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Today's news: only 51.7% of South Koreans want to get married, 28.3% intend to have children 'with certainty'; Hanoi reports annual crop losses of three billion dollars, Mekong Delta in crisis;  Elections in India scheduled between 19 April and early June; The Israeli government instituted the annual national day of remembrance of the 'catastrophe' on 7 October; Russian President Putin re-elected with 87.17% of the vote. 


Today's news: Beijing strengths law on state secrets to include those related to 'work'. Mayors of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv confirmed in local elections in Israel. The fourth spill of treated Fukushima water into the ocean is expected today. Hanoi ready to ratify UN convention on trade union freedom by the end of the year.

| 28/02/2024
| ASIA TODAY

Built in a year, next to a parish church, the new facility is home to some 40 seminarians from the country’s northern dioceses. Archbishop Joseph Vũ Văn Thiên led the ceremony, also attended by the Papal Representative to Vietnam, Archbishop Marek Zalewski, who took office a few weeks ago in the Vietnamese capital.

| 26/02/2024
| VIETNAM

Police use summons and fines for far-fetched reasons in order to end wives’ support for their husbands jailed for “propaganda against the state”.

| 22/02/2024
| VIETNAM

The number is even more significant given Japan’s demographic winter, and growing labour shortages. Topping the list are workers from Vietnam with 518,364, or 25.3 per cent of the total.

 

| 29/01/2024
| JAPAN
by Steve Suwannarat

The two countries now rank 7th and 10th in Asia in terms of GDP, but while Vietnam is experiencing rapid growth across all sectors, several reports highlight Thailand’s woes because of overreliance on existing strengths amid new challenges, experts say.

| 23/01/2024
| THAILAND – VIETNAM

Japanese law would provide for foreign female interns to have a pregnancy while receiving the necessary subsidies from the company, and then resume the internship. But according to Jiho Yoshimizu, representative of the nonprofit organization that carried out the investigation uncovering the abuses, "their human and reproductive rights are in fact violated by the current Japanese labor system."

| 22/01/2024
| JAPAN - VIETNAM
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