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Billionaires' fortunes rebounded as stock markets recovered despite a continued recession in the economy. Their total wealth hit $11.95 trillion in December 2020, equivalent to G20 governments’ total COVID-19 recovery spending. The road to recovery will be much longer for people who were already struggling pre-COVID-19. When the virus struck over half of the workers in poor countries were living in poverty, and three-quarters of workers globally had no access to social protections like sick pay or unemployment benefits. … [Read more...] about Wealth inequaity increases after COVID-19

Addressing the UN Security Council’s online meeting on January 25 (US time) to review the implementation of Resolution 2532 on COVID-19, Anh called on countries to strengthen their commitment to international co-operation, promote multilateralism, support the UN’s central role, and build a resilient and stable global health system towards effectively controlling the pandemic. … [Read more...] about Việt Nam calls for UNSC’s leadership in fighting COVID-19

Research teams are required to make commitments on the number of scientific research works to be published, useful solutions, technology transfer contracts as well as the numbers of postgraduates to be trained and the numbers of students to join the teams. … [Read more...] about Universities attract talents for research teams

Prospects remain bright over dented remittance inflows Based on forecasts from the World Bank as well as information from commercial banks and organisations working on inward remittance transfer, the inward remittance volume to Vietnam may have reached as much as $15.5 billion in 2020, placing the country ninth among the top 10 inward remittance recipients worldwide. Vietnam averaged a 35.6-per-cent hike a year during 2016-2020 compared to the 2011-2015 period. … [Read more...] about Prospects remain bright over dented remittance inflows

Japan's government said Tuesday it still planned to recruit 10,000 medical personnel for the virus-delayed Olympics, despite the heavy strain on the healthcare system caused by a third wave of infections. Opposition politicians grilled the government over the plans in parliament, as medical associations raised the alarm about dwindling capacity. Japan's government and Olympic officials have insisted the Games will open as scheduled this July, despite rising infections at home and abroad, and sinking domestic support. And in parliament on Tuesday, Olympic Minister Seiko Hashimoto said the government was still committed to a plan to secure thousands of medical staff for the Games. "We are trying to secure necessary medical staff of around 10,000, on the premise of asking doctors and nurses that each of them work about five days during the Games period," she said. Games organisers are still discussing the exact medical provisions needed and how to "deal with Covid-19 infections" at … [Read more...] about Tokyo seeks 10,000 medical staff for Olympics despite virus surge