Conversations on Vietnam Development
Tiếp tục đọc “Bọt trắng như tuyết bốc mùi, nổi dày đặc trên kênh Tàu Hủ sau trận mưa lớn”
In this file photo, Ereneio Dagami, who lost his house to Typhoon Haiyan, grates coconuts in the battered town of Catadman, in Eastern Samar province, central Philippines, Dec. 22, 2013. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
by Thin Lei Win | @thinink | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 10 May 2017 06:00 GMT
A project to provide coconut farmers with advice over their mobile phones aims to help them cash in on a growing market and lift them out of poverty By Thin Lei Win
BANGKOK, May 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Generosa Gonato’s mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer in the southern Philippines to be vigilant against bud rot, a common disease that is fatal for coconut trees. The message included the symptoms and how to treat it.
“So I monitored my trees and discovered some have it,” Gonato told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. She followed the advice – cutting down and destroying the affected trees quickly to stop the disease becoming an outbreak. Tiếp tục đọc “How to milk the coconut boom? Philippine farmers check their phones”
Wet fuel briquettes made from human waste and sawdust are dried outside at the Nakuru Water and Sanitation Services Company plant in Nakuru, Kenya, April 8, 2017. TRF/ Be
by Benson Rioba | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Friday, 12 May 2017 13:38 GMT
Using human waste to make fuel briquettes tackles sanitation and health problems – and they even smell sweetBy Benson Rioba
NAKURU, Kenya, May 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poultry farmer Josephine Mbithe used to get up three times a night to add charcoal to her stove just to keep her newborn chicks warm. But since she started using fuel briquettes made with human waste, the stove burns all night, leaving her to sleep in peace.
Mbithe is one of many Nakuru residents who have embraced the briquettes manufactured from human poo and sawdust collected around the town, northwest of Nairobi, in the Great Rift Valley. Tiếp tục đọc “Human poo transformed into clean fuel for Kenya’s urban poor”
Authors: Marko Keskinen & Aolli Varis
VietNamNet Bridge – Besides the Presidential Palace, the University of Hanoi, Hang Dau water tower, there are many other beautiful French colonial works in Hanoi.The Government Guesthouse
This elegant building was built in the French architectural style. It is located on Ngo Quyen Street, a short distance from the Sofitel Metropole Hotel.
The Government Guesthouse was formerly the Residence of the French Governor of Tonkin. Tonkin is the historical name for northern Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “17 must-see sites in Hanoi”
Tuoitrenews Kim Van
Updated : 05/12/2017 16:48 GMT + 7
Should you come across luggage wrapped with sticky tape on a baggage carousel, chances are it is bound for Vietnam.
Kim Van, a Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reader, recalls how she learned to protect her luggage from being rummaged through by screeners when traveling home to Vietnam – a revelation that Vietnamese have lost faith in airport services.
Vietnamese want to keep their luggage safe, but many feel being forced to resort to the ‘sticky tape method’ is a kick in the gut. Tiếp tục đọc “The bitter truth behind sticky-tape wrapped luggage headed for Vietnam”
Updated : 05/13/2017 14:00 GMT + 7
The environment and lives of dozens of millions of people living in the Lower Mekong Basin are being threatened as the Mekong River is expected to see yet another hydropower dam construction, experts said at an international conference on Friday.
Experts all express concerns over the Laos-proposed Pak Beng dam, the latest to be built on the Mekong River, as they convened for a consultation process held by the Vietnam Mekong River Commission in the southern Vietnamese city of Can Tho. Tiếp tục đọc “Proposed dam to poses more threat to Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: conference”
Updated : 05/13/2017 09:59 GMT + 7
A taxi operator in Da Lat City in the Central Highlands’ Lam Dong Province has been fined and had its driver suspended from work for overcharging two foreign tourists earlier this week.
Vina Gold was slapped with a civil fine of VND7 million (US$308) after one of its driver charged two Israeli women VND510,000 (US$22.5) for a 3km ride on Wednesday. Tiếp tục đọc “Israeli tourists charged $22 for 3km ride in Da Lat”
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| Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc delivered a speech at the 26th World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. — VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất |
PHNOM PENH – The Vietnamese Government will continue creating favourable conditions for foreign businesses to make investment in Việt Nam and protect their intellectual property and asset rights.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc made the pledge at a meeting yesterday with representatives from 21 world leading companies from the US, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the UK, Switzerland, Singapore and China’s Hong Kong, at the 26th World Economic Forum on ASEAN (WEF ASEAN) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Tiếp tục đọc “PM Phúc rolls out the red carpet for foreign investors”
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| Kids join a painting in the old quarter of Hội An city. — VNS Photo Công Thành |
Earlier this year, the UNESCO-recognised world heritage site was voted among the best 25 destinations in the world by travel website TripAdvisor. Tiếp tục đọc “Ancient city celebrates the 10th millionth tourists”
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| Villas at the Pandora residential area, located at No 53 on Triều Vũ Street in the capital city’s Thanh Xuân District. — Photo batdongsan.com.vn |
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| Tân Vũ – Lạch Huyện Bridge. Photo: dantri.com.vn |
The 5.4km-long bridge is part of the Tân Vũ – Lạch Huyện Highway project, which connects developing areas in the east of Hải Phòng with Lạch Huyện International Port in the island district of Cát Hải and the Hà Nội – Hải Phòng Expressway. Tiếp tục đọc “SE Asia’s longest cross-sea bridge close to completion”
“Like a drop of water in a bucket, on its own is small, but if there are many, many drops, soon it is overflowing.”
Erietera Aram’s water analogy is apposite. His country faces being lost under the waves of the Pacific Ocean. Tiếp tục đọc “‘Our country will vanish’: Pacific islanders bring desperate message to Australia”
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