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Int’l air balloons festival kicks off in Hue

Thua Thien – Hue, April 30 (VNA) – The International Hot Air Balloons Festival 2017 started at the Hue Imperial Citadel (Dai Noi) in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue on April 30.

The event drew 10 teams from the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Thailand, France, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Japan and host Vietnam.

Visitors could enjoy the overview of the Imperial Citadel, other relics of Ky Dai and Ngo Mon as well as the province’s landscape from the air balloons.

The event is part of the Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2017 and this is the second air balloons festival held in the ancient imperial city of Hue.

It runs until May 2. 
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Image of President Ho Chi Minh appears on ballots at Uruguay Communist Party congress

Image of President Ho Chi Minh appears on ballots at Uruguay Communist Party congress

Among the ballots used at the congress were three featuring posters of President Ho Chi Minh and one bearing an image depicting the Vietnamese people engaged in production during the period of resistance against foreign aggression. The latter also carried the inscriptions “80th Anniversary of Vietnam’s National Day” and “33rd National Congress of the PCU".

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