Conversations on Vietnam Development
MANILA: Lions, chimpanzees, giraffes, leopards and a wide variety of sharks received added protection at a UN wildlife conference in the Philippines, organisers said Saturday (Oct 28).
Some 34 endangered species were selected to receive heightened conservation efforts at the Conservation of Migratory Species (CMS) conference that just concluded in Manila. Tiếp tục đọc “Lions, chimps, sharks get added protection under UN convention”
PALONGKHALI, Bangladesh: Bangladesh is planning to introduce voluntary sterilisation in its overcrowded Rohingya camps, where nearly a million refugees are fighting for space, after efforts to encourage birth control failed.
More than 600,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since a military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar in August triggered an exodus, straining resources in the impoverished country.
The latest arrivals have joined hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who fled in earlier waves from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, where the stateless Muslim minority has endured decades of persecution. Tiếp tục đọc “Bangladesh eyes sterilisation to curb Rohingya population”
 Tourists paddle in Van Long Nature Reserve Tiếp tục đọc “Spectacular beauty of Van Long Nature Reserve” |
With its steady economic growth, political stability, a youthful population, and equitisation of State-owned enterprises, Viet Nam’s securities market is attractive to investors, the Gateway to Vietnam Conference heard in HCM City on October 25.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh speaks at Gateway to Vietnam 2017, which is being held in HCM City from October 25-27, with the participation of 25 Vietnamese leading companies together with nearly 200 domestic and foreign investment funds.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh said the country’s population of nearly 100 million, of whom 60 per cent are under 35, is a source of cheap and skilled labour. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s capital market increasingly attractive”
Ngày 14-10, ca sĩ khiếm thị Hà Văn Đông đến phòng giao dịch của Vietcombank ở đường Cộng Hòa, quận Tân Bình, TP.HCM để mở tài khoản ATM. Tuy nhiên, yêu cầu của anh đã bị từ chối.
Anh Đông bày tỏ với Pháp Luật TP.HCM: “Tuy khiếm thị nhưng tôi không mất năng lực hành vi dân sự. Tôi xoay xở làm được mọi việc trong cuộc sống của mình. Tôi nghĩ không nên phân biệt đối xử với người khiếm thị”. Tiếp tục đọc “Một ca sĩ khiếm thị bị từ chối mở thẻ ATM”
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| An ambulance arrives at Lai Hieu Elementary School in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on October 27, 2017. Photo: Tuoi Tre |
Nearly 500 students of two elementary schools in Hau Giang Province, located in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, have been hospitalized over food poisoning after having a popular malted chocolate drink at school.
About 30 minutes after drinking Nestle’s Milo at around 7:00 am on Friday, students at Lai Hieu Elementary School in the namesake ward of Nga Bay Town started showing such symptoms as nausea, stomachache, dizziness, and diarrhea. Tiếp tục đọc “Nearly 500 Vietnamese primary students hospitalized after drinking free chocolate milk”
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| Daniel Kritenbrink, the new U.S. ambassador to Vietnam |
The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Daniel Kritenbrink, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, to be the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam.
The nomination was made at a Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday morning (local time), according to an agenda posted by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
More than two dozen nominations for U.S. ambassador posts in other countries were made at the same meeting. Tiếp tục đọc “US Senate confirms new ambassador to Vietnam”
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| Associate Professor and Doctor Le Kim Phung. Photo: Tuoi Tre |
A female Vietnamese scholar has been named among this year’s top 100 scientists in Asia by the Singaporean magazine Asian Scientists.
Associate Professor and Doctor Le Kim Phung, 42, vice dean of Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, was included in the Asian Scientist 100 list for her research in producing biofuel from agricultural waste. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnamese scholar ranked among Asia’s top scientists”
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| The Minister of Industry and Trade, Trần Tuấn Anh, on Thursday asked the Department of Market Watch to look into the origin of products of the Khaisilk Group following a complaint that it was selling products made in China.— Photo zing.vn |
HÀ NỘI — The Minister of Industry and Trade, Trần Tuấn Anh, on Thursday asked the Department of Market Watch to look into the origin of products of the Khaisilk Group — a top Vietnamese silk brand — following a complaint that it was selling products made in China.
Anh also asked the department to clarify the signs of violating regulations of goods origin and trade fraud in the scandal. Tiếp tục đọc “MoIT initiates probe into Khaisilk fraud”
China urged the United States on Friday not to permit Taiwan’s president to travel through U.S. territory en route to the island’s diplomatic allies in the Pacific, a sensitive visit shortly ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing.
BEIJING/TAIPEI: China urged the United States on Friday not to permit Taiwan’s president to travel through U.S. territory en route to the island’s diplomatic allies in the Pacific, a sensitive visit shortly ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trip to Beijing.
China considers democratic Taiwan to be a wayward province ineligible for state-to-state relations and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Tiếp tục đọc “Ahead of Trump trip, China urges US not to allow Taiwan president in”
Oct. 27, 2017, at 2:30 p.m.
Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono gives a speech at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky Reuters
By David Brunnstrom
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States wants a meeting soon aimed at reviving a four-way dialogue between itself, Japan, India and Australia to deepen security cooperation and coordinate alternatives for regional infrastructure financing to that offered by China, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.
The so-called “Quad” to discuss and cooperate on security emerged briefly as an initiative a decade ago – much to the annoyance of China, which saw as an attempt by regional democracies to contain its advances. Tiếp tục đọc “U.S. Seeks Meeting Soon to Revive Asia-Pacific ‘Quad’ Security Forum”
Công trình hồ nhân tạo Đa Nhim vẫn luôn là nguồn cung cấp thủy điện quan trọng ở tỉnh Lâm Đồng và các tỉnh lân cận như Khánh Hòa, Ninh Thuận và Bình Thuận qua hơn 50 năm nay. Bên cạnh đó, hồ Đa Nhim còn là một thắng cảnh tuyệt đẹp làm bao người ngẩn ngơ ngắm nhìn mỗi khi có dịp đi qua cung đèo Ngoạn Mục hay đèo Dran.
Hồ Đa Nhim (hay còn gọi là hồ Đơn Dương) là hồ nước nhân tạo nằm trong thị trấn Dran, huyện Đơn Dương, tỉnh Lâm Đồng. Hồ Đa Nhim tọa lạc giữa thiên nhiên tuyệt đẹp, cạnh nhà máy thủy điện Đa Nhim và cách thành phố Đà Lạt mộng mơ khoảng 40 km xuôi theo đường về Phan Rang (tỉnh Ninh Thuận).
Hồ Đa Nhim nằm bên thị trấn Dran -Ảnh:Bố Susu Tiếp tục đọc “Hồ Đa Nhim – Viên ngọc biếc ẩn mình giữa núi rừng cao nguyên”
In the fall of 2004, when I was 19, I studied abroad in the beautiful coastal Chinese city of Xiamen. One Friday evening, I attended an English meetup at a local university, hoping to make some Chinese friends. To my surprise, a group of Chinese men — young, but older than I was — flocked to me, asking me repeatedly if I had any boyfriends, if my dating life resembled the popular American sitcom Friends, and if I was “open,” which I later learned was a poor translation for a Chinese phrase that meant “sexually liberal.” I was not.
Tiếp tục đọc “China Refuses to Admit It Has a Rape Problem. I Would Know.”
The Rohingya: Silent Abuse Tiếp tục đọc “Al Jazeera World – The Rohingya: Silent Abuse”
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have crossed into neighbouring Bangladesh, with tens of thousands continuing to arrive every day. They flee discrimination, violence and persecution. The speed and scale of the influx has made it the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis.
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