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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...

Nguồn ô nhiễm không khí ở miền Bắc từ đâu?

Báo chí Biến đổi Khí hậu và Năng lượng

NGUỒN Ô NHIỄM KHÔNG KHÍ Ở MIỀN BẮC LÀ GÌ? CÂU TRẢ LỜI BAN ĐẦU TỪ DỊCH VỤ GIÁM SÁT KHÍ QUYỂN CỦA EU

Sau bài báo của tờ The New York Times về đường đi toàn cầu của bụi mịn sử dụng dữ liệu của Dịch vụ Giám sát Khí quyển Copernicus châu Âu (CAMS), Media Climate Net đã liên hệ với CAMS về các quan sát của họ đối với tình hình ô nhiễm không khí ở Việt Nam. Trả lời câu hỏi về nguồn gây ô nhiễm ở miền Bắc Việt Nam, tiến sĩ Johannes Flemming, nhà nghiên cứu chính của CAMS cho hay:

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After Samsung shifts operation to Vietnam, Chinese city turns into ghost town

 

Huizhou city has turned a “ghost town” after Samsung closed its last smartphone factory in China.

Huizhou city on the north of China’s flourishing Pearl River Delta has turned into a ghost town after Samsung closed its three-decade old factory and shifted operations to Vietnam and India in October, in the first visible fallout of the ongoing trade war between China and the US. India Times reports.

Where is everyone? The complex in Huizhou in Guangdong province in the southeast of China is one of the country’s largest white elephants

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‘Beautifying Phnom Penh’: Muslim Cham face eviction in Cambodia

TĐH: These Muslim Chams in Cambodia are descendants of the Vietnamese Chams from the Champa Kingdom that VN annexed from the 14th century and completed the annexation in the 17th century. Should the Vietnamese government come to Cambodia and help them?

Future of minority group living along Mekong River unclear as government seeks to ‘beautify’ city before world summit.

by 10 hours ago December 13, 2019
The Cham is an ethnic minority living in parts of Cambodia and Vietnam's southern region [Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom via Al Jazeera]
The Cham is an ethnic minority living in parts of Cambodia and Vietnam’s southern region [Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom via Al Jazeera]

Phnom Penh, Cambodia – On a good day, fish vendor Sen Ror can make about $7.50 but that is on a good day.

Usually, she only makes about a third of that, taking home roughly $2.50, which is all she has to buy food for her four children and elderly father, for whom she is the sole support after divorcing her husband a few years ago because of his drug addiction.

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Update: China Risks Flare-up over Malaysian, Vietnamese Gas Resources

December 13, 2019  |  AMTI BriefUpdate: China Risks Flare-up over Malaysian, Vietnamese Gas Resources

The Chinese survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 8 along with its coast guard and paramilitary escorts left Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone on October 23, ending a standoff with Vietnamese ships that began more than four months earlier. The de-escalation seems to have been in response to the departure a day earlier of the drilling rig Hakuryu 5 from Vietnam’s oil and gas Block 06-01, which is operated by Russia’s Rosneft.

 

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Vietnam remains Laos third largest investor with US$4.22 billion to date

DEC 09, 2019 / 12:43 Ngoc Mai

The Hanoitimes – Vietnam agrees to purchase 1,200 megawatts of electricity from Laos in 2020, exceeding the original plan of 1,000 megawatts, and 5,000 megawatts until 2030.

Vietnamese enterprises remain Laos’ third largest investor with 413 projects worth US$4.22 billion to date, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 Overview of the meeting. Source: VGP.

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Vietnam textile industry orders hit by African competition

By Anh Minh   December 10, 2019 | 01:59 pm GMT+7 VnExpress

Vietnam textile industry orders hit by African competition
Women work at a garment factory in northern Vietnam. Photo by Reuters.

Vietnamese textile manufacturers are seeing orders decline with buyers moving to others, cheaper developing countries.

Normally, by the end of a year they would have enough orders for the whole of the following year, Nguyen Van Thoi, chairman of TNG Investment and Trading JSC, which makes garments, said.

But this year many businesses have said they do not have enough orders for 2020, with some reporting a 20 percent drop in orders from last year. Besides, many have not signed long-term contracts for products, only monthly or quarterly, he said.

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Vietnam among six nations worst hit by climate change in 20 years

By Minh Nga   December 10, 2019 | 07:48 am GMT+7 VNExpress

Vietnam among six nations worst hit by climate change in 20 years
Nguyen Thi Tu, a resident of Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7, walks on a flooded street as the city was hit by the record tide of more than 1.7 meters on September 30, 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Khoa.

Vietnam is one of six countries most affected by climate change between 1999 and 2018, according to survey results released this week.

The Global Climate Risk Index, published by the German environmental think tank Germanwatch, ranked Vietnam sixth among countries hit hardest by extreme weather events in that period, with its Climate Risk Index (CRI) at 29.83.

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Analysis: Floating solar power along the dammed-up Mekong River

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Analysis by  on 3 December 2019

  • This year, the first floating solar power generating system in Southeast Asia was deployed on a reservoir in Vietnam.
  • Floating solar power systems are being written into the energy master plans of Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines as well as Vietnam, and into the calculations of investment banks.
  • The technology presents an alternative to additional hydroelectric power projects.

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