VOV.VN - The organisers of the Miss Earth Vietnam 2021 pageant will give awards to four winners during the upcoming grand finale, making the pageant the first Vietnamese contest to have four beauty queens.

A fire-lighting ritual was held for making a up-to-300-kg bronze drum by the Vietnam Association of Historical Sciences (VAHS) in Dong Don district, the north-central province of Thanh Hoa on April 18.

VOV.VN - A fire suddenly broke out at 11 p.m. on April 16 on the second floor of a production workshop of Dreamtech Vietnam in the VSIP Industrial Park located in the northern province of Bac Ninh, leaving three workers dead.

VOV.VN - At least 4 people in a family were killed in a baby shop fire at 311 Ton Duc Thang street in Hanoi's Dong Da district on the early morning of April 4.

The Doosan Heavy Industries Vietnam Company (Doosan Vina) on January 11 exported 2,195 tonnes of raw fuel heating equipment to Thailand under a project it had signed with JNK Heaters of the Republic of Korea (RoK).

VOV.VN - Investors from Japan have pledged to provide approximately US$1.8 billion in capital to finance a coal-fired thermal power plant in Vung Ang of Ha Tinh province, according to business publication Bloomberg on Dec. 30.

VOV.VN - Local people have been donning extra coats and lighting bonfires throughout the capital amid temperatures falling to close to freezing.

VOV.VN - A spokesperson for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 3 voiced Vietnam’s strong protest against Taiwan’s recent live-fire drills in the waters surrounding the Ba Binh island of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) islands.

VOV.VN - The ritual of “Nhay lua” or “fire dance” in English, ceremony performed by the Red Dao ethnic people in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, has been regconised as part of national intangible cultural heritage by the the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Both ‘dirty energy’ (coal-fired thermopower and hydropower) and ‘clean energy’ (wind and solar power) have advantages and disadvantages.