Việt Nam: top 10 developing economies in exporting creative products

March 13, 2024 – 07:51

A young and technology-savvy population, favourable policies and rich cultural heritage coupled with the rapid digitalisation and economic integration will fuel the boom of the creative economy in Việt Nam.

Handicraft products of MFC Mỹ Quới Cooperative in Sóc Trăng Province. Việt Nam has significant opportunities to promote the development of the creative economy. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Hưng

HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam is in the top 10 developing economies in exporting creative products with a value of US$14.153 billion, heard a conference on Tuesday.

The conference, co-organised by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) and the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), discusses opportunities and recommendations for Việt Nam to promote the development of its creative economy.

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Việt Nam’s telecom companies enter bidding war for 5G rights

VNN – March 08, 2024 – 18:54

Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Huy Dũng said the bidding is a historic day for the telecom sector and the commercialisation of 5G in Việt Nam.

Telecom workers perform a test on 5G mobile networks in Hoàn Kiếm District, Hà Nội. VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI – Việt Nam’s telecom companies entered a bidding war yesterday over the rights to develop and exploit the country’s 5G 2500-2600 MHz band for the next 15 years. The band, officially designated as B1 during the bidding, had a starting price of VNĐ3.9 trillion (US$158 million).

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Videos: Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) – Public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa

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A/HRC/55/72: Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan – Advance edited version

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UN rights office says Israeli settlements in Palestinian areas amount to a ‘war crime’

FILE - U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday, March 8, 2024, that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
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Updated 9:33 PM GMT+7, March 8, 2024

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime.

The report covers the one-year period from Nov. 1, 2022, to Oct. 31, 2023, when it says roughly 24,300 housing units in existing settlements in the West Bank were “advanced” — the highest number in a year since monitoring began in 2017. It deplored an increase in the building of new settlement homes in recent months.

“The West Bank is already in crisis. Yet, settler violence and settlement-related violations have reached shocking new levels, and risk eliminating any practical possibility of establishing a viable Palestinian state,” U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk said. He presented the report to the Human Rights Council on Friday.

Reports this week that Israel plans to build nearly 3,500 settler homes in three areas “fly in the face of international law,” he said.

Türk said the creation and expansion of settlements amount to the transfer by Israel of its own population into territories that it occupies, “which amounts to a war crime under international law,” his office said in a statement.

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Israel’s diplomatic mission in Geneva, which regularly accuses Türk’s office of overlooking violence by Palestinian extremists against Israelis, said the report “totally ignored” what it said was the deaths of 36 Israelis and injuries of nearly 300 others in attacks due to “Palestinian terrorism” last year.

Much of the international community considers the settlements to be illegal under international law.

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Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast

AP explains the escalatory risk of fatal Yemen Houthi rebel attack at sea

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BY JON GAMBRELLUpdated 8:49 PM GMT+7, March 7, 2024

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The first fatal attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping threatens to further sever a crucial maritime artery for global trade and carries with it risks beyond those just at sea.

Already, the White House is warning that there will be a response to Wednesday’s attack on the Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned bulk carrier True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden. What that will look like remains unclear, but the U.S. has already launched round after round of airstrikes targeting the Houthis, a rebel group that has held Yemen’s capital since 2014, and more are likely on the way.

However, a wider economic, humanitarian and political impact is looming from the attack. It also further highlights Yemen’s yearslong war, now overshadowed by Israel’s grinding war on Hamas on the Gaza Strip that may reach into the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, raising the danger of worsening regional anger.

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Family of wrongfully accused man compensated with $67,600 after 43 years

VNE – By Bui Toan   March 8, 2024 | 09:05 am GMT+7

Huynh Chiem Hoanh (R) and Tran Be who were wrongfully arrested for a murder in Khanh Hoa Province in 1981. Photo by VnExpress/Hong Ha

A man who died in 2015 at the age of 84 has been cleared of murder charges from the 1980s and his family has been compensated with VND1.67 billion ($67,631).

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Đường trở thành luật sư của cô gái Mông ba lần bị bắt làm vợ

VNE – Thứ tư, 6/3/2024, 06:00 (GMT+7)

YÊN BÁI – Lần thứ ba bị người lạ “kéo vợ”, Sùng Thị Sơ đã định nhảy xuống vách núi nhưng sợ bị thương, không đi thi đại học được.

Kế hoạch của cô gái 18 tuổi cách đây gần bốn năm là chờ tới đêm rồi trốn khỏi nhà người đã bắt mình. Nhưng điện thoại đã bị thu mất, xung quanh không có đèn, đường lại toàn vách núi nên kế hoạch bị phá sản. Để tránh bị xâm hại, Sơ thức trắng hai đêm kể cả khi bị họ ép buộc, thậm chí đánh đập. Khi gọi điện được cho bố mẹ, thuyết phục gia đình người “kéo vợ” đưa về nhà, Sơ vẫn không tin vào may mắn này bởi chưa cô gái nào trong bản bị bắt mà được trở về.

Vài tháng sau đó Sùng Thị Sơ, sinh năm 2002, quê huyện Trấn Yên đã đỗ Đại học Luật Hà Nội với số điểm 28,5. Cùng năm, cô được trao giải học sinh, sinh viên dân tộc xuất sắc nhất năm học 2020-2021.

“Sau ba lần bị bắt làm vợ, tôi quyết tâm thi vào ngành Luật. Tôi muốn những bạn gái vùng sâu vùng xa như mình được đi học, được tôn trọng và tự do lựa chọn trong hôn nhân”, Sơ nói.

Sùng Thị Sơ trong lễ tốt nghiệp cấp 3 năm học 2020-2021. Ảnh: Nhân vật cung cấp
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Tuổi thọ nghề cầu thủ Việt: Ngắn lạ lùng!

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Trong một chương trình bình luận và phân tích về bóng đá, thật ngạc nhiên khi những cầu thủ ở lứa 2018 gặt hái huy chương bạc U23 châu Á và vô địch AFF Cup bị xem là đã “già” và không còn tham vọng, dù họ đúng ra phải đang ở độ tuổi chín nhất trong đời cầu thủ.

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Vietnamese woman poised to claim title as world’s oldest living person

VNE – By Minh Nga   March 4, 2024 | 03:44 pm GMT+7

Trinh Thi Khong (R) and her daughter Do Thi Ninh at Ninh’s home in Dong Nai Province, February 2024. Photo by Dong Nai Province’s news portal

At 119, a woman living in the southern Dong Nai Province, could break the record for “World’s Oldest Living Person.”

Trinh Thi Khong’s birth year, documented in official records and acknowledged through congratulatory messages from both the president and local authorities, is 1905.

This makes Khong not only Vietnam’s eldest resident but also places her two years senior to Maria Branyas Morera of France, who is currently listed by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest.

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Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

4 March 2024, New York

Mr. President,

Excellencies, 

I am here today because UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, is at a breaking point.

75 years after its creation by this Assembly as a temporary UN entity, pending a just political solution to the question of Palestine, the Agency’s ability to fulfil its mandate is seriously threatened.

Your urgent action is needed to facilitate a political solution that will bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis, and in this context alone, allow the Agency to transition.

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Quốc phòng Việt Nam 2019 (Sách trắng Quốc phòng Việt Nam 2019)

16:58 | 10/12/2019

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Trong lịch sử hàng nghìn năm dựng nước và giữ nước, dân tộc Việt Nam luôn coi trọng giữ ổn định bên trong và hòa hiếu, hữu nghị với các quốc gia, dân tộc khác để xây dựng và phát triển đất nước. Mỗi khi đất nước bị xâm lăng, toàn dân Việt Nam đồng lòng đứng lên đánh bại quân xâm lược, giữ vững núi sông, bờ cõi, độc lập, tự do. Kế thừa và phát huy truyền thống vẻ vang, dưới sự lãnh đạo của Đảng, quản lý của Nhà nước, nhân dân Việt Nam, trong đó Quân đội nhân dân làm nòng cốt, đã xây dựng nền quốc phòng toàn dân vững chắc, đẩy mạnh hội nhập quốc tế về quốc phòng, ngăn ngừa nguy cơ chiến tranh, bảo vệ Tổ quốc từ sớm, từ xa, bảo vệ nền hòa bình bền vững, thực hiện mục tiêu dân giàu, nước mạnh, dân chủ, công bằng, văn minh; đồng thời, duy trì sức mạnh quốc phòng cần thiết, sẵn sàng đánh bại mọi hình thái chiến tranh xâm lược.

Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam đã và đang được đổi mới về tổ chức, trang bị, nghệ thuật quân sự; sức mạnh tổng hợp tiếp tục được tăng cường; khả năng sẵn sàng chiến đấu được nâng cao; thực sự là quân đội của nhân dân, lực lượng chính trị, lực lượng chiến đấu trung thành, tin cậy của Đảng, Nhà nước và nhân dân, lực lượng nòng cốt bảo vệ Tổ quốc trong tình hình mới.

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Severe subsidence and erosion afflict Vietnam’s southernmost province

VNE – By An Minh   March 2, 2024 | 06:41 am GMT+7

Tran Van Thoi District of the Mekong Delta’s Ca Mau Province has suffered around 340 cases of subsidence and soil erosion along river and canal routes in the past two months.

Severe subsidence and erosion afflict Vietnam's southernmost province

Nearly 100 meters of embankment in front of the office of Khanh Hung Commune in Tran Van Thoi District experienced severe subsidence on Feb. 20, with the deepest collapse measured at 2 m.

Since the beginning of the year, the district has recorded about 340 cases of subsidence and soil erosion, stretching a total length of 9 km, and causing damages of over VND13 billion (US$528,000).

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Vietnam opposes Chinese vessel’s operation near Vanguard Bank

VNE – By Vu Anh, Tu Binh   February 29, 2024 | 06:44 pm GMT+7

The 5901 vessel by the Chinese Coast Guard. Photo courtesy of CAP

Vietnam strongly opposes acts of violations of its sovereignty over Vanguard Bank, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

“The Vanguard Bank is a part of Vietnam’s continental shelf, established in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),” said spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang in a Thursday press meet.

She was responding to inquiries about China sending its coast guard vessel to the area recently.

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