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World Bank funds US$155 million to support autonomous higher education in Việt Nam

vietnamnews – Update: May, 16/2017 – 18:00

A World Bank project will support the financing of new facilities and equipment for teaching and research.—VNA/VNS Photo

WASHINGTON — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today US$155 million in financing to strengthen the research, teaching, and institutional capacity of three universities and improve the management of Việt Nam’s higher education system.

More than 150,000 students and 3,900 members of faculty will benefit from the investments for Việt Nam’s National University of Agriculture, the University of Science and Technology in Hà Nội, and the Industry University of Hồ Chí Minh City. Some 600,000 students and 27,000 lecturers from other higher education institutions will also gain access to a digital library at the National Economics University.

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Standard Chartered ‘breaching climate policy’ with Vietnam coal plant investment

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A railway coal depot in northern Vietnam (Pic: Flickr/garycycles8)

By Chloe Farand for DeSmog UK

A London-based bank has been accused of breaching its climate pledges over the financing of a heavily polluting coal-fired power plant in Vietnam.

Standard Chartered, a UK bank which supports British companies trading abroad, plans to co-finance the $2.5bn (£1.81bn) Nghi Son 2 coal plant in Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam.

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Vietnam allows use of yuan at Chinese border

VNE – By Dat Nguyen   August 30, 2018 | 12:09 pm GMT+7

Vietnam allows use of yuan at Chinese border

A bank clerk counts Chinese yuan banknotes at a branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Huaibei, Anhui province. Photo by Reuters /Stringer

Vietnamese can trade in yuan at the border with China, the State Bank of Vietnam has decreed.

It means the transactions that traders and residents have been doing informally in the yuan for long along the border gets legal sanction from October 12.

Economist Nguyen Tri Hieu told VnExpress International: “There have not been any specific regulations on using the yuan in transactions. This will be the first.”

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The extreme ways kids get to school around the world – Gian nan con đường đến lớp học

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kids going to school
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In the United States, the site of a yellow bus bouncing down the road is practically synonymous with school.

But in other parts of the world, the trek to school looks much different.

Some kids in the Philippines step through knee-deep rocky waters to get to class, while students in Japan pass Geiger counters tracking local radiation levels.

Here’s what early-morning commutes to school look like around the world.

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Discovering the Ancient Craft Villages of Vietnam

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Just outside of Hanoi is a rich artisanal history of craft villages with colorful workshops and handcrafted goods.

Ehrin Macksey / Project Bly

The Red River Valley

The Red River valley in Vietnam has a long and rich artisanal history, and this was one of the reasons why Emperor Lý Thái Tổ picked Hanoi as the imperial capital in 1010. Hundreds of specialized craft villages, like Ha Thai surround Hanoi. After it was declared the capital, craftsmen from these villages began to establish workshops in what is now known as the Old Quarter. Today, each street in the Old Quarter is still known for a specific craft and linked to the village where it it originated.

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Detecting ‘deepfake’ videos in the blink of an eye

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A new form of misinformation is poised to spread through online communities as the 2018 midterm election campaigns heat up. Called “deepfakes” after the pseudonymous online account that popularized the technique – which may have chosen its name because the process uses a technical method called “deep learning” – these fake videos look very realistic.

It’s Barack Obama – or is it?

 
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