HANOI, 4 May 2021: Hopes that Vietnam was about to open its doors to international tourists suffered a setback last week as officials admitted second and third Covid-19 waves across Asia could scuttle their plans.
Regional outbreaks, including India, Thailand and the
Philippines, cast doubt on plans to introduce a staggered reopening phase
starting with travel bubble channels involving central Vietnam’s beach resorts.
According to a report in VietnamNet Global, the Ministry of
Culture, Sports and Tourism, the country was planning to resume international
tourism between July to September, focusing first on beach and golf resorts
around Danang that were popular with tourists from South Korea during the
Architect Vo Trong Nghia Shares Insight into his Environmentally-Friendly Bamboo Structures
May 4, 2021
By Joshua Zukas
The namesake principal of Vo Trong Nghia Architects, who puts bamboo to modern use, stands in his Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, studio. Photography by Doc Lap.
During 2020, Ho Chi Minh City–based green architect Vo Trong Nghia saw his environmentally-friendly bamboo structures propagate throughout his native Vietnam. Vo, who studied architecture at Japan’s Nagoya Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo before opening his eponymous firm in 2006, added to his “House for Trees” collection residential projects that are home to both plants and people including the award-winning Bat Trang House in Hanoi. He embarked on the Dong Na Villas, a residential master plan replete with roads and restaurants outside Hoi An. But perhaps most arresting are three ambitious new bamboo buildings: the Vedana Resort Restaurant in Ninh Binh, the Huong An Vien Visitin
April 26-May 2: NA Standing Committee convenes 55th session
Monday, 2021-05-03 09:44:02
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NA Standing Committee convenes 55th session
National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue chaired the 55th session of the 14th NA’s Standing Committee, which was held in Hanoi on April 27 to review the outcomes of the 11th meeting of the 14th NA and give initial opinions on the preparations for the 15th legislature’s first session.
Participants discussed and made decisions on issues related to establishing and adjusting administrative boundaries in the capital city of Hanoi, and the provinces of Thanh Hoa, Dong Nai and Tuyen Quang; the boundary adjustment to expand Hue City of Thua Thien-Hue Province and arrangement of wards in Hue City.
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Vietnam stands side by side with India in COVID-19 fight: leaders
Vietnam always stands side by side with India in the fight against COVID-19, the Vietnamese leaders affirmed on April 28.
In their messages of sympathy sent to their Indian counterparts Ram Nath Kovind and Narendra Modi, State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said they share difficulties faced by the Indian people in the fierce battle against COVID-19 in the context that the pandemic is developing complicatedly around the world.