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Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Building a positive company culture is not only building a business brand and a national image, but an effective bridge for local enterprises to sustain development and integrate successfully into the global economy. This is the consensus among experts and business leaders at a conference on building corporate culture in nine provinces and cities in the Red River Delta on August 6 in Hanoi. Nowadays company culture is not only a buzzword but an important differentiator to set a company apart from others. It is the “soul of a business”, deciding the long-term success of enterprises. It is what attracts talents and customers. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in 2016 launched the campaign on building business culture among Vietnamese enterprises and decided to name November 10 annually as Vietnamese Business Culture Day. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the role of the company culture as a basic and critical requirement for sustainable development … [Read more...] about Building positive business values to integrate globally

I was startled to find dozens of videos I had deleted before posting or sharing with friends, an embarrassment of outtakes. There I was, lower-resolution and smoother-skinned, staring at the computer camera and adjusting my bangs, looking for a good angle from my dorm room, my parents’ kitchen, a temp job. It was like watching B-roll for a documentary about my insecurities. (Facebook has since announced that the inclusion of deleted videos was the result of a bug, and said it was planning to discard the data from its servers.) The videos were jarring to discover—and suggested questionable data-retention practices at Facebook—but they were not entirely unwelcome. In an era of personal brands and social-media curation, I was amused, and a little wistful, to have a realistic glimpse of what I had been like as an awkward college student. … [Read more...] about How a new class of “digital martyrs” are manipulating social networks

One of the prosecution’s witnesses, a policeman from the village where Temme grew up, testified that in his youth, Temme was known as “Little Adolf”. When the local police tried to dig deeper into allegations that Temme had a personal library of Nazi literature and weapons manuals, the interior minister of the state of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, shielded him from further investigations and from the press. Bouffier, who is now the prime minister of Hesse, argued at the time that it was necessary to protect Temme in order to “guarantee the protection of undercover agents”. The brazenness of Temme’s testimony ignited anger in the German press about the prerogatives of its intelligence agencies, but it has since mostly subsided. Temme has meanwhile retired from the LfV, but continues to draw his pension. … [Read more...] about The neo-Nazi murder trial revealing Germany’s darkest secrets

The public libraries are a slightly different situation in that they don’t run classes in the same way, but on the flip side of that they probably have a lot more access to the community. The best thing they can do is just having good programming and a real focus on seniors because they do have different technology needs. Librarians in a public setting have to be mindful of the different levels and really just introduce information a little bit at a time. Depending on the audience, you might have to have a program where you have basic computer literacy so someone knows how to navigate just turning the computer on and off and getting to the internet. And then you have to level up and ask “How do you find sources online?” And then you have to talk about how to evaluate those sources. … [Read more...] about In the war on fake news, school librarians have a huge role to play

Many officers became non-performers during riots not for want of skills, human and material resources, legal authority and logistics but on account of lack of motivation, will, courage and moral stamina to swim against the tide of subservience and servitude to a chief minister carrying out an anti-minority agenda, for political capital, at the cost of the rule of law. Mahabharat, would explain the state of mind of deviant officers. Bheeshma, narrating the reasons for his supporting Kauravas to Yudhishtira, who sought his assistance and blessings on the eve of the Mahabharat battle, told him: 'Men are slave to wealth (includes power and status) and I am with Kauravas for this reason -- Arthasya Purushodasah| Dasasthvartho Na Kasyachit Iti Sathyam Maharaja Baddhodsmyarthana Kaurave'. … [Read more...] about Gujarat genocide: The State, law and subversion