The number of foreign tourists visiting Viet Nam so far this year is estimated at 14.2 million, up 21.3 per cent against the same period last year, the General Statistics Office said on Thursday.
In this period, the number of foreigners visiting Viet Nam by air and road rose by 15.3 per cent and 64.4 per cent, respectively, while the number that arrived by sea went down 11.3 per cent year-on-year due to the impact of storms Toraji and Usagi.
Last update 17:15 | 04/12/2018 – vietnamnet
Vietnam could face power shortages in the early 2020s. The shortages are likely to happen from 2020 to 2025.
The Electricity of Vietnam said to meet surging demand for power, the country needs 60,000MW of electricity by 2020; 96,500MW of electricity by 2025 and 129,500MW of electricity by 2030.
Update: December, 04/2018 – 21:30
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| Phạm Văn Tân, deputy head of the Climate Change Department, Việt Nam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), presents the ministry’s response to climate change threats to the country. — VNS Photo Mai Hoàng |
Viet Nam News By Mai Hoàng
Katowice, POLAND — At the 24th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP24), Germanwatch released the most up-to-date Climate Risk Index ranking, which analyses the extent to which each country has been affected by weather-related loss events.
ISDS Platform – Peoples Dispatch | 18 November 2018
PHA4: Neoliberal Policies and corporate takeover are the cause of the world health crisis
by P Ambedkar
Peoples’ representatives from across the globe have gathered in Savar, Bangladesh for the fourth People’s Health Assembly. They are discussing and debating on how to make this world a place which provides for the health of the people and that of the planet.
Representatives from country after country shared their experiences of how the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank recommended prescriptions of austerity and structural adjustment policies that in fact worsened the health of the people. The beneficiaries have been the multinational corporations and the elite.
Chuck Searcy: This report is from my colleague Ngo Xuan Hien at Project RENEW, describing another finding of a big bomb in Quang Tri Province which was safely removed to the demolition site and destroyed. The bomb is bigger than most ordnance cleaned up and destroyed every day — usually cluster bombs, grenades, artillery rounds, mortars — but now even these infrequent occurrences of 500-pound or 750-pound bombs are treated somewhat routinely. That is to say, local people are no longer alarmed, once they report the finding they are confident that NPA-RENEW technicians or other NGO teams coordinated by the Provincial Legacy of War Coordination Center will come quickly to the site and handle the threat skillfully and professionally, and residents can soon return to their normal activities. The situation is being managed, and that is the key to long-term safety and protection of villagers, farmers, school children.
Jesus,
You know,
I always believe in miracles.
Perhaps it is the reason
I often see miracles.
No, not “often”,
“always” is the right word.
My every day is miracle
and full of miracles.
I love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Jesus,
Please let Christmas holidays be love days.
Single people feel good.
Couples stick together.
Wishing everyone touches love.
Wishing everyone touches you.
Amen.
PTH
VIETNAM is facing a number of environmental pitfalls and policy hurdles on its path towards a sustainable energy sector, Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Linda Wallbott, Markus Lederer and Dang Nguyen Anh write.
Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth over the past two decades, making it one of the strongest and fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia.
By Luke Duggleby
Mekong Delta, September 17, 2018
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is one of the world’s most at-risk areas from the effects of climate change, posing challenges both for its environment and population in years to come.
Jesus,
Please save Đồng Nai River.
Please save the poor people who live with the Đồng Nai.
Please save our Mother.
Amen.
PTH
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Cambodia, Viet Nam make plans for implementing Council Study recommendations
MRC Vientiane, Lao PDR, 31st Oct 2018
Vientiane, Lao PDR, 31 October 2018 – Cambodia and Viet Nam have recently held consultations to begin the process of considering and implementing recommendations from the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Council Study into national policies and programs, while these are forthcoming in Lao PDR and Thailand. They aim to take advantage of the suite of new processes, tools, and datasets provided by the study to improve decision making on future sustainable development in the lower Mekong basin.
VIETNAM | Brussels, 24 September 2018
EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements (authentic text as of August 2018)
Disclaimer: The text of the EU-Vietnam trade agreement presented in this webpage is the text at the end of the negotiation conducted by the European Commission and is made public solely for information purposes. The agreement presented in this document is not binding under international law and will only become so after completion of the ratification process by each Party according to its internal legal procedures.
PREAMBLE: Preamble
CHAPTER 1: Objectives and General Definitions
Jesus,
Please save Hanoi’s rivers.*
“Hanoi” means “lands inside rivers”.
Rivers make the history and culture of Hanoi.
When Hanoi no longer has these rivers,
Hanoi is not Hanoi anymore.
Please save Hanoi’s rivers.*
Amen.
PTH
Ảnh đầu bài: Chợ Cửa Đông. Tranh phục dựng của họa sĩ Nguyễn Thành Phong. Nguồn: Tìm lại dấu xưa Kẻ Chợ
* Câu này sử dụng tiêu đề của chuỗi bài Cứu những dòng sông Hà Nội – 4 bài
Disarmed bombs in Xépôn, Laos. Picture: Halo TrustThanksgiving is an American tradition that is unknown in most of the world. Fifty years ago, however, it landed in Laos, the small, impoverished Southeast Asian nation that was to become perhaps the longest-suffering casualty of the United States’ war in Vietnam.
Thanksgiving is held on the fourth Thursday in November. In 1968, that fell on November 28, and on that day, at the height of the war and on the orders of president Lyndon B. Johnson, turkey dinners were helicoptered in to American soldiers who were on a mission to sever the Ho Chi Minh Trail – the network of paths and tracks that constituted North Vietnam’s military supply lines to the south of the country – that ran through eastern Laos.
Commentary By
Theodore R. Bromund, Ph.D.@Bromund
Senior Research Fellow in Anglo-American Relations
James Jay Carafano@JJCarafano
Vice President, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute
Brett D. Schaefer
Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs
KEY TAKEAWAYS
U.S. accession would provide no benefits not already available to the U.S., while creating unnecessary burdens and risks.
The U.S. does not need to join the convention in order to access oil and gas resources on its extended continental shelf, in the Arctic, or in the Gulf of Mexico.
Despite subsequent changes in 1994 that led the Clinton administration to support U.S. accession, the Trump administration should oppose accession to this treaty.