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  • 20260330-ROUTE 66-MJ009-2K Manuel Gual
    Manuel Gual posted a photo: Route 66 Dreams: Classic Cars Across the American Desert Description A cinematic visual journey through the mythic atmosphere of Route 66, featuring vintage cars, abandoned gas stations, neon motels, desert highways, red rock landscapes, and golden sunset light. The series blends classic Americana, road trip nostalgia, open-road freedom, and a slightly surreal retro mood, evoking the timeless romance of travel across the American Southwest. These images were g
     

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Route 66 Dreams: Classic Cars Across the American Desert

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A cinematic visual journey through the mythic atmosphere of Route 66, featuring vintage cars, abandoned gas stations, neon motels, desert highways, red rock landscapes, and golden sunset light. The series blends classic Americana, road trip nostalgia, open-road freedom, and a slightly surreal retro mood, evoking the timeless romance of travel across the American Southwest.

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  • Two new Sailor Moon art manhole covers are coming to Usagi’s real-world Tokyo neighborhood Casey Baseel
    Outer Senshi join their anime/manga magical girl sisters on the streets of Minato Ward. Sailor Moon features some pretty fantastical settings, with much of its mythos involving ancient kingdoms on the moon and antagonists hailing from even farther reaches of the cosmos. However, most of the series takes place in Minato, one the actual wards of real-world Tokyo, where Usagi and her friends live, go to school, and fight many of the manga/anime’s monsters of the week, So a while back, Minato Ward
     

Two new Sailor Moon art manhole covers are coming to Usagi’s real-world Tokyo neighborhood

25 May 2026 at 04:00

Outer Senshi join their anime/manga magical girl sisters on the streets of Minato Ward.

Sailor Moon features some pretty fantastical settings, with much of its mythos involving ancient kingdoms on the moon and antagonists hailing from even farther reaches of the cosmos. However, most of the series takes place in Minato, one the actual wards of real-world Tokyo, where Usagi and her friends live, go to school, and fight many of the manga/anime’s monsters of the week,

So a while back, Minato Ward decided to celebrate the connection by installing Sailor Moon manhole covers featuring artwork of Sailors Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. As fans will be quick to point out, though, that’s actually only half the series’ roster of magical girls. As time went on, creator Naoko Takeuchi added new heroines to the cast, and now Minato Ward is adding new Sailor Moon manhole covers to its streets.

Out of the first five covers, four featured the Inner Sailor Senshi (Moon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus), while power couple Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask shared the fifth. The two new designs will both once again feature the Inner Senshi, but they’ll be joined by the Outer Senshi, Sailors Pluto, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, as well as disruptive and divisive time-traveler Sailor Chibi Moon.

The first of the new manhole covers has the fully assembled Senshi standing amidst the branches of a cherry blossom tree with the sakura in full bloom. It was installed towards the end of March in Minato Ward’s Roppongi district, specifically on the Roppongi 7-4-2 block, not far from the Tokyo Midtown shopping and entertainment complex.

The second new Sailor Moon cover, the seventh overall, will also show all 10 Sailor Senshi, this time with a pastel rainbow color scheme to the background. But while we know what it’ll look like, Minato Ward is keeping its location a secret for now, and will only be publicizing where to find it after it’s been installed.

Minato Ward is keeping the exact timetable under wraps too, but the Sailor Moon official website says that the rainbow Sailor Moon cover should be in place by the end of this month. And if you’re looking for even more crossovers between anime artwork and public infrastructure, don’t forget about the new PokΓ©mon manhole covers in a part of Japan that’s looking to bounce back from a natural disaster.

Source: Minato Ward, Sailor Moon official website
Images: Minato Ward
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  • PM launches nationwide campaign for sustainable double-digit growth
    Prime Minister Le Minh Hung called on ministries, sectors and localities to promptly translate the emulation movement into practical action plans and programmes, ensuring that emulation becomes not merely a campaign but a driving force for action, an ecosystem for discovering good models, replicating successful models and best practices.Emulation drive launched to realise socio-economic development goals for 2026–2030 PM urges aligning emulation, commendation with double-digit growth targetGover
     

PM launches nationwide campaign for sustainable double-digit growth

13 June 2026 at 03:40

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung called on ministries, sectors and localities to promptly translate the emulation movement into practical action plans and programmes, ensuring that emulation becomes not merely a campaign but a driving force for action, an ecosystem for discovering good models, replicating successful models and best practices.

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  • UN celebrates Vietnam-initiated International Day of Play
    A ceremony marking the 2026 International Day of Play took place at the UN Headquarters in New York on June 11, featuring a wide range of meaningful activities.Vietnam leaves strong impression at 2026 UN International BazaarVietnam promotes global participation in UN Convention against CybercrimeVietnam, United Nations advance new development cooperation framework
     

UN celebrates Vietnam-initiated International Day of Play

12 June 2026 at 14:12

A ceremony marking the 2026 International Day of Play took place at the UN Headquarters in New York on June 11, featuring a wide range of meaningful activities.

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  • Mekong Delta residents transform bulrush grass into handicrafts
    Making use of the abundant bulrush grass that grows along the Vietnam-Cambodia border in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, local residents have developed a wide range of handicrafts, including handbags, baskets, wallets, household and decorative items. The craft has created jobs, boosted incomes, and contributed to improving local livelihoods and living standards.Traditional craft villages help preserve cultural heritage in An GiangVietnam’s craft villages get major makeoverVietnam’s craft
     

Mekong Delta residents transform bulrush grass into handicrafts

14 June 2026 at 01:30

Making use of the abundant bulrush grass that grows along the Vietnam-Cambodia border in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, local residents have developed a wide range of handicrafts, including handbags, baskets, wallets, household and decorative items. The craft has created jobs, boosted incomes, and contributed to improving local livelihoods and living standards.

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  • Hue Festival Trade Fair 2026 opens with 240 booths
    For Hue, the fair is also an opportunity to introduce the image of a dynamic and business-friendly locality while promoting local specialties, One Commune One Product (OCOP) items and outstanding rural industrial products, helping stimulate trade, services, tourism and investment attraction.Hue city moves to deepen multifaceted cooperation with Austrian partnersHue spreads heritage city values within Francophone communityInternational artists to converge for Hue International Music Week 2026
     

Hue Festival Trade Fair 2026 opens with 240 booths

12 June 2026 at 14:28

For Hue, the fair is also an opportunity to introduce the image of a dynamic and business-friendly locality while promoting local specialties, One Commune One Product (OCOP) items and outstanding rural industrial products, helping stimulate trade, services, tourism and investment attraction.

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  • Indonesia, RoK eye stronger creative economy collaboration
    Assessing the prospects for cooperation, Minister Teuku Riefky Harsya said that under the Strategic Partnership between the two countries, there are significant opportunities to promote cooperation in production, talent exchange, digital game development and other technology-related fields that would benefit the creative industries of both Indonesia and the RoK.Indonesia, RoK advance AI-powered healthcare cooperationASEAN, RoK launch methane mitigation project in IndonesiaIndonesia, RoK seek to
     

Indonesia, RoK eye stronger creative economy collaboration

12 June 2026 at 13:03

Assessing the prospects for cooperation, Minister Teuku Riefky Harsya said that under the Strategic Partnership between the two countries, there are significant opportunities to promote cooperation in production, talent exchange, digital game development and other technology-related fields that would benefit the creative industries of both Indonesia and the RoK.

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