{"id":6901,"date":"2012-08-10T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vnhelp.wordpress.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2024-12-28T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T10:10:04","slug":"the-weekly-round-up-2nd-week-of-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vnhelp.org\/vi\/the-weekly-round-up-2nd-week-of-august\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weekly Round Up, 2nd Week of August"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here are four stories to take note of before you head out for the weekend.<\/p>\n

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A Coming-Out Party in Hanoi<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On the heels of Vietnam’s announcement that it is considering legalizing gay marriage, Hanoi hosted the city’s first ever gay pride parade. The event was small in scale, with about 100 people mostly riding bikes through the city’s streets. Mark Macdonald, writing for the New York Times, notes that this was actually not the first gay parade in Vietnam as various news media had reported. Another gay parade took place a decade ago in Vung Tau.<\/p>\n

Deadly Aid<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A reminder that delivering aid is never as easy as it seems: Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno and Naomi Roht-Arriaza write about how aid sometimes \u00a0inadvertently perpetuates human rights abuses in recipient countries, whether through poor planning or a failure to consider unintended consequences. Some countries where these problems have\u00a0occurred\u00a0include Ethiopia, Colombia,\u00a0Uganda\u00a0and Vietnam. \u00a0Specifically citing USAID and State Department snafus examples, Sanchez-Moreno and Roht-Arriaza call for bolder safeguards to ensure against human rights abuses.<\/p>\n

Vietnam gains $4B Boost from ADB<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n

The Asian Development Bank is providing Vietnam with $4 billion in loans and grants to improve the country’s infrastructure. The infrastructure improvements will be focused on\u00a0agriculture and natural resources, education, energy, finance, transportation, water supply and other municipal infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Vietnam ranks in world’s top 20 nations for internet use<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In another sign of Vietnam’s growing global connectivity, Vietnam was recently ranked as the 18th country with the highest percentage of the population using the internet by the\u00a0Viet Nam Internet Network Information Centre , an affiliate of the Ministry of Communication. Reportedly 35.4% of the population is online.<\/p>\n

Photo by Flickr user emilio labrador<\/a> (Creative Commons)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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