Conversations on Vietnam Development
HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam ranks 96 out of 132 countries on the 2020 Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI), down four positions compared to last year and nine positions in 2018. Tiếp tục đọc “Việt Nam ranks 96th in global talent competitiveness index”
Authorities in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) of Vietnam has ordered local entertainment facilities, including bars and clubs, to shut down starting from Saturday evening in a bid to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
According to a document issued by the People’s Committee in District 1, all forms of entertainment establishments including cinemas, massage parlors, bars, karaoke bars, discos, and beer clubs in the downtown district shall be suspended indefinitely from 6:00 pm on Saturday. Tuoi Tre Newspaper reports. Tiếp tục đọc “Saigon and Hanoi shutdown all public entertainment places over coronavirus concerns”
HANOI: Vietnam’s health ministry on Sunday (Mar 15) said all passengers coming from or through China, South Korea, the UK and Schengen countries will be compulsorily quarantined and tested for COVID-19.
“The compulsory quarantine applies to arrivals from March 14,” the health ministry said in a statement. “Those whose tests are positive will get immediate treatment while the rest will be quarantined for 14 days.” Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam introduces compulsory testing for arrivals from coronavirus-hit areas”
March 10, 2020 CSIS
Confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which first appeared in China at the end of last year, now exceed 115,000 as of March 10 and are likely to climb significantly higher. While over two-thirds of the total confirmed cases are in mainland China, the vast majority of new cases reported since February 25 have occurred outside the country. What was initially seen as a largely China-centric shock is now understood to be a global crisis. The virus’s spread has regrettably borne out analysts’ downside scenarios, with investors digesting the implications of disrupted supply chains, official containment measures, and spillovers from the real economy to financial markets. A decision by two of the world’s largest energy producers to maintain current levels of production, despite falling energy prices, has further unnerved investors while questions about governments’ abilities to mount an effective and coordinated response linger. The increased uncertainty has led to financial market volatility last seen during the global financial crisis. Tiếp tục đọc “The Global Economic Impacts of COVID-19”
Karlis Salna – Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen March 12 2020, 2:24 PM (Bloomberg)
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will meet in Vietnam later this month after initially weighing a proposal to postpone the summit due to the coronavirus. Authorities in Vietnam, which holds the Asean chairmanship, have confirmed the summit will now go ahead as scheduled, the Asean Secretariat said Thursday. Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had been weighing a proposal to postpone the meeting, set to take place over four days in Halong Bay, a beach city north of Hanoi, beginning March 24. Finance and central bank officials from across Southeast Asia, as well as Japan, South Korea and China, had been expected to attend.
Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/asean-meeting-of-finance-chiefs-to-proceed-in-vietnam-in-march
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• Editorial
A high-profile feature of current Vietnamese politics is the anti-corruption drive led by Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). As the anti-graft campaign enters its fifth year, Trong has announced that 10 more grand corruption cases will be put to trial in 2020. Tiếp tục đọc “Continuing Vietnam’s anti-graft campaign beyond Nguyen Phu Trong”
02.11.2020 07:08 PM
The virus that causes it is SARS-CoV-2. (We didn’t say they were good names.)
Tiếp tục đọc “Tên chính thức của dịch coronavirus – Official name of Coronavirus pandemic”
TÓM TẮT:
Trong lĩnh vực đầu tư năng lượng xanh, năng lượng sạch, năng lượng tái tạo, pháp luật về cơ chế khuyến khích hiện nay bao gồm chính sách giá ưu đãi mua điện Feed-in-Tariff (FiT), cơ chế ưu tiên mua điện từ các nguồn này, cùng với các ưu đãi khác về thuế, đầu tư, sử dụng đất. Pháp luật và cơ chế, chính sách hiện hành đã thu hút nhiều thành phần kinh tế tư nhân tham gia đầu tư vào lĩnh vực này và đạt được những thành tựu nhất định. Song trong giai đoạn mới tới đây, hệ thống pháp luật còn có thể tiếp tục hoàn thiện hơn nữa để đảm bảo tính đồng bộ, hiệu lực, hiệu quả trong việc áp dụng và thực thi pháp luật, góp phần đạt được các mục tiêu phát triển kinh tế – xã hội – môi trường của nước ta. Bài viết đánh giá và đưa ra giải pháp hoàn thiện pháp luật về khuyến khích đầu tư năng lượng xanh, năng lượng sạch, năng lượng tái tạo ở Việt Nam. Tiếp tục đọc “Hoàn thiện pháp luật về đầu tư năng lượng xanh, năng lượng sạch, năng lượng tái tạo ở Việt Nam”
Ông đánh giá như thế nào về cơ chế giá mua điện FiT (feed-in tariffs – giá bán điện năng sản xuất ra từ nguồn năng lượng tái tạo được cung cấp vào hoặc bán cho lưới điện) hiện nay đối với các dự án năng lượng tái tạo? Nó có đủ hấp dẫn đối với các nhà đầu tư không? Tiếp tục đọc “Giá mua điện hiện nay là đủ để các dự án năng lượng tái tạo có thể có lãi”
HANOI – A new three-way dispute has broken into the open in the South China Sea, one that brings two Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) members into conflict along with China over coveted energy resources. Tiếp tục đọc “Three-way fray spells toil and trouble in South China Sea”
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health just announced nine new cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday afternoon (March 08, 2020).
All nine new cases are foreigners, who were on the same flight from London to Hanoi with the 17th case, 26-year-old Nguyen Hong Nhung, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus Friday after traveling to the three European countries last month. Tiếp tục đọc “Breaking | Vietnam reports 9 new coronavirus cases in a day, now 30”
London (CNN Business)Oil prices have suffered their biggest fall since the day in 1991 when American forces launched air strikes on Iraqi troops following their invasion of Kuwait.
Tiếp tục đọc “Why oil prices are crashing and what it means”
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt transits the Pacific Ocean on March 1, 2020.
By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 4, 2020
The USS Theodore Roosevelt arrived Thursday in Vietnam, becoming only the second U.S. aircraft carrier to make a port call there since the fall of Saigon in 1975.
By Prashanth Parameswaran March 04, 2020 The Dilplomat
The South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI) a project of the Peking University Institute of Ocean Research, recently released Automatic Identification System (AIS) data showing more than 300 Vietnamese fishing boats gathering in the near seas of China’s Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan provinces in February — while China is busy fighting the coronavirus. Tiếp tục đọc “Is Vietnam Sending Its Maritime Militia to China’s Coast?”
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