IPU values ties with Vietnam: IPU Secretary General
IPU values ties with Vietnam: IPU Secretary GeneralThe Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and Vietnam share a long-standing, sound relations based on mutual trust and respect, stated IPU Secretary General Martin Chungong. IPU Secretary General Martin Chungong (L) and Vietnamese National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim NganHe made the statement in an interview with Vietnam News Agency at the outset of the 138th IPU Assembly (IPU-138) and related meetings in Geneva, Switzerland, from March 24-25. Over the years, relations between the Vietnamese National Assembly and other parliaments have been strengthened. In October 2007 at the 117th IPU Assembly also in Geneva, Switzerland, Vietnam’s NA was elected to the IPU Executive Committee - the forum’s highest body - for the first time. The Vietnamese delegation to the meeting is headed by National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.-VNA
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March 23, 2018 10:52 UTC
Viet Nam Futsal League to begin on March 31
Viet Nam Futsal League to begin on March 31VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam Futsal League season is scheduled to kick off on March 31 and will conclude on April 22, the event’s organising board has announced. Six players of six teams taking part in the Viet Nam Futsal League. They include Thang Long Warriors, Hanoi Buffaloes, Danang Dragons, Saigon Heat, HCM City Wings and Can Tho Catfish. There will be a total of 19 matches in Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang. In the opening matches on March 31, Thang Long Warriors will meet Danang Dragons and Hanoi Buffaloes will face HCM City Wings.
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March 23, 2018 10:30 UTC
Exhibition held to promote the memory of Sapa
Exhibition held to promote the memory of SapaVietNamNet Bridge – Artist To Ngoc Thanh doesn’t paint from his mind. “My childhood is those days following my dad traveling to Viet Bac (Northen Vietnam) military base,” he recalls as his 19th solo exhibition opens. This latest exhibition, Duyen No voi Sapa (Predestined Love Tile with Sapa), features 63 carefully crafted works. They include oil paintings of landscapes, scenery and the people of Sapa. The exhibition is being held at the Exhibition Hall of Viet Nam Fine Arts Association, 16 Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem District and lasts until March 26.
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March 23, 2018 10:30 UTC
HCM City’s fire victims die from suffocation
HCM City’s fire victims die from suffocationVietNamNet Bridge – Victims of a deadly fire on Friday early morning at a HCM City’s apartment building died from suffocation, said Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Thanh Huong, deputy director of the city’s Department of Firefighting Police. Residents of the apartment have been shifted to block C of Carina Plaza and the opposite City Gate building for safety. The city’s leaders have asked authorised forces to ban residents from entering the scene to avoid possible collapse of concrete pieces. “It was too dangerous to allow suffocating residents to run out of the building or jump outside from the top floors,” said HCM City’s Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Thien Nhan. — VNA/VNS Photo Dinh HangAt some 1.30am, the apartment building of Carina Plaza residential area suddenly burst into flames.
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March 23, 2018 10:30 UTC
Getting to the art of the matter
Getting to the art of the matterAn exhibition featuring the work of Czech graphic artist Jiří Slíva will open to public from 3pm on March 26 at the Viet Nam Fine Arts Museum. Exhibition Café Nonsens features humorous drawings and lithographs, many inspired by the theme of cafés, one of Jiří Slíva’s favourite subjects. Entitled Café Nonsens, the exhibition features humorous drawings and lithographs with many inspired by the theme of cafés, one of Slíva’s favourite subjects. Jiří Slíva’s work displays the best of the Czech art of cartoons and book illustrations. Café Nonsens will run until March 30.
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March 23, 2018 10:30 UTC
Measles highly likely to break out in Vietnam
In 2017, the country has reported 141 measles cases mostly in the North. Dr. Duong expressed his concern of he possible outbreak of measles especially between kids under the age of 15 and infants below nine months old. The rate of vaccination in disadvantaged and mountainous distract and in industrial parks is very low ; accordingly it is highly likely that risk out measles outbreaks. This explains why many kids below nine months caught measles because they are not inherited good immune from their mothers. The Ministry of Health plans to provide vaccination for kids at the age of six months old.
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March 23, 2018 10:07 UTC
US’s antidumping duty ruling lacks legal basis: MARD
US’s antidumping duty ruling lacks legal basis: MARDThe US’s recent ruling to impose unprecedentedly high anti-dumping duties on tra fish fillets from Vietnam lacks a legal basis, said the Agro Processing and Market Development Authority (APMDA) under the Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). Accordingly, Vietnam’s frozen Tra fish fillets will be subject to antidumping duties of 2.39 – 7.74 USD per kilogramme. According to the agency, Vietnam’s tra fish exports to the US slid from 22.3 percent in 2016 to 19 percent in 2017. Impacts of the anti-dumping duty ruling and the catfish investigation programme of the US would worsen the situation. Earlier, the VASEP and domestic tra fish business also oppose the DOC’s unfair decision.-VNA
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March 23, 2018 09:33 UTC
Vietnam co-founds UN Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention
Vietnam co-founds UN Group of Friends on Drowning PreventionThe UN Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention made debut at an event co-chaired by the permanent missions of Vietnam and Fiji at the UN headquarters in New York on March 22. The event to debut the UN Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention on March 22Addressing the event, Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, head of Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the UN, stressed that drowning claims 360,000 lives a year across the globe, higher than malnutrition or maternal mortality. Statistics show that drowning usually occurs in low- and middle-income countries while the drowning rate is also higher among vulnerable groups. She noted that Africa has the highest drowning rate, but the highest child drowning rate is in the Asia-Pacific region. With the support of the Bloomberg Philanthropies and Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the UN Group of Friends on Drowning Prevention was founded by the permanent missions of Vietnam, Fiji, Bangladesh, Ireland, Tanzania and Thailand to the UN with a view to improving public awareness of and promoting support for drowning prevention.
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March 23, 2018 09:22 UTC
Former CEO of FPT ‘calls Vietnamese birds back’
Former CEO of FPT ‘calls Vietnamese birds back’VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Thanh Nam, former CEO of FPT, the largest domestic information technology group, now chair of Funix Online University, is calling on overseas Vietnamese talents to come back to Vietnam to do business. “It is a pity that many Vietnamese talents have left the country,” he explained. “We have successfully called some Vietnamese talents to return to Vietnam. In Vietnam, business opportunities are numerous,” he said. Vu said there are problems in Vietnam which affect the investment environment, but there are always two sides of the coin.
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March 23, 2018 09:11 UTC
New regulation imposes VND-billion fines for using ‘freebie' software
New regulation imposes VND-billion fines for using ‘freebie' softwareNew rules imposed by the Penal Code for software piracy, including crippling financial fines up to VND1 billion ($45,400), the suspension of operations, and so on, are expected to mitigate and hopefully terminate piracy in Vietnam. While infringements seem to have gone down from the VND2.5 billion ($113,636) in financial fines for software piracy in 2015, local software piracy remains rampant in different forms and degrees. According to VNCERT, one of the main causes of these incidents may be attributed to businesses using software of dubious sources, leaving their computers vulnerable to malware infection. “Over the years, the enforcement and protection of copyrights, property rights, and ownership rights for computer software have achieved impressive results. Nevertheless, computer software piracy is still a widespread issue with different forms and varying degrees of abuse.
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March 23, 2018 09:11 UTC
HCM City leader asks apartment fire checks after Carina Plaza visit
HCM City leader asks apartment fire checks after Carina Plaza visitSecretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan on March 23 requested screening all firefighting plans in all apartment buildings in the city while inspecting Carina Plaza apartment complex where a fire broke out, killing 13 people and injuring 28 others early on the day. Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City’s Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan inspects Carina Plaza apartment complexThe blaze broke out at 0:30 am from the parking basement, and its smokes suffocated 11 out of the 13 victims. Stressing the serious consequences of the fire, Nhan asked for drastic measures to tackle the consequences, as well as further investigations on firefighting work at Carina Plaza and other apartment complexes in the city. Visiting the victims and their families at Nguyen Tri Phuong hospital, he expressed his deepest condolences to families of the deceased. Carina Plaza is a high-end apartment complex including three buildings with 15-21 storeys and 736 apartments.
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March 23, 2018 08:48 UTC
Ceremony held to welcome RoK President in Hanoi
Ceremony held to welcome RoK President in HanoiPresident Tran Dai Quang and his spouse hosted the official welcome ceremony for the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s President Moon Jae-in and his spouse in Hanoi on March 23 morning. Meanwhile, the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport and the RoK Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport signed a MoU on cooperation in infrastructure, transport and transport technology development. The RoK Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport also signed another MoU on cooperation in urban construction and development with the Vietnamese Ministry of Construction. Also on March 23 morning, President Tran Dai Quang and Moon Jae-in visited the President Ho Chi Minh relic site. President Moon Jae-in is paying the first-ever State visit to Vietnam from March 22 to 24.
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March 23, 2018 07:41 UTC
Commercial banks still ailing from bad debts curse
Commercial banks still ailing from bad debts curseDespite significant efforts to resolve bad debts over the course of 2017, commercial banks will likely carry a total VND60 trillion ($2.64 billion) of bad debts into 2018. On December 31, 2017, collective bad debts at 13 randomly-surveyed commercial banks, including Vietinbank, Saigon Hanoi Commercial Bank (SHB), VPBank, Techcombank, and TPBank, mounted up to VND60.533 trillion ($2.66 billion), which was a 0.7 per cent rise against early 2017. Several market analysts asserted that, "Despite the favourable conditions provided by Resolution No.42/2017/QH14 on handling bad debts in credit institutions, commercial banks will likely carry a huge volume of unresolved bad debts from 2017 into 2018." 42/2017/QH14 on handling bad debts in credit institutions, commercial banks will likely carry a huge volume of unresolved bad debts from 2017 into 2018. Until the end of 2017, Asia Commercial Bank (HNX: ACB) was reported to have the lowest proportion of bad debts (0.7 per cent) among the randomly surveyed commercial banks.
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March 23, 2018 07:18 UTC
Trump replaces National Security Adviser HR McMaster with John Bolton
Trump replaces National Security Adviser HR McMaster with John BoltonPresident Donald Trump is replacing US National Security Adviser HR McMaster with Bush-era defence hawk and former United Nations ambassador John Bolton. Mr Trump tweeted to thank Gen McMaster, saying he had done an "outstanding job & will always remain my friend". Who is John Bolton? A strident neo-conservative, Mr Bolton helped build the case that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be wrong. Known for his walrus moustache, Mr Bolton does not appear to have greatly moderated his views since his last spell in government.
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March 23, 2018 06:56 UTC
Thrills and chills at Broadway's Frozen musical
Thrills and chills at Broadway's Frozen musicalAs the musical version of Disney's hit film Frozen opens on Broadway, reporter Elysa Gardner takes a trip to Arendelle with some excited fans. Their destination, technically speaking, was Times Square, where Disney's latest stage outing, an adaptation of its 2013 screen musical Frozen - the highest-grossing animated film of all time - was in previews. "I want to see what the characters look like in real life," said nine-year-old Margaux Knepper, from suburban Long Island. Other audience members got a kick out of Mattea Conforti, the super-perky actress who played Anna as a young girl at Saturday night's performance. There was also praise for the graceful Ayla Schwartz, who played young Elsa.
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March 23, 2018 06:00 UTC