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VIETNAM
Tác giả: Đào Thu Hằng
I'm from Hanoi, Viet Nam.
I'm an author of Dot Chuoi Non (dotchuoinon.com/author/hangbelu/), a blog on Positive thinking, founded by Dr. Tran Dinh Hoanh, an attorney in Washington DC.
I'm a co-founder of Conversations on Vietnam Development - cvdvn.net, a virtual think tank. I am a co-founder of two companies in Viet Nam working on children education services. I advise companies on STEAM education, English language education for children and students in Vietnam.
I'm studying the Buddha's teaching and the teaching of Jesus. I practice mindful living including meditation.
I hold a PhD on Sustainable Energy Systems from University of Lisbon and Aalto University.
I graduated from Hanoi University of Technology on Environmental Engineering. I obtained a Master degree of the same major from Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University.
My English-language blog at: hangbelu.wordpress/.
I play table tennis as a hobby.
Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group: Webinar Series
Hosted by the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA) and USAID Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program (V-LEEP)
Due to travel and meeting restrictions related to COVID-19, this webinar series is temporarily replacing the in-person Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group normally held in Ho Chi Minh City on a quarterly basis.
BACKGROUND
The Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group is co-organized by the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA) and the USAID Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program (V-LEEP). Since 2017, the Working Group has brought together commercial and industrial (C&I) energy users interested in procuring clean energy, as well as renewable energy project developers and investors, and Government of Vietnam representatives.
The recurring Working Group is a platform for corporate RE market stakeholders to collectively identify and work toward policy, regulatory and financing frameworks needed to meet clean energy goals in Vietnam.
This four-part webinar series, spread across the last three weeks of May 2020, is an important opportunity to virtually convene market stakeholders during a pivotal phase of Vietnam’s clean energy transition.
WEBINAR OVERVIEWS
Each webinar will begin at 9:00AM ICT unless otherwise specified.
May 14 – Webinar #1: Vietnam’s Direct Power Purchase Agreement (DPPA) Pilot Program
This webinar will feature updates about the DPPA pilot program, including:
o Legislation approval status including an update on the Prime Minister Decision and MOIT Decision.
o Transaction agreements, DPPA charge and operational gap analysis.
o Applicant guidelines, including: evaluation criteria, pilot program rules, and the application process
Tiếp tục đọc “Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group: Webinar Series”
Europe has kept down pandemic unemployment — and the U.S. hasn’t. Here’s why.
washingtonpost.com
The U.S. approach has problems that go deeper a lack of funding.
April 24, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. GMT+7
How Blood Sugar Can Trigger a Deadly Immune Response in the Flu and Possibly COVID-19
Glucose metabolism plays a key role in the cytokine storm seen in influenza, and the link could have potential implications for novel coronavirus infections
Many of the people dying in the novel coronavirus pandemic appear to be harmed more by their own immune system than by the virus itself. The infection can trigger a cytokine storm—a surge in cell-signaling proteins that prompt inflammation—that hits the lungs, attacking tissues and potentially resulting in organ failure and death. But this phenomenon is not unique to COVID-19; it sometimes occurs in severe influenza, too. Now a study sheds light on one of the metabolic mechanisms that help orchestrate such runaway inflammation. Tiếp tục đọc “How Blood Sugar Can Trigger a Deadly Immune Response in the Flu and Possibly COVID-19”
Ứng dụng AI trong kiểm tra, quản lý vận hành lưới điện truyền tải
Với sự phát triển của KHCN, thiết bị bay không người lái (UAV) gắn thiết bị ghi hình độ phân giải cao đã được ứng dụng rộng rãi trong các lĩnh vực. Tại EVNNPT, UAV đã được sử dụng trong công tác kiểm tra, quản lý vận hành đường dây, xử lý dây diều, vật thể mắc vào dây dẫn. Việc ứng dụng UAV giúp tiết kiệm thời gian, công sức lực lượng công nhân, đặc biệt giảm nguy cơ tai nạn lao động do trèo cao.
Tuy nhiên vấn đề nảy sinh là trong các đợt kiểm tra, thiết bị ghi, chụp lại một khối lượng rất lớn hình ảnh, việc phân loại, đánh giá tình trạng vận hành thiết bị từ khối lượng lớn hình ảnh này mất rất nhiều công sức của đội ngũ quản lý vận hành. Tiếp tục đọc “Ứng dụng AI trong kiểm tra, quản lý vận hành lưới điện truyền tải”
In Sweden, Trash Heats Homes, Powers Buses and Fuels Taxi Fleets
By Sept. 21, 2018
LINKOPING, Sweden — In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs five tons of trash. As a technician in a control room maneuvers the spiderlike crane, the claw drops its moldering harvest down a 10-story shaft into a boiler that is hotter than 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. A fetid odor emanates from plastic trash bags discarded by hundreds of thousands of homes.
Tiếp tục đọc “In Sweden, Trash Heats Homes, Powers Buses and Fuels Taxi Fleets”
“Việt Nam: 30 ngày ở Sài Gòn”
“Việt Nam: 30 ngày ở Sài Gòn” là phim tư liệu màu sản xuất năm 1975 của đạo diễn người Pháp – Pierre Moscardo, được bảo quản tại Viện phim Pháp.
Trip down memory lane: a secret army base inside Saigon Zoo
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Nhan Huong inside the Saigon Zoo & Botanical Gardens (Thao Cam Vien) in District 1 is at the exact location the restaurant was when it was a secret base for the People’s Army half a century ago. It was where soldiers held secret meetings before battles. |
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The restaurant was established by Nguyen Van Tung, who was born in 1913 in Tra Vinh Province. He named it Nhan Huong after his late wife. Saigon Zoo was chosen as the location because it was a crowded place which enabled the troops to go in and out easily without drawing much attention. In addition, it was also conveniently located near the enemy headquarters. |
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The relic has been re-created to look exactly as it did half a century ago. |
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The restaurant employees were all relatives of the owner, which enabled him to keep the goings-on there confidential. |
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Among its guests would be U.S soldiers and security personnel, who had no inkling the restaurant was a secret enemy base. |
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The bedroom Vietnamese soldiers used to rest. |
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Also on display are historical documents, images and weapons. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, the restaurant served as an important base for the storming of the Independence Palace. |
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Some weapons used by the communist soldiers are on display. |
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Nhan Huong Restaurant gets many visitors especially during holidays. The place was recognized as a historic relic in 2014. Vietnam celebrates Reunification Day on April 30, which this year marks the 45th anniversary after the fall of the Saigon regime. |
Ô NHIỄM MÔI TRƯỜNG ĐỨNG THỨ 3 TRONG NHỮNG VẤN ĐỀ NGƯỜI DÂN VIỆT NAM LO LẮNG NHẤT NĂM 2019
Work begins on first resettlement area for Long Thanh Airport
An artist’s impression of the Loc An – Binh Son resettlement area for residents affected by the Long Thanh International Airport project in Dong Nai Province. Photo by VnExpress/Phuoc Tuan.
Work began Monday on a 280 hectare resettlement area for the Long Thanh International Airport project, with residents set to receive their land lots in August.
The Loc An – Binh Son resettlement area, located in the southern province of Dong Nai, where the new airport is to be built, consists of over 5,000 land lots for 29,000 residents.
Dong Nai authorities will build roads, utilities, schools, markets, community centers and religious facilities before handling the land lots to residents to construct their own houses.
The first 700 households are set to receive their land lots in August.
This is the first of two resettlement areas that will be built for residents affected by the Long Thanh Airport project.
Tiếp tục đọc “Work begins on first resettlement area for Long Thanh Airport”
Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group: Webinar Series
Hosted by the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA) and USAID Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program (V-LEEP)
Due to travel and meeting restrictions related to COVID-19, this webinar series is temporarily replacing the in-person Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group normally held in Ho Chi Minh City on a quarterly basis.
BACKGROUND
The Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group is co-organized by the Clean Energy Investment Accelerator (CEIA) and the USAID Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program (V-LEEP). Since 2017, the Working Group has brought together commercial and industrial (C&I) energy users interested in procuring clean energy, as well as renewable energy project developers and investors, and Government of Vietnam representatives.
The recurring Working Group is a platform for corporate RE market stakeholders to collectively identify and work toward policy, regulatory and financing frameworks needed to meet clean energy goals in Vietnam.
Tiếp tục đọc “Renewable Energy Buyers Vietnam Working Group: Webinar Series”
The great salt drought desiccating Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
Farmers suffer huge losses and communities struggle amid high levels of seawater intruding into the freshwater delta.
Danang, Vietnam – “Well I can tell you, all my fish are dead now.”
Nguyen Thi Bach Vien sounds more resigned than anything else. She is calling from her home in Ben Tre province, a few hours drive south of Ho Chi Minh City in the belly of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, where she has a fish farm and gardens of coconut and pomelo trees.
Vien’s freshwater shrimps and giant river prawns are dying, too.
The 62-year-old has spent her whole life on her land, watching the soil gradually change and the air grow more sweltering every year. Now she fears that she and her husband are likely to be the last of their family to work solely on the farm.
“Dead fish and dead shrimps,” Vien says, “and if we don’t have a solution soon, I think, dead farmers too.”
The issue is water. Salty seawater has intruded into the freshwater Mekong Delta at unprecedented levels this year, to the point at which peoples’ crops and produce simply cannot survive.
Tiếp tục đọc “The great salt drought desiccating Vietnam’s Mekong Delta”
Xe gom rác mini tự chế giá thành dưới 1 triệu đồng của thầy giáo trường làng
TPO – “Xe rác thầy Tùng”, một sản phẩm tự chế của một thầy giáo trường làng tại Thừa Thiên Huế đang gây được sự chú ý của nhiều người, bởi tính cơ động, gọn nhẹ, hiệu quả và đặc biệt là giá thành chỉ dưới 1 triệu đồng để tạo ra sản phẩm phục vụ vệ sinh môi trường công cộng khá tiện lợi này.
VIDEO: Xe gom rác của giáo viên trường làng xứ Huế
Tiếp tục đọc “Xe gom rác mini tự chế giá thành dưới 1 triệu đồng của thầy giáo trường làng”
World Bank Predicts Sharpest Decline of Remittances in Recent History
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2020 — Global remittances are projected to decline sharply by about 20 percent in 2020 due to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown. The projected fall, which would be the sharpest decline in recent history, is largely due to a fall in the wages and employment of migrant workers, who tend to be more vulnerable to loss of employment and wages during an economic crisis in a host country. Remittances to low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are projected to fall by 19.7 percent to $445 billion, representing a loss of a crucial financing lifeline for many vulnerable households.
Tiếp tục đọc “World Bank Predicts Sharpest Decline of Remittances in Recent History”
Chưa bàn luật Về hội, luật Biểu tình tới hết năm 2021
Chính phủ chưa đề xuất đưa các dự án luật Về hội, luật Biểu tình, luật Đặc khu vào chương trình xây dựng luật 2020 và cả 2021.
Bộ trưởng Bộ Tư pháp Lê Thành Long
ẢNH GIA HÂN
Báo cáo về tình hình chuẩn bị các dự án luật đã rút ra khỏi chương trình xây dựng luật từ 2016 – 2019 tại phiên họp Ủy ban Pháp luật sáng 16.4, Bộ trưởng Bộ Tư pháp Lê Thành Long cho biết, có 6 dự án luật đã rút ra khỏi chương trình, gồm: luật Về hội; luật Biểu tình; luật Dân số; luật Quản lý phát triển đô thị; luật Thuế bảo vệ môi trường; luật Đơn vị hành chính – kinh tế đặc biệt (còn gọi là luật Đặc khu).
Tiếp tục đọc “Chưa bàn luật Về hội, luật Biểu tình tới hết năm 2021”
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