Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

Nestlé, Hershey and Mars ‘breaking promises over palm oil use’

Guardian – This year’s Halloween confectionery will contain palm oil grown on land that should lawfully be habitat to orangutans, rhinos and clouded leopards, despite commitment to clean up supply chains

Forest land cleared for palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Forest land cleared for palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

 
Nestlé, Mars and Hershey have been accused of breaking pledges to stop using “conflict palm oil” from deforested Indonesian jungles, just days before the annual Halloween confectionery frenzy.

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MoIT initiates probe into Khaisilk fraud

vietnamnews Update: October, 27/2017 – 09:00

The Minister of Industry and Trade, Trần Tuấn Anh, on Thursday asked the Department of Market Watch to look into the origin of products of the Khaisilk Group following a complaint that it was selling products made in China.— Photo zing.vn

HÀ NỘI — The Minister of Industry and Trade, Trần Tuấn Anh, on Thursday asked the Department of Market Watch to look into the origin of products of the Khaisilk Group — a top Vietnamese silk brand — following a complaint that it was selling products made in China.

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U.S. seeks meeting soon to revive Asia-Pacific ‘Quad’ Security Forum

Reuters Oct. 27, 2017, at 2:30 p.m.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono gives a speech at Columbia University in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 21, 2017. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky Reuters

By David Brunnstrom

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States wants a meeting soon aimed at reviving a four-way dialogue between itself, Japan, India and Australia to deepen security cooperation and coordinate alternatives for regional infrastructure financing to that offered by China, a senior U.S. official said on Friday.

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EU gives Vietnam ‘yellow card’ over illegal fishing

 Oct 24, 2017


Fresh fish in Vietnam. [Commission]

The European Union said on Monday (23 October) it has given a “yellow card” to Vietnam, warning the Pacific country it could ban seafood exports unless Hanoi does more to tackle illegal fishing.

The European Commission said Vietnam should fix the problem “within a reasonable timeframe” but did not set a deadline.

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The coal battle shifts to Southeast Asia

by Nithin Coca – September 28, 2017

As China and India shift away from coal, the fight to end use of this dirty fuel is moving south

Coal is on the way out years ahead of schedule in China and India. A recent report by CoalSwarm (an Earth Island Project), Sierra Club, and Greenpeace showed that, in 2016, that Asia’s two fastest growing economies are shutting down mines, scrapping coal plant plans, and building renewables far faster than nearly anyone expected just a few years ago.

coal barge on a riverPhoto by Andrew Taylor/WDMA coal barge on the Mahakam river in Central Kalimantan. President Joko Widodo’s plans to increase power supply in Indonesia is focused almost entirely on coal use.

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UNESCO: 264 million children have no access to school

Al Jazeera 25 Oct 2017

UNESCO: 264 million children have no access to schoolSyrian girl heads to school in Ghouta town [Amer Almohibany/AFP/Getty Images]

Over 260 million children and youths across the world, equivalent to the combined population of Russia, Poland and Germany, have no access to education, according to a new report from the UNESCO.

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Cartoon: Sedated Pork in Vietnam

Cartoonists at Tuoi Tre Cuoi, the caricature magazine of Tuoi Tre, have revealed their thoughts about the food scare

By Tuoi Tre News – October 25, 2017, 19:56 GMT+7
​Cartoon: Sedated Pork in Vietnam

Cartoonists at Tuoi Tre Cuoi, the caricature magazine of Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, have revealed their thoughts about the recent food scare whereby pigs at a major slaughterhouse in Ho Chi Minh City were found to have been injected with sedative immediately prior to being butchered.

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Inspectors slams Yên Bái official of ‘dishonest” asset declaration

vietnamnews – Update: October, 24/2017 – 09:59

The 1.3ha mansion complex owned by Phạm Sỹ Quý, director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, northern mountain Yên Bái Province. Investigation officials accused him of “dishonesty” for failing to declare thousands of square metres of land in his asset declaration. — VNA/VNS Photo Thế Duyệt

HÀ NỘI — Government inspectors yesterday announced inspection results over a mansion complex owned by Yên Bái Province’s environmental director, accusing him of “dishonesty” for failing to declare thousands of square metres of land in his asset declaration.

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Degraded bridges worry locals in Lâm Đồng

vietnamnews Update: October, 24/2017 – 15:30

The degraded Ông Triều Bridge in Thạnh Mỹ Township, Đơn Dương District has no fence. — VNA/VNS Photo Đặng Tuấn

LÂM ĐỒNG — The Department of Transport in the Central Highland province of Lâm Đồng reported 200 degraded bridges across the province, threatening the safety of users.

Director of the department, Trương Hữu Hiệp, told Vietnam News Agency that of the degraded bridges, as many as 112 ones were listed as “seriously degraded” and required urgent maintenance.

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Three US aircraft carriers in Pacific

US flexes naval muscle in Asia ahead of Trump’s visit

Story highlights

  • US aircraft carriers send messages to adversaries, experts say
  • Presence of three carriers in Asia-Pacific comes as President Trump prepares to visit region

Sailors spell out #USA with the American flag on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf in late June 2015. When the Roosevelt leaves the Gulf sometime in October, the U.S. Navy will be without a carrier in the important region for two months.
Sailors spell out #USA with the American flag on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf in late June 2015. When the Roosevelt leaves the Gulf sometime in October, the U.S. Navy will be without a carrier in the important region for two months.

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Vietnam re-exports Thai fruit to China

Last update 12:00 | 24/10/2017 –  vietnamnet

VietNamNet Bridge – In the first nine months of the year, Vietnam imported $680 million worth of fruits from Thailand, or 60 percent of total fruit imports, according to the General Department of Customs (GDC). And by the end of August 2017, $817.9 million worth of fruit had been sold to China, 73 percent of which was from Thailand. 

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China is among the biggest export markets for Vietnam’s fruit with the growth rate in the first eight months of the year at 60.2 percent.

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