (Source: baothaibinh.vn) Thai Binh (VNA) – Thousands of Buddhist monks, nuns and followers and visitors flocked to the Keo Pagoda festival that opened in Vu Thu district in the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh on February 19 – the fourth day of the lunar New Year. The nearly 400-year-old pagoda is dedicated to Zen Master Duong Khong Lo (1016-1094) – the founder of the Keo Pagoda. The festival features religious rituals and communal activities such as Buddhist offerings, palanquin parades, love duet singing on boats, and folk games. The Keo pagoda was founded in 1061. After it was swept away by a flood in 1611, the pagoda was rebuilt in 1632 and most of its architectural features, including 17 structures with 128 rooms, remain until today. In 2012, it was recognised as a national special relic site.  In addition to the autumn festival, another spring festival takes place here annually on the 4th day of the first lunar … [Read more...] about Buddhist followers, visitors flock to Keo Pagoda festival

  A tank of the liberation force crashes through the main gate of the Independence Palace in Sài Gòn on April 30, 1975, marking the end of the US-backed Sài Gòn regime. Photo Tran Mai Huong The Việt Nam People’s Army will celebrate its 75th anniversary on December 22. Under the leadership of the Communist Party and with the support of the Vietnamese people, the army, from a small team founded in a forest in the northern province of Cao Bằng to the large and powerful force it is today, has overcome all challenges to preserve its prestigious spirit of an "army of the people and for the people”. Việt Nam News offers readers a look at just how much some veterans have given to their country. What happened in 1971 will always stick with Prof Phạm Thành Hưng, a lecturer of literature at the University of Social Science and Humanities. Hưng, who was then a student at the University of Hà Nội’s … [Read more...] about People’s Army celebrates its 75th anniversary

PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc joined the inauguration ceremony of DKC Petro’s terminal complex in Nghe An At the meeting with the investor community at the beginning of the 2019 lunar year last weekend, top leaders of Nghe An province granted investment certificates to 13 projects and agreements on investment co-operation to 18 projects valued nearly VND22 trillion ($957 million) in total registered capital. Additionally, four minutes on planning financing were inked at the occasion. Notably, the VND4.649 trillion ($202 million) project of Singaporean textile clothing firm Royal Pagoda Private Limited got its investment certificate to invest in VSIP Nghe An Industrial Park (IP). This is the largest foreign investment project at the IP until present, and also the largest investment project among the projects receiving investment certificates or getting approved investment proposals at the investor conference. Thai Thanh Quy, Chairman of the Nghe An People’s Committee, … [Read more...] about Nghe An sets out vision for development