Conversations on Vietnam Development
Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Dramatic improvements are needed in ensuring access to clean water and sanitation worldwide, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that nearly two billion people currently use faecal-contaminated water. Tiếp tục đọc “Two billion people drinking faecal-contaminated water: WHO”
English: Substandard, spurious, falsely labelled, falsified and counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products
Tiếp tục đọc “Dược phẩm kém chất lượng, sai nhãn mác, thuốc nhái và thuốc giả (SSFFC)”
poynter_If you know Art Cullen, it’s not exactly a surprise to learn his initial words upon watching the livestream of the Pulitzer announcements and learning he’d won for editorial writing.
“Holy shit,” he yelled out to his brother, John, the publisher of the family-run, 10-person Storm Lake (Iowa) Times.
The only surprise was that there wasn’t a longer string of un-family-like adjectives or adverbs.
Big-paper editorial writers, perhaps laboring in well-appointed individual offices in relative urban splendor, be apprised: Writing editorials is merely one of a multiple daily duties of Art Cullen, Monday’s Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing.
Sitting in an office he calls a “gray metal wreck,” he’s de facto city editor, part-time reporter and editorial writer at the twice-weekly, 3,000-circulation Storm Lake, Iowa Times. Tiếp tục đọc “Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business”
Chính phủ đặt mục tiêu ưu tiên phát triển năng lượng tái tạo nhằm đa dạng hóa cơ cấu nguồn điện cũng như hướng tới một nền kinh tế xanh và sạch hơn. Tuy nhiên, việc khai thác nguồn năng lượng tái tạo đến nay vẫn chưa phát huy được hết lợi thế sẵn có từ thiên nhiên. Vậy đâu là mấu chốt cần tháo gỡ để phát triển mạnh hơn nữa nguồn năng lượng xanh tại Việt Nam?
Vietnam’s exports have been witnessing stable two-digit growth rate over many years. In 2001, the country exported $15 billion worth of products, while the figure soared to $96.9 billion 10 years later. In 2016, export turnover climbed to $175.9 billion. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnamese businesses warned about ‘outsourcing trap’”
Update: April, 12/2017 – 10:33
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| Ship Fuyuzuki of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force docked at Cam Ranh International Port in the south central province of Khánh Hòa yesterday, starting a five-day visit to Việt Nam. — VNA/VNS Photo |
HÀ NỘI — Ship Fuyuzuki of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force docked at Cam Ranh International Port in the south central province of Khánh Hòa yesterday, starting a five-day visit to Việt Nam.
The crewmember will visit leaders of the provincial People’s Committee, Commander of Naval Zone 4 and ships of the Vietnam People’s Navy. They will have sport exchange with officers and soldiers of Naval Zone 4.
The visit takes place in the context that relations between the two countries in general and defence ties in particular are growing. — VNS
ChannelNewsAsia
Posted 12 Apr 2017 14:20
A video screengrab shows passenger David Dao being dragged off a United Airlines flight at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in this video filmed by @JayseDavid April 9, 2017. Jayse D. Anspach via REUTERS
HANOI: Outrage spread to Vietnam on Wednesday over United Airlines’ handling of a passenger dragged from his seat after it emerged that the 69-year-old U.S. doctor was Vietnamese by birth.
Although United Airlines has no direct flights to Vietnam, there were widespread calls on social media for a boycott after video showed a bloodied David Dao being yanked out of the plane by airport security on Sunday to make way for United employees.
The ire in Vietnam grew quickly after it was reported that Dao’s origins were not in the Southeast Asian country’s old enemy, China, as many had at first assumed. Tiếp tục đọc “Fury in Vietnam over United passenger dragged from plane”
Taiwan is set to become the first country in Asia to ban the consumption of dog and cat meat, as increasing pet ownership across the continent has seen attitudes shift.
The revised Animal Protection Act imposes a fine of up to 250,000 Taiwan dollars (£6,500) for eating dog or cat meat, while the penalties for animal cruelty or slaughter were raised to up to two years in prison and fines of up to 2m Taiwan dollars (£52,000). Tiếp tục đọc “Taiwan bans dog and cat meat from table as attitudes change”
U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and China’s President Xi Jinping walk along the front patio of the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 7, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension on the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steamed towards the region.
Trump’s call with Xi, just days after they met in the United States, came as an influential state-run Chinese newspaper warned that the Korean peninsula was the closest it has been to a “military clash” since North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006. Tiếp tục đọc “China’s Xi calls for peaceful resolution of N Korea tensions in call with Trump”
Soldiers battling Abu Sayyaf in central Philippines are reported to have killed a key commander of the armed group who had been blamed for the beheadings of two Canadians and a German hostage.
Military chief of staff General Eduardo Ano said troops recovered and identified the remains of Moammar Askali, also known as Abu Rami, at the scene of the battle in a coastal village on Bohol island on Tuesday. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippines: Army ‘kills Abu Sayyaf commander’ blamed for beheadings”
A surge in renewable energy is another threat to the black stuff’s future
economist_THE Hazelwood power station in Australia’s state of Victoria started generating electricity 52 years ago. The stark symbol of an era when coal was king, Hazelwood was one of Australia’s dirtiest: its fuel was the Latrobe valley’s brown coal, a bigger polluter than the black sort. The station was due finally to close on March 31st. Days earlier, chimney stacks were demolished at Munmorah, a black-coal station north of Sydney, already closed. Australia has shut ten coal-fired power stations over the past seven years, yet coal still generates about three-quarters of its electricity. Tiếp tục đọc “Canary in the coal mine Lacklustre power demand in Asia throws a cloud over coal”
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Tàu khu trục Đô đốc Grigorovich của Nga được điều đến Địa Trung Hải, sau khi hai tàu chiến Mỹ phóng 59 quả tên lửa vào Syria. Ảnh: Reuters |
“Những gì Mỹ thực hiện với hành vi gây hấn ở Syria đã vượt qua lằn ranh đỏ. Từ giờ, chúng tôi sẽ đáp trả bằng vũ lực trước mọi hành động xâm phạm hoặc vượt giới hạn từ bất kỳ bên nào. Mỹ biết khả năng đáp trả của chúng tôi”, Independent dẫn tuyên bố từ trung tâm chỉ huy chung lực lượng Nga, Iran và dân quân ủng hộ chính quyền Tổng thống Syria Bashar al-Assad.
Tiếp tục đọc “Nga, Iran dọa tấn công đáp trả mọi hành động xâm phạm Syria của Mỹ”
Updated : 04/11/2017 15:35 GMT + 7
Despite a government order dictating that authorities only inspect businesses once a year, enterprises in Vietnam are facing repeated inspections that do more harm than good to their business.
A paper manufacturing company based in Ho Chi Minh City said it has been the subject of approximately 30 inspections by authorities since 2015. Tiếp tục đọc “Frequent inspections tire Vietnamese business owners”
United Airlines: Chinese and Vietnamese anger at passenger removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVbuenoq-ls
Outrage has erupted on Chinese and Vietnamese social media over the removal of a passenger from an overbooked United Airlines flight.
Videos posted online showed security officers dragging the man, who appears to be Asian, from the flight.
The man has not yet been identified. One eyewitness said he was a “Chinese American doctor”, while another said he was originally from Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “United Airlines: Chinese and Vietnamese anger at passenger removal – Nam hành khách bị kéo khỏi máy bay Mỹ là người gốc Việt”
VietNamNet Bridge – Investors are fleeing from BOT (build-operate-transfer) projects in the transport sector after encountering many difficulties.
BOT investors are now in a dilemma as toll collection is not big enough to pay bank debts.
Tran Ngoc Le from Yen Khanh Production, Trade & Service Company, one of the major investors in the Hac Tri Bridge in Phu Tho province, said the monthly turnover from the project is VND5 billion, while the company has to pay VND10 billion in bank loan interest.
The investor initially expected to take back the investment capital after 17 years, but it has realized that the time may be 50 years. Tiếp tục đọc “Investors, bankers flee from BOT projects”
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