December 16, 2024 Posted by Vietnam Briefing Written by Julia Goeb and Vu Nguyen Hanh Reading Time: 5 minutes Vietnamese Lunar New Year, or Tet, is the most significant public holiday in Vietnam. As the longest holiday of the year, it sees a surge in travel activity, leading to the...
Security Council met on Wednesday to discuss political and humanitarian developments exactly a month on from the collapse of the Assad regime. The transitional authorities also outlined their vision for the country’s future for the first time in a major international forum. In his briefing, UN [...
While of course many people come here to pay their respects for loved ones, I was pleasantly surprised at how many people came to simply enjoy the day for a stroll or picnic as there are a multitude of serene areas to take your mind off the stresses of life that often inhibit so many ...
Beijing also began developing its own financial services industry, to compete partially with Shanghai, lessen the potential for Shanghai to claim economic authority, and to allow Beijing a stronger controlling hand over China’s economic policy. I even wrote an issue of China Briefing about it at...
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Vietnam’s foreign contractor tax (FCT), often referred to as the withholding tax, is a tax that is applied to transactions conducted in Vietnam between a foreign company or sub-contractor and a Vietnamese company. It is made up of two kinds of taxes. These are the value added tax (...
Geneva Academy (2014) Academy Briefing No. 7: foreign fighters under international law, October 2014 Google Scholar Gibney M (2015a) Why stripping citizenship from home-grown terrorists won’t work. In: Sydney Morning Herald. http://www.smh.com.au/comment/why-stripping-citizenship-from-homegro...
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to teaching, other factors are also important, such as the ease with which the meaning of an item can be demonstrated (’blue’ is easier to explain than ‘local’) and its appropriateness for what pupils want to say (‘plane’ is more useful than ‘system’ if you want to travel)” ...
At an 8 April White House briefing, Trump warned that the United States would “put a very powerful hold” on WHO funding and criticized the Covid-19 response: “They missed the call…They seem to be very China-centric.” By rejecting travel restrictions, initially accepting China’s early...