Day: April 18, 2022

The Myanmar women’s futsal team will compete in the Thai Invitational Women’s Futsal Championship which will run from April 20 to 26.

The event, to be organised by Thai Football Federation (FA), is aimed at preparing for the 31st SEA Games to be held in Vietnam next month.

The host Thai national team, Thai All-Stars Team, Myanmar national Team, Indonesian national Team and the Australian Women’s Futsal Club will compete in a round-robin format as only five teams are competing.

The Myanmar team will play against the Thai national team on 20 April, the Thai All-Stars team on 23 April, the Indonesian national team on 24 April, and the Australian club on 26 April.

Myanmar officials said that the country’s team will participate in the tournament in preparation for the 31st SEA Games.

The futsal event at the Games will be held at Ha Nam gymnasium. All women’s futsal football matches take place at 4pm. The award ceremony for the women’s competition is scheduled for May 19.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

A career fair was held by the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) on April 17, attracting more than 5,000 students.

The UEH Career Fair was organised not only in-person but also virtually on event.ueh.edu.vn and vieclam.ueh.edu.vn. It brought together recruiters from over 40 companies in various fields, from banking-finance-insurance, securities, accounting, to audit, e-commerce, construction-real estate and others.

Online recruiting activities provided an opportunity for job seekers to better understand demands of the recruiters.

The UEH also took the occasion to launch a new website page for student career counselling and job advice at hieuveban.ueh.edu.vn in order to help students make better career choices.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on April 18 sentenced 12 defendants to imprisonments of between 3-13 years on the charge of conducting acts aiming at overthrowing the people’s administration.

The defendants are members and supporters of the so-called “Chinh phu quoc gia Viet Nam lam thoi” (Provisional National Government of Vietnam), which is a terrorist organisation founded and led by Dao Minh Quan from abroad. The organisation has conducted many propaganda activities advocating armed riots against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Under the instruction of many key members of this organisation, the defendants have actively to entice others to join the terrorist organisation and a “referendum” to elect Dao Minh Quan as “the President of the third Republic of Vietnam”.

In Ho Chi Minh City, defendant Tran Thi Ngoc Xuan joined the organisation and regularly used the Facebook social network to streamlive contents calling on others to participate in organising and conducting the “referendum”. From March-June 2018, Xuan lured six people, including her husband, two children and three acquaintances to join the organisation. Also during this time, she also received many documents from the members of the organisation via Facebook.

On February 19, 2019, while visiting poor households in Tam Binh ward, Thu Duc city, Xuan brought along five sets of printed documents and handed over the documents to three households. During the time participating in the organisation, Xuan was given a mobile phone, 300 USD, 400 CAD (316.4 USD) and 3 million VND (130.9 USD).

Like Xuan, defendant Nguyen Thanh Xoan was lured by La Ngoc Duyen to register to join the organisation. In addition to spreading the organisation’s propaganda, Xoan also enticed and guided four other to vote in the “referendum”.

In Dong Nai, Luong Thi Thu Hien contacted many acquaintances, saying that she was participating in a foreign organisation that was engaged in charity activities, giving away land and houses for the poor, and asked for the acquaintances’ information to register for the gifts. Many provided personal information for Hien, but in fact Hien used them to register for the “referendum” for Dao Minh Quan.

Also in Dong Nai, defendant Tran Van Long used personal information of more than 20 people to register for the “referendum”.

Other defendants committed similar acts in An Giang, Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Lam Dong, Phu Yen and Kon Tum. In addition, the defendants in the case also made yellow flags with three red stripes of different sizes. They printed and distributed documents such as “Provisional Constitution”, “Constitution of the Third Republic of Vietnam”, “Biography of Prime Minister Dao Minh Quan” in order to propagandise about the organisation and the referendum to others.

In this case, nine defendants including Tran Thi Ngoc Xuan (born in 1969), Nguyen Thanh Xoan (1972), Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong (1967), Luong Thi Thu Hien (1968), Y Hon Enuol (1988), Y Phuong Ding Rieh (1978), Nguyen Minh Quang (1960), Ho Thi Xuan Huong (1968), and Le Ngoc Thanh (1972) were prosecuted under Clause 1, Article 109 of the 2015 Penal Code. Three others, namely Y Tup Knul (1970), Pham Ho (1949) and Tran Van Long (1955) were prosecuted under Clause 2, Article 109 of the Penal Code 2015.

The jury decided to sentence Xuan to 13-year imprisonment, while Xoan and Hien got 12 years and 11 years in jail, respectively.

The other defendants were sentenced to imprisonments of between 3-10 years.

In addition, the defendants will be placed under home probation of 2-3 years after their jail terms end.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Vietnam on April 18 announced 12,012 new infections of COVID-19, including one imported cases, the lowest since February 4.

In Hanoi, 1,109 new infections were detected, with the capital still having the most cases nationwide.

It was followed by the northern provinces of Yen Bai and Phu Tho, with 715 and 700 cases, respectively.

The national tally has now reached 10,475,819 since the pandemic began.

As many as 4,218 patients were given the all-clear, bringing the total number of recoveries to 8,941,064 so far.

There are currently 1,008 patients in serious conditions.

An additional 13 coronavirus-related deaths were recorded on the day, taking the total number of fatalities to 42,957, or 0.4 percent of the total caseload.

The country had administered 209,638,138 doses of COVID-19 vaccines so far, including more than 192.3 million for adults, more than 17.2 million for those aged 12-17, and more than 19,500 for children aged 5 to 11.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Malaysia’s total trade recorded a growth rate of 27.3 percent year-on-year last month to reach a new high of 236.6 billion RM (55.69 billion USD), the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) announced on April 18.

Export and import values in March once again broke the all-time record highs, at 131.6 billion RM and 104.9 billion RM, respectively.

Malaysian chief statistician Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said Malaysia’s imports surpassed the 100-billion-RM mark for the first time ever, signifying a positive sign of domestic economic activity.

Trade surplus widened by 10.3 percent to 26.7 billion RM from 24.2 billion RM in the preceding year, marking the 23rd consecutive month of trade surplus since May 2020.

Malaysia’s exports accelerated by 25.4 percent from 105.0 billion RM to 131.6 billion RM, surpassing the 100-billion-RM mark for the seventh straight month since September 2021. Export value growth in March 2022 was supported by both domestic exports and re-exports.

On the performance for the first quarter of 2022, the DOSM said total trade, exports, imports, and trade surplus continued to record strong double-digit growth.

It said the total trade went up by 23.6 percent, supported by the expansion in exports, up 22.2 percent, as well as imports, up 25.2 percent.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Nguoi Cam Lai (The Helmsman), a musical which tells the story about the life and revolutionary career of President Ho Chi Minh, is scheduled to be performed on stage on April 24 and May 17.

Produced by the Public Security Theatre, the musical aims to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the theatre (April 24, 1982-2022) and 132 years of President Ho’s birth (May 19, 1890-2022).

Centring on the life and career of Ho Chi Minh, from the moment he left Vietnam to find a way for the nation’s freedom, independence and unification, the musical focuses on the time after he travelled abroad, returned to the country to start the war of resistance against the French, and displays the image of President Ho with the People’s Security force.

The musical’s art direction is by People’s Artist Nguyen Thi Thuy Hien, director of the Public Security Theatre, with a team of 180 artists, including many big names in the fields of theatre, music and dance.

Following Nguyen Xuan Thang’s original script, choreographer Nguyen Thi Tuyet Minh is the musical’s general director. She also manages the show’s dance performances with the help of choreographers Nguyen Van Dung and Manh Quyen.

The music will be performed by one choir, one symphony orchestra and one ethnic orchestra with musician Do Hong Quan, president of the Union of Arts and Literature Associations of Vietnam as music advisor.

According to choreographer Minh the musical was built in the symphony-choir form of academic art, but still represents the traditional heritage of the national theatre stage, honouring Vietnamese cultural identity through the sound of traditional musical instruments and folk-dance material.

“To build an artistic image to reflect President Ho’s lifestyle and wisdom is a special difficulty and challenge,” Minh said.

“This musical is like a reel showing moments of President Ho Chi Minh’s 30-year journey of finding a way to save the country, so the highlight and challenge of the show is how to convey his images in different spaces and times.

“Making dancing depict the image of the nation’s beloved leader has always been a dream in my career. I hope The Helmsman will be a great work, bringing a lot of emotions and many new perspectives through storytelling in the language of music and dance.

“The audience will feel the quintessence of world classic musical art blending with the traditional stage “flowing” into the formation of Ho Chi Minh’s thought.”

Another highlight of the show is the flexible stage design with fixed and dynamic scenes, using virtual technology effects, the curved LED screen embracing the map of Việt Nam is expected to create special visual and auditory effects for the audiences.

The open stage will also help the audience enjoy the full techniques of the artists instead of just hearing the sound from backstage as usual.

The musical is expected to take place over two nights, April 24 and May 17 at the Hanoi Opera Theatre.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Vietnam ranked first at the test shooting event – road to the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games), with 11 gold medals, 10 silvers and 13 bronzes.

Indonesia was the runners-up with two gold medals, four silvers and one bronze. Singapore came third with one gold medal.

The test shooting event took place from April 12-16 at the Hanoi National Centre for Sport Training, gathering 143 shooters from the three country, who completed at 16 categories in the official competition programme of the upcoming SEA Games.

The tournament was an important event to help athletes gain experience. It also aimed to check equipment and the operation of the shooting range serving SEA Games 31, which will take place from May 12 – 23 in Hanoi.

Vietnam’s shooting team has set a target of winning between five and seven gold medals at the regional sports event.

Source: Vietnam News Agency

Nearly 3,000 athletes took part in Tay Ho Half Marathon 2021 organised by the People’s Committee of Hanoi’s Tay Ho district on April 17. Of these, more than 1,000 people competed in half marathon.

They competed in four different categories of 21km, 15km, 6km and 3km.

In the men’s half-marathon category, Bui Van Dung won the championship with 1 hour 13 minutes 54 seconds while Le Thi Bich finished first in the women’s half marathon in 1 hour 22 minutes 22 seconds.

The competition, first organised in 2020, has been canceled twice in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pham Xuan Tai, vice chairman of Tay Ho district’s People Committee and head of the event’s organising board, said the tournament is one of the activities held to promote sports and encourage people to run for better health and fitness.

Source: Vietnam News Agency