Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

The future cries beneath our soil – Phim Mùa Cát Vọng

The future cries beneath our soil. Trailer from Pham Thu Hang on Vimeo.

Film Mùa Cát Vọng / THE FUTURE CRIES BENEATH OUR SOIL directed by Pham Thu Hang and produced by Jewel Maranan will have its premiere tomorrow at DMZ 국제다큐영화제 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival in South Korea! We’re at the Asian Competition together with other beautiful documentaries. Wish us luck!

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World Bank funds US$155 million to support autonomous higher education in Việt Nam

vietnamnews – Update: May, 16/2017 – 18:00

A World Bank project will support the financing of new facilities and equipment for teaching and research.—VNA/VNS Photo

WASHINGTON — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today US$155 million in financing to strengthen the research, teaching, and institutional capacity of three universities and improve the management of Việt Nam’s higher education system.

More than 150,000 students and 3,900 members of faculty will benefit from the investments for Việt Nam’s National University of Agriculture, the University of Science and Technology in Hà Nội, and the Industry University of Hồ Chí Minh City. Some 600,000 students and 27,000 lecturers from other higher education institutions will also gain access to a digital library at the National Economics University.

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Standard Chartered ‘breaching climate policy’ with Vietnam coal plant investment

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A railway coal depot in northern Vietnam (Pic: Flickr/garycycles8)

By Chloe Farand for DeSmog UK

A London-based bank has been accused of breaching its climate pledges over the financing of a heavily polluting coal-fired power plant in Vietnam.

Standard Chartered, a UK bank which supports British companies trading abroad, plans to co-finance the $2.5bn (£1.81bn) Nghi Son 2 coal plant in Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam.

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