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The Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation (EVN HCMC) held an awards ceremony for the 2020 emulation programme
“Power-saving families” on January 26. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - The
Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation (EVN
HCMC) held an awards ceremony for the 2020 emulation programme “Power-saving
families” on January 26.
Launched by the municipal Steering Committee for Power Supply, Saving,
and Safety and EVN HCMC, the ceremony aims to encourage households to join
hands to use electricity effectively and economically and raise public
awareness about the effort.
The organising board said nearly 900,000 households saved 443.67 million
kWh of electricity last year, helping reduce carbon dioxide emissions by over
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Photos of John Stryker Meyer, SOG team: Wikipedia
On this day 57 years ago, the Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV), activated the “Studies and Observation Group” which became known simply as SOG.
MACV headquarters in Saigon issued General Order 6, which created a highly secret new organization, Joint Special Operations Task Force to execute clandestine operations. SOG, was approved by President Lyndon Johnson three years after President Kennedy had called for covert actions against North Vietnam.
MACV-SOG was first activated on January 24, 1964. It was commanded by an Army Special Forces colonel but would be comprised of troops from all the services: Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs, Air Force, Marine Corps Force Recon, as well as CIA personnel as SOG would soon be conducting most of the Agency’s covert operations in North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia were all part of the organization.
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This image show a bridge in Thua Thien-Hue Province, central Vietnam. Photo: Google Arts & Culture
What you need to know today in Vietnam:
Politics Vietnam s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison had a telephone talk on Thursday to discuss bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues of shared concern, according to the
Vietnam News Agency. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh on Thursday led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the online ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM Retreat) at the invitation of Foreign Minister of Brunei Dato Erywan Pehin Yusof, the
Vietnam, US finish first part of dioxin cleanup at Bien Hoa airbase
By Minh Nga January 21, 2021 | 09:37 am GMT+7
American and Vietnamese personnel have removed dioxin from an area of 5,300 square meters at Bien Hoa airport, the most contaminated spot in Vietnam.
The remediation work which began in December 2019 removed 1,134 cubic meters of dioxin-contaminated sediments from Gate 2 Lake within the airport in Dong Nai Province, an hour’s drive from HCMC.
Bien Hoa airport was the largest U.S. military base in Vietnam during the war and is now used for military training.
The remediated area will be handed over to local authorities in the next few days.
Will the organization become the Vietnamese Snopes?
Tuoi Tre reports that yesterday, January 12, the Ministry of Information and Communications launched the Vietnam Anti-Fake News Center (VAFC), an agency aimed at combating disinformation posted online.
The VAFC s website, which is currently only available in Vietnamese, debunks false online information such as a fake account of the National Hydrometerology Center and a false story related to a Vietcombank branch in Kon Tum that spread on social media. The site also features a reminder that people who spread misinformation can be jailed for up to a year.
The news source adds that the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information (ABEI), which falls under the information ministry, manages the VAFC.