Nevertheless, Vietnam has actively implemented activities in response to climate change, developing its economy towards low-carbon development and green growth, and promoting the implementation of potential mitigation measures in the energy, industry, transport, agriculture and waste sectors, as well as improving the carbon sequestration capacity in the land use, land-use change and forestry sector. … [Read more...] about Vietnam determined to reduce GHG emissions by 9 percent in 2030
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Vietnam to launch competitive retail electricity market in 2023
In less than two decades, the country’s power sector evolved from fragmented companies with high technical and financial losses to an integrated power system, and then to an unbundled group of stated-owned corporations with sizeable participation of domestic and international private sector actors in power generation. … [Read more...] about Vietnam to launch competitive retail electricity market in 2023
Human rights viewed from illegal sales of personal information
For example, the definition of "Personal information" in the Law on Internet Security is brief, while the Government's Decree No. 52/2013/ND-CP on e-commerce provides specific, detailed points, which are difficult to see whether they are fully compatible with the provisions of the Law on Internet Security [7] or not. The Law on Consumer Protection 2010 uses the phrase "information of consumers" (Article 6) to imply "Personal information" of consumers, meanwhile, the Law on Internet Security and Decree No. 52/2013/ND-CP used the phrase "personal information" again. … [Read more...] about Human rights viewed from illegal sales of personal information
Newspaper photographer to display works at US-based exhibition
Hanoi (VNA) – Viet Van Tran, a photographer from the Lao Dong newspaper, has been selected to join others of a free-to-enter online Salon of Photography, entitled “The Connected World: 2020” capturing moments of time in the US and around the world this year. The event, a joint project between the Los Angeles Centre of Photography (LACP) and the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in San Diego to acknowledge the importance of photography and art in capturing historic world events, is scheduled to run from October 24 to December 31. Its 7-member jury selected 68 entries from 58 photographers for the exhibition out of those from 300 candidates around the globe. Van was the only Vietnamese at the event. His picture to be exhibited, titled “Noi am anh” (Obsession), captures the 6-year-old girl Khanh Han standing in front of a painting on the COVID-19 theme by her farther – painter Nguyen Tan Phat. The work was ranked among the top 20 best photos at the … [Read more...] about Newspaper photographer to display works at US-based exhibition