VN must up the pace on waste sorting
VN must up the pace on waste sortingVietNamNet Bridge – Everyone has their own set of qualities to look for in an ideal partner, but what if the ability to classify garbage is the only trait one is seeking? The high-rise apartment where Ngoc lives offers no waste sorting bins. Plastic garbage accounts for 5 to 7 per cent of overall waste, posing a real challenge for the waste treatment facility as it is not sorted at the source, but rather mixed with other types of trash. Duong Thi Phuong Anh from MoNRE stressed upon the significance of administrative mechanisms in dealing with plastic garbage. Improving the environment in Vietnam, they say, starts with garbage sorting and is followed by reducing, reusing and recycling.
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June 05, 2018 07:18 UTC
Diageo-backed Halico may prove unmarketable on UpCOM
Diageo-backed Halico may prove unmarketable on UpCOMDespite being backed by the world's biggest spirits company Diageo, Hanoi Liquor JSC (Halico)’s massive losses may make its shares unmarketable. Currently, Habeco holds 54.3 per cent and Diageo 45.5 per cent in Halico. In 2014, the company reported a revenue of VND397 billion ($17.4 million) and profit of VND30 billion ($1.3 million) only. Current performance, in collaboration with the abysmal prospects, may make Halico’s shares unmarketable, unless Diageo wants to take the opportunity to acquire the remaining stake in Halico. Acquiring a large stake in Halico was meant to tap into its growth potential and success to increase its sales in the Vietnamese market.
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June 05, 2018 05:15 UTC
Vietnamese gymnast won gold at World Challenge Cup 2018
Vietnamese gymnast won gold at World Challenge Cup 2018Top Vietnamese gymnast Le Thanh Tung won gold at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup, held in Koper, Slovania from May 31 to June 3. Vietnamese first rank gymnast Le Thanh Tung won gold at 2018 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup. At the World Challenge Cup held at Doha, Qatar last year, Tung also won gold in the vault category. The 23-year-old from HCM City previously won three gold medals at SEA Games 29, is the Asian champion and a shining star of Vietnamese gymnastics. Besides Tung, the second gold medal for the Vietnamese team was won by Dinh Phuong Thanh in the parallel bars.
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June 05, 2018 04:52 UTC
Vietnamese woman wins Belgium cycle race
Vietnamese woman wins Belgium cycle raceVietnamese first ranked racer Nguyen Thi That overtook the competition on the track, becoming the winner of the first stage of 2018’s one-day woman’s cycle race Dwars door de Westhoek, held and concluded in Belgium on Sunday (June 3). Vietnamese first ranked racer Nguyen Thi That won at the first stage of 2018’s one-day woman’s cycle race Dwars door de Westhoek. — Photo mediacdn.vnThe race is hosted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the world governing body for sports cycling and overseas international competitive cycling events. That competed in the jersey of the UCI World Cycling Centre (WCC), where she received her training. At the 125km long first stage of the race, she successfully took the first group, then beat other competitors at the finish line.
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June 05, 2018 04:52 UTC
Emergency landing at Da Nang Int'l Airport saves ill passenger
Emergency landing at Da Nang Int'l Airport saves ill passengerA plane on the way from Hanoi to Da Lat City had to make an emergency landing at Da Nang International Airport as a male passenger fainted at 10,000m in the air. A plane of Jestar Pacific lands at Da Nang International Airport yesterday as a male passenger fainted. Crew members were called to assist the victim on the plane, and the pilot decided to land at Da Nang Airport at 11.25am yesterday. The flight was allowed to leave Da Nang airport for Da Lat in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong Province at about 12pm the same day. Last month, a Jetstar Pacific plane had to stop at the taxiway of Da Nang Airport and go back to the terminal after a pregnant Czech woman fell ill on-board.
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June 05, 2018 04:41 UTC
Chilean President lauds Vietnam’s economic achievements
Chilean President lauds Vietnam’s economic achievementsChilean President Sebastian Pinera extolled Vietnam’s impressive economic accomplishments in recent years while receiving Vietnamese Ambassador to Chile Nguyen Ngoc Son in Santiago on June 4. Vietnamese Ambassador to Chile Nguyen Ngoc Son (L) presents his credentials to Chilean President Sebastian Pinera (Source: vov.vn)The President welcomed the Ambassador to take up his mission in Chile and conveyed his regards to Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang and other leaders. The President said he looks forward to welcoming the Vietnamese delegation to Chile on the occasion of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit 2019. Ambassador Son conveyed the invitation of President Tran Dai Quang to President Sebastian Pinera to visit Vietnam. The newly-signed Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), of which Vietnam and Chile are members, is expected to drive bilateral economic, trade and investment cooperation.-VNA
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June 05, 2018 04:30 UTC
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 5/6
Moreover, apparel retail prices in Australia aremuch higher the import ones, giving Vietnamese products an advantage. According to the PetroVietnam, in the past five months, petrol market saw unexpected developments, negatively affecting the firms’ business. Apart from promoting exports to Vietnam, Argentinean businesses also want to find partners for their imports of Vietnamese products. “BIOMIN is honored and excited to bring Natuphos E to the Vietnamese market with BASF. FPT will conduct digital conversion for Toppan Printing’s business operations, cooperating in IT human resources training and business process outsourcing (BPO) over three years.
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June 05, 2018 02:44 UTC
Court hears appeal on Tan Son Nhat airport terror plot
Court hears appeal on Tan Son Nhat airport terror plotThe High-level People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on June 4 began hearing an appeal on a terrorism plot targeting Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Nguyen Duc Sinh (in caro shirt) was given a 10-year sentenceAfter the first-instance trial of the city’s People’s Court on December 27, 2017, fourteen out of the 16 defendants appealed. At the appeal trial, both Thien and Sinh admitted their behaviours. Thien appealed the court to reduce the penalty. The appeal court will run until June 5.-VNA
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June 04, 2018 15:33 UTC
VN-Index rises for three consecutive days, exceeding 1,013 points
VN-Index rises for three consecutive days, exceeding 1,013 pointsThe benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) rose for the third day, gaining a total of 65.28 points after three transactions to settle at 1,013.78 points on June 4. The group of equipment, machine production and construction material production shares saw a price hike of 4 percent. However, shares of Sabeco (SAB), PetroVietnam (GAS) and Techcombank (TCB) were sold below the reference price, of which TCB closed at 102,000 VND per share. At the end of the June 4 transaction, VN-Index added 22.91 points to 1,013.78 points. Meanwhile, the HNX-Index on the Hanoi Stock Exchange was up 2.57 points to 118.32 points and UpCoM-Index on the Unlisted Public Company Market (UpCoM) slightly increased 0.8 points to 53.63 points.-VNA
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June 04, 2018 15:33 UTC
Vietnam hopes case of Vietnamese girl’s murder to be handled strictly
Vietnam hopes case of Vietnamese girl’s murder to be handled strictlyThe Vietnamese Embassy in Japan showed its hope that the case related to the murder of a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl last year will be handled strictly and a proper sentence will be given to the murderer. Yasumasa Shibuya, a 46-year-old Japanese national, is accused of murdering Le Thi Nhat Linh, a third grader living in Matsudo town. (Source: Asahi Shimbun/VNA)Nguyen An Tien, First Secretary in charge of community issues at the embassy made the statement on June 4. Tien was also present at the trial for Yasumasa Shibuya, a 46-year-old Japanese national, which began on the same day. The trial is forecast to be prolonged with debates focusing on clarifying whether evidence is persuasive enough to charge him with the murder.
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June 04, 2018 12:45 UTC
Local authorities reject a series of FDI projects
Local authorities reject a series of FDI projectsVietNamNet Bridge - The authorities of many cities and provinces throughout the country have simultaneously launched ‘purification operations’ and sent notices with the aim of discovering “disappeared” enterprises. The projects were registered by investors from many different countries and territories, including the US, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. HCM City regularly examines the implementation of projects registered in the city to revoke licenses of projects which were not implemented as committed. HCM City regularly examines the implementation of projects registered in the city to revoke licenses of projects which were not implemented as committed. To date, the HCM City People’s Committee has annulled 577 projects and reduced the land area allocated to 10 projects.
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June 04, 2018 09:00 UTC
Four more years for Vietnamese official
Four more years for Vietnamese officialA Vietnamese representative at the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and Pacific (MOWCAP), has been re-elected as Vice Chairperson of the committee. Dr Vu Thi Minh Huong (second in red) at a MOWCAP meeting in China. The MOWCAP official, a former director of the State Records Management and Archive Department of Viet Nam, has a master’s degree and PhD in history. Huong made a large contribution to strengthening the co-operation in the archives sector between Viet Nam and France as well as teaming up with other international archives organisations. MOWCAP, an agency controlled by the International Advisory Committee (IAC) under UNESCO, was set up in 1998 in Beijing, China.
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June 04, 2018 06:56 UTC
Grab now has more rivals than ever before
Grab now has more rivals than ever beforeVietNamNet Bridge - Grab has announced a strategy on developing an ecosystem of services, from ride-hailing services and food ordering to lending. Grab has announced a strategy on developing an ecosystem of servicesMulti-billion dollar marketFrom an e-hailing app, Grab has made great steps forward, providing many different services. The non-cash payment market, according to Grab, is worth $500 billion in South East Asia. The total number of Grab downloads has reached 95 million all over South East Asia. However, the analyst said, by expanding its business, Grab would have to compete with more rivals who are ‘powers’ in their fields.
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June 04, 2018 06:00 UTC
Defence Minister welcomes RoK counterpart in Hanoi
Defence Minister welcomes RoK counterpart in HanoiMinister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich has lauded the official Vietnam visit made by Defence Minister of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Song Young-moo, saying that it will create stronger changes in bilateral national defence. Minister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich (R) receives his RoK counterpart Song Young-moo. During talks with Minister Song Young-moo following a welcome ceremony in Hanoi on June 4, Lich said the visit will facilitate the effective implementation of the Joint Vision Statement on Defence Cooperation through 2030 signed in April 2018 between the two defence ministries. Concluding the talks, the two defence minister witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on logistics support in the United Nations peacekeeping mission, natural disaster humanitarian and support between the two defence ministries. Minister Song Young-moo is in Vietnam from June 3-5.
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June 04, 2018 05:26 UTC
VN Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index sees sharp rise
VN Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index sees sharp riseThe Viet Nam Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose by 1.2 points to 53.9 in May, signalling continued improvement in the country’s business conditions. Nikkei’s IHS Markit reported on June 1 that new orders rose at a faster pace than in April and the fastest pace in 14 months, mainly boosted by strong exports. Suppliers’ delivery times continued to lengthen marginally and purchasing managers in the survey blamed it on raw material shortages. “A record rise in new export orders is the key highlight in the latest Nikkei Viet Nam Manufacturing PMI, and is helping drive growth across the sector. Manufacturers are more willing to accept a lower profit margin to stimulate demand for goods and services, he added.—VNS
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June 04, 2018 05:03 UTC