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About 7,200 polling stations across the country opened at 7:00am, allowing the voters to select 164 legislators out of 224 candidates to the parliament, as well as 492 deputies to the Provincial People’s Councils out of 789 candidates. Laos’ Party General Secretary and Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, State President Bounnhang Vorachit, and NA Chairwoman Pany Yathotou casted their votes at Constituency 1 in Vientiane Capital. The Lao general election was held following the success of the 11th Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Congress in January. According to the Lao National Election Committee, the election is scheduled to end at 5:00pm (local time) on the same day. The 9th NA’s first sitting will take place in mid-March. Source: VNA … [Read more...] about Laos: 4.3 million people cast votes on general election

Some provinces and cities in Vietnam are seeking permission to hold additional elections after preliminary results of the national ballot to select members of the lawmaking National Assembly on Sunday showed that the number of deputies elected was fewer than the expected 500. Eligible citizens across the country cast their votes on Sunday to elect 500 members to Vietnam’s lawmaking National Assembly for the 2016-2021 tenure. Vietnam’s National Election Council said it had received reports from provincial and municipal election committees stating that the quota of assigned seats after vote counting had not been met. Among the affected localities are Can Tho City and Soc Trang Province, which lacked two and one deputies respectively. According to Vietnamese laws, a candidate must receive no less than 50 percent of the valid votes to be eligible for a seat in the assembly. If more candidates than the assigned number of deputies for a province or city acquire 50 percent of … [Read more...] about Talks of additional elections to fill Vietnam’s 500 legislature seats

Employees of FPT Telecom – a member of tech group FPT Corporation (HoSE: FPT) – address with customers' complaints. The group's shares gained 2.3 per cent on Monday. - Photo doisongvietnam.vn The benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange inched up 0.10 per cent to close at 975.31 points. The VN-Index lost 1.69 per cent in total last week. More than 174.5 million shares were traded on the southern bourse, worth VND3.8 trillion (US$163.4 million). The Vietnamese stock market was clouded by heavy caution among investors as they found both the macroeconomy and business community lacked supporting information. The US-China trade war continued to cast a shadow over global stock markets, according to MB Securities Co (MBS). To deal with US trade tariffs and the outflow of foreign capital, China has depreciated its currency to below seven per dollar. In addition, the Chinese government is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency to stabilise and strengthen its … [Read more...] about VN stocks post small gains amid poor market sentiment

Regular visitors to Hoa Tien Village in the north-central province of Nghe An’s Quy Chau District would no doubt have seen some of their professional young tour guides in action. But community tourism in the village, which has won a place on the national tourism map as an attractive destination, struggled to find success without older villagers also working as tour guides. The idea of involving older villagers in tourism activities was first raised in 2014, when the Thai Cultural Conservation Club was established by a group of local Thai ethnic minority people. From an initial eight members, who shared the same pastime of singing Thai folk songs, the club has now grown to 38, including some who have been awarded the title "Excellent Master Singer", like Sam Thi Vinh aged 71. The club is not only active in folk singing and dancing but also in tourism promotion. Club leader Lo Duc Mau said its members are now operating in groups that specialise in certain cultural … [Read more...] about Older villagers given key role in community tourism

“I want to create truthful and human-centric representations of Vietnam in motion pictures”, said renowned producer Ngo Thanh Van in a media event on her most recent project. One of her studio’s key principles is finding source materials that truly reflects and highlights the Vietnamese humans and culture, evident by many of their feature length films from the previous decade, including Song Lang (2018), Tam Cam: The Untold (2016), and Furie (2019). “What else would the youth of our country be watching that can remind them of their roots, amongst this landslide of foreign media?”, Van bemoans. Vietnamese cinema has been releasing new products at a rapid pace, sometimes over 40 movies a year, but most dare not break out of the monotony of commercialized scripts for mindless entertainment. In recent years, there have been various feature films that explore little corners of the culture, albeit limited in number, such as Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass , Hello Vietnam … [Read more...] about Filmmakers bring Vietnamese traditional values to big screen