Conversations on Vietnam Development
Table of Content
Agriculture and Rural development
• Chapter 10 – How Agricultural Research for Development Can Make a Change: Assessing Livelihood Impacts in the Northwest Highlands of Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “World Bank – New research on development issues in Vietnam – Volume 9, number 23 (2017 December 6)”
By Adam Bryant @AdamBBryant, New York TimeBuilding a successful team is about more than finding a group of people with the right mix of professional skills. Over the course of interviewing over 500 leaders for Corner Office, I asked them all about the art of fostering a strong sense of teamwork. Their insights can help you lay the groundwork for a highly productive team that can communicate, cooperate and innovate in an atmosphere of mutual trust and respect.
You need a clear and measurable goal for what you want to accomplish.
“If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.”
Jim Collins, author of the best-selling management books “Good to Great” and “Built to Last.” Tiếp tục đọc “How to Build a Successful Team”
IDS is partnering with the EU, UN, Chatham House and other organisations to host a high level side event on circular economy solutions to tackling ocean plastic pollution, during this year’s United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi (4-6 December). The event will showcase specific examples of collaborative action and policies that aim to reduce plastic waste, address unsustainable consumption and production patterns and redirect investment for a clean, efficient and circular economy. Ahead of the event, I want to highlight the importance of a universal development approach and transformative social science research, as solutions to the ocean plastics problem.
Plastics pollution of oceans has emerged as a major global environmental crisis. Between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastics enter the ocean each year. It is devastating for marine ecosystems and the accumulation of microplastics in food chains pose a risk to human health. And the issue is becoming more serious. By 2050, plastics production is expected to increase to over 2000 tonnes per year, up from 311 million tonnes in 2014.
Plastics end up in the ocean as the result of chains of human activities in different parts of the world. We are all contributing to it. China, Indonesia and the Philippines have been identified as the top three sources of ocean plastics pollution by the Ocean Conservancy. While litter found on the sea floor around the UK has risen 150% in the last year and UK plastic waste drifts to the artic where is has a very damaging impact on one of the most vulnerable ecosystems in the world.
Tiếp tục đọc “Ocean plastic pollution – what role can social science play?”
By Susan Minnemeyer, Nancy Harris and Octavia Payne
Cantonal Hojancha was once a major cattle ranching region. Most of this area was cleared for pasture only 30 years ago. Now, many of the residents have moved into the service industry, and the pasture land has slowly converted back to forest. Photo by Aaron Minnick (World Resources Institute)New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost-effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating 1.5 billion cars—more than all of the cars in the world today!
In fact, forests are key to at least six of the study’s 20 “natural climate solutions,” which could collectively reduce 11.3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year. That’s as much as halting global oil consumption, and would get us one-third of the way toward limiting global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels — the threshold for avoiding catastrophic effects of climate change — by 2030.
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English: Artificial Intelligence: The Real Legal Issues Nếu bạn đang đọc bài này, rất có thể bạn sẽ bắt gặp khái niệm Trí tuệ Nhân tạo – AI/Artificial Intelligent trong các nghiên cứu của mình. Giống như hầu hết các vấn đề thời thượng, có rất nhiều bài viết về chủ đề này chia thành hai loại – tài liệu hoặc giả định một mức độ kiến thức dựa trên khoa học máy tính hoặc thông thường hơn là phần mềm bán hàng được cải trang dạng mỏng mà không truyền tải được nhiều. Bài báo này dựa trên bài thuyết trình mà tôi trình bày tại Hội nghị thường niên của SCL Viện Kỹ thuật London vào tháng 6 và hy vọng sẽ cung cấp cho những người không có kiến thức và kinh nghiệm (và người có một ít kiến thức) một nền tảng vững chắc để có thể dựa vào đó để có những hiểu biết và đánh giá thực tiễn về những rủi ro pháp lý khi sử dụng trí tuệ nhân tạo. Vì vậy, bài viết sẽ hy vọng sẽ được tiếp cận được với những người có tư duy pháp lý khi quan tâm đến công nghệ này. Những rủi ro pháp lý mà tôi đã phân loại thành “Thách thức nguyên nhân – hệ quả” và “Thách thức về Dữ liệu lớn” Tiếp tục đọc “Những vấn đề pháp lý thực tế của Trí tuệ nhân tạo – Artificial Intelligent” |
Vietnam’s GDP growth rates
Head of the Vietnam Economics Institute Tran Dinh Thien, citing statistics about GDP growth rates in the last many years, said the ‘strange thing’ of Vietnam economy is ‘the growth rate is low in the first quarters, high in the last quarters, and the yearly plans are fulfilled’. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s economic growth patterns questioned by experts”
Vietnam’s e-commerce growth rate forecast to double by 2020
As in previous years, Lazada Vietnam was the first online shopping website to start the year-end shopping season. It offered sharp price discount rates for 15,000 products in a sale promotion campaign on November 9-11. All the orders with weight of less than 6 kilograms were delivered free of charge on those days. Tiếp tục đọc “E-commerce: narrow door for Vietnamese businesses”
Jardine Matheson Group, emerging player
Having been present in Vietnam for many years in real estate and restaurant chain projects, Jardine Matheson Group’s JC&C, one of its subsidiaries, spent $1.15 billion to acquire a 10 percent stake in Vinamilk. Tiếp tục đọc “Foreign giants spend billions to acquire Vietnam’s conglomerates”
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed to remove 21 conditional business sectors, including rice export, logistics and debt trading service.
Logistics is currently listed in the conditional business sectors. — Photo enternews.vn
According to the ministry, the sectors should be removed from the list of conditional business lines as they do not meet the requirements of Clause 1, Article 7 of the Law on Investment, which means they do not affect national defence and security, social order, social morality and health of the community. Tiếp tục đọc “Ministry of Planning & Investment proposes removing 21 conditional business sectors”
Hanoi plans to construct a super satellite city by 2030, with a total area of over 17,270ha located in two districts of Thach That and Quoc Oai and Son Tay Town.
The super satellite city on paper.— Photo tienphong.vn
The Hoa Lac super satellite city will be some 30km from Hanoi’s centre.
The plan is part of the master plan of Hoa Lac Urban Area, compiled by the municipal People’s Committee and recently submitted to the municipal People’s Council for approval. Tiếp tục đọc “Super satellite city planned in Hanoi”
Ho Chi Minh City is facing numerous difficulties as the population is rising sharply.
Congestion in HCM City
The population has grown from three million after 1975 to 8.4 million. Another three million people from other provinces are studying and working in HCM City. As of now, the city has 7.6 million motorbikes, 700,000 cars and about one million other vehicles from other provinces. About 1,000 new motorbikes are registered each month. Tiếp tục đọc “HCM City faces population pressure”
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recently signed a decision recognising the resort town of Sa Pa in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai as a national tourism site.
Foreigners prefer homestay tourism in Sa Pa
Tiếp tục đọc “Sa Pa resort town recognised as national tourism site”
Windmill cake shop in Da Lat and Nguyen Hue pedestrian street in HCM City, to name a few, are popular check-in places for young travellers in 2017.
 The walking street around Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake opened for tourists in September 2016. This popular destination for Hanoians at weekend is busy with diverse activities like folk games, and street art and modern dance performances. Tiếp tục đọc “Top 5 best youth destinations in 2017” |
Thực dưỡng: Kiều Mạch Buckwheat có gì hay? >>
Tourists often flock to Ha Giang from October to December in order to see the fields of buckwheat flowers that has become the province’s signature.
The locals plant the flowers everywhere, from the slopes of the mountains to the deep valley, under the winding mountain passes. Tiếp tục đọc “Buckwheat flowers bloom in Ha Giang”
lexology_If you’re reading this, the chances are that you will have come across the concept of Artificial Intelligence in your prior researches. Like most issues “du jour“, a lot has been written on the topic which falls into two categories – material either presupposes a level of prior computer- science based knowledge or; more commonly is thinly disguised salesware which doesn’t convey a lot.
Tiếp tục đọc “Artificial Intelligence: The Real Legal Issues”
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