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Hue residents take active role in building smart city

Applying IT in practice and developing people-centered smart cities, the government of Thua Thien-Hue province has encouraged active feedback from its residents.

Man builds cemetery for stillborn babies

A man in Thua Thien-Hue province and benefactors not only buy coffins for the poor but has also built a ceremony for stillborn babies.

Calendar distribution ceremony enacted in Thua Thien-Hue

The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre on January 1 hosted an opening ceremony for Ngo Mon space and re-enactment of Ban Soc ceremony (ceremony to distribute calendars for royal mandarins during the Nguyen Dynasty).

Concerns raised over under-way road project’s damage

A road project which is still underway in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue has been seriously damaged after Storm Vamco, which has raised public concerns over the work’s quality.

1,000 people deployed for hydropower plant landslide rescue

Up to 1,000 people have been sent to search people missing in connection with the landslides at Rao Trang 3 hydropower plant in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Thua Thien-Hue, Facebook kick off comprehensive partnership

Thua Thien Hue Province and Facebook have launched a comprehensive partnership programme to support the province in the digital transformation process, with the aim of turning Hue into a smart municipality in the near future.

Host of activities await visitors at Hue Festival 2020

The main activities within the 11th Hue Festival, which will be held from August 28 to September 2, were announced by the festival’s organising board on June 12.

Seven Nigerians arrested for online scam

Police from the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have arrested 11 suspects, including seven Nigerians for cheating and illegally appropriating property, worth over VND120 billion (US$5.1 million), from Vietnamese citizens online.

Elderly villager still a dab hand with the crossbow

Whenever he has free time, Ho Xuan Thien, an elderly villager from the Ta Oi ethnic group in the central province of Thua Thien Hue's A Luoi District, takes out a crossbow to practise shooting in the back garden.

Nine foreigners test positive for coronavirus in Vietnam

Another case of COVID-19 was detected in Vietnam at 19:30 on March 8, raising the total number of cases in the country to 30.

Nature reserve founded in central Vietnam

The Tam Giang-Cau Hai Wetlands Nature Reserve has been founded following a decision by chairman of the Thua Thien-Hue People’s Committee Nguyen Van Cao.

Border guards discover heroin traffickers

Three men have been caught transporting heroin in Vietnam.

The trio were arrested with almost five kilograms of the drug, the largest amount ever seized by border guards in Thua Thien-Hue Province.

New findings of ancient capital Phu Xuan announced

Scientists and researchers have announced a new series of findings of Phu Xuan, the ancient historical capital of the Nguyen Lords and Tay Son Dynasty, in the present-day central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Thua Thien-Hue: Nine Laotians receive Vietnamese nationality

Nine Lao citizens who are irregular migrants or have undocumented marriages and currently residing in the border district of A Luoi, Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue, took Vietnamese nationality on September 6.

Thua Thien-Hue to hold monthly night fair at Thanh Toan bridge

The central province of Thua Thien – Hue will hold a monthly night fair at Thanh Toan tile-roofed bridge from 7pm on August 16, or the 16th day of the seventh lunar month.

Central Vietnam faces severe water shortages

The rivers and lakes in Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Tri provinces are drying up in the on-going drought.

Thua Thien-Hue imposes heavy fine for littering in public areas

The central province of Thua Thien-Hue will begin stiff fines on littering in public areas and illegal waste dumping from July 1.

 

Norway helps Thua Thien-Hue in bomb, mine clearance

Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) has pledged to maintain co-ordination with the central province of Thua Thien-Hue to speed up the implementation of the 'Explosive Remnant of War Risk Reduction' project in 2018-2020.

Residents build river fence to oppose sand mining

People living near the Bo River in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue have erected a bamboo fence on the riverbed to prevent over-exploitation of river sand by an authorised company.

Thua Thien-Hue, Japan cooperate in heritage conservation

The Hue Monuments Conservation Centre and the Waseda University of Japan reviewed their joint research on cultural, historical and ecological features, potential and special values of the Nguyen dynasty’s royal tombs at a recent meeting.