TTCT – 2 triệu tỉ đồng: nghe chóng mặt không hình dung nổi có bao nhiêu con số không, nhưng với các gói kích thích kinh tế hay chính sách tài khóa, thì cũng là… bình thường.
Chênh lệch tăng trưởng cung tiền M2 so với M1 ở Trung Quốc cho thấy phần lớn lượng cung tiền M2 tăng lên được người dân bỏ vào trong ngân hàng dù lãi suất tiền gửi chỉ còn 1,25-1,5%. Ảnh: Ngân hàng Nhân dân Trung Quốc, Bloomberg
Đầu năm 2024, truyền thông Việt Nam đồng loạt đăng thông điệp khoảng 2 triệu tỉ đồng sẽ được bơm vào nền kinh tế. Nghe thì có vẻ ghê gớm, nhưng thực hư câu chuyện này như thế nào?
VNE – By Hong Chieu January 31, 2024 | 09:19 am GMT+7
Workers watch over the corn transportation process at the Constanta Port in Romania, May 2022. Photo by AFP
Certain Vietnamese in Romania are committing illegal acts, including gambling and illegal residence, tarnishing their reputation, the labor ministry said.
In a document recently sent to businesses who have workers in Romania, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has called for behaviors like drinking, gambling and the illegal residence of Vietnamese workers in Romania to stop. Romania is a potential market with high demand for foreign workers, including Vietnamese, the ministry added.
Previously on Jan. 20, upon a visit to the Vietnamese Embassy in Romania as part of his trip in Europe, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked for a check-up on companies sending workers overseas after hearing about issues from the Vietnamese community abroad.
[That doesn’t look like a Tet gift, but a marketing solicitation for the finance firm – PTH]
VNE – By Le Tuyet January 28, 2024 | 11:00 am GMT+7
Workers purchase products at a cashless Tet market event organized by the HCMC union, Jan. 22, 2024. Photo by VnExpress/An Phuong
Workers at several unions have been told they will receive Tet gifts worth VND300,000 ($12), under the condition that they open a credit card with a finance firm.
Earlier this month, Tuan, president of a workers’ union in Dong Nai Province, received 150 Tet gifts, each worth around VND300,000, from the General Confederation of Labor.
However, instead of cash, transactions or physical products, workers were required to open an account at the HD Saison financial company, fill in information, download the app and open a credit card with a VND5 million limit. Workers were instructed to purchase products on e-commerce platforms, Tuan added.
The Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot. It was a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption.
JANUARY 20, 2024, 5:46 AM
By Parag Khanna, the founder and CEO of Climate Alpha. FP
An aerial view shows stranded ships dotting bright blue water as they wait to cross the narrow Suez Canal seen in the distance at its southern entrance in the Red Sea.
Over the past two months, a sudden surge in Houthi rebel attacks in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea prompted the world’s largest shipping carriers to halt transit through the Suez Canal for several weeks—with even more rerouting their vessels as the United States and Britain launched strikes on Yemen and the situation has escalated.
Workers at a garment factory in HCMC’s Thu Duc City, November 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Tung
The tension in the Red Sea, which has led to increases in logistic costs and shipping time, is forecast to affect Vietnamese exporters of garment, textile, footwear and leather products from the second quarter of 2024 if it persists.
The Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association (Lefaso) and the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) Vice President and General Secretary Truong Van Cam said that domestic enterprises are keeping a close eye on the situation to negotiate new export deals.
Ten people received life sentences Saturday for terrorism in deadly attacks on government offices in Dak Lak last year, according to a court verdict for 100 defendants in the case.
Among the defendants, aged 18-56, 53 people were charged with “terrorism against the people’s government.” Among them, H Wuen Eban and Y Sol Nie’s behaviors were considered to be especially dangerous, being the masterminds who coaxed others into attacking the People’s Committee offices in Ea Ktur and Ea Tieu communes in the Central Highlands province, resulting in nine deaths.
Both received life sentences from the Dak Lak People’s Court. Prosecutors previously recommended them death sentences.
100 people strand trial before the Dak Lak People’s Court for deadly terrorist attacks, Jan. 18, 2024. Photo by VNA
Apartment buildings to the west of Hanoi. Photo by Ngoc Thanh
Real estate lost its attractiveness and was not the leading asset class in 2023, according to the Vietnam Association of Realtors.
Speaking at the 2024 real estate forum organized in Hanoi last Friday by the association, its president, Nguyen Van Dinh, said: “The fall of real estate stemmed from uncontrolled development and lack of transparency and safety in the market over a long period of time.”
Between May 2022 and the end of 2023 the property market saw thousands of projects being suspended and many businesses shutting down with 80% of brokers quitting their jobs.
Ngành công nghiệp bán dẫn: Cơ hội và tương lai cho Việt Nam ? (Kỳ 1)
Trong tuyên bố chung về quan hệ Đối tác Chiến lược Toàn diện Việt – Mỹ hôm 10/9/2023, hai bên ghi nhận tiềm năng của Việt Nam trong việc trở thành quốc gia chủ chốt trong ngành công nghiệp bán dẫn, đồng thời “ủng hộ sự phát triển nhanh chóng của hệ sinh thái bán dẫn tại Việt Nam”. Vì sao trong một tuyên bố chung trọng đại, bước ngoặt trong quan hệ hai quốc gia, công nghiệp bán dẫn lại được quan tâm đặc biệt như vậy?
Chúng ta đều biết lịch sử cách mạng công nghiệp diễn ra đầu tiên với động cơ hơi nước thế kỉ 18, động cơ đốt trong và sử dụng điện ở thế kỉ 19, công nghệ bán dẫn từ thập niên 1960 thế kỉ 20, và ngày nay có thể là AI (trí tuệ nhân tạo). Như vậy, hiện bán dẫn vẫn đang là động lực chính dẫn dắt sự phát triển của nhân loại. Dưới góc nhìn của kinh tế kỹ thuật, công nghiệp bán dẫn là gì, nó có ý nghĩa gì đối với thế giới và đối với Việt Nam chúng ta. Và quan trọng nhất, Việt Nam đã làm gì và sẽ phải làm gì và làm thế nào?
TS. Nguyễn Thị Hải Bình – ThS. Hoàng Mạnh Cường • 14/01/2024 12:56
Sự xuất hiện tiền kỹ thuật số của Ngân hàng trung ương (CBDC) là một bước ngoặt trong sự phát triển của các hình thức tiền tệ pháp định.
Các quốc gia trên thế giới có những động thái khác nhau với CBDC. Có quốc gia đã chính thức phát hành CBDC, cũng có nước đang trong quá trình thử nghiệm nhưng hầu hết đang trong giai đoạn nghiên cứu và đánh giá về khả năng phát hành loại tiền tệ mới này. Tại Việt Nam, Chính phủ cũng đã có những định hướng ban đầu khi giao Ngân hàng Nhà nước (NHNN) nghiên cứu và cơ quan này cũng đang có những bước đi thận trọng trong nghiên cứu và phát triển CBDC. Bài viết tập trung tìm hiểu kinh nghiệm của các quốc gia trên thế giới về nghiên cứu, thử nghiệm và phát hành CBDC, từ đó có những gợi mở cho Việt Nam đối với quá trình xây dựng, thí điểm hay xa hơn là phát hành CBDC.
VNE – By Dat Nguyen January 15, 2024 | 08:53 am GMT+7
An illustration of Bitcoin. Photo by Pexels
Some 64% of cryptocurrency investors lost money last year, a survey by data platform Coin98 Insights has found.
The survey collected date from 1,200 respondents last December. As cryptocurrencies went through a “Bitcoin winter” last year, nearly 30% of respondents said the reason for the loss was the fear of missing out.
Almost 36% did not have a detailed investment plan, and were unable to react to sudden market developments.
In terms of demographics, 85.3% of investors are male and aged between 18 and 36. They are mostly based in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s two biggest cities.
They have an income of VND10-25 million a month, and nearly half entered the cryptocurrency market in 2020-2022 when it soared.
This year investors are showing interest in AI projects and most expect Bitcoin to reach a new peak after ETF Bitcoin was approved in the U.S.
TTCT – Binance bị phạt 4 tỉ đô la và chuyện quy định mới Ngân hàng Nhà nước Việt Nam phải giám sát giao dịch từ 400 triệu đồng trở lên có liên quan gì với nhau?
Ảnh: Axios
Tháng 11 vừa rồi, Binance, sàn giao dịch tiền mã hóa lớn nhất thế giới với quy mô giao dịch mỗi ngày gần 80 tỉ đô la Mỹ (theo Coinmarketcap), đã thừa nhận tội hình sự liên quan đến rửa tiền và vi phạm các lệnh trừng phạt tài chính quốc tế, đồng thời đồng ý trả hơn 4,3 tỉ USD tiền phạt.
HANOI, Dec 29 (Reuters) – Vietnam’s economic growth slowed to 5.05% this year from an expansion of 8.02% last year, official data showed on Friday, weighed by weak global demand while public investment stalled amid an intensified anti-graft crackdown.
This year’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth was below a government target of 6.5% and lower than average growth of 5.87% during the previous decade, according to data released by the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO).
Vietnam is a regional manufacturing hub that relies heavily on trade. Exports in 2023 fell 4.4% from last year to $355.5 billion, with shipments of smartphones, its largest foreign currency earner, dropping 8.3%, the GSO said in its report.
theguardian.com Saltwater damage could see precious historical Buddhist artworks dating back hundreds of years slowly fade entirely from view
by Rebecca Ratcliffe and Navaon Siradapuvadol in NonthaburiWed 29 Nov 2023 02.37 GMT
Inside Wat Prasat, a temple in Nonthaburi, just north of Bangkok. Thailand. The temple contains faded, salt-damaged murals. The salt damage comes from rising sea levels caused by the climate crisis. Photograph: Rebecca Ratcliffe/The Guardian
If you look closely, you can just about see the characters and scenes that once stretched across the walls of Wat Prasat, a temple in Nonthaburi. There’s the dark shape of an elephant’s head, a figure slouching on its back; outlines of swords pointing upwards to the centre of the display; patches of curved roofs.
“The mural used to be more vivid,” says Phra Maha Natee, the abbot of Wat Prasat. Even when he was a novice monk, 20 years ago, the image – which shows one of the jātakas stories that recall the Buddha’s past lives – was easier to understand. “The colour was brighter and sharper,” he says.
The murals offer a glimpse into a past era – a time of prosperity but also social upheaval, when a more empowered nobility had emerged, as did a desire, say historians, for Buddhism to play a more stronger role in reinforcing discipline in society. They date back to the mid or later years of the Ayutthaya kingdom in Siam, which existed from 1351 to 1767, in what is now Thailand and are a treasured early example of the art form.
Họ nghèo khó, ngày ngày ngóng việc, ai gọi làm gì thì đi, ai nhờ gì thì làm nấy. Mấy hôm nay Hà Nội mưa rét thấu xương, họ vẫn gắng ra đứng ở “chợ người” đốt lửa chờ việc đến mình để mong có suất cơm đầy cho vợ con.
Mang theo củi sưởi ấm để ngóng việc ở “chợ người” – Ảnh: TÂM LÊ
Sắp 7h sáng, trời Hà Nội vẫn còn mù tối, mưa phùn khiến rét càng thêm tê tái. Ở khu chợ đặc biệt này bắt đầu xuất hiện những người mang theo một khúc củi chống rét để ngóng việc.
Thằng con út tôi sinh năm nào thì tôi ra chợ người Hà Nội năm đó, giờ nó 23 tuổi rồi, thời gian nhanh quá.
(Sen Nguyen is a Vietnamese journalist – the author of this article won the 2023 Global Media Competition on Labour Migration, hosted by the International Labour Organization. Her entry, titled “Risk, rewards and remittances in Vietnam’s Nghe An province” published in Al Jazeera, was chosen out of more than 400 entries from 85 countries.)
39 Vietnamese people died being smuggled into the UK in 2019. Most were from Nghe An province.
Hoang Thi Ai holds up her phone showing a photo of her son, Hoang Van Tiep, who she later discovered was among the 39 people who were found dead in a truck container in Essex, the UK, in 2019 [File: Hau Dinh/AP Photo]
In late October 2019, ambulance crews in the United Kingdom were called to a scene of horror.
On a quiet road in a nondescript industrial park in Essex, the bodies of 39 people were found when the heavy steel doors of a refrigerated truck trailer were opened.
The victims had suffocated. Death came slowly as oxygen levels inside the airtight container depleted for the 28 men, eight women and three children as their attempt to be smuggled into the UK ended tragically.
The youngest were two 15-year-olds. All were from Vietnam and the majority were from one province – Nghe An.
“I’m sorry Dad and Mum,” 26-year-old Pham Thi Tra My tapped out in a final text message she composed for her parents.
“Mum, I love Dad and you so much. I’m dying because I can’t breathe … I am so sorry, Mum,” she wrote in a phone message that was widely reported on at the time.
The message was delivered long before her death was officially confirmed by police investigators in the UK.
Video Duration 01 minutes 41 seconds01:41Vietnamese family fears their daughter may be among Essex victims
In 2021, seven people were jailed in the UK for a total of 92 years for their role in the deaths of the 39. This week, an eighth suspect, described as a “right-hand man” in the smuggling ring, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison by a UK court.
Đọt Chuối Non 