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Although the governments of US President George W. Bush and Barack Obama had presented Vietnam close to 100 million USD for an ecological cleaning programme, in 2016, the cost of cleaning a stretch of the dioxin-contaminated Passaic River in New Jersey was estimated at 1.4 billion USD, the article pointed out./. … [Read more...] about AO/dioxin still causes sufferings for generations of Vietnamese: German daily

The first human trial of COVID-19 vaccine Nanocovax begins in Vietnam on December 17 with the first three volunteers, receiving injections at the Military Medical Academy. (Photo: VNA) She said that the Military Medical University gave 75mcg of Nanocovax, a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Vietnam, to three volunteers on January 12. This is the highest dose of the vaccine given to volunteers during the first stage of human trials. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM NEWS JANUARY 17

There is a strong and underappreciated case to be made that China and the United States are the global economy’s essential G-2 pivot, the world’s two foremost economic powers forming a win-win partnership, with a shared vested interest in the maintenance of the status quo. But there are also longstanding, ingrained Chinese practices – its protectionism in certain sectors, insistence on joint ownership agreements for foreign investors, disregard for intellectual property – that are incompatible with such a G-2 accommodation, not to mention with China’s World Trade Organization commitments. A temperamental U.S. president may be the one forcing the issue, but it is time for China’s leaders to decide once and for all whether their nation is to remain a rogue power challenging the established order, or a prime benefactor and co-guarantor of that order. It can’t continue to be both. … [Read more...] about Commentary: What Trump’s new trade pact signals about China

According to Derek Grossman, a senior analyst at the RAND Corporation, a Washington-based think tank, Vietnam could see a slowdown in foreign investment if the Biden administration were to restore Chinese tariffs to previous levels. However, he added that “some analysts see the movement of supply chains away from China, especially by Japan, as more of a natural development than one simply enforced by the US.” … [Read more...] about Biden keen to promote a strong America united

Biden's armored black limousine had deposited him at the end of his new street -- Pennsylvania Avenue -- after his swearing in and a visit to Arlington National Cemetery to pay respects to US military war dead. But he popped the surreality of the moment with a quip as he made the short walk to the White House with Jill, followed closely by Vice President Kamala Harris and her family. "It feels like I'm going home," the president told an NBC News reporter, who was among the dozens of journalists recording each step from a grandstand. The sound of military marching bands was still hanging in the air while a group of Secret Service agents in long coats scanned the scene. Until shortly before his arrival, red dump trucks with "God Bless America" emblazoned on their sides served as security barriers to Pennsylvania Avenue. It betrayed the overwhelming security machine for Biden's extraordinary day, including miles of metal barriers, thousands of masked security forces and a … [Read more...] about Going home’: Biden’s surreal walk to the White House