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Professor Hirofumi Takada, Vice Chairman of the Japanese National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies , speaks to the Vietnam News Agency's correspondent. (Photo: VNA) Tokyo (VNA) – Vietnam’s development of a national database on assets and incomes is a great stride towards the formation of an effective mechanism against corruption, Professor Hirofumi Takada , Vice Chairman of the Japanese National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, has said. national database on assets and incomes , aiming to promote digitalisation and modernisation in management. anti-corruption law, Government Decree 130/2020/ND-CP dated October 30, and regulations on coordination among income and asset control agencies. VNA … [Read more...] about Japanese professor lauds Vietnam’s development of national database on assets, incomes

Antibody therapies are offering promising treatment breakthroughs for cancer and other illnesses, generating greater investor interest more than 20 years after they were first commercialised. Antibodies are proteins that recognise foreign substances, known as antigens, attaching themselves to them to alert the rest of the human immune system. In 1975, scientists Georges Koehler and Cesar Milstein discovered how to produce them in a laboratory, which later earned them a Nobel Prize for medicine. Dozens of synthetic antibodies have since been developed. New antibody treatments to be used with chemotherapy have arrived on the scene in recent years. Most recently, a clinical trial of an antibody developed by pharmaceutical groups Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca caught the attention of leading cancer specialists gathered at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual congress in Chicago this month. The treatment, Enhertu, was already authorised for breast cancer patients … [Read more...] about New antibody therapies fight cancer, drum up investment

LONDON -- Major global biodiversity loss could cause enough economic damage by the end of the decade to severely cut more than half of the world's sovereign credit ratings - including China's, the first major study on the issue has warned. The research published on Thursday by a group of British universities looked a range of scenarios, including one where a partial collapse of key ecosystems savaged nature-dependent industries such as farming and fishing that some economies rely on. It estimated that the detrimental impact would result in 58% of the 26 countries studied facing at least a one notch downgrade of their sovereign credit rating. As ratings affect how much governments have to pay to borrow on the global capital markets, the downgrades would result in between $28 to $53 billion of additional interest costs annually. "The ratings impact under the partial ecosystem services collapse scenario is in many cases significant and substantial," the report said, adding that … [Read more...] about Mass biodiversity loss would slash global credit ratings, report warns

More and more universities have priortised or enrolled students who have international foreign language certificates. (Photo: Vietnam Plus) Hanoi (VNA) – University leaders have suggested students spend more time learning foreign languages to get good jobs after graduation. Foreign language certificate - a criterion in enrolment More and more universities have priortised or enrolled students who have international foreign language certificates, especially English, for the 2021-2022 academic year. The universities, both public and private, have set English as an admission criterion. Universities in the public security sector, for example, will for the first time admit new students based on their high school performance and English competency. Accordingly, applicants eligible for the universities’ enrolment plans must have IELTS Academic or TOEFL iBT or HSK certificates. The Hanoi Medical University said it will also include English as one of the criteria in its … [Read more...] about Universities’ foreign language requirements: a boost to foreign language teaching, learning ​

The deliberations and scrutiny of the WHO's response to the outbreak follows concerns over how the United Nations agency and governments worldwide handled Covid-19 in early 2020. A "public health emergency of international concern" is WHO's highest level of alert. The agency does not declare pandemics, but it did start using the term to describe Covid-19 in March 2020. For many governments, that - rather than WHO's earlier declaration of an emergency in January - was the moment they began to take real action to try to contain Covid, which proved to be too late to make a difference. Monkeypox does not spread nearly as easily as Covid and there are vaccines and treatments available, unlike for the coronavirus when it emerged. But it has still raised alarm. The case count from the current outbreak outside of Africa has topped 3,000 in more than 40 countries, according to a Reuters tally - largely among men who have sex with men - since it was first reported in May. There have been … [Read more...] about WHO eyes decision on monkeypox ’emergency’, Africa says it’s long overdue

Officials from the Việt Nam embassy in Japan and Đông Á University join a ribbon-cutting ceremony of the representative office of the university in Tokyo, Japan. Photo courtesy of Phương Chi ĐÀ NẴNG —  Đông Á University, the first private university in the central region of Việt Nam, has officially opened a representative office in Tokyo, Japan, to boost high-quality human resources and education cooperation between Việt Nam and Japan. Chairman of the university council Lương Minh Sâm said the university had appointed the Japanese professor Yasuhiro Yamada as the representative in Tokyo, and the office will be a rendezvous for more than 300 students from the University in Japan and other Vietnamese students and workers. Sâm said the debut of the representative office in Japan was part of the strategic education programme in supplying high-quality human resources for both Vietnamese and Japanese markets. He said the appointment professor Yamada, who had experience as chairman … [Read more...] about Đà Nẵng university opens office in Japan