Vietnamese students win medals at the Int’l Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2021. (Photo: VNA)
The Vietnamese team comprised five 12th graders from Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, reported the Vietnam News Agency.
Tran Dinh Dung pocketed a gold medal. Meanwhile Nguyen Manh Duc and Nguyen Khanh Tam won silver medals, and Le Duc An and Dinh Tran Hai Chien were bronze medallists.
IOAA 2021 was held online, attracting students aged under 19 from over 60 countries around the world.
Vietnam - US trade likely to reach 100 billion USD this year
Vietnam–US trade could hit 100 billion USD in this year, up 221 times against the figure in 1995 when the two countries normalized relations.
The first eight months of this year saw bilateral trade of 73 billion USD, Hoang Quang Phong, Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), said at a recent forum on promoting Vietnam-US trade in the new context, according to the VNA.
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Despite the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and its complicated developments which disrupted the supply chains, 2020 was the first year that the total trade turnover between Vietnam and the US has exceeded the 90 billion USD benchmark, reaching 90.8 billion USD, compared to 451 million USD in 1995, he said.
Phong said that trade has become a pillar of the growing bilateral relationship between Vietnam and the US.
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Vietnam has been attractive to US businesses with a market of nearly 100 million consumers, positive growth, open policies, close connection with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) market and other major markets in the world thanks to a network of free trade agreements, he said
Vietnam has become the 10th largest trading partner of the US, while the US is also the largest trading partner of Vietnam. Vietnam is one of the first countries in Asia to sign a trade agreement with the US.
Many commercial investment opportunities between the two countries will be opened up when there is a regular direct flight of Vietnam Airlines connecting the two countries, Phong said.
Vietnam's export turnover to the US has increased by 230 percent, while exports from the US to Vietnam have also grown by more than 175 percent over the past five years. Key Vietnamese products exported to the US are machinery, equipment, tools, and spare parts.
Experts suggested that businesses pay attention to meeting requirements on products’ quality and dealing with technical barriers.
Hanoi begins injecting Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 15-17
Hanoi began administering Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 15-17 on the morning of November 23, according to the Hanoi Department of Health.
The Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology granted about 304,140 doses of Pfizer vaccine to Hanoi for allocation to 30 districts across the city, said the NDO.
Students at Nguyen Gia Thieu High School are vaccinated against COVID-19. (Photo: laodong.vn)
The vaccine will be used to give the first and second injection to children with the interval between the two shots being at least three weeks.
The vaccination of the first dose is scheduled for completion on November 25.
The injection is conducted at schools for children who are attending in person, while children who are studying online at home will be vaccinated at local health stations.
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Children with congenital and chronic diseases related to heart, lungs, digestive system, urinary system, blood, and others will be vaccinated at hospitals.
Hanoi is expected to administer vaccines to all children aged 12-17 in the fourth quarter of 2021 and the first quarter of 2022. As many as 791,921 children will be vaccinated, including 519,547 children aged 12-16 and 272,374 children aged 16 to under 18 years old./.