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* Indian government ministers and officials were following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's lead by opting for an Indian-made vaccine instead of the AstraZeneca one. * Thailand may celebrate its traditional new year Songkran as usual around mid-April, Culture Minister Itthiphol Khunpluem said Wednesday. * China's annual coal output will stand at no higher than 4.1 billion tonnes by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), after it climbed 1.4 percent year on year to 3.9 billion tonnes in 2020, said a report issued by the China National Coal Association on Wednesday. * President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the United States would have enough COVID-19 vaccine for every American adult by the end of May. * The European Union aims to increase the region's COVID-19 vaccine production capacity to 2-3 billion doses per year by the end of 2021, Industry Commissioner Thierry Breton was quoted as saying. * German Chancellor Angela Merkel was expected on Wednesday to agree a … [Read more...] about World News in Brief: March 3

Foreign ship arrivals down 6 percent in first two months Vietnam’s sea ports have berthed some 4,900 foreign vessels over the last two months, a decline of 6 percent year-on-year, according to the Vietnam Marine Administration. The fall was due largely to the impact of COVID-19, which is resulting in major fluctuations in the transport sector, a representative of the administration said. Despite the lower number of foreign ships, the volume of import and export goods through ports grew. In January and February, 35.3 million tonnes of imports and 26 million tonnes of exports were handled at ports nationwide. The former represented an annual increase of 14 percent while the latter was as same as that last year. In particular, nearly 1.3 million TEUs for exports and 1.2 million for imports were handled during the period, up 32 and 16 percent, respectively, year-on-year; the highest growth since the pandemic began. Meanwhile, the arrival of domestic vessels totalled … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS MARCH 3

Read what is in the news today: Politics — Vietnam is slated to repatriate 390 Vietnamese citizens stuck in Myanmar on a Vietnam Airlines flight on Thursday, according to the Vietnamese Embassy in Myanmar. This is the fifth repatriation flight Vietnam has carried out since May 12, 2020. Society — Vietnam reported seven new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday evening, including five community infections in northern Hai Duong Province and two imported cases in southern Kien Giang Province. The national patient tally stood at 2,482, with 1,898 recoveries and 35 virus-related deaths as of Thursday morning. — The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Vietnam have issued a press release urging the Vietnamese government and the public to keep vigilance on the H5N8 human infection upon the detection of seven farm workers infected with the influenza A (H5N8) at a chicken farm in Russia, the Ministry of Health said on … [Read more...] about Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — March 4

GSO Director General Nguyễn Thị Hương The General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO) launched the 2021 Economic Census on Monday. Amid challenges in collecting data due to the pandemic, the authority will employ technology to conduct the census. GSO Director General Nguyễn Thị Hương spoke with the Vietnam News Agency about the important survey The 2021 Economic Census takes place during the complex development of the COVID-19 pandemic. Will this impact the survey? Collecting enterprises’ information has been implemented every year at different scales and levels. In the 2021 Economic Census, the survey will collect information on all kinds of businesses in all economic sectors nationwide. This year’s census has many advantages such as the active co-ordination and participation of ministries, departments and localities at all levels and collection of information across the whole country. In addition, census propaganda has been carried out nationwide in many forms to … [Read more...] about 2021 Economic Census to be conducted online

French artist Frederic Dialynas Sanchez will show his work at an art exhibition titled “La Mémoire Dans la Peau” (The Memory in the Skin) at Vin Gallery on March 12. File photo from vingallery.com French artist Frederic Dialynas Sanchez will show his work at an art exhibition titled “La Mémoire Dans la Peau” (The Memory in the Skin) at Vin Gallery on March 12. The exhibition will showcase his new works reflecting his personal journey to explore Vietnamese heritage, and the people’s memories and life decades after war. Sanchez, 38, graduated from the Lyon National School Fine Arts. He has worked in Asia and Europe. He hosted his first solo exhibition in Hà Nội in 2006. He has participated in numerous exhibitions in France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the US, China and Japan. The exhibition will close on April 29. The gallery is at 11 Street 55 in District 2. -- VNS … [Read more...] about French artist to host exhibition at Vin Gallery