Tăng cường tiếp cận bảo hiểm thai sản cho phụ nữ Việt Nam
Mặc dù chế độ thai sản ở Việt Nam được coi là một trong những chế độ tốt nhất trong khu vực, các khoản trợ cấp này vẫn nằm ngoài tầm với đối với nhiều phụ nữ Việt Nam. Việc tăng cường tiếp cận bảo hiểm thai sản sẽ không những đảm bảo lợi ích cho phụ nữ và gia đình của họ mà còn thúc đẩy sự phát triển của doanh nghiệp và xã hội.
Tổ chức Lao động Quốc tế (ILO) – Mới 6:30 sáng, Hương, 36 tuổi bắt đầu công việc hàng ngày của mình bằng việc vào kho lạnh -20 độ để lấy kem ra sắp xếp vào các thùng xốp rồi chồng cô dùng xe tải chở đi giao cho các đại lý. Hai vợ chồng Hương có một cửa hàng tạp hoá nhỏ bán các đồ tiện lợi, cùng với nghề chuyên giao kem sỉ cho các cửa hàng bán lẻ khác trên địa bàn tỉnh Thanh Hoá.
By Carlyle A. Thayer , Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra
When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Vietnam last weekend, he took an important symbolic step in a long history of consolidating bilateral relations. Carlyle A. Thayer reviews a remarkable transformation that in five decades turned Vietnam from enemy to valued friend and partner.
In February 1973, the Whitlam Labor Government extended diplomatic recognition to the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, North Vietnam), a recent adversary in the Vietnam War. Fifty years later, Australia and the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) are poised to become comprehensive strategic partners, a status Vietnam has only accorded to four countries – Russia, India, China, and South Korea. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recently declared that Vietnam will become one of Australia’s top-tier partners.
European power markets are in the midst of unprecedented changes, with a record-breaking surge in energy prices.This paper investigates the impact of green power resources on the level and volatility of wholesale electricity prices at a granular level, using monthly observations for a panel of 24 European countries over the period 2014–2021 and alternative estimation methods including a panel quantile regression approach. We find that renewable energy is associated with a significant reduction in wholesale electricity prices in Europe, with an average impact of 0.6 percent for each 1 percentage points increase in renewable share. We also find evidence for a nonlinear effect—that is, higher the share of renewables, the greater its effect on electricity prices. On the other hand, while quantile estimation results are mixed with regards to the impact of renewables on the volatility of electricity prices, we obtain evidence that renewable energy has a negative effect on volatility at the highest quantiles. Overall, our analysis indicates that policy reforms can help accelerate the green transition while minimizing the volatility in electricity prices.
The governments of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America released the following Joint Declaration on 9 June 2023.
The use of trade-related economic coercion and non-market-oriented policies and practices (“non-market policies and practices”) threatens and undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system and harms relations between countries. The purpose of this Declaration is to express our shared concern and affirm our commitment to enhance international cooperation in order to effectively deter and address trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices.
We express serious concern over trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices that undermine the functioning of and confidence in the rules-based multilateral trading system by distorting trade, investment, and competition and harming relations between countries. Trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices threaten the livelihoods of our citizens, harm our workers and businesses, and could undermine global security and stability.
By Ryan Wiser, Andrew Mills, Todd Levin, Audun Botterud
The impacts of wind and solar on wholesale power markets in the United States have been limited so far. However, the impact will change as the penetration of variable renewable energy (VRE) increases.
Wholesale power prices and the composition and operation of the bulk power system in the United States have witnessed changes in recent years, and concern has grown in some quarters about the effects of VRE on these trends. The U.S. Department of Energy’s “Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability” addressed this concern, but within a much broader context. The study focused on thermal-plant retirements and reliability, and placed a spotlight not only on growth in VRE but also on the effects of other contemporaneous trends such as declining natural gas prices, limited load growth, and regulatory pressures.
As input into the DOE Staff Report, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory prepared a study (recently made available publicly, here) that focused on the degree to which growth in VRE has impacted wholesale power prices and bulk power system assets to date and how this may change in the future. In the noted report, we did not analyze impacts on specific power plants, instead focusing on national and regional trends. The issues addressed are highly context-dependent, and analyzing the impacts of VRE is complex. Nonetheless, while more analysis is warranted—including additional location-specific assessments—several high-level findings emerged from our study.
Kênh đào Bình Lục đổ vào Vịnh Bắc Bộ với kinh phí 10,3 tỉ USD mà Trung Quốc đang xây dựng có thể giúp nước này xích lại gần hơn với khu vực Đông Nam Á.
Forest elephant extinction would exacerbate climate change. That’s according to a new study in Nature Geoscience which links feeding by elephants with an increase in the amount of carbon that forests are able to store.
The bad news is that African forest elephants – smaller and more vulnerable relatives of the better known African bush elephant – are fast going extinct. If we allow their ongoing extermination to continue, we will be also worsening climate change. The good news is that if we protect and conserve these elephants, we will simultaneously fight climate change.
Elephants are fascinating animals, and I have studied them for more than 15 years. They are intelligent, sentient, and highly social. But their single most remarkable feature is their size. Evolutionarily, elephants gambled on becoming massive enough to deter predators like lions and tigers.
African forest elephant range is highlighted in light green. The largest surviving population is in Gabon, on the coast of central Africa. IUCN / u/DarreToBe, CC BY-SA
In exchange, they became slaves to their appetite. Elephants need huge amounts of food everyday, something like 5-10% of their body mass. A typical three-tonne female could eat 200 kg of plant material in one day. Her family may need to consume more than a tonne of food per day.
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ZHENGZHOU, China, April 20 (Reuters) – Severe power shortages in China’s southwestern Yunnan province are likely to cut aluminium production in the country’s fourth-largest producing province, analysts and producers said, but weak demand will cap price rises.
Yunnan, which accounts for about 12% of China’s aluminium capacity, has forced electrolytic aluminium producers to reduce their power usage since September last year after unusually low rainfall reduced hydropower generation.
Hydropower generates about 80% of the province’s electricity, and had attracted investment by energy-intensive aluminium smelters keen to lower their emissions.
The output of the metal in Yunnan jumped by 37% in 2022 from the prior year to 4.2 million tonnes.
Now, however, about 2 million tonnes of capacity, or 20% of the provincial total, is offline, Li Jiahui, an analyst at consultancy Shanghai Metals Market, told a conference in Zhengzhou.
Average rainfall in Yunnan during the first quarter of 2023 was 60% lower than the same period in typical years, the provincial government’s emergency management department said.
This image shows Vietnamese State President Vo Van Thuong (R) talking with U.S. Ambassador Marc Knapper (L) in Hanoi on June 5, 2023. Photo: Vietnam News Agency
Vietnam always attaches significance to developing its comprehensive cooperation with the U.S., one of its most important partners in the world, State President Vo Van Thuong told Ambassador Marc Knapper.
President Thuong was speaking at his meeting with the ambassador at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Monday, during which he also brought forward some suggestions for further promoting the Vietnam – U.S. comprehensive partnership that was set up in 2013, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
Tiêu thụ điện tăng vọt vì nắng nóng dẫn đến thiếu điện được cả Bộ Công thương và ngành điện cùng giải thích khi cắt điện luân phiên. Thế nhưng, có một thực tế là điện lực phía bắc từ mấy năm qua không có dự án mới nào. Ngay cả công suất dự phòng khi thiếu điện cũng không còn.
Hết công suất dự phòng
Giữa tháng 5 vừa qua, khi một vài nơi ở TP.HCM bị cắt điện, báo chí hỏi ngành điện có phải vào mùa cắt điện luân phiên không, Tổng công ty Điện lực TP.HCM và Tập đoàn Điện lực VN (EVN) khẳng định chỉ khắc phục sự cố kỹ thuật… và các ngày sau đó lịch cắt điện cũng được hoãn lại. Từ đó, ngành điện cả nước vào cuộc “gồng” mình chống… cắt điện. May mắn miền Nam cũng vào mùa mưa, trời mát hơn hẳn và áp lực thiếu điện cũng giảm.
Nguy cơ thiếu điện không chỉ xảy ra trong những tháng nắng nóng này
Beneath our feet, remarkable networks of fungal filaments stretch out in all directions. These mycorrhizal fungi live in partnership with plants, offering nutrients, water and protection from pests in exchange for carbon-rich sugars.
How much bigger? These microscopic filaments take up the equivalent of more than a third (36%) of the world’s annual carbon emissions from fossil fuels – every year.
As we search for ways to slow or stop the climate crisis, we often look to familiar solutions: cutting fossil fuel use, switching to renewables and restoring forests. This research shows we need to look down too, into our soils.
This shows how mycorrhizal fungi (fine white filaments) connect to plant root systems (yellow) and out into the soil. Scivit/Wikipedia
This fungi-plant partnership is 400 million years old
Mycorrhizal fungi are hard to spot, but their effects are startling. They thread networks of microscopic filaments through the soil and into the roots of almost every plant on earth.
But this is no hostile takeover. They’ve been partnering with plants for more than 400 million years. The length of these complex relationships has given them a vital role in our ecosystems.
Kinhtedothi – Tình trạng cắt điện luân phiên tại các địa phương đang khiến hoạt động sản xuất, kinh doanh của doanh nghiệp đảo lộn, ngưng trệ, chi phí đội lên cao… Để đảm bảo duy trì sản xuất, doanh nghiệp mong muốn ngành điện có phương án cân đối nguồn điện ưu tiên cho những ngành đặc thù.
Sản xuất ngưng trệ, đội chi phí
Những ngày này, anh Nguyễn Văn Chữ – Chủ tịch chuỗi thực phẩm sạch Organic Green như ngồi trên đống lửa khi nhìn vào lịch cắt điện luân phiên dày đặc. Bởi doanh nghiệp của anh hoạt động trong lĩnh vực sản xuất, chế biến và kinh doanh thực phẩm sạch, vì vậy nguồn điện rất cần cho các kho bảo quản thực phẩm tươi sống.
Anh Chữ chia sẻ, mặc dù cơ sở đã trang bị máy phát điện nhưng chỉ đủ duy trì một số hoạt động cơ bản và khu văn phòng, không đảm bảo được hệ thống cấp đông, bảo quản sản phẩm. Nếu mất điện lâu, doanh nghiệp có thiệt hại tới hàng chục tỷ đồng. Bởi mặt hàng thực phẩm tươi sống cần được bảo quản trong nhiệt độ thấp, nếu không được bảo quản sẽ bị giã đông và ảnh hưởng chất lượng.
Kho bảo quản thực phẩm tại chuỗi thực phẩm Organic Green
Ngoài ra, cũng vì mất điện, nên nhà máy sản xuất thức ăn chăn nuôi của doanh nghiệp này cũng phải tạm dừng hoạt động. Ngừng hoạt động khiến công ty không đủ hàng giao cho các đại lý. “Lịch cắt điện không phải chỉ luân phiên 1-2 tiếng, mà cắt cả ngày cả đêm, nên ảnh hưởng nghiêm trọng đến hoạt động sản xuất kinh doanh của Công ty” – anh Chữ bức xúc.
Hydroelectric reservoirs’ water levels are lower than annual averages, according to a May 10 report from Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN), and 10 are either close to or under the ‘dead level’.
Current water levels at Lai Chau hydroelectric reservoir. (Photo: kinhtedothi.vn)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) – Hydroelectric reservoirs‘ water levels are lower than annual averages, according to a May 10 report from Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN), and 10 are either close to or under the ‘dead level’.
During the monitoring of the national electricity system in April and early May, prolonged intense heat waves across a wide area led to a significant increase in electricity consumption.
Even though the early May heatwave in the northern region only lasted a few days, it resulted in very high levels of power capacity and electricity consumption throughout the country.
For instance, the total power consumption on May 6, albeit a Saturday, reached 43,300 megawatts, while the total energy consumption reached 895 million kilowatts per hour (kWh).
Forecast for the upcoming months of May, June, and July indicates that the northern region will enter the peak period of hot weather, resulting in an increasing trend of electricity consumption, surpassing the planned operation of the national power system approved by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
Meanwhile, the hydrological situation of reservoirs in recent months has experienced unfavourable fluctuations, significantly lower than the multi-year average.
Many hydropower reservoirs across the country are facing water shortages, with several hydropower reservoirs in the central and southern regions experiencing low water levels.
According to the EVN, 10 are close or under the “dead level”, which means that the total consumption is under 4,500 megawatts.
These reservoirs are Lai Chau, Tri An, Ialy, Ban Chat, Huoi Quang, Trung Son, Buon Kuop, Buon Tua Srah, Srepok 3, and Song Ba Ha.
The remaining electricity production in the entire system is 4.5 billion kWh, which is 1.6 billion kWh lower than the planned amount and 4.1 billion kWh lower than the same period in 2022.
According to the forecast by the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF), as El Nino is expected to occur in the later months of 2023, there will be higher temperatures and lower rainfall compared to the multi-year average, which will further contribute to a decreasing trend in water inflow to reservoirs during the second half of the year.
To deal with this situation, EVN asked its customers to tighten energy-saving consumption, especially in the noon and evening hours.
EVN recommends putting air conditioners at a reasonable level, between 26 to 27 degrees Celsius, and avoiding using multiple high-capacity electrical devices simultaneously./.
The coast guards of the Philippines, US and Japan are holding their first ever joint exercises.
They’re taking place as tensions are rising in the Indo-Pacific region.
Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo reports from the South China Sea.
TN – Bản Máy là xã biên giới thuộc H.Hoàng Su Phì, Hà Giang. Đây là xã nằm trong danh sách đặc biệt khó khăn, do ở địa bàn hẻo lánh, đi lại khó khăn, thời tiết khí hậu khắc nghiệt, kinh tế chủ yếu tự cung tự cấp.
Xã Bản Máy có 4 thôn bản, trong đó cụm Mã Tẻn là khó khăn nhất. Từ trung tâm xã, chỉ có cách đi xe máy (thời tiết nắng ráo) hoặc đi bộ (trời mưa, mùa đông mây mù), với quãng đường gần 7 km mới tới trung tâm của thôn là điểm trường mầm non Mã Tẻn (thuộc Trường mầm non Bản Máy), nằm cách đường biên khoảng 300 m theo đường chim bay. Từ vị trí này có thể nhìn rõ người, xe bên Trung Quốc.
Mã Tẻn nằm trên vùng núi cao, mây mù bao phủ nhiều tháng trong năm – NGUYỄN ĐỘC LẬP
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