Last update 15:15 | 15/01/2018 vietnamnet
Two lawyers in Vietnam have started a movement to sue Apple over software that slows down older iPhones.
Apple faces iPhone slowdown legal action
Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Tran Manh Tung from Hanoi Bar Association submitted a 600-page document to the HCM City People’s Court. They also created a website to encourage iPhone users to register and join in the lawsuit. As of now, over 1,800 people have registered.
Guterres said Group of 77 has a very important role to play not only in a multilateral world but in a world where international relations have more justice.
By: PTI | United Nations | Published: January 13, 2018 2:44 pm
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. REUTERS/Mike Segar/Files
planetsave – WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOUR COUNTRY IS FACING WATER SHORTAGES EXACERBATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE? PRAY, APPARENTLY — ISRAEL’S AGRICULTURE MINISTER LEADS PRAYERS FOR WATER
Last update 07:50 | 12/01/2018 vietnamnet
VietNamNet Bridge – Dr Le Viet Phu, a lecturer at Fulbright University, says the damages caused by air pollution to Vietnam in 2013 could be assessed up to $10 billion.
Vietnam is among 10 countries with the worst air quality
The figure was calculated based on WTP approaching method, which considers the willingness to pay for reduction in air pollution.
In 2013, the number of deaths because of PM 2.5 dust was 40,000, including 3,000 in HCMC.
JAN. 6, 2018 SundayReview | EDITORIAL By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
An assortment of land mines and bomb parts that were removed from the ground in Afghanistan. Photos by Larry Towell/Magnum Photos
The world is rolling backward, and at a disturbingly faster pace, in the struggle to limit carnage from land mines and other booby-trap explosives. The most recent numbers, covering 2016, are appalling.
Known casualties that year came to 8,605, including 2,089 deaths, according to a new report by Landmine Monitor, a research arm of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. The toll was nearly 25 percent higher than the 6,967 maimed and dead counted a year earlier, and more than double the 3,993 in 2014. And these numbers are almost assuredly an undercount. “In some states and areas, numerous casualties go unrecorded,” Landmine Monitor said.
Milton Osborne
Even if no dams are built on the mainstream below China, the cascade to which it is committed will ultimately have serious effects on the functioning of the Mekong once the dams are used to control the river’s flow. This will be the case because the cascade will:
• alter the hydrology of the river and so the current ‘flood pulse’, the regular rise and fall of the river on an annual basis which plays an essential part in the timing of spawning and the migration pattern. This will be particularly important in relation to the Tonle Sap in Cambodia, but will have an effect throughout the river’s course;
Kenhdulich Ngày đăng: Thứ năm, 08/10/2015 – 21:24:29
Mỗi mảnh đất lại có những đặc trưng văn hóa hóa nhau để giữ cái hương cái hồn của của mình không bị hòa lẫn với cái hương cái hồn của mảnh đất khác. Văn hóa làng xã, văn hóa rất mực thuần Việt nơi đồng bằng Bắc Bộ nước ta. Những truyền thống dung dị, những bình yên dịu dàng của đời người gói ghém vào từng mảnh ngói, viên gạch, cái nghề truyền thống gắn với người dân bao đời. Một ngày nhẹ tênh, rời bỏ tấp nập thành phố, tới Thổ Hà, để thấy, để yêu, để cảm cái mảnh tình làng quê Bắc Bộ này.
Bình yên một góc Thổ Hà. -Ảnh: leonidas le
MAI VINH – 11.01.2018, 09:14
TTCT – Ông Đặng Vĩnh Thọ, chủ tịch Hiệp hội Dâu tằm tơ Việt Nam, khẳng định không chỉ Bảo Lộc mà những xứ trồng dâu nuôi tằm, ươm tơ dệt lụa khác ở Việt Nam đều không chủ động được nguồn giống tằm.
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| Để sản xuất kén ươm tơ, đa số các cơ sở nuôi tằm đều phải nhập giống qua đường tiểu ngạch. Trong ảnh: rút tơ từ kén tại một cơ sở ươm tơ. Ảnh: Mai Vinh |
Nhập tiểu ngạch gần 100%
Ông Thọ khẳng định gần 100% giống tằm mà người dân đang dùng hiện nay đều nhập tiểu ngạch, nguồn gốc không rõ ràng. “Đó là hậu quả một giai đoạn đi xuống kéo dài gần 20 năm”. Hiện cả nước có 3 trung tâm nghiên cứu, sản xuất giống tằm, công suất thiết kế đạt khoảng 200.000 hộp trứng tằm/năm.
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| Elephants at the Pu Mat National Park in the central province of Nghe An. Many elephant herds in the province are now finding it difficult to find enough food to survive. — Photo: baonghean.vn |
Last October, six wild elephants went on a rampage in a commune village and destroyed family crops.
tuoitre.vn TTO – Kế hoạch 5 năm phát triển sông Mekong thuộc cơ chế Hợp tác Mekong – Lan Thương (LMC) do Trung Quốc khởi xướng đang gây lo ngại trong giới chuyên gia, đặc biệt là về động cơ chính trị của Bắc Kinh.
Người dân đánh bắt cá trên đoạn sông Mekong chảy qua thủ đô Vientiane của Lào – Ảnh: AFP
Tháng 12-2017, ngoại trưởng 6 nước khu vực sông Mekong nhóm họp ở thành phố Đại Lý thuộc tỉnh Vân Nam (Trung Quốc) để thông qua đề cương kế hoạch 5 năm phát triển dòng sông này. Dự kiến các nhà lãnh đạo sẽ chốt lại đề xuất trong cuộc họp dự kiến diễn ra cuối tháng 1-2018 ở Campuchia.
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VietNamNet Bridge – Along Huong River, from mountain to estuary, the environment is at risk of being disrupted by natural disasters and urbanization. 
With its geographic characteristics, Thua Thien Hue has played an important role in the development of Vietnam.More than 350 years ago, on the banks of the Perfume River, there was an urban area called Kim Long-Kieng Hue, the capital of Dang Trong kingdom (an area of Vietnamese southwards expansion during the 17th century Trinh–Nguyen War).
The urban area became the capital city of Vietnam under Tay Son and Nguyen dynasties and then an important city in the central region.
Last update 20:31 | 07/10/2017 vietnamnet
Community-based tourism has brought many changes to the lives of residents in Da Bac district, one of the most disadvantaged localities in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh.
Hoa Binh, about 70km northwest of Hanoi, is home to several ethnic groups, including Muong, Thai, Dao and Tay. Of the total population, 60 percent belong to the Muong group.
A view of Da river (Photo: VNA)
Many major river deltas in the world are subsiding and consequently become increasingly vulnerable to flooding and storm surges, salinization and permanent inundation. For the Mekong Delta, annual subsidence rates up to several centimetres have been reported. Excessive groundwater extraction is suggested as the main driver. As groundwater levels drop, subsidence is induced through aquifer compaction. Over the past 25 years, groundwater exploitation has increased dramatically, transforming the delta from an almost undisturbed hydrogeological state to a situation with increasing aquifer depletion.
Head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for Economic Affairs (R) welcomes former US Secretary of State John Kerry.(Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam always attaches importance to energy security, considering it a top priority in the country’s energy development policy and strategy, said Nguyen Van Binh, head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for Economic Affairs.
TĐH: We don’t hear discussion on the VNese media about this China-pushed five-year development plan at all. I wonder if Vietnam will have a public discussion about this plan, or whoever attending the LMC summit will just simply approve the plan on behalf of Vietnam?
scmp: Five-year development plan, including construction of hydropower dams, is expected to top agenda at Mekong River nations’ conference in Cambodia
When China and the leaders of nations along the Mekong River meet on Wednesday at the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation summit in Cambodia, a top item will be mapping out a five-year development plan that would include building hydropower dams and other projects for the region – pointing to its importance in China’s ambitious belt and road infrastructure plan.
But while the cooperation mechanism was created to help ease tension over development projects, environmentalists remain unsatisfied.
Đọt Chuối Non 