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A late start: Renewable energy development in Vietnam

August 21st, 2018 by  CleanTeachnica


By Lars Blume, Green ID Vietnam

Vietnam is located on the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. The country’s total length is 1,650 kilometers from the northernmost point to the southernmost point. Vietnam has a diverse topography consisting of hills, mountains, deltas, coastline, and continental shelf. The topography is lower from the Northwest to the Southeast. There are two major deltas with fertile arable land in Vietnam; the 16,700 sq km Red River Delta, locally known as the Northern Delta, and the 40,000 sq km Mekong River Delta, or the Southern Delta. The country has a long coastline of 3,260 km, running from Mong Cai in the North to Ha Tien in the Southwest.

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The peddler girl from Sa Pa who made it big

VNE – October 9, 2018 | 01:22 pm GMT+7

She was named by Forbes Vietnam as one of the 30 most influential under-thirty in the country.

Tan Thi Shu was born in 1986 in a poor H’Mong family in Sa Pa, a beautiful mountainous town in the northern province of Lao Cai.

Her family was in fact so poor it could only afford one meal a day. She started working at the age of 12, selling brocade fabric. A year later, like most of her peers, she became a peddler in Sa Pa.

Her mind was always teeming with unanswered questions: “Why are my parents so poor? Why am I different from the rest? Why can’t I go to school and have the same opportunities as others? Wherever I go, I can’t find anyone else who looks like me…”.

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Prayer 543

The prayer series

Jesus,

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is not good for us.

ISDS is a mechanism
that allows foreign investors
to bring claims against host governments
to an international arbitral tribunal.

ISDS is a postcolonial relic that should be abolished.

Before abolishing ISDS,
please protect our government.
Give our government your wisdom
and help our government stand firmly
no matter how strong the ISDS storm is.

We trust you.

Amen.

PTH

Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital: a symbol of friendship between Việt Nam and Cambodia

Update: October, 08/2018 – 09:00

A patient is transferred to Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital by helicopter. — VNA/VNS Photo

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Srey Phirum Khun, 45, used to spend 8 hours travelling from Cambodia’s Kampong Speu Province to HCM City in Việt Nam for health checkups and treatment. Today, she no longer faces the grueling journey thanks to the inauguration of the Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital in January 2014.

“I no longer have to travel abroad for treatment. It helps save my money and time,” she said with a smile.

Khun was just one of many who have benefited from the joint cooperation between Việt Nam and Cambodia in the medical sector.

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Mekong-Japan partnership strategy agreed at Tokyo summit

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN – October 9, 2018 at 15:45 JST

Photo/IllutrationJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, speaks at the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting held in the State Guest House in Tokyo’s Moto-Akasaka district on Oct. 9. (Pool)

Five Southeast Asian leaders joined Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the State Guest House in Tokyo on Oct. 9 to adopt an agreement to strengthen ties between their nations and Japan.

The agreement, titled “Tokyo Strategy 2018,” was adopted by Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as Japan, at the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting.

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Moon’s ’anti-corruption’ move invites ISDS lawsuits

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Korea Times | 26 September 2018

Moon’s ’anti-corruption’ move invites ISDS lawsuits

By Nam Hyun-woo

The Moon Jae-in administration’s campaign to “root out archaic irregularities” appears to have backfired as global private equity funds are rushing to file investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) over the controversial merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries in 2015.

Following Elliott, which went after the Moon Jae-in government’s acknowledgement of the previous administration’s intervention in the merger, a separate U.S. private equity fund, Mason, has recently issued a similar claim. Those moves are placing the government in a dilemma over whether it should deny its own rationale or pay more than 1 trillion won (890 million) in compensation.

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Vietnamese, US veteran pilots gather in Hanoi

VietnamNetBridge 04/10/2018

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Vietnamese and American veteran pilots, who were once enemies of each other in the air during the anti-US war, gather in Hanoi on October 3 for the third time.

Vietnamese and American veteran pilots, who were once enemies of each other in the air during the anti-US war, reunited in Hanoi on October 3 for the third time.

Present at the gathering were Lt. Gen. Nguyen Duc Soat, hero of the People’s Armed Forces and head of the Vietnamese veteran pilot delegation, Charlie Tutt, head of the US veteran pilot delegation, representatives from the Air Defence – Air Force Service under the Vietnam Defence Ministry, and veteran pilots of the two countries.

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