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Vietnam’s Minister of Finance has fired Tran Van Dung as chairman of the State Securities Commission (SSC) for committing serious wrongdoings during his work and assigned Finance Deputy Minister Nguyen Duc Chi to take charge of the SSC. The dismissal was announced in a decision signed on Friday by Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phoc, who also said his deputy Chi would run the SSC from the same day, pending a decision of the ministry on the SSC chairmanship. The ministry also issued its warnings to Vu Bang, former chairman of the SSC, Nguyen Thanh Long, chairman of the Vietnam Stock Exchange, and Nguyen Son, chairman of the Vietnam Securities Depository (VSD) for their mistakes and violations. Two days ago, the Central Inspection Committee issued a notice of removing Dung, 57, who became SSC chairman in 2017, from all Party positions for his serious infringements and shortcomings in his work performance. This supplied undated image shows Vietnamese Finance Deputy Minister … [Read more...] about Vietnam sacks top securities regulator for serious violations

Vingroup said recently it is no longer the parent company of GeneStory without mentioning how much stake it sold. The country’s biggest private company established GeneStory in March this year with a charter capital of VND102.3 billion (US$4.4 million), of which it accounted for 99 percent. According to GeneStory’s website, its CEO is Nguyen Duc Long, who is also the chief technology officer of the Vingroup Big Data Institute. It aims to provide "fast and comprehensive genetic testing services based on a large Vietnamese dataset, exclusively for Vietnamese people." It charges VND6.45-9.75 million ($278-420) for a test. … [Read more...] about Vingroup divests stake in genetic testing company

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has issued 14 million ‘COVID-19 vaccine passports’ to the general public since April 15. A month after its official rollout, the passport is now available on the national COVID-19 app PC-Covid and the Digital Health app. It has 11 fields of information: name, date of birth, nationality, the targeted disease, doses of vaccines received, date of vaccination, lot number of the vaccine batch, type of vaccine, vaccine product received, the vaccine manufacturer, and a code for the certification. Information on the targeted disease, vaccine, vaccine product or manufacturer is compatible with the values provided in the World Health Organization’s 'COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker and Landscape' and the 'Value Sets for EU Digital COVID Certificates' issued by the European Union. Data is stored in a QR code, which will expire after 12 months. Following their expiration, users will be notified and a new QR code will be created. People who do not have the … [Read more...] about Vietnam issues 14 million ‘COVID-19 vaccine passports’

Huynh Duc Linh, a Vietnamese physical education teacher, is pursuing his dream of teaching swimming to one million kids in Vietnam, spending the last six years teaching over 10,000 students. In 2019, Linh was informed of nine students from Nghia Ha Middle School in central Quang Ngai Province dying in a tragic drowning incident. Since then, Linh and his colleagues have tried to teach swimming skills to children, reaching their target of running courses for over 10,000 kids after six years. Recently, the government has called for far more actions to prevent drowning , making Linh and his team decide to pursue a bigger dream: teaching up to one million kids to swim. More than 2,000 under-16-year-old children drown a year in Vietnam, the World Health Organization cited an estimate in 2020. It’s not a rosy path Linh is the founder of Sapaga Company in Da Nang, a coastal city in central Vietnam, specializing in building swimming pools. Since he started the company, he … [Read more...] about Vietnamese PE teacher dreams of teaching 1 million kids to swim

Shanghai on Tuesday declared it had achieved "zero-Covid" across all its districts, sparking derision on social media as millions in China's biggest city remained under lockdown. Confronted with its worst outbreak since the beginning of the pandemic, China -- the last major economy still closed off to the world -- put the city of 25 million under heavy restrictions in early April. The government's insistence on squashing the Omicron variant-driven outbreak prompted rare protests and angry scuffles with authorities as Shanghai residents reject the prolonged confinement and food shortages. "All 16 districts of Shanghai have already achieved zero-Covid at the community level," Shanghai health commission official Zhao Dandan told reporters on Tuesday. That means none of the over 1,000 new infections recorded on Tuesday was detected outside of quarantined areas, city authorities said. Vice mayor Chen Tong said Sunday that the city would gradually reopen businesses starting this … [Read more...] about Shanghai says ‘zero-Covid’ achieved but millions still in lockdown

The Ministry of Health announced that it has issued more than 14 million COVID-19 vaccine passports to the general public, a month from its official rollout on April 15. A vaccine passport displayed on the PC COVID-19 app. Photo of the Ministry of Health. The passport is now available on the national COVID-19 app PC COVID-19 (available on both iOS and Android systems) or Digital Health (Sổ sức khỏe điện tử) apps. The vaccine passports have 11 fields of information: name, date of birth, nationality, the targeted disease, doses of vaccines received, date of vaccination, lot number of the vaccine batch, type of vaccine, vaccine product received, the vaccine manufacturer, and a code for the certification. Data has been encoded into a QR code. The code will expire after 12 months. Following their expiry, people will be notified, and a new QR code will be created. According to Nguyễn Bá Hùng, deputy director of the ministry’s Medical Data Centre many … [Read more...] about More than 14 million people receive COVID-19 vaccine passports