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15/10/2020 23:54 GMT+7 vietnamnetVietnam strongly protests the establishment of the so-called Sansha city in Phu Lam Island in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago and related activities as they seriously violate Vietnam’s sovereignty, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said.Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang (Photo: VNA)
Hang made the statement regarding reports that China has more than 400 enterprises at the so-called Sansha city, at a regular press conference of the Foreign Ministry.
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Nghe tin thuỷ điện Rào Trăng 3 nơi con trai đang làm việc bị sạt lở, ông Tạ Văn Chính vội bắt xe từ Thanh Hoá vào Huế.
Cùng đi với ông trên chuyến xe khách còn có anh vợ Lê Văn Phùng. Con trai cả hai ông cùng làm máy xúc ở Rào Trăng 3. Suốt chuyến đi 10 tiếng đồng hồ, người ở nhà gọi điện liên hồi, hai ông càng thêm rối bời, chỉ biết nén những tiếng thở dài.
By Linh Do October 16, 2020 | 07:50 pm GMT+7Almost all Vietnamese men think they need to be the “shoulders” for women to cry on. Illustration photo by Shutterstock.
Vietnamese men remain patriarchal, smoke and drink a lot, and feel pressured in life, a study by the Institute for Social Development Studies in Hanoi has found.
According to the study, which surveyed 2,567 men aged 18-64 from four representative geographical regions for two years, to be a “true man” in Vietnam still revolves around conservative values such as prioritizing work and career, being able to feed one’s wife and kids as the family’s breadwinner and “pillar”, daring to take risks and challenges, and being physically strong and possess sexual ability.
Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong (Photo: VNA)
NDO – General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Party documents of the 13th National Party Congress, wrote an important article on thorough preparations for the congresses of Party committees under the Central Committee towards the 13th National Party Congress.
Nhan Dan Online introduces the full text of the article:
Lan’s family, which owns a small grocery store in my neighborhood, has to pay 10-12.5 percent of its total income each month for electricity.
Her husband is a worker at a garment factory and earns around VND4 million ($170) a month, and the grocery shop brings in around the same amount. They have two children in school.
The land rent in some industrial zones in Hai Phong, Bac Ninh and Hai Duong has increased by 20-30 percent.
Covid-19 has temporarily disrupted investments, but the interest in Vietnam remains strong as it is expected to be the new industrial power in the region. Investors are still seeking land and workshops to prepare their plans.
According to JLL, more and more online platforms have been set up which allow clients to find and lease land from a distance.
Hong Kong (CNN) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on troops to “put all (their) minds and energy on preparing for war” in a visit to a military base in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday, according to state news agency Xinhua.
During an inspection of the People’s Liberation Army Marine Corps in Chaozhou City, Xinhua said Xi told the soldiers to “maintain a state of high alert” and called on them to be “absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, and absolutely reliable.”
Individuals will no longer be allowed to invest in real estate abroad if a new draft decree issued by the Ministry of Planning and Investment is approved.
Viettel Group has invested in providing telecommunications services in a number of countries. Viet Nam is developing a decree to better manage overseas investments. — Photo baodauthau.vn
Enterprises founded under the provisions of the Law on Enterprise would be exempt from the ruling.
The regulation aimed at preventing individuals from investing in real estate in foreign countries for the purpose of obtaining citizenship, according to the ministry.
Two are dead. One of the remaining four is 95 years old as the state compensates six people for suffering wrongful imprisonment 41 years ago.
The six people were given a compensation of VND1 billion ($43,192) each on Monday, nearly a year after receiving a public apology from the People’s Procuracy of Tay Ninh, the public prosecuting agency in the southern province.
Vo Thi Thuong, 95, and five family members received the compensation for the physical and mental suffering they had to endure for their wrongful conviction and imprisonment, a stupendous 41 years after it happened.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed by Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung and USAID Acting Director Bradley Bessire in Hanoi on October 13.
Under the MoU, the USAID will also help the Vietnamese side further develop the national public service portal, an electric platform connecting the Government with people and enterprises.
Taiwan is one of those flash points that has never flashed. The dispute over the island’s fate has had the potential to erupt into conflict between China and the United States for decades. But the feared Chinese invasion has never come. The situation has remained deadlocked for so long that Taiwan’s quandary often drifts into the background of Asian affairs, overshadowed by seemingly more-pressing concerns, such as North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and inflamed tensions between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.
More than 71% of wards and communes in Ho Chi Minh City have been recognised as “clean” areas – one of the outstanding results of the 200-day emulation movement held to celebrate its upcoming municipal Party Congress.
The movement also had a positive spill-over effect, helping the city take steps towards becoming “a rubbish-free city”.
FILE PHOTO: The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain prepares to depart from dry dock at Fleet Activities Yokosuka after an extensive maintenance period in Yokosuka, Japan, November 27, 2018. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Tyra Watson/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Chinese military spokesperson said on Friday that the U.S. destroyer John McCain had entered waters around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea claimed by China without China’s permission.
“We demand the U.S. immediately stop such provocative actions, (and) strictly control and restrict military operations in the sea and air,” the spokesperson said in a post on an official WeChat account.
The spokesperson also said it would take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security and to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.
Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Hugh Lawson
By Nguyen Quy October 13, 2020 | 01:37 pm GMT+7 VNExpressPeople row boats on a flooded street in Hue in central Vietnam, October 11, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.
The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by prolonged heavy rains in central Vietnam has climbed to 29 as of Tuesday morning.
Twenty three had succumbed to floodwaters, three had lost their lives in boating accidents, with the remaining three were killed by electric shock while cleaning out their homes, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
Twelve other people are still missing while the floods have inundated over 130,000 houses and 4,000 hectares of crops, damaging several roads and bridges, the committee said.
An aerial view of the 500kV substation of the Trung Nam Thuan Nam Solar Power Plant in the central province of Ninh Thuan. Photo courtesy of Trungnam Group.
By Dat Nguyen October 13, 2020 | 12:13 pm GMT+7 VNExpress
The largest solar farm in Southeast Asia has been commissioned in Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan.
The 450 megawatt Trung Nam Thuan Nam Solar Power Plant, which spreads over an area of nearly 560 hectares in Thuan Nam District, went on stream on Monday evening, 102 days after construction began in mid-May.
Almost all Vietnamese men think they need to be the “shoulders” for women to cry on. Illustration photo by Shutterstock.
People row boats on a flooded street in Hue in central Vietnam, October 11, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.
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