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Vaccination of national men’s football team completed

April 20, 2021 by en.vietnamplus.vn

Head coach Park Hang-seo (L) and members of the national men’s football team (Photo: VFF)

Hanoi (VNA) – All 45 players in the national men’s football team received their first shot of COVID-19 vaccine on April 19-20.

According to the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), vaccinations were adjusted to follow the schedules of the country’s professional leagues. The players will receive their second shot in mid-May.

Head coach Park Hang-seo, his assistants, and the team’s physicians were vaccinated earlier this month.

The men’s squad was vaccinated in preparation for upcoming matches in Group G of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Remaining members of the squad get vaccinated at the Hanoi-based 108 Military Central Hospital (Photo: VFF)

Vietnam will take on Indonesia on June 7 and Malaysia four days later, and then wrap up the qualifying round with a game against hosts UAE on June 15.

Members of the team are set to gather for training on May 10 and will leave for the UAE on May 27./.

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National Performance Excellence Award 2019-2020 formally kicked off

April 21, 2021 by sggpnews.org.vn

In 2019 and 2020, based on the nominations of MoST, the Prime Minister decided to deliver the awards to 61 and 55 enterprises, respectively.

Also in 2019, MoST nominated 4 businesses for the Global Performance Excellence Award, chaired by Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO). All of them, namely Viglacera Corporation JSC (sited in Hanoi), KIZUNA JV JSC (sited in Long An Province), Tan A Manufacturing and Trading Co. Ltd. (sited in Hanoi), and the Central Power Electronic Measurement Equipment Manufacturing Center (sited in Da Nang City), won the awards that year.

In the meeting, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Xuan Dinh stated that in 2020, domestic enterprises faced different kinds of trouble due to Covid-19 pandemic. Yet thanks to the support of the Government, many of them tried their best to overcome those difficulties and achieved impressive results. The most prominent were awarded the National Performance Excellence Award 201 9and 2020.

The Deputy Minister suggested that for this award to better contribute to the quality and performance improvement of businesses nationwide, its organization board needs to widely propagandize the award to the community and turn it into an important tool to comprehensively evaluate manufacturing activities as well as product quality using international standards.

Doing that, the award is able to help enterprises in Vietnam to self-evaluate their performance and improve themselves so that they can offer high-quality products and services to the public and their international partners.

By Tran Binh – Translated by Vien Hong

National, Asia-Pacific quality awards to be presented this weekend

April 21, 2021 by en.qdnd.vn

The ceremony will be broadcast live by the Vietnam Television and the Voice of Vietnam (VOV), a press conference held by the Ministry of Science and Technology on April 20 heard.

The awards aim to honor businesses that have made outstanding achievements in improving the quality of products and services, competitiveness, operational efficiency, and regional and international economic integration.

In his remarks, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Xuan Dinh said that despite the challenges and difficulties during 2020, many enterprises still showed successful operations, especially in terms of quality and productivity improvements.

He expressed his hope that Vietnam’s business community will grow even stronger in the time ahead.

The National Quality Awards were approved by the Prime Minister and are included in the GPEA. The PM signed decisions presenting the awards to 61 companies in 2019 and 55 last year.

Over the past 25 years, more than 2,000 enterprises have won these awards, including 240 receiving the golden prize. Of note, 50 were also honored with a GPEA.

The GPEA program is administered by the Asia-Pacific Quality Organization (APQO), which is a non-profit organization bringing together all of the leading quality societies in the Asia Pacific region.

To be eligible for the prestigious award, businesses must earn a national quality award for two years preceding the year of application and be recommended by the national awards body.

Source: VNA

National Clubs Shooting Championship 2021

April 21, 2021 by vietnamnet.vn

The National Clubs Shooting Championship 2021 drew the participation of over 200 athletes from 12 different clubs from across the country.

Competitors were involved in both the male and female categories, with various events featured throughout the course of the tournament, including the 50m rifle, 10m air rifle, 50m rifle three positions, and 10m air pistol.

Athlete Phi Thanh Thao of the Military team successfully breaks a national record in the 10m female air rifle category. (Photo: VNA)

The tournament brings together more than 200 athletes from 12 different clubs across the country. (Photo: VNA)

Athletes compete at the 2021 National Shooting Club Championship. (Photo: VNA)

Athletes compete in the female 10m air rifle. (Photo: VNA)

The National Clubs Shooting Championship 2021 attracts many young athletes. (Photo: VNA)

Athletes compete at the National Clubs Shooting Championship 2021. (Photo: VNA)

Athletes compete in the women’s 50m rifle three positions. (Photo: VNA)

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Winners of National External Information Service Awards 2017 honored

April 20, 2021 by en.qdnd.vn

The 17 prizes comprise three first prizes, four second prizes, four third prizes and six consolidation prizes.

Vietnam News – the national English language daily, the Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Region Pictorial, and photojournalist Nhan Huu Sang of the Press Photography Department are among the first-prize winners.

Other first prizes were presented to individuals and groups from Thanh Nien (Young People) and Nhan Dan (People’s) newspapers, the Quang Ngai Radio and Television Station and the Vietnam Television.

The award, the fourth of its edition, also honored 15 second prizes, 18 third prizes and 27 consolidation prizes, in the categories of print newspaper and electronic newspaper in Vietnamese and foreign languages, radio broadcast, television broadcast, press photo and book.

The organizing board received 970 entries, up nearly 9 percent as compared with the previous edition, with 931 works qualified for the contest. They are made in 15 languages – Vietnamese, English, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Bulgarian, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Lao, Khmer, Slovakian, German and Thai.

Of the entries, 22 come from foreigners. The others hail from press agencies and newspapers at both central and grassroots levels, and overseas Vietnamese.

The organizing board said the works have actively contributed to promoting the land, people and history of Vietnam to the world. They have touched upon political, economic, social and cultural lives of Vietnamese at home and abroad.

The works have reflected guidelines of the Party, policies and laws of the State, as well as Vietnam’s views and stance on regional and international issues in an accurate, timely and vivid way, while opposing false and distorted information about the country, the board said.

The ceremony saw the attendance of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Vo Van Thuong who is also head of the central steering committee for external information work, and head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh, among others.

Addressing the ceremony, Deputy PM and FM Minh congratulated the winners of the award, which, he said, has helped enhance connectivity and coordination between foreign news service units, as well as between domestic and foreign news services.

The 2017 contest’s success has not only reflected the prestige of the award but also affirmed the important role of the external information work in national construction and development, the official said.

He attributed achievements recorded in the country’s foreign affairs in 2017, especially the APEC Year, to contributions of the external information work, including the award.

External information has helped raise trust, consensus and support of people from all walks of life, both at home and abroad, and create an aggregate strength to affirm Vietnam’s prestige and position in the international area, Minh noted.

He urged the external information work, including the award, to keep a close watch on domestic and international situations to serve the interests of the nation.

Via the award, the external information work, should renew form, content and ways to access audience, focusing on foreigners and foreign countries and territories, in an accurate, timely, flexible and suitable manner.

The official also underlined the need to increase information in foreign languages, especially news about the country’s socio-economic development, national sovereignty protection, guidelines and policies, while stepping up the application of information-technology in the work.

More attention should be paid to personnel training, he said, suggesting that the award should be rolled out on a larger scale to promote its prestige.

First launched in 2014, the contest has drawn great attention from both domestic and foreign press organizations, publishers and reporters. The number of entries to the competition has increased through years from 515 works in 10 languages in 2014 to 970 entries in 15 languages in 2016.

The award will continue to be held in 2018, open to Vietnamese and foreign individuals and groups, each of them could submit no more than 7 entries or entry series to the organizing board.

Source: VNA

New plants found in Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park

April 19, 2021 by en.nhandan.org.vn

On April 18, the national park’s director, Dr. Le Van Huong, announced that three famous international journals specialising in botany, including Brittonia, International Camellia Society and Phytotaxa, have announced four new plants sourced from this national park. Of which, two species belong to the Camellia genus and two others belong to the Begonia genus.

According to Dr. Huong, the new findings, published in prestigious international journals specialised in botanical science, are the pride of the scientific staff and their associates working in the park.

According to the announcement, the Camellia is the largest genus of the Tea family (Theaceae), with more than 300 species recorded globally. Vietnam and China are the two countries recording the highest distribution in the species of this genus. In recent years, there have been many new discoveries and announcements of species in this genus, which have significantly added to national and regional biodiversity.

The tra my Bidoup – Camellia bidoupensis (Photo: Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park)

The two new Camellia species were discovered at the Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park and announced in the early months of 2021, including the tiny camellia ( Camellia flosculora Curry, VS Le, CQ Truong & VD Luong, sp.nov.) and Bidoup Camellia ( Camellia bidoupensis , Truong, Luong & Tran, sp.nov.).

Camellia flosculora is a small to medium, evergreen tree, 3 to 8 metres high, with lanceolate oblong and hairy leaves. The tree blooms from September – October, is white, with a flower size of 0.5 to 0.7 cm. This is the smallest Camellia flower recorded in the world.

The tra hoa ty hon – Camellia flosculora (Photo: Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park)

Camellia bidoupensis is a small to medium tree, evergreen, from 3 to 7 metres high, with a grey-brown bark. The leaves are round or elliptical, 8 to 12cm long, 3.5 to 5.5cm wide, and quite thick. The tree flowers blossom in September – October, with the white-chicken-fat colour and a diameter of 2 to 2.5 cm. This species is named after its distribution site Bidoupensis, as an affirmation of the authors of its origin.

In Vietnam, the Camellia genus has been studied for a long time by prominent local authors, bringing the total number of species in this genus to more than 80 species by 2021.

Over 90 Begonia species were reported in Vietnam, with many having a narrow and endemic distribution. The latest two Begonia species found in the Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park are Hon Giao Begonia ( Begonia hongiaoensis – CWLin, TCHsu & Luu, sp.nov.), named after a massif with a high biological density in the park, and Lam Dong Begonia ( Begonia lamdongiana – CWLin, TCHsu & Luu, sp. nov.), also named after its origin in Lam Dong Province, where the species was first discovered and sampled.

The thu hai duong Hon Giao (Hon Giao begonia) – Begonia hongiaoensis (Photo: Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park).

“The above two species of begonia are the result of a cooperative project to survey plants in Langbiang Plateau, Vietnam between the Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Centre (Taiwan. China), and the Vietnam Southern Institute of Ecology and Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park,” according to Dr. Huong.

The Hon Giao Begonia is a herbaceous plant, 20-30 cm high, leaves not lobed or symmetrical, but oblong egg- to wide egg-shaped, with a long petiole. Its flowers appear in January to March every year, with white or pale pink petals, with yellow stamens emerging at the base of the flower.

The Lam Dong Begonia is also a herbaceous plant, 10 cm tall, with many feathers. Its fruit is hard, light green to cream pink, triangular in shape, measuring 5 to 10 mm long and 4 to 8 mm wide. Its leaves and petioles are small, light green to dark pink, 8.5-25 cm long, 2.2-3.5 mm thick, with the leaf blade asymmetrical, ovoid to lanceolate, 10-13.5 cm long and 5.5-7.5 cm wide. Its leaf base is a clearer heart-shape than the Hon Giao Begonia, with the underside of its leaves silver with many feathers. The flowers are unisex, with stalks measuring 12-23 mm long, white to pink, blooming in September to November every year.

The thu hai duong Lam Dong (Lam Dong Begonia) – Begonia lamdongiana (Photo: Phytotaxa Journal)

Dr. Huong said that a new plant species must undergo a rigorous and independent evaluation process by international scientists specialising in in-depth subjects on species and subspecies close to those newly discovered. From the initial research, scientists determine the survey area, collect, dissect, find differences, and compare it with hundreds of domestic and foreign samples and documents, then synthesise the results and send these to specialised journals, as well as answering questions from independent reviewers.

Expanding collaborative research and strengthening field surveys to fully assess the population level and conservation status of plants and focusing on rare species with a narrow natural distribution is essential in biodiversity conservation in the Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park. This information is the foundation for developing a conservation strategy suitable for each species or species group on the basis of existing resources.

The announcement of the four new species originating from the park once again affirms the very special biodiversity value of this area.