Nearly 67,000 Vietnamese scammed of $88mn by pyramid company

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Tuoi Tre News

Updated : 04/14/2017 15:00 GMT + 7

 

Le Xuan Giang is dressed in his military uniform during an event organized for Lien Ket Viet Company.
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Nearly 67,000 people in Vietnam fell victim to a multi-level marketing company, losing over VND2 trillion (US$88.4 million) in the fraudulent business scheme.

Officers from the Ministry of Public Security on Thursday announced the result of an investigation into fraud and property appropriation charges against Lien Ket Viet, a company specializing in network marketing.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy has been asked to begin legal procedures against Le Xuan Giang, chairman of Lien Ket Viet management board, Le Van Tu, general director, Nguyen Thi Thuy, deputy general director, and four other accomplices. Tiếp tục đọc “Nearly 67,000 Vietnamese scammed of $88mn by pyramid company” →

Ho Chi Minh City rebuilds tourism strategy to meet 7 million int’l arrivals target

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Updated : 04/14/2017 16:51 GMT + 7

Ho Chi Minh City leaders met with local tourism companies on Thursday to discuss ways to meet a target of welcoming seven million international visitors this year.

The southern tourism hub received 5.2 million foreign holidaymakers in 2016 and experienced a 15 percent jump in tourist numbers during Q1 2017, though experts are still unsure the city will meet such a lofty goal.

In the Jan-Mar period, more than 1.5 million international visitors spent holidays in Ho Chi Minh City, but Bui Ta Hoang Vu, director of the municipal tourism department, said the quarterly growth must be more than 20 percent for the seven-million target to be met. Tiếp tục đọc “Ho Chi Minh City rebuilds tourism strategy to meet 7 million int’l arrivals target” →

Learning curve: video of children sliding into mud at pre-school goes viral

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Footage of children happily playing in rain has inspired ‘longing for simple childhoods’, says childcare manager in New Zealand

A still from the video showing children gleefully leaping down the slide into a muddy puddle in the middle of a rainstorm.
A still from the video showing children gleefully leaping down the slide into a muddy puddle in the middle of a rainstorm. Photograph: Pukekos Educare/Facebook

Philippines boat school offers hope for indigenous children

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Millions of indigenous children in southern Philippines are deprived of a formal education.

They belong to a poor, nomadic community that was driven out of coastline areas during an armed rebellion.

A sailing school is reaching out to different communities so that hundreds of children are able to attend classes.

Al Jazeera’s Jamela Alindogan reports from Zamboanga city in southern Philippines.

N. Korea to strike US bases in Asian Pacific & S. Korean presidential palace if US attacks – KCNA

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Published time: 14 Apr, 2017 13:07Edited time: 14 Apr, 2017 17:18
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North Korea will strike US military bases in Japan and South Korea, as well as the South Korean president’s residence in Seoul, if America engages in aggression against Pyongyang, North Korea’s General Staff warned, according to state news agency KCNA.
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‘We will go to war if they choose’: N. Korea warns ‘aggressive’ Trump not to provoke Pyongyang

North Korea’s military promised to “ruthlessly ravage” the US if the American aircraft carrier group that is currently on its way to the region takes aggressive action.

“Our toughest counteraction against the US and its vassal forces will be taken in such a merciless manner as not to allow the aggressors to survive,” a statement from the military said.

“The Trump administration, which made a surprise guided cruise-missile strike on Syria on April 6, has entered the path of open threat and blackmail,” the statement added.

The General Staff noted that, American military bases in the Pacific, Guam, the island of Okinawa, which hosts the bulk of US troops in Japan, as well as the US mainland, are all within reach of North Korea’s strategic missiles.

On Friday, neighboring China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, warned that tensions between the US and North Korea had escalated to such a point that “a military conflict may start at any moment.”

“Lately, tensions have risen,” Wang said, adding “if a war occurs, the result is a situation in which everybody loses and there can be no winner.” Tiếp tục đọc “N. Korea to strike US bases in Asian Pacific & S. Korean presidential palace if US attacks – KCNA” →

Russia vetoes UN resolution to condemn Syria chemical attack

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Thursday, 13 Apr 2017 | 5:32 AM ET

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Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution Wednesday that would have condemned the reported use of chemical weapons in a town in northern Syria and demanded a speedy investigation, triggering clashes between Moscow and the measure’s Western backers.

The vote on the Security Council resolution drafted by Britain, France and the United States was 10 in favor, Russia and Bolivia against, and China, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia abstaining. Tiếp tục đọc “Russia vetoes UN resolution to condemn Syria chemical attack” →

Cholera spreading in Somalia, 50,000 cases foreseen – WHO

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Two billion people drinking faecal-contaminated water: WHO

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Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Dramatic improvements are needed in ensuring access to clean water and sanitation worldwide, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that nearly two billion people currently use faecal-contaminated water. Tiếp tục đọc “Two billion people drinking faecal-contaminated water: WHO” →

Dược phẩm kém chất lượng, sai nhãn mác, thuốc nhái và thuốc giả (SSFFC)

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English:  Substandard, spurious, falsely labelled, falsified and counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products

  • Dược phẩm kém chất lượng, sai nhãn mác, thuốc nhái, thuốc giả – SSFFC – có thể gây nguy hiểm đến bệnh nhân và khiến việc điều trị không đạt hiệu quả.
  • SSFFC là nguyên nhân chính gây mất lòng tin vào dược phẩm, nhà cung cấp các sản phẩm chăm sóc sức khỏe và hệ thống chăm sóc sức khỏe.
  • SSFFC ảnh hưởng đến tất cả các khu vực trên thế giới
  • Dược phẩm SSFFC thuộc danh mục thuốc điều trị chính được báo cáo đến WHO gồm thuốc, vac xin, chẩn đoán in vitro.
  • Thuốc điều trị sốt rét và thuốc kháng sinh là hai loại thuốc bị làm giả nhiều nhất
  • Cả thuốc phổ thông và thuốc đặc trị cao cấp đều bị làm giả, từ những thuốc đắt tiền như thuốc điều trị ung thư đến những loại thuốc không quá đắt tiền như thuốc giảm đau.
  • Những loại thuốc này có thể tìm thấy ở những chợ vỉa hè bất hợp pháp, trên những website không được kiểm soát, các hiệu thuốc, phòng khám, bệnh viện

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Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business

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poynter_If you know Art Cullen, it’s not exactly a surprise to learn his initial words upon watching the livestream of the Pulitzer announcements and learning he’d won for editorial writing.

“Holy shit,” he yelled out to his brother, John, the publisher of the family-run, 10-person Storm Lake (Iowa) Times.

The only surprise was that there wasn’t a longer string of un-family-like adjectives or adverbs.

Big-paper editorial writers, perhaps laboring in well-appointed individual offices in relative urban splendor, be apprised: Writing editorials is merely one of a multiple daily duties of Art Cullen, Monday’s Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing.

Sitting in an office he calls a “gray metal wreck,” he’s de facto city editor, part-time reporter and editorial writer at the twice-weekly, 3,000-circulation Storm Lake, Iowa Times. Tiếp tục đọc “Tiny, family-run newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize for taking on big business” →

Tiêu điểm kinh tế – Gỡ rào cản để năng lượng tái tạo phát triển

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Chính phủ đặt mục tiêu ưu tiên phát triển năng lượng tái tạo nhằm đa dạng hóa cơ cấu nguồn điện cũng như hướng tới một nền kinh tế xanh và sạch hơn. Tuy nhiên, việc khai thác nguồn năng lượng tái tạo đến nay vẫn chưa phát huy được hết lợi thế sẵn có từ thiên nhiên. Vậy đâu là mấu chốt cần tháo gỡ để phát triển mạnh hơn nữa nguồn năng lượng xanh tại Việt Nam?

Vietnamese businesses warned about ‘outsourcing trap’

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VietNamNet Bridge – More than 70 percent of Vietnam’s total export turnover belongs to foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs), while Vietnamese enterprises still cannot join the global value chain. 


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According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), Vietnam exported $175.9 billion worth of products in 2016, an increase of 8.6 percent over the year before. FIEs alone exported $126 billion, or 70 percent of total export turnover.

Vietnam’s exports have been witnessing stable two-digit growth rate over many years. In 2001, the country exported $15 billion worth of products, while the figure soared to $96.9 billion 10 years later. In 2016, export turnover climbed to $175.9 billion. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnamese businesses warned about ‘outsourcing trap’” →

Japanese warship visits Cam Ranh port

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Update: April, 12/2017 – 10:33

Ship Fuyuzuki of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force docked at Cam Ranh International Port in the south central province of Khánh Hòa yesterday, starting a five-day visit to Việt Nam. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — Ship Fuyuzuki of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force docked at Cam Ranh International Port in the south central province of Khánh Hòa yesterday, starting a five-day visit to Việt Nam.

The crewmember will visit leaders of the provincial People’s Committee, Commander of Naval Zone 4 and ships of the Vietnam People’s Navy. They will have sport exchange with officers and soldiers of Naval Zone 4.

The visit takes place in the context that relations between the two countries in general and defence ties in particular are growing. — VNS

Fury in Vietnam over United passenger dragged from plane

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ChannelNewsAsia
Posted 12 Apr 2017 14:20

A video screengrab shows passenger David Dao being dragged off a United Airlines flight at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in this video filmed by @JayseDavid April 9, 2017. Jayse D. Anspach via REUTERS

HANOI: Outrage spread to Vietnam on Wednesday over United Airlines’ handling of a passenger dragged from his seat after it emerged that the 69-year-old U.S. doctor was Vietnamese by birth.

Although United Airlines has no direct flights to Vietnam, there were widespread calls on social media for a boycott after video showed a bloodied David Dao being yanked out of the plane by airport security on Sunday to make way for United employees.

The ire in Vietnam grew quickly after it was reported that Dao’s origins were not in the Southeast Asian country’s old enemy, China, as many had at first assumed. Tiếp tục đọc “Fury in Vietnam over United passenger dragged from plane” →

Taiwan bans dog and cat meat from table as attitudes change

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Guardian

Consumption attracts large fine and repeat offenders could be named and shamed under law that is first of its kind in Asia

Cats are seen caged after being rescued by China Small Animal Protection Association from a Tianjin market that trade cats for meat and fur, in Beijing
People in Taiwan who repeatedly eat dog or cat meat face being named and shamed under the new law. Photograph: AP

Taiwan is set to become the first country in Asia to ban the consumption of dog and cat meat, as increasing pet ownership across the continent has seen attitudes shift.

The revised Animal Protection Act imposes a fine of up to 250,000 Taiwan dollars (£6,500) for eating dog or cat meat, while the penalties for animal cruelty or slaughter were raised to up to two years in prison and fines of up to 2m Taiwan dollars (£52,000). Tiếp tục đọc “Taiwan bans dog and cat meat from table as attitudes change” →