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A view of the National Assembly discussions on Monday. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The National Assembly continued their working session on Monday, with discussions centred on the amendments to the Law on Criminal Procedures which is set to be voted on for adoption in this session. The amendments are mostly about realising Việt Nam’s commitments when it acceded to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and making changes to adapt to the COVID-19 era. The CPTPP said member countries’ relevant authorities could initiate legal action against violations of industrial property rights or trademarks without the need for a lawsuit from a third-party or from the infringed rights' holder. This is in conflict with the current law on criminal proceedings. Most agreed that changes to the law are needed to fit CPTPP provisions, but the handling of violations of geographical indications (as part of the industrial property rights category) – …

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(Illustrative photo: SGGP) The Road-Railway Traffic Police Division under the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Public Security (PC08) yesterday said that owners of all business vehicles have to perform the procedures of changing their license plate color from white to yellow in advance December 31, 2021. After the review process, around 50,000 business vehicles in the city have not had been performed the procedure of changing their license plates. The PC08 required collectives and business vehicle owners to promptly contact the registration agencies to perform the procedure as regulated. Individuals and enterprises have to fill in all the information on the vehicles registration certificate. As for the businesses, it is obligated to attach an official letter with a list of vehicles and accurate license plates. It is mandatory to fill in the registration form for the vehicles owned by those businesses that have the demand of changing license plates and registration …

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The HCMC traffic police have granted vehicle registration certificate without transfer application or vehicles with many owners to residents from now until December 31. According to the PC08 , vehicle users without transfer applications or vehicles with many owners can arrive at the agency to carry out the procedure of changing vehicle ownership and submit the appropriate documents following the regulations. Accordingly, those users have to declare the detailed vehicle purchasing process, eligible vehicle reception and guarantee the vehicle origin. At the same time, the users have to submit the vehicle registration certificate, the transfer documents of both the owner holding the vehicle registration certificate and the latest seller (if possible). As for the registration procedure, the PC08 guided the vehicle users to contact the registration agencies in the places where they are living to submit the registration application, registration fee documents as regulated, …

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The retail price of pork at the markets declined by VNĐ50,000 per kilo to VNĐ80,000-120,000 depending on the type of pork. Photo laodong.vn HÀ NỘI — A sharp reduction in pig prices on the domestic market at present is causing difficulties in restoring the pig production industry after the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The selling price of live hog is now only VNĐ35,000-36,000 per kilo, causing farmers to lose some VNĐ1.5 million per pig. In addition, now traders buy only 5-10 pigs each time compared to 30-50 pigs in the past, said Nguyễn Văn Chiến, a pig farmer in Bình Dương Province. Chiến is still struggling to sell pigs though the price of live hog is very low, his farm has hundreds of pigs that need to be sold, vov.vn reported. The same situation was also reported at other farms and if that continues, the farmers would not have the opportunity to implement repopulation, Chiến said. Now, this is also occurring at farms of large livestock …

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Economic experts say that for over 30 years of development, Vietnam has not yet built a strong team of private enterprises which play the role of a "launch pad" for the country's economic development. The report on "Strengthening the private sector’s capacity in the new period" published recently by the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) shows an increasing number of private enterprises in the list of the top 500 largest enterprises in Vietnam in the past five years. Six private corporations are included in the list of large groups in Asia and the world. In addition, the private sector contributes up to 40% of the country’s GDP and creates millions of jobs. It has an increasingly important position of in the Vietnamese economy. In 2015-2020, the number of newly established private enterprises increased steadily every year, from about 70,000/year on average in the period of 2006-2014, to 120,000 in the period of 2015-2020. In 2011, there were about …

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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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Darby had a brief stint in charge of the Vietnamese national women's team. — Photo laodong.vn Peter Cowan That Roy Hodgson is revered in Sweden rather than his home country says a lot more about England than it does the coach or the Scandinavian country. If it didn’t happen in the English top flight after 1992, it’s not worth knowing about for fans and pundits alike, whether you revolutionised the professional game in another country or not. If Roy Hodgson must suffer the indignity of being remembered for his struggles with a limited England team rather than his many successes overseas, what chance does Steve Darby have of some well-deserved recognition in Blighty? Not that the Liverpudlian is desperate for acknowledgement in his home country, at least judging by his recently released biography. The Itinerant Coach – the Footballing Life and Times of Steve Darby was written by Antony Sutton of the Jakarta Casual blog fame and tells the story of Darby’s career as a player …

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Vietnamese President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Monday beat the ceremonial drum to commence the start of the new schoolyear at the People’s Security Academy in Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Monday underlined the target to build a modern and elite People’s Security force with firm political, ideological, and moral strength in line with the goal set in the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. Addressing a ceremony to celebrate the 75th founding anniversary of the People’s Security Academy, the State leader stressed that the academy staff and students must be deeply imbued with the viewpoint that the mission to protect national security is under the absolute and direct leadership of the Party, the concentrated and united governance of the State. Addressing the event, the State leader noted that the academy has maintained solidarity and creativity to overcome all difficulties and challenges, completing its mission in training …

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Irrigation work in Bình Định Province. The province is preparing for the 2021-2022 winter-spring rice crop. Photo nongnghiep.vn HÀ NỘI ­– Localities in south-central coastal and Tây Nguyên regions needed to sufficiently prepare irrigation water sources for the 2021-2022 winter-spring rice crop to ensure the cultivation schedule, said Lê Thanh Tùng, vice director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Department of Crop Production. The areas at risk of drought should switch from three crops to two, or arrange a suitable production schedule to avoid drought and salinity. They should also apply farming techniques to limit the impact of drought and salt water intrusion on rice areas, Tùng said during a meeting reviewing the 2021 summer-autumn and autumn crops and plan for the 2021-2022 winter-spring crop in the south-central coastal region, which was held in Hà Nội yesterday. Localities had to promote the conversion of rice areas that were likely to suffer water …

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A boat's crew casts a net into the seemingly clean waters off Japan's Izu peninsula, but not to catch fish -- they are scooping up microplastics to learn more about the pollution's impact on marine life. Tiny floating fragments from plastic packaging, synthetic clothing and fishing nets have proliferated over the past four decades, and are now found in every part of the world's oceans -- even the deepest trench. The planet's seafloor is littered with an estimated 14 million tonnes of microplastics, according to a study released last year, and scientists say more research on them is urgently needed, including their effect on ecosystems, the food chain and human health. So a team of French and Japanese researchers is analysing samples from the archipelago's coastal waters to study how microplastics make their way into the sea, and how much seeps into the ocean floor. They are also examining the so-called "plastisphere", where micro-organisms live among discarded plastic. "It's …

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