Kinh tế chăm sóc trong bối cảnh già hóa dân số nhanh: Cơ hội ở đâu?

Tiasang – 06062023 – THU QUỲNH

Chúng ta đã chuẩn bị được những gì cho ba thập niên tới khi mà Việt Nam có hơn 30 triệu người cao tuổi và chiếm khoảng 25% dân số cả nước? Liệu đây có hoàn toàn chỉ là thách thức?

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PM asks Vietnam to ‘watch out’ for Rainsy if he attempts entry

 Khmer Times – June 8, 2023 – Soth Koemsoeun

Prime Minister Hun Sen asked the Vietnamese government to watch out for former opposition leader Sam Rainsy entering Vietnam using his French passport.

“I would like to emphasise to the Vietnamese Ambassador to Cambodia Nguyen Huy Tang, to send a message to the Vietnamese government to be wary of a person (Rainsy) who uses a French passport to enter Vietnam as a tourist,” Mr Hun Sen said.

“I received information from one of my spies that (Rainsy) is trying to enter Cambodia through neighbouring countries to cause problems for me,” he said.

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As livelihoods clash with development, Vietnam’s Cần Giờ mangroves are at risk

Mongabay – by Lam Nguyen and Danielle Keeton-Olsen on 28 February 2023

  • Cần Giờ, a coastal district of Ho Chi Minh City, is home to a 75,740-hectare (187,158-acre) mangrove forest, planted and maintained as part of post-war reforestation efforts.
  • The district’s residents largely depend on aquaculture, shellfish gathering and small-scale ecotourism for their livelihoods.
  • The government and developers hope to market the area as an ecotourism city based on its natural beauty and post-war success story, but major projects could disrupt Cần Giờ’s precarious balance between ecosystems and livelihoods.
  • All names of sources in Cần Giờ have been changed so people could speak freely without fearing repercussions from authorities.

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Ma túy “thế hệ mới” đã tấn công và xâm nhập học đường như thế nào?

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Một học sinh cấp 3 tại Hà Nội sau khi được một huấn luyện viên thể hình (PT) cho một chiếc “bánh lười” – loại bánh trộn cần sa đã mang về… chia cho các bạn cùng sử dụng. Hậu quả, một nhóm học sinh đã bị ngộ độc ngay sau đó.

Thứ sáu, ngày 07/04/2023

"Nước vui", "bùa lưỡi", "bột dâu", "bột xoài" với hình thức bắt mắt dễ dàng qua mặt lực lượng chức năng. (Ảnh: Cơ quan chức năng cung cấp)
“Nước vui”, “bùa lưỡi”, “bột dâu”, “bột xoài” với hình thức bắt mắt dễ dàng qua mặt lực lượng chức năng. (Ảnh: Cơ quan chức năng cung cấp)

Đây chỉ là một trong những thí dụ không hề hiếm gặp cho thấy ma túy “thế hệ mới” đã và đang xâm nhập vào học đường hiện nay.

Nguy hiểm rình rập học đường

Theo thống kê của Bộ Công an vào tháng 6/2022, 60% số người sử dụng trái phép chất ma túy lần đầu ở độ tuổi từ 15-25 tuổi, trong đó nhiều người đang là học sinh, sinh viên. Người nghiện ma túy đang có xu hướng ngày càng trẻ hóa đặt ra không ít thách thức cho công tác phòng, chống ma túy cũng như cai nghiện.

Một điều tra viên lâu năm trong lĩnh vực phòng, chống tội phạm ma túy chia sẻ, bản thân anh đã từng chứng kiến nhiều vụ việc “dở khóc, dở cười”.

“Chúng tôi từng nhận được thông tin về việc một nữ học sinh cấp 3 được huấn luyện viên thể hình đưa cho một chiếc bánh lười (loại bánh tẩm cần sa-PV). Tuy nhiên, cô bé không sử dụng ngay mà mang về… chia cho các bạn cùng lớp ăn cùng. Kết quả, cả nhóm học sinh đều bị ngộ độc và phải đưa đi cấp cứu”, điều tra viên kể lại.

Ma túy “thế hệ mới” đã tấn công và xâm nhập học đường như thế nào? ảnh 1
Ma túy tổng hợp cơ quan chức năng thu giữ. (Ảnh: Cơ quan công an cung cấp)

Các đối tượng tội phạm về ma túy thường lợi dụng tâm sinh lý của học sinh, sinh viên nói riêng; giới trẻ nói chung để lôi kéo, dụ dỗ.

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BRIBES FOR BIAS: CAN Artificial Intelligent – AI BE CORRUPTED?

The potential abuse of artificial intelligence for private gain has profound implications for our economic, political and social lives

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Recently your social media feed may have been flooded with headlines on the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) or even AI-generated images. Text-to-image algorithms such as Dall-E2 and Stable Diffusion are becoming hugely popular. ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, is now the world’s best-performing large language model, reaching 1 million users in its first week – a rate of growth much faster than Twitter, Facebook or TikTok.

As AI demonstrates its ability to craft poetrywrite code and even pollinate crops by imitating bees, the governance community is waking up to the impact of artificial intelligence on the knotty problem of corruption. Policy institutes and academics have pointed to the potential use of AI to detect fraud and corruption, with some commentators heralding these technologies as the “next frontier in anti-corruption.”

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Tăng cường tiếp cận bảo hiểm thai sản cho phụ nữ Việt Nam – Advocating for universal maternity coverage for Vietnamese women

Tăng cường tiếp cận bảo hiểm thai sản cho phụ nữ Việt Nam

Mặc dù chế độ thai sản ở Việt Nam được coi là một trong những chế độ tốt nhất trong khu vực, các khoản trợ cấp này vẫn nằm ngoài tầm với đối với nhiều phụ nữ Việt Nam. Việc tăng cường tiếp cận bảo hiểm thai sản sẽ không những đảm bảo lợi ích cho phụ nữ và gia đình của họ mà còn thúc đẩy sự phát triển của doanh nghiệp và xã hội.

ILO | Hanoi, Viet Nam | Ngày 17 tháng 5 năm 2023

Hương sắp xếp các hộp kem trong phòng lạnh. © ILO/Nguyễn Hải Đạt

Tổ chức Lao động Quốc tế (ILO) – Mới 6:30 sáng, Hương, 36 tuổi bắt đầu công việc hàng ngày của mình bằng việc vào kho lạnh -20 độ để lấy kem ra sắp xếp vào các thùng xốp rồi chồng cô dùng xe tải chở đi giao cho các đại lý. Hai vợ chồng Hương có một cửa hàng tạp hoá nhỏ bán các đồ tiện lợi, cùng với nghề chuyên giao kem sỉ cho các cửa hàng bán lẻ khác trên địa bàn tỉnh Thanh Hoá.

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The 50-year Transformation of Australia-Vietnam Relations

By Carlyle A. Thayer , Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Vietnam last weekend, he took an important symbolic step in a long history of consolidating bilateral relations. Carlyle A. Thayer reviews a remarkable transformation that in five decades turned Vietnam from enemy to valued friend and partner.

In February 1973, the Whitlam Labor Government extended diplomatic recognition to the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV, North Vietnam), a recent adversary in the Vietnam War. Fifty years later, Australia and the unified Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) are poised to become comprehensive strategic partners, a status Vietnam has only accorded to four countries – Russia, India, China, and South Korea. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese recently declared that Vietnam will become one of Australia’s top-tier partners.

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Chasing the Sun and Catching the Wind: Energy Transition and Electricity Prices in Europe

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Abstract

European power markets are in the midst of unprecedented changes, with a record-breaking surge in energy prices.This paper investigates the impact of green power resources on the level and volatility of wholesale electricity prices at a granular level, using monthly observations for a panel of 24 European countries over the period 2014–2021 and alternative estimation methods including a panel quantile regression approach. We find that renewable energy is associated with a significant reduction in wholesale electricity prices in Europe, with an average impact of 0.6 percent for each 1 percentage points increase in renewable share. We also find evidence for a nonlinear effect—that is, higher the share of renewables, the greater its effect on electricity prices. On the other hand, while quantile estimation results are mixed with regards to the impact of renewables on the volatility of electricity prices, we obtain evidence that renewable energy has a negative effect on volatility at the highest quantiles. Overall, our analysis indicates that policy reforms can help accelerate the green transition while minimizing the volatility in electricity prices.

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Joint Declaration Against Trade-Related Economic Coercion and Non-Market Policies and Practices

The governments of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America released the following Joint Declaration on 9 June 2023.

From: Department for Business and Trade Published9 June 2023

The use of trade-related economic coercion and non-market-oriented policies and practices (“non-market policies and practices”) threatens and undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system and harms relations between countries. The purpose of this Declaration is to express our shared concern and affirm our commitment to enhance international cooperation in order to effectively deter and address trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices.

  1. We express serious concern over trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices that undermine the functioning of and confidence in the rules-based multilateral trading system by distorting trade, investment, and competition and harming relations between countries. Trade-related economic coercion and non-market policies and practices threaten the livelihoods of our citizens, harm our workers and businesses, and could undermine global security and stability.
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The Impact of Wind and Solar on Wholesale Power Markets and Generation Assets

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By Ryan Wiser, Andrew Mills, Todd Levin, Audun Botterud

The impacts of wind and solar on wholesale power markets in the United States have been limited so far. However, the impact will change as the penetration of variable renewable energy (VRE) increases.

Wholesale power prices and the composition and operation of the bulk power system in the United States have witnessed changes in recent years, and concern has grown in some quarters about the effects of VRE on these trends. The U.S. Department of Energy’s “Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability” addressed this concern, but within a much broader context. The study focused on thermal-plant retirements and reliability, and placed a spotlight not only on growth in VRE but also on the effects of other contemporaneous trends such as declining natural gas prices, limited load growth, and regulatory pressures.

As input into the DOE Staff Report, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory prepared a study (recently made available publicly, here) that focused on the degree to which growth in VRE has impacted wholesale power prices and bulk power system assets to date and how this may change in the future. In the noted report, we did not analyze impacts on specific power plants, instead focusing on national and regional trends. The issues addressed are highly context-dependent, and analyzing the impacts of VRE is complex. Nonetheless, while more analysis is warranted—including additional location-specific assessments—several high-level findings emerged from our study.

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Forest elephants are our allies in the fight against climate change, finds research

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Forest elephant extinction would exacerbate climate change. That’s according to a new study in Nature Geoscience which links feeding by elephants with an increase in the amount of carbon that forests are able to store.

The bad news is that African forest elephants – smaller and more vulnerable relatives of the better known African bush elephant – are fast going extinct. If we allow their ongoing extermination to continue, we will be also worsening climate change. The good news is that if we protect and conserve these elephants, we will simultaneously fight climate change.

Elephants are fascinating animals, and I have studied them for more than 15 years. They are intelligent, sentient, and highly social. But their single most remarkable feature is their size. Evolutionarily, elephants gambled on becoming massive enough to deter predators like lions and tigers.

African forest elephant range is highlighted in light green. The largest surviving population is in Gabon, on the coast of central Africa. IUCN / u/DarreToBeCC BY-SA

In exchange, they became slaves to their appetite. Elephants need huge amounts of food everyday, something like 5-10% of their body mass. A typical three-tonne female could eat 200 kg of plant material in one day. Her family may need to consume more than a tonne of food per day.

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Drought in China’s Yunnan set to cap province’s aluminium output

reuters.com By Reuters Staff

ZHENGZHOU, China, April 20 (Reuters) – Severe power shortages in China’s southwestern Yunnan province are likely to cut aluminium production in the country’s fourth-largest producing province, analysts and producers said, but weak demand will cap price rises.

Yunnan, which accounts for about 12% of China’s aluminium capacity, has forced electrolytic aluminium producers to reduce their power usage since September last year after unusually low rainfall reduced hydropower generation.

Hydropower generates about 80% of the province’s electricity, and had attracted investment by energy-intensive aluminium smelters keen to lower their emissions.

The output of the metal in Yunnan jumped by 37% in 2022 from the prior year to 4.2 million tonnes.

Now, however, about 2 million tonnes of capacity, or 20% of the provincial total, is offline, Li Jiahui, an analyst at consultancy Shanghai Metals Market, told a conference in Zhengzhou.

Average rainfall in Yunnan during the first quarter of 2023 was 60% lower than the same period in typical years, the provincial government’s emergency management department said.

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