From Zero to hero, the various case of Vietnam’s renewable energy

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From Zero to hero, the various case of Vietnam’s renewable energy

In January, a humble “S-shaped” country in South East Asia became the talk of the town. Having been “chasing the sun”, Vietnam saw a boom in rooftop solar installations at the end of 2020. It beat all forecasts, even that of Bloomberg, who made an entire podcast episode featuring Vietnam’s race to green energy.

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Vietnam aims to become processed agricultural product exporter

SGGP Friday, January 08, 2021 16:49

Last year, the agricultural sector had 16 projects on processing and preserving agricultural, forestry, and aquatic products with a total investment of about VND17.3 trillion. Generally, in the past four years, 67 factories had been put into operation. The agricultural sector strives to make processed agricultural products account for 30 percent of the total export value of the industry by 2030, and gradually turn Vietnam into one of the countries where processed agricultural products account for a large proportion.

Processing jackfruit for export at Vinamit Company in Binh Duong Province. (Photo: SGGP)
Processing jackfruit for export at Vinamit Company in Binh Duong Province. (Photo: SGGP)

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Ban nhạc ĐCN – Greensleeves, Sắc màu và Sway

Chào các bạn,

Cuối tuần ban nhạc ĐCN tập 3 bài: Greensleeves, Sắc màu và Sway.

Đây là lời giới thiệu bài Greensleeves của anh Hoành trên ĐCN vào ngày Giáng sinh cách đây 11 năm, ngày 25-12-2009.

Chào các bạn,

Giáng Sinh là không thể thiếu Silent Night. Và Greensleeves – Tà áo xanh.

My Lady Greensleeves, họa sĩ Danta Gabriel Rossetti 1864

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Biết thì nói là biết, không biết thì nói là không biết, ấy là biết vậy

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Đó là câu của Khổng tử trong Luận Ngữ: “Tri vi tri, bất tri vi bất tri, thị tri dã.” Biết thì nói là biết, không biết thì nói là không biết, ấy là biết vậy.

Biết thì dễ, không biết mới là vấn đề, vì chúng ta thường không biết rằng ta không biết – nói bậy nói bạ, nói lảm nhảm, nói khùng điên, nhưng cũng tưởng là mình biết, mình đúng. Đã nói là “không biết”, cho nên đã không biết điều gì thì thường là mình cũng không biết rằng “mình không biết rằng mình không biết điều đó,” mà cứ lảm nhảm như là người biết thật. Continue reading Biết thì nói là biết, không biết thì nói là không biết, ấy là biết vậy

Vỡ chậu

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Hôm trước, trong lúc di chuyển cây tại nhà, mình sơ ý làm rơi, gây vỡ chậu. Dọn dẹp xong, mình nhận thấy một cái cây khác đang yếu ớt dần vì nó chưa được sang chậu, thay đất mới. Những ai hay làm vườn đều biết cây cảnh, cỏ hoa rồi cũng sẽ phát triển đầy chậu, hút hết chất dinh dưỡng của đất. Nếu không để ý, chúng ta vô tình làm chậm quá trình sinh trưởng của cây và cây dần dần héo mòn. Mình còn thiếu kinh nghiệm quá. Việc sơ ý đánh rơi chậu của mình hoá ra lại là tốt, giúp mình thấy được nguyên nhân. Continue reading Vỡ chậu

Vietnam takes drastic measures to clean up toxic content on social media: official

24/03/2021    15:28 GMT+7 vietnamnet

Popular Vietnamese TikTok user Tho Nguyen recently caused outrage online by posting videos about Kuman Thong dolls online, asking the dolls to bless her studies after “receiving many requests from children”.

Vietnam takes drastic measures to clean up toxic content on social media: official
Deputy Director of the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information Le Quang Tu Do. — Photo vietnamnet.vn

The toxic content shocked the parents of young viewers. She was fined VND7.5 million (US$326) for her “superstitious” posts. The incident has thrown online content moderation into the spotlight.

In a recent interview with Liberated Sai Gon newspaper, Deputy Director of the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information Le Quang Tu Do talks about measures to curb harmful content online.  

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HoSE và 9 năm chờ đợi

HỒ QUỐC TUẤN 21/3/2021 8:00 GMT+7

TTCT – Sự cố nghẽn mạng ở Sở Giao dịch chứng khoán TP.HCM (HoSE) mấy tháng qua làm lộ ra nhiều vấn đề với hạ tầng cho giao dịch chứng khoán ở Việt Nam, nhưng vấn đề không chỉ là các yếu tố kỹ thuật.

“Mới sáng hệ thống đã đơ – anh bạn tôi, chủ tịch một công ty quản lý quỹ, bức xúc nhắn qua Facebook – Anh viết gì đi, mấy ổng làm ăn tệ quá”.

Bạn tôi đang nói tới hệ thống giao dịch cổ phiếu của HoSE. Hiện tượng nghẽn lệnh cổ phiếu từ 2020 tiếp tục kéo dài qua 2021 và có vẻ mỗi ngày càng tệ hơn.

Tình trạng đang chờ khớp, nghẽn lệnh liên tục xảy ra trên sàn. Ảnh: BÔNG MAI

 Để khắc phục hệ thống, lãnh đạo HoSE đã không ngừng đưa ra nhiều giải pháp mới, bao gồm tăng số cổ phiếu mỗi lệnh từ 100 lên 1.000 cổ phiếu hoặc ngừng không cho hủy, sửa lệnh.

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The State President is exemplary, asserts position as Head of State

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026/03/2021    06:00 GMT+7

In his work and all activities, the President is always responsible, exemplary, close and respectful to the people, and wholeheartedly devotes himself to serve the fatherland and the people.

The State President is exemplary, asserts position as Head of State

Party Secretary General and State President Nguyen Phu Trong meets voters

At the opening ceremony of the last session of the 14th National Assembly (NA), President Nguyen Phu Trong presented the work report for the 2016-2021 tenure of the State President.

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Về quê

Dear brothers and sisters,

I miss my hometown, both Thái Bình province – where my dad and mom were born, and Đà Nẵng city – where I was born. I miss Thái Bình with images in the song Về quê. I miss ĐN, especially Cù Lao Chàm with the blue sea, white sand and golden sunshine. I really really miss Cù Lao Chàm, although staying at Cù Lao Chàm only 1 day 1 night, I miss ĐN very much.

Oh, my sea, my sand, my sunshine… I miss you.

Sharing with you all.

Enjoy the song and have a nice day. Continue reading Về quê

Khôn lớn hay ngu lớn?

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Chúng ta hay nói: “Khi con khôn lớn thành người”. Ý là, tiến trình trưởng thành là tiến trình “lớn” và “khôn”. Chúng ta nghĩ rằng càng lớn ta càng khôn ngoan, đặc biệt là khi ta sưu tập được nhiều bằng cấp cho mình – càng nhiều bằng và bằng càng cao ta càng cảm thấy mình khôn ngoan hơn. Đây là một ảo tưởng cực lớn về đời sống con người.

Rõ ràng là càng lớn ta chúng ta càng học để tham sân si hơn, tham lam hơn, sân hận hơn, và si mê hơn. Các em bé thì em nào cũng như thiên thần yêu thương và trong sáng. Continue reading Khôn lớn hay ngu lớn?

How to close economic gap between city people and country people?

Dear brothers and sisters,

Generally, there is a huge economic gap between city people and country people. How to close that gap?

To close that gap, we should help the poor become richer.

For country people to become rich, we should bring economic development  into rural areas – every district of every province. Many things to do, but I think we should focus on 2 things: agricultural economics and information technology. We should focus on agricultural economics because the strength of rural areas is agriculture. And IT, we should also focus on it because we can do IT work wherever we sit. Continue reading How to close economic gap between city people and country people?

Woman dies in HCMC after eating toxic vegan pate

By Le Phuong   March 25, 2021 | 10:06 pm GMT+7 VNExpressWoman dies in HCMC after eating toxic vegan pateTwo vials of botulinum antidotes in Hanoi’s Bach Mai Hospital, August 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Chi Le.A 42-year-old woman has died and two others are in critical condition in HCMC after consuming vegan food that might have been contaminated with the botulinum toxin.

The woman, her 16-year-old daughter and 53-year-old sister had bowls of rice vermicelli on March 20. Among its ingredients was pate from an inflated can, indicating possible contamination.

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Crude oil exports plunge as resource depletes

By Dat Nguyen   March 24, 2021 | 11:00 am GMT+7 vnexpressCrude oil exports plunge as resource depletesTam Dao 03 oil rig off Vietnam’s eastern coast. Photo by VnExpress/Quoc Huy.

Vietnam’s crude oil export is plunging, partly because of depleting resources. An industrialist says the situation can only improve after new fields come online in several years.

Crude exports volume from January 1 to February 15 this year fell nearly 50 percent year-on-year to 354,700 tonnes, according to Vietnam Customs.

Most of Vietnam’s oil and gas fields have been harnessed for over 20 years ago and run their course, said Hoang Ngoc Trung, deputy director of Petrovietnam Exploration Production Corporation Ltd.

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Vietnam climbs up in global happiness ranking

By Nguyen Quy   March 20, 2021 | 01:31 pm GMT+7 VNExpressVietnam climbs up in global happiness rankingA family in Hanoi on their way to relatives’ homes on the first day of the Lunar New Year, February 12, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.Vietnam has climbed up four spots to 79th out of 149 countries and territories included in the 2021 World Happiness Report.

Vietnam scored 5.411 points, up from the 5.353 it got last year, according to the latest report released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a global initiative launched by the United Nations in 2012.

Using data from a Gallup World Poll, the ranking measured the happiness level in 149 economies across the world, based on six factors: GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices, generosity, and absence of corruption.

In Southeast Asia, Vietnam’s position was better than Malaysia (81), Indonesia (82), Laos (100), Cambodia (114) and Myanmar (126). It ranked behind Singapore (32), Thailand (54th) and the Philippines (61).Southeast Asia’s happiness ranking2021pointsSingaporeThailandPhilippinesVietnamMalaysiaIndonesiaLaosCambodiMyanmar01234567

Among the six factors, Vietnam performed best in freedom to make life choices, ranking 9th globally, while its generosity factor fared worst, at 112nd, with Vietnamese people deemed less generous than neighboring peers.

Life expectancy at birth in Vietnam is 68 years, putting the country in 50th place, while Singapore tops the world at 77 years, the report said.

Vietnam ranked 67th in social support and 98th in per capita GDP.

The country’s per capita income in 2020 was at $2,750, nearly 1.3 times higher than $2,109 in 2015.

In terms of corruption perception, Vietnam was in 68th place, much higher than Asian peers like South Korea and Japan.

Vietnam has been engaged in prolonged corruption spearheaded by Party chief and State President Nguyen Phu Trong. The crackdown has seen several high-profile government officials, top military officers and businessmen arrested and jailed for crimes from graft to money laundering.

Finland took the top spot in the ranking as the happiest country in the world, followed by Iceland and Denmark.

Countries at the bottom of the list were those afflicted by extreme poverty and violence, like Zimbabwe, South Sudan and Afghanistan.

This year’s ranking was collated slightly differently this time because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Not only were researchers unable to complete face-to-face interviews in a number of countries, they also had to switch things up by focusing on the relationship between well-being and Covid-19.Related News: