(CNN) — Once the mist clears over the hilly mountaintops, green is all you can see in Dalat, a mountainous region in the Central Highlands of southern Vietnam.The country’s top agricultural producer, it’s a popular vacation destination for both Vietnamese and international tourists. But Dalat is also earning fame for a rather unexpected reason — it’s...
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Xihua: Vietnam world’s 5th largest instant noodles consumer in 2019
HANOI, June 3 (Xinhua) — Vietnam was the fifth largest instant noodles consumer in the world in 2019 with 5.43 billion servings, up 4.4 percent year-on-year, according to the World Instant Noodles Association. Ahead of Vietnam were China with 41.5 billion servings, followed by Indonesia, India and Japan, Vietnamese online newspaper VnExpress cited the association...
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Reuters: Vietnam says most serious COVID-19 patient on path to recovery
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s most gravely-ill COVID-19 patient, a British pilot who works for its national airline, has started to recover from the illness and may no longer require a lung transplant, state media said on Wednesday. Full story: https://whtc.com/news/articles/2020/jun/03/vietnam-says-most-serious-covid-19-patient-on-path-to-recovery/1025074/
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Vietnam’s party politics back on centre stage | East Asia Forum
Vietnam’s political stage is heating up again after the country’s internationally-lauded success in containing COVID-19. On 11 May 2020, the Central Committee of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam began its three-day 12th plenum in Hanoi to discuss who among ‘strategic-level cadres’ are qualified to be elected to its three leading central bodies — the Central Committee, Politburo and Secretariat.
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World Bank: Can COVID-19 catalyze Vietnam’s digital transformation?
There is no time when speed matters more than when a pandemic strikes. What’s unfolding with the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide speaks volumes to this. First detected in China last December, the novel coronavirus has travelled to 209 countries and territories globally, infected more than 1.9 million and claimed lives of more than 120,000 people at the time of this writing.
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Vietnam: One and a half months without Covid-19 infections | Prensa Latina
Hanoi, May 31 (Prensa Latina) Vietnam is now 45 days free of indigenous cases of Covid-19 and remains one of the few countries that, despite reporting more than 300 sick people, is free of deaths. The native infections have been absolutely cut off since April 16, because all the new cases (188) are Vietnamese repatriated from other nations where the epidemiological situation is complicated.
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Despite Covid-19 success, Vietnam will not open door to all foreign tourists | The Star
HANOI: The National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control reached an agreement at a meeting during the weekend that the country should not open door to all foreign tourists at this time, as risks of transmission from outside remain, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported.
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Vietnam Airlines Repatriates Over 240 Pregnant Women From Taiwan | Symply Flying
As special repatriation flights continue in the midst of border closures, a rather unique flight took place on Friday from Taipei (Taiwan) to Da Nang (Vietnam). Of the 343 Vietnamese citizens being repatriated, 243 of them were pregnant women – some of whom were getting close to their due dates.
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Blue Dot Network: Excellent opportunity for Vietnam thanks to the adoption of trusted standards
As Beijing’s signature foreign policy program stretches its global multi-trillion dollar economic clout, some developing countries are saying no to BRI financing. This is increasingly so in ASEAN countries like Myanmar, Malaysia, and Vietnam, which are most concerned about the high costs of China-led projects, along with China’s increased influence and undue leverage over their...
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OpenGov: Vietnam launches digital transformation campaign
Successful digital transformation would help Vietnamese firms save costs and maintain operations, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic.Successful digital transformation would help Vietnamese firms save costs and maintain operations, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic.