Ao dai designs introduced at “Soldier and Silk” program
HCMC – The HCMC Party Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilization, the Political Division of Military Region 7 and the Vietnam Silk House Company jointly organized an artistic fashion program called “Soldier and Silk” on December 21, featuring numerous designs of ao dai (Vietnam’s traditional
BASF Virtual Lab’s new experiments help local students learn about nature
HCMC – BASF, one of the world’s leading chemical companies, on December 22 introduced two more games in Vietnamese, namely “Green Wonder” and “The soil experiment”, at its BASF Virtual Lab (http://thinghiemvui.basf.com), an online platform that allows children to conduct a variety of interactive
CJ Group presents scholarships to disadvantaged students in Lam Dong
HCMC – CJ Group awarded 100 scholarships worth VND520 million to poor students with good academic performance in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on December 21. The scholarship award ceremony took place at the Dalat Administration Center, with the participation of representatives of
HCMC opens new night food street in District 3
HCMC – HCMC has opened a new night food street, Nguyen Thuong Hien, which was officially put into operation on December 21. The street was opened to create employment for people after the Covid-19 pandemic and boost domestic and international visitor arrivals to HCMC. The street extends 368 meters
CTBC Bank hands over library to primary school in HCMC
HCMC – CTBC Bank – HCMC Branch organized a charity and CSR event yesterday, visiting and handing over a library to the Dong Hoa Primary School in the suburban district of Can Gio, HCMC. The bank funded VND120 million for the library renovation project and its necessary equipment, including
Heineken joins hands with NTSC to deploy road safety program
HCMC – Heineken Vietnam and the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) have reactivated the partnership program “When you drink, never drive” for the 2022–2023 period, advocating positive change towards healthy drinking and driving behaviors in Vietnam. The two-year program has a new approach,
Vietnamese win big at int’l photo contest for combating drink driving
HCMC – An international photo contest award ceremony themed “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk” was held online on December 15, naming Vietnamese photographers as winners in some categories. The event was part of the “Power of No” campaign against drink driving, conducted by an alliance of 28
New app launched to allow young people to report road risks
HCMC – AIP Foundation on December 14 launched the Youth Engagement App (YEA), in collaboration with the National Traffic Safety Committee and Yen Bai Province, to offer young people an efficient way to identify and report high-risk road conditions. As part of the innovative Big Data road safety
12,000 Tet gifts to be presented to construction workers
HCMC – Coteccons Construction JSC and Dantri Online newspaper have cut a deal to initiate the “Building Tet 2023” program, in collaboration with the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, to donate 12,000 Tet gift sets to construction workers nationwide. Construction workers at over 60
Nhat Nghe Tinh Bookcase launches two engineering books
HCMC – The Nhat Nghe Tinh (Master One Trade) Bookcase, co-founded by the Saigon Times Foundation, a unit of the Saigon Times Group, and the Supporting Committee for Vietnamese People in Germany, has rolled out two books on mechanical engineering and electronic and electrical technology. These
Christmas comes to Saigon opera house
HCMC – Christmas began as a festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, but now it has expanded to become a full-blown mid-winter festival, with robins, holly and mistletoe, Santa Claus, reindeer, stockings full of presents, turkey for dinner, and much, much more. It is that the HCMC Ballet,
Building basketball community in Vietnam
Peter Knight started to play basketball as soon as he knew how to pick up a ball. His mother was a basketball coach, so his passion for the game grew since he was a child. Knight started coaching when he was only 17 years old, and has continued to coach until now since he moved […]