Many experts agree that the 20th-century building in downtown HCM City serving as the headquarters of the Sai Gon Railway Company on 136 Ham Nghi Street needs to be preserved.
The Sai Gon Railway Company headquarters, located at 136 Ham Nghi Street District 1 in HCM City, needs to be restored and preserved. — Photo tienphong.vn
Two architects give their views about the need for preservation:
Forty-five years after the war and 25 years after the normalization of Vietnam-US relations, two former US senators, Chuck Hagel (former US Secretary of Defense) and John Kerry (former US Secretary of State) have shared their memories about Vietnam.
Vietnam and the United States have experienced a traumatic past. Do you two have unforgettable feelings and memories during your return to Vietnam with the peace mission?
Chuck Hagel: I think that anyone who joined the war and saw by their own eyes the tragedy, the suffering that the war brought to both sides, will be affected forever.
Missile bases have been upgraded and equipped with the most advanced hypersonic missile the DF-17, according to one military sourceBuild-up of forces comes as the PLA continues with a series of exercises designed to keep up the pressure on the island
Coastal rocket bases have been equipped with DF-17 ballistic missiles. Photo: APBeijing is stepping up the militarisation of its southeast coast as it prepares for a possible invasion of Taiwan, military observers and sources have said.
The People’s Liberation Army has been upgrading its missile bases, and one Beijing-based military source said it has deployed its most advanced hypersonic missile the DF-17 to the area.
The Chinese government is threatening to detain innocent U.S. nationals in China in retaliation to the Justice Department’s prosecution of Chinese military-affiliated scholars, Fox News senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane warned Sunday.
“China wants to retaliate,” Keane told “Fox & Friends.” “They’ve done this kind of retaliation with the Canadians — right now they’ve got two of them arrested…and they’ve also done it with the Australians and Swedes.
“The difference is, ” Keane continued, “we’re arresting spies. What China will likely do is detain Americans who have done nothing. They are not guilty of anything.”
Chinese officials reportedly issued several retaliatory warnings to U.S. government representatives through the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and other channels — according to the Wall Street Journal — who spoke with people familiar with the matter.
“The Chinese message, the people said, has been blunt: The U.S. should drop prosecutions of the Chinese scholars in American courts, or Americans in China might find themselves in violation of Chinese law,” according to the newspaper.
China began issuing warnings this summer after the U.S. arrested multiple Chinese scientists who were said to be visiting American universities to conduct research. They were charged with hiding their connection to the People’s Liberation Army from U.S. immigration authorities, the Journal reported Saturday.
Keane said Chinese authorities have a history of detaining foreign nationals in what he characterized as “hostage” diplomacy.
“It’s not like the Cold War with the Soviet Union, [where] we arrested their spies, they arrested ours, and we exchanged them at some point,” he explained.
‘So, yes… hostages, that would be an appropriate description of what the Chinese intend to do.”Yael Halon is a reporter for Fox News.
Giới thiệu khái niệm Unbundling – Tách nhỏ các hợp phần là gì? Và vấn đề Tách nhỏ giá điện, tách nhỏ các công ty trong ngành điện
Unbundling là một quá trình mà một công ty (tập đoàn) với nhiều ngành kinh doanh khác nhau giữ lại hoạt động kinh doanh cốt lõi trong khi bán lại tài sản, dòng sản phẩm, các bộ phận hoặc công ty con. Unbundling được thực hiện vì nhiều lý do, nhưng mục tiêu luôn là tạo ra công ty hoặc tập đoàn hoạt động tốt hơn.
Unbundling cũng có thể đề cập đến việc cung cấp các sản phẩm hoặc dịch vụ riêng biệt mà trước đây đã được gộp chung.
Nghe tin thuỷ điện Rào Trăng 3 nơi con trai đang làm việc bị sạt lở, ông Tạ Văn Chính vội bắt xe từ Thanh Hoá vào Huế.
Cùng đi với ông trên chuyến xe khách còn có anh vợ Lê Văn Phùng. Con trai cả hai ông cùng làm máy xúc ở Rào Trăng 3. Suốt chuyến đi 10 tiếng đồng hồ, người ở nhà gọi điện liên hồi, hai ông càng thêm rối bời, chỉ biết nén những tiếng thở dài.
By Linh Do October 16, 2020 | 07:50 pm GMT+7Almost all Vietnamese men think they need to be the “shoulders” for women to cry on. Illustration photo by Shutterstock.
Vietnamese men remain patriarchal, smoke and drink a lot, and feel pressured in life, a study by the Institute for Social Development Studies in Hanoi has found.
According to the study, which surveyed 2,567 men aged 18-64 from four representative geographical regions for two years, to be a “true man” in Vietnam still revolves around conservative values such as prioritizing work and career, being able to feed one’s wife and kids as the family’s breadwinner and “pillar”, daring to take risks and challenges, and being physically strong and possess sexual ability.
The Party Committees of many provinces across the country convened their congresses for the 2020-2025 tenure on October 15 in the presence of senior Party and State leaders.
Politburo member and Head of the PCC’s Commission for Communication and Education Vo Van Thuong speaks at the 11th Congress of the Dong Nai Provincial Party Committee on October 15.
Addressing the convention in Dong Nai, Politburo member and Head of the Party Central Committee (PCC)’s Commission for Communication and Education Vo Van Thuong recommended the province strengthen the removal of difficulties in and barriers to socio-economic development and accelerate industrialisation, modernisation, the restructuring of economic sectors and the shifting of its growth model.
Two Chinese patrol ships have temporarily entered Japan’s territorial waters off the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. The patrol ships exited the waters after attempting to approach a Japanese fishing boat.
The Japan Coast Guard has been warning the vessels not to reenter Japan’s waters.
The Coast Guard says two of the four Chinese patrol vessels that had been sailing just outside the territorial waters made the intrusion off Taisho Island shortly before 11 a.m. on Thursday. Taisho is one of the Senkaku Islands.
Coast Guard officials say the Chinese ships sailed in Japan’s waters for an hour and a half and left the waters by half past noon.
The Japan Coast Guard says that as of 3 p.m., four Chinese vessels, including the two that had made intrusion on the same day, were sailing just outside Japan’s waters off Taisho Island.
The two vessels, which made intrusion on Thursday, had stayed in Japan’s waters off the Senkaku Islands for more than 57 hours from Sunday morning to Tuesday evening, and attempted to approach a Japanese fishing boat.
It was the longest intrusion since Japan’s government purchased some of the Senkaku Islands from a private Japanese owner in 2012.
Japan controls the islands. China and Taiwan claim them. The Japanese government maintains the islands are an inherent part of Japan’s territory, in terms of history and international law. It says there is no issue of sovereignty to be resolved over them.
Vietnam strongly protests the establishment of the so-called Sansha city in Phu Lam Island in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago and related activities as they seriously violate Vietnam’s sovereignty, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang (Photo: VNA)
Hang made the statement regarding reports that China has more than 400 enterprises at the so-called Sansha city, at a regular press conference of the Foreign Ministry.
“Vietnam has firmly stated many times that it has full historical evidence and legal ground to attest to its sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa archipelagos,” the spokesperson said, underlining Vietnam’s consistent stance on protesting against the establishment of the so-called Sansha city and related activities.
Such activities are neither valid nor recognised, and at the same time they do not benefit the friendship among nations while causing more complications to the situation in the East Sea, the region and the world as a whole, according to Hang.
Commenting on the US Presidential election 2020, Hang noted that Vietnam, as a partner of the US, has always closely followed the situation in the US.
“The Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership has made very positive developments in recent years, and Vietnam wants to work together with the US to continue promoting the bilateral ties in the interest of people of the two countries, thus contributing to peace, stability, cooperation and development in the region and the world,” the spokesperson said.
Also at the press conference, the spokesperson took the occasion to extend thanks to international friends, partners, individuals and organisations for their sympathies to Vietnamese people who have been affected by floods and storms recently./.VNA
As Vietnam is listed among three countries with the highest rate of sex ratio imbalance at birth, local authorities are making efforts to raise public awareness and tighten regulations to shorten the gap.
Vietnam’s imbalance rate in 2019 was 111.5 boys per 100 girls.
According to the latest report on the world’s population conducted by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Vietnam’s imbalance rate in 2019 was 111.5 boys per 100 girls, behind only China and India – the two most populous countries in the world.
Further clarifying the legal framework for infrastructure development via wider participation of private investors is expected to help the country attract more funding into the industry.
Infrastructure development at the centre of PPP decree direction. Photo: Le Toan/VIR
The Ministry of Planning and Investment is now compiling two decrees to guide the implementation of the Law on Public-Public Partnership Investment. They include a decree on detailing the law and another one on selecting investors.
Senior US human rights official named as special coordinator for Tibetan issues amid increasingly tense relations between Washington and Beijing.
Human rights activists say Beijing suppresses local culture, the Buddhist religion and minorities in Tibet [File: He Penglei/CNS via Reuters]
14 Oct 2020
The United States has appointed a senior human rights official as special coordinator for Tibetan issues, amid increasingly tense relations between Washington and Beijing.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that Robert Destro, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, would assume the additional post, which has been vacant since the start of President Donald Trump’s term in 2017.
By Adam TaylorOctober 15, 2020 at 12:00 AM EDT Washington Post
The U.S.-Taiwan security relationship has been purposely ambiguous for four decades. But amid increasing Chinese threats of invasion, America’s commitment to Taiwan needs to be clearer, the island’s de facto ambassador to the United States said this week.
Almost all Vietnamese men think they need to be the “shoulders” for women to cry on. Illustration photo by Shutterstock.
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