Corporate Citizenship senior researcher Jayesh Shah explores some of the trends in the development of cities, focusing on how this changes the role of businesses.
Eco-business: Songdo, South Korea. Buildings here have automatic climate control and computerised access. Furthermore, roads, water, waste and electricity systems are built with electronic sensors to enable the city’s brain to track and respond to the movement of residents.Image: Panya K / Shutterstock.com
WWF– Tram Chim National Park is one of the most important remaining expanses of wetlands in Vietnam. While most fishing in the park is forbidden, some locals exercise traditional rights to fish for food and a living. WWF works in Tram Chim to restore natural water flows, fisheries and wildlife.
Fes-sustainability – by Ha Thi Quynh Nga
Over the last decades, the discourse on sustainable development has significantly contributed to the formation as well as the strengthening of the civil society in Vietnam. In the mid-1980s, the Government of Vietnam (GoV) introduced Doi Moi (reforms) which moved the economy from centrally-planned to a more market-based approach. This historical milestone has raised the country to a new level of development and transformed its social and economic structures. Foreign investments, bilateral and international trade have grown rapidly but at the same time created multiple development challenges to the country.
Young woman, big responsibility: She manages 160 deminers and support staff who clean up cluster bombs and other explosives in Quang Tri Province
Eight months ago Ms. Nguyen Thi Dieu Linh was promoted to Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) Operations Manager at Project RENEW in Quang Tri Province. The 32-year-old is the first woman to be selected for this position in Vietnam. Linh now manages 160 technicians and support staff who make up 26 teams that are deployed every day. Team members map confirmed hazardous areas for clearance and provide EOD response to safely dispose of cluster munitions and unexploded ordnance throughout the province. Linh spoke with Ngo Xuan Hien and Chuck Searcy.
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Abstract: The issue of artificial islands in the South China Sea has little been detailed discussed in the context of territorial and maritime disputes. Even in international law, the term “artificial islands” remains controversial and there is no universally accepted definition of it, though several provisions of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea mention “artificial islands”.
With the development of science and technology and the increasing endeavors of nations States to creep over to occupy more space from the oceans, the issue of artificial islands becomes more salient. This paper attempts to discuss this issue in an international law perspective with special reference to the Spratly Islands and to provoke more discussions about it in future.
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EcoWatch – In a first for the country, California’s Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) has issued plans to list glyphosate—the toxic active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide—as known to cause cancer.
CALIFORNIA EPA MOVES TO LABEL MONSANTO’S ROUNDUP ‘CARCINOGENIC’
By REUTERS AUG. 30, 2015, 9:06 P.M. E.D.T.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Cambodians say that when human traffickers arrive in a village, they bring a storm and tears with them, an experience that Aya, sold into slavery when she was 16, will never forget.
Her story is at the center of the “The Storm Makers”, a documentary by French-Cambodian filmmaker Guillaume Suon, who spent three years filming human trafficking victims and traffickers in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
Continuing grinding poverty in Vietnam’s minority regions is a liability for the Communist Party
Economist – XU XEO GIA ekes out a living in Pho, a remote village in Vietnam’s northern mountains. Mr Gia comes from the Hmong ethnic minority. He is grateful for the education and health-care subsidies that his family receives from the government. But he struggles on marginal land to raise livestock and grow rice. The odd $25 he earns from selling a pig is just enough to clothe his children and keep creditors at bay. “Life is getting better,” he says, “but not fast enough.”
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A view of central Dong Xoai Town in southern Binh Phuoc Province. An urban area-industrial park worth US$1 billion began construction in the province. — Photo tanthanhcentercity.com.vn
BINH PHUOC (VNS) — Construction of a US$1 billion urban area-industrial park began in the southern province of Binh Phuoc’s Chon Thanh District last week.
Updated : 09/22/2015 15:01 GMT + 7
“It will surely be a big disadvantage for your job and business if you can’t drink beer or wine,” Nguyen Thi Hai Yen, a female student, said.
“If you can’t drink much, try to drink a little initially.
“Girls must drink too.”
The UN isn’t going to solve global poverty if no one understands what they’re talking about.
How do you turn dry UN-speak into something that ordinary people actually care about?
Project Everyone is an attempt to rebrand the new Global Goals for Sustainable Development—the UN’s vision for ending extreme poverty and tackling climate change by 2030—so that non-wonks start talking about it.
As the project’s website says:
If the goals are met, they ensure the health, safety and future of the planet for everyone on it. And their best chance of being met is if everyone on the planet is aware of them.
It’s not a simple challenge, when the goals are laid out in long, wordy, and fairly inaccessible documents. Sir Richard Curtis, director of films like Love, Actually, came up with the idea of the rebrand and turned to designers at Trollbäck + Co for help.
21 September 2015
Animals Asia has called on all stakeholders to make a commitment to ending bear bile farming in Vietnam by 2020.
It follows today’s announcement by Vietnam’s Traditional Medicine Association that says its members must continue to pursue alternatives to bear bile and has promised a complete end to its use by 2020.
The announcement came at a press conference in Hanoi this morning – arranged by animal welfare NGO Animals Asia and the Traditional Medicine Association.
Updated : 09/18/2015 16:39 GMT + 7
A Vietnamese fishing boat is seen sailing in the East Vietnam Sea in this file photo.
As maritime nations, Vietnam and Japan need to enhance cooperation to maintain peace and stability at sea, Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives Tadamori Oshima told Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Tokyo on Thursday.
The leader of the Communist Party of Vietnam arrived in Japan on Tuesday for a four-day visit, according to the Vietnam News Agency.
Countries involved in disputes should strictly comply with international law and settle their issues through dialogue and peaceful measures, Speaker Oshima said.
HA NOI (VNS) — The National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday reviewed a report made by its supervisory team on economic international integration after Viet Nam joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2007.The committee members agreed that Viet Nam gained more than it lost when it became a WTO member.
More work still needs to be done to dispel confusion surrounding social enterprises in Vietnam and help promote sustainable growth
Social enterprise is keeping traditional paper-making alive. Photograph: Zó project
Matthew Jenkin in Vietnam
theguardian – It’s mid-afternoon in the village of Duong O, Bac Ninh province, but Huong hasn’t got time to break for tea. She’s only halfway through the long, exhausting job of making a traditional paper called Do. It’s winter and her hands are raw from the process of dipping a framed screen into a trough of frigid water, raising the pulpy tree bark fibres from the surface and transferring them onto a board, where they will be pressed and dried to become a single sheet of paper.
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