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HCM City needs modern drainage: experts

Update: October, 04/2017 – 18:10 vietnamnews

A person walks through an inundated section of Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh Street in HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District. — VNA/VNS Mạnh Linh

Viet Nam News HCM CITY — HCM City and southern provinces are being battered by heavy rains in the first 10 days of October. The heavy rains, together with high river tides, will cause flooding in many places, the Southern Hydrometeorology Station has forecast.

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US, EU investors still hesitant: experts

Last update 15:00 | 23/08/2017 –  vietnamnet

Unresolved issues in Vietnam’s regulations and the business environment have resulted in relatively low FDI inflows from US and European multinational companies, experts say.

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According to the Foreign Investment Agency (FIA) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), as of July 2017, US companies had invested US$9.3 billion in Vietnam and the major EU nations of France and Germany registering US$2.8 billion and US$1.6 billion, respectively.

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An obstacles course for highlands kids

vietnamnews – Update: October, 07/2017 – 09:00

A young boy (centre) braves the weather and bad road conditions to go to school in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông. — Photo thethaovanhoa.vn

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Fifth grader Đinh Thị Phương and her friends go swimming every day, but it is not a recreational activity.They go swimming because they have no other way to get to school.

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Dismissed agency head named to Formosa oversight team

Lương Duy Hanh (standing), dismissed from his post over the Formosa fish deaths disaster, is currently working at the Legal Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. – Photo thanhnien.vn

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – Lương Duy Hanh, dismissed as head of the Environmental Protection Department for his wrongdoings in the 2016 Formosa plant pollution disaster, was later appointed deputy head of the team inspecting the company’s activities.

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Foreign investors shun properties with bank debt

Last update 16:00 | 05/10/2017 –  vietnamnet

VietNamNet Bridge – VAMC (Vietnam Asset Management Company) is now holding VND230 trillion worth of bad debt, including real estate which is used as collateral for bad debts it has purchased from commercial banks.

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It is expected that from now to the end of 2017, VAMC will settle VND23-25 trillion worth of bad debt, or 10 percent of the amounts of bad debt it is holding.

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Women in developed countries more educated than men, but still earn less – OECD

by Lin Taylor | @linnytayls | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 4 October 2017 09:00 GMT

If there was an equal number of female and male entrepreneurs, global GDP could rise by 2 percent, equivalent to about $1.5 trillionBy Lin Taylor

LONDON, Oct 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women in developed countries are now more educated than men, yet they still earn less, are poorly represented in politics, and less likely to join the top ranks in business or become an entrepreneur, a global think-tank said on Wednesday.

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The Global Competitiveness Report 2017–2018

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Ten years on from the global financial crisis, the prospects for a sustained economic recovery remain at risk due to a widespread failure on the part of leaders and policy-makers to put in place reforms necessary to underpin competitiveness and bring about much-needed increases in productivity, according to data from the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2017-2018.

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Local protest against steel plant

Last update 14:03 | 04/10/2017 –  vietnamnet

Local people in Quang Nam Province have gathered again and demanded to relocate the Vietnam-France Steel Plant due to pollution.

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Locals camp out the at the factory

The locals in Dien Nam Dong Ward, Dien Ban Town have put up tents and blocked the entrance to the plant for the past three months. Old people stay out during the day and young people sleep in the tents at night. They are determined to shut down the plant in the area.

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Should schools use the VNEN educational methodology?

 vietnamnet – Last update 08:05 | 04/10/2017

VietNamNet Bridge  – The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has said that the ministry ‘won’t let it go’, but will “join hands with education establishments to fix existing problems and overcome difficulties to deploy the new educational method VNEN (the Vietnam Escuela Nueva) in a more effective way and prepare well for the implementation of the new general education program”.

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This was confirmed by deputy director of MOET’s Primary Education Department Nguyen Duc Huu.

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ASEAN needs to double power capacity in less than 20 years

Meeting demand will take $500 billion worth of new generation facilities

MASAYUKI YUDA, Nikkei staff writer

asia.nikkei_will remain the main source of power generation in ASEAN in the coming decades, says Wood Mackenzie analyst Edi Saputra. © Reuters

TOKYO — ASEAN needs to more than double its power capacity in less than 20 years to meet burgeoning demand. British energy research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie reported last week that the region requires $500 billion worth of investment to achieve such a goal.

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Sexual assaults and violent rages… Inside the dark world of Buddhist teacher Sogyal Rinpoche

Mick Brown 21 SEPTEMBER 2017 • 6:00AM

telegraph.co.uk_In August last year, Sogyal Rinpoche, the Tibetan lama whose book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying has sold more than three million copies around the world, and made him probably the best known Tibetan Buddhist teacher after the Dalai Lama, gave his annual teaching at his French centre Lerab Ling.

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The magic of Khmer classical dance

“Robam kbach boran,” or the art of Khmer classical dance, is more than 1,000 years old. It was developed as a prayer in movement for rain and fertility, and a prosperity that this meant for an agricultural society. Dancers who were both men and women were offered to temples where they served as living bridges between heaven and earth. Their dancing bodies carried the prayers of the people up to the gods, and the will of the deities was delivered back through them to the people and the land.

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