Google, in collaboration with the Swiss-based international non-governmental organization Dariu, has officially launched the second phase of a project to offer gratis lessons in programming to students in Ho Chi Minh City and Vietnam’s remote regions. Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., a subsidiary of Google, held a ceremony to launch the second phase of the ‘Coding your future with Google’ project in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday morning. In the project’s first phase, which ran throughout the 2018-19 school year, nearly 1,300 students and 30 teachers in ten public elementary schools in the southern metropolis and the Mekong Delta provinces of Vinh Long and Tien Giang attended more than 10,000 hours of Scratch programming lessons. Scratch is a visual programming language that allows users to easily create interesting products by arranging given blocks that contain comprehensible codes. In its second phase, Google sets out to train 150,000 students and 350 teachers in … [Read more...] about 150,000 students to join Google-backed free programming courses in Vietnam
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Police hunt for suspects in motorbike robbery in Ho Chi Minh City
Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested a 15-year-old boy and are hunting for his accessories who attacked two local residents with pepper spray in District 7 before stealing their motorbike last week. Officers in the district confirmed on Sunday they had apprehended Nguyen Nhat Thien, 15, who resides in adjacent Binh Chanh District, for robbery. Thien, along with Nguyen Nhat Nam, 17, and two other suspects named Lam and Luan, scouted the streets on early Friday morning for prey, according to what the boy told police officers. At around 3:00 am, they spotted Tr., who was riding a motorcycle along Nguyen Van Linh Street in District 7 with his girlfriend riding pillion. Nam and Lam approached the victim on their motorbike and Lam, who sat on the backseat, snatched the woman’s handbag. As she resisted, her boyfriend lost control of the motorbike, causing the vehicle to take a tumble, sending them both to the ground. The robbers attacked the victims with pepper spray as they made … [Read more...] about Police hunt for suspects in motorbike robbery in Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center reviews its activities in 2019
The meeting was co-chaired by Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Defense Minister and the committee’s Chairman, and Aleksey Mikhailovich Medvedev, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. At the meeting According to a report delivered at the meeting, in 2019, the center fulfilled all plans set by the coordinating committee and science and technology missions assigned by Vietnam. The center has actively implemented the contents of the protocol amending and supplementing the bilateral agreement on the Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center signed in 2018. It has also developed its science and technology plans in line with the science and technology development direction of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defense and the Vietnamese State while contributing positively to national defense consolidation, economic development, and environment protection missions. The delegates highly appreciated the center's outcomes in … [Read more...] about Vietnam-Russia Tropical Center reviews its activities in 2019
Phu Yen targets $400 million budgetary revenue in 2020
Phu Yen envisages to count $200 million in total export value in 2020 The province determined that 2020 will be a decisive year in fulfilling its five-year socio-economic development plan for 2016-2020 and creating motivation for 2021-2025. Next year will also mark major political events, such as the 17th provincial Party Congress and the 13th National Party Congress, as well as celebration activities of Phu Yen's 45th year since liberation. Leveraging comprehensive assessments of the advantages and disadvantages the province would face in the forthcoming year, Phu Yen People's Committee has set up key targets: 8.35 per cent growth in the province's gross regional domestic product (GRDP), in which agriculture, forestry, and fisheries will see 3.5 per cent growth; industry and construction 13.2 per cent, and services 7.5 per cent. Phu Yen envisages reaching $200 million in total export value, VND9 trillion ($391.3 million) in total budgetary revenue, and VND22.3 trillion ($969.57 … [Read more...] about Phu Yen targets $400 million budgetary revenue in 2020
Border troops respond to World Environment Day
Accordingly, the units participated in cleaning beaches, planting mangrove forests, dredging sewers, tidying up the living environment, and instructing local people to practice the civilized life style and more. Troops and local youths clean up the environment. The campaign of the border guard units saw the participation of members of various departments, Party committees and unions in localities as well as a good number of youths, students and local people. It is expected that 55,000 tons of waste will be collected for disposal and livestock cages of 500 households will be moved further away from home. These practical activities aim to raise public awareness of environmental protection and change behavior of fishermen in the coastal areas toward the marine environment while promoting their responsibility for cleaning the sea. Earlier, the units also launched the "Cleaning the sea" campaign on June 3 and 4. Translated by Lam Anh … [Read more...] about Border troops respond to World Environment Day