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Despite the cancellation of firework displays and several Covid-19 related restrictions, there was no dampening of the Tet spirit as citizens hit the streets nationwide on Lunar New Year’s Eve. - VnExpress International

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For weeks, Hoang Thi Quynh worked and slept inside a garment factory in Tien Giang Province, in southern Vietnam. She would start her shift at 7:15am and then, after a day spent sewing sportswear garments, enter an empty hall of the factory complex and settle down for the night. Each worker had a tent, set one or two meters apart, containing a foil mat, pillow, blanket and a box to store their belongings. No workers were permitted to meet anyone from outside the factory. Even speaking to a visit...

For weeks, Hoang Thi Quynh worked and slept inside a garment factory in Tien Giang Province, in southern Vietnam. She would start her shift at 7:15am and then, after a day spent sewing sportswear garments, enter an empty hall of the factory complex and settle down for the night. Each worker had a tent, set one or two meters apart, containing a foil mat, pillow, blanket and a box to store their belongings. No workers were permitted to meet anyone from outside the factory. Even speaking to a visit...

Wednesday, July 28, 2021 11:02 Vietnamese athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics are about to board a plane home from Japan (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnamese athletes competing at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will fly back home on August 4, wrapping up their journey at the global sporting event. Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Sports Administration Tran Duc Phan said that there remains a huge gap between the ability of Vietnamese athletes and their rivals at the Olympic arena and...

Mekong Delta braces for drought, salt intrusion By Hoang Nam  &nbspMarch 14, 2021 | 08:00 am GMT+7 Learning it the hard way from last years drought and salinity, Mekong Delta farmers have been preparing their crops for the worst. Early March, Huynh Huu Loc, 62, comes to check the water level in canals around his family’s durian farm, which stretches 1,000 hectares (2,470 acres) on the islet of Ngu Hiep in the eponymous commune of Cai Lay District, Tien Giang Province. Under the scorching su...

Red Rivers clear colors blamed on dams, pollution By Gia Chinh  &nbspFebruary 25, 2021 | 08:09 am GMT+7 With the Red River turning a surprisingly clear blue-green shade in its upstream sections, the absence of its usual muddy, pinkish color is being blamed on dams and polluting factories. The Red River flowing through Lao Cai has been surprisingly clear for about a week, February 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Pham Ngoc Trien. For a week now, the Red River section that flows through Lao Cai Provinc...

Hanoi doubles down on human rights abuses and violations during pandemic The Vietnamese government has stepped up its campaign of arrests and repression of activists, independent journalists, bloggers and citizens. Today there are at least 150 people sentenced for freedom of expression, another 15 in pre-trial detention. Vietnam is one of the four "closed" nations of Asia along with China, Laos and North Korea. Hanoi (AsiaNews / Agencies) – Over the course of the past year, despite the Covid-...