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Me? Me? Me?... Yeah yeah yeah amigo... What can me say about me-self?... me-self...me-self... Ole ole ole... me me me... I'm a young banana shoot... My dad is Banana Pa... My mom is Banana Ma... I am happy happy happy... I run around... oops... I can't run... I sing aloud... all day long... I sing in the rain... I sing in the shine... I sing day and night... I sing all the time... I watch the butterflies and the bees... and the cranes and the geese... Aha aha aha... here we go again... this little swallow circling on my head... the little swallow on my head... is about to poop on me... Hey, little fella, don't cha know where to unload ya poopa?... But, that's alright... I can swallow my pride to befriend a swallow... Yup yup yup... swallow my pride to befriend a swallow...
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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Thông Tin

Vietnam blocks new airlines until 2022 despite market duopoly

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Nikkei – Hanoi prioritizes existing carriers Vietnam Air and VietJet

A Jetstar Pacific plane at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi: Qantas Airways plans to sell its stake in the carrier to joint venture partner Vietnam Airlines.   © Reuters

TOMOYA ONISHI, Nikkei staff writerJuly 7, 2020 00:34 JST

HANOI — Vietnam plans to freeze approval for new entries to the airline industry until 2022, a move that threatens to solidify the virtual duopoly already in place.

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Y tế

Vietnam reports 14 new COVID-19 cases, all imported

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Reuters, theguardian

Published: 14 hours ago

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s health ministry on Monday reported 14 new coronavirus infections, all among Vietnamese citizens held in quarantine upon their arrival from overseas.

The Southeast Asian country has been 81 days without a domestically transmitted infection due to successful programmes to contain the virus. It has yet to report any deaths from the coronavirus and has confirmed 369 cases in total, over 90% of which have recovered.

(Reporting by Phuong Nguyen; Editing by Martin Petty)

Thông Tin

DPM asks Mekong Delta localities to hasten ODA, preferential loan disbursement

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09:48 | 01/07/2020

VGP – Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on June 30 held a working session with five localities in the Mekong Delta to tackle difficulties and obstacles in launching projects from the Official Development Assistance (ODA) and preferential loans.

 Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh holds a working session with five localities in the Mekong Delta to tackle difficulties and obstacles in launching projects from the Official Development Assistance (ODA) and preferential loans, Can tho City, June 30, 2020 – Photo: VGP

Participants in the meeting included leaders and representatives of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Transport and leaders from Can Tho City, the provinces of Bac Lieu, Vinh Long, Ben Tre and Long An.

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Thế giới

US lawmakers seek more action on Hong Kong after arrests

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US lawmakers seek more action on Hong Kong after arrests - France 24
Protesters chant slogans during a rally against a new national security law in Hong Kong on the anniversary of the city’s handover from Britain. (AFP/Anthony WALLACE)

AsiaChannel 02 Jul 2020 02:47AM

WASHINGTON, DC: US lawmakers on Wednesday (Jul 1) urged further action against China over its imposition of a security law in Hong Kong, where police broke up defiant protests.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged President Donald Trump to do more under a 2019 law that lays out sanctions against officials who infringe on the freedoms promised to Hong Kong.

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Y tế

Vietnam extends temporary stay permits for foreigners as Covid-19 continues

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 ThoiDai (VUFO) 13:11 | 01/07/2020 Ruby Lee 

Foreigners who entered Vietnam as of March 1 but still stuck due to Covid-19 pandemic’s travel restrictions can have theirs temporary stay permits extended one more month until July 31.

  IMF: Vietnam boasts a successful example of how a developing country can fight a pandemic
  International organizations seek cooperation with Vietnam in COVID-19 vaccine producing
  Sharp’s Energy Unit completes 45-MW solar power plant in Vietnam

The move involves a one-month extension to the current policy, issued in mid-May that allowed foreigners entering the country on a tourist visa, e-visa or visa exemption since March 1 to have their stay automatically extended until June 30, vnexpress reported.

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British tourist Gavin Wheeldon raises a thumbs-up with two medical staff in his room at Son Tay Military School quarantine camp in Hanoi. Photo: Gavin Wheeldon

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Thông Tin

Internal websites and specialised websites of foreign-invested enterprises in Vietnam have to obtain licenses

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Internal websites and specialised websites of foreign-invested ...

VN Insider July 5, 2020

The new regulations of the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) may affect the policies and assets of private businesses and foreign-invested enterprises in Vietnam.

The MIC is reviewing a proposal to add the requirement that internal websites and specialised websites posting aggregated information have to obtain licenses of establishing aggregated information websites following the Article 23 4.b of the draft amendment of Decree No.72/2013/ND-CP outlining the management, provision, and the use of internet service and online information.

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Thế giới

Hong Kong police arrest more than 300 protesting China’s ‘birthday gift’ of security law

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Asiachannel

Hong Kong police arrest more than 300 protesting China's 'birthday ...
A woman reacts after she was hit with pepper spray deployed by police as they cleared a street with protesters rallying against a new national security law in Hong Kong on Jul 1, 2020. (Photo: AFP/DALE DE LA REY)

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BEIJING: Hong Kong police fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested more than 300 people on Wednesday (Jul 1) as protesters took to the streets in defiance of a new security law.

Beijing on Tuesday unveiled the details of the much-anticipated law after weeks of uncertainty, pushing Hong Kong onto a more authoritarian path.

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Môi trường

Xem xét lại và đánh giá độc lập dự án khu đô thị du lịch lấn biển Cần Giờ

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Dự án lấp biển Cần Giờ của VINGroup – Can Gio reclamation project ...

Ký tên vào kiến nghị tại đây 

PETITION FOR THE REVIEW AND INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT OF THE CAN GIO TOURIST CITY PROJECT IN HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM

KIẾN NGHỊ XEM XÉT LẠI VÀ ĐÁNH GIÁ ĐỘC LẬP TOÀN BỘ DỰ ÁN KHU ĐÔ THỊ DU LỊCH LẤN BIỂN CẦN GIỜ – TPHCM

Kính gửi:  Thủ tướng Chính Phủ nước CHXHCN Việt Nam
Ủy ban Thường vụ Quốc Hội nước CHXHCN Việt Nam
UBND Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh

Chúng tôi kí tên dưới đây, là các cá nhân và tổ chức xã hội yêu môi trường, hoạt động trong các lĩnh vực liên quan, đồng kiến nghị Thủ tướng Chính phủ, Ủy ban Thường vụ Quốc Hội, UBND TPHCM xem xét lại và đánh giá độc lập toàn bộ dự án Khu Đô thị du lịch lấn biển Cần Giờ 2.870 ha, vì những lí do sau đây:

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Thế giới

Global reaction to Israel’s imminent annexation plans

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Al Jazeera, July 2, 2020

Several of Israel’s staunchest allies have criticised its annexation plans as jeopardising the status quo.

A demonstrator holds a cane and a Palestinian flag during a protest against US President Donald Trump's "Middle East plan" in the Jordan Valley [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
A demonstrator holds a cane and a Palestinian flag during a protest against US President Donald Trump’s “Middle East plan” in the Jordan Valley [Raneen Sawafta/Reuters]
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Israel’s annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank has been fiercely criticised by not only Palestinians but by the international community at large.

The plan, which aims to annex all illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank – including the strategic Jordan Valley – amounts to one-third of the territory and is in line with US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Middle East plan,” which envisages a demilitarised Palestinian state on a patchwork of disjointed parts of the Palestinian territories.

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Phát triển kinh tế

EVFTA to come into effect in a month

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VNS Update: July, 01/2020 – 16:31

A frog meat processing line exported to the EU at Tân Thành Lợi Co., Ltd., in the southern province of Long An. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — The free trade agreement between the European Union and Việt Nam, known as the EVFTA, which was signed on June 30 last year, will enter into force on August 1.

The announcement was made by the European Commission in a notice published on Tuesday.

The EVFTA will abolish 65 per cent of the duties on EU exports to its developing partner, with the remainder phased out over a 10-year period.

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Biển Đông

China announces military drills in East Sea amid escalating tensions – Việt Nam phản đối Trung Quốc tập trận trái phép ở Hoàng Sa

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China announces military drills in East Sea amid escalating tensions

By Vu Anh   June 30, 2020 | 11:01 am GMT+7 VNExpress

China announces military drills in East Sea amid escalating tensions

Satellite photo dated March 28, 2018 shows Woody Island in the Paracels, South China Sea. Photo by Planet Labs Inc/Handout via Reuters.

The Maritime Safety Administration of China’s Hainan Province has announced plans to hold military exercises near Vietnam’s Paracel Islands from Wednesday to Sunday.

It said on its website that no vessel is allowed to enter the area in the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea, when the drills are underway.

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Thông Tin

Laos to move on third Mekong dam project despite neighbours’ green concerns

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Laos to move on third Mekong dam project despite neighbours' green ...
FILE PHOTO: A local villager drive a boat where the future site of the Luang Prabang dam will be on the Mekong River, outskirt of Luang Prabang province, Laos, February 5, 2020. REUTERS/Panu Wongcha-um/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: A local villager drive a boat where the future site of the Luang Prabang dam will be on AsiaChannel 01 Jul 2020 07:52PM BANGKOK: Laos is pushing ahead with a hydropower project on the Mekong River, despite reservations aired by neighbouring countries over its potential to harm fisheries and farming downstream, the Mekong River Commission (MRC) said on Wednesday (Jul 10. The 1,400-megawatt (MW) Luang Prabang project will be Laos’s third and largest dam on the river, with construction originally set to begin this year. The governments of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam flagged their concerns to Laos and urged more time to assess the impact after the commission officially completed a six-month consultation process for the project on Tuesday. Continue reading on CVD >>
Thế giới

Israeli annexation a ‘final nail in the coffin’ of Palestine

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Palestinians in Ramallah demonstrate against Israel’s plan to annex a third of the occupied West Bank and Jordan Valley. by Arwa Ibrahim & Rima Mustafa,Al Jazeera July 2, 2020 Palestinians have decried Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley as the end to a future Palestinian state [Majdi Mohammed/AP] Palestinians have decried Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank and Jordan Valley as the end to a future Palestinian state [Majdi Mohammed/AP]

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Ramallah, occupied West Bank – Despite a delay in the long-anticipated declaration of an Israeli plan to annex one-third of the already illegally occupied West Bank, including parts of the strategic Jordan Valley, Palestinians decried the plan with some holding protests in Ramallah and Gaza City. Continue reading on CVD >>