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A 27-year-old Vietnamese comic series based loosely on the popular 'Voltron' animated series of the 1980s is getting republished in Vietnam, stirring up excitement among a generation of readers while prompting worries about copyright infringement. Dung si Hesman (Hero Hesman) was a 160-volume comic series by ‘adaption arist’ Hung Lan. It was published for the first time in Vietnam in 1992. The sci-fi adventure superhero comic follows the protagonist, Hesman the robot, as he battles evil forces in the galaxy in a fictional future set in the 23rd century. It was a huge hit among Vietnamese children and youth at a time when entertainment options were scarce in the absence of computer games and the Internet, with its circulation reaching 160,000 copies per volume at times. Many Vietnamese millennials recall queuing up and fighting with other kids at local bookstores to rent the newest volumes of Dung si Hesman when they first got out. Collecting spin-off items were also … [Read more...] about ‘Voltron’ spin-off comic brings back nostalgic memories, causes copyright concerns in Vietnam

The US space agency NASA released a spectacular panoramic view on Wednesday of the landing site of the Perseverance rover on Mars. The panorama shows the rim of the Jezero Crater where the rover touched down last week and the cliff face of an ancient river delta in the distance. It was taken by rotating the rover's mast 360 degrees. The mast is equipped with dual, zoomable cameras which can take high-definition video and images. The panorama is composed of 142 individual images stitched together on Earth, NASA said. This is the first 360-degree panorama taken by Mastcam-Z, a zoomable pair of cameras aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. The panorama was stitched together on Earth from 142 individual images taken on Sol 3, the third Martian day of the mission (Feb. 21, 2021). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU "We're nestled right in a sweet spot, where you can see different features similar in many ways to features found by Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity at … [Read more...] about NASA releases panorama taken by Mars rover

Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN. VNA/VNS Photo Hữu Thanh NEW YORK — Việt Nam is concerned about the use of or threats to use force in international relations, which goes against the UN Charter and harms international peace and security, Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN, has said. Quý was addressing a UN Security Council (UNSC) videoconference Arria-formula meeting on Wednesday themed 'Upholding the collective security system of the UN Charter: the use of force in international law, non-state actors and legitimate self-defence' with the participants of nearly 30 member countries of the UN Security Council and the UN. He stressed that all countries are obliged to build friendly relations and form a culture of upholding the UN Charter and international law as well as abiding by principles in sovereignty and territorial integrity, not interfering into internal affairs of other states, not using or … [Read more...] about Việt Nam concerned about use of force in international relations

Derek Ong, Electronic Industrial Software Solutions manager, Keysight Technologies Squeezing every last drop of productivity from invested manufacturing equipment on the factory floor was the goal, and hence a lot of focus was on downtime and throughput. Predictive maintenance and asset utilisation are important business outcomes from any successful Industry 4.0 implementation. Then COVID-19 happened. Other than the race to 5nm chips, 5G, and cloud computing, some sectors of the electronics manufacturing industry have seen a drastic drop in volume, leading to a surplus of production assets on the floor. For some, machines have idled. For others, COVID-19 has caused massive supply chain disruptions. The necessary steps taken by governments around the globe to manage and halt the spread of this epidemic, has restricted movement of factory employees and subsequently lowered productivity and output. The trade situation between the US and China has forced manufacturers to shuffle … [Read more...] about Manufacturing analytics in electronics industry – Pivot to quality in the “New Normal”

Motionless, painful with bone cancer On the afternoon of February 22, doctors at the Centre for Joint Surgery and Sports Medicine, under the Hanoi-based Tam Anh General Hospital successfully performed the surgery to replace the entire thighbone for the child patient to treat her bone cancer. Q.A, 11, from Ho Chi Minh City, had suffered a dull pain in right thigh which increased over the past year. Her family sent her to the HCMC Children's Hospital where she was diagnosed with femoral cancer and transferred to HCMC Cancer Hospital for continued treatment. However, after three chemotherapy sessions, she did not get better, while there were signs that the tumour continued to grow, leading to an invasion, breaking the thighbone and causing the child to have the entire right leg cast. At the same time, she still had to endure motionlessness and nagging pain, while continuing to receive further treatment to prepare for next surgeries to remove the tumour. Her family tried their … [Read more...] about Miracle for youngest child in Vietnam with artificial thighbone replacement