Vietnam - The African Mirror

Mar

2023

Women sports leaders celebrated

LORI EWING FIFA General Secretary Fatma Samoura has applauded the eight nations who are debuting at the Women's World Cup, urging the players to take pride in their ability to inspire. Haiti, Morocco, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Ireland, Vietnam and Zambia will debut at the global women's soccer showcase that runs from July 20-August 20 in Australia and New Zealand. "Seeing you ladies who are mothers, sisters, students and athletes. Women they identify with, excelling on the pitch," Samoura said in a statement. "This will encourage a generation of young girls and women to aim high, to aim big. To advocate…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Vietnamese ivory, rhino horn trafficker jailed for 13 years

NEWS

A court in Vietnam sentenced a man to 13 years in prison for trafficking nearly 10 tonnes of endangered animal parts from Africa, including ivory and rhino horns, police said. The court in the central coastal city of Danang found Nguyen Duc Tai, 33, guilty of transporting elephant tusks, ivory, pangolin scales and lion bones from Africa to Vietnam in 2021, the police-run ministry of public security said. Trade in ivory is illegal in Vietnam but wildlife trafficking remains widespread. The country is a transit point for elephant ivory for consumers in mostly China and the United States and Vietnam…

Jul

2021

By The African Mirror

Vietnam orders Netflix to remove Australian spy show over South China Sea map

WORLD

JAMES PEARSON NETFLIX Inc has removed the Australian spy drama "Pine Gap" from its services in Vietnam after a complaint from broadcast authorities in the Southeast Asian country about the appearance of a map that depicts Chinese claims in the South China Sea. The map, which briefly features on the screens of a control room at a spy base in two episodes of the six-part show, depicts China's unilaterally declared "nine-dash line" and is displayed within the context of maritime claims in the region. "Netflix's violations angered and hurt the feelings of the entire people of Vietnam," the Authority of…

Jan

2021

By The African Mirror

Vietnam suspends flights from Britain, SA

COVID-19

VIETNAM has suspended inbound flights from countries with new COVID-19 variants, initially Britain and South Africa, the health ministry has announced. A new variant first found in Britain includes a genetic mutation that could result in the virus spreading more easily between people. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Picture: Twitter "The risk for the disease to penetrate and spread in Vietnam is very high, especially from people entering from infected countries," the ministry said in a statement. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has told authorities to work on a list of other countries that should be covered by the suspension,…

Jul

2020

By The African Mirror

Vietnam brings 140 virus-hit workers home on rare rescue flight from Africa

COVID-19

PHUONG NGUYEN A specially converted Vietnam Airlines passenger plane equipped with ventilators and state doctors has returned from Equatorial Guinea to Hanoi, carrying 140 Vietnamese workers infected with COVID-19. The plane, which left on Monday night for 27-hour, 21,000-kilometre (13,000 mile) round trip to the town of Bata in the West African country, arrived in the capital Hanoi, where infected patients were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. "We are all prepared," Pham Ngoc Thach, director of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases campus just outside Hanoi, told Reuters. "One hundred ventilators, medicine and other equipment for testing and…