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Vietnamese athletics eye reign defence at SEA Games 31

February 25, 2021 by en.nhandan.org.vn

Vietnamese athletics’ top-spot ambition for the upcoming regional Games is posed with significant challenges as, throughout 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hindered Vietnamese athletes from participating in any overseas training courses as well as international competitions. Entering 2021, amidst the complicated evolution of the disease, international track and field tournaments have remained halted without confirmed dates for return, while it remains unknown when the sending of athletes for overseas training will resume. On mass media, Vietnam’s athletics arch-rivals Thailand have also constantly affirmed their determination to reclaim the lost position. Given that fact, the host country of the 31 st SEA Games will have to exert much greater efforts if they wish to defend their regional reign.

Last year, as a result of the two COVID-19 outbreaks, Vietnamese athletics only managed to organise two official domestic tournaments, the Speed Cup (Ho Chi Minh City, June) and the National Championships (Hanoi, November). The inability to train and compete overseas significantly affected the performance of athletes. In previous years, most of the national teams chose to train abroad to improve their profession and performance. In fact, practising in the countries with advanced sport levels brings athletes greater excitement and helps them further improve themselves in terms of both psychology and fitness compared to training at home. By engaging in overseas training camps and competitions, Vietnamese athletes will be able to break their limits to reach new heights. Meanwhile, at the present time, due to the pandemic, athletes in most of the events in which Vietnam is capable of securing a Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 berth have yet to achieve the performance indicators as expected. For example, Vietnam currently ranks 17 th in the world regarding the 4x400m relay event and stands a chance to make the top 16 teams qualifying for the 2020 Olympics if international performance is improved in 2021. Even so, athletics is not a key sport of Vietnam in the Olympic arena and the real focus of the track and field department in 2021 is on the 31 st SEA Games.

Nguyen Thi Oanh breaks the 17-year-old national record in the women’s 10,000m run event at the 2020 National Athletics Championships.

Looking towards the regional Games later this year, Vietnam athletics is completely confident in realising the goal of defending its reign thanks to a team of prominent athletes, such as Le Tu Chinh, who smashed her way to five gold medals at the 2020 National Championships – with two individual titles in the 100m and 200m dash and three team gold medals in the women’s 4x100m, women’s 4x200m and mixed 4x400m disciplines, recording an especially notable time of 11.43 seconds in the 100m distance. Tu Chinh took gold in this event at the 30 th SEA Games with 11.54 seconds, 0.14 seconds far from her personal best (11.40 seconds). Another SEA Games 2019 champion, Nguyen Thi Oanh, also scored four gold medals at the National Championships last year and established a new national record in the women’s 10,000m run with a time of 34:08.54, breaking the 17-year-old record set by Doan Nu Truc Van in 2003 (34:48.28). In the men’s medium-distance categories, Duong Van Thai, who won eight SEA Games gold medals, was surprisingly surpassed by 20-year-old Tran Van Dang. Dang’s performance will surely create a big motivation for Duong Van Thai to exert greater efforts at the upcoming 31 st SEA Games.

According to experts, in order to top the 31 st SEA Games track and field medal tally, Vietnamese athletes will need to secure 17-19 gold medals in a total of 47 events. In the previous Games, the Vietnamese athletics team won 16 golds, four clear of Thailand and five more than that of the Philippines. Thanks to its effective control of COVID-19, Vietnamese athletics is making better preparations for this year’s Games compared to many other countries in the region which are being raged by the pandemic. From the beginning of 2021, coaches and athletes will enjoy a diet costing VND320,000 each per day during their training time at the national team level, which will increase to VND480,000 for a maximum of 90 days prior to official competition. With thorough preparations in the past year as well as in the coming time, athletics and football are the two departments which have been assigned with the biggest tasks and are the most likely to finalise the goal of winning the overall championship title at the 31 st SEA Games later this year.

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Vietnamese female CEOs listed among top global business leaders

February 25, 2021 by vietnamnet.vn

The achievements of Vietnamese women “steering” large corporations have been recognized internationally.

Vietnamese female CEOs listed among top global business leaders

Nguyen Thi Bich Van

In early 2021, on its Facebook page, IBM Vietnam for the first time announced the appointment of a female Vietnamese CEO to replace a foreign CEO who had been working for IBM for 25 years.

The woman, Pham Thu Diep, is the first IBM’s ‘female general’ in the company’s 25 years of operation in the Vietnamese market.

It is now more common to see women managing large corporations in Vietnam such as Mai Kieu Lien, CEO of Vinamilk; Nguyen Thi Nga, president of BRG; Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, CEO of Vietjet; and Le Thi Thu Thuy of VinFast are some of the names.

However, becoming a CEO of a foreign invested technology firm is still rare in Vietnam.

Before taking the office as CEO of a technology firm, Diep was a high ranking manager with 23 years of experience in the IT field. Starting her career at TRG International, she later held posts at Exact, which provides ERP service and cloud software to clients specializing in accountancy.

Diep joined IBM in early 2011 and has had many leadership positions since then.

In 2017, a Vietnamese woman became the highest ranking leader of Unilever Vietnam, a foreign invested enterprise specializing in personal and family care products and food. The first Vietnamese female president of the leading company in the FMCG sector is Nguyen Thi Bich Van, who has had a strong attachment to the company for the last 24 years.

Le Diep Kieu Trang is another well known name among businesswomen. She worked as CEO of Facebook and Go-Viet before choosing a new way to go.

The ‘golden girl’ with respectable achievements during school has had leadership positions at the world’s largest groups in Vietnam.

The brilliant achievements gained by VietJet Air, the air carrier with the largest market share, in the last decade bear the hallmark of CEO Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao. Last year Vietjet was one of only a few air carriers in the world which did not lay off workers and also made a profit, despite the Covid-19 crisis.

After a period of holding the post of CEO at Fossil Vietnam, Trang chose Facebook to use her experience to connect to the business community, both in Vietnam and overseas.

Global vision

Van said in Forbes Vietnam that being a leader in a multinational environment requires a high level of professionalism. She needs to understand multinationals’ vision and define their role in the multinationals’ business.

The working environment at multinationals is very diverse, so there is high requirement on the ability to work, communicate, and think in that environment. To encourage people to raise good ideas, leaders not only need to understand national cultures, but also understand the abilities of each worker so as to combine their talents and lead the staff to the finish point.

According to Van, this is not an easy work, because the more talented people there are, the more difficult it is for the team to reach a common purpose. In modern times, CEOs need to not ‘issue orders from the top down’, but ‘serve others’. They need to set orientation and then give power to workers to implement the strategies.

Some important positions at foreign corporations were and are held by Vietnamese women. These include Nguyen Phuong Anh, who worked as Google Asia Pacific marketing director in charge of the Vietnamese market; and Nguyen Mai Phuong, who became the youngest branding director of Unilever at the age of 24.

Vietnamese businesswomen also play an important role in the development of Vietnamese enterprises.

The brilliant achievements gained by VietJet Air, the air carrier with the largest market share, in the last decade bear the hallmark of CEO Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao. Last year Vietjet was one of only a few air carriers in the world which did not lay off workers and also made a profit, despite the Covid-19 crisis.

Thao has been included in Bloomberg’s list of 50 global influential leaders for many years. Thao is also chair of the board of directors and founding shareholder of Sovico Holdings, and deputy chair of HDBank.

In the manufacturing sector, Le Thu Thuy, president of VinFast, is a respectable name. Just within a short time, VinFast introduced its first two products – LUX A2.0 sedan series and LUX SA2.0 SUV at Paris Motor Show 2018. Most recently, its first three SUV smart electric cars were launched.

The great strides made by VinFast has created a stronger belief in the future of Vietnam’s automobile industry. This is the first time in history that a Vietnamese company can manufacture luxury cars with good design and high quality, to be sold in Vietnam and in the world market as well.

V. Ha

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Vietnamese train ride listed among world’s top 10 train journeys

September 18, 2020 by en.nhandan.org.vn

The list was made by British journalist and travel writer Monisha Rajesh based on her book ‘Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure’.

According to the author, starting in Hanoi, the Reunification Express runs the length of the country right down to Ho Chi Minh City in the south, of which the finest segment is the first half of the journey to Da Nang.

Threading deep into the capital city, the train offers voyeuristic views into the backs of houses as families unwind for the night, before emerging into glorious sunshine the following morning, she wrote.

Climbing for miles through the jungle, banana leaves flapping against the windows, the train comes within inches of villagers’ walls and gardens, so close that you can make eye contact and wave.

At the final stretch, the train curls around the clifftops overlooking the sea where a finger of golden sand runs along the edge of the water in Lang Co Bay, before finally pulling into Da Nang Station.

Other train journeys in Asia are also named in the list, including Tokyo to Osaka, Japan, by Tokaido Shinkansen; Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to Beijing, China, by the Trans-Mongolian Express; Bangkok to Nam Tok by Thailand’s Death Railway; Xining to Lhasa, China, by Qinghai-Tibet Railway; and Mumbai to Madgaon, India, by the Mondovi Express.

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How Vietnam builds up soft power

November 26, 2020 by hanoitimes.vn

The Hanoitimes – Throughout recent decades, Vietnam has been making progress in accumulating soft power.

In the past few decades, the government of Vietnam has been taking numerous actions toward building up and maintaining the country’s soft power.

Vietnam makes efforts in accumulating soft power

Vietnam ranked 50th among the world’s 60 most influential countries in the first-ever Global Soft Power Index released in 2020 by London-based consultancy Brand Finance.

Harvard professor Joseph Nye who initiated the idea of “soft power” in the mid-1990s said it is “getting others to want the outcomes that you want.” It can also be understood as the ability to shape the preferences, shaping the agenda of the discussions.

Nye identified three main sources of soft power, including culture, domestic policies and values that the country is seeking after, foreign policies and goals of the country abroad.

In the Vietnam case, researchers argued that developing soft power should be a vital principle for Vietnam for three reason.

Viet Hung Nguyen Cao, an MA student at the Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University, and a Research Assistant at the South China Sea Data Initiative, pointed out the reasons in his research titled “Vietnam and Soft Power” posted on Academia.

First of all , Vietnam has been an active country in promoting cultural diplomacy.

There has been several festivals focusing on Vietnamese culture organized worldwide. Vietnam has also been the host for various cultural events like Miss Universe, Danang annual international firework competition, among others.

Secondly , Vietnam has been improving domestic policies, and showing more and more progress in human rights, as well as other fields.

Many cases have been brought to light with severe punishments for the officials who committed the wrongdoings.

The anti-corruption campaign has shown significant progress with high penalties given to a large number of officials, including high-ranking ones.

Vietnam has also been improving its human rights record, with the inclusion of five more fundamental human rights in the new Constitution. Freedom of speech and freedom of press continue to be respected with the massive growth of media and social networks.

Vietnam has also been voted a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council in recognition of the progress Vietnam made in this field.

Thirdly , the active participation of Vietnam in numerous international organizations is the testimony to the country’s consistency in its foreign policy of integration.

Vietnam has been the host of two APEC conferences, one in 2006 and the latest in 2017, the US-DPRK Summit in February 2019, ASEAN Chair 2020, non-permanent of the UN Security Council in 2008-2009 and 2020-2021.

The country has been an integral member of the ASEAN with its growing role in the 10-member bloc. Vietnam is also one of the countries that contributed the most to the debate on several urgent issues such as climate change, cultural reservations, etc.

However, there is still room for improvements in Vietnam’s strategy of building up soft power. There are challenges that the country has to overcome in order to truly reach its potential.

Firstly, despite having massive potential in tourism, Vietnam is still underperforming in this field. The reasons are the inconsistency of the national tourism symbols, as well as the lack of an attractive advertising campaign compared to other countries in the region.

Vietnam also failed to project a variety of its uniqueness to the foreign audience, and suffering from a lack of national representative symbols that are recognizable to the world.

Secondly, Vietnam’s environmental policies are still full of loopholes that can be exploited by foreign companies. The country’s corruption level remains high among countries worldwide.

Thirdly, the lack of development in high culture exchange between Vietnam and other countries is also one of the reasons why the country is underachieving in soft power. There are few Vietnamese universities that have exchange programs with international institutions. Vietnam is also not famous for its academic journals.

Recommendations

First of all, Vietnam needs to make more progress in cultural diplomacy, both in high culture and popular culture, Viet Hung Nguyen Cao suggested.

In high culture, Vietnam’s government should encourage the establishment of exchange programs between Vietnamese universities and foreign institutions. It will increase the exchange of ideas and knowledge, as well as deepening the relationships between countries. In popular culture, beside coming up with a more representative, recognizable national symbols, Vietnamese government should cooperate with the private sector to come up with a more interesting advertising campaign.

Secondly, Vietnam should continue its domestic policy reforms, lifting up the barriers blocking foreign investment, as well as improving the human rights conditions of the country. It is also fundamental for the country to accelerate the anti-corruption campaign in order to establish a more transparent image of the political system.

Thirdly, Vietnam should continue and further contributing in the decision-making process of international organizations. Not only by initiating ideas and contributing through solution proposals, Vietnam can also act as a model for the international community in several fields such as cultural reservations, primary education or national healthcare.

Soft power is one of the most important tools for the government in the modern world politics. Vietnam is not an exception regarding this matter.

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Thien Ha cave becomes an attractive destination in Ninh Binh province

September 17, 2020 by en.nhandan.org.vn

Located to the south of Tuong mountain, the 250 million year-old complex consists of a 200m dry cave and a water cave.

Thien Ha has been well-known as a “living” cave. According to experts, geological layers in the cave are still active and developing silently.

Archaeologists have found many traces of mollusks, hewing tools, raw ceramic fragments, animal bones, turtle shells and bibs, and many other elements that confirm the existence of ancient Vietnamese residents.

The Thien Ha cave complex was found in 1997 by Ha Huy Loi, who was very interested in exploring the caves.

With the permission of local authorities, Loi has mobilised human resources and sucked out the mud to reveal a cave complex with majestic stalactites and underground rivers.

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Da Nang offers virtual tour of Champa sculptures through 3D scans

September 24, 2020 by en.nhandan.org.vn

Developers of the technology said that everything from spatial depth to colours and images are reproduced completely true to the original sculptures, providing visitors with visual satisfaction and urging them to explore the museum in reality.

The service is available at http://scan3d.danangfantasticity.com, where visitors will be transported to the virtual museum to tour its four galleries of ancient Champa treasures.

Throughout the tour, visitors are presented with text and audio guides about 14 notable objects at the museum, ranging from Hindu and Buddhist deities and fertility symbols to sacred animals and architectural decorations, reflecting the rich cultural and religious life of ancient Champa people.

The information is available in English and Vietnamese to cater to both domestic and foreign visitors.

The over-100-year-old Museum of Champa Sculpture in Da Nang is currently home to some extremely valuable collections of fine sculptural pieces of ancient Champa culture.

Inside the Da Nang Museum of Champa Sculpture

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