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UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers (Photo: UNICEF) Hanoi (VNA) - Violence against women and children is never acceptable and has to be made visible and reported in protection of the group, emphasised UNICEF Chief Representative in Vietnam Rana Flowers. Flowers made her remarks while talking to the press regarding a campaign to enhance public awareness of women and children protection and spread the message of zero tolerance for violence against them. Co-launched by the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA), UN agencies, and the Australian Aid on July 5, the initiative was built on a 2020 campaign to raise public awareness and change individual and societal behaviour, helping prevent violence before it begins. According to the organisers, the campaign calls for attention and support from the whole community to create a violence-free environment in families, schools and community as well as on cyber space. … [Read more...] about Violence against women, children never acceptable: UNICEF Chief Representative

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Wednesday reported an additional 913 Covid-19 infections, raising the country's total tally to over 10.75 million. Illustrative photo According to the ministry's report, most of the new patients are locally-transmitted cases confirmed in 42 out of 63 localities in the country. As of Wednesday evening, the number of Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to over 10.75 million. On July 6, an additional 7,626 more patients recovered from the disease, raising the number of recoveries in the country to over 9.73 million. On Wednesday evening, no deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded, the country's total fatalities stay at 43,089, accounting for 0.4 per cent of total infections. By July 5, Vietnam had injected more than 234 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, including over 8.85 million given to children aged 5 to 11. Speaking at a Monday meeting, deputy minister of health Nguyen Thi Lien Huong said that the … [Read more...] about Additional 913 new Covid-19 infections reported on Wednesday

The Group of 20 includes Western countries that have accused Moscow of war crimes in Ukraine and rolled out sanctions, but also countries like China, Indonesia, India and South Africa that have not followed suit. The gathering will be the first time that foreign ministers from some of the world's top economies meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov since Russia attacked Ukraine in February. Speaking ahead of the G20 meeting that runs from Thursday to Friday, German foreign ministry spokesperson Christian Wagner said it would not be a "normal summit" nor "business as usual". Germany holds the presidency of the Group of Seven industrialized nations and would coordinate in Bali over how to respond to Lavrov in light of the war in Ukraine, he said. Top officials from Britain, Canada and the United States walked out on Russian representatives during a G20 finance meeting in Washington in April. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken would be an active participant at the … [Read more...] about Not ‘business as usual’ for G20 foreign ministers meeting in Bali

Specifically, by the morning of July 6, Dream Republic Joint Stock Company and Sheen Mega Joint Stock Company have not yet paid a total land-use fee of VND7.82 trillion to the tax agency. According to regulations, after the above deadline, the Ho Chi Minh City Auction Service Center will prepare documents to report the above results to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and submit them to the People's Committee of HCMC on the cancellation of the auction results. According to regulations, if it is more than 180 days from the time the tax agency signed the notice, i.e., July 6, the auction winner still has not paid the land-use fee, the auction result will be canceled. At the same time, these two enterprises will not receive a total of VND319.2 billion of deposit (20 percent of the starting price). Previously on May 6, Thu Duc City Tax Department decided to coerce by deducting money from the bank accounts of these two enterprises. This decision is valid for 30 days. … [Read more...] about Two Thu Thiem land auction winners still fail to pay land-use fees

Illustration. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The number of unemployed people in Vietnam stood at nearly 1.1 million in the first half of 2022, down 47,600 year-on-year, said an official from the General Statistics Office (GSO) at a press conference on in Hanoi on July 6. There were around 410,300 people aged 15 – 24 without a job during the period, accounting for 36.8% of the total figure, Pham Hoai Nam, Director of the GSO’s Department of Population and Labour, told the press conference held to announce the Q2 and H1 labour market updates . The unemployment rate among persons of this age group living in urban areas was 9.21%, a year-on-year drop of 0.76 percentage point, he added. Both unemployment and underemployment rates declined in Q2 compared to the previous quarter and the same period last year, GSO Deputy General Director Nguyen Trung Tien said. The Q2 employment went up quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year, with a considerable rise reported in the service … [Read more...] about Unemployment, underemployment drop in H1

A Lockdown Mode being added to iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers is intended to counter threats from a thriving industry that provides sophisticated espionage tools to governments. "While the vast majority of users will never be the victims of highly targeted cyberattacks, we will work tirelessly to protect the small number of users who are," Apple head of security engineering Ivan Krstic said in a blog post. The tech giant is upping the bounty it pays researchers for uncovering vulnerabilities in its software when it comes to Lockdown Mode, raising the maximum reward to $2 million. Concerns over digital snooping have been fueled by media outlets reporting that Pegasus spyware made by NSO Group in Israel was being used by governments to surveil opponents, activists and journalists. Apple is suing NSO Group in U.S. federal court, saying the Israeli firm's spyware was used to attack a small number of iPhone users worldwide. "State-sponsored actors like the NSO Group spend … [Read more...] about Apple devices getting beefed-up defense against spyware