Conversations on Vietnam Development
HANOI – A new three-way dispute has broken into the open in the South China Sea, one that brings two Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) members into conflict along with China over coveted energy resources. Tiếp tục đọc “Three-way fray spells toil and trouble in South China Sea”
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health just announced nine new cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday afternoon (March 08, 2020).
All nine new cases are foreigners, who were on the same flight from London to Hanoi with the 17th case, 26-year-old Nguyen Hong Nhung, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus Friday after traveling to the three European countries last month. Tiếp tục đọc “Breaking | Vietnam reports 9 new coronavirus cases in a day, now 30”
London (CNN Business)Oil prices have suffered their biggest fall since the day in 1991 when American forces launched air strikes on Iraqi troops following their invasion of Kuwait.
Tiếp tục đọc “Why oil prices are crashing and what it means”
When Larry Fink announced in mid-January he’d be putting solving the climate emergency at the center of his US$7.43 trillion investment company BlackRock’s strategy, even long-time critics acknowledged it was a huge deal. “It takes leadership and a certain kind of courage to admit that change is needed,” wrote Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune at CNBC. “Now we must keep the pressure on.”
BlackRock had earlier stated a commitment to “sustainability,” yet for years faced pressure from the Sierra Club and others over its investments in fossil fuels and Amazon deforestation. In a letter last month to shareholders, Fink promised measurable change: BlackRock would no longer invest in companies deriving 25% or more of their revenues from thermal coal.
Shortly after, however, the environmental and human rights group Urgewald calculated that less than 20% of the coal industry would be affected. “The scope of the policy is still far too limited and further steps will need to follow quickly,” it argued.
In January, CEO Larry Fink announced that BlackRock would make the environment a key consideration in shaping its investment policy. Photo courtesy of BlackRock, Inc.
This is a familiar cycle these days: A large company makes an impressive-sounding climate commitment, but on closer inspection the reality ends up being messier and less inspiring than it first appeared. For example: Microsoft pledges to go “carbon negative” by 2030, removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it emits, while donating to the election campaign of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, who has questioned the science of climate change and has a 7% lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters.
Tiếp tục đọc “3 WAYS TO TELL IF CORPORATIONS ARE GENUINE ABOUT FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE”
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the Pacific Ocean on March 1, 2020.
By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 4, 2020
The USS Theodore Roosevelt arrived Thursday in Vietnam, becoming only the second U.S. aircraft carrier to make a port call there since the fall of Saigon in 1975.
By Prashanth Parameswaran March 04, 2020 The Dilplomat
The South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI) a project of the Peking University Institute of Ocean Research, recently released Automatic Identification System (AIS) data showing more than 300 Vietnamese fishing boats gathering in the near seas of China’s Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan provinces in February — while China is busy fighting the coronavirus. Tiếp tục đọc “Is Vietnam Sending Its Maritime Militia to China’s Coast?”
Twelve crew members and 51 out of 73 passengers on a Vietnam Airlines flight from Nagoya in Japan to Ho Chi Minh City were placed in quarantine on fears the carrier’s employees had been exposed earlier to a Japanese traveler with the novel coronavirus.
The Japanese passenger tested positive with the virus after landing at Chubu Centrair International Airport Wednesday with a fever, according to Vietnam’s government website, which cited its health ministry Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam Air Passengers Quarantined on Virus Exposure Threat”
There is a harsh truth that Southeast Asia must face. While the region remains one of the most vulnerable in the world to climate change, member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are a long way behind on meeting their climate commitments.QUANG TRI, Vietnam (Reuters) – Two petite women in protective gear walk slowly down an empty field in Vietnam, carrying a large metal detector that clicks and whirrs, searching for unexploded ordnance.
Medic and safety officer Nguyen Thi Ha Lan supervises her teammates, the “landmine girls” as they are known, preparing to detonate a cluster bomb left behind from the war with the United States that ended in 1975.
It is one of many underneath the soil in Quang Tri province, north-central Vietnam.
Once the team is ready to detonate, Lan warns people to clear the area. A siren goes off and then an earthshattering boom. Tiếp tục đọc “Meet the female squad who clear out Vietnam’s unexploded bombs”
Tiếp tục đọc “Hạn mặn khốc liệt ở miền Tây: 5 tỉnh công bố tình huống khẩn cấp”
Bộ Năng lượng Hàn Quốc vừa công bố sẽ tạm dừng hoạt động tới 28 nhà máy nhiệt điện than vào tháng 3/2020 để chống ô nhiễm không khí. Nước này hiện có khoảng 60 nhà máy nhiệt điện than, đóng góp vào 40% sản lượng điện cả nước.
Ô nhiễm bụi mịn ở Hàn Quốc xếp thứ 26 trên thế giới, theo bảng xếp hạng chất lượng không khí 2019 (IQAir), với nồng độ bụi mịn trung bình là 24,8µg/m³. Việt Nam đứng thứ 15 với nồng độ bụi mịn trung bình 34.1µg/m³. [1]
Tiếp tục đọc “HÀN QUỐC SẼ ĐÓNG CỬA TỚI 28 NHÀ MÁY NHIỆT ĐIỆN THAN ĐỂ CHỐNG Ô NHIỄM KHÔNG KHÍ TRONG THÁNG 3/2020”
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