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Leaders of Quang Ninh (Vietnam) and Hokkaido (Japan) provinces presented a memorandum of understanding to organize the Hokkaido Festival in Quang Ninh in 2023. Photo: Viet Anh Hokkaido Festival With the close relationship between the two countries, cultural activities and people-to-people exchanges have become an extremely important foundation. After many practical and effective meetings between the two local governments, Quang Ninh and Hokkaido agreed to organize Hokkaido Festival in Ha Long with the theme “Quang Ninh – Hokkaido: Rich cultural integration” taking place from November 17-19. Within the framework of the Hokkaido Festival in Ha Long, there will be many activities, such as the event to sign a memorandum of cooperation between Quang Ninh and Hokkaido province, Quang Ninh-Japan investment promotion conference in 2023, seminars on green growth agriculture, cultural exchanges, tourism and human resource development, Vietnamese-Japanese culinary space Qua...

Street vendor Le Thi Hoa stopped for a long time in front of her photo displayed at the exhibition  Where I Arrive.  She was overwhelmed with emotion when her story was told this way. The exhibition is held by the Vietnamese Women’s Museum with a group of female migrant workers in Hanoi. Stories to be heard For the exhibition, the museum staff met and interviewed 20 female migrant workers aged 16-34 from various occupations, including waitresses, hairdressers, salespersons, chefs, waste collectors, and street vendors in the capital city. They come from other provinces, including Son La, Cao Bang, Phu Tho, Hung Yen, Hai Phong, Nam Dinh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, and Ha Tinh, with hopes for a better future.   Le Thi Hoa and guests at the exhibition. Photo courtesy of the museum. Museum’s director Nguyen Thi Tuyet told The Hanoi Times that every nation experiences migration, an inevitable trend, a positive driving force for socio-economic development, and ...

300,000 doses of vaccine from Australia to Vietnam arrived at Noi Bai airport on September 30, 2021. Photo: Australian Embassy in Vietnam Join Vietnam to fight the pandemic At the end of August 2021, when Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam struggled to cope with the pandemic, the Australian Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City promptly handed over 403,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine to the Vietnamese representative. Robyn Mudie, Australian Ambassador to Vietnam at the time, said: “We are united in the fight against Covid-19. Australia’s support for Vietnam’s national immunization program will help save lives and accelerate economic recovery. As partners and close friends, we will weather this crisis, becoming stronger and more determined to face the challenges of the future”. According to the commitment of the Australian government, in 2021 Canberra has supported 1.5 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine for Vietnam to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. In September 2021, 300,000 doses ...

“If a cross-border OTT television service provider does not have a legal entity in Vietnam, the Ministry of Information and Communications will coordinate with telecommunications enterprises to block access to it,” Nguyen Ha Yen, deputy general director of the ministry’s Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information, said at a conference on the issue Monday. Five cross-border OTT television service providers are operating in Vietnam, including two from the U.S. and three from China, he noted. According to a new policy on communications media management that came into effect at the beginning of the year, pay television service providers operating in Vietnam must have a representative office in the country that falls under the management of Vietnamese authorities. Photo: CNBC According to the ministry, the policy is to ensure fairness between international and domestic enterprises in the pay television service market. “The world’s OTT giants attract a large amount...