Elderly poverty in Vietnam is a significant issue considering that Vietnam currently has one of the highest rates of aging populations in the world. Right now, Vietnam is still a young country, despite the fact that its elderly population has increased from 4.9% in 1975 to 7.9% as of 2020. There is reason to have some concern over the aging population. Even just between 2009 and 2019, the elderly population older than the age of 60 increased by 2%. The World Bank has calculated that Vietnam could be the country that is aging fastest globally.
Dr. Claudine Gay testifying before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 05, 2023 in Washington, DC. She has since resigned from her post as President of Harvard University.Kevin Dietsch—Getty Images
The end of Claudine Gay’s brief and turbulent presidency at Harvard has hardly put an end to controversies about elite university leadership and governance. Bill Ackman, the “activist” donor and Harvard graduate, is calling for further resignations from the Harvard Corporation, while baiting MIT’s President, Sally Kornbluth, with the Shakespearean query: “et tu?” Meanwhile, Mark Rowan, the board member who engineered the takedown of the University of Pennsylvania’s erstwhile president, Elizabeth McGill—the first of the Washington three to step down—has now been pressing his advantage in calling for major reforms of an academic nature at Penn. Philanthropy and academic freedom are colliding in ways that have the potential to undermine the true purpose and mission of our universities.
As much as these, and some other, donors have appeared to embody popular discontent with those at the pinnacle of higher education, it is easy to forget that not long ago the scandals around these universities had to do with donors who used their gifts as leverage to secure admission for their children, making visible the problematic relationship between some individual philanthropy and private interests. We all called for firewalls then but seem now to have forgotten those critiques of the relationship between private interests and higher education.
Though the 100 incidents in 2023 increased by 19 per cent over 2022, these were small-time robberies, with theft of items such as nominal value wires, brass ship products, engine spares and scraps, Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery, says executive director
PTI Singapore Published 09.01.24, 06:06 PM
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No report of piracy incidents occurred on the Asian high seas but 99 actual incidents and one attempted armed robbery against ships occurred in Southeast Asian waters in 2023, a Singapore based maritime organisation reported said on Tuesday.
Though the 100 incidents in 2023 increased by 19 per cent over 2022, these were small-time robberies, with theft of items such as nominal value wires, brass ship products, engine spares and scraps, Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery (ReCAAP) executive director Krishnaswamy Natarajan said at the annual press conference.
Such incidents were five in India in 2023, the same as those in 2022, while Bangladesh and Malaysia reported one incident each, compared to five and two incidents in 2022, respectively.
Reviewing the year, Natarajan pointed out that the increase in incidents occurred in Indonesia, the Philippines, the Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS), Thailand and Vietnam.
Of concern was the occurrence of incidents in SOMS with 63 incidents compared to 55 incidents in 2022, said the former Director General of Indian Coast Guard.
In the Sulu-Celebes Seas, there was no report of the abduction of crew for ransom by the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), which was achieved through the concerted efforts of the Philippine and Malaysian authorities, he highlighted.
As part of the Centre’s continuous efforts to ensure that the evolving needs of the shipping industry are met, the ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre (ISC) launched various initiatives in 2023, to keep the shipping community abreast of the latest piracy and ARAS situation in Asia and to facilitate ship masters in the timely reporting of incidents to the nearest coastal State.
The initiatives include the launch of the ReCAAP Data Visualisation Map and Panel (Re-VAMP) — an interactive dashboard to enable the viewing and analytics of past and current incidents of piracy and ARAS in Asia.
The initiative also includes the production of a poster containing the guidelines and updated contact details of law enforcement agencies of the littoral States of the SOMS; and engagement of the shipping industry through various events including conferences, forums and shipping dialogue sessions, he elaborated.
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Judges at the International Court of Justice on Thursday opened two days of legal arguments in a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide in its Gaza war. (Jan. 11)
BY GERALD IMRAYUpdated 2:28 AM GMT+7, January 12, 2024 AP
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Barely two weeks after he was released from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela flew to Zambia to meet with African leaders who had supported his fight against South Africa’s apartheid system of forced racial segregation.
One figure stood out among the men in dark suits eagerly waiting to greet Mandela on the airport tarmac: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, wearing his black and white checkered keffiyeh headdress, had traveled to see the newly freed Mandela.
Cambodian people will never forget the end of the Pol Pot regime 45 years ago and the whole-hearted support and sacrifices made by Vietnamese voluntary troops. Those efforts have helped create an unbreakable bond between the two nations.
Kỳ 1 – Dịch vụ thụ tinh ống nghiệm: Ngành ‘công nghiệp’ siêu lợi nhuận?
Người bệnh khám vô sinh tại bệnh viện. Ảnh: Phương Thúy.
So với 10 năm trước, hiện nay, cả nước có 53 trung tâm hỗ trợ sinh sản thụ tinh trong ống nghiệm (IVF). Với chi phí dao động từ hàng chục tới hàng trăm triệu một lần thực hiện, dịch vụ này đang trở thành ngành “công nghiệp” siêu lợi nhuận.
Lời tòa soạn
Năm 1997, lần đầu tiên tại Việt Nam, kỹ thuật thụ tinh trong ống nghiệm (IVF) được thực hiện. Một năm sau, các em bé chào đời. Mặc dù bắt đầu muộn so với thế giới (1978) và khu vực (1984), nhưng hiện nay, Việt Nam là nước thực hiện IVF nhiều nhất khu vực ASEAN và là nước đi đầu về kỹ thuật này của khu vực. Nước ta có khoảng 50.000 trường hợp IVF mỗi năm, cho đến nay ước tính đã có khoảng 200.000 trẻ ra đời ở Việt Nam từ kỹ thuật này.
Đây được xem là thị trường y tế siêu lợi nhuận mang lại hàng triệu USD mỗi năm. Tuy nhiên, nhiều bác sĩ lo ngại kỹ thuật hỗ trợ sinh sản sẽ bị thương mại hóa.
VietNamNet xin đăng tuyến bài: ‘Nở rộ’ trung tâm hỗ trợ sinh sản, người hiếm muộn thành khách hàng tiềm năng để phản ánh về thực tế bức tranh điều trị vô sinh hiếm muộn tại nước ta.
Việt Nam là quốc gia sản xuất và xuất khẩu quế đứng thứ ba thế giới về sản lượng, sau Indonesia, Trung Quốc. Tuy vậy, do sản phẩm Việt Nam chủ yếu xuất thô nên thường gắn nhãn mác của nước ngoài, giá trị thu về thấp, thậm chí có tình trạng xuất khẩu tận vườn như câu chuyện thương nhân Ấn Độ tìm đến Yên Bái để thu mua.
Sản phẩm quế, hồi Việt Nam vẫn chưa xây dựng được thương hiệu ở thị trường thế giới.
Bộ Công Thương cho biết, trên bản đồ dược liệu thế giới, Việt Nam được đánh giá có nguồn dược liệu đa dạng, tỷ lệ dược liệu tự nhiên quý hiếm vẫn còn khá phong phú. Theo thống kê, hiện nước ta có khoảng trên 5.100 loài cây dược liệu, có nhiều tiềm năng, lợi thế để phát triển dược liệu trở thành một ngành kinh tế.
Sitting on my tiny rooftop garden, how much I cherish the early morning tea with the sweet sounds of a bird family, who has graciously made my roof their home since the day I settled here.
How thankful I am for this precious gift of sound, offered by my birdy friends despite the city noise that they have to compete with. How unbearable it would be, imagine one day, I find no birdy singing on my roof nor in any other corner of this Earth.
In the quiet corners of our world, where nature once thrived and rang its melody, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” warned us about a future where the symphony of Nature would be no bird chirping, no insect buzzing, not even leaf rustling, but replaced by creepy hush, only. And that scary destructive silence was caused by the pesticide and herbicide.
These days, we find ourselves in a different strike of silence, one that haunts the holiday season in Gaza, Palestine – a Silent Christmas, where the laughters of children and the voices of joyous carols are muted by the horrors of war and genocide.
This is not a Christmas story from a distant land; this haunting silence deeply matters to our conscience. For this silence echoes the death of humanity. For this silence is the death of the voice in our heart.
TTCT – Binance bị phạt 4 tỉ đô la và chuyện quy định mới Ngân hàng Nhà nước Việt Nam phải giám sát giao dịch từ 400 triệu đồng trở lên có liên quan gì với nhau?
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Tháng 11 vừa rồi, Binance, sàn giao dịch tiền mã hóa lớn nhất thế giới với quy mô giao dịch mỗi ngày gần 80 tỉ đô la Mỹ (theo Coinmarketcap), đã thừa nhận tội hình sự liên quan đến rửa tiền và vi phạm các lệnh trừng phạt tài chính quốc tế, đồng thời đồng ý trả hơn 4,3 tỉ USD tiền phạt.
In Central Vietnam’s factory, wood chips are accumulated in the rear of a three-wheel vehicle used to transport acacia wood to the processing machine. Image by Thanh Nguyen.
Vietnam is ranked the fifth-largest country in the world, second in Asia, and the largest in Southeast Asia in furniture exports. Vietnamese furniture has been directly exported to 120 countries and territories.
However, behind this impressive figure is that series of natural forests that have been cut down and quickly. These forest land areas have been occupied for growing short-term timber trees.
Deforestation makes natural disasters in Vietnam more severe, local people suffer the most from the consequences.
“We detained 48 foreign women – 32 Indonesians, 13 Thais and three Vietnamese – along with a man from Afghanistan.” he said.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Immigration Department detained 48 foreign women in raids on three suspected prostitution dens in the city.
Immigration deputy director-general (Operation) Jafri Embok Taha said the raids on Friday (Jan 5) night also busted the activities of a syndicate.
“We detained 48 foreign women – 32 Indonesians, 13 Thais and three Vietnamese – along with a man from Afghanistan.” he said.
Jafri added in a statement on Sunday (Jan 7) that three local men were detained, saying that two were caretakers of the premises while a third was a transporter.
He said that eight of the Thai women detained had valid social visit passes while the remaining female foreigners did not have any travel documents or passes.
“We seized various items, including condoms, eight Thai passports, RM300 cash, towels, CCTV equipment and a car,” he added.
Jafri said the syndicate would promote the services of the women by uploading their photos on Telegram and WhatsApp and added that the women would be sent to a specific hotel or location based on the preference of the customers.
The UN is tasked with tackling many urgent issues of global importance, from humanitarian crises to peacekeeping operations and the climate crisis. This all comes at a cost, but not as much as you might think. With the 2024 budget recently approved, we crunch the numbers.
Just before Christmas, the 193 Member States that make up the UN General Assembly signed off a $3.59 billion budget to cover the expenses of the UN Secretariat in 2024. That’s a lot of money but, as UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq explained to UN News, there’s plenty of bang for each buck spent.
Farhan Haq: When you add up the regular UN Secretariat and peacekeeping budgets, the annual average cost of the UN for each person on the planet is about $1.25; that’s about the cost of a bag of chips in New York.
Aside from the U.N. Secretariat, the United Nations also comprises a vast range of agencies, funds, programmes and peacekeeping missions to deal with all kinds of issues, which are funded separately, and which are not included in the $3.59 billion budget.
At the high end you have agencies such as the World Food Programme, the refugee agency (UNHCR) and the children’s fund (UNICEF), which have budgets in the billions of dollars. Smaller agencies deal with, for example, maritime affairs, world tourism or civil aviation, and have budgets set accordingly. Member States join and pay dues for these agencies on a voluntary basis.
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