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V. League club agrees to compensate Italian coach

February 27, 2021 by e.vnexpress.net

“We will follow FIFA’s verdict in this case,” Pham Nguyen Hong, director of Thanh Hoa Province Culture, Sport and Tourism Department and chairman of Thanh Hoa Football Federation, said.

After being sacked by Thanh Hoa for underwhelming results at the start of V. League 2020, Lopez brought the arbitration to FIFA. The 47-year-old coach claimed Thanh Hoa had violated the two-year contract he signed with the club previously by not compensating him following its termination.

After nearly a year, FIFA awarded the case to Lopez and his assistant, forcing Thanh Hoa to pay them $187,000. The club will have to complete the payment within 45 days or be banned from signing any new players, domestically or internationally and in the worst case, demoted.

Thanh Hoa will not bring this case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), since their winning chance is thin. If the club fails to make a case, they would have to pay another $30,000 in court fees. Previously, they filed an appeal against Senegalese player Idrissa Sega Cisse but lost. As a result, Thanh Hoa still had to pay Cisse $58,420 in compensation and $20,000 in court fees.

Thanh Hoa is currently waiting on Lopez to provide them the necessary details in order to complete the transaction.

The club’s new sponsor stated it would not pay for this case since it happened before it came on board. Therefore, the responsibility belongs to Thanh Hoa Football Federation.

Before coaching Thanh Hoa, Lopez had managed many academy squads for Italian clubs like Atalanta and ACF Fiorentina as well as clubs in Eastern Europe and Asia.

V. League club lose another case in FIFA’s dispute resolution chamber

February 9, 2021 by e.vnexpress.net

FIFA handed the win to Cisse after putting out a 10-page report of the arbitration, which said his claim is “admissible and partially accepted.” Accordingly, the club will have to pay Cisse $58,420 in compensation.

Thanh Hoa filed an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after FIFA’s decision. The cost for this case will be $2,000 plus 1.5 percent of the disputed money ($58,420), according to CAS regulations.

Cisse came to Thanh Hoa for trial and signed with the club in November 2019 with a monthly salary of $8,500, plus a contract fee of $85,000 per year, half of which would be paid at the start of the season and the rest following the 25th round of the season.

Although Cisse said he had successfully completed his medical exam on Nov. 5, 2019, Nguyen Van De, the club’s president at the time, decided to end the contract with the 31-year-old on Jan. 7, 2020, stating his thigh injury would not heal in time for the new season.

According to Cisse, De met him on Dec. 31, 2019 to convince him to sign a mutual termination agreement but the player refused to do so. Then a week later, De told him that he is not allowed to train with the team or access team facilities. He also claimed he only received $3,000 of his November salary, and that his December 2019 and January 2020 salaries were still outstanding.

The club said they had terminated Cisse’s contract after his medical examination in November. They also claimed Cisse had breached the contract by submitting a complaint to Vietnam Football Federation and accused him of only attending a few training sessions since November 2019. They also quoted part of the contract, which reads:

“In case for any reason the Player does not maintain the level of playing skillfulness and/or physical conditions to the satisfaction of the Club, the Club on the sole basis of the opinion of the Club’s Professional Council and Training Board has the right to unilaterally reduce the salary, the bonus and other compliments or terminate this Contract without having to compensate the Player for such early contract termination.”

However, FIFA’s dispute resolution chamber concluded “the validity of a contract may not be subject to successful medical examinations and that a club wishing to employ a player has to exercise due diligence and carry out all relevant medical examinations prior to entering into an employment contract.” Therefore, the chamber decided the contract had been “tacitly terminated by the parties’ actions.”

Of the $58,420 Thanh Hoa have to pay Cisse, $42,500 equates to 50 percent of the contract fee ($85,000) he was supposed to receive when the season began, $5,500 for November salary, $8,500 for December and $1,920 for January, calculated until the date of contract termination.

FIFA also stated Thanh Hoa would have to pay Cisse within 45 days or they shall be banned from signing any new players, domestically or internationally for a maximum of three transfer windows or until the due amount is paid.

Thanh Hoa FC are also involved in another arbitration with Italian coach Fabio Lopez after sacking him without contract compensation last year. Lopez said FIFA has ruled him as the winner of this case and the expected amount that Thanh Hoa would have to pay him and his assistant is around $200,000.

Vietnam proposes COVID-19 vaccination for UN peacekeepers

February 13, 2021 by vietnamnews.vn

HANOI– Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý has emphasised the need to offer COVID-19 vaccine to peacekeepers, particularly those at high risk, such as medical workers at field hospitals and forces operating in areas severely hit by the pandemic.

He underlined the responsibility and role of host countries as well as the importance of close coordination between UN missions and the host countries in ensuring security and safety for peacekeepers and COVID-19 vaccination for them during an informal discussion on the Initiative on Action for Peacekeeping (A4P) and COVID-19 vaccine on February 12.

The Ambassador said Việt Nam was committed to the United Nations (UN)’ peacekeeping operations and efforts towards improving peacekeeping effectiveness.

Quý called on the international community to provide suitable resources to fulfill political commitments, strengthen partnership between the UN and regional and sub-regional organisations, promote women’s empowerment and participation, and ensure security and safety for peacekeepers.

The discussion was co-chaired by the Republic of Korea, Ethiopia and Norway with the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support Atul Khare, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Martha Helena Lopez and more than 50 ambassadors and deputy ambassadors of UN member states in attendance.

The A4P was initiated by UN Secretary-General António Gutteres on March 28, 2018 to strengthen peacekeeping by spurring collective action by all peacekeeping stakeholders and foster political commitments to peacekeeping.

The initiative includes a set of 45 mutually-agreed commitments endorsed by more than 150 member states across eight areas. VNS

World News in Brief: February 9

February 9, 2021 by en.nhandan.org.vn

* Two more dead bodies have been retrieved in glacier-hit India’s northern hilly state of Uttarakhand since Tuesday morning, an official at the local disaster management office said. The total number of dead bodies recovered so far has risen to 28, as 178 people are still missing.

* No new locally-transmitted confirmed cases of COVID-19 were reported Monday across the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said Tuesday. A total of 14 new confirmed cases arriving from outside the mainland were reported on the same day.

* South Africa will start its immunisation campaign with Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after data showed AstraZeneca’s shot offered minimal protection against mild-to-moderate illness from the dominant local virus variant.

* More than 2.93 million children in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to the latest data of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association.

* The European Union has approved the first shipment of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to Japan, the minister overseeing Japan’s vaccination programme said, as the country aims to start vaccination by mid-February.

* The French Health Ministry said 1.92 million people had received a first injection of the COVID-19 vaccine since the start of the vaccination campaign, while 296,265 second injections had been administered to date.

* India’s COVID-19 tally rose to 10,847,304 on Tuesday as 9,110 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, said the latest data from the federal health ministry. According to the official data, the death toll mounted to 155,158 as 78 COVID-19 patients died since Monday morning.

* Mexico’s economy could grow as much as 5 percent in 2021 as it recovers from the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday.

* Australia has fewer than 50 active cases of COVID-19, official data released on Tuesday showed, the lowest number in nearly two months.

* Italy should be able to vaccinate at least 10 million people per month from Easter, Medicines Agency AIFA director general Nicola Magrini told daily Corriere della Sera in an interview published on Tuesday.

* The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 3,379 to 2,291,924, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday. The reported death toll rose by 481 to 62,156, the tally showed.

* Anyone entering the United Kingdom from Tuesday will need to be tested for COVID-19 on the second and eighth day after their arrival, an ITV reporter said.

* The number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care in French hospitals reached 3,363 on Monday, the highest in more than two months, while hospitalisation figures as a whole rose for the second day running.

* Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stressed he was working to ensure more vaccine shipments.

* The governing body of the Chicago Teachers Union agreed to allow its 28,000 rank-and-file members to vote on a tentative deal with the third-largest US school district to gradually reopen classrooms.

* Canada’s most populous province of Ontario said on Monday it would extend a stay-at-home order in Toronto and nearby suburbs by two weeks, but residents of three largely rural public health regions can leave their homes starting on Wednesday.

* Brazilian biomedical institute Butantan plans to vaccinate a city’s entire adult population of about 30,000 people against COVID-19 to test whether it lowers the infection rate.

* Nigeria has not yet found the South African variant of COVID-19 in its population and will continue with plans to distribute the AstraZeneca vaccine.

* Six militants including a Taliban key commander have been confirmed dead as government forces backed by fighting planes struck a Taliban hideout in Qaisar district of Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province on Tuesday, a statement of the national army said.

Social distancing campaign by VTV24, Casper Vietnam goes viral

April 27, 2020 by hanoitimes.vn

The Hanoitimes – Thousands of people, including famous artists and celebs, have joined the campaign that acknowledge frontline workers.

A photo posting campaign with hashtag #Conseonha (I will stay at home) – a partnership between by VTV24 and Casper Vietnam JSC – has attracted the participation of thousands, including celebrities and expats.

The campaign marks the participation of many celebs. Source: Casper Vietnam

The campaign has soon gone viral as it has inspired a large number of people with an aim to response to the government’s social distancing orders and acknowledge frontline fighters.

Miss Vietnam and runners-up. Source: Casper Vietnam

So far, more than 122,000 photos have been made available online from individuals, including Miss Vietnam Do My Linh, Luong Thuy Linh, and Tran Tieu Vy, Jenifer Pham, runners-up, singers like Dam Vinh Hung, Minh Quan, Ngoc Anh, Cao Thai Son, Ho Quynh Huong, actors namely Hong Dang, model Vu Thu Phuong, and a number of MCs.

An expat, famous artists and singers join the campaign. Source: Casper Vietnam

By which, Casper Vietnam will donate VND10,000 (43 US cents) for every video or photo posted with #Conseonha (I will stay at home) written on paper, card, or on the photo towards the national Covid-19 fund.

Thanks to the dissemination by VTV24, a unit of Vietnam Television station, the donation, which Casper Vietnam considers part of its corporate social responsibility, may amount to VND10 billion (US$430,000) by Casper Vietnam JSC, an exclusive distributor of Casper branded products in the Vietnamese market.

The campaign attracts hundreds of participants. Source: Wayne Worrel

Responding to the campaign initiated on April 4 and will last until April 30, Wayne Worrell, an English teacher living in Hanoi for 10 years, has joined the campaign and called for the participation of other expats and locals.

He met with Casper as he saw a need for greater support. Wayne Worrell thought “it was his duty to bring this to everyone’s attention” and said “it takes less than a minute to do and to support the frontline fighters.” As a result, he collected more than 500 photos in two days as “a positive way bringing greater unity”, he told Hanoitimes .

Wayne Worrell has been known for his dedication to the previous campaign title “Vietnam We Thank You – Việt Nam Cố Lên” that conveys touching thank you messages to frontline workers and “Vietnam Needs You” – a blood drive in March.

Vietnam imposed nationwide two-week social distancing requests from April 1 and extended the period by a week. Health experts said that the practicing of the social distancing has worked as the country confirmed no new coronavirus cases within a week in a row (on April 16-23).

World News in Brief: February 28

February 28, 2021 by en.nhandan.org.vn

* Mainland China reported six new COVID-19 cases on Feb. 27, down from 10 cases a day earlier, the national health authority said on Sunday. The National Health Commission said in a statement all of the new cases were imported infections. Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in mainland China stand at 89,893, while the death toll remains 4,636, according to the statement.

* Russia reported 11,359 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, bringing the national tally to 4,246,079. The coronavirus crisis centre said that 379 more deaths of coronavirus patients had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, which pushed the official Russian death toll to 86,122.

* Cuba surpassed 100 COVID-19 related deaths in a month for the first time, the country’s Ministry of Public Health reported on Saturday. With 102 fatalities from COVID-19 so far, February has already become the deadliest month on the island since the onset of the pandemic last March, the ministry added.

* US President Joe Biden on Saturday urged the Senate to quickly pass the US$1.9-trillion COVID-19 relief package, which was approved by the House early Saturday morning amid unanimous Republican opposition.

* Exactly a year after New Zealand recorded its first coronavirus case, the biggest city of Auckland woke on Sunday to a second lockdown this month, as authorities try to rein in a cluster of the more contagious UK variant.

* The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 7,890 to 2,442,336, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday. The reported death toll rose by 157 to 70,045, the tally showed.

* The US government on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated in the coming weeks and setting the vaccine up for additional approvals around the world.

* Brazil registered 1,386 COVID-19 deaths on Saturday and 61,602 additional cases, according to data released by the nation’s Health Ministry. The nation has now registered 10,517,232 total confirmed cases and 254,221 deaths due to the virus.

* France on Saturday reported 23,996 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in the space of 24 hours, down from 25,207 the previous day, data from the health ministry showed. The figures showed that 186 people had died in hospital with the coronavirus, after 286 on Friday.

* Mexico registered another 783 coronavirus fatalities on Saturday, bringing the overall death toll in the country to 185,257, according to health ministry data. The ministry’s data also showed an additional 7,246 confirmed cases, for a total of 2,084,128 cases.

* Italy reported 280 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday against 253 the day before, the health ministry said, while the daily tally of new infections declined to 18,916 from Friday’s 20,499. Some 323,047 tests for COVID-19 were carried out in the past day, compared with 325,404 previously, the ministry said.

* A total of 19.7 million people in Britain have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, official data released on Saturday showed. Britain also reported a further 7,434 cases within the previous 24 hours, and 290 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.

* Republic of Korea reported 356 more cases of COVID-19 as of midnight Saturday compared to 24 hours ago, raising the total number of infections to 89,676. Eight more deaths were confirmed, leaving the death toll at 1,603. The total fatality rate stood at 1.79 percent.

* Schools in the occupied West Bank will shut down for 12 days in an effort to stop a sharp rise in coronavirus variant infections, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said on Saturday.

* South African Department of Health on Saturday said the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out is going well with a total of 63,648 people vaccinated in a week since the program started.

* India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday launched one Brazil satellite and 18 co-passenger satellites from its launching centre in south India’s Andhra Pradesh state, confirmed an official statement.

* Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Saturday that he would press for a deal to get legal guarantees for workers from Mexico and Central America when he speaks with his US counterpart Joe Biden on Monday. He estimated that the United States needs another 600,000 to 800,000 workers per year.

* Iran on Saturday condemned US air strikes against Iran-backed militias in Syria, and denied responsibility for rocket attacks on US targets in Iraq that prompted Friday’s strikes. Washington said its strikes on positions of the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbollah paramilitary group along the Iraq border were in response to the rocket attacks on US targets in Iraq.

* Authorities in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Saturday said the death toll in the dam disaster has risen to 72 and the search for missing people was underway.

* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi held talks on Saturday with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah in Cairo on bolstering bilateral ties in all area, said the Egyptian presidency in a statement.

* The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthi group said on Saturday it had thwarted a ballistic missile attack by the Houthis on the Saudi capital Riyadh, and destroyed six armed drones launched towards southern Saudi cities.