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Smart Campus to Campus uses FUNiX's platform to cross-share learning materials and online courses amongst member universities. — Photo courtesy of FUNiX Gunma University in Japan has announced its next five-year strategy, with a focus on building a smart university connection system called Smart Campus to Campus (SCC). The project will be run on a platform provided by FUNiX (a member of FPT Corporation). SCC utilises FUNiX's platform to cross-share learning materials and online courses among member universities. FUNiX plays the role of a coordination centre; organising exchange activities and creating a vibrant international student community in an online environment. SCC also creates a facility that allows member universities to recognise each other's credits, and build a joint training programme that allows students to study and receive accreditation from different universities at the same time. Representatives from Gunma University and FUNiX shared that SCC is welcoming … [Read more...] about Viet Nam’s FUNiX provides a learning platform for international universities

Vietnam’s tuna exports to EU see strong surge thanks to EVFTA Vietnam exported 15,870 tonnes of tuna worth 73.33 million USD to the European Union in the first half of 2021, up 39.3 percent and 31.6 percent, respectively, against the same period last year, according to a journal published by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). The tuna shipments accounted for about 15.1 percent of Vietnam’s total seafood export value to the EU. In the second quarter of 2021, the country shipped 9,360 tonnes of tuna to this market, raking in 45.05 million USD, up 43.9 percent in volume and 59.3 percent in value from the previous quarter. The surges were attributed to tariff reductions granted to Vietnam’s tuna products under the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), which took effect on August 1, 2020. According to the MoIT, Vietnamese tuna was sold at 4.62 USD per kg on average to the EU in the first six months of the year, down 0.27 percent year on year. The global tuna prices … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS SEPTEMBER 25

Smart Campus to Campus uses FUNiX's platform to cross-share learning materials and online courses amongst member universities. — Photo courtesy of FUNiX HÀ NỘI — Gunma University in Japan has announced its next five-year strategy, with a focus on building a smart university connection system called Smart Campus to Campus (SCC). The project will be run on a platform provided by FUNiX (a member of FPT Corporation). SCC utilises FUNiX's platform to cross-share learning materials and online courses among member universities. FUNiX plays the role of a coordination centre; organising exchange activities and creating a vibrant international student community in an online environment. SCC also creates a facility that allows member universities to recognise each other's credits, and build a joint training programme that allows students to study and receive accreditation from different universities at the same time. Representatives from Gunma University … [Read more...] about Việt Nam’s FUNiX provides a learning platform for international universities

The inner workings of diversification in the trading sphere. Source: freepik.com Diversification basically allows traders to spread the risks associated with their positions. Trading small volumes of a number of different instruments at the same time instead of a large volume of one particular instrument can help to mitigate the effects of sudden volatility and unexpected movements. The goal of diversification in trading is essentially to allow a trader to avoid overexposure to any one particular instrument while mostly protecting potential profits. Doing so means that the effects of sudden spikes and plunges, which are not uncommon in derivatives markets, are much less pronounced. Having a basket of uncorrelated trades usually results in some of them making profits while others make losses. However, in many cases traders choose to trade a range of instruments that are somewhat but not very strongly correlated. For example, if a trader wanted to buy half a mini lot of gold, … [Read more...] about The inner workings of diversification in the trading sphere

'Delete Facebook' movement gains prominent backer, photo AFP "It is time. #deletefacebook," Brian Acton said in a tweet, using the hashtag protesting the handling of the crisis by the world's biggest social network. The WhatsApp co-founder, who now works at the rival messaging application Signal, posted the comment amid a growing uproar over revelations that Facebook data was harvested by a British political consulting firm linked to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. "Delete and forget. It's time to care about privacy," he said. Several websites offered tips on how to quit Facebook, while noting that the process is more complicated than it appears. "Delete and forget. It's time to care about privacy" Facebook offers users the option to "deactivate" an account for users who want to take a break and return later, or to "delete" the account and its data entirely. But Facebook noted that some data such as posts on friends' timelines might remain in the system … [Read more...] about ‘Delete Facebook’ movement gains prominent backer

Facebook has expressed outrage over the misuse of its data as Cambridge Analytica, the British firm at the centre of a major scandal rocking the social media giant AFP/LOIC VENANCE The proposed class-action complaint filed late Tuesday (Mar 20) night by Lauren Price, a Maryland resident, is the first of what could be many lawsuits seeking damages over Facebook's ability to protect user data, and Cambridge Analytica's exploitation of that data to benefit President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. "Every Facebook user has an interest in this lawsuit, and the enforcement of their privacy rights," John Yanchunis, a lawyer for Price, said in a phone interview on Wednesday. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, several hours after Facebook was blamed in a shareholder lawsuit filed in nearby San Francisco for the drop in its stock price after the data harvesting was revealed. Nearly US$50 billion of market value was wiped out in two days. Facebook … [Read more...] about Facebook, Cambridge Analytica sued in US by users over data harvesting