All affected families petition UBND of HCMC to compensate them for “damages” to their homes from street repair works. If HCM City say “no” then they should think aout suing the City in Court.- PTH.
Phan Van Ket watches the waist-high water in the alley through the window of his house.
The “upgrading” of a street along Lo Gom Canal in HCMC’s District 8 has left its houses lower than the road level, meaning floods inundate the homes every time it rains.
Keynote Address by Ms. Ramla Khalidi, UNDP Resident Representative in Viet Nam
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Excellency Mr. Tran Hong Ha, Deputy Prime Minister of Viet Nam Excellency Mr. Dang Quoc Khanh, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Ladies and Gentlemen,
Good morning!
It’s an honour to join you at this national forum on circular economy. Congratulations to MONRE for organising this successful CE Forum that underlines Viet Nam’s commitment to transform the economy in a way that not only protects the environment but also boosts innovation and competitiveness and improves people’s lives.
Mặc dù Đảng và Nhà nước chủ trương xóa bỏ độc quyền đối với ngành điện, và Tập đoàn Điện lực Việt Nam (EVN) không còn độc quyền sản xuất điện, nhưng người dân và doanh nghiệp hiện chỉ có một lựa chọn duy nhất là mua điện của EVN. Thế độc quyền đó có thể thay đổi không, và sẽ thay đổi như thế nào?
Lộ trình tiến tới thị trường bán lẻ điện cạnh tranh
Xóa độc quyền trong ngành điện được tính đến từ hơn 10 năm trước theo 3 cấp độ: thị trường phát điện cạnh tranh, thị trường bán buôn điện cạnh tranh và thị trường bán lẻ điện cạnh tranh. Từ năm 2012, thị trường phát điện cạnh tranh chính thức vận hành với 32 nhà máy tham gia. Đến năm 2020, số đơn vị tham gia đã có hơn 100 nhà máy. Đến nay, EVN không còn độc quyền phát điện, chỉ sở hữu 37%, các doanh nghiệp tư nhân sở hữu 42%, còn lại do các doanh nghiệp nhà nước khác, các dự án BOT nắm giữ và một tỷ lệ nhỏ khoảng 1% là điện nhập khẩu.
Workers at a textile factory in the northern province of Bắc Ninh. — VNA/VNS Photo Danh Lam
HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam should set up an early warning system for trade defence to help support Vietnamese products in foreign markets, said industry leaders and policymakers.
According to data from the Trade Remedies Authority of Vietnam under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), Vietnamese products have been involved in 235 trade remedies investigations in 24 markets around the world. The majority of the cases were anti-dumping (129), trade safeguard (47), evasion investigation (34) and anti-subsidy (24) in nature with products including wooden cabinets, laminated wood, solar panels, shrimp, basa fish, high-pressure washers, foam mattresses, grass cutting machines, cigarette paper, and honey.
Laos borrowed billions from President Xi Jinping’s administration to finance railways, highways and hydroelectric dams, which has ballooned public debt to over 100% of GDP.
Combined with a currency crisis and soaring inflation, Laos is on the brink of economic collapse.
Without a clear-cut debt reduction deal with China, Laos’ financial hardships are unlikely to ease, analysts warn. But it remains to be seen if Beijing will agree to long-term concessions.
A pedestrians at a bus station in Vientiane, Laos, on Saturday, June 24, 2023.
Tân Hoá village is known as the “seasonal flooded zone” of Quang Binh province, where during the rainy season the flood water can submerge the whole village. Tân Hoá used to be one of the poorest villages in Quang Binh province. Since 2011, when tourism activities were adopted by Tân Hoá village, many people have acquired stable jobs and, subsequently, their quality of life has improved significantly.
The village is situated in the vicinity of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, benefiting from unique natural conditions and a rustic charm. The village has been recognized by the provincial People’s Committee as an ecological and cave tourism area within the Tu Lan cave system. Surrounded by primary forests, limestone mountains, and the tranquil Rao Nan river, Tân Hóa village exhibits a simple and enduring beauty that leaves a lasting impression on visitors.
Tân Hoá Tourism Village is a pioneering tourism business model that promotes collaboration between enterprises and the local community, aiming for mutual benefits. Oxalis Adventure, as its partner, has implemented a clear and comprehensive business strategy based on three fundamental principles: safety, conservation, and involvement of the local people.
The Village and Oxalis Adventure believe that involving local people in the tourism business is a strategic approach rather than just a responsibility. They have gradually trained the local people to become proficient in serving tourists and transitioned from community involvement into community ownership on services that they deliver.
LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe and new parts of Africa this decade, the WHO’s chief scientist said, as warmer temperatures create the conditions for the mosquitoes carrying the infection to spread.
The illness has long been a scourge in much of Asia and Latin America, causing an estimated 20,000 deaths each year. Rates of the disease have already risen eight-fold globally since 2000, driven largely by climate change as well as the increased movement of people and urbanization.
Many cases go unrecorded, but in 2022 4.2 million cases were reported worldwide and public health officials have warned that near-record levels of transmission are expected this year. Bangladesh is currently experiencing its worst-ever outbreak, with more than 1,000 deaths.
An 87-year-old man came to the Bình Thạnh District Police in HCM City last Monday morning to report a fraud related to bonds allegedly committed by one of Việt Nam’s largest property developers.
Trần Bữu Nữu, an officer belonging to the Bình Thạnh District police in HCM City, helps a victim make a complaint against Saigon Commercial Bank (SCB) where she had bought the bonds. VNS Photo Bồ Xuân Hiệp
Sometimes, in wars and revolutions, fundamental change arrives with a bang. More often, it creeps up on you. That is the way with what we are calling “homeland economics”, a protectionist, high-subsidy, intervention-heavy ideology administered by an ambitious state. Fragile supply chains, growing threats to national security, the energy transition and the cost-of-living crisis have each demanded action by governments—and for good reason. But when you lump them all together, it becomes clear just how systematically the presumption of open markets and limited government has been left in the dust.
For this newspaper, this is an alarming trend. We were founded in 1843 to campaign for, among other things, free trade and a modest role for government. Today these classical liberal values are not only unpopular, they are increasingly absent from political debate. Less than eight years ago President Barack Obama was trying to sign America up to a giant Pacific trade pact. Today if you argue for free trade in Washington, you will be scoffed at as hopelessly naive. In the emerging world, you will be painted as a neocolonial relic from the era when the West knew best.
Electrification of transport is one of the most talked about instruments to set the world on a net-zero carbon trajectory. Despite the advantages electric vehicles bring, they remain a relative rarity in developing countries. Most of the world’s 6.6 million EV sales in 2021 were concentrated in major global markets such as China, Europe and the United States. The reason? Electric vehicles come at a cost premium, sometimes more than 70% compared to conventional vehicles, creating a financial hurdle for many consumers in developing countries.
But according to The Economics of E-Mobility for Passenger Transportation, feasible entry points to an electric mobility transition are emerging in several developing countries. Electric buses, which cover long mileage and high occupancy, and electric two- and three-wheeled vehicles, which provide last-mile connectivity, can be cost-effective starting points that also bring development benefits. In about half the countries studied in this report, there is already a strong economic case for e-mobility adoption that is likely to further improve in the next few years.
Offshore wind will be critical to achieve the world’s decarbonization and sustainable development goals. Although the cost of offshore wind has dropped dramatically over the past decade, there will be an initial cost premium when developing offshore wind in emerging markets due to a variety of risks and constraints in establishing a new market. Concessional climate finance could help countries overcome this initial cost barrier to help reduce costs for future projects and lay the foundation for the development of successful offshore wind markets.
This report from World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and International Finance Corporation (IFC), finds that concessional climate financing is essential to unlock offshore wind in emerging markets and estimates that US$15 billion in concessional climate financing, consisting of both grants and loans, could catalyze offshore wind deployment across ten emerging market countries.
The UK’s trade has dropped in recent years, the pound has fallen considerably against the dollar and business investment is yet to return to its peak in 2016. While these factors are predicted to be a result of Brexit, ministers have blamed international issues.
The UK’s recent disastrous “mini” Budget can trace its origins back to Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The economic costs of Brexit were masked by the Covid-19 pandemic and the crisis in Ukraine. But six years after the UK voted to leave, the effect has become clear. In this film, senior FT writers and British businesspeople examine how Brexit hit the UK economy, the political conspiracy of silence, and why there has not yet been a convincing case for a ‘Brexit dividend’.
Viruses use bacteria’s chemical language to time their destruction; this might lead to new ways to fight infections
Bacteriophage virus electron microscopy image. Credit: Getty Images
In the early experiments it looked like the virus called VP882 was doing something that should be impossible for a thing that is not a bacterium, and not technically even alive: intercepting molecular messages exchanged by its host bacteria, and reading them to determine the best time to annihilate the whole bacterial colony. “As scientists, this is just unimaginable to us,” says Bonnie Bassler, a molecular biologist at Princeton University. “We were delighted and skeptical at the same time. It was almost too good to be true.”
Not only did it turn out to be true for VP882; Bassler learned there is a family of bacteria-infecting viruses (a subgroup of a kind called bacteriophages, or just “phages”) that eavesdrop on their hosts’ routine molecular communications with other bacteria. That means VP882’s kill trigger could be easily manipulated to target any bacteria, Bassler says—opening the possibility that the virus could be engineered into an ideal killing machine for dangerous pathogens.
Trong lúc kinh tế “khó đều trời” thì hàng trăm nghìn tỉ đồng vốn đầu tư công tiêu xài nhỏ giọt, tiền nằm chờ trong ngân hàng cả triệu tỉ đồng.
Đồ họa: TẤN ĐẠT
Vấn đề đặt ra lúc này là phải thúc cho đồng tiền chạy vào nền kinh tế, tạo ra giá trị mới.
Đầu tư công là động lực tăng trưởng quan trọng của nền kinh tế trong bối cảnh tư nhân gặp khó hiện nay, nhưng tám tháng qua giải ngân đầu tư công cả nước mới đạt khoảng 299.450 tỉ đồng, tương đương 42,35% kế hoạch cả năm.
Các chuyên gia dự báo nếu hoàn thành mục tiêu giải ngân 95% vốn đầu tư công trong năm nay thì GDP năm 2023 sẽ tăng thêm khoảng 1,3%.
Thúc giải ngân các dự án giao thông lớn
Tại TP.HCM, trong số 68.786 tỉ đồng vốn đầu tư công năm 2023, tính đến ngày 17-8 mới giải ngân được 19.133 tỉ đồng, tương đương 27% kế hoạch vốn được giao. Trong báo cáo tình hình giải ngân năm 2023 vừa gửi tới Bộ Kế hoạch và Đầu tư, UBND TP cho biết giải ngân vốn ngân sách trung ương trong tám tháng đạt 11.200 tỉ đồng và từ ngân sách địa phương đạt khoảng 7.933 tỉ đồng.
Như vậy, tỉ lệ giải ngân của TP.HCM trong tám tháng thấp hơn khá nhiều so với tỉ lệ giải ngân 42,35% của cả nước.
Đầu tư công hiệu quả có ý nghĩa quyết định lên tăng trưởng dài hạn
Hà Nội, ngày 10 tháng 8 năm 2023 – Môi trường bên ngoài khó khăn và nhu cầu trong nước suy yếu đang làm cho tăng trưởng kinh tế Việt Nam chậm lại. Nhưng kinh tế sẽ tăng tốc trong nửa cuối năm nay và những năm tiếp theo, theo bản cập nhật kinh tế mới nhất của Ngân hàng Thế giới có tựa đề “Để đầu tư công thúc đẩy tăng trưởng”.
Báo cáo cho thấy tốc độ tăng trưởng kinh tế của Việt Nam chậm lại từ 8% năm 2022 xuống còn 3,7% trong nửa đầu năm 2023. Báo cáo dự báo mức tăng trưởng 4,7% vào năm 2023, sau đó tăng dần lên 5,5% vào năm 2024 và 6,0% vào năm 2025. Chính sách tài khóa chủ động hỗ trợ nhu cầu ngắn hạn, loại bỏ các hạn chế đối với việc thực hiện hiệu quả đầu tư công và giải quyết các điểm nghẽn cơ sở hạ tầng có thể giúp nền kinh tế đạt được các mục tiêu này và thúc đẩy tăng trưởng dài hạn.
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