Tháng: Tháng Một 2024

Changes to law to simplify home buying by overseas Vietnamese

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VNE – By Anh Tu   January 30, 2024 | 10:11 am GMT+7

Apartment buildings, land plots and townhouses in HCMC’s eastern area. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran

Amendments to the Land Law that will take effect next year are set to make it easier for overseas Vietnamese to buy properties in the country.

Overseas Vietnamese, or Viet Kieu, who do not have citizenship will get exactly the same rights as Vietnamese citizens when the changes take effect in 2025.

The revised law will allow overseas Vietnamese to buy and rent houses that come with land, obtain land-use rights at housing projects and inherit residential and other types of lands adjoining houses.

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Labor ministry calls for Vietnamese in Romania to get their acts together

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VNE – By Hong Chieu   January 31, 2024 | 09:19 am GMT+7

Workers watch over the corn transportation process at the Constanta Port in Romania, May 2022. Photo by AFP

Certain Vietnamese in Romania are committing illegal acts, including gambling and illegal residence, tarnishing their reputation, the labor ministry said.

In a document recently sent to businesses who have workers in Romania, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has called for behaviors like drinking, gambling and the illegal residence of Vietnamese workers in Romania to stop. Romania is a potential market with high demand for foreign workers, including Vietnamese, the ministry added.

Previously on Jan. 20, upon a visit to the Vietnamese Embassy in Romania as part of his trip in Europe, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked for a check-up on companies sending workers overseas after hearing about issues from the Vietnamese community abroad.

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Vietnam requires native English teachers to go through 120-hour training program

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VNE – By Duong Tam   January 25, 2024 | 10:01 am GMT+7

Students learn with a foreign teacher at Res English Language School in HCMC. Photo courtesy of Res

Students learn with a foreign teacher at Res English Language School in HCMC. Photo courtesy of Res The education ministry has requested foreigners teaching English at language centers in Vietnam to complete a training program, focusing on pedagogical skills.

Vu Minh Duc, head of the Teacher and Education Management Officials Department under the Ministry of Education and Training, said Tuesday that the program, which was introduced last month, aims to improve the quality of language teaching and learning in Vietnam.

Teachers at foreign language centers who must participate in this program include native English speakers, foreigners with an associate degree in English, or an associate degree along with a foreign language proficiency certificate of level 5 or higher according to the six-level foreign language competency framework used in Vietnam or equivalent.

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Chàm Islands build unique brand from coral restoration

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VNN – January 28, 2024 – 10:12

More than 40 coral nurseries and two restoration areas of a total 8,000sq.m have been planted to fill in the damaged coral reefs off Chàm Islands, achieving a survival ratio of 80 per cent.

ALL SMILES: A visitor prepares a coral branch to be replanted at a coral restoration site in the water off Chàm Islands. VNS Photo Công Thành

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Tet gifts for workers come with credit card requirement

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[That doesn’t look like a Tet gift, but a marketing solicitation for the finance firm – PTH]

VNE – By Le Tuyet   January 28, 2024 | 11:00 am GMT+7

Workers purchase products at a cashless Tet market event organized by the HCMC union, Jan. 22, 2024. Photo by VnExpress/An Phuong

Workers at several unions have been told they will receive Tet gifts worth VND300,000 ($12), under the condition that they open a credit card with a finance firm.

Earlier this month, Tuan, president of a workers’ union in Dong Nai Province, received 150 Tet gifts, each worth around VND300,000, from the General Confederation of Labor.

However, instead of cash, transactions or physical products, workers were required to open an account at the HD Saison financial company, fill in information, download the app and open a credit card with a VND5 million limit. Workers were instructed to purchase products on e-commerce platforms, Tuan added.

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“Tiếng Việt từ TK 17: cách dùng Trì Trì, mlồi/mlồ, Chiêm Thành – Cham và *Lâm (Ấp)” (phần 41)

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Phần này bàn về các cách dùng Trì Trì, mlồi/mlô, chiem thành (~ Chiêm Thành/NCT) từ thời LM de Rhodes và các giáo sĩ Tây phương sang Á Đông truyền đạo. Đây là lần đầu tiên cách dùng này hiện diện trong tiếng Việt qua dạng con chữ La Tinh/Bồ (chữ quốc ngữ), điều này cho ta dữ kiện để xem lại một số cách đọc chính xác hơn cùng với các dạng chữ Nôm cùng thời hay sau đó. Nhân tiện nhìn rộng ra và bàn thêm về tên gọi Chàm, Chăm và *Lâm (trong quốc hiệu Lâm Ấp).

Tài liệu tham khảo chính của bài viết này là các tài liệu chép tay của LM Philiphê Bỉnh (sđd) và bốn tác phẩm của LM de Rhodes soạn: (a) cuốn Phép Giảng Tám Ngày (viết tắt là PGTN), (b) Bản Báo Cáo vắn tắt về tiếng An Nam hay Đông Kinh (viết tắt là BBC), (c) Lịch Sử Vương Quốc Đàng Ngoài 1627-1646 và (d) từ điển Annam-Lusitan- Latinh (thường gọi là Việt-Bồ-La, viết tắt là VBL) có thể tra tự điển này trên mạng, như trang http://books.google.fr/books? id=uGhkAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. Các chữ viết tắt khác là Nguyễn Cung Thông (NCT), Hán Việt (HV), Việt Nam (VN), ĐNA (Đông Nam Á), TQ (Trung Quốc), LM (Linh Mục), CG (Công Giáo), PG (Phật Giáo), TVGT (Thuyết Văn Giải Tự/khoảng 100 SCN), NT (Ngọc Thiên/543), ĐV (Đường Vận/751), NKVT (Ngũ Kinh Văn Tự/776), LKTG (Long Kham Thủ Giám/997), QV (Quảng Vận/1008), TV (Tập Vận/1037/1067), TNAV (T rung Nguyên Âm Vận/1324), CV (Chính Vận/1375), TVi (Tự Vị/1615), VB (Vận Bổ/1100/1154), VH (Vận Hội/1297), LT (Loại Thiên/1039/1066), CTT (Chính Tự Thông/1670), TViB (Tự Vị Bổ/1666), TTTH (Tứ Thanh  Thiên Hải), KH (Khang Hi/1716), P (tiếng Pháp), A (tiếng Anh), L (tiếng La Tinh), VNTĐ (Việt Nam Tự Điển/Hội Khai Trí Tiến Đức), TNNL (Thiên Nam Ngữ Lục) …v.v… Kí viết là ký (tên người, tên sách) và trang/cột/tờ của VBL được trích lại từ bản La Tinh để người đọc
tiện tra cứu thêm. Tương quan Hán Việt ghi nhận trong bài không nhất thiết khẳng định nguồn gốc của các từ liên hệ (có gốc Việt cổ, Chăm cổ hay Hán cổ).

[1] Nghiên cứu ngôn ngữ độc lập ở Melbourne (Úc) – email nguyencungthong@yahoo.com

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Thể thao Việt Nam và thuốc trị nạn “biết điều”

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HUY THỌ – 28/01/2024 08:02 GMT+7

TTCT – Không ngờ câu chuyện của VĐV thể dục dụng cụ Phạm Như Phương tố HLV của mình về những khoản tiền bị trừ sai quy định ngày càng thêm rối rắm.

Ảnh: The Zeiger Firm
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Trong các loại rối rắm kiểu tiền bị cắt để chuyển cho một ông T. nào đấy đang công tác tại Trung tâm Huấn luyện thể thao quốc gia; hay 10% tiền thưởng bị cắt để quà cáp cho ai đấy…, thì lãnh đạo Cục Thể dục thể thao bảo đang làm rõ; tôi xin bàn đến một khía cạnh khác là liệu có dẹp được cái nạn cắt xén trái quy định hay không.

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Key takeaways from UN court’s ruling on Israel’s war in Gaza

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South African, left, and Israel's delegation, right, stand during session at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations' top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)
South African, left, and Israel’s delegation, right, stand during session at the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations’ top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

BY JOSEF FEDERMANUpdated 2:46 AM GMT+7, January 27, 2024 AP

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N. world court on Friday came down hard on Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians. But it stopped short of demanding an immediate cease-fire, as the South African sponsors of the case had hoped.

All sides tried to claim victory with the ruling, seizing on different elements that buttressed their positions.

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Climate Change Is Main Driver of Historic Amazon River Drought, Study Finds

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Climate Change Is Main Driver of Historic Amazon River Drought, Study Finds

The months-long drought – a 1 in 100 years event – has dried up large parts of the Amazon River, with water levels at their lowest in more than a century. 

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Climate change is the main driver behind the exceptional drought that has been affecting the Amazon River since mid-2023, with the return of El Niño further exacerbating the situation, new research suggests.

A group of scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group used published peer-reviewed methods to assess the role of climate change and El Niño in influencing the drought, which is affecting an estimated 30 million people that rely on the river for transport, food, and power. They found that climate change-driven high temperatures were the main driver of the historic drought – a 1 in 100 year event on the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI). On the other hand, the El Niño – a phenomenon that warms the Pacific Ocean and historically a driver of drought – had a “much smaller influence.”

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How the Belarus-Russia axis works together on anti-EU disinformation push

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 euractive.com 26 Jan 2024 (updated:  26 Jan 2024)

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko attends the CSTO Collective Security Council meeting in Minsk, Belarus, 23 November 2023. [EPA-EFE/SERGY GUNEEV / KREMLIN / POOL]

 Belarusian propaganda positions the EU as its main enemy, but several other features make it a unique case among its European neighbours.

*The author of this text remains anonymous due to fear of repercussions in their home country.

The most important and, at the same time, the most destructive peculiarity of disinformation in Belarus is strong Russian influence, which has deep historical roots and covers various spheres, from economy and culture to the military sector.

However, nowadays, Russian propaganda is helped by Belarusian colleagues who work to follow the same narrative.

This narrative includes turning EU countries into an economically and politically unstable military threat in the eyes of Belarusians while ignoring benefits and positives.

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Canada’s oil sands spew massive amounts of unmonitored polluting gases

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Innovative aircraft-based technique records carbon emissions not tracked before from the industrial region

An aerial photo of the Athabasca oil sands operations, with tar and dirt exposed.
Researchers flew an aeroplane over the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, to measure all of their carbon-based emissions. Credit: John Liggio, Andrea Darlington and Andrew Elford

Canada’s controversial oil-producing tar sands generate a substantial amount of unaccounted-for carbon-based emissions that can affect air quality, according to measurements taken by aircraft. The sands release more of these pollution-causing gases than megacities such as Los Angeles, California, and about the same as the rest of Canada’s human-generated sources combined — including emissions from motor traffic and all other industries.

“No rules have been broken, or guidelines exceeded here,” says Janetta McKenzie, an oil and gas analyst for the Pembina Institute, a think tank in Calgary, Canada. “But that speaks to some issues in our rules and our guidelines.”How a dangerous stew of air pollution is choking the United States

The team that conducted the study — led by environmental engineer Drew Gentner at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and chemist John Liggio at the federal agency Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) in Toronto — used an innovative approach to measure all the carbon-based molecules in the air over oil sands in the province of Alberta. The researchers factored out greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and instead tracked only molecules important to air quality, many of which haven’t been monitored at the oil sands before. These carbon-based gases can seed particulate pollution in the air and react with other chemicals to form ground-level ozone.

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Red Sea, Black Sea and Panama Canal: UNCTAD raises alarm on global trade disruptions

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UNCTAD.org 26 January 2024

The organization warns that escalating attacks on ships in the Red Sea are adding strain to shipping routes already hit by conflict and climate change.

© Shutterstock/byvalet | A large container ship passes through the Suez canal.

The UN’s trade and development body, UNCTAD, has raised profound concerns over escalating disruptions to global trade.

It says that recent attacks on ships in the Red Sea, combined with geopolitical tensions affecting shipping in the Black Sea and the impacts of climate change on the Panama Canal, have given rise to a complex crisis affecting key trade routes.

UNCTAD’s head of trade logistics, Jan Hoffmann, outlined the organization’s detailed analysis of the situation at the UN’s daily press briefing on 26 January. He underlined maritime transport’s critical role in international trade, noting that it is responsible for approximately 80% of the global movement of goods.

Disruptions in the Black Sea and Panama and Suez Canals

The Suez Canal, a critical waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, handled approximately 12% to 15% of global trade in 2023. UNCTAD estimates that the trade volume going through the Suez Canal decreased by 42% over the last two months.

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The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has also triggered substantial shifts in oil and grain trades, reshaping established trade patterns.

Meanwhile, the Panama Canal, another key artery for global trade, is grappling with a severe drought that has diminished water levels, resulting in a staggering 36% reduction in total transits over the past month compared to a year ago.

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Here’s what the ICJ said in its orders to Israel about preventing genocide in Gaza

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) 17-judge panel issued six emergency measures ordering Israel to “take all measures within its power” to prevent acts which could fall foul of the Genocide Convention.

Here’s a summary of the measures Israel must take according to the court’s preliminary ruling:

  • Prevent commission of acts that kill or cause serious bodily or mental harm to Palestinians. The acts are specified within Article Two of the genocide convention.
  • Ensure that its military does not commit any of the aforementioned acts
  • Prevent and punish any direct and public incitement to commit genocide
  • Enable provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza
  • Prevent destruction of any evidence related to allegations of acts of genocide
  • Submit a report to the court on all measures taken to adhere to these orders

South China Sea: how ideological differences between Philippines and China could heat up tensions in disputed waters

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  • The countries’ opposing ideologies amid clashing sovereignty claims could lead to years of militarisation and confrontation in the region if not contained, analysts warn
  • Manila has been boosting defence ties with various countries with the aim of building ‘collective deterrence’ in the event of conflict in the region
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The recent trading of barbs between China and the Philippines over ideological differences highlights the “perennial mistrust” between the two neighbours, experts say, noting that their disparate approaches to democracy and authoritarianism are likely to further escalate tensions in the South China Sea.

After Taiwan’s ruling-party candidate Lai Ching-te emerged victorious in the island’s presidential election earlier this month, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr congratulated Lai, referring to the latter as president.

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