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Le Thai Ha has become the only female Vietnamese scientist to be named among the top 100,000 most-cited researchers in the world. Vietnamese female scientist Le Thai Ha is named among the top 100,000 most-cited researchers in the world. The list was compiled by Metrics Group, including professors Jeroen Baas, Kevin Boyack, and John P.A. Ioannidis from Stanford University. The group made use of citations from Scopus, an international scientific database, in order to catalog the 100,000 most-cited scientists out of more than 200,000 featured in its database. Ha, 34, is currently working as the managing director of the VinFuture Prize of the VinFuture Foundation. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) and Ph.D. in Economics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where she completed her Ph.D. within two years at the age of 24. Prior to joining VinFuture Foundation, Ha was the director of research and a senior faculty member at Fulbright School of Public … [Read more...] about Vietnam female scientist named among most influential globally

Scientists in Chile's Patagonia region are unearthing the southernmost dinosaur fossils recorded outside Antarctica, including remains of megaraptors that would have dominated the area's food chain before their mass extinction. Fossils of megaraptors, a carnivorous dinosaur that inhabited parts of South America during the Cretaceous period some 70 million years ago, were found in sizes up to 10 meters long, according to the Journal of South American Earth Sciences. "We were missing a piece," Marcelo Leppe, director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), told Reuters . "We knew where there were large mammals, there would also be large carnivores, but we hadn't found them yet." The remains, recovered from Chile's far south Rio de las Chinas Valley in the Magallanes Basin between 2016 and 2020, also include some unusual remains of unenlagia, velociraptor-like dinosaurs which likely lived covered in feathers. The specimens, according to University of Chile researcher Jared … [Read more...] about Scientists unearth megaraptors, feathered dinosaur fossils in Chile’s Patagonia

The days just before the Lunar New Year are also the busiest days for Cao Thi Tam, director of Tan Xuan Bamboo Shoot Cooperative 269 in Son La province. It is when her cooperative sells the most products, and she can pay the highest wages. Initiatives lift rural female development Tam is not a native to this land, but her and her family have lived and established a business in Tan Xuan for years. They understand the poverty of the people here, especially among the many ethnic women who have no jobs and limited opportunities. Tam’s family was always relatively well-off in the area, with income from a grocery store business. However, Tam harboured larger ambitions and wanted to support local people’s economic development to contribute to where her family lives. “Tan Xuan is a land with rich sources of agricultural materials, including bamboo shoots, but people often do not have enough to eat and wear. Many people go to the forest to dig a few kilograms of bamboo … [Read more...] about Initiatives lift rural female development

Climate extremes in the Amazon rainforest are directly affecting those in the Tibetan Plateau, scientists said Thursday, warning that the Himalayan region crucial for the water security of millions was close to a potentially disastrous "tipping point". Planet-heating pollution from human activities is raising global temperatures and scientists have said this is pushing crucial ecosystems and whole regions towards often irreversible changes. Vulnerable areas include melting polar ice sheets that could cause metres of sea-level rise, as well as the Amazon basin, where tropical forests are at risk of turning into savannah. But can one tipping point have a domino effect on another region? Recent research suggests this is already happening. Climate-driven changes in the Amazon basin have knock-on effects on the Tibetan Plateau 20,000 kilometres (12,500 miles) away, scientists in China, Europe and Israel reported in Nature Climate Change earlier this month. "We've been surprised … [Read more...] about Climate tipping points in Amazon, Tibet ‘linked’: scientists

Several weeks ago, doctors from the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion based in Hanoi were deployed in order to assist their colleagues in the south. Among them were female doctors and nurses who said farewell to their relatives as they departed to join frontline forces in various COVID-19 hotspots without knowing exactly when they would be returning home. Chu Thi Hong Anh, a nurse at the Department of Stem Cell Transplantation, lives with her husband and their small baby. She recalls that she received great support from her husband before volunteering to head south. “When I told my husband, he supported the idea and assured me that he would try his best to take care of the baby at home,” Anh says, “That helped ease my worry at first.” Upon arriving in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest COVID-19 hotspot, Anh and her colleagues were plunged into a real COVID-19 war, with shifts taking place around the clock and requiring intense work. Donning personal … [Read more...] about Heroic story of nurses joining COVID-19 fight in hotspot

Workers gathered at the sewing machine part factory on Friday to protest the negligible Tet bonus. The most-highly anticipated bonus for Vietnamese workers is traditionally given before the Lunar New Year ends and helps migrants travel home for the important holiday. The strike came after the company, which has been operating in Vietnam for 28 years, said that all workers who have been with the company for less than 12 months will only receive VND100,000 each. Those who have worked for the company for more than a year will get a bonus of 110% of their average monthly basic income (overtime excluded), according to the employer. This means that a worker with a monthly basic income of VND5 million will get a VND5.5 million Tet bonus. The company also said that it would raise workers’ salaries by only 2.25% this year. Nam, a 23-year-old who has been working at the company for nine months, said he needs a decent Tet bonus because his monthly basic income is less than VND5 … [Read more...] about 600 workers strike for better pay at Japanese company

At least 27 people have died in storms across the Philippines this month, authorities said Sunday, as forecasters warned of continued heavy rains in the disaster-prone country. Heavy downpours and flooding have plagued the nation's southern and central islands since the Christmas weekend, forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. Since the start of the year, at least three storms have killed 27 people across the country, the civil defence office said in a report on Sunday. Eleven people were reported injured and three are missing. The state weather forecaster PAGASA warned Sunday of heavy rains over the Bicol peninsula and Quezon province in the southern tip of the main island of Luzon. "Under these conditions, flooding and rain-induced landslides are likely in areas that are highly... susceptible to these hazards," PAGASA said in an advisory. More than 83,000 people are sheltering in evacuation centres, according to the civil defence office, and over 1,200 houses … [Read more...] about Death toll in Philippine storms rises to 27

The “Kitchen Gods Prequel - Kitchen Gods Family” program in the lunar New Year 2023 gathered veteran actors and actresses from both the North and South, namely Tu Long, Quang Thang, Van Dung, Kha Nhu, Huynh Lap, Quang Trung, Long Chun, and Vinh Pham. “Kitchen Gods Prequel - Kitchen Gods Family” program told stories of the families of Female Kitchen God and her sister in the past year. The humorous and dramatic developments of complicated relationship among members in the two families as well as the antagonism between the two generations made viewers unable to take their eyes off the screen. Besides, topicality stories were integrated in the program in a genuine and delicate way. “Kitchen Gods” is considered an indispensable spiritual dish of the Vietnamese people on the lunar New Year. The image of families gathering to watch “Kitchen Gods” program on the New Year's Eve has become a typical symbol of Tet. Launched in late 2020, TV360 quickly became the leading OTT application … [Read more...] about Viettel broadcast “Kitchen Gods Prequel – Kitchen Gods Family” program

Nestlé Vietnam has teamed up with the Dong Nai Labour Confederation to provide 1,000 gifts to union members and workers in difficult circumstances in the province. The company also coordinated with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Dong Nai to offer 500 Lunar New Year gifts to disadvantaged people. In addition, Nestlé Vietnam also participated in programmes to provide Lunar New Year gifts to poor and disadvantaged women and children in four border provinces, as well as workers in industrial zones in Hung Yen province. Other recipients were female workers in Ho Chi Minh City who cannot return to their hometown during the festive break; disadvantaged students who travel from Ho Chi Minh City to their hometowns for the holiday; and poor households, near-poor households, and orphans struggling since the pandemic emerged in 2020. Since December, Nestlé Vietnam has donated about 54,000 units of nutritional products to more than 8,500 people in provinces and cities across the … [Read more...] about Nestlé Vietnam supports 8,000 disadvantaged people for Lunar New Year

The support of a strong community Right from the start of the Paris Conference in May 1968 to the signing of the Paris Agreement on January 27, 1973, overseas Vietnamese in general and members of the Union of Overseas Vietnamese in France (present Overseas Vietnamese Association in France) in particular became a powerful force supporting the two Vietnamese negotiation delegations. The first thing that the Union of Overseas Vietnamese in France did was teaming with the General Representative (there was no embassy at that time) to find accommodation for the negotiation delegations. They also organized groups in charge of protecting the delegations, providing logistic supply and interpreting, among others. They provided information about the world situation, world opinion about the national struggle for the two delegations. In addition, they joined rallies, marches with French friends and those from neighboring countries to voice their support to Vietnam’s stance in Paris … [Read more...] about Road to victory: Part 3 – Special “corps”