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Accordingly, it will coordinate with the LIGHT Community Health Development Institute and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women to launch a campaign entitled ‘For the smiles of women’ on March 6. The launch event is being held in response to the theme of International Women's Day 2021 - “Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world”. It aims to celebrate the tremendous efforts by Vietnamese women in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as well as facilitating national development and prosperity. The campaign will be followed by an awards ceremony for the Kovalevskaya Award 2020 on March 5 in Hanoi, which has been held annually to honour female scientists with excellent achievements in research and in applying science in life, bringing benefits to different fields including the economy, society and culture. Over the past 35 years, the award has been presented to 20 organisations and 49 individuals in various fields such … [Read more...] about Activities mark International Women’s Day 2021

Members of the VWU, women of all ages will be encouraged to wear Ao Dai at working places, schools, and during events and activities, in accordance with the context of the Covid-19 pandemic so as to promote the beautiful images of Ao Dai and Vietnamese women. Last year, a series of "Ao Dai-Vietnam's cultural heritage" events organized by the Vietnam Women's Union in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism had positive impacts on the community, contributing to arousing the pride of and raising the responsibility of the young generation for preserving and promoting the national traditional costume. Translated by Lam Anh … [Read more...] about Various activities held nationwide to honor Ao Dai

LONDON/NEW YORK: Golf's jewel in the crown The Masters and English soccer's Premier League joined the lengthening list of elite sporting events to fall foul of the coronavirus pandemic on Friday. Few dates on the global sporting calendar are as keenly-anticipated as the Augusta National showpiece, but organisers moved swiftly to postpone golf's opening major, which was due to be played between April 9-12, throwing the elite championship golf schedule into a state of flux. England's hugely-popular Premier League announced it was suspending matches until April 4, while soccer's European governing body UEFA said that next week's matches in the Champions League and Europa League would not be played. The unprecedented shutdown of world sport in response to the coronavirus spread that has infected 138,000 people and killed more than 5,000 also prompted FIFA to recommended that all international matches scheduled to be played in March and April be postponed. Soccer's world governing … [Read more...] about Sport-Golf’s Masters postponed, English soccer suspended as coronavirus wreaks havoc