The World Bank has recommended that Vietnam consider implementing a 155% special consumption tax on alcoholic beverages in response to the rising number of alcohol-related deaths and illnesses.
The bank has proposed to the Ministry of Finance that an absolute tax of VND16,500 ($0.65) per liter of alcohol be applied in addition to the existing 65% tax per product, according to a consultancy report.
“Mặc dù đã 3 lần bị tòa án Mỹ bác đơn kiện nhưng Hội Nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin vẫn tiếp tục theo đuổi đến cùng vụ kiện, ở lần thứ 4 này, chúng tôi kiện các công ty sản xuất hóa chất Mỹ, buộc họ phải chịu trách nhiệm cho việc đã hỗ trợ quân đội Mỹ rải chất độc hóa học da cam/dioxin gây ra hậu quả nặng nề trong giai đoạn từ năm 1961 đến năm 1971”.
Đây là thông tin được Thiếu tướng Nguyễn Hồng Sơn, Phó Chủ tịch Hội Nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin Việt Nam cho biết tại buổi giới thiệu Chương trình “Đi bộ đồng hành cùng nạn nhân da cam/dioxin”, ngày 30/7.
Trade experts said that the number of cases was increasing and taking place in all markets from Africa, the Middle East, India to developed countries such as the US, the Netherlands, and Italy.
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HÀ NỘI — The Vietnamese trade offices in many foreign markets have continuously warned Vietnamese businesses to be careful to avoid international trade fraud.
The number of Vietnamese businesses encountering fraud and scams with more sophisticated methods has risen and many businesses have lost tens of thousands of US dollars, even up to millions of US dollars, from the end of last year until now.
Consumers shopping at a supermarket in HCMC’s District 3 in January 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Tung
Dang Hoang of HCMC has been cutting back on discretionary purchases like dining out, coffee and branded clothing since the beginning of this year.
The 31-year-old marketing employee says he has been waiting for discounts to find cheap clothes and cooking at home to reduce expenses.
A survey by market research company NielsenIQ Vietnam found 62% of consumers chose to cook at home in the first quarter of the year to save money, a three point increase from the previous quarter.
TTCT – Lương tối thiểu, vốn gắn liền với mức sống của người lao động và chi phí của doanh nghiệp sử dụng lao động, trở thành đề tài nóng ở hàng loạt nước Đông Nam Á, bao gồm Việt Nam, trong thời gian qua.
Kế hoạch tăng lương tối thiểu của chính quyền Thái Lan đang gây nhiều tranh luận. Ảnh: HRM Asia
Báo chí các nước giật tít gần như đồng loạt: “Tăng lương ở ASEAN gây lo ngại cho các ngành hưởng lợi từ dịch chuyển chuỗi cung ứng” (Nikkei Asia 2-7), “Thủ tướng Thái Lan hối thúc ASEAN cùng tăng lương tối thiểu” (Thailand Business News 22-1), “Indonesia có chi phí tổ chức kinh doanh cao nhất ASEAN-5” (Jakarta Globe 24-6), “Lương tối thiểu của Philippines cao nhất trong khu vực” (BusinessWorld Online 13-3), “Malaysia đứng thứ tư về lương trung bình ở Đông Nam Á” (thesun.my 8-6).
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reports that 32,800 Vietnamese nationals were naturalized as U.S. citizens in 2023, ranking Vietnam among the top ten nations with most citizenship naturalization in the U.S.
A Vietnamese-American man paints the Vietnamese Thien Hau Temple beside the U.S. flag in Los Angeles, California on Dec. 16, 2018. Photo by AFP
The government agency’s recent report reveals that the U.S. naturalized 878,000 individuals in 2023, marking one of the highest counts in recent years. Naturalizations during the fiscal years 2022 and 2023 account for 24% of all U.S. naturalizations in the last decade, with over 7.7 million new citizens welcomed during this time.
Vietnam was ranked sixth among the countries with the highest numbers of citizens gaining U.S. citizenship in 2023, with 32,800 individuals naturalized—an increase of 500 from 2022.
At least six students have been killed and over a hundred injured in protests calling for an end to civil service job quotas in Bangladesh. The violence in the capital Dhaka on July 16, 2024, was the latest flare-up in a deepening conflict over the issue. Hundreds of university students demonstrated against the local government job allocation system, which currently favours children of pro-government groups who back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Thousands have taken part in protests in several cities since July 7.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) keeps the growth outlook for Việt Nam in 2024 and 2025 unchanged at 6 per cent and 6.2 per cent respectively, on the back of a strong first-half performance.
A cashew processing line for exports in the southern province of Bình Phước. VNA/VNS Hồng Nhung
HÀ NỘI — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has kept the growth outlook for Việt Nam in 2024 and 2025 unchanged at 6 per cent and 6.2 per cent respectively, on the back of a strong first-half performance in 2024.
The forecast was released on Wednesday in the latest edition of Asian Development Outlook (ADO), which periodically provides assessment of recent economic developments in Asia and the Pacific and medium-term macroeconomic projections for the region.
Ho Chi Minh City is one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the world, with the median home costing 32.5 times median household income. Can young people ever afford to save for their first property? A young engineer in Vietnam’s biggest city shares her strategies for reaching this goal.
Many poor people in HCM City are forced to live in makeshift houses along canals, where the environment is dirty, dangerous and unhealthy. They all hope for a more stable life in better places. Hear what they have to say.
Xăng sinh học E5: Xăng xanh thành… đống nợ Bài 1: Vốn nhà nước ngàn tỷ “trùm mền” Bài 2: Nhà máy tư nhân mòn mỏi… qua ngày Bài 3: Chưa xanh đã… tàn Bài 4: Bỏ thì thương, vương thì tội! Phản hồi loạt bài “Xăng sinh học E5: Xăng xanh thành… đống nợ”: Những lo ngại trước đây đã thành sự thực
Quang cảnh Nhà máy Nhiên liệu sinh học Phú Thọ bị bỏ hoang nhiều năm qua. Ảnh: GIA KHÁNH
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Xăng sinh học E5: Xăng xanh thành… đống nợ – Bài 1: Vốn nhà nước ngàn tỷ “trùm mền”
Tham gia sản xuất xăng sinh học E5 có khối nhà nước và tư nhân. Các dự án có nguồn vốn nhà nước gồm: Nhà máy Nhiên liệu sinh học (Ethanol) ở huyện Tam Nông, tỉnh Phú Thọ với vốn đầu tư 1.500 tỷ đồng; nhà máy ở Khu kinh tế Dung Quất (huyện Bình Sơn, tỉnh Quảng Ngãi) với vốn đầu tư hơn 2.200 tỷ đồng và nhà máy ở huyện Bù Đăng, tỉnh Bình Phước với vốn đầu tư 1.600 tỷ đồng. Thế nhưng, cả 3 nhà máy này đã đóng cửa trong nhiều năm qua.
Trong kho sinh trắc sẽ có nhiều mức độ, mỗi lần phải sử dụng một mức độ cao hơn là một bước đi “không thể đảo ngược”. Và nếu cứ leo thang mức độ dần dần, rồi đến nước phải sử dụng cả dữ liệu gene, đó sẽ là bước tận cùng, để rồi nếu thua là không còn vũ khí nào khác.
Phải sử dụng hình ảnh thực, tức thời để xác nhận giao dịch (trên 10 triệu)? Điều gì sẽ xảy ra khi những kho dữ liệu này bị tấn công, đường truyền, thiết bị đầu cuối bị đe doạ?
Siridzayi Dzukwa, a grandmother, right, talks to a colleague while seated at a bench in Hatfcliffe on the outskirts of the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, May 11,2024. In Zimbabwe, talk therapy involving park benches and a network of grandmothers has become a saving grace for people with mental health issues. Now the concept is being adopted in parts of the United States and elsewhere. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
BY FARAI MUTSAKAU pdated 12:41 PM GMT+7, July 5, 2024
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — After her son, the family’s shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into meltdown. In Zimbabwe, where clinical mental health services are scarce, her chances of getting professional help were next to zero. She contemplated suicide.
“I didn’t want to live anymore. People who saw me would think everything was okay. But inside, my head was spinning,” the 57-year-old said. “I was on my own.”
A wooden bench and an empathetic grandmother saved her.
This case is the first VN case handled by The Vietnam International Arbitration Centre undre UNICTRAL rules since 2017. Below is a report of the case in 2017. We (CVDVN) don’t have access to the current documents in the case.
Vietnamese centre hosts first case under UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission On International Trade Law)
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The Vietnam International Arbitration Centre has handled its first ad hoc international commercial arbitration under the UNCITRAL rules – a case over architecture design services that raised issues regarding the appointment of a sole arbitrator and the interplay between the rules and the law of the seat. This incident has been published in the Global Arbitration Review under the name of two authors, Mr. Chau Viet Bac and Mr. Nguyen The Duc Tam.
Chau Viet Bac, who is vice secretary general of the centre and Nguyen The Đuc Tam, a Vietnamese LLM at the University of Paris II, tell GAR the DP v VD case “sheds light on Vietnamese law concerning ad hoc arbitration by demonstrating how it operates in practice. Details of this first experience may be helpful for other Vietnamese arbitral institutions and for parties intending to use the UNCITRAL arbitration rules in Vietnam”.
The case arose from a 2014 agreement for architecture design services. The letter of appointment said the parties agreed that in the event of a dispute they would use their best efforts to settle their differences by negotiating with each other in good faith. If no solution was reached within 30 days, then either could refer the matter to arbitration in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese version of the agreement explicitly made reference to the Vietnam International Arbitration Centre, which was founded in Ha Noi in 1993 and, like the Vienna International Arbitration Centre, goes by the acronym VIAC.
The agreement continued that the parties would mutually appoint an arbitrator. In the event that they failed to reach an agreement on the appointment, an arbitrator could be “court-appointed according to the relevant regulations”.
It was agreed that all arbitration proceedings would be conducted in Vietnam and the UNCITRAL rules would be applied. The decision of the arbitrator would be final and costs and expenses would be apportioned as directed by the arbitrator or divided equally by the parties.
A dispute arose and the parties could not agree on the selection of the sole arbitrator. In September 2015, the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City appointed a sole arbitrator who is a well-known VIAC arbitrator and professor of arbitration law.
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