VNE – By Luu Quy November 13, 2023 | 10:49 am GMT+7
A person uses a pay TV service in Vietnam. Photo by VnExpress/Luu Quy
Several foreign television channels and platforms have exited Vietnam after changing their business models or failing to meet new regulations, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.
In early November Amazon’s Prime Video OTT television platform pulled out after a seven-year run in the country.
Since October National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild, Baby TV, and Mezzo Live channels have stopped broadcasting in some markets, including Vietnam.
Paramount Network and Baby First have also exited the Vietnamese market.
Workers at a textile factory in the northern province of Bắc Ninh. — VNA/VNS Photo Danh Lam
HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam should set up an early warning system for trade defence to help support Vietnamese products in foreign markets, said industry leaders and policymakers.
According to data from the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), Vietnamese products have been involved in 235 trade remedies investigations in 24 markets around the world. The majority of the cases were anti-dumping (129), trade safeguard (47), evasion investigation (34) and anti-subsidy (24) in nature with products including wooden cabinets, laminated wood, solar panels, shrimp, basa fish, high-pressure washers, foam mattresses, grass cutting machines, cigarette paper, and honey.
Sau cuộc chiến với các nước Ả Rập năm 1948, Israel đối mặt với thách thức an ninh cực lớn khi bị bao quanh bởi phần lớn các nước thù địch. Tình thế này khiến Israel phải đưa ra giải pháp trước khi quá muộn. Và họ chọn Iran.
Trước khi thù địch, Israel và Iran từng hình thành một liên minh chiến lược. Ảnh minh họa: Sky News
Theo Viện Brookings (tổ chức tư vấn có trụ sở tại Mỹ), sự thù địch Israel – Iran rất kỳ lạ. Hai nước không có biên giới chung, không xảy ra chiến tranh cũng như không có bất kỳ sự cạnh tranh gay gắt nào về kinh tế hay vị thế trong khu vực. Lịch sử về mối quan hệ giữa người Ba Tư (Iran ngày nay) và người Do Thái (Israel ngày nay) cũng phần lớn là những điều tích cực. Thậm chí, trước năm 1979, Israel và Iran còn tạo thành một liên minh chiến lược về chính trị, kinh tế, an ninh và nhiều lĩnh vực khác. Vậy điều gì đã khiến Israel và Iran từ bạn hóa thù? Loạt bài kỳ này sẽ cố gắng giải đáp phần nào câu hỏi đó.
By age 18 years, Lalitbai was a married mother of three children. She became a child bride when she was 13 years old. At age 32 years, Lalitbai was a widow and cast out of her extended family. With no money or education, she worked tirelessly as a day labourer, eventually starting her own small bakery. She now speaks openly, with neighbours and in local gatherings, about stopping child marriage. Lalitbai lives in India, the country with the largest number of child brides worldwide.
Yet India is also making progress in reducing child marriage. According to UNICEF’s Is an End to Child Marriage within Reach? Latest Trends and Future Prospects, 2023 Update, released on May 3, 2023, since 2012, the percentage of young women aged 20–24 years who were married as children worldwide has fallen from 23% to 19%, and a substantial portion of this progress is driven by reductions in India.
In the past decade the prevalence of child marriage in this country has declined from 38% to 23%.
HANOI, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Vietnam will have a hard time reaching its offshore wind power target for 2030, a top executive at a state-owned energy company said, with foreign investors also warning of multiple regulatory hurdles that would need to be cleared.
The Southeast Asian country has good offshore wind power potential given strong winds and shallow waters near densely populated areas, according to the World Bank, which estimates the sector could add at least $50 billion to Vietnam’s economy.
Offshore wind is also a priority for Group of Seven (G7) members that have promised funds to boost the country’s renewable energy sources and reduce its reliance on coal.
Laos borrowed billions from President Xi Jinping’s administration to finance railways, highways and hydroelectric dams, which has ballooned public debt to over 100% of GDP.
Combined with a currency crisis and soaring inflation, Laos is on the brink of economic collapse.
Without a clear-cut debt reduction deal with China, Laos’ financial hardships are unlikely to ease, analysts warn. But it remains to be seen if Beijing will agree to long-term concessions.
A pedestrians at a bus station in Vientiane, Laos, on Saturday, June 24, 2023.
Greenhouse gas emissions can be offset by carbon sinks such as forests, but expanding these areas can put Indigenous communities, reliant on the forests, at risk.
Khao Sok rainforest in Thailand. Photo by: Sebastian Kautz / Alamy
From Khao Sok National Park in the southwest to Phu Chi Fa Forest Park in the north, forests cover around 30% of Thailand’s total area. Approximately 23 million people live near or in these lush green landscapes, depending on them for sustenance and livelihoods. But that’s now at risk, due to both climate change-related threats and the policies implemented to protect the forests.
Warangkana Rattanarat, Thailand country director for The Center for People and Forests, warned that the arrival of El Niño earlier this year has caused long droughts and less rain, damaging crops and other forest resources. This has affected the availability of food, as well as the income local people can derive from forest resources, she added.
The country has also experienced floods and the highest temperatures on record this year, impacting forests and the communities within them. In theGermanWatch Global Climate Risk Index 2021, Thailand ranked at number nine globally for long-term climate risks.
Additionally, there are land and tenure rights issues for Indigenous forest communities to contend with, and national climate commitments that have the potential to negatively impact such communities, said experts.
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