Update: March, 05/2021 - 12:24 | HÀ NỘI The three-year-old girl who fell down from 12th storey of apartment building in Hà Nội and was saved by a deliver man was discharged from hospital on Friday morning after fives days treatment for a dislocated hip. The National Children Hospital said hip joints were put back in place and she is now in a stable condition. The child will return to hospital in a couple of weeks for a check-up. The three-year-old girl who fell from the 12th storey of an apartment building in Hà Nội says goodbye to a doctor at the National Children s Hospital. VNA/VNS Photo
Update: March, 06/2021 - 07:44 | The inside of a passenger train carriage for Metro Line No.1 in HCM City. The city is seeking more private investment to build its metro lines. VNA/VNS Photo Tiến Lực HCM CITY HCM City wants to attract more private investment instead of relying on official development assistance (ODA) to build its remaining metro lines, but experts have said that it faces a difficult challenge. Dr. Vũ Anh Tuấn, director of Việt Đức Transport Research Centre, said the city was facing hurdles finding private investors for the metro lines. “Investors are hesitant because these metro projects are all done on a massive scale and require a huge amount of capital, while revenue from ticket sales is not enough to cover operating costs,” he said.
Update: March, 06/2021 - 10:29 | Nguyễn Chiến The traditional weaving skills of Red Dao ethnic minority people in Hoàng Su Phì District, the northern province of Hà Giang, have been preserved and developed together with other features of traditional culture. In the past few years, the locality has become popular among domestic and international tourists for its spectacular natural landscape and the rich cultures of various ethnic groups including Nùng, Dao and Mông. Many of the ethnic groups plant cotton and weave embroidered cloth with a distinctive identity. Locals wear traditional costumes at a festival. VNA/VNS Photo Nguyễn Chiến
By Phương Thủy HÀ NỘI Time spent behind bars is never meant to be easy. But some foreign inmates at Vĩnh Quang Prison are making the most of their lives locked up. And in one extreme case, a German national who has served his sentence is happy to stay in the prison because he feels that is now his home. Jurgen Michael has been a free man for almost a year, but instead of returning to his homeland he prefers to stay in prison. “I like living here. I don’t want to go home. This is my second home,” said the 60-year-old.
Update: March, 05/2021 - 13:57 | A suspect perpetrator in the sexual harassment against foreign nationals in Tây Hồ District that was summoned to the local police. Photo vov.vn HÀ NỘI Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình on Friday asked Hà Nội authorities to swiftly investigate media reports of several foreign women being sexually harassed in the city s Tây Hồ District. In a directive dated March
5, Bình noted several local news outlets have carried stories saying that since the end of January throughout February 2021, a number of mask-wearing men driving motorbikes with covered licence plates in Tây Hồ reportedly sexually harassed several foreign women as well as some Vietnamese individuals.