On May 21, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Le Truong Luu; Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Nguyen Van Phuong received Mr. Marc E. Knapper, the U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam; Ms. Marie C. Damour, Consul General of the US in Ho Chi Minh city; Ms. Monica Damberg – Ott, Cultural Attaché of the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam; together with cultural assistants and receptionists of the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam, the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh city on the occasion of their visit and work in Thua Thien Hue.

The special offerings at Trach Pho Shrine (Phong Hoa Commune, Phong Dien District on February 12-13th of the Lunar Calendar every year), including a pair of sea bass and a tray of yam sweet soup, helped us connect ancient Southeast Asian cultural symbols together to clearly see the unique values condensed in the belief of worshiping the Thien Y A Na Goddess.

For a decade, Truong Minh Truong, a young man living by the sea, has proved that his start-up of bird’s nest farming is a right decision.

On the morning of May 1, at the Government Headquarters, the Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio witnessed the ceremony of handing over the cooperation documents between Vietnam and Japan.

On April 11, Hue Central Hospital claimed that pediatric patient Tran Nguyen Thuy N. (12 months old) - a case of bilateral nephroblastoma that was successfully treated by the collaboration between the Hospital and St Jude Children's Research Hospital (USA) - has returned to Vietnam.

In recent years, a garden of more than 30 square meters, which belongs to Ms. Tran Phuong Trang in Tay Loc Ward (Hue City), has provided a regular source of vegetables for her family. By using Styrofoam boxes and plastic pots, she grows plenty of kinds of vegetables, including: lettuce, cabbage leaves, cilantro, cucumber, and bitter melon, etc.

The two antiques including a mandarin’s hat and Nhat Binh’s embroidered silk Ao dai in the Nguyen Dynasty that used to set an auction record at the Balclis auction floor (Spain) have just been donated to the Provincial People’s Committee by a Ha Noi business.