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The art of making silk from lotus stem By Ngoc Thanh   July 12, 2021 | 08:15 am GMT+7 Phan Thi Thuan extracts yarn from lotus stalks and turns the fiber into silk that is more expensive than regular varieties. My Duc District’s Phung Xa Commune, about 40 km from Hanoi, has a tradition of breeding silkworms and weaving silk, but in recent years has become famous for Thuan’s lotus silk. Every year her family extracts yarn from May, when the lotus season begins and the flowers’ stems are still tender enough to produce silk. The process lasts until September. Besides home-grown lotus,...

Tuesday, July 06, 2021, 12:03 GMT+7 Five people in a family have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Hanoi after the capital had gone nearly ten days without detecting any case in the community, the municipal Center for Disease Control said on Monday evening. The family, living in My Duc District, spent time outside their home before the detection of their infections. The father, 39-year-old L.V.C., traveled with D.D.D., a 33-year-old man from Ha Nam Province, to Nghe An Province to sell trucks on June 13. The two men took a passenger bus to return to Ha Nam on the same day and C. s...

Tuesday, March 09, 2021, 11:47 GMT+7 A checkpoint at the entrance to the boat dock, where visitors often get on boats to access Huong Pagoda, in My Duc District, Hanoi. Photo: Ba Hien / Tuoi Tre Authorities in Hanoi have announced that Huong Pagoda in My Duc District is allowed to reopen on Saturday and weekend pedestrian streets around Hoan Kiem Lake are set to resume operations from Friday. The decision was announced by Hanoi deputy chairman Chu Xuan Dung at the municipal Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control’s meeting on Monday afternoon. Speaking at the meeting, Hoang ...

Local residents and tourists visiting the Huong Pagoda Festival last year. This year, the festival has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. - The Vietnam News/ANN HANOI, Feb 15 (Vietnam News/ANN): All traditional festivals in Hanoi will be temporarily postponed until the first full moon day of the new lunar year (February 26) in an attempt to prevent the spread of Covid-19, authority officials have said. Vice-Chairman of the Hà Nội People's Committee, Chu Xuan Dũung urged all districts and local areas where traditional festivals will take place this month to strict...

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