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Over the past 25 years, ofi Vietnam has been recognized as one of the best workplaces in Asia, with commitments to promote gender equality in the workplace.

As one of the leading producers, processors, and exporters of nuts, spices, and coffee in the country, ofi Vietnam invests in its people to drive performance and productivity through a three-pronged approach, including employee engagement activities, diverse and inclusive culture, and talent development programs.

Some of these initiatives include building an inspiring and equal working environment for female employees through personal development programs aimed at uplifting and strengthening women leadership. The Globally Reaching ofi Women (GROW) and the Globally Lifting ofi Women (GLOW) programs provide critical skills for female employees and leadership skillsets through various training sessions.

"GROW program is a meaningful and practical program for all ofi's employees," said Nguyen Thi Loan, Procurement and Planning Manager for Nuts Business, ofi Vietnam. "GROW covers a wide range of topics, including soft skills, career development, mental health, and even personal care, etc. We gained confidence and learned new skills as a result of the program, which helped us advance in our careers. I really like the topic of career development and hope that there will be more internal workshops about this topic."

Meanwhile, Mai Thy, a human resources professional working in Green Coffee Business team of ofi Vietnam, is interested in the usefulness of GROW program. "Upskilling is important to make your skills relevant to the times, especially to empower women. GROW is like a forum with a lot of interesting topics for us to discuss, share and learn new things, such as big picture thinking or problem-solving skills," she said.

They are two of many employees joining 15 sessions of GROW activities in the past eight months.

Amit Verma, Country Head, ofi Vietnam, said as ofi Vietnam continues its trajectory in Vietnam and in the region, its three-pronged employee engagement approach is fundamental in maintaining and supporting sustainable growth.

"We remain committed to delivering fresh ideas, ingredients, and solutions to our customers, with a purpose in creating naturally healthy and delicious food and beverage products," he said, adding that ofi's visionary HR policies and strategies, leadership endorsements of inclusive practices and other people-centric initiatives are crucial in building a positive and welcoming workplace.

This has been reflected through consecutive wins of ofi Vietnam at the Kincentric Best Employers Award from 2019 to 2021, as well as at the HR Asia Best Companies to Work For in Asia from 2018 to 2022.

"To support our goals, purpose, and quality, we must continue to invest in our people, strengthen and improve our policies, empower our employees, and advocate inclusion habits to promote ofi as one of the best places to work in Vietnam," added Amit Verma.

ofi has emerged as a national winner in the 2022 United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles (UN WEP) Award for Vietnam under the Leadership Commitment and Action category.

The UN Women WEPs Award represents recognition of exemplary company efforts for gender equality aligned to the Women's Empowerment Principles. The WEPs are seven guiding principles providing a roadmap for a more equal, inclusive and sustainable future.

Usha Kakaria-Cayaux, Chief Human Resources Officer, ofi, said: "This latest award is a fantastic achievement from the Vietnam team. It demonstrates the impact of our global and local efforts in promoting Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (IDE) practices to encourage a safe and inclusive work environment. We believe that through strong leadership commitment to IDE, we will be able to create a positive workplace that fosters a sense of belonging for every ofi employee globally, enabling them to unlock their full potential and passion."

The UN WEP Award 2022 is an annual event organized by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and Vietnam Women Entrepreneur Council (VWEC). This year, the 2022 WEPs Awards were supported by the Australian Government, a long-time supporter of equality activities in Vietnam, including UN Women's work.

ofi has established the Inclusion, Diversity and Equality Council of ofi (IDEO), making IDEO a key organizational prerogative.

Featured programs include GROW (Globally Reaching ofi Women), which carries on the mission of uplifting women through a globally inclusive ecosystem. The program focuses on three pillars: career, culture and community to develop, connect and inspire ofi women locally and globally.

Another program, GLOW (Globally Lifting ofi Women), builds leadership strength across women workforce and develops a culture that actively leverages diverse competencies and perspectives to create breakthrough synergies.

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Over the past 25 years, ofi Vietnam has been recognized as one of the best workplaces in Asia, with commitments to promote gender equality in the workplace.

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Kidnapped American child rescued in Vietnam

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By Trung Le &nbspDecember 18, 2022 | 01:05 am PT

The Mount Vernon Police Department (MVPD) in Washington State, U.S., announced on December 16 that the boy with the initials "ND" has been back home with his biological mother in Seattle since earlier this week.

MVPD had launched an investigation into the kidnapping with support from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Homeland Security Investigations unit (HSI) and the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS).

According to a police post on Facebook, the boy had been placed in the care of foster mother Amanda Dinges by the Department of Youth and Family Services. But Dirges then absconded with the boy illegally, according to investigators.

Police said Amanda Dinges, 35, and her mother Amber Dinges, 60, had taken ND out of the U.S. on purpose, so they issued arrest warrants for the two suspects and charged them with kidnapping.

By November 29, investigators knew that Amanda Dinges had turned off her phone and was not at her permanent address.

After gathering information and talking to people who knew them, American police found out that the mother and daughter of the Dinges family were in Thai Binh Province.

On December 14, the boy was safely secured by DSS personnel and flown to Tokyo, Japan. The next day, FBI agents brought ND back from Tokyo to Washington so that they could reunite him with his family.

According to MVPD, Amanda and Amber Dinges are in Vietnam, and U.S. authorities are working to bring the two suspects back to the U.S. to stand trial.

On its Facebook page, MYPD thanked the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi and the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam for their help during the investigation.

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By Trung Le &nbspDecember 18, 2022 | 01:05 am PT The Mount Vernon Police Department (MVPD) in Washington State, U.S., announced on December 16 that the boy with the initials "ND" has been back home with his biological mother in Seattle since earlier this week.

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Argentina took the trophy home after defeating France at penalties in the World Cup final Sunday.

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Vietnam Airlines to resume China services

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There will be one weekly flight each from Ho Chi Minh City to Guangzhou and Shanghai and from Hanoi to Shanghai, the carrier said on its Facebook page.

Bamboo Airways on Tuesday launched its first service to China between Hanoi and Tianjin City.

The resumption of air services between the two countries comes as Chinese authorities gradually ease Covid requirements after sticking to their 'zero-Covid' policy for long.

China's national health authority said Wednesday that asymptomatic Covid-19 cases and people with mild symptoms could quarantine at home, a sign that China is preparing to live with the disease.

China used to be Vietnam's biggest tourism market until the pandemic intervened, with nearly 4.8 million Chinese visiting in 2019.

Some 36,000 Vietnamese nationals live in China.

In the absence of Chinese tourists, Vietnam only received 2.95 million foreign visitors in the first 11 months of this year, or just more than half the full-year target of five million.

The country opened its borders in March.

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There will be one weekly flight each from Ho Chi Minh City to Guangzhou and Shanghai and from Hanoi to Shanghai, the carrier said on its Facebook page. Bamboo Airways on Tuesday launched its first service to China between Hanoi and Tianjin City.

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Study Shows Brains With More Vitamin D Function Better

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A new study, the first to examine vitamin D levels in brain tissue, may help scientists further understand dementia and its causes.
Worldwide, an estimated 55 million people live with dementia, a number that's expected to rise as the global population ages. In the United States alone, there are an estimated 6.5 million people living with Alzheimer's, according to the Alzheimer's Association. In order to find treatments that can slow or stop the disease, researchers need to better understand the factors that can cause dementia.

Scientists at Tufts University have completed the first study examining levels of vitamin D in brain tissue, specifically in adults who suffered from varying rates of cognitive decline. They discovered that members of this group with higher levels of vitamin D in their brains had better cognitive function. The study was published on December 7 in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association.

"This research reinforces the importance of studying how food and nutrients create resilience to protect the aging brain against diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias," said senior and corresponding author Sarah Booth, director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts and lead scientist of the HNRCA's Vitamin K Team.

Vitamin D supports many functions in the body, including immune responses and maintaining healthy bones. Dietary sources include fatty fish and fortified beverages (such as milk or orange juice); brief exposure to sunlight also provides a dose of vitamin D.

"Many studies have implicated dietary or nutritional factors in cognitive performance or function in older adults, including many studies of vitamin D, but all of them are based on either dietary intakes or blood measures of vitamin D," said lead author Kyla Shea, a scientist on the Vitamin K Team and an associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts. "We wanted to know if vitamin D is even present in the brain, and if it is, how those concentrations are linked to cognitive decline."

Booth, Shea, and their team examined samples of brain tissue from 209 participants in the Rush Memory and Aging Project, a long-term study of Alzheimer's disease that began in 1997. Researchers at Rush University assessed the cognitive function of the participants, older people with no signs of cognitive impairment, as they aged, and analyzed irregularities in their brain tissue after death.

In the Tufts study, researchers looked for vitamin D in four regions of the brain-two associated with changes linked to Alzheimer's disease, one associated with forms of dementia linked to blood flow, and one region without any known associations with cognitive decline related to Alzheimer's disease or vascular disease. They found that vitamin D was indeed present in brain tissue, and high vitamin D levels in all four regions of the brain correlated with better cognitive function.

However, the levels of vitamin D in the brain didn't associate with any of the physiological markers associated with Alzheimer's disease in the brain studied, including amyloid plaque buildup, Lewy body disease, or evidence of chronic or microscopic strokes. This means it's still unclear exactly how vitamin D might affect brain function.

"Dementia is multifactorial, and lots of the pathological mechanisms underlying it have not been well characterized," Shea says. "Vitamin D could be related to outcomes that we didn't look at yet, but plan to study in the future."

Vitamin D is also known to vary between racial and ethnic populations, and most of the participants in the original Rush cohort were white. The researchers are planning followup studies using a more diverse group of subjects to look at other brain changes associated with cognitive decline. They hope their work leads to a better understanding of the role vitamin D may play in staving off dementia.

However, experts caution people not to use large doses of vitamin D supplements as a preventive measure. The recommended dose of vitamin D is 600 IU for people 1-70 years old, and 800 IU for those older-excessive amounts can cause harm, and have been linked to the risk of falling.

"We now know that vitamin D is present in reasonable amounts in human brains, and it seems to be correlated with less decline in cognitive function," Shea says. "But we need to do more research to identify the neuropathology that vitamin D is linked to in the brain before we start designing future interventions."

Reference: "Brain vitamin D forms, cognitive decline, and neuropathology in community-dwelling older adults" by M. Kyla Shea, Kathryn Barger, Bess Dawson-Hughes, Sue E. Leurgans, Xueyan Fu, Bryan D. James, Thomas M. Holland, Puja Agarwal, Jifan Wang, Gregory Matuszek, Nicholas E. Heger, Julie A. Schneider and Sarah L. Booth, 7 December 2022, Alzheimer s & Dementia.
DOI: 10.1002/alz.12836

Research reported in this article was supported by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging under award numbers R01AG051641 and R01AG17917, as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. Complete information on authors, funders, and conflicts of interest is available in the published paper. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health or the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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Private sector drains Hanoi workers from public healthcare

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Nearly 600 Hanoi healthcare workers quit for better jobs in the private sector over the first 10 months of 2022, and the capital's health department fears this is just the beginning.

At a meeting with the Hanoi People's Council Wednesday, municipal health department director Tran Thi Nhi Ha said that among the 586 state healthcare workers who quit, 20 had entirely abandoned their healthcare careers for jobs in other sectors such as online sales. The others had switched to jobs in private healthcare instead, she added, noting that the trend had started several years ago.

Ha pointed out that the rate of public healthcare workers migrating to the private sector had been accelerating over the last two years.

In 2019, 562 people decided to quit. The figure rose to 574 in 2020 and 614 in 2021.

"We anticipate the number of people quitting and switching jobs will continue to increase in 2023," Ha said.

The main cause of the migration is low income, accounting for 48% of all cases, according to the department.

Other reasons include family issues, health, work environment and working conditions.

The Covid-19 pandemic has also severely impacted the healthcare workforce, forcing workers to perform more stressful duties and tasks without days off.

"This kind of work is too much of a sacrifice," Ha said. "After spending long periods under stress for low pay, many quit."

She continued by saying that state hospital revenues and budgets had also been dropping, leading to decreases in worker salaries.

Meanwhile, the private healthcare sector has been booming since the pandemic.

Ha said private medial establishments have better drugs, equipment, working environments and salaries.

Private doctors only need to worry about treating patients, not bidding processes, so they understandably prefer the private sector, Ha said.

To help retain the workforce, the Hanoi government has approved extra benefits for healthcare workers.

To compensate for labor shortages, the municipal health department has allowed public hospitals to fund labor contracts from its own budget in order to fill more positions. From January to June, hospitals have hired over 1,700 new replacements, including 480 doctors, she added.

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Nearly 600 Hanoi healthcare workers quit for better jobs in the private sector over the first 10 months of 2022, and the capital's health department fears this is just the beginning.

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Thailand to welcome 10 millionth foreign tourist amid relaxed visa requirements

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The Nation newspaper said citing a source from the Tourism Authority of Thailand: "As of December 5, Thailand had recorded 9.78 million foreign visitors this year. We believe the tally will hit 10 million on December 10."

There will be a ceremony to mark this milestone.

On Saturday souvenirs will be presented to all arrivals at seven airports - Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, U-Tapao, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Krabi, and Koh Samui - and two border checkpoints at Nong Khai and Sadao.

Thailand was one of the first countries in Southeast Asia to fully reopen after Covid and has tourist-friendly entry policies.

It offers a 45-day visa-free stay for tourists from over 50 countries including Vietnam and e-visas to nationals of 23 countries.

Vietnam opened its borders on March 15 but the number of foreign visitors in the first 11 months of the year has been modest at 2.95 million, or just more than half the full-year target of five million, due partly to visa hassles.

It offers 30-day single-entry e-visas to citizens of 80 countries and territories and visa exemption for visitors from 24 others.

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The Nation newspaper said citing a source from the Tourism Authority of Thailand: "As of December 5, Thailand had recorded 9.78 million foreign visitors this year. We believe the tally will hit 10 million on December 10." There will be a ceremony to mark this milestone.

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Air tickets nearly sold out for Tet as travel demand picks up

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Though there's around one month left until Tet, air tickets to many destinations for Vietnam's biggest holiday are nearly sold out, with prices for remaining seats double the norm.

After knowing the government's official announcement about the upcoming Tet holiday break, Minh Hanh, who lives in HCMC, started searching for air tickets to Hanoi. She was shocked by the skyrocketing airfares.

Her family of three plans to fly to Hanoi on January 19 and to return to HCMC six days later. The cost for the three round-trip air tickets could be as high as VND20 million ($840) if she booked the flight on Vietnam Airlines, more than twice the normal prices.

Seeing the airfare so high, she decided to fly to Hai Phong first and then take a car to Hanoi. But the air fare for HCMC-Hai Phong was not as cheap as she thought.

"I regret not buying air tickets earlier because I thought as in previous years there would still be many seats available close to Tet," Hanh said, adding that she was so stressed trying to book air tickets for the holiday.

The Year of the Cat begins on January 22 and many Vietnamese normally return to their hometowns to celebrate Tet a week before the start of the holiday, which will last a week from January 19-26.

On the Vietnam Airlines' website, the lowest price for one-way tickets from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi and Hai Phong during the period between January 16-19 is VND3.5 million per person.

The routes from HCMC to Thanh Hoa and Vinh in north central Vietnam only have business class seats left.

Most the tickets for January 18-19 are already sold out.

For routes from HCMC to Thanh Hoa and Vinh, low cost airline Vietjet operates nine daily flights, but half of the seats on these routes are already sold out. The cheapest tickets for the late-night flights which are still available sell at VND3.5 million.

During the upcoming holiday break, Vietnamese carriers have added over 8,000 flights, up 32% over pre-holiday times.

In Vietnam, Tet often sees millions of migrant workers from major cities return to their homes and holiday-goers flock to tourist hotspots.

A spokesman for national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines said travel demand has shot up post pandemic, leading to a sharp scarcity of air tickets during Tet.

During last year's Tet holiday, the pandemic situation had just been brought under control and domestic travel restrictions were not completely lifted yet, prompting people to cancel their travel plans.

"This year, airlines are under pressure from gasoline prices and rising U.S. dollar exchange rates, so ensuring business efficiency for aviation businesses is a difficult problem," said the spokesman.

Tan Son Nhat Airport, Vietnam's largest airport, has added 20 daily domestic flights to and from Ho Chi Minh City from January 6 to February 5 to meet spiking Lunar New Year demand.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has ordered airlines to rearrange several flight schedules during peak hours to avoid air congestion.

In 2019, before Covid struck, Vietnam's aviation industry was experiencing annual double-digit growth year-on-year to 116 million passengers.

This year CAAV expects to serve 100 million air passengers.

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Though there's around one month left until Tet, air tickets to many destinations for Vietnam's biggest holiday are nearly sold out, with prices for remaining seats double the norm. After knowing the government's official announcement about the upcoming Tet holiday break, Minh Hanh, who lives in HCMC, started searching for air tickets to Hanoi.

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New Research: Your Choice of COVID Vaccine Can Increase Your Risk of Myocarditis

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The study found that Moderna had greater rates of heart inflammation than Pfizer, although the overall risk remained extremely low.

In comparison to the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine has a two- to three-fold greater incidence of myocarditis, pericarditis, or myopericarditis following a second dose; nonetheless, overall cases of heart inflammation with either vaccine are very rare. Males under 40 who got the Moderna vaccine had the greatest incidence of myocarditis, according to the research, which, according to the scientists, may have consequences for choosing certain vaccines for particular populations.

The findings were recently published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Pfizer BioNTech (BNT162b2) and Moderna Spikevax (mRNA-1273) are the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines that have been given approval for usage, and as of March 20, 2022, more than 52 million doses of Pfizer and 22 million doses of Moderna have been given in Canada, where this study was conducted. Clinical trials have shown that the vaccines are safe, and monitoring of vaccinated people has shown that side effects are minor and disappear on their own. However, both vaccines have been associated with some rare but serious side effects, most notably myocarditis (inflammation of the heart).

While several studies have been done on each vaccine, few have been done to directly compare the two mRNA vaccines' safety. The purpose of this research was to compare the risks of myocarditis, pericarditis, and myopericarditis associated with the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.

People in the study were 18 years old or older and had received two primary doses of either Pfizer or Moderna vaccine in British Columbia, Canada, with the second dose between Jan. 1, 2021, and Sept. 9, 2021. Individuals whose first or second shots were administered outside of British Columbia or had a history of myocarditis or pericarditis within one year prior to the second dose were excluded.

In all, more than 2.2 million second Pfizer doses were given and more than 870,000 Moderna doses. Within 21 days of the second dose, there were a total of 59 myocarditis cases (21 Pfizer and 31 Moderna) and 41 pericarditis cases (21 Pfizer and 20 Moderna). Researchers also looked at rates per million doses and the rate was 35.6 cases per million for Moderna and 12.6 per million for Pfizer-an almost threefold increase after Moderna shots vs. Pfizer. Comparatively, rates of myocarditis in the general population in 2018, were 2.01 per million in people under age 40 and 2.2 per million in people over age 40.

Rates of myocarditis and pericarditis were higher with the Moderna vaccine in both males and females between ages 18 and 39, with the highest per million rates in males ages 18-29 after a second dose of Moderna.

According to the authors, the findings support recommending certain populations receive certain vaccines to maximize benefits and minimize adverse events.

"Few population-based analyses have been conducted to directly compare the safety of the two mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which differ in important ways that could impact safety," said Naveed Janjua, MBBS, DrPH, lead author of the study and an epidemiologist and the executive director of Data and Analytic Services at the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. "Our findings have implications for strategizing the rollout of mRNA vaccines, which should also consider the self-limiting and mild nature of most myocarditis events, benefits provided by vaccination, higher effectiveness of the Moderna vaccine against infection and hospitalization [found in prior studies], and the apparent higher risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 infection than with mRNA vaccination."

Limitations of the study include that it was observational, which limits the ability to determine causality between vaccination and myocarditis or pericarditis. However, temporality was ensured in the study design to limit the time studied between vaccine dose and myocarditis/pericarditis diagnosis. Also, the study relied on hospital and emergency department visit data and may have missed some less severe cases.

In a related editorial comment, Guy Witberg, MD, MPH, a cardiologist at Rabin Medical Center in Petah-Tikva, Israel, wrote the study is reassuring for vaccine safety since it provides further data that myocarditis is a very rare adverse event after both vaccines, and it is an important step toward a personalized approach to administering COVID-19 vaccines.

"[The study] should help put to rest 'vaccine hesitancy' due to concerns over cardiac adverse events," Witberg said. "This is one of only a few direct comparisons of the two widely adopted mRNA vaccines, and its results have practical policy implications: for a substantial segment of the population suffering from cardiovascular disease...these data give a strong argument to preferentially use the BNT162b2 [Pfizer] vaccine over mRNA-1273 [Moderna]."

References: "Comparative Risk of Myocarditis/Pericarditis Following Second Doses of BNT162b2 and mRNA-1273 Coronavirus Vaccines" by Zaeema Naveed, Julia Li, James Wilton, Michelle Spencer, Monika Naus, Héctor A. Velásquez García, Jeffrey C. Kwong, Caren Rose, Michael Otterstatter and Naveed Z. Janjua, 7 November 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.08.799

"A Tale of 2 mRNA Vaccines" by Guy Witberg and Ilan Richter, 7 November 2022, Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.09.010

The study was funded by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN) through a grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. This project was also supported by funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada through the Vaccine Surveillance Reference Group and the COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.

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Actor, singer become most googled this year

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By Dang Khoa &nbspDecember 7, 2022 | 11:45 pm PT

Actor Hong Dang, singer Hien Ho and musician Ho Hoai Anh have emerged as Google's most searched celebrities of 2022 in Vietnam.

Actor Hong Dang (1st place) and musician Ho Hoai Anh (3rd place) topped the 2022 list of most searched celebrities.

Dang, 38, is known for his roles in numerous TV dramas, while Anh, 42, is known among Vietnamese audiences for having composed many pop music hits.

On July 1, a spokesman for the Mallorca Police Department told VnExpressthat two Vietnamese men had been arrested over sexual assault allegations. He refused to disclose their identities and occupations.

According to local media, the two Vietnamese men were an actor and a musician.

The two men were later taken to court, before being released on bail, but had their passports seized by Spanish authorities. The 17-year-old girl was allowed to leave Mallorca and return home after testifying in court.

The story took local Vietnamese audiences by storm, with many making educated guesses about who the alleged culprits were. Some people pointed to Anh and Dang, who were the same ages as the reported suspects, and at the time, were also traveling in Spain.

Singer Hien Ho was the 2nd most searched celebrity in Vietnam this year. She became the topic of hot discussion after some of her photos with a married man surfaced online in March this year, inviting a social media backlash.

The businessman, in his 60s, told the media that he and the singer were just close friends, but the netizens did not buy it. They found that the hugging was "too intimate" and found that the photograph was taken in a 5-star hotel in Hanoi. Many accused Hien Ho of being a third person ruining a marriage.

In the aftermath of the scandal, she apologized and retreated from the showbiz scene for a while. In September, she singer reappeared at a music event but received a backlash from the public. Ho was invited to perform at a university in HCMC in November, but organizers quickly canceled her performance because she faced opposition from many students.

Two foreign actors also made this year's list.

High-profile Chinese actor Li Yifeng also received lots of attention after he was detained by Beijing police for soliciting prostitutes on multiple occasions. According to a post by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau on the local website Weibo, the star confessed to the criminal allegations. Hashtags relating to the actor's behavior amassed 500 million hits on the platform.

Thai actor Bright Vachirawit, who shot to fame for starring in "F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers," also made the list. Thanks to the popularity of the TV series and his good-looks, he has received a lot of love from Vietnamese audiences, forming a strong female fan base here.

Google named actor Johnny Depp as the most searched person around the world in 2022, followed by actor Will Smith (2 nd) and actress Amber Heard, Depp's ex-wife.

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By Dang Khoa &nbspDecember 7, 2022 | 11:45 pm PT Actor Hong Dang, singer Hien Ho and musician Ho Hoai Anh have emerged as Google's most searched celebrities of 2022 in Vietnam. Actor Hong Dang (1st place) and musician Ho Hoai Anh (3rd place) topped the 2022 list of most searched celebrities.

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Một trong những cách giúp bạn tự tin giao tiếp đó là có một vốn từ tiếng Anh phong phú. Hãy cùng cô học thêm những từ vựng mới qua tin tức hằng ngày để nhớ ghi nhớ thật lâu và phản xạ tự nhiên nhé.

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Vui lòng đọc Lesson 3, take note ví dụ và chuẩn bị chơi Quizz với tối 7h thứ 6 tuần này 9/12 nhé các bạn

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Vui lòng đọc Lesson 3, take note ví dụ và chuẩn bị chơi Quizz với tối 7h thứ 6 tuần này 9/12 nhé các bạn

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Lưu ý:
Khi chơi game ko trực tiếp cùng các bạn lúc 7h th6, các bạn chơi sau sẽ nhận được điểm = 2/3 x (điểm thi), ví dụ các bạn đúng 80% câu hỏi và được 1000 điểm, trên hệ thống các bạn sẽ nhận được 666 điểm vì như vậy sẽ công bằng hơn cho các bạn thi trước.
Vì vậy mình cùng cố gắng thi đúng 7h tối th6 để nhận được ưu tiên nhiều nhất nhé :D

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France beat Poland to reach World Cup quarter-finals

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By Reuters &nbspDecember 4, 2022 | 03:37 pm PT

France were relentless on the attack as they pushed for an opening goal but could not unlock a sturdy Poland until just before the break when Mbappe played a pin-point ball through to Giroud, who hammered it past a diving Wojciech Szczesny to claim his 52nd goal for Les Bleus.

Holders France continued to press after the break, with Giroud almost netting a second when he flicked Jules Kounde's cross just past the near post. But Mbappe did not miss in the 74th minute, unleashing a missile from just inside the penalty area that shot into the top corner.

Mbappe was not done, adding a second goal in stoppage time with another screamer to seal the win and take his total for the tournament to five.

Poland got a consolation goal from a Robert Lewandowski penalty.

France will next face the winners of the England versus Senegal game, being played later on Sunday.

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By Reuters &nbspDecember 4, 2022 | 03:37 pm PT France were relentless on the attack as they pushed for an opening goal but could not unlock a sturdy Poland until just before the break when Mbappe played a pin-point ball through to Giroud, who hammered it past a diving Wojciech Szczesny to claim his 52nd goal for Les Bleus.

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The historic Michelin Guide Vietnam list of top Vietnamese restaurants will be released in June.

"We have been looking at Vietnam's gastronomic scene for quite a long time," said Michelin Guide international director Gwendal Poullennec on Thursday. "We are delighted to finally announce the Michelin Guide's arrival in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City."

According to the Michelin Guide website, it's inspectors assesses venues based on five criteria: the personality of the chef as presented in the cuisine, the harmony of flavors, the mastery of cooking techniques, the quality of products and the consistency both over time and across the entire menu.

The Michelin Guide was established at the beginning of the 20th century by the French tire maker to sell more tires by encouraging people to take road trips and visit fine restaurants and hotels.

Michelin awards eateries with stars: one star signifies "a very good restaurant," two stars are "excellent cooking that is worth a detour," and three stars means "exceptional cuisine that is worth a special journey,"

According to the Michelin Guide website, there are over 3,000 Michelin-starred restaurants in nearly 40 different countries. And the list is growing.

Never before in history have restaurants in Vietnam been considered by the "Bible" of fine dining. But anyone who's ever had good bowl of pho knows the time has definitely come. It might even be over due.

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The historic Michelin Guide Vietnam list of top Vietnamese restaurants will be released in June. "We have been looking at Vietnam's gastronomic scene for quite a long time," said Michelin Guide international director Gwendal Poullennec on Thursday. "We are delighted to finally announce the Michelin Guide's arrival in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City."

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Boycotted TikToker fined $302 for mocking the poor

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By Dinh Van &nbspNovember 29, 2022 | 04:56 am PT

Nguyen Duc Tho, office head of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications, on Tuesday said 26-year-old Pham Duc Tuan, owner of the TikTok account No O No, was fined for sharing content that violated "civil customs". The banning of his account, with over 600,000 followers, was confirmed by TikTok on Monday.

Tuan has admitted to using words that were "careless" and "morally inappropriate", affecting the community.

The No O No account is known for restaurant and retail reviews. But the account recently posted videos of Tuan degrading the poor while on charity trips to feed the elderly, sparking widespread outrage.

In one video, he asks an elderly woman on the street what her favorite food is. Then he surprises her with a free serving of it in his hands.

Instead of gifting it to the woman, Tuan said some rude and offensive sentences to her like: "Hello poor old miserable lady, alone in the middle of the winter", "You're poor, why didn't you take the food?", "You can't even buy a cheap bowl of pho" and "Stop being poor, no one can help you forever."

Vietnamese regulations dictate that those who post and share content that is not in accordance with civil customs may receive a fine from VND5-10 million ($202-404).

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By Dinh Van &nbspNovember 29, 2022 | 04:56 am PT Nguyen Duc Tho, office head of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications, on Tuesday said 26-year-old Pham Duc Tuan, owner of the TikTok account No O No, was fined for sharing content that violated "civil customs".

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Lợi ích của bài tập đọc hiểu bằng tiếng Anh

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Lợi ích của bài tập đọc hiểu bằng tiếng Anh

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- Rèn luyện khả năng tư duy bằng tiếng Anh khi đọc tài liệu 100% bằng tiếng Anh và kiểm tra kiến thức bằng những câu hỏi đọc hiểu nội dung, ý nghĩa câu chuyện.
- Tăng cường vốn từ vựng phong phú thông qua dịch nghĩa từ vựng bằng tiếng Anh và sử dụng từ vựng linh hoạt, tự nhiên thông qua bài tập đặt câu với từ vựng mới.
- Phát âm chuẩn hơn bằng từ điển Anh-Anh, thu âm giọng nói kiểm tra vốn tiếng Anh của mình.

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Pronunciation:
/i:/  https://share.elsanow.io/XTqWoFAmQtb
/i/ https://share.elsanow.io/7fEm6iDmQtb
/ʊ/ : https://share.elsanow.io/5oUyk60xAsb
/u:/ : https://share.elsanow.io/yr1FX7pyAsb

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Red and Green Cell Phones Classroom Use Poster

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Bước 1:

Đọc qua đoạn văn bằng tiếng Anh, những từ vựng không hiểu take note, tìm kiếm trên từ điển https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ để học cách phát âm, nghĩa và cách đặt câu qua ví dụ, đối với cụm động từ, cụm danh từ , có thể tìm từ khóa bằng cách “từ vựng + meaning” trên google

Bước 2:

Đặt ví dụ cho từng vựng highlight trong bài Reading.

Bước 3:

Làm trắc nghiệm đọc hiểu của đoạn văn bằng tiếng Anh và kiểm tra kết quả. (trong buổi học tiếp theo

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Vui lòng đọc Lesson 2 , take note ví dụ và chuẩn bị chơi Quizz với tối 7h thứ 6 tuần này 2/12 nhé các bạn

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Vui lòng đọc Lesson 2 , take note ví dụ và chuẩn bị chơi Quizz với tối 7h thứ 6 tuần này 2/12 nhé các bạn

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travelling => I like to travel around the world with my family.
woods =>
fell into => Sometimes, I fell into stress after a hard working day.
deep pit =>
crowded around => People crowded around the event to see who is the winner.
ignore => People say that English is difficult to learn but I ignore it.
proceeded => I will proceed to do this task after lunch.
jump out =>
give up => When I encounter failure in life, I will always try to overcome and never give up.
make it out => After all my efforts to fix this bug, I made it out.
Eventually =>
heed =>
falling down => After the apple fell down to the head, Newton invented "The laws of motion and universal gravitaion"
yelled => The crowd yelled at the stadium while the football match is going on
ẽplained to => I try to explain to my boss this bug is not my mistake.
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Singer hit extra hard by boycott over extramarital affair: 

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Almost eight months after a scandal broke out involving singer Hien Ho's alleged extramarital affair with a rich man, she's been hit hard by a boycott.

Showbiz industry observers say this is unusual in Vietnam. "This is the first time that a community boycott has affected a celebrity long after a scandal," media expert Nguyen Ngoc Long told VnExpress International.

He said there have been celebrities who copped criticisms and were boycotted in the past, but these did not have such a prolonged impact.

When the HCMC University of Food Industry revealed that singer Hien Ho would be one of the performers at a November 19 event to welcome new students, many criticized the move, with some even saying they wouldn't attend the event if Hien Ho performed.

"I am disappointed about the event. They should have invited someone else instead of this singer," Van Thy commented on Facebook.

"I don't think it's a good idea to invite Hien Ho to a university event after the scandal. She cannot be a model for young people," commented another netizen, Duc Chien.

Many voices added to the chorus: "We should boycott artists who do not have moral standards;" "It's time for Vietnamese audiences to get stricter with scandalous celebrities;" "I think the Hien Ho case can be used as a prime example for people to start cleaning up the mess in Vietnamese showbiz;" and so on.

After the negative reaction from students, the university decided to remove Hien Ho from the event.

On November 22, Pham Thai Son, director of the Admission and Media Department of the university, said: "When this singer was revealed as one of the performers at the event, many students reacted unfavorably. We had to reconsider the invitation to the singer, and decided to remove her from the performing list."

The scandal started when some photos of Hien Ho with a married man surfaced online in March this year, inviting a social media backlash.

The businessman, in his 60s, told the media that he and the singer were just close friends, but the netizens did not buy it. They found that the hugging was "too intimate" and found that the photograph was taken in a 5-star hotel in Hanoi. Many accused Hien Ho of being a third person ruining a marriage.

The 25-year-old singer stayed off showbiz for a while. She also issued a public apology in April.

Most of the time, Vietnamese artists who have been embroiled in scandals regarding their private life, charity activities or controversial statements have waited for public anger and sentiments to cool before resuming their public life and continuing to attract audiences.

Meanwhile, in some other Asian countries with huge entertainment industries like South Korea and China, it has been seen that it is very difficult to come back from a scandal that triggers strong public outrage and boycotts and heavy sanctions from authorities.

Le Tien Tho, former deputy minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, told the Thanh Nien Newspaper that "authorized agencies need to monitor artists closely and promptly handle violations in order to clean up the showbiz business."

However, there are also many people who are more understanding and forgiving about celebrities involved in scandals. They argue that everyone makes mistakes and should have a chance to redeem themselves.

One netizen, Thinh Nguyen, said: "I agree that celebrities should be punished for their misdeeds, but we should also give them a chance to redeem themselves and become a better role model for the youth."

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Almost eight months after a scandal broke out involving singer Hien Ho's alleged extramarital affair with a rich man, she's been hit hard by a boycott. Showbiz industry observers say this is unusual in Vietnam. "This is the first time that a community boycott has affected a celebrity long after a scandal," media expert Nguyen Ngoc Long told VnExpress International.

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Join an activity with your class and find or create your own quizzes and flashcards.

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wise -> It's raining. I think we would be wise to wait until the rain stops to go home.
secret -> Everyone has their own secrets, and a wise man will never asks for details.
success -> The path to success is never forget your goal, keep moving forward and nerver give up.
toward -> I like to walk toward the beach with my son to relax every weekend.
water got up ->
surprise -> My son is so proactive. He always surprise me with his pranks.
ducked him into ->
struggle -> The story of this film is about the people struggle for their independence.
get out of the water ->
turning blue ->
pull -> If you
gape -> After jogging exercise, I gape and took a deep breath of air to quickly calm down

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Hanoi workers underemployed as factory orders dwindle

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Hanoi workers underemployed as factory orders dwindle

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Huyen has provided for her family by working at least 6 days a week, usually more than 8 hours a day, for a decade.

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Vietnam gold price drops despite global gain

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By Dat Nguyen &nbspNovember 29, 2022 | 08:59 pm PT

But gold ring prices went up 0.28% to VND54.15 million per tael. A tael is equal to 37.5 grams or 1.2 ounces.

Global spot gold was up 0.1% at $1,751.89 per ounce, aided by a dip in the U.S. dollar, with investors largely focusing on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell's speech for insights into the U.S. central bank's monetary policy path, Reuters reported.

Powell's speech is the main focus for the market, said Edward Meir, an analyst with ED&F Man Capital Markets.

"If Powell takes a hawkish stance, the dollar will strengthen and gold will move lower, probably back to the $1,745 level. But if he sounds more conciliatory, then gold could maybe move up to the $1,780 level."

Meanwhile, top gold consumer, China reported a slight drop in new Covid cases for Nov. 29, the National Health Commission said.

Gold needs a strong China as it drives risk appetite and could bolster jewellery demand, and bullion could gain if China's health authorities provide some clear signals that they are close to tweaking their zero-Covid policy, Edward Moya, senior analyst with OANDA, said in a note.

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By Dat Nguyen &nbspNovember 29, 2022 | 08:59 pm PT But gold ring prices went up 0.28% to VND54.15 million per tael. A tael is equal to 37.5 grams or 1.2 ounces. Global spot gold was up 0.1% at $1,751.89 per ounce, aided by a dip in the U.S.

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France file complaint to FIFA after Griezmann goal disallowed

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The ball was deflected by a Tunisian defender into the path of Griezmann, who was onside at that point, but the effort was disallowed and Tunisia won the game 1-0.

"We are writing a complaint after Antoine Griezmann's goal was, in our opinion, wrongly disallowed. This complaint has to be filed within 24 hours after the final whistle," the FFF said in a statement.

Tunisia were eliminated from the tournament while France advanced top of Group D into the last 16 and they will face Poland on Sunday.

The FFF did not specify whether the complaint was over the goal itself or the fact it was ruled out after the final whistle.

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France are filing a complaint to FIFA after a last-gasp equalizer by Antoine Griezmann was disallowed following a video review after the final whistle of their World Cup match against Tunisia, the French federation said on Wednesday. - VnExpress International

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The exhibition match between Vietnam and Dortmund Wednesday night ended with a 2-1 victory for Vietnam.

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At a northern highlands flea market, bobtail puppies go on sale

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At a northern highlands flea market, bobtail puppies go on sale

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Every Sunday morning, some members of local ethnic minorities in Ha Giang Province bring Hmong bobtail puppies to a weekend flea market for sale. - VnExpress International

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Saigon metro stations lay tracks for tours of historic landmarks

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Many stations built for HCMC's first metro line stand near historical landmarks and tourist sites.

The most famous and iconic tourist attraction near the Ben Thanh Station is the market it was named after.

The 13,000-square-meter market in District 1 was built in 1870 by the French. It operates all year round and opens from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

The market hosts hundreds of stalls selling clothes, souvenirs, dried food, fruit and many other items; as also food stalls that serve traditional Vietnamese dishes to locals and tourists.

Just 100 meters away from the station is the Bui Vien pedestrian street, the busiest backpacker hub in HCMC that's chockfull of bars, discotheques and nightclubs. The area also teems with motels, homestays, restaurants, food stalls and travel agencies.

Bui Vien pedestrian street is buslting at night. Photos by Tung Tin

Saigon Opera House Station

The metro station in front of Saigon Opera House is next to Nguyen Hue pedestrian street, and not too far from other popular tourist attractions like the City Hall, the Notre Dame Cathedral and the Central Post Office.

Nguyen Hue, which runs from the City Hall to Ton Duc Thang Street along the Saigon River, has welcomed thousands of visitors every day since it turned pedestrian.

The street, lined by luxury hotels, restaurants, financial centers and skyscrapers, gets particularly crowded during the weekends and holidays.

Ba Son Station

The Ba Son Station hugs Ton Duc Thang Street near the Saigon River in District 1. It is one of three underground stations on the first metro line.

From Ba Son Station, visitors can easily access the famous Saigon Zoo.

Built in 1864, the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens is one of the oldest zoos in the world. It has over 1,300 animals, including some rare species, and 2,500 trees.

From the Saigon Zoo, visitors can drop by the Vietnam History Museum and the Vietnam Geology Museum, both on Nguyen Binh Khiem Street.

Van Thanh Station

This station stands near the Van Thanh Tourist Area in Binh Thanh District and Thanh Da-Binh Quoi that is often mentioned as a green oasis in HCMC.

The Thanh Da-Binh Quoi urban area, bordered by the Saigon River and Thanh Da Canal, spreads over of 426 hectares (1,053 acres). While Binh Quoi is a bucolic countryside with large spaces, fish ponds and mud roads, Thanh Da has many old residential complexes.

Tan Cang Station

Tan Cang is the largest of 11 elevated stations on the Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien metro line. The station, with its 6,200-sq.m roof made of fiberglass reinforced plastic sheets produced in Japan, is set to be a tourist attraction on its own.

From the Tan Cang station, a 15 minute walk leads to Landmark 81, Vietnam's tallest building. Here visitors can go up to the top floor to enjoy a panoramic view of the city at Skyview, swim at an infinity pool, enjoy food at many restaurants as also watch movies at is cinema complex.

Thao Dien Station

This station is not too far from Thao Dien area in District 2, known as the city's largest expat hub.

Covering an area of nearly 3.7 square kilometers, the Thao Dien area is mainly inhabited by well-to-do expats and home to a series of fine dining restaurants, bars, international schools and entertainment hubs.

Suoi Tien Station

The final station of the line stands near the Suoi Tien Park in Thu Duc City, several historical sites and unique pagodas.

The Buu Long pagoda, built in 1942, underwent a major restoration in 2007. Its architecture now carries influences from India and Southeast Asian countries like Myanmar, Thailand and Laos.

One interesting feature of Buu Long is that, as a Theravada Buddhist pagoda, it does not allow visitors to burn incense or candles. Only the Buddha is worshiped here, unlike most other Vietnamese pagodas where many deities, including those from other countries, are worshipped.

Located on the banks of the Dong Nai River and surrounded by a thick, shady grove, the pagoda is a tranquil getaway from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis.

Not far from Suoi Tien station is the Vietnam Ao Dai Museum. Surrounded by lush greenery, the museum displays documents and artifacts about the ao dai (traditional Vietnamese long dress) from its inception to the present.

Among the companies planning to offer tours along the metro stations is the Penguin Travel Company in District 1. It is planning to launch a new tour that will have visitors explore the architecture and functional system of Ba Son Station. The will also have the opportunity to admire the beauty of the city from the Saigon River on a river bus tour that goes past modern icons like Landmark 81, Thu Thiem 2 Bridge.

Leading tour operator Saigontourist, meanwhile, is considering a Saigon Opera House station tour.

HCMC's first metro line, costing over VND43.7 trillion ($1.9 billion), runs around 20 kilometers from Ben Thanh Station to Long Binh Depot in Thu Duc City. It is over 90% complete and expected to open to the public in 2023.
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Vietnamese students, engineers in US gutted by mass tech layoffs

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It was a week since he got an unexpected termination email from Meta in early November, but Minh Pham was still reeling from its effect.

In a LinkedIn post, he said he wondered every morning on waking up if it was a nightmare or had actually happened.

He had been all set to apply for a green card and permanent residency in a few weeks. After three years he had been eager to return to Vietnam and celebrate with his loved ones the completion of his doctorate in computer science in North Carolina and landing a job at Instagram as a machine learning research engineer.

But his plans have been dashed, and he did not even get a chance to say goodbye to his coworkers.

More than 35,000 tech workers at 72 companies have been laid off this month, adding to 120,000 who lost jobs earlier this year, according to layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks publicly reported job cuts in the tech industry.

International students like Minh have 90 days to find a new job if they have Optional Practical Training. Those with H-1B, a work visa with a cumulative maximum duration of six years, only have 60 days to do so.

Meta said earlier this month it would cut 11,000 employees or 13% of its workforce. Amazon and Twitter plan to let go of 10,000 and 4,400 workers. Google will soon join the layoff season in Silicon Valley as it plans to lay off up to 10,000 employees to cut costs.

Hoang Nam got a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Washington and applied to Google for a software engineer's job in April this year.

By early August he had got a letter calling him for the last round of interviews.

He practiced algorithm interview questions and did well, and was hired. But before he could be assigned to a team, he got a call from the HR department saying his profile had been pushed to the 2023 batch and his "interview scores will be saved in the system for a year."

"I'm sad and disappointed," Nam said.

He does not have to pay rent since he lives with his parents, who have green cards and sponsored Nam in the U.S. But he does not have any money to spend and "the prices of everything have skyrocketed."

Chan Le, chief engineer at AI startup Truera in the U.S. and founder of online community group Viet Tech, said the massive layoffs in the tech industry affect international IT students the most.

"The IT job market for new college graduates is near a complete standstill with many companies no longer hiring or canceling and putting off job offers."

But it is not just new entrants who have been affected: even senior people are being laid off.

Le said: "A friend of mine was fired on his first day back at work after a break because his wife had given birth. This is terrible."

Le The Hien, founder of another community group called Vietnam Tech Society and who used to work at Amazon and Google, said the wave of layoffs in the U.S. has affected around 1,000 Vietnamese.

"International students who graduate at the end of this year and in 2023 and 2024 will have a hard time competing with thousands of qualified candidates for a small number of jobs."

He expected the IT job market to only pick up steam again in 2025.

Le said in this situation international students who have just graduated or are about to graduate should apply to a lot of companies in case one backs out of an offer.

Minh is doing just that, and hopes to go for a first round interview before the winter break and the final rounds in January next year.

He hopes to land a decent job that can sponsor him for H-1B visa so that he can remain in the country and wait for better opportunities when the battered economy recovers.

As for Nam, he keeps practicing coding and waiting for Google and other companies to start hiring again.

Hieu Le, a software engineer at Twitter with two years of experience, said he was ready when new boss Elon Musk said a lot of people would be let go.

Even though he "kind of wished" his green card had not been taken away and he had found a new job, he decided to pack his bags and move back to Vietnam to start a technology company.

"I have experience working in the U.S. and so maybe I'll be able to find work here in future," he said.

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It was a week since he got an unexpected termination email from Meta in early November, but Minh Pham was still reeling from its effect. In a LinkedIn post, he said he wondered every morning on waking up if it was a nightmare or had actually happened.

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Researchers are working to determine the best way for anti-cancer drugs to get to the tumors they are supposed to treat. One option is to utilize modified bacteria as "ferries" to transport the drugs to the tumors via the bloodstream. ETH Zurich researchers have now successfully controlled some bacteria such that they may pass the blood vessel wall and infiltrate tumor tissue.

The ETH Zurich researchers, led by Simone Schürle, Professor of Responsive Biomedical Systems, opted to experiment with bacteria that are inherently magnetic owing to the iron oxide particles they contain. These Magnetospirillum bacteria react to magnetic fields and can be manipulated by external magnets.

Exploiting temporary gaps

Schürle and her colleagues have now shown in cell cultures and mice that applying a rotating magnetic field to the tumor boosts the bacteria's ability to cross the vascular wall around the cancerous growth. The rotating magnetic field drives the bacteria ahead in a circular motion at the vascular wall.

To better understand the mechanism to cross the vessel wall works, a detailed look is necessary: The blood vessel wall consists of a layer of cells and serves as a barrier between the bloodstream and the tumor tissue, which is permeated by many small blood vessels. Narrow spaces between these cells allow certain molecules to pass through the vessel wall. How large these intercellular spaces are is regulated by the cells of the vessel wall, and they can be temporarily wide enough to allow even bacteria to pass through the vessel wall.

Strong propulsion and high probability

With the help of experiments and computer simulations, the ETH Zurich researchers were able to show that propelling the bacteria using a rotating magnetic field is effective for three reasons. First, propulsion via a rotating magnetic field is ten times more powerful than propulsion via a static magnetic field. The latter merely sets the direction and the bacteria have to move under their own power.

The second and most critical reason is that bacteria driven by the rotating magnetic field are constantly in motion, traveling along the vascular wall. This makes them more likely to encounter the gaps that briefly open between vessel wall cells compared to other propulsion types, in which the bacteria's motion is less explorative. And third, unlike other methods, the bacteria do not need to be tracked via imaging. Once the magnetic field is positioned over the tumor, it does not need to be readjusted.

"Cargo" accumulates in tumor tissue

"We make use of the bacteria's natural and autonomous locomotion as well," Schürle explains. "Once the bacteria have passed through the blood vessel wall and are in the tumor, they can independently migrate deep into its interior." For this reason, the scientists use the propulsion via the external magnetic field for just one hour - long enough for the bacteria to efficiently pass through the vascular wall and reach the tumor.

Such bacteria could carry anti-cancer drugs in the future. In their cell culture studies, the ETH Zurich researchers simulated this application by attaching liposomes (nanospheres of fat-like substances) to the bacteria. They tagged these liposomes with a fluorescent dye, which allowed them to demonstrate in the Petri dish that the bacteria had indeed delivered their "cargo" inside the cancerous tissue, where it accumulated. In future medical applications, the liposomes would be filled with a drug.

Bacterial cancer therapy

Using bacteria as ferries for drugs is one of two ways that bacteria can help in the fight against cancer. The other approach is over a hundred years old and currently experiencing a revival: using the natural propensity of certain species of bacteria to damage tumor cells. This may involve several mechanisms. In any case, it is known that the bacteria stimulate certain cells of the immune system, which then eliminate the tumor.

Multiple research projects are currently investigating the efficacy of E. coli bacteria against tumors. Today, it is possible to modify bacteria using synthetic biology to optimize their therapeutic effect, reduce side effects, and make them safer.

Making non-magnetic bacteria magnetic

Yet to use the inherent properties of bacteria in cancer therapy, the question of how these bacteria can reach the tumor efficiently still remains. While it is possible to inject the bacteria directly into tumors near the surface of the body, this is not possible for tumors deep inside the body. That is where Professor Schürle's microrobotic control comes in. "We believe we can use our engineering approach to increase the efficacy of bacterial cancer therapy," she says.

E. coli used in the cancer studies is not magnetic and thus cannot be propelled and controlled by a magnetic field. In general, magnetic responsiveness is a very rare phenomenon among bacteria. Magnetospirillum is one of the few genera of bacteria that have this property.

Schürle, therefore, wants to make E. coli bacteria magnetic as well. This could one day make it possible to use a magnetic field to control clinically used therapeutic bacteria that have no natural magnetism.

Reference: "Magnetic torque-driven living microrobots for increased tumor infiltration" by T. Gwisai, N. Mirkhani, M. G. Christiansen, T. T. Nguyen, V. Ling and S. Schuerle, 26 October 2022, Science Robotics.
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abo0665

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