tuoi tre – The country’s hotels are guilty until proven innocent.
Pho Duc Phuong, director of the Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright
The director of a music copyright watchdog is insisting that hotels pay up for music that could potentially be consumed through television sets in their rooms, whether or not guests actually use their TVs.
Last update 00:43 | 14/09/2017 – vietnamnet
According to Dr. Johnathan Halevy from Family Medical Practice infirmary, half of preschool students and 40 percent of Vietnamese adolescents sleep less than a normal sleep of 8 hours.
Most Vietnamese kids sleep less than six hours a night, shorter than a normal sleep of 8-10 hours a day. Main reasons of lack of sleep attribute to surfing on social network, online game playing and learning pressure.
Chinese imports will raise panel prices
Guardian – Delicacies such as brie and gorgonzola contain ‘too much bacteria’, officials say, sending expats scrambling to buy up remaining stocks
Soft cheeses such as brie are to be banned from being imported into China. Photograph: Cate Gillon/Getty Images
Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong @haasbenjamin
Sunday 10 September 2017 01.05 EDT
Soft European cheese has fallen on hard times in China. Customs officials have banned a host of soft, mould-ripened cheese for containing “too much bacteria”, with authorities reportedly alarmed the mould contained colonies of bacteria that had not been officially approved.
Jesus,
Many mad men are wandering the streets.
If they all stay at mental hospitals,
the earth will be peaceful and secure, right?
Funny. Continue reading Prayer 252
Guardian – Independent commissioner calls for licensing to prevent trafficked migrants having to work in slavery-like conditions
The study analyses the experiences of more than a dozen individuals who experienced modern slavery in a nail bar. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian
Amelia Gentleman @ameliagentleman
Britain’s nail bars have such a high risk of modern slavery that a licensing scheme should be introduced to prevent trafficked Vietnamese migrants being employed in slavery-like conditions, Britain’s independent anti-trafficking commissioner is proposing.
VIETNAMNEWS – Update: September, 14/2017 – 03:00
The Bắc Luân II Bridge is expected to promote China- Việt Nam economic co-operation. – VNS Photo: nhandan.com.vn
Viet Nam News QUẢNG NINH – The opening of the Bắc Luân II Bridge is a promising China – Việt Nam economic co-operation, according to Nguyễn Đức Long, Chairman of Quảng Ninh Province People’s Committee.
Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình and Chinese ambassador to Việt Nam Hong Xiaoyong attended the bridge’s opening ceremony in Móng Cái City yesterday.
A methane gas treatment plant will produce electricity from the decomposing garbage
By Tuoi Tre News – September 13, 2017, 12:32 GMT+7
Garbage are dumped on a street in Hanoi.
Two Vietnamese firms and their South Korean partners have closed a deal on a project that will generate electricity from the largest landfill in Hanoi.
The two parties will cooperate in designing, constructing, financing and operating a facility that will gather, process, and treat methane gas emitted from decomposing garbage to produce electricity, according to the agreement signed in Hanoi on Tuesday.
Jesus,
While Peter walked on the water and came toward You,
he saw the wind and the waves,
he was afraid,
began to sink
and cried out, “Lord, save me!” Continue reading Prayer 251
A resident of a house boat yawns as he swings on a hammock on the vessel in a canal off the Song Hau river at the floating Cai Rang market in Can Tho, a small city in the Mekong Delta AFP/Roberto SCHMIDT
CAN THO: Fixing weighing scales used to be good business on Vietnam’s floating Cai Rang market, but the last repairman on the river now makes just a few dollars a month as modernity pushes traders to land.
Jesus,
“ For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.”*
Everytime I believe You so love me,
Your love makes me happy.
And I am happy with all the earth.
Please grant me the belief in You every moment of my life.
Amen.
PTH
VIETNAMNEWS – Update: September, 08/2017 – 14:00
An overview map of Deep C Industrial Zone. — VNS Photo
HCM CITY – Tiền Phong Industrial Zone JSC and Russia’s Seaport of Azov on Friday agreed to transform 100 hectares in Quảng Ninh Province into a hub for industrial manufacturing and port operations.
Guardian- Despite good intentions, Australians and others from western countries are often propping up Asian orphanages that separate children from families. Now there’s new efforts to tackle some of the consequences of ‘voluntourism’
A family in Battambang, Cambodia, supported by the Cambodian Children’s Trust which works to keep families together and stop children going to orphanages. Photograph: Tara Winkler
VIETNAMNEWS – Update: September, 10/2017 – 09:00
Piece of history: The original statue of the Việt people from 900 years ago. — VNS Photo Phạm Hoàng Văn
To many first-time visitors, Hà Nội seems to be a young city not only because of so many young people out on its streets, but also because of new buildings and supermarkets, shops and restaurants, colleges and libraries. Thousands of new buildings have sprung up in the past 20 to 30 years.
Jesus,
You said,
“Let the little children come to me,
and do not hinder them,
for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Wishing I am the little child to you,
to people
and to myself.
Amen.
PTH
Viet Nam News – Update: September, 07/2017 – 09:00
Parts of the irrigation channel are covered with grass from years of non-use, rendering it unusable. — Photo nhandan.com.vn
ĐẮK LẮK — An expensive irrigation system in Ea Súp District of the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk has been lying idle, while local crops are parched.Total investment for the project behind Ea Súp Lake in the Ea Súp District hit VNĐ 25.3 billion ($1.1 million), with the construction handled by the state-owned Irrigation Construction and Management Board No.8 (under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development).
