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Vietnam Urges Vigilance After More COVID-19 Cases Linked To Rare...

2021-01-23T12:51:16Z

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By Phuong Nguyen HANOI, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Vietnam reported two more coronavirus cases on Tuesday linked to a rare domestic infection in its commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City, while the government urged public vigilance and tighter enforcement of health measures. The Southeast Asian nation is back on high alert after confirming on Monday the country's first community infection in 89 days, prompting the closure of several places in the densely-populated southern city. The latest cases have been traced back to a flight attendant, who had been kept inside a quarantine facility for five days before being released to self-isolate at home. "The flight attendant contracted the virus inside the quarantine area then spread it to others during his home-quarantine time," health minister, Nguyen Thanh Long, [http://www.google.so/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ccsqfjaa&url=https://www.zotero.org/groups/2722983/coilcobweb9649 www.google.so] said in a government statement. "It's the first ever time such thing happened. The flight attendant seriously violated quarantine regulations," he added. Late on Tuesday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said Vietnam would suspend all inbound commercial flights following the new outbreak. Flights for some foreign experts who do business in Vietnam had been operating throughout the pandemic. With its usually strict quarantine and tracking measures, Vietnam has managed to quickly contain its coronavirus outbreaks, allowing it to resume its economic activities earlier than much of Asia. Vietnam crushed its first wave of coronavirus infections in April and went nearly 100 days without local transmission until the virus remerged in the central tourist city of Danang in July and spread widely, before being contained in a few weeks. Prime Minister Phuc has asked citizens and authorities to step up measures to guard against the spread of coronavirus, especially ahead of the Communist Party's five-yearly congress. "There will be many big gathering events ahead the National Congress, our country's biggest political event, we can't let the virus affect us." Vietnam has registered a total of 1,351 coronavirus cases altogether, with 35 deaths. (Reporting by Phuong Nguyen; Editing by Martin Petty and Chizu Nomiyama)

Will You Get A Second Stimulus Check Your AGI May Be The Key. Here s How To Find It

2021-01-23T09:41:03Z

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Your AGI is crucial to your second stimulus check. We'll show you where to find it on your taxes. Sarah Tew/CNET Your [ second stimulus check] could be on the horizon, now that a [ $900 billion stimulus package] passed by Congress is just awaiting the presidential signature to become law. The [ COVID-19 relief stimulus bill] includes up to [ $600 in direct payments] for both [ eligible adults] and their [/personal-finance/which-dependents-get-a-second-stimulus-check-and-for-how-much-what-to-know-now/ child dependents]. Similar to the [/personal-finance/stimulus-check-qualifications-fine-print-income-limit-how-the-first-payment-may-impact-the-next-relief-package/ first round of payments], the amount of money you and your family would receive from a [ second stimulus check] will likely largely depend on a line item from your taxes called your adjusted gross income, or AGI. 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As long as you meet the other [ stimulus check qualifications], single taxpayers with a Social Security number and an AGI under $75,000 are set to receive the full amount of $600. As your AGI goes up, the amount you're eligible for decreases. If your AGI is $87,000 or above, as a single taxpayer you will no longer be eligible for the stimulus check (this is down from a $99,000 cutoff for the first check). If you're filing as head of a household (that means you claim at least one child dependent), you'd get the full $600 check if your AGI is $112,500 or less. And if you're a married couple filing jointly without children and your AGI is below $150,000, you'd get a $1,200 payment. That amount would decrease until you hit $174,000 (that figure was $198,000 in the first check). How can I figure out my AGI if I filed taxes in 2019? If you filed your 2019 federal tax return, pull out your printed records or PDF. 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Dzao Wedding

2021-01-23T08:25:23Z

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The Dzao Tien ethnic minority wedding has three steps like Kinh (the Vietnamese ethnic majority) tradition. Yet the ceremony is also unique. The entire village guests from surrounding villages, sharing the happy family event. This is a social occasion to celebrate marriage, family and community. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); Preparation for Dzao Tien wedding takes a relatively long time period - from two to five years. After the wedding date is fixed by a shaman, the groom's family will bring offerings to the bride's family: 400kilograms of pork piled neatly in bamboo baskets, 12 packs of salt (4 big packs, 8 small packs) wrapped around a pot of silver ingots or nuggets, depending on each families of the Dzao Tien ethnicity. In addition, the groom's family will prepare pork as a special treat. A traditional Dzao Tien wedding is incomplete without fermented pork. Pork is mixed with salt, liquor, and stick rice and then wedding day, the pork is dug up and served to important guests. If buried for long though, the fermented pork still looks fresh and pink, with an alcoholic scent. The special wedding drink is "Muntjac" alcohol, which looks like milk and has sweet taste. Through the brew tasted like beer, it is very intoxicating and likened to taking sleeping pills. Muntjac is made by mixing sticky with fermented alcohol and burying the concoction underground for several months. Dzao Tien people do not distill this liquor normally; they decant the alcohol in a way similar to how Kinh people prepare sticky rice wine. A Dzao Tien wedding is principally held at the bride's household. Traditional weddings took three to 10 days, but now typically last for one day and night. For the bride greeting ritual, the groom designates representatives (one male matchmaker, two men and two women) to visit the bride's home and bring the bride to the groom's home. The two families negotiate and challenge wedding presents to decide a chicken neck cutting ritual wedding date by a shaman, who picks a fortuitous date. The shaman can even determine the ideal hour for the bride to enter her new home. Dzap people believe that it's best to begin at dawn, which is when women in the bride's family adorn the bride with their best clothing and jewelry to her husband's home; the bride undergoes an "out - the -door" ritual with the help of a shaman. The mother-in-law takes the brie to the front gate, where the bride returns all the clothing and accessories to her family members and then proceeds to the groom's home. At the gate of the groom's house await dozens of women holding their most beautiful outfits, which of a rich and powerful family, the bride might have to put on over fifty dresses. The bride is then taken to bow before the ancestor's altar where 12 water bowls and 12 salt packs are arranged. In a private room, the bride removes all the outfits and then accompanies the mother-in-law to the stream to fill a bucket with water. They throw two coins into the bucket to see spirits' opinion of the union. The groom's family then begins a feast. The bride's sister must be the first to drink from the liquor bowls, the shaman must be second, and after that everyone can start easting. From that moment on, the couple is considered husband and wife. After the feast, the groom and delegates from his household bring offerings to the bride's family and act as servants there for one night (traditionally, [http://novoselickoe.ru/bitrix/rk.php?goto=https://parentwatch0.edublogs.org/2021/01/20/how-accomplish-traffic-any-short-promotional-video/ novoselickoe.ru] this lasted from three to ten days). Offerings and rites are carried out as formally as the Oscar's. The groom's family burns a big torch, sings songs praising good life and ancestors, and then gives the bride's family the torch. The bride's family carries the torch around the house and recites incantations to drive away evil spirits, evil plots or hidden thoughts of the groom's family. The shaman accompanies the groom in the thanking ceremony: "Thanks to the ancestors Thanks to the parents who gave her life Thanks to the brige's siblings Thanks to all the women in the bride's family" During the thanking ceremony, the groom invites each person to one cup of liquor, on the wedding night a groom may drink nearly 20 liters of rice. After each cup, the groom bows once and all the women jump up. Finally, before dawn, they weigh the silver dowry with the shaman as the witness. At Dzao Tien weddings, people do not pay much attention to material value, but the shiver weighing is a way to show the bride's family's satisfaction for the groom. Above all such wedding rituals have deep educational significance for younger generation. While tightening relationships in families, in society, and between generations, these marriage ceremonies highlight the woman's role the Dzao Tien community. This article written by Lanh Nguyen from Vietnam Heritage Travel For origi[ ][ ] [ ]

Top US Email Service Providers Hacked

2021-01-23T07:50:34Z

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Three individuals named Giang Hoang Vu - Age 25, Viet Quoc Nguyen - Age 28 and David-Manuel Santos Da Silva - Age 33 have been charged by the US Department of Justice for hacking into various US Email Service Providers and getting away with information relating to approximately over a billion email addresses. It is believed that the perpetrators have managed to make millions of dollars against the stolen information in the biggest data breach in US history. Nationality for the accused have recently been made public, white Giang Hoang and Viet Quoc Nguyen are Vietnamese, David-Manuel is Canadian (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); In US history's most extensive data breach, hackers did not just stop at the proprietary information on these Email Service Providers, but went to the extent of using the companies trusted distribution channels to bulk email individuals whose information had been compromised in the breach. In doing so, the perpetrators were able to reap significant amount of profits by diverting substantial amount of email traffic to involved parties. Such an immense spamming exercise has left these trusted channels in ruins, where disgruntled email receivers may very well block or limit respective email addresses, which could significantly hinder any future marketing efforts made by these US Email Service Providers. One of the accused has already pleaded guilty to the charges of computer fraud and data theft. Giang Hoang Vu and [http://galaxy-at-fairy.df.ru/phpinfo.php?a%5b%5d=%3ca%20href%3dhttp%3a%2f%2funsplash.com%2F%40onionpants5 http://galaxy-at-fairy.df.ru/phpinfo.php?a%5b%5d=%3ca%20href%3dhttp%3a%2f%2funsplash.com%2F%40onionpants5] Viet Quoc Nguyen resided in the Netherlands, were arrested by the Dutch Law Enforcement in Deventer. However, David-Manuel, a Canadian citizen, is accused of laundering funds on behalf of the two Vietnamese hackers against the money received through the email spamming activity. Viet Quoc Nguyen has been accused of hacking a total of eight Email Service Providers between the years 2009 to 2012 within the US, whereas Giang Hoang Vu was responsible for spamming emails. "This case reflects the cutting edge problems posed by today's cybercrime cases, where the hackers didn't target just a single company; they infiltrated most of the country's email distribution firms," Acting U.S. Attorney John A. Horn said in a statement. The threat posed to these leading tech based companies has surpassed any past indicator. In today's day and age of Internet, it has become imperative for all organizations using modern tech and utilities, to increase security against databases incorporating the wide array of sensitive user information including Social Security Numbers and Financial Credentials, in order to avoid cases of Identity Theft and Fraudulent Financial Activities. Said organizations should undertake extensive procedural restructuring integrating use of Impassable Security Suites and the best encryption software available over the Internet. If an organization is widely dependent on using Secure Cloud Storage, it is imperative for them to use Encrypted Cloud Storage to maximize protection for confidential information held on the cloud around the globe. Online Security is definitely not a onetime investment, in order to keep updated with the ever changing security scenario, organizations are need to keep themselves up to date with the latest trends and technology in order to ensure security for the customers, who have entrusted them with their valuable credentials. Sara James is a professional freelancer specializing in IT management issues specifically data security and [ ] . She writes articles to post my research based work and resources that others may find helpful in dealing with data protection.

Every US State Has Been Advised To Consider ethnic Minorities As A Critical And Vulnerable Group In Their Vaccine Distribution Plans According To Centers For Disease Control Guidance

2021-01-23T07:25:30Z

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2021-01-23T07:25:14Z

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