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US is helping improve Vietnam Coast Guard capabilities: Admiral

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hanoitimes – Updated at Tuesday, 22 Oct 2019, 10:42

The support focuses on maintenance and maintenance augmentation together with key leader exchange.

The US Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Karl L. Schultz, has said that they are working with other US government agencies to build out the Vietnamese Coast Guard and its capabilities and capacities.

The US Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Karl L. Schultz. Source: Maritimeexecutive

“We’re really focused on maintenance support or maintenance augmentation,” Admiral Karl L. Schultz said in a teleconference on October 21. “I’d say cooperation with Vietnam is very strong.”

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Việt Nam begins to realise marine aquaculture potential

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vietnamnews – Update: October, 19/2019 – 08:13

Breeding fish in floating cages in Vũng Tàu City’s Long Sơn Commune. – VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Nhị

HCM CITY – Coastal aquaculture is being developed in many localities but the output is very small compared to the country’s potential, experts have said.

The marine aquaculture area and output increased by 20 per cent every year since 2010 to 258,000ha and 431,600 tonnes last year.

The most popular species are fish, bivalve molluscs and crustacean species besides seaweed.

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Growing Better report 2019

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Growing Better: Ten Critical Transitions to Transform Food and Land Use

The Global Consultation Report of the Food and Land Use Coalition September 2019

For people, nature and climate

There is a remarkable opportunity to transform food and land use systems, but as the challenges are growing, we need to act with great urgency. The global report from the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) proposes a reform agenda – centred around ten critical transitions – of real actionable solutions. These could deliver the needed change to boost progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, help mitigate the negative effects of climate change, safeguard biodiversity, ensure more healthy diets for all, drastically improve food security and create more inclusive rural economies.

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Bullard: How a battery can lead a quiet revolution

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about.bnef.com – October 14, 2019

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This article first appeared on Bloomberg View and the Bloomberg Terminal.

By Nathaniel Bullard

Last week, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to John Goodenough, Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for their work developing the lithium-ion battery. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in announcing the award, said the three men “created a rechargeable world.” The ubiquitous battery is now found in items as varied as hearing aids and power grids. It is a testament not just to technological revolutions, but also to the power of advancements in performance and decreases in cost.

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UN: 200 million children under 5 eat too little or too much

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October 16, 2019

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — One-third of children worldwide under age 5 — about 200 million youngsters — are either undernourished or overweight, undermining their full potential to grow and develop, the U.N. children’s agency said in a report Tuesday.

UNICEF also said almost two-thirds of children aged 6 months to 2 years are not fed food that supports their rapidly growing bodies and brains.

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Cambridge Analytica causing trouble for Facebook in Southeast Asia

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dw – In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook is being forced to answer tough questions in Southeast Asian countries on whether its platform is being abused and if citizens’ data has been misused.    

Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Indonesien Joko Widodo Jakarta 13.10. (Getty Images/ Oscar Siagian)

After the latest turn in the ongoing Cambridge Analytica user data scandal, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said Friday it would investigate Facebook over possible violations of Indonesian privacy law.

In a statement released Wednesday, Facebook revised the amount of its data unlawfully collected by Cambridge Analytica to 87 million users, including data from 1.1 million Indonesian users that could have been “improperly shared” with the Britain-based political consulting firm.

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World Mental Health Day sheds light on worrying rates of youth suicide

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World Mental Health Day 2019 focuses on raising awareness of the scale of suicide around the world and the role that each of us can play to help prevent it.

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Worldwide, 800,000 people die by suicide each year – one every 40 seconds – making it the second leading cause of death among young people (aged 15 to 29), the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, spotlighting suicide prevention as the theme for this year’s World Mental Health Day.

“Mental health has been neglected for too long,” Secretary-General António Guterres said in a video message for the Day, saying it needs to be addressed urgently, as a matter “that concerns us all.”

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Two inspirational Vietnamese women honoured by BBC

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vietnamnews – Update: October, 16/2019 – 16:41

Co-founder of the Will to Live Center Nguyễn Thị Vân. — Photo VietnamPlus.vn

HÀ NỘI — Two Vietnamese women have been named among the BBC’s 100 most inspiring and influential women for 2019.

Conservationist Trang Nguyễn and co-founder of the Will to Live Center Nguyễn Thị Vân were honoured by the British public service broadcaster.

The annual list, which this year asks what the world would look like if it were ran by women, also includes American politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, teen Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg and World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe.

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Quang Ngai Red Cross Association Reviews Pilot Replication of RENEW’s MRE Best Practices in Ba To District

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landmines.org.vn – Ba Tơ, Quảng Ngãi (24 September 2019) — Project RENEW Coordination Office and representative of Quang Tri Mine Action Center (QTMAC) were present in Ba To District today for attending the final review of Mine Risk Education (MRE) program hosted by Quang Ngai Provincial Red Cross Association, with local representatives from Ba To District People’s Committee, relevant bureaus, Youth Unions and principals of schools.

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At the time of ATIGA, sugarcane is still struggling

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15:02 | 24/04/2019

VCN – After a 2-year delay, from January 1, 2020, quotas on sugar imports from ASEAN will officially be removed and have an import tax rate of 0% in accordance with the commitments of the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA). However, Vietnam’s sugar industry is not really ready.

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The Sugar Association recommends importing raw sugar to refine and applying import licenses to monitor the import volume in order to ensure supply and demand at certain times.

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Top 10 legal documents in 2018

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vietnamlawmagazine – Updated: 07:32’ – 28/12/2018

1. Law on Cyber Security

Passed on June 12 and set to take effect on January 1 next year, the Law on Cyber Security prescribes activities of protecting national security and ensuring social order and safety in cyberspace and responsibilities of related agencies, organizations and individuals.

The session on cyber security held within the framework of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN 2018 in Hanoi on September 12__Photo: Nguyen Khang/VNA

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Illicit Financial Flows to and from 148 Developing Countries: 2006-2015

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GFI

PRESS RELEASE
Illicit Financial Flows are Significant and Persistent Drag on Developing Country Economies

SELECTED PRESS COVERAGE
Illicit financial flows are hard to stop

JOURNALIST CONTACTS
Maureen Heydt Communications Coordinator
+1 202 293 0740 ext. 227 – mheydt@gfintegrity.org

January 28, 2019

This is the latest in a series of reports, issued on a roughly annual basis by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), which provides country-level estimates of the illicit flows of money into and out of 148 developing and emerging market nations as a result of their trade in goods with advanced economies, as classified by the International Monetary Fund.

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Phụ nữ, Trang tiếng Anh

Why gender imbalance continues to grow?

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vietnamlawmagazine – Updated: 07:46’ – 02/08/2017

In Duong Lam, an old village in Son Tay town just 50 km west of Hanoi, having a son is almost a responsibility toward the family line every couple must shoulder.

Kieu Thi L. has given birth six times to have a son since her husband is a family line head who is burdened with the duty of maintaining the continuance of his clan. L. and her husband have no choice but have a boy to fulfill their obligation as in Duong Lam, no excuse for not having a son will be accepted for a family line head.

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