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Vietnamese shipping firms are reporting falling revenues after the coronavirus outbreak brought trade-related activities to a standstill in China.
Pham Hong Manh, manager of Hai Phong shipping firm T.S. Container Lines, said his company has reduced shipping from China since January 19.
It used to ply up to 13 times a month to Chinese ports, but the figure was down to eight last month and to seven this month, he said.
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Haze shrouds Hanoi sky over Pham Van Dong Street, Cau Giay District, in the morning of December 13, 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Gia Nghia.
Hanoi has become the world’s seventh most polluted capital city, even worse than Beijing, a new IQ AirVisual report says.
The city’s worsening air quality saw its average PM2.5 level last year rise to 46.9 micrograms per cubic meter of air from 40.8 in 2018, according to a report released this week by Switzerland-based air quality monitor, IQAir AirVisual.
The 2019 World Air Quality Report says that for the first time, Hanoi has overtaken China’s Beijing, the world’s most suffocating capital just a few years ago. The Chinese capital city has improved to ninth on the list with its average PM2.5 level at 42.1.
This file photo shows Indonesian authorities sinking a Vietnamese fishing boat at Datuk island, in West Kalimantan on 4 May, 2019. (AFP Photo)
Relations between the EU and some ASEAN member states have been tense in recent years because of the seafood trade, stemming from the European Commission’s (EC) sanctions related to the illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As Chair of ASEAN 2020, Vietnam hopes to promote cooperation among ASEAN member states and address this issue to actively contribute towards better ASEAN-EU trade relations.
What is the main the reason corporations are buying renewable energy? Cost saving? Compliance? The goodness of their hearts?
The first is obvious—savings. I have never seen any company adopt renewables purely out of altruism. There’s always a commercial angle. Owners of large real estate portfolios try to monetise their “rooftop assets”, other companies want to diversify their energy source, or simply adopt solar to hedge against rising energy costs.
A roof-top solar plant in Singapore for a major corporate, installed by LYS Energy Group. Image: LYS Energy
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Vietnam indicates in a recent defense white paper it will pursue stronger military ties abroad as China challenges its maritime sovereignty claims, and analysts expect that to mean more exercises with Western-leaning foreign powers and brisker purchases of foreign weapons.
On the upside, Vietnam has escaped both the growth slowdown and the political upheaval that have bedeviled many other emerging markets.
Gross-domestic-product expansion held steady at 7% last year, driven by dynamics internal—a million Vietnamese a year are moving from villages to cities—and external: multinational manufacturers relocating from a besieged China. The nation of 97 million is young (median age 31), well educated (15-year-olds finished fourth in a recent global science exam), and works for about a third of China’s wages.
Chiều ngày 30/9/2019, tại trụ sở Bộ Ngoại giao, thủ đô Washington D.C., Hoa Kỳ, Bộ Công Thương Việt Nam và Bộ Ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ đã trao đổi Biên bản ghi nhớ Hợp tác (MOU) đối tác hợp tác năng lượng toàn diện. Buổi lễ diễn ra trước sự chứng kiến của Lãnh đạo các Bộ Ngoại giao, Bộ Năng lượng, Bộ Thương mại Hoa Kỳ và Bộ Công Thương Việt Nam, cũng như đại diện của nhiều Tập đoàn lớn của hai nước.
Với việc ký kết Biên bản ghi nhớ này, Việt Nam và Hoa Kỳ đã chính thức trở thành đối tác hợp tác năng lượng toàn diện. Đây cũng được kỳ vọng sẽ là dấu mốc quan trọng trong hợp tác năng lượng giữa Việt Nam và Hoa Kỳ, giúp mở ra một trang hợp tác mới, sâu sắc hơn và toàn diện hơn.
One of Vietnam’s advantages making it a preferred destination for investors is its competitive minimum wages as compared to other countries in the region.
This is despite Vietnam increasing its minimum wage rates every year. This year Vietnam increased its minimum wage by an average of 5.7 percent. The new rates came into effect in January and range from US$132 to US$190 depending on the region.
Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Summary: If China is to meet and exceed its Paris Climate Agreement goal by 2030, it’s going to need to find a way to increase its wind capacity. Researchers found that offshore wind could be a big part of the solution.
Under the Paris Climate Agreement, China committed to rely on renewable resources for 20 percent of its energy needs by 2030. Currently, the country is on track to double that commitment, aiming to hit 40 percent by the next decade. Wind power is critical to achieving that goal. Over the past 20 years, China’s wind power capacity has exploded from 0.3 gigawatts to 161 gigawatts.
But, in recent years, that growth has slowed and the hopes for China’s wind-powered future have dampened.
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