Huge foreign-invested real estate projects remain on paper

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Last update 12:00 | 29/10/2017

VietNamNet Bridge – The ‘super projects’ registered by foreign investors with huge investment capital of billions of dollars are still on paper.

In 2008, when reporting about the Vietnam Financial Center (VFC) project licensed by HCMC authorities, local newspapers called it a ‘super project’. It was expected to include three high-rise 48-storey buildings for offices, shopping malls and 5-star international hotels.

However, the project remains on paper. In 2014, Berjaya, the investor, asked for the municipal authorities’ permission to scale down the project by half. Tiếp tục đọc “Huge foreign-invested real estate projects remain on paper” →

Vietnam’s central bank outlaws Bitcoin

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A fine of up to VND200 million (US$10,959) and possible criminal charges will be imposed on violators

By Tuoi Tre News

FILE PHOTO: A Bitcoin (virtual currency) coin is seen in an illustration picture taken at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris, France, June 23, 2017. Photo: Reuters

The State Bank of Vietnam has said Bitcoin is banned in the country and those who break this rule will be subject to fines or even criminal charges, following an announcement by a private local university to accept the digital currency as tuition.

In a document sent to the press on Saturday, the central bank asserted that Bitcoin and other types of cryptocurrency are not considered as legal modes of payment in Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s central bank outlaws Bitcoin” →

Fruit park project encroaches on river, poses subsidence hazards in southern Vietnam

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About 6.8 hectares of the river will be filled to prepare for the construction

By Tuoi Tre News

About 6.8 hectares of the Tien (Front) River will be reclaimed for the construction of a fruit park in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang. Photo: Tuoi Tre

A park project in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta has sparked concern among local residents for blatantly encroaching on a large area of a river, as it may cause the riverbank to collapse anytime.

For the past six months, people in Cai Lay and Cai Be Districts, Tien Giang Province, have been worried by the construction of a fruit park as it will take up a considerable portion of a local waterway.

Locals and experts fear that the project would cause changes to the natural torrent of the river, resulting in subsidence in nearby areas. Tiếp tục đọc “Fruit park project encroaches on river, poses subsidence hazards in southern Vietnam” →

NA discusses draft revised Law on Fisheries

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vietnamnews Update: October, 28/2017 – 09:20

The National Assembly discussed the draft revised Law on Fisheries at its plenary session in Hà Nội yesterday.– VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI – The National Assembly discussed the draft revised Law on Fisheries at its plenary session in Hà Nội yesterday.

Several lawmakers stressed the need to establish centrally-run, municipal and provincial fisheries surveillance systems to ensure fisheries law enforcement and defend sovereignty over waters.

The work should also meet requirements for a capable surveillance system to prevent fishing practices which would result in an import ban from the European Union, one of the country’s major seafood markets. Tiếp tục đọc “NA discusses draft revised Law on Fisheries” →

Hill people keep nation fragrant

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vietnamnews Update: October, 28/2017 – 08:00

Adherent: Villagers use natural adhesive to glue the powdered herbs together.

Phia Thắp is a small community of 50 homes in the northern border province of Cao Bằng. Besides agriculture, the tiny mountain hamlet is well-known for makingr incense, an ancient trade passed down for hundreds of years. Everyone in the community, from grandmothers to children, take pride in the trade.

Phia Thắp incense is a popular brand in this part of the country. The incense is hand-made from 100 per cent natural ingredients. The sticks are made from split bamboo. Locals collect special herbs in the mountains and grind them to make a powder. They later add it to pine powder and add colour. The final step is to put the wet incense out under the sun to dry.

The incense provides a subtle but distinctively pleasant aroma, which retains the fragance smell of agarwood.

Tiếp tục đọc “Hill people keep nation fragrant” →

Thái women in Nghệ An learn to promote community-based tourism

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vietnamnews Update: October, 29/2017 – 00:08

Japanese aid: Raito Hotta (in blue cap) and his Japanese friends enjoy a buffalo carriage in Nưa Village. — VNS Photo Ando Katsuhiro

NGHỆ AN — As the sunshine of a late summer afternoon waned, Lô Thị Hoa and her sister, looking fresh in traditional Thái costumes, prepared food to welcome guests to their stilt house in Nưa Village.

Inside the kitchen, three women in Hoa’s group were cooking food in several big pots on firewood while others were busy boiling water, cleaning vegetables and marinating meat. A dozen traditional dishes had to be served in just an hour. Tiếp tục đọc “Thái women in Nghệ An learn to promote community-based tourism” →

Nestlé, Hershey and Mars ‘breaking promises over palm oil use’

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Guardian

This year’s Halloween confectionery will contain palm oil grown on land that should lawfully be habitat to orangutans, rhinos and clouded leopards, despite commitment to clean up supply chains

Forest land cleared for palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

Arthur Neslen

Saturday 28 October 2017 05.10 EDT First published on Friday 27 October 2017 12.22 EDT

Nestlé, Mars and Hershey have been accused of breaking pledges to stop using “conflict palm oil” from deforested Indonesian jungles, just days before the annual Halloween confectionery frenzy.

The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) says consumers have been “deceived” by promises from the brands to clean up their supply chains which were subsequently delayed, revised or watered down. Tiếp tục đọc “Nestlé, Hershey and Mars ‘breaking promises over palm oil use’” →

Lions, chimps, sharks get added protection under UN convention

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Ponso, the only surviving chimpanzee of a colony of 20 apes, sits in a tree on Chimpanzee Island in Ivory Coast, where the ape population has plummeted by 90 percent in just two decades AFP/ISSOUF SANOGO

28 Oct 2017 11:09PM

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” →

Bangladesh eyes sterilisation to curb Rohingya population

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channelnewsasia

Bangladesh says some 20,000 Rohingya women are pregnant and 600 have given birth since arriving in Bangladesh, though the figures may not account for the births that take place with no formal medical help AFP/Tauseef MUSTAFA

28 Oct 2017 10:54AM (Updated: 28 Oct 2017 10:54AM)

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” →

ĐÁM CƯỚI BÁNH MÌ

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Truyện ngắn Phạm Nga

Hòa mời riêng một số bạn bè thân – toàn ở lứa U70 như anh – dự một buổi tiệc đơn sơ tại nhà, nói là ngày kỷ niệm 40 năm chung sống của vợ chồng anh. Vừa khai tiệc, một ông bạn nhiều chuyện có ý kiến ngay:

“Các bạn ơi, như kỷ niệm ngày cưới ở năm thứ 40 anh Hòa chị Lụa đây thì Tây họ gọi là đám cưới Hồng Ngọc, còn kỷ niệm 45 năm là Đám cưới Lam Ngoc, kỷ niệm 50 năm là đám cưới Vàng, 60 năm thì đám cưới Kim Cương…. Thôi, ai chớ tui giờ phải lo để dành tiền để tương lai còn dự mấy đám ngọc lam, vàng, kim cương kia nữa!” Tiếp tục đọc “ĐÁM CƯỚI BÁNH MÌ” →

Spectacular beauty of Van Long Nature Reserve

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vietnamnet

Located in Ninh Binh province, Van Long is the biggest wetland nature reserve in the northern delta region.

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Tourists paddle in Van Long Nature Reserve Tiếp tục đọc →

Vietnam’s capital market increasingly attractive

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Last update 17:12 | 27/10/2017

vietnamnet

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” →

Một ca sĩ khiếm thị bị từ chối mở thẻ ATM

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Thứ Hai, ngày 23/10/2017 – 00:50

(PL)- Có thể ngân hàng lo cho sự an toàn của người khiếm thị nhưng việc từ chối mở thẻ ATM cho họ là sai luật

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” →

Nearly 500 Vietnamese primary students hospitalized after drinking free chocolate milk

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A traditional program that offers Nestle’s Milo chocolate for free sent the children to hospitalBy Tuoi Tre News

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” →

US Senate confirms new ambassador to Vietnam

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Daniel Kritenbrink of Virginia will succeed Ted Osius as the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam

By Tuoi Tre News

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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