The Rice Trader affirmed that up to now, only Ho Quang Tri private enterprise is the first and only Vietnamese enterprise officially approved to use the unique “World’s Best Rice” award logo. rights for marketing and business purposes. According to the Rice Trader, there are about 10 Vietnamese companies that use the ST25 rice brand to print on packages and promotional materials in the country and for export without asking for permission or consent from TRT. TRT officially warns Vietnamese piracy companies about the respect needed when using the brand logo “World’s Best Rice” in their rice packages being traded in the market. Photo: TL. Through this release, TRT officially warns Vietnamese companies that infringe on piracy about the necessary respect when using the brand symbol “World’s Best Rice” in their rice packages being traded. business in the market. This is an illegal use of intellectual property rights and provisions of the “World’s Best Rice” award logo. According to TRT, contest participants acknowledge that they have no right to use the contest trademarks without permission and that the winning country is also required to abide by the contest’s commitments. Without a proper resolution to this action, those company names will be made public because of their influence on the overall direction of the industry. “In addition, our organization takes this matter seriously that the country may even lose the right to participate in this competition in the following years. We firmly believe that value creators deserve it. deserves a reward and this has always been our intention throughout the process of organizing this contest,” said a representative of TRT.

Handover ceremony of Thaco bus exported to the Philippines at Chu Lai Port Right from the start to invest in Chu Lai Open Economic Zone In 2003, THACO developed a localization strategy and joined the global value chain. In addition to investing in new construction and upgrading of automobile production and assembly factories towards automation, digital management for mass production according to customers’ specific requirements, THACO has invested in to build the largest industrial park manufacturing automobile components in Vietnam in Chu Lai Open Economic Zone, Quang Nam province with a scale of nearly 100 hectares. There are 12 factories manufacturing components – parts and mechanical complexes that not only supply Thaco’s auto assembly factories and domestic enterprises but also export to ASEAN and other countries. In the world. Products from these factories include: interior components, exterior of buses, trucks, passenger cars; composite components; tweezers; glasses; air-conditioner; shouting ceiling; tap-pi floor; passenger car bumpers; car body; chair and chair shirt; wire set; chassis and many other spare parts. The factories are transferring technology from Japan and Korea with modern machinery and equipment and implementing intelligent management throughout the value chain from ordering, manufacturing to distribution. Typically the Tweezers factory was transferred production technology from Daewon Corporation – Korea with modern chain systems and machines such as heat treatment line, ram line, ball injection line, zinc dipped painting line. and quality control equipment on each stage. The Plastic Components Factory is equipped with a 3,200-ton injection molding machine system, the most advanced plastic coating technology in Vietnam with paint robot and automatic coating system. Car Chairs Factory invests in modern automatic machinery imported from Europe and Korea, produces chairs for many types and brands of cars. To master technology and design, Thaco has invested in building an R&D center, improving the capacity of research and development of components and spare parts products; At the same time, joint ventures and associates with partners to receive and transfer new technologies to improve the technology content in products and receive technical support for the production of spare parts of trucks, buses and vehicles. tourism based on technology transferred from Korea and Japan. At the same time, Thaco invests in the mold industry, which is considered the “foundation of the industry”, which is used in many manufacturing industries. In order to develop the mold manufacturing industry for automobile production and other industries, Thaco Chu Lai Mechanical Complex has invested in manufacturing molds in the direction of producing large quantity products and production time. short, high quality, to meet the growing demand of the market. Since 2016, Thaco Chu Lai Mechanical Complex has put into operation the Mold Factory with a capacity of 600 sets / year, mechanical processing reaching 3,500 tons / year. The factory manufactures and supplies high-quality, high-durability, diverse types and sizes of mold products such as plastic injection molds, plastic extrusion molds, stamping molds … precision mechanical machining and heat treatment. The factory is invested with advanced technology lines and modern machinery imported from Germany, Japan, and Korea such as CNC machining line, bed milling machine, deep hole drilling machine, OKK milling machine, electric firing machine, wire cutting machine, mold screening machine, vacuum furnace … A team of engineers are trained professionally by Korean experts with a lot of experience in the field of mold production. In particular, the factory always updates and applies the trends new technology research and production in order to increase the technology content and diversify products, to suit the needs of the domestic market and to meet the specific requirements of the export market. Over the past time, the factory has provided plastic injection molds and molded components used in automobile production and assembly such as vehicle bumpers, throttle faces, hand brake cladding molds, pipe suspension molds. exhaust, integrated mold details of spring suspension …; manufacturing plastic injection molding and injection molds for civil plastic pallets, plastic propellers, paint tanks, plastic baskets, plastic chairs, stainless steel sink stamping molds, filter details … and some extrusion products including: extrusion molds T-brace, extrusion mold for seat contour details, plastic pipe extrusion mold, hydroponic plastic pipe mold … The products are supplied to automobile manufacturing and assembling factories, domestic and export enterprises. . In 2018, Thaco Chu Lai Mechanical Complex cooperated with the Mold factory to implement the State-level science and technology topic: “Research, design, successfully manufacture molds for some truck parts”. After 2 years of implementation, the topic has completed the set objectives such as: Mastering the technology of designing and manufacturing molds for automobile components including conjugate stamping molds, clawing molds, plastic injection molds; improve the scientific and technological content and increase the localization rate for the truck parts, reduce the price of molds compared to import. On the basis of the results of the project, in 2020, the factory will step by step design and manufacture other molds for all kinds of tourist cars such as skylight frame claw molding, vehicle bumper plastic mold, passenger compartment cladding. interior – exterior plastic details … With a methodical investment strategy, up to now, Thaco has mastered the technology of manufacturing components such as glasses, chairs, tweezers, electrical wires, mechanical components (moving parts of passenger cars, car trunks, exhaust pipes, etc.). ben, bus skeleton, punching components, …), plastic components (plastic barriers, interior plastic components, …), air-conditioning systems, composite components … Investing in the development of spare parts factories, Thaco has increased the localization rate of some models to over 40%, meeting the RVC (Regional Value Content) content criteria to enjoy the 0% tax rate. when exporting to ASEAN markets; at the same time exporting auto parts, gradually joining the global value chain. The most exported products are bumpers, passenger car belts, car tweezers, passenger car seats … Main export markets include Korea, Japan, Russia, Philippines, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Singapore, Turkey, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, Germany. Right in the first quarter of this year, Thaco exported more than 200 cars and spare parts to markets in Thailand, Myanmar, Japan and South Korea. This is the largest shipment ever, including Kia passenger cars, buses and trailers, produced at factories in Thaco Chu Lai Industrial Park. Kia passenger cars manufactured by Thaco are increasingly appreciated by customers in ASEAN countries because their quality is equivalent to cars made in Korea, meeting the global Kia standards and competitive prices. In the plan of 2021, Thaco will export 1,480 cars to Thailand and Myanmar and expand to other markets, step by step realizing the goal of becoming a hub for manufacturing and exporting cars and spare parts of Kia Motors. in the ASEAN region. Also in this phase, Thaco’s buses were exported to Thailand for VOLVO Buses Company – the world’s largest bus manufacturer, belonging to VOLVO Group. Meet VOLVO’s requirements for technology, quality, safety and competitive price; reaching the localization rate of over 60% and meeting the standards and certifications in Thailand (in terms of design, size, ECE certifications …), Vietnamese-brand Thaco buses have been selected by VOLVO Buses. choose import and distribution. This shipment will pave the way for a plan to export 66 buses to Thailand and Korea this year. Currently, Thaco continues to invest in building new industrial supporting factories towards automation; Establishing Mazda car parts manufacturing factories when the output is large enough (50,000 units / year) by form of joint venture, association, technology transfer with partners who are component suppliers of Mazda Japan Copy; joint ventures and cooperation with foreign partners to invest in the construction of factories producing export products in THACO Chu Lai Industrial Park. In 2021, Thaco will research and develop new products such as PU closed mold, aluminum die casting, plastic blow molding, guide spindles and manual silver in molds, cutting knife – cos presses, product pushers. products in plastic molds. The factory also invests in modern specialized machinery and equipment (small 5-axis CNC milling machine, 3-dimensional coordinate measuring machine, fast mounting system for CNC milling machine, high-speed machining technology, machining technology. processing of hard materials…) to increase production capacity; at the same time, cooperating with mold manufacturing and precision mechanical processing partners to form a nationwide supply chain.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has just submitted a proposal to the Government to develop the Law on Social Insurance (amended) (social insurance). According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the current development of social insurance beneficiaries is below potential, many people are subject to compulsory social insurance but have not yet participated. The current law is “missing” many subjects Data from the General Statistics Office shows that in 2019, the whole country had more than 5.6 million individual business households, eight times the number of enterprises. According to the tax authorities, the country has more than 1.7 million times of households paying tax (households with turnover less than 100 million VND / year do not have to pay). However, this group is not subject to compulsory social insurance, so very few individual business householders participate in voluntary social insurance. According to data from the Ministry of Planning and Investment, in 2019 there are about 23,000 active cooperatives, attracting nearly six million members. In which 1.2 million people work in the cooperative area. But according to the report of the social insurance agency, there are nearly 7,000 cooperatives registered to participate in compulsory social insurance for about 41,000 employees. “Through a survey in some localities, many business managers, managers and executives of unpaid cooperatives wish to participate in compulsory social insurance …” – said by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs. Therefore, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs proposes to add compulsory social insurance participants for individual business householders, business managers, managers and cooperatives without pay. Specific provisions on compulsory social insurance for employees who work part-time and participate in compulsory social insurance with civil servants, public employees, part-time workers at commune level who also sign labor contracts. moving. According to the assessment of the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the above provision helps to increase the income of the social insurance fund in the short and medium term, while also increasing the expenditure from the social insurance fund in both short, medium and long term. The number of people who receive one-time social insurance to take care of their immediate life tends to increase. Photo: V.LONG Need to have a share in participating in social insurance According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, the nature of risk sharing is only evident in sickness, maternity, labor accident, and occupational disease regimes. The pension policy is designed to be heavy on the principle of payment – benefit (pay more and enjoy more and vice versa) but lack attention to the principle of sharing between high and low salary people. According to data reported by the Vietnam Social Security, by the end of 2017, the average pension is 4.26 million VND / person / month. In which, the highest is 101.3 million VND / person / month, the lowest is 1.3 million VND / person / month (more than 4,100 people have this pension). The large gap in pension discourages people with low wages, leading to an increase in the number of people who want to receive one-time social insurance. In recent years, each year about 600,000 people enjoy one-time social insurance and leave the social insurance system. Therefore, this agency proposes to amend the method of calculating the average monthly salary paid for social insurance to calculate the pension for the employee, in the direction of the average monthly salary paid for social insurance of that person and the average monthly salary paid for social insurance. of people participating in social insurance to calculate their pensions. Thus, there will be a certain share between the high-paid and the low-paid. “The narrowing of the pension gap will encourage the participants of low-wage social insurance to reserve the time to pay social insurance to enjoy the pension instead of receiving one-time social insurance …” – The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs assessed. The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs said that if allowed, the unit would be authorized by the Government to submit to the National Assembly for consideration and comments on the first bill at the second session of term XV (October 2022). Submit to the National Assembly for approval at the third session, term XV (May 2023). “Tighten” regulations on receiving social insurance once Currently, the condition to receive one-time social insurance is quite easy. Specifically, after one year of not participating in social insurance, the employee can receive one-time social insurance with the entitlement of 1.5 months of salary for each year participating in social insurance before 2014 and two months of salary for each participating year thereafter. Thus, with the contribution to the pension and death fund of 8% of the salary from the employee, the one year of paying 0.96 months of salary, the entitlement to two months’ salary upon receiving one-time social insurance is considered profitable. Along with having to wait too long to enjoy pension, employees will want to receive one-time social insurance to meet immediate needs. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the regulations on one-time social insurance entitlement in the direction of having a roadmap to only deal with employees when they have reached the end of their working age but are not eligible for pensions without the need to continue paying. . Except for the case of going abroad to legally settle down or suffering from a dangerous disease and wishing to receive it once, or if the case is not yet over the working age, but receives one-time social insurance, the rate of entitlement is lower. In addition, the law also needs to amend the conditions for enjoying the pension in the direction of gradually reducing the number of years of minimum social insurance payment from 20 years to 15 years, towards 10 years with an appropriate calculated benefit level, creating conditions for The elderly, with a low number of years participating in social insurance, are entitled to pensions. 65% of Vietnamese elderly do not have a pension According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, by the end of 2020, Vietnam has about 14.1 million people after the retirement age (55 years old for women, 60 years old and older for men). Of which, only over 3.1 million people are enjoying the pension (accounting for 22.1%) and 1.8 million people are enjoying the retirement allowance. There are still about 9.2 million people after the retirement age (accounting for 65%) who have not participated in insurance or any other social security layer.

Before the ship was successfully rescued, the photo became the raw material for netizens to create photos around the trapped Panama flag super ship. The excavator becomes small when standing next to the ship Ever Given. Photo: Reuters. Mission Impossible Abdelgawad, 26, is an excavator worker working in the Suez Canal, earning about $ 190 a month. At 7:00 a.m. on March 23 (local time), he started the shift as usual. However, the entrance to the workplace was locked and no one was allowed in. “I asked the security guard and he said there was a ship stuck in the canal,” said Abdelgawad. Later, he and his colleagues returned to the workers’ lodging in the al-Arbain area, about a 30-minute drive from the workplace. An hour later, Abdelgawad received a call from his manager, asking him to quickly go to the east bank of the Suez Canal. A car from the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) was waiting outside the door. “I told the manager I could not enter the work area because it seemed a boat was stuck in the canal. He told me that I would go there for the sake of this ship, ”said the 26-year-old excavator driver. “When I got there, I saw that the excavator had been loaded onto the truck so that I could get closer to the bow. Going more than 1 kilometer, my heart started beating hard “. “SCA engineers told me about the incident. With 8 years of experience working in the canal, I realized that perhaps it was necessary to suck up all the mud and sand clinging to the bottom of the boat and dig deep from both sides of the ship because the bow was buried deeply in the sand, ”said Abdelgawad. Under this option, the excavator would have to dig more than 15 m deep, while the dredging ships would have to suck up all of the sediment that clinging to underneath so that the ship floated again. The Ever Given was trapped in the middle of the Suez Canal. Photo: Getty. Real life hero Abdelgawad, alone, diligently steered the excavator through the layers of sand under the giant ship. He worked non-stop until the afternoon of March 24, when someone else came to replace him. During 5 consecutive days, he only rested for 3-4 hours per day. “I sat in the excavator and looked up, the ship popped up like a skyscraper. When I started the engine, my heart beat the hardest. Everyone was worried about me for working right underneath my baby. Such a giant ship is extremely dangerous, “said Abdelgawad. “I was scared, but still determined to continue. I’m just worried that if something unfortunate happens, how will my father and family live. He only has me as a boy, the rest are two sisters, “he said. Abdelgawad poses next to the excavator. Photo: Abdelgawad. “The sediment layer crumbles into pieces both on the surface and settles down to form very large sediments. If the ship is tilted to a certain degree, me and the little excavator will be crushed by it. I felt like a soldier in real battle, ”said Abdelgawad. On the side of the Abdelgawad family, they kept calling the excavator crew to inquire about his situation every day. Meanwhile, many people have posted photos of the single excavator standing next to the giant super ship Ever Given on social networks and accompanied by ridicule. “They posted it online and laughed at the excavator and I, tacitly said that all my efforts were hopeless. I felt very sad, but I quickly forgot about it with the efforts of the entire rescue team. has been paid back. The ship re-floated on March 29. ” “I captured that great moment and posted it on Facebook. It felt like I had won a war,” said Abdelgawad. Returning to the small village of Danjwan, located on the outskirts of Shirbin city (Daqhaliyah province) Abdelgawad is greeted as a hero. The villagers shouted his name and celebrated. “I know that I have done something great for the country. My dad said he was very proud of me. My life has changed completely, ”said the 26-year-old man.

The statement states that the decision made by the Polish Foreign Ministry was due to the fact that three Russian diplomats have engaged in activities that are inconsistent with diplomatic regulations and endanger Poland’s security.

Russian and Polish flags. Photo: Dreamstime

The statement also expressed Poland’s absolute support for the US measures taken against Russia on April 15.

It is known that earlier in a related development, the US government announced to impose large-scale sanctions on Russia. At the same time expelled 10 Russian diplomats, on the grounds of conducting cyber attacks and interfering in the US presidential election.

The British Foreign Ministry has summoned the Russian Ambassador regarding London’s deep concern about Russia’s hostile policy.

According to Russian media, the British Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian Ambassador to London Andrei Kelin, regarding Russia’s “hostile line of conduct”, the London Foreign Service said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador to Warsaw, Sergei Andreev, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland. According to diplomatic sources, the reason for the summons was related to “the introduction of new sanctions by the United States against Russia”. Another reason may be the situation on Ukraine’s eastern border.