VNA News Bulletin - Jan. 5, 2016

The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, home to famous beach towns Nha Trang and Cam Ranh, on November 25 welcomed the first international tourists with vaccine passports after a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Across Vietnam’s Central Highlands and south-central provinces, sedge mats are widely used. For many residents, these mats, made from sedge, a plant like grass that grows in temperate and cold regions, are the preferred, comfortable option to sleep on. Photographer Le Chi Trung, 32, captured sedge harvest season in Phu Tan village in the south central province of Phu Yen.

As many as 204 tourists from the Republic of Korea landed on Phu Quoc island district in the Mekong delta province of Kien Giang on November 20, marking the first group of foreign visitors to the resort island in the “new normal” period after nearly 2 years of closure.

An exhibition of paintings composed by child patients, which aim to send encouraging messages to frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, is being held at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum.

A ceremony was held simultaneously in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City Nov. 19 to commemorate those who have lost their lives to the COVID-19 pandemic.