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China, home to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency mining farms, now wants to ban them completely

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  • Bitcoin, the world’s most traded cryptocurrency, is now at around US$5,200, its highest level in four months

Zheping Huang

Zheping Huang Published: 1:03pm, 9 Apr, 2019

An employee inspects machines for the production of bitcoin and lightcoins. Photo: AFP

An employee inspects machines for the production of bitcoin and lightcoins. Photo: AFP

China’s top economic planning body has proposed new rules that would see the closure of all local cryptocurrency mining facilities if enacted – a move that would potentially end the country’s dominance in the energy-hungry, yet lucrative industry.

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Monday unveiled amendments to its guidance for adjustments to the nation’s industrial structure, including categories that are encouraged, restricted and eliminated. Cryptocurrency mining was included among sectors to be eliminated immediately. The new list is under public consultation until May 7.

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Lịch sử, Nông nghiệp

75 năm cần một tượng đài cho triệu người chết đói – 6 bài

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Người đàn bà khóc đứa con vừa lọt lòng đã bị chết trong nạn đói 1945 (Ảnh: Võ An Ninh)

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75 năm cần một tượng đài cho triệu người chết đói: Bài 1 – Nơi chết đói nhiều nhất miền Bắc

08/04/2019, 06:30 (GMT+7)

Chưa bao giờ Việt Nam xảy ra một thảm họa lớn như thế cả về số lượng người chết lẫn quy mô của vùng bị nạn, có lẽ chỉ thua cuộc chiến chống Mỹ 1954-1975 nhưng thời gian nạn đói 1944-1945 thì có 6-7 tháng. Hàng triệu người chết đói nay tuy thân xác đã tiêu tan mà vẫn còn để lại nỗi đau trong lòng con cháu, vì sao họ lại ngã xuống, vì sao không có sự bù đắp, vì sao không một tượng đài…

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Vietnamese teenage girl runs project that brings light to the blind

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tuoitrenews – Saturday, March 16, 2019, 21:42 GMT+7

Vietnamese teenage girl runs project that brings light to the blind
Penny (left) is pictured with one of the patients her project has helped. Photo: See Again Project

At just 16 years old, while most girls her age were out roaming shopping malls or hanging out in parks, Penny, an eleventh grader at Saigon South International School, was choosing to spend her weekends working on a charity project aimed at helping the blind regain their sight.

Penny, whose real name is Pham Thien Tam, has spent the last few years waking up at 4:30 am each weekend morning to prepare for a long day with her mother and friends helping other at the Nguyen Trai Eye Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

The group’s project, named “See Again”, is aimed at raising funds for optic surgery expenses at the hospital so that needy patients are able to undergo the procedure free of charge.

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Phát triển kinh tế

Quand le Vietnam tirera-t-il profit du duel sino-américain?

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15/04/2019 10:40 lecourrier

Dans les medias, lorsque l’on évoque le conflit commercial sino-américain, on parle beaucoup d’une délocalisation massive d’usines de la Chine vers le Vietnam. De bons taux de croissance et de faibles coûts de production permettront au Vietnam de tirer les marrons du feu.

>>Ralentissement attendu par le FMI pour 70% de l’économie mondiale cette année
>>L’économie vietnamienne devrait croître de 6,7 à 6,9% en 2019
>>Pékin cherche une “solution constructive” aux tensions commerciales

Le site américain Bloomberg a estimé que le Vietnam pourrait être le “grand gagnant’’ du conflit commercial entre la Chine et les États-Unis, évoquant plusieurs raisons qui rendent le pays très attractif aux yeux des investisseurs étrangers.
La forte croissance économique et la stabilité politique constituent de grands atouts du Vietnam. Photo: Danh Lam/VNA/CVN

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Môi trường

What is Earth Day, and what is it meant to accomplish?

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By Kathleen Rogers, for CNN

Updated 2:06 PM ET, Fri April 21, 2017

Kathleen Rogers is President of Earth Day Network. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) Forty-seven years ago, on 22 April 1970, millions of people took to the streets to protest the negative impacts of 150 years of industrial development.

In the US and around the world, smog was becoming deadly and evidence was growing that pollution led to developmental delays in children. Biodiversity was in decline as a result of the heavy use of pesticides and other pollutants.

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Y tế

Fake anti-cancer drug manufacturers sentenced to prison

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Update: April, 19/2019 – 15:24 vietnamnews

Fake anti-cancer drug manufacturing facility in Kiến An District, Hải Phòng City. — Photo laodong.vn
HẢI PHÒNG — Nguyễn Xuân Thu, general director of Vinaca Limited Company, which produced anti-cancer drugs made from bamboo charcoal powder has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.

The Hải Phòng City’s People’s Court on Thursday also handed a sentence of 17 years in prison to Thu’s accomplice, Nguyễn Văn Tuấn, director of Hồng An Phong Limited Company based in Hải Phòng.

Both faced charges of making fake products.

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Văn Hóa

Hà Nam Province to host Vesak 2019

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Update: April, 19/2019 – 08:59 vietnamnews

HÀ NỘI — Vesak 2019, or the 16th United Nations Days of Vesak (UNDV), will be celebrated at the Tam Chúc Buddhism Culture Centre, Kim Bảng District, in the northern province of Hà Nam from May 12-14, the third event of its kind to be held in Việt Nam.

The Vesak 2019 celebration has the theme ‘Buddhism’s Approach to Global Leadership and Shared Responsibilities for Sustainable Societies’ and will be chaired by the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) in co-ordination with the International Council for the Day of Vesak (ICDV).

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Bang giao quốc tế, Biển Đông

US plans warship visits to Vietnam this summer for enhanced maritime ties

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vietnamnet 19/04/2019    11:40 GMT+7

The US Navy is planning two major visits to Vietnam this year as part of efforts to strengthen maritime relations between the two armies.

US plans warship visits to Vietnam this summer for enhanced maritime ties
Vietnamese officials welcome US delegation on the visit of USS Carl Vinson to Danang in March 2018. Photo: Navytimes

The US “would welcome the opportunity for another aircraft carrier visit to Vietnam this year,” saying that the move shows the mutual respect that each nation has for each other and the depth of the two countries’ growing partnership, Commander of US Indo-Pacific Command Admiral Philip Davidson said at a press meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on April 18, VnExpress reported.

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Môi trường

Hung thủ chính: nhiệt điện than

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  • QUỲNH SANH 
(THEO STUTTGARTER NACHRICHTEN)
  • 13.04.2019, 07:00

TTCT – Cho đến giờ, khi nói đến các hạt trong không khí có hại cho sức khỏe và gây ô nhiễm khí hậu, người ta vẫn cho rằng khí thải từ xe cộ giao thông là thủ phạm chính. Tuy nhiên, mới đây các nhà nghiên cứu ở thành phố Karlsruhe (Đức) sau một nghiên cứu dài hạn, đã xác định thêm các nguồn gây ô nhiễm khác.

 Hung thủ chính: nhiệt điện than
Ảnh: lightair.com

Các hạt siêu mịn (bụi siêu mịn) được coi là đặc biệt có hại cho sức khỏe, đồng thời cũng có tác động quan trọng đến khí hậu. Ở những khu vực đông dân cư, trước đây giao thông đường bộ được coi là nguồn gốc chính tạo ra các hạt nhỏ này.

Tuy nhiên các nhà nghiên cứu tại Viện Công nghệ Karlsruhe (KIT) – trong một chương trình quan trắc dài hạn – đã xác định được một nguồn có liên quan đặc biệt ở bên ngoài các thành phố: các nhà máy nhiệt điện than.

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Food, GMO

Genetic innovation: ‘Nothing that we eat is natural’

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By Florence Schulz | EURACTIV.de | translated by Daniel Eck

 Apr 3, 2019 (updated:  Apr 8, 2019)

A recent judgement from the European Court of Justice in the case of “CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing” is causing debate since July 2018. [igorstevanovic/ Shutterstock]

Languages: Deutsch

The world is in constant need of more food and new genetic engineering methods such as the CRISPR gene editing method offer a solution. However, these remain contested, EURACTIV Germany reports.

The banana looks very different to how it used to. Its original shape is actually small, thick, somewhat round and full of seeds. Its modern supermarket relative is, however, as most fruit and vegetables, the result of a human-led and goal-oriented plant breeding effort.

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Trang tiếng Anh

Meet the Team Leader of Vietnam’s First All-Female Clearance Team

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Project RENEW update April 14, 2019

At age 30, Nguyen Thi Thuy has started in a job that everyone in Vietnam believed that only men could do. This mother of one daughter now leads an all-female clearance team of 16 members for clearing cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war contaminated land in Quang Tri Province.

The youngest from a family of eight children in Gio Chau Commune, Gio Linh District, Nguyen Thi Thuy has been working with the Survey and Clearance Program of Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid (RENEW-NPA) in Quang Tri Province since 2013.

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Môi trường, Trang tiếng Anh

As China stops solid waste imports, Vietnam fears it could become new dumping ground

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vietnamnet 15/04/2019    16:37 GMT+7

China has vowed to stop importing solid waste by 2020, while Vietnam is still fumbling for solutions to control scrap imports.

Chinese agencies on March 28 announced the country’s plan to cut solid waste imports to zero percent by 2020 with an aim of encouraging plants to treat the high amount of domestic waste.

As China stops solid waste imports, Vietnam fears it could become new dumping ground

Prior to that, eight categories of steel, copper and aluminum scrap were added to the list of prohibited items in early 2019 and 24 categories of plastic scraps appeared in the list in late 2017.

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Bang giao quốc tế, Trang tiếng Anh

VUFO leaders meet US Congressional Staff Delegation

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4/17/2019 3:00:34 PM Thời Đại
(VNF) – Leaders of the Vietnam Union of the Friendship Organisations (VUFO) and Vietnam – U.S. Society (VUS) hosted a US Congressional Staff Delegation in Hanoi on April 16.

At the meeting. Photo: VNF

The delegation consists of 10 assistants to US senators and congressmen from the Democrat and Republican parties on a working visit to Vietnam from April 12 to 20.

The trip is part of the Mutual Education and Cultural Exchange Act (MECEA) themed “Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership for peace and prosperity” and aims at boosting ties between the two nations and their parliaments in various areas, including trade collaboration, alleviation of war consequences, the East Sea issue, response to climate change and cybersecurity.

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Biển Đông, Trang tiếng Anh

Still Under Pressure: Manila Versus the Militia

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April 16, 2019  |  AMTI BRIEF

Since early March, Chinese fishing vessels—apparently part of the country’s maritime militia force—have been operating near two Philippine-held features in the disputed Spratly Islands: Loaita Island and Loaita Cay, called Kota and Panata Islands by Filipinos. The Philippine press began to report this militia presence in early April, prompting the government to say it would protest to Beijing.

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Du lịch, Môi trường, Phát triển kinh tế

Chuyện gì đang xảy ra ở bãi biển Đà Nẵng?

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23/01/2018 08:54 GMT+7

TTO – Bãi biển Mỹ Khê, Đà Nẵng – một trong sáu bãi biển quyến rũ nhất hành tinh theo bình chọn của tạp chí Forbes – đang bị lún, lở xâm thực nghiêm trọng. Hoạt động xây dựng và khai thác nước ngầm ồ ạt các khu vực ven biển đã phải trả giá.

Chuyện gì đang xảy ra ở bãi biển Đà Nẵng? - Ảnh 1.

Mất bờ cát, sóng đánh sập bờ kè một cơ sở lưu trú ở biển Mỹ Khê, Đà Nẵng. Đây là hiện tượng chưa từng xảy ra – Ảnh: TRƯỜNG TRUNG

Nước biển ào vô càng mạnh, đánh sập luôn kiôt bán hàng được xây dựng kiên cố. Trước đây vệt kinh doanh có thể để dù, bạt dài cả trăm mét thì nay chỉ còn một nửa. Tui buôn bán ở đây chưa bao giờ thấy biển như vậy nên rất lo

Bà LÊ HÀ, một hộ kinh doanh

Lún, lở xâm thực nghiêm trọng. Sóng biển táp vào bờ, gặm nham nhở các khu vực nhà hàng ven biển với tốc độ đáng quan ngại, có nơi lấn sâu đến 15m so với trước đó.

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