On March 4, the “Get on Hanoi 2025” program was launched, officially inaugurating a series of some 60 tourism events of the capital city this year.
The “Get on Hanoi 2025” tourism program is a chance for the tourism sector of Hanoi to continue its effort to advertise and promote the capital city as a safe, friendly, quality and attractive destination for visitors, domestic and international alike.
According to tuoitre.vn, Hanoi City was praised as the Top Tourist Cities in Asia by the World Travel Awards, Vietnam’s leading cultural destination in 2024, and Top 25 All-Time Favorite Destinations by Tripadvisor.
This year, the destination chosen for the inauguration of over 60 tourism events was the national special relic – Trung Sisters Temple-Pagoda (on Huong Vien Street, Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi). The “Get on Hanoi 2025” program has been being the opening of a series of tourism events of the year, including the announcement of Kim Lan pottery craft village (Gia Lam District) as a tourist destination and a national intangible cultural heritage; Thay Pagoda Festival; the Culture-Tourism-Trade Promotion Week in Quoc Oai District; the Carnival in Dong Anh District; and tours of flower growing villages in Me Linh District.
Two Vietnamese carom players in world’s Top 5
Claiming the championship title at the Bogota World Cup 3-Cushion 2025 in Colombia helps Tran Thanh Luc secure the fifth ranking of the world three-cushion billiards, also known as three-cushion carom, behind Tran Quyet Chien, who ranks fourth.
With 273 points, Luc ranks fifth in the Events Ranking of UMB (Union Mondiale de Billiard). Meanwhile, Chien ranks fourth in the UMB Events Ranking with 318 points, unchanged from the recent announcement. According to vnexpress.net, this is the first time that two Vietnamese carom players have been in the UMB Top 5.
Leading the Top 5 is Dick Jaspers (the Netherlands) with 436 points, followed by Cho Myung-woo (South Korea, the current champion of the UMB World Three-cushion Championship 2024) with 330 points, and Eddy Merckx (Belgium) with 326 points.
The next World Cup 3-Cushion this year will be held in HCMC, Vietnam, from May 19 to 25. This will be a good chance for Chien and Luc to compete for the second UMB Events Ranking. There are three Vietnamese players in the UMB Top 14: Tran Quyet Chien, Tran Thanh Luc and Bao Phuong Vinh.
A helper of cancer patients
Bui Thi Luyen, 30, is a young mother who has been undergoing cancer treatment in Thai Binh Province over the past year. Despite her disease, she still manages to beautify other women with cancer by conducting free eyebrow tattoo and lip spray for them.
Since December 2023, after the cancer treatment time, Luyen has performed eyebrow tattoo and lip spray for about 200 women with cancer at her beauty shop in Hanoi. Learning about Luyen’s good deed, owners of dozens of beauty shops in Hanoi, HCMC, Danang and Phu Quoc have followed her to offer free eyebrow tattoo and lip spray services to cancer women in their localities.
On February 24, Luyen went to HCMC to learn to better her job at a beauty shop in District 12. Thanks to the permission and support of the owner of this spa, after the learning time, Luyen conducted free eyebrow tattoo and lip spray for four cancer women within four days. A colleague also came over to lend her a hand to perform the service.
Luyen told thanhnien.vn that after the learning session, she would continue to stay in HCMC to help as many cancer women in need as she could before returning home.
C-section successfully performed on 135-kilogram pregnant woman
Doctors at Cam Khe District Medical Center in Phu Tho Province successfully performed a cesarean section on a 135-kilogram woman, delivering a baby weighing up to 4.1 kilograms, reported the Nguoi Lao Dong news site.
The woman, in her second pregnancy, had undergone a previous C-section 20 months earlier. She was admitted at 38 weeks with signs of labor. Given her weight, doctors anticipated challenges with anesthesia and surgery. A medical team assessed the risks and prepared a surgical plan.
The operation was completed without complications. The baby was born healthy, showing strong reflexes and crying at birth. Hospital staff said the mother was the heaviest patient treated in the obstetrics unit.
