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According to him, the provinces have strengths in agriculture, especially animal husbandry, so that the potential for cooperation with Vietnam is huge. Vietnam, Japan agree to step up security cooperationVietnamese Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. The consensus was reached at a meeting between Vietnamese Minister of Public Security Sen. Lieut. The two sides reviewed Vietnam-Japan cooperation in law enforcement, noting that the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security had sustained regular links with relevant Japanese agencies. The officials also touched on increasing the exchange of experts in specific areas in the coming time to maintain national security and social order and safety in both countries.
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June 02, 2018 01:52 UTC
Social News 2/6
Quang Ninh: Tourist arrivals pick up 26 percent in first five monthsTourist arrivals to the northern province of Quang Ninh hit 6.6 million in the first five months of 2018, an increase of 26 percent from the same period last year. Issues related to science and technology, social welfare and training will be highlighted at the conference. “Severe social stigma and discrimination may create barriers to accessing HIV testing and treatment services,” one transgender woman told the researchers. The provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Welfare launched the Action Plan for Children, with the aim to provide support for poor children and those who are victims of violence and abuse. Provincial leaders and representatives of local departments presented over 2,800 gifts to local children living in difficulties.
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June 02, 2018 01:30 UTC
Thai investors acquiring more retail market share
Thai investors acquiring more retail market shareVietNamNet Bridge - With well-known brands Big C, MM Mega Market, Robins, Nguyen Kim, B’s Mart, Lan Chi Mart and C-Express, Thai investors have a range of modern retail types in Vietnam, from shopping malls and supermarkets to home appliance centers and convenience stores. Thai investors have a range of modern retail types in VietnamIn 2015, just after four years of establishment, Central Group Vietnam (CGV), acquired 49 percent of stake of Nguyen Kim. With MM Mega Market alone, BJC has 19 shopping centers, 3 entrepots in Da Lat (fresh vegetables and fruits), Dong Nai (fresh pork), Can Tho (seafood) and two general storehouses that provide fresh food. Phidsanu Pongwatana, managing director of MM Mega Market, said the company is building the first pork entrepot in the north. According to the Foreign Investment Agency, the accumulative capital registered by Thai investors in Vietnam by March 2018 had reached $9.3 billion.
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June 02, 2018 01:30 UTC
Vietnam to reinforce defence ties with New Zealand, UK, Singapore
Vietnam to reinforce defence ties with New Zealand, UK, SingaporeVietnamese Minister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich had bilateral meetings with defence officials of New Zealand, the UK and Singapore on June 1 on the sidelines of the 17th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. Vietnamese Minister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich (R) meets with Defence Minister of New Zealand Ron Mark in Singapore on June 1Meeting with Defence Minister of New Zealand Ron Mark, Minister Lich expressed his delight at the recent development of Vietnam-New Zealand relations, including defence ties. At the meeting with Singaporean Defence Minister Ng Eng Heng, the Vietnamese official congratulated Singapore and its army on successfully organising the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Retreat and the ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Informal Meeting. The two ministers shared the view that over the past years, especially since the signing of the bilateral defence cooperation agreement in 2009, their defence relations have grown positively and resulted in initial practical outcomes. Minister Lich asked Singapore to support Vietnam when his country acts as ASEAN Chair in 2020.-VNA
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June 01, 2018 13:52 UTC
Vietnam forecast to be affected by 1-2 storms in June
Vietnam forecast to be affected by 1-2 storms in JuneOne or two storms or low pressure are forecast to appear in the East Sea and are likely to affect Vietnam’s mainland in June, according to the National Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Centre. June is the peak of the rainy season in the northern region, when heavy rains may cause flash floods and landslides in the northern mountainous region, it said. Heavy rain is also forecast in the Central Highlands and southern regions, along with dangerous weather conditions such as whirlwinds, hailstones and squalls. In the rest of the month, the temperature is forecast to be similar to that many years, with lower rainfall. Average rainfall in the northern and southern regions is equivalent to that of in many years, while that of the central region will be 20-50 percent higher than the previous years.
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June 01, 2018 13:07 UTC
$492mil. raised via G-bond auctions in May
raised via G-bond auctions in MayUp to 11.17 trillion VND (around 492.4 million USD) was raised during 20 auctions of government bonds in May, up 45.8 percent from the previous month, according to the Hanoi Stock Exchange. In the G-bond secondary market, the total volume of G-bonds sold by the outright method exceeded 760 million, worth more than 87.6 trillion VND (3.85 billion USD), down 25 percent month-on-month. Meanwhile, trading volume through repurchase agreements (repos) reached over 1.02 billion bonds valued at more than 104.8 trillion VND (4.61 billion USD), down 25 percent from April. Foreign investors made outright purchases of more than 4.7 trillion VND and outright sales of over 3 trillion VND. They made repo sales of over 235 billion VND but did not make repo purchases in May.-VNA
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June 01, 2018 12:45 UTC
President Tran Dai Quang receives Japanese lower house official
President Tran Dai Quang receives Japanese lower house officialVietnamese President Tran Dai Quang hosted a reception in Tokyo on June 1 for Keiji Furuya, Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Japanese House of Representatives, as part of his state visit to the East Asian country. President Quang proposed Furuya continue promoting exchanges and meetings among sectors and parliamentarian agencies of the two countries, while increasing exchanges between parliamentarians, especially young legislators. President asks for JICA support in key areasPresident Tran Dai Quang (R) meets JICA President Shinichi Kitaoka (Source: sggp.org.vn)President Tran Dai Quang has proposed that the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) continue working to increase Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam, focusing on large-scale infrastructure projects and human resources training. President meets Japan’s lower house speakerPresident Tran Dai Quang (right) and Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives Tadamori OshimaPresident Tran Dai Quang has urged Japan’s House of Representatives (lower house) and the National Assembly of Vietnam to intensify the sharing of legislative experience and further promote their role in the development of relations between the two countries. Parliamentary friendship alliance contributes to Vietnam-Japan tiesPresident Tran Dai Quang has hailed the active contributions of the Japan-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance to prompting the two countries’ extensive strategic partnership.
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June 01, 2018 11:00 UTC
Scholar awarded for preserving ancient writing system
Scholar awarded for preserving ancient writing systemThe Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation on May 31 presented the annual Balaban Award to Bui Xuan Duc, director of HCM City’s General Science Library. — Photo from facebook of VNPFHe received the award for his contributions to preserving the ancient writing system. The Balaban Award is named after John Balaban, a poet and professor of English in the creative writing programme in North California, the United States. The Vietnamese Nom Preservation Foundation was established in the late 1980s to standardise the Chu Nom script for use in computers and on the internet. With the advent of Quoc Ngu - modern Romanised script--- in the 17th century, the Nom script gradually died out, with the French colonial government ordering against its use.
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June 01, 2018 10:52 UTC
New book of poems for children launched
New book of poems for children launchedVietNamNet Bridge – “It’s storming outside/but no matter what it’s like/our family love will last forever/wall of love nothing can sever.”The book is a collection of 30 poems written in Vietnamese and English narrating stories of ordinary life and family love as well as containing moral lessons for children. The Wall of Love is one of the poems in a bilingual book that was released in HCM City on Thursday. Titled Good Morning, Mornings, the book is a collection of 30 poems written in Vietnamese and English narrating stories of ordinary life and family love as well as containing moral lessons for children. The poems describe the simple things in life, such as children going to school in the morning, colourful cakes that children love to eat, tears on plump cheeks when children are sad and a smiling face when a little kid has a nice dream. “When I write poems for children, I put myself in their position and think with childlike emotions.
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June 01, 2018 10:18 UTC
Hanoi’s air quality improves
Hanoi’s air quality improvesVietNamNet Bridge – Air quality in Hanoi has seen improvement in the first four months of the year, but not in all parts of the city. Growing more trees is one of the measures to improve the city’s air quality. It categorised Hanoi’s air quality in the first three months of the year as “bad” for people’s health. Amidst worries about the city’s air quality, environmental experts said that the city should try harder to get its observation data as accurate as it can in order to make better forecasts. Nguyen Duc Chung, chairman of the Ha Noi People’s Committee on Monday, told the department to make public all information about the city’s air quality.
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June 01, 2018 10:18 UTC
Buyer of legally protected turtles to be sentenced to two to seven years in prison
Buyer of legally protected turtles to be sentenced to two to seven years in prisonVietNamNet Bridge – A man who illegally purchased around 7,000 dead sea turtles several years ago is expected to be sentenced to two to seven years in prison, a more severe punishment than what was proposed last year. Hai said he did not make his purchases by cash but instead exchanged alcohol, beer and cigarettes for the sea turtles. In November 2014, inspectors at Khanh Hoa Province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, with other agencies, seized 2,230 dead sea turtles at Hai’s warehouse. The following month, they found thousands of dead sea turtles and 789 giant clam shells in a different location. Hai said that he had not sold products from the turtles’ bodies, and that he was not aware that sea turtles were protected by law.
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June 01, 2018 10:18 UTC
Celebrating Buddha’s birth in HCM City
Celebrating Buddha’s birth in HCM CityVietNamNet Bridge – Several religious activities through HCM City have marked the occasion of the Buddha’s 2,562th birthday, which fell on May 29 this year, the 15th day of the fourth lunar month. Vietnamese Buddhists and believers across the city have been organising the Buddha’s birth (Vesak) celebrations since the beginning of the week. These include the Buddha’s bathing ceremony, incense offerings, release of balloons and pigeons to pray for peace, and many humanitarian activities. All pagodas and temples in the city have been beautifully decorated with coloured lanterns and Buddhist flags. Colourful Hoa Dang slowly floating on the water.— VNS Photo Ngoc DiepReleasing Hoa Dang on the water.— VNS Photo Ngoc DiepA believer with a Hoa Dang praying for happiness.
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June 01, 2018 10:18 UTC
Over 100 Vietnamese nurses recruited in Germany
Over 100 Vietnamese nurses recruited in GermanyVietNamNet Bridge – A pilot project of Germany on training Vietnamese nurses has proved effective, as was reported at a seminar reviewing the project held in Berlin. Conducted by the German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ), the project on training Vietnamese nurses has proved effective.— Photo molisa.gov.vnThe seminar was organised by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Conducted by the German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ), the project has trained 200 Vietnamese nurses since 2012. Minister Counsellor at the Vietnamese embassy in Germany Nguyen Huu Trang highlighted cooperation opportunities between Vietnam and Germany, especially in labour training and exchange. During their visits to Vietnam this year, leaders of the German states of Hamburg, Bremen, Rheinland Pflaz and Mecklenburg Vorpommern proposed boosting labour and vocational training cooperation with Vietnam, including training of nurses.
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June 01, 2018 10:07 UTC
Ministry insists on ’99-year policy’, but economists oppose
MPI insists on '99-year policy'Pham Chi Lan, an economist, commented that it would be a bad idea to lease land for such a long time. Vietnam offers many investment incentives related to land leasing conditions, and land rental and transfer could be risks to sovereignty. “I strongly recommend removing the tentative provision about allocating land to investors for 99 years,” Lan said. It would be better to reconsider the ’99 year policy’ not only in the context of conditions of Vietnam, but also international integration. Explaining his view, Dung said this would be an outstanding policy of Vietnam to attract foreign investors.
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June 01, 2018 10:07 UTC
Vietnam’s most modern children’s hospital inaugurated
Vietnam’s most modern children’s hospital inauguratedThe City Children’s Hospital – the most modern of its kind in Vietnam – was officially inaugurated in Ho Chi Minh City on June 1 after four years of construction. Located at 15 Vo Tran Chi street, Binh Chanh district, it aims to become a modern pediatric hospital with medically complex subspecialties achieving national and regional standards. It is the first children’s hospital in Vietnam having all three components of cancer treatment: chemotherapy, surgery, and radiotherapy. Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien stressed the significance of the inauguration of the hospital on June 1 – International Children’s Day. She expressed her belief that the hospital will be Vietnam’s first modern pediatrics hospital whose services are on par with those of regional countries with advanced medicine.
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June 01, 2018 09:45 UTC