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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told UK lawmakers Monday that posting content featuring anger and hate "is the easiest way to grow" on the social media platform as she urged better regulation. Haugen, who earlier this year shared a trove of internal documents alleging Facebook knew its products were harming children's mental health, argued the platform was "unquestionably" fuelling hate. Haugen said Facebook used "engagement-based rankings" prioritising the most clicked — and invariably divisive — content. "It pushes you to the extremes and it fans hate," she told a panel of British MPs probing regulatory options, weeks after she testified to US Congress. "Anger and hate is the easiest way to grow on Facebook... bad actors have an incentive to play the algorithm, and they figure out all the ways to optimise Facebook." Haugen worked for companies including Google and Pinterest before starting at the world's largest social media platform in 2019 with the hope of helping …

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MUSIC & PERFORMANCES HCMC- New play for children to be staged at dance school May 9, 3pm HCM City Dance School, 155 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street, D3 The play is based on the short story collection for children The World’s Worst Children, by English bestselling author David Walliams. The collection revolves around five beastly boys and five gruesome girls. The performance will feature young actors from the Dragonfly Youth Theatre. Tickets: VND150,000 and can be bought at https://forms.gle/RMVEpMT7wmi1X2Fa7. French musical ‘Les Misérables’ tours Mid-April - June. April 16-18, Hanoi Opera House, 1 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi EXHIBITION Hanoi-I’m Feeling Lucky Hanoi-The Subtle Moves Ninh Thuan Province-Exhibition of Ninh Thuan - Quang Nam Cham culture Until May 15, Displaying nearly 80 artifacts, including photos, statues, pottery, over 1,500 tools, traditional handicrafts, costumes, jewellery, …

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Passenger buses at Giáp Bát station in Hà Nội. The transport companies are planning to operate at their maximum capacity to compensate for the sales lost in the last three months. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hiếu By Mai Hương HÀ NỘI — As the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted the implementation of Việt Nam’s economic development plans, the National Assembly (NA) and Government have been proactively and urgently deploying stimulus packages to quickly restore the economy and leverage growth. The latest Resolution 406/NQ-UBTVQH15, issued by the National Assembly on October 19, is regarded as a correct and timely policy, and was well received by enterprises. The Resolution offers support for enterprises and individuals affected by COVID-19 through tax reductions with a total value of up to VNĐ21.3 trillion (US$926 million). The beneficiaries will enjoy direct tax reductions which is considered more practical than the extension of tax payments in previous support packages. …

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Electronics components being manufactured at 4P Limited Co in the northern province of Hung Yen. — VNA/VNS Photo Pham Kien Viet Nam’s electronics industry, an increasingly important sector of the country’s economy, continues to grow despite the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). Amid the pandemic, the sector brought home US$77.58 billion over the past nine months of 2021, statistics from the General Department of Customs showed. Of this, the export of handsets and components contributed $41.02 billion, up 11.5 per cent year-on-year. Among major export markets were China with a turnover of $9.8 billion, up 52 per cent, the US with a value of $7.09 billion, up 1.1 per cent and the EU with $5.56 billion, down 18 per cent. Meanwhile, the export value of electronics, computers and components topped $36.56 billion, surging 13.6 per cent over the same period of last year with $9.3 billion from exports to the US, up 26.5 …

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Medical workers at HCM City’s People’s Hospital 115 and Hung Vuong and Thu Duc hospitals receive a donation of more than 50,000 Fami milk packs from Vinasoy on the occasion of Vietnamese Women’s Day on October 20. — Photo Courtesy of Vinasoy Vietnam Soya Products Company (Vinasoy) has donated more than 50,000 Fami milk packs to medical workers at the People’s Hospital 115 and Hung Vuong and Thu Duc hospitals in HCM City to mark Vietnamese Women’s Day, October 20. It was done as part of a campaign called ‘Yeu thuong la se chia’ (To love is to share). Vinasoy, established in 1997, ranked among the five largest soymilk companies in the world for three continuous years until 2020, according to GlobalData UK, which provides unique data, expert analyses and solutions to companies in the world's largest industries. It set up a soybean research and application centre in 2013. — VNS …

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Major Bùi Thanh Thuyết with her sons before departing to support health workers in COVID-19 hotspots. — VNA/VNS Photo Major Bùi Thanh Thuyết, a 37-year-old doctor at the 108 Military Hospital, prepares for her latest departure to support frontline teams in the fight against COVID-19. Since the COVID-19 pandemic first appeared in Việt Nam in February 2020, Major Thuyết has headed a team responsible for taking samples and sending them for testing. The work was hard and there was a high risk of infection, but she and her colleagues were steadfast, collecting and analysing samples as quickly as possible. She was recently sent to support frontline teams at the epicentre of COVID-19 in Bắc Giang Province. "We have to stand very close to people to take samples from their throat and nose. Our actions taking samples often make people cough and choke, which causes a high potential risk of spreading the virus," Thuyết told Tin Tức (News) newspaper. "We always …

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Ha Thanh Hau of Thu Duc City said she has gotten used to working from home during five months of social distancing. She is just one of many office staff in big cities like Hanoi and HCM City who want to continue remote working when social distancing comes to an end. Office staff working from home in HCM City. Hau is a single mother to a six-year-old girl, who still has to stay at home and learn online instead of going to school. Hau said working from home allows her to have more time to take care of her daughter, monitor her learning and keep up with the housework. As the pandemic is still not over she does not want to hire a domestic helper to take care of her daughter. “I prefer to work from home for a while longer, until my daughter is allowed to go back to school,” she said. Nguyen Ha An, who works in an office in Hoan Kiem District in Hanoi, said she has asked her boss to allow her to continue working from home after social distancing ends in Hanoi. An …

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Foreign remittances to HCM City in the first nine months of the year increased by 22 per cent. – Photo vietnamplus.vn HCM CITY – Foreign remittances to HCM City in the first nine months of the year were worth US$5.1 billion, a 22 per cent increase year-on-year. Nguyễn Hoàng Minh, deputy director of the State Bank of Việt Nam’s HCM City branch, said the growth rate is impressive considering the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy. Overseas Vietnamese have faced difficulties travelling abroad or back to Việt Nam for the past two years due to the pandemic, and so “they might be having more savings than before,” he suggested. Most of the remittances was money sent back by overseas Vietnamese to their families to help them get through the pandemic or to invest in business activities, he said. The main sources remained the US, Australia, Canada, and Europe, he said. Total remittances this year could increase by 12 per cent from last year’s $6.1 billion, he said. …

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EXHIBITION Hanoi- Exhibition on typical Vietnamese women throughout history Until May 30,2022 Hoa Lo Prison Relic An exhibition displaying the images of typical Vietnamese women throughout history. Gute Aussichten – New German Photography 2021 Oct 22 – Nov 22, 08 am – 08 pm Photo contest about Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park Entries are being invited for a photography contest on Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park. Both Vietnamese and foreign photographers aged 18 and above are eligible to take part in the competition. Entries must be high-resolution photos depicting natural landscapes, forests, caves, native flora and fauna species and people’s daily life taken by professional cameras or smartphones inside the Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park. They must be submitted to the contest’s official website https://anh.phongnhakebang.vn or via the email [email protected] before November 15. Online …

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Workers in a seafood factory in southern Bình Dương Province. The EU is among the largest export markets for Vietnamese seafood. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Foreign direct investment (FDI) is to continue flowing into Việt Nam from Europe in the medium to long-term thanks to the EU-Việt Nam Investment Protection Agreement (EVIPA), which was ratified in August last year, experts said. A year later, two-way trade and investment have seen significant progress. Việt Nam-EU trade has increased by 11.9 per cent year-on-year to reach US$54.6 billion. By the end of September this year, EU members were running 2,242 projects in the Southeast Asian country with a total investment registered of $22.2 billion, 5.58 per cent of all foreign investment in Việt Nam. The agreement, which focuses on the liberalisation of non-direct investments and the procedure for settling disputes between investors and the State, replaced the 20 previous bilateral investment agreements between Việt Nam and 21 …

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