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Rare turtle released into sea in Nghe An

A rare turtle weighing 32.5 kilos which was handed over by a local resident has been released into the wild in the central province of Nghe An.

According to authorities in Quynh Luu District, Nguyen Van Kim from Quynh Giang Commune, purchased the turtle for VND3.3 million (USD143.47) from another local resident.

The turtle weighs 32.5 kilos

Bringing it home, Kim took care of the animal very carefully and then decided to hand it over to the local authorities. The forest protection board of Quynh Luu-Hoang Mai area transported the turtle to the release site. The turtle belongs to a species listed in the Vietnam Red Book of Endangered Animals.

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Indonesia to start moving state apparatus to new capital in 2023

Indonesia to start moving state apparatus to new capital in 2023 hinh anh 1 Indonesia plans to relocate the capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan province (Source: AFP)

Jakarta (VNA) – Part of ministries, institutions, and central agencies of Indonesia is set to move to the country’s new capital in East Kalimantan province starting in 2023, an official has said.

The Indonesia n Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (PAN-RB) targets that the state civil apparatus in ministries, institutions, and central agencies will have gradually been moved to the new capital by the end of 2023 so that the government machinery will begin operating there in 2024, Minister Tjahjo Kumolo said on the PAN-RB’s official Youtube channel on June 17.

The PAN-RB has prepared a roadmap for the operation, and it is only waiting for the official capital relocation decision, he noted.

In 2019, Indonesian President Joko Widodo selected North Penajam Paser district in East Kalimantan as the location for the new capital. However, construction projects for the new capital have been delayed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Development Planning Agency of Indonesia estimated that the capital relocation will cost about 486 trillion Rp (33.7 billion USD), including 265.2 trillion Rp to be mobilised via public – private partnership, 127.3 trillion Rp from the private sector’s special funds, and 93.5 trillion Rp from the state budget./.

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Vietnamese-American PhD student wins scholarship to Columbia University after studying Han Nom

Nguyen Thuy Dan won a scholarship from Columbia University in the US to pursue a doctorate in East Asian languages and cultures, with research on the formation and development of Vietnamese thoughts in medieval and modern times.

Vietnamese-American PhD student wins scholarship to Columbia University after studying Han Nom

Dan, born in 1994 in the US, is especially good at ancient literature written in Han-Nom (Chinese-Nom characters. Nom is native Vietnamese derived from Chinese script).

However, Dan was not taught Han-Nom literature at high school or university before in the US. He learned it on his own.

Dan was born in Sacramento, California. Dan learned Vietnamese from his parents so that he could read books to his grandmother. His grandmother, born in 1920, was illiterate, and needed her grandson’s help.

When Dan turned 13, his parents brought him to Vietnam where he traveled to many places in the northern, central and southern regions. He went to his mother’s village of Nam Dinh and his father’s village of Nghe An – Ha Tinh.

He then wanted to study the Nom script. However, as he could not find a teacher, his parents bought a Nom script dictionary for him. Dan returned to the US with the dictionary and began learning Nom script by himself for three years.

At the age of 16, he returned to Vietnam once again and became a teacher of English in the outlying Cu Chi district in HCM City. During that time, Dan continued learning Vietnamese.

One day, he heard a 15-year-old girl reading a poem of Ba Huyen Thanh Quan (Ba Huyen Thanh Quan, 1805-1848, was a Vietnamese famous woman poet). He felt so moved that he decided to write poetry.

Nguyen Thuy Dan won a scholarship from Columbia University in the US to pursue a doctorate in East Asian languages and cultures, with research on the formation and development of Vietnamese thoughts in medieval and modern times.

The years at high school and the shock he got after the death of the grandmother when he was 18 years old caused Dan to become even more enthusiastic about learning Han-Nom ancient literature.

This was because the grandmother told him that many members of the great family were very good at sages’ words. She had devoted her life to her children and grandchildren, and he wanted to make her happy knowing that there was another person in the family who understood Confucianism.

He spent many months learning Chinese characters in a house in northern California. After high school, Dan studied at thecUniversity of Houston. He obtainedca bachelor’s degrees in English Literature and Musical Performance (Piano, Clavecin and Church Organ).

He spent a lot of time on Han-Nom studies as well.

After finishing higher education, he returned to California, beginning in-depth research on religion, western and oriental philosophy. He conducted research on Nguyen Duc Dat, a Confucian during the reign of King Tu Duc.

Dan returned to Hanoi for three months to study at the Institute of Han Nom Studies on a scholarship. In 2019, Dan was granted a PhD scholarship at Columbia University, which that year had launched a new major in Vietnamese studies.

“When I graduated from college, I worked as a performing musician. I had had no intention of continuing to study at a higher level until a friend told me one day that Columbia University had the right major for me. And I applied and got a full scholarship from the school,” he said.

The two majors he followed at university did not have a relation with his current major. But his basic knowledge, experience, in-depth research and translations apparently impressed the school.

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Vietnamese people put high trust in Russian Covid-19 vaccine

The two-dose Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine costs less than US$20.

Vietnam is among few countries that have high trust in Russia’s vaccine against Covid-19, according to a survey conducted by global public opinion and data company YouGov.

Percentage of people express their readiness for vaccination against Covid-19. Source: YouGov

The strongest indicator of trust in Russia’s vaccine Sputnik V was recorded in Mexico, Vietnam, the Philippines, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to Russia’s sovereign wealth fund Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF).

Results from the survey of more than 12,000 respondents in 11 countries showed their attitude towards vaccination against the coronavirus and their vaccine preferences. More than 2.5 billion people or 30% of the world’s population, live in these countries.

The survey became one of the largest on this topic and the first global survey involving countries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Four out of five respondents saying they would like to be vaccinated Russian Sputnik V vaccine.

The level of trust to a vaccine based on human adenoviral vector (Sputnik V platform) is 9 times higher than to other non-human adenoviral vector platforms.

Russia as a vaccine manufacturer is the most highly trusted, with 21% of the votes, surpassing the USA at 15% and China at 13% among the first choice countries named by respondents.

Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of RDIF, commented that the survey covered 11 countries located in various world regions, meaning the survey had a good representation of different nationalities and cultures.

The survey participants who had heard about the Sputnik V vaccine expressed a greater readiness to vaccination due to their understanding of the reliability, safety and efficacy of the Russian vaccine, he added.

Sputnik V vaccine

Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus. Photo: Shutterstock

Sputnik V vaccine is based on a well-studied human adenoviral vector platform that has proven safe and effective with no long-term side effects in more than 250 clinical trials globally conducted during the past two decades – while the history of the use of human adenoviruses in vaccine development began in 1953.

More than 100,000 people have received approved and registered drugs based on human adenoviral vectors.

Currently, 40,000 volunteers are taking part in the Phase III double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical post-registration study of the Sputnik V vaccine in Russia, of whom more than 22,000 volunteers were vaccinated with the first dose and more than 19,000 volunteers with the first and second doses.

There were no unexpected adverse events during the trials. Monitoring of the participants is ongoing.

The uniqueness of the Russian vaccine lies in the use of two different human adenoviral vectors which allows for a stronger and longer-term immune response as compared to the vaccines using one and the same vector for two doses.

According to RDIF, cost of one dose of Sputnik V vaccine for international markets will be less than US$10. Sputnik V is a two-dose vaccine. Its cost is two or more times cheaper than messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines with similar efficacy levels.

The first international deliveries of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine will be made to customers in January 2021 based on the existing partnerships with foreign manufacturers.

RDIF continues expanding existing agreements with international manufacturing partners to produce the vaccine for more than 500 million people starting from 2021.