Update: March, 05/2021 - 08:00 |
Đặng Phương Nam (right) from the People s Police Academy and Nguyễn Hoàng Yến (centre) of the Đông Triều High School in the northern province of Quảng Ninh were given title Ambassador of Reading Cutlure 2020 . Photo nhandan.com.vn
HÀ NỘI A national contest for students has been launched to seek Việt Nam s Reading Culture Ambassador 2021.
The contest Reading Culture Ambassador run by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism aims to inspire the passion and the habit for reading among young people. The contest will affirm the role and value of reading culture in building the human capacity of Vietnamese people, said Phạm Quốc Hùng, head of the culture ministry s Library Department.
Update: March, 05/2021 - 08:00 | Prudential Vietnam and Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank have renewed their strategic bancassurance partnership for another 15 years. Photo courtesy of Prudential Vietnam HCM CITY Prudential Vietnam Assurance Private Limited, a subsidiary of Prudential Plc, and Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank have renewed their strategic bancassurance partnership for another 15 years. The new agreement significantly expands the geographical scope to include the north, where MSB is headquartered, and make Prudential the lender’s only partner. They have been collaborating since 2013 and built a highly successful bancassurance partnership which delivered a 34 per cent compounded annual growth rate in annual premium equivalent between 2014 and 2020.
Update: March, 05/2021 - 08:11 | A land plot near the main road connecting An Khương and Tân Lợi communes, in Bình Phước Province s Hớn Quản District, is cleared for development, with purported rumours of an airport in the province in the planning. VNA/VNS Photo Sỹ Tuyên HCM CITY Authorities in Hớn Quản District in the southern province of Bình Phước are warning buyers to be careful about land transactions, saying the proposed airport in the district, which has not been approved, has caused a “price bubble”. In the past few days, hundreds of people have been flocking to An Khương and Tân Lợi communes in Hớn Quản District, causing land prices to surge after hearing news about the proposed dual-purpose airport.
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HÀ NỘI The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Việt Nam have issued a press release urging the Vietnamese Government and the public to keep vigilance over H5N8 human infection upon the detection of seven farm workers infected with the influenza A (H5N8) in a chicken farm in Russia, according to the Ministry of Health.
This is the first report of H5N8 poultry-to-human infection despite the virus having been circulating in poultry and wild birds since 2016. All seven human cases were asymptomatic.
Update: March, 05/2021 - 11:00 | Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Huy Dũng explained how Việt Nam has taken pro-active steps to secure its cyberspace at the APAC Online Policy Forum II. Photo courtesy of the company HCM CITY Cybersecurity and policy experts discussed strategies to beef up cyberdefences in the Asia Pacific during the pandemic and beyond at an online forum this week. The APAC Online Policy Forum II, organised by global cybersecurity company Kaspersky, underlined how policies and strategies are formed in APAC, how they remain relevant and effective amidst the continued shift in the region’s threat landscape and how governments can be one step ahead of cybercriminals.