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Vietnamese romantic poems to be published in US

Poet Tran Le Khanh's latest book, Sự Bắt Đầu Của Nước (The Origin of Water), will be published in the US next year.

NEWS HEADLINES SEPTEMBER 28

Jail terms proposed for defendants in fake cancer drug case

 

Ethnic minority women empowered to fight poverty

There were times 30-year-old Sung Thi Sy thought of running away to escape her violent husband, who regularly beat her when he was drunk.

BUSINESS NEWS SEPTEMBER 28

 Solutions needed to facilitate export of goods and services to ASEAN 

Quang Ngai seeks to solve waste nightmare

Residents and authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai are still at loggerheads over whether a waste treatment plant should re-open, more than a year after its debut.

Vietnam Television acquires Vietnam-Indonesia match broadcasting right

Vietnam Television (VTV) has secured the broadcasting rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification match between Vietnam and Indonesia for $400,000.

 

Vietnamese-American author becomes genius grant recipient

Vietnamese-American author Ocean Vuong has been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, also known as a “genius grant”, by the MacArthur Foundation.

 

How Singapore is using technology to solve its water shortage

Singapore uses about 430 million gallons of water every day — a number it expects could double in the next four decades.

Hoi An beauty to be featured at Miss Grand International

Vietnamese representative Nguyen Ha Kieu Loan will wear a dress featuring the beauty of Hoi An town in the central province of Quang Nam at the upcoming Miss Grand International 2019.

 

Mekong Delta's sugar mill fined $30,000 for environmental pollution

A sugarcane producer in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has been ordered to pay VND700 million (US$30,000) in fines for causing pollution in a local river.

 

More than 9,200 scrap containers stuck at Vietnamese ports

Up to 9,211 imported scrap containers had still been left at Vietnamese ports by the end of June this year with nearly half being stuck there for more than 90 days, the Vietnam General Department of Customs reported.

Miss Capital ASEAN 2020 kicks off

Miss Capital ASEAN 2020 will be held in Vietnam with the participation of contestants from the association’s 10 member countries in April next year.

Causes of dense smog in HCM City identified

Environmental monitoring devices at 30 spots in HCMC revealed that the volume of air pollutants have surged sharply, creating the heavy smog hanging over the city in recent days.

 

Coach Park: All teams at same strength level at AFC U23 Championship 2020

Coach Park Hang-seo has assessed that all 16 teams at the 2020 AFC U23 Championship are at the same level as they are all strong teams.

 

Krong No volcanic cave system nominated as global geological park

The Krong No volcanic cave system, in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong, has been nominated by the Global Geoparks Network as a global geological park.

HCMC to build underground commercial center

The HCMC People's Committee has assigned the Urban Railway Management Board to plan the implementation of the Ben Thanh underground shopping mall project.

Jacques Chirac, former French president, is dead at 86

Former French President Jacques Chirac, known for a carefully crafted "everyman" image but whose later years were dogged by allegations of corruption, has died at the age of 86.

Cancellation of international bidding for expressway facilitates local investors

Nguyen Minh Cuong, Principal Country Economist at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), talks to bizline.vn on the effect of halting international bidding for eight projects on the North-South expressway.

VN photographers secure Top 50 spot in Agora Images’s #Women2019 contest

Two images taken by Vietnamese photographs have been selected to be among the Top 50 photos which will progress to the final round of the #Women2019 Photo Contest launched by Agora Images.

Indonesia mulls $113 million to tackle forest fires

The Indonesian Finance Ministry is mulling providing additional funding of 1.6 trillion Rp proposed by the local National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) to handle ongoing forest fires.