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The problem is, infant formula milk in Vietnam is very expensive (much more than in western countries). Since people care a lot about getting high quality formula for their children (the ones that can afford it), companies have been using it as a product for high profit (exactly the same situation in China). The government have been trying to do price controls, but companies always figure a way out of that. No solution on sight. Also, many such products sold by Vietnamese companies are of substandard quality, they advertise one thing, but give something different. They may mix the original milk powder with lower quality ones or even do a total fake like advertising pure New Zealand formula and actually giving chinese milk powder. A lot of tricky people in Vietnam in the food business, only China is worst. Sorry to say it, but its the truth.
what Vietnam needs is an independent food watchdog.

we can learn one or two lessons from countries who made great advances in food security. take Germany. the people take very serious approaches for example if it comes to drink water and baby milk powder. I can drink water direct from a tap everywhere in the country, because tap water is one of the most controlled items in terms of food security. it has nearly the same quality like mineral water. baby milk powder is more controlled than tap water. lots of reports about hordes of Chinese tourists storm german supermarkets, buying all available baby milk powder, so some store managers are forced to restrict the purchases.


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Official Greeting of Hassan Rouhani, the president of Islam Republic of Iran

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if there is a city that can rival Saigon and Hanoi then it is Da Nang. the city government just approves a plan to build a sea port for a cost of $1.48 billion: Lien Chieu port. I would expect as usual the port serves both civil and military purposes. it is a long term plan though.


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the new port will surpass the existing Tien Sa port by great margin.
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if there is a city that can rival Saigon and Hanoi then it is Da Nang.
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the new port will surpass the existing Tien Sa port by great margin.
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That's right, that's why I live there. There is quality of life in Danang. Good natural environment, clean, fresh ocean air and for Vietnam standards, Its the most well managed, efficient city in Vietnam. :cheers:
 
That's right, that's why I live there. There is quality of life in Danang. Good natural environment, clean, fresh ocean air and for Vietnam standards, Its the most well managed, efficient city in Vietnam. :cheers:
You made a good choice :tup:
 
Bye bye Ba Son shipyard that served the Navy for more than 100 years. See you again in a new location. The place is now for homes of millions of people, who leave rural areas for cities that never sleep.

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"Vo Van Tuan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, met with officers of Laos’s border guard force and Bangladesh’s national defence college on October 4, aiming to enhance defence cooperation"

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Of all of our neighbor, Laos has proven be among the most reliable. But with incoming investment from our Northern neighbor, there is little prediction of what may happen.


 
Money is one thing, but not everything. Laos has a choice with country she wants to rely on for external security, but I wonder why she always chooses Vietnam for almost of her history. That is surprising considering Laos could have chosen more powerful neighbors as China or Thailand, or external powers as America and France.

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Money is one thing, but not everything. Laos has a choice with country she wants to rely on for external security, but I wonder why she always chooses Vietnam for almost of her history. That is surprising considering Laos could have chosen more powerful neighbors as China or Thailand, or external powers as America and France.

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I noticed they don't shave their heads like US soldiers do.

Bye bye Ba Son shipyard that served the Navy for more than 100 years. See you again in a new location. The place is now for homes of millions of people, who leave rural areas for cities that never sleep.

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not green enough imo.
 
Neoteric Hovercraft. US made small size version hovercraft. the Navy may need a bigger version if wanting to transport tanks :D
















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THIS!!! THIS a million times. The majority of the Vietnamese kids born in the US are 5'9-6'1 tall. Vietnamese people aren't short genetically, at least I don't think so. Malnutrition is what causes Vietnamese look sickly. Free infant milk should be given until a child is 13, at the very least.

This must be done if we want children's brain to fully develop. That can't happen if kids spent half their childhood starving. I've been thinking about this for a long time.

It's not just nutrition, U.S. livestock are pumped full of antibiotics and hormones.
 
Money is one thing, but not everything. Laos has a choice with country she wants to rely on for external security, but I wonder why she always chooses Vietnam for almost of her history. That is surprising considering Laos could have chosen more powerful neighbors as China or Thailand, or external powers as America and France.

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As far as I know Laos was a victim of Thailand's expansion over the eras. Lan Xang once owned much of the northeast of Thailand. It fell under the control of the Thais. In the 19th century, Laotians rose up for independence and got help from the Vietnamese. Because Vietnam's ambition was limited in Laos, and many Vietnamese settled in the country and intermixed with Laotians, the relationship between the two countries have been relatively friendly. As Communist Vietnam supported the Pathet Laos, it's natural that post-Vietnam War relationship has been without much rancor.

Because the remoteness, Laos and China's relationship has been less developed, but the two countries have grown a lot closer, but according to reports, new Chinese immigrants have tended to stick to their own ethnic group. That undoubtedly has generated suspicions among the locals similar to the situation in Vietnam.
 
Russia Hints at Reclaiming Cuba, Vietnam Bases in Test for U.S.
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Threatening to open Cold War wounds and further aggravate ties with the U.S. that are already strained by the conflict in Syria, a senior Russian defense official said the military is considering a possible return to its Soviet-era bases in Cuba and Vietnam.

In the clearest confirmation to date that Russia may scrap its decision to withdraw from the two countries more than a decade ago, Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov told lawmakers in Moscow on Friday that the military is revisiting the issue, without providing more details, according to the state-run Tass news service. Responding to a question about the plans, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the global security situation has become “rather fluid” after “substantial changes” over the past two years.

“It’s natural that all countries are assessing these changes in accordance with their national interests and taking certain measures they consider necessary,” Peskov said, referring more detailed questions to the Defense Ministry.

A move to reclaim the bases, abandoned shortly after Putin came to power in 2000, would further expose fault lines of the Cold War standoff with the U.S. as the two former rivals now duel over the 5 1/2 year war in Syria. While Russia withdrew from Cuba and Vietnam, it kept its small base in the Syrian port of Tartus, the only naval facility it’s maintained outside the former Soviet Union.

Since Putin entered the conflict in the Middle Eastern country on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad a year ago, Russia has now added a second base in Syria’s Khmeimim, used for conducting air raids against groups opposed to government forces there. The lower house of parliament on Friday ratified a treaty that allows Russia to keep the air base in Syria indefinitely.

Deepening Rift
The U.S. has blamed Putin’s government for indiscriminate bombing that has killed civilians and targeted hospitals in Syria, cutting bilateral discussions with Russia over the conflict after a Sept. 9 cease-fire deal collapsed within days. Russia hasn’t budged from its support for Assad, continuing to back the Syrian regime’s bombardments in Aleppo, where the United Nations estimates 275,000 people are trapped.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday called for an investigation into possible war crimes in Syria after a hospital bombardment killed 20 people, saying that Russia and Assad’s regime “owe the world more than an explanation” for the attack.

The clashing views are reviving tensions started by the separatist war in Ukraine, with the U.S. and the European Union accusing Russia of backing the insurgency. Russia’s expanding military presence, from Vietnam to Latin America, has already drawn notice from the U.S.

Cuba, Vietnam
The State Department last year confirmed then that the U.S. was pressing Vietnam to bar Russian military aircraft from refueling at the former American base at Cam Ranh Bay, while a U.S. commander raised concerns about Russia’s military activities in the Western Hemisphere. The facility in Cam Ranh Bay, a U.S. base during the Vietnam War, was a Soviet naval base until 2002.

In 2012, a senior military official in Moscow said that Russia was in talks to set up resupply bases in Cuba after undertaking its biggest military overhaul since the Soviet era. Putin visited the Caribbean island in 2014, with Russia writing off $32 billion of Cuba’s Soviet-era debt.

Under the deal that ended the 1962 Cuban crisis, the Soviet Union withdrew its missiles on the island and pledged not to station offensive weapons. Russian military cooperation with Cuba ended in 2002 after Russia closed its radar base at Lourdes, Russia’s only intelligence-gathering center in the Western Hemisphere, which had been operating since the 1960s.
 
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