Viet Nam News WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump has crushed the most defiant display yet of official opposition to his immigration and refugee restrictions -- but resistance continued to spread on Tuesday, inside and outside the government. Trump’s swift dismissal of acting attorney general Sally Yates for refusing to defend his executive order capped a night of high drama, Washington-style, that drew comparisons with a flurry of urgent housekeeping by Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal. Trump came out fighting on Tuesday, hitting out at Democrats for stalling on the approval of his nominee for attorney general and the rest of his cabinet. "They should be ashamed of themselves! No wonder D.C. doesn’t work!" Trump wrote on Twitter. But as the president defended his move to bar entry for people from seven mainly Muslim countries and halt the US refugee resettlement programme, challenges were mounting on all sides -- from the United Nations to … [Read more...] about Trump faces wall of resistance to immigration order
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2011 ARA starting to heat up
The fourth Annual Report Award is heating up with 90 reports out of 560 initial entries from listed companies entering the final round of competition. The 2011 panel of judges will include six members coming from the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE), Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX), Vietnam Investment Review (VIR), Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics, ANZ Vietnam, and the Vietnam Association of Accountants and Auditors. The award ceremony is expected to take place in Ho Chi Minh City on July 5. Last year, 30 listed enterprises won awards out of 500 entries from both stock exchanges. The quality of business reporting by listed firms reportedly saw marked improvements since the award first introduced three years ago. The annual business report award, which aims to honour those listed companies making professional, transparent reports satisfying state authorities' and investors' information demands, was initiated and has been co-organised by the HoSE and VIR, with support from … [Read more...] about 2011 ARA starting to heat up
One day with public transportations in Seoul
(CPV) -Life is a circle; a continuing, interesting and variable experience, and as reported here by CPV journalist, Anh Tuan, from a long adventure in the South Korean capital of Seoul during September 2014, not unlike the circles and links of the many and varied means of public transportation in the city. Seoul features one of the most advanced and constantly expanding transportation infrastructures in the world. Its system dates back to the era of the Korean Empire, when the first streetcar lines were laid and a railroad linking Seoul and Incheon was completed. Seoul's most important streetcar line ran along Jongno, until replaced by Line 1, of the subway system in the early 1970s. Other notable streets in downtown Seoul include Euljiro, Teheranno, Sejongno, Chungmuro, Yulgongno, and Toegyero. Presently, there are nine major subway lines stretching for more than 265 kilometers. We, the 10 participants of the 2014 Kwanhun - KPF Press Fellowship Program (from nations that … [Read more...] about One day with public transportations in Seoul
Vietnam culture
Vietnam has an age-old and special culture that is closely attached to the history of the formation and development of the nation. Historians have shared a common view that Vietnam has a fairly large cultural community that was formed around the first half of the first millennium B.C. and flourished in the middle of this millennium. That was Dong Son cultural community. This culture attained a degree of development higher than that of others at that time in the region and had its own characteristics but still bore the features of Southeast Asian culture because of the common South Asian racial root (Southern Mongoloid) and the wet rice culture. Different development routes of local cultures in various areas (in the deltas of Red River, Ma River, Ca River and so on) joined together to form the Dong Son culture. … [Read more...] about Vietnam culture
Titanic sinking remembered 100 years on
The 100th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the iconic passenger liner Titanic is being remembered in ceremonies across the world Sunday, with descendants of the victims leading the tributes. Events marking the disaster started in Halifax, the Canadian port city from where ships sailed to retrieve bodies from the icy Atlantic waters and where 150 of Titanic's 1,514 victims are buried. The centenary, however, is a global event with artists, scientists and museums engaged in months-long preparations for commemorations in Britain, Canada, Northern Ireland and the United States. One century after Titanic's fatal encounter with an iceberg, more than 1,700 passengers on two cruise ships - the MS Balmoral from Southampton and the Azamara Journey from New York City - were at the site where the Titanic went down. The Azamara Journey emulated a distress call that was sent out by the Titanic. "Have struck iceberg ... We require immediate assistance," read the message. "Have struck … [Read more...] about Titanic sinking remembered 100 years on