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Bang giao quốc tế

Vietnam War veteran mends post-war wounds, one bomb at a time

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By Hoang Tao   July 11, 2020 | 08:08 pm GMT+7 VNexpress

Vietnam War veteran mends post-war wounds, one bomb at a time

Chuck Searcy (R) poses with Bui Trong Hong, National Technical Officer at Project RENEW. Photo by VnExpress/Ngo Xuan Hien.

For the past 25 years, Chuck Searcy has cleaned up explosives and helped disabled children in Quang Tri Province, a prime Vietnam War battleground.

Chuck Searcy is no stranger to the employees of Project RENEW, a Vietnamese organization that deals with unexploded ordnance left from the Vietnam War. His thin stature and silver hair are a stark contrast to his gregarious, lively persona. Traveling back and forth between Hanoi and Quang Tri Province, a major former battlefield in central Vietnam, Searcy has done all in his capacity to mend wartime wounds.

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Thông Tin

H1 GDP growth hits 10-year low

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By Anh Tu   June 29, 2020 | 04:41 pm GMT+7 VNExpress

H1 GDP growth hits 10-year low

Workers manufacture antibacterial masks at a firm in HCMC’s Tan Binh District, April 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyet Nhi.

Vietnam’s GDP growth was roughly 1.81 percent in the first half, the lowest since 2011, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, General Statistics Office reported Monday.

The country’s second quarter GDP grew by 0.36 percent, compared with an expansion of 6.73 percent in the same period last year, said the GSO.

Vietnam’s low H1 GDP growth is ascribed to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused major economies such as the U.S. Japan, and EU to face a deep recession, an interrupted supply chain, a sharp drop in crude oil prices, alongside high unemployment, it said.

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Nước - Water

Water sector draws investment

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Update: July, 11/2020 – 08:59 VNSChia sẻ bài viết lên Twitter|

A worker of Hà Nội Water Co Ltd (Hawacom). Hawacom is among the enterprises that occupy the largest market shares in the water supply industry. Photo hawacom.vn

HÀ NỘI — The water supply and drainage sector is drawing investment thanks to its high profit margins and good growth potential.

According to the HCM City Securities Corporation (HSC), the water industry has positive prospects as rapid urbanisation and population growth have led to a higher demand for water for industrial production and clean water consumption.

The annual compound growth rate (CAGR) of the water sector in 2017-2020 is 43 per cent for industrial production and 35 per cent for clean water consumption.

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Du lịch

A day with the H’mong up in northern Vietnam mountains

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By Ngan Duong    July 4, 2020 | 08:54 pm GMT+7 VNexpress

A H’mong ethnic village in the mountains of Lai Chau Province can make for a great weekend getaway from the hustle and bustle of city life with its cool weather and picturesque landscapes.

Sin Suoi Ho, situated at an altitude of 1,500 meters and 30 kilometers from Lai Chau Town in the namesake province, also offers visitors the opportunity to immerse themselves in the daily life and ethnic culture of the local H’mong people.

Cardamom drink in bamboo tubes.
Cardamom drink in bamboo tubes.

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Bang giao quốc tế, Quốc phòng

Vietnam, US boost defence ties

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vietnamnet 08/07/2020    15:45 GMT+7

The Vietnam- US comprehensive partnership has flourished in all spheres over the past years, including security and national defence.

Vietnam, US boost defence tiesDeputy Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South Asia and Southeast Asia Amy Searight co-chair the Vietnam-US Defense Dialogue in Hanoi, October 21, 2014 (Photo: VNA)

Vietnam, US boost defence ties
Signing ceremony of a memorandum of intent between the Military Science Department, the Ministry of Defense of Vietnam and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on dioxin remediation in Bien Hoa airport area in Vietnam, January 23, 2018 (Photo: VNA)

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Năng lượng tái tạo

Experts warn of scorching-hot growth of solar power in Vietnam

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vietnamnet08/07/2020    18:00 GMT+7

The total capacity of solar power projects registered by investors has become nearly 10 times higher than the targeted level.

The solar power market began exploding in November 2017, when the Prime Minister signed Decision 11, setting the highest ever FIT (feed in tariff) of 9.35 cent per kwh, or VND2,086 for solar power. The electricity purchase price is applied for 20 years to power projects that became operational prior to June 31, 2019.

Experts warn of scorching-hot growth of solar power in Vietnam

The decision triggered a wave of hundreds of businesses pouring hundreds of trillions of dong into solar power projects.

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Du lịch

Vietnam’s Son Doong cave listed among the most surreal places in the world to visit before you die

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vietnaminsider June 8, 2020
U.S. news site Insider has named Son Doong, the world’s largest cave located in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh, among “20 record-breaking natural wonders.”
Son Doong cave also listed among the 29 most surreal places in the world to visit before you die by the Business Insider In a Sunday article, it notes: “Across the world, natural wonders promote our planet’s biodiversity, stabilize our climate, and support human life and some of these natural wonders have also broken records – their size, height, or length reigns supreme.”
In the picture is Loong Coong cave, located on top of Son Doong Cave. The only way to reach the cave is to hang down with a rope for around 0.05 miles. (Photo courtesy of Howard Limbert)
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Biển Đông

Cử tri Hà Nội lên án những vi phạm của Trung Quốc ở Hoàng Sa, Trường Sa

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06/07/2020    05:55 GMT+7 vietnamnet

Trước kỳ họp HĐND TP Hà Nội khai mạc hôm nay (6/7), Ủy ban MTTQ Việt Nam TP Hà Nội có báo cáo tổng hợp ý kiến, kiến nghị về những vấn đề cử tri và nhân dân thủ đô quan tâm.

Bí thư Vương Đình Huệ đốc thúc năm dự án giao thông trọng điểm
Chuyên gia lý giải đập Tam Hiệp xả lũ và sự ảnh hưởng đến Việt Nam
Hà Nội chưa có nhân sự đại hội Đảng nào bị tố cáo giàu nhanh bất thường

Theo bản tổng hợp, cử tri và nhân dân bất bình và lên án những hành động của Trung Quốc về việc thành lập các đơn vị hành chính trên hai quần đảo Trường Sa và Hoàng Sa của Việt Nam, cấm đánh bắt cá và có những hành vi ngăn cản, đâm chìm tàu cá của ngư dân Việt Nam, vi phạm nghiêm trọng chủ quyền nước ta.

Cử tri Hà Nội lên án những vi phạm của Trung Quốc ở Hoàng Sa, Trường Sa
Tàu khảo sát địa chấn Hải Dương 8 của Trung Quốc từng xâm phạm trái phép vùng đặc quyền kinh tế hợp pháp của Việt Nam

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Y tế

Dengue fever season is peaking as death tolls have risen

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Dengue fever season is peaking as death tolls have risen - Vietnam ...

vietnaminsider June 8, 2020

According to the Ministry of Health yesterday, dengue fever season is peaking as death tolls have risen to four and more than 24,000 infections have been reported in 58 cities and provinces from the beginning of the year to early June.

Four people in the Central Province of Binh Dinh, the southern provinces of Binh Phuoc and Tay Ninh and the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho succumbed to the disease. Most of infected people are living in the southern provinces.

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Y tế

Vietnam prepares to put indigenous Covid-19 vaccine on human trial

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 ThoiDai (VUFO) 15:28 | 01/07/2020Lyan Vu 

The Company for Vaccine and Biological Production (VABIOTECH) under the Ministry of Health had two trial injection phases on lab mice, that produced good results and the facility is planning to conduct a trial of the Covid-19 vaccine on human.

US coronavirus cases rise by 47,000, the biggest number of one-day spike
International organizations seek cooperation with Vietnam in COVID-19 vaccine producing
ASEAN, Australia coordinate closely to develop COVID-19 vaccines, medicine
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Vietnam tests Covid-19 vaccine on lab mice. Photo: Vnexpress.

Speaking to Zing.vn, Head of the Hanoi-based VABIOTECH company Do Tuan Dat said that the indigenous Covid-19 vaccine researched and produced by the facility in collaboration with UK’s Bristol University is heading to the next phase of the human trial, which is expected to implement in early 2021.

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Thông Tin

Failed projects to receive no more cash: Deputy PM

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VNS Update: June, 08/2020 – 08:30|

The Dung Quất Bio-ethanol Plant in the central province of Quảng Ngãi, one of the 12 loss-making projects. — VNA Photo

HÀ NỘI — The State will not pump more money into 12 failing mega-projects under the management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), said Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình in a recent meeting with high-ranking officials in Hà Nội.

Bình said the top priority was to prevent further loss to the State’s budget and projects that were no longer financially sustainable may be forced to file for bankruptcy or be dissolved.

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Thế giới

Former Canadian PM Mulroney calls for revised relations with China

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Former Canadian PM Mulroney calls for revised relations with China ...
Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, seen here at George Bush’s funeral in 2018, said his country needed to revise its ties with China. (AFP/Alex Brandon)

AsiaChannel 02 Jul 2020 01:19AM

MONTREAL: Canada must have an “urgent rethink” of its relationship with China, former prime minister Brian Mulroney said on Wednesday (Jul 1) as tensions build over the possible extradition to the United States of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.

Conservative Mulroney backed his Liberal successor Justin Trudeau’s rejection of any exchange of Meng, who was arrested in Vancouver in December 2018, for two Canadians who were detained in China in apparent retaliation.

Mulroney said Canada’s hope that China would emerge as a constructive partner in international relations had been proven wrong, referring in particular to Beijing’s militarization of the South China Sea.

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Biển Đông

Nhiều nước lên tiếng về Biển Đông tại diễn đàn an ninh khu vực

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08/07/2020    14:31 GMT+7  vietnamnet

Nhiều nước lên tiếng về Biển Đông tại diễn đàn an ninh khu vực

Sáng nay (8/7), tại Hà Nội, Bộ Quốc phòng tổ chức hội nghị trực tuyến Chính sách an ninh Diễn đàn khu vực ASEAN (ASPC). Thượng tướng Nguyễn Chí Vịnh, Thứ trưởng Bộ Quốc phòng, Trưởng SOM Việt Nam chủ trì.

Việt Nam trao công hàm phản đối Trung Quốc tập trận ở Hoàng Sa
Các nước ASEAN nhấn mạnh tinh thần thượng tôn pháp luật ở Biển Đông
Lãnh đạo ASEAN không né tránh vấn đề Biển Đông tại hội nghị cấp cao

Tham gia hội nghị có đại diện 26 nước đối tác trong khuôn khổ ARF, ban thư ký ASEAN.

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Y tế

Bộ Y tế yêu cầu 3 bệnh viện tuyến cuối hỗ trợ Tây Nguyên chống dịch bạch hầu

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08/07/2020 10:34 GMT+7

TTO – Sáng nay 8-7, Cục Quản lý khám chữa bệnh, Bộ Y tế đã yêu cầu 3 bệnh viện tuyến cuối khẩn trương hỗ trợ kỹ thuật cho các tỉnh Tây Nguyên trong tình hình dịch bạch hầu có xu hướng lan rộng tại đây.

Bộ Y tế yêu cầu 3 bệnh viện tuyến cuối hỗ trợ Tây Nguyên chống dịch bạch hầu - Ảnh 1.

Các bác sĩ khám và lấy mẫu xét nghiệm tại vùng dịch bạch hầu tại tỉnh Đắk Nông – Ảnh: TÂM AN

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