Author: Kevin Le

  Đông Hà City in the central province of Quảng Trị. VNA/VNS Photo QUẢNG TRỊ The central province of Quảng Trị hopes the completion of new coastal roads by 2025 will help drive socio-economic development. With a coastal line of 75 km and beautiful beaches, the province has huge potential to develop marine tourism and resorts. But according to authorities, a lack of good infrastructure is hindering opportunities for ports and the province to grow. In 2019, 23.5 km of road construction was completed costing VNĐ 630 billion, linking at Cửa Việt Bridge in Triệu Phong District’s Triệu An Commune…

  A member of the research team wears the prototype of disposable face masks invented from autolytic piezoelectric polymer sheet. — Photo vietnamnet.vn HÀ NỘI — A group of Vietnamese researchers at the University of Connecticut in the US have invented COVID-19 high-tech biological face masks and patches to deliver vaccines into the human body easily. Award winning Nguyễn Đức Thành, 37, and his research team, Nguyen Lab, used autolytic piezoelectric polymer sheets, which has been studied by themselves and applied in organ transplantation since 2018, to make a special type of face mask. The invention was launched to meet the…

In 2020, a Nokia executive teased a partnership between the company and the latest James Bond film to show off the latest Nokia smartphone of its time, which was 2019. The 007 movie No time to die Originally scheduled to hit theaters in April 2019 until the departure of the film’s original director and co-writer Danny Boyle resulted in delays. James Bond would be further pushed back after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was slated for release in April 2021 until a more recent delay was announced. A report of The sun cited industry insiders who knew…

 In general, Việt Nam’s foreign debts is under control. The information was released at a conference on national debt management held in Hà Nội on Tuesday. Việt Nam’s foreign debts is under control. Võ Hữu Hiển, the Ministry of Finance’s Deputy Director of Debt Management and External Finance Department, said over the past three decades, Viet Nam had gained many achievements and innovations in debt management, especially foreign debt management. Foreign capital sources had facilitated the opening of financial-credit relations with international organizations and foreign governments, making a great contribution to Việt Nam’s socio-economic development. According to the ministry, in…

  EVN engineers work on the national grid.  The National Load Dispatch Center (A0) asks  EVN i for more infrastructure to launch a competitive retail electricity market in 2021. — VNA/VNS Photo HÀ NỘI — The National Load Dispatch Center (A0) has asked Vietnam Electricity (EVN) to equip it with better infrastructure for the operation of a future wholesale and retail electricity market with more renewable energy resources. A representative of the centre said: “Wind and solar power plants have been put into operation on a large scale but data on their scale and generating capacity is not yet accurate.” The representative added that rooftop solar power,…

The Realme X7 and X7 Pro introduced last September will debut in India on February 4. The launch will air on Realme’s official YouTube channel and social media accounts starting at 12:30 p.m. IST (7:00 a.m. UTC). Realme has sent us a special media invitation for the X7 series launch in India. It includes a real MediaTek chip on which is written the text MT6853V with the indicator “TN”, associated with the Dimensity 800U. This confirms that at least one of the two smartphones will be powered by the Dimensity 800U. Chances are, the X7 will be equipped with the…

  The construction materials market is expected to recover this year with the property market’s bottlenecks removed and large public construction works expected. VNS Photo Văn Châu HCM CITY – HCM City is removing legal bottlenecks to the housing market and the Covid-19 pandemic is under control, factors that will revive its construction materials market whose annual peak season begins in the first quarter. Lê Hoàng Châu, chairman of the HCM City Real Estate Association, said it would recover from the first quarter since Việt Nam had done an excellent job of containing the pandemic, instilling…

Samsung’s latest and biggest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S21 Ultra, is already on its way for those who have pre-ordered one, and while you wait for yours, aren’t you interested in a good test drive? old-fashioned sustainability? Of course you are, and JerryRigAll is there to deliver, as always. Oddly enough, the scratch test reveals that Samsung shipped Zack’s unit with not one, but two screen protectors applied to the Gorilla Glass Victus, which we feel is overkill. And it’s also not something we’ve never heard of before as a practice in the mobile world, so maybe it was just…

  A child is given a vaccine at Đồng Tháp Province’s Centre for Disease Control. — Photo suckhoedoisong.vn HÀ NỘI — The expanded immunisation programme has helped Việt Nam control many infectious diseases such as wild polio, measles, rubella and diphtheria. No cases of wild polio were reported in 2020. This is the 20th year Việt Nam has successfully eradicated polio and also the 15th year of neonatal tetanus elimination, according to Associate Professor Dương Thị Hồng, deputy director of National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. The number of measles cases in 11 months of 2020 was 1,136, down sharply compared to…

 Most companies have remuneration policies for board of directors that are decided at annual board meetings, according to the 2020 Board Remuneration Survey Report conducted by Talentnet and Vietnam Institute of Directors. The structure of the remuneration includes base retainer fees, role fees (compensation for additional appointments and responsibilities), meeting fees (by number of meetings attended and meeting types), and additional ad-hoc fees. In the case of base retainer fees, chairpersons get 1.5-3 times the amount directors do, with the median values being VNĐ500 million (US$21,676) for the latter and VNĐ750 million ($32,515) for the former. A majority of businesses…