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sedgewick-gayble · 1 year ago
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*yelling into a microphone* I need to see transmasc serafine content right NOWW!!!!
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icarianlibrary · 10 months ago
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Introduction !!
Name: Pierce
Pronouns: He/Him
Gender: Trans Guy
Sexuality: On the AroAce spectrum & Achillean !!
Religion: LDS (Mormon)
Likes: Writing, Musicals, Art, Music, Reading, Ancient Rome/Greece, any book by Rick Riordan, EPIC the musical, TLT the musical, Hadestown, collecting random soda tabs, Indie pop/rock, Student Council, Speech and Debate, JVQ
Dislikes: Bugs & T.R.A.S.H (Transphobic, racist, ableist, sexist, homophobic)
What I do: I write, draw, and act !!
Art trades: Open
Fic Requests: Closed
Writing/Fic requests: Sure, but only if I'm in the fandom (IF it is a fanfic, an OG story is fine too!!) & the fic request is completely appropriate
Rules for my Art Trades/Fic Requests:
No sexual content requests
Blood is okay
For art trades, please send an example of your work before hand
I will draw non-humans
I won't draw kissing
I won't draw pro-shipping
For fics, I wont write more than 25 pages (I'm working on my own projects)
Fandoms I'm actively in: Percy Jackson/Riordanverse, EPIC: the musical, Hades (The Game), Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, Craig of the Creek, Musicals (Hamilton, Lightning Thief, Hadestown, EPIC, etc), Dead Boy Detectives, Greek Mythology in general, AGGGTM, The Naturals, The Inheritance Games, Sleepy Hollow (2013), The Song of Achilles.
Other: I have POTS, EDS, Aphantasia, Speech Impaired, & AuDHD! I'm writing a musical abt the myth of Icarus (CAN NEVER have too many Greek Mythology inspired musicals in your life ygs </3), I am a published award winning author for an essay I wrote about teen stuttering, and I've been drawing since I was a kid, animating for 4-5 years ish !!
Books I'm writing:
Bloom of the Sun - The god of light, Apollo falls in love with a Spartan prince. Hyacinthus, a beautiful boy, and with an even more beautiful heart. He was the only thing on Apollo's mind, but Apollo's thoughts weren't the only minds Hyacinthus dwelled in. Thamyris and Zephyrus, one mortal, and one god fall in love with the young boy, offending Apollo in doing so. Thamyris boasts about his musical talent and claims to be the best musician in all the land, but when the god of music hears of his lie, one of his muses challenges his musical ability, in which Thamyris faces a fatal loss. Meanwhile, Zephyrus admires Hyacinthus from afar but never acts upon his feelings, unlike the outgoing Apollo who spends every waking hour with Hyacinthus. Apollo spends his time telling tales to Hyacinthus, making music and playing games. Apollo has never loved someone so much. Hyacinthus was the boy Apollo loved. Loved.
6 traumatized teens discover homophobia (Title is a WIP 💀) - Abt these 6 teenagers that are part of an experiment finally realizing they're apart of an experiment
Loving a Dead Boy - A revolutionary pill is created, in which most the population takes. Suddenly murderers have been popping up more than usual. The connection of that pill and the murders have became more prominent by the day. Jax took the pill and falls in love with the boy he is supposed to murder.
The Silent Strokes of Aldric Boyd - People who commit suicide don't go to heaven or hell. They go to 'white space'. A place between the 2 realms where you roam till you're ready for a 2nd chance of life, but even then you have a time limit of how long you can stay. An artist is re-living his life cut short.
Fly me to the sun - A musical based off of the myth of Icarus !! Exploring the difficult relationships between a son and his father, and the childlike wonder of thinking you are above the world.
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republicstandard · 6 years ago
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Everything You Were Taught about Slavery is a Lie
“While slavery was common to all civilizations, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it — Western civilization.”-Thomas Sowell
The American educational system barely teaches history anymore outside of the two defining moments in world history—American slavery and the march to Black Civil Rights, and the Holocaust. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the fact that most of the marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge that fateful day on March 7th, 1965 in Selma, Alabama and again on the 9th were actually paid to do so—$100 a head (and you thought it was just George Soros who rented protesters!). Slavery, the defining characteristic of antebellum American society and the sole cause of the Civil War, was unique to the country, and a moral stain, like the Holocaust in Germany, so deep that it can never be washed away but for the entire nation to cease to exist, at least according to the history textbooks and the general Cult-Marx zeitgeist.
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Yet most serious historians agree that approximately two-thirds of all Whites came to the colonies in some form of bondage. Over one million Europeans were held as slaves from the 1530s through the 1780s in Africa, and hundreds of thousands were kept as slaves by the Ottomans in Eastern Europe and Asia. (John Smith, for instance, had been a slave of the Ottomans before he obtained freedom and helped colonize Virginia.) In 1650, more English were enslaved in Africa than Africans enslaved in English colonies. Even as late as the early nineteenth century, United States citizens were enslaved in North Africa. Of the Africans who arrived in the New World, no more than 6 percent went to the Northern Hemisphere—virtually all of them went to South America. That trade was controlled almost exclusively by Jews. The Dutch West India Company, for example, was heavily financed by Jews, and a number of Jews relocated to Brazil to conduct business transactions there, chief among them the trafficking of slaves.
Slavery was practiced in the Americas before Columbus arrived. Many tribes would cut off a slave’s foot so they could not escape. Slavery, indeed, has been a fixture of human life since humans began to organize into sedentary societies (and probably before). It was really only the moral agonizing of European Christians over its existence that slavery was finally abolished in most parts of the globe. Slave-owning, as it was practiced in the United States, was not limited to only Whites, either. As Barbara Krauthamer helpfully points out in her book Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South:
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes’ removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free Black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended.
About 28% of free Blacks owned Black slaves compared to roughly 1.4% of White owners of Black slaves according to the 1860 US Census. The first legal slave owner in the United States was a Black man named Anthony Johnson. Quoting Henry Louis Gates, Jr.:
In a fascinating essay reviewing this controversy, R. Halliburton shows that free Black people have owned slaves “in each of the thirteen original states and later in every state that countenanced slavery,” at least since Anthony Johnson and his wife Mary went to court in Virginia in 1654 to obtain the services of their indentured servant, a Black man, John Castor, for life. And for a time, free Black people could even “own” the services of White indentured servants in Virginia as well. Free Blacks owned slaves in Boston by 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783; by 1790, 48 Black people in Maryland owned 143 slaves. One particularly notorious Black Maryland farmer named Nat Butler “regularly purchased and sold Negroes for the Southern trade,” Halliburton wrote.
The Chinese were importing slaves from Africa over one thousand years ago. Exempt from the recency bias by dint of the fact that they’re not White and that it does not align with the present ideology, Saudi Arabia and Yemen only outlawed slavery in 1962. Slavery is still common practice across the African continent from the open-air slave auctions in Libya to the enslavement by Muslims of Christian slaves in countries such as Mali and Mauritania. Qatar is literally building their World Cup stadium with slave labor.
Islamic slavery was historically extremely brutal. Most of the slaves (approximately 80%) sent east died, and the male slaves were castrated. As Dr. Bill Warner informs:
The relationship between Blacks and slavery is ironic. A standard approach of Islam to Blacks is that Christianity is the religion of the White man and Islam is the natural religion of the Black man. They add that Mohammed’s second convert was a Black slave, Bilal, who was Mohammed’s companion and the first muezzin (the man who calls to prayer)… Mohammed had many Black slaves in his household. One of his slaves was a Black man called, Anjasha. Mohammed owned Black slaves. It is that simple. His favorite wife, the child Aisha, had a Black slave. But to be fair to Mohammed, he was not a racist about slavery. He enslaved Arabs, Africans, and Greeks. Islam enslaves all kafirs, independent of race… Mohammed used his robe to shield Aisha, so she could watch Black slaves perform a martial arts routine in the mosque. The Hadith tells of a prophecy about a Black man bringing evil to Islam. Black men were prophesized to destroy the Kabah. But when Muslims preach to Blacks they only say that Islam’s first muezzin was a Black man. They don’t tell the rest of the story.
Warner continues:
The criticism of Whites because of their being involved in slavery is standard fare in the media and the universities. Try to find a university that even teaches about the killing of 120,000,000 Africans for Muslims to profit from the 24,000,000 slaves. Blacks define themselves on the basis of slavery. They will not go beyond the White, Christian version of slavery. There is only one theory of history in the Black community—the West African Limited Edition version of history. Blacks will not admit the broad scope of slave history. Hindu slavery? It never happened. White and European slavery? It never happened. Slavery on the East coast of Africa? It never happened. A massive slave trade through the Sahara into North Africa? It never happened. Black, eunuchs at the Medina mosque? It never happened. This incomplete history of slavery is what the taxpayer funds in the state universities. How can Black leaders ignore Islam’s sacred violence in Africa? Why aren’t the Black columnists, writers, professors, or ministers speaking out? They are ignorant and in total denial. They are the molested children of Islam. Blacks are dhimmis and serve Islam with their silence. There is a deep fear of Islam that makes them overlook and placate Islam. Arabs are the masters of Blacks. One thing Whites and Blacks have in common is that their ancestors were enslaved by Islam, and both are too ignorant to know it.
It’s not just the Muslims who’ve been instrumental in the global enslavement and subjugation of Blacks and Whites alike; Jews have been active in the slave trade for millennia, from the Orient to the Occident. Using their massive fortunes accrued from usury during the Middle Ages, Jews were able to purchase an astounding 78% of all Trans-Atlantic slave trading vessels. Over 75% of Jewish families in Charleston, South Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; and Savannah, Georgia, owned slaves. Approximately 40% of all Jewish households in the United States owned at least one slave. The first slave owner in North America—Anthony Johnson—used a Jewish merchant named Samuel Goldsmith as corroborating testimony; thus, the institution of slavery in what would become the United States was legally enshrined on behalf of a Black man (Johnson) and a Jewish man (Goldsmith).
David Levy Yulee, the first Jew elected to the US Senate, was a plantation owner and slaveholder. Judah P. Benjamin, the second Jew elected to the US Senate, was also a wealthy plantation owner and slaveholder—and was one of the principal actors behind the actor John Wilkes Boothe’s assassination of President Lincoln; fearing prosecution, Benjamin was sponsored by Jewish Lord Rothschild to flee to the UK where he became a barrister and eventually Queen’s Counsel in 1872 while the Jewish Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli was in office. John Wilkes Boothe’s father, by the way, was Jewish. Monsanto was founded by John Francis Queeny, husband of Olga Monsanto, who was the daughter of Emmanuel Monsanto, a descendant of one of the South’s largest slave-trading families. The vast majority of the land-swindles of the newly-freed slaves that went on after the Civil War were committed by Jews; most of the carpet-baggers unfairly maligned as “Yankees” were also—and often the same—Jews. The KKK was originally founded to combat this exploitation but quickly lost its way and began terrorizing Blacks.
The institution of slavery in the United States is certainly an important part of our history and was one of the primary sources of tension between the North and the South—but it was far from the only one. Further, the claim that Blacks “built this country” through their labor as slaves is empirically false. The true impact of African slavery on the construction of America is negligible. Not even the profits of slavery had any real hand in the developing of the nation, as less than 1% of the total capital invested during the period of industrialization between 1760 and 1810 came from slave traders. Slavery was not particularly central to the American experience past the period of White indentured servitude and de facto slavery, though Black slavery did form part of the Jewish “portfolio” of assets, which also came to include bootlegging during Prohibition, various snake oil products, and as the 20th century progressed the virtually complete domination of media and entertainment as well as financial capital.
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We now find ourselves in the present age, where Whites remain unfairly scapegoated for a marginal practice in the United States but a practice that was nevertheless ubiquitous in human history; until Whites not only abolished it in their own lands, but also committed significant resources to curb its practice in other parts of the world and set up colonies for freed slaves. The independent state of Vermont was the first country in modern history to explicitly outlaw slavery in its constitution in the year 1777. Slavery was, however, banned far earlier in Ireland (500 AD, but returned in around 800 AD), the Republic of Venice (960), Iceland (1117, though it returned from 1490 to 1894), Korcula (in modern Croatia, 1214), Bologna (1256), Norway (1274), Sweden and Finland (1335), Poland (1347), the Republic of Ragusa (now Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1416), and Lithuania (1588). It was banned in France proper in 1315 by Louis X but continued in the south of the country for centuries after, and in France’s overseas territories until 1794, with a resumption in 1802 before a complete abolishment in 1818. Several Chinese emperors temporarily banned slavery, and Japan did so in 1590 as well (though they retained it as a punishment for criminals), but only Europeans framed the abolition of slavery in moral terms. Their repayment is that they now bear almost the entire blame for not only slavery but conquests and subjugations the world over as if people never knew war or conquest or slavery before the 16th century. This preposterous assertion is another discussion, but suffice it to say that the slavery narrative as it pertains to Western civilization exists solely as anti-White propaganda, as yet another distortion of history—one that is undergirded with a number of elaborate falsehoods—for the grievance mongers to hammer Whites with.
The truth, however, shall set us free.
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Government News 15/3 – News VietNamNet
HCM City, Ireland cooperate in food processing
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong (R) ​and Ireland’s Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture Andrew Doyle. (Source: VNA)
Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong has called on Ireland to exchange experience and transfer technology in food safety and hygiene management in the processing industry. 
At a reception for Ireland’s Minister of State for Food, Forestry and Horticulture Andrew Doyle in HCM City on March 14, Phong said HCM City is interested in agricultural development, especially high-teach agriculture and food processing.
He urged Ireland to intensify cooperation and experience sharing in high-tech agriculture, and preservation and exploitation of ecological forests in service of tourism. 
The official applauded Andrew’s role in promoting the relations between Ireland and Vietnam, including HCM City, in the fields of green agriculture and food safety. 
For his part, Andrew expressed his impression on HCM City’s rapid and dynamic development, saying Ireland appreciates the city’s role in Vietnam’s socio-economic development and wishes to enhance collaboration with the city in the areas of shared concern. 
Specifically, Ireland wants to share experience with HCM City in quality agriculture with high added value products and building agricultural product processing system, and trade farm produce with the city, he said. 
Andrew suggested HCM City roll out master solutions to harmoniously combine ecological tourism development with environmental protection, land management with forest development and protection, while investing in scientific research in agriculture. 
Ireland hopes to continue its cooperation with HCM City in the areas that Ireland has strength and HCM City has demand, benefiting both sides and contributing to enhancing the Ireland-Vietnam relationship, he said.
Int’l Francophone Day celebrated in Switzerland
Ambassador Duong Tri Dung (between two ladies) and delegates at the celebration (Source: VNA)
A ceremony took place on March 14 at the Headquarter of the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, Switzerland to celebrate the International Francophone Day (March 20).
The event saw participation of crowds of representatives from diplomatic missions and international organisations in the city, including Ambassador Duong Tri Dung, head of the Vietnamese permanent mission to the United Nations, the WTO and other international organisations in Geneva.
Addressing the event, Dominique de Buman, head of the Grand Council of Geneva, highlighted the value of language and culture diversity conveyed by French, reflected via the harmonious coexistence of the French, German and Italian language speaking communities in his country. 
Michael Moeller, Director-General of the UN Office at Geneva also underlined the role of French language in promoting language diversity, saying that it enriches the UN system.
On the occasion, Ambassador Dung, who is also Vice Chairman of the Group of Francophone Ambassadors (GAF) in Switzerland, and GAF leaders presented the group’s awards to Michael Moeller and Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, for their outstanding contributions to promoting the values of French language and diversity of culture and language at the UN institutions.
The ceremony also featured art performances by artists from Armenia, the host of the 17th Francophonie Summit in October.
Top legislator: SMEs – momentum of national economy
 Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (5th, right, front) and representatives of SMES. 
Small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have become a momentum for national economic growth, said Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. 
They have generated jobs and income for labourers and significantly contributed to national socio-economic development, and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, the top legislator said at a meeting with a delegation of the Association of Vietnamese small-and medium-sized enterprises (VINASME) in Hanoi on March 14. 
Hailing the association’s contributions to the country’s achievements, she said VINASME has successfully implemented patriotic movements and major campaigns launched by the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front. 
The NA leader praised the association’s scientific initiatives on counterfeit goods combat and drug detoxification, which, she said, have brought great socio-economic benefits. 
She highlighted the Party’s policies and State’s laws on private economy, support for SMEs and business environment improvement. 
The chief legislator pointed out the fact that up to 97 percent of private enterprises have micro and small scale, with low technology, financial capacity, productivity and business efficiency. They have also shown weaknesses in connecting with each other and with foreign-invested businesses, as well as in joining domestic and international value chains. 
This explains why many private firms have to halt operation or dissolve, she said. 
NA Chairwoman Ngan noted her hope that the association will continue to improve its capacity and prestige, and play a more active part in social criticism, and the building and issuance of legal documents on operation of the business circle.
Vietnam, US increase people-to-people exchange
Soldiers search for unexploded bombs and mines
Vice President of the Vietnam-US Society (VUS) Bui The Giang received in Hanoi on March 14 a delegation of the US Fund for Reconciliation and Development led by its Director John Francis McAuliff.
Giang expressed his hope that the delegation will understand more about  land, people, history, culture, traditions and customs of Vietnam as well as the life of Vietnamese people during their visit to Vietnam from March 4-25.
He briefed the guests on Vietnam’s development and integration, Vietnam – US cooperation and challenges in addressing post-war consequences in Vietnam, including the Orange Agent/Dioxin and mine clearance.
The Government of Vietnam has joint hands with international organisations to settle post-war consequences, Giang said, adding that the effective settlement of the issue will help consolidate and build the trust and promote friendship between the Vietnamese and American people in the coming time.
For his part, John Francis McAuliff expressed his admiration at Vietnam’s rapid growth as well as the fruitful development of the Vietnam – US relations.
This current trip to Vietnam is expected to help delegation members get update on Vietnam and the Vietnam – US relations’ development, he said.
During the meeting, the two sides talked issues related to post-war consequence settlement, search for remains of missing-in-action US servicemen in Vietnam, and Vietnam’s people-to-people diplomacy.
Cambodian religions ministry’s delegation visits Binh Duong
Chairman of the People’s Committee of Binh Duong province Tran Thanh Liem (R) ​and Him Chhem, Senior Minister and Minister of Cults and Religions of Cambodia.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of southern Binh Duong province Tran Thanh Liem on March 14 received a Cambodian delegation led by Him Chhem, Senior Minister and Minister of Cults and Religions of Cambodia.
At the reception, Liem briefed his guests on the province’s achievements in socio-economic development.
He voiced his belief that the ties between Vietnam, particularly Binh Duong, and Cambodia will continue to thrive.
Recalling the Vietnam-Cambodia traditional friendship and cooperation, Him Chhem also lauded the province’s comprehensive socio-economic development. 
He expressed his hope that the two countries will foster economic cooperation and experience sharing in social management, thus deepening the bilateral relationship.
VFF leader stresses contributions of LDS Church’s followers to national unity
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man ​(R) and Gary Evan Stevenson, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of LDS Church. (Source: VNA)
President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man highlighted contributions of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Vietnam to the great national unity bloc. 
At a reception for a delegation of the LDS Church led by Gary Evan Stevenson, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the church, in Hanoi on March 14, Man said the LDS Church’s followers have also contributed to national socio-economic achievements. 
He asked the LDS Church’s Representative Committee in Vietnam to continue coordinating with competent Vietnamese agencies in encouraging the followers to participate in social activities, patriotic movements, as well as people-elected and fatherland front agencies. 
The committee was urged to carry out joint programmes on environmental protection and climate change response, and materialise the Law on Belief and Religion which took effect on January 1, 2018. 
For his part, Stevenson emphasised that the VFF has created favourable conditions for the church to promote the role of its followers in patriotic movements and campaigns launched by the VFF. 
He promised that he will continue to encourage the church’s followers to take part in environmental protection and climate change combat, along with programmes providing clean water for people in remote areas and teaching English for the followers in Vietnam.
NA Standing Committee, VFF Presidium reinforce coordination
NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (front, left) and President of the VFF Central Committee Tran Thanh Man sign the revised work coordination regulations on March 14 
The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee and the Presidium of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) on March 14 approved revised work coordination regulations in a bid to improve bilateral collaboration in promoting the strength of the great national unity and promote the quality of NA deputies’ meetings with voters and their supervisory role.
At the meeting in Hanoi, participants reviewed the achievements as well as shortcomings in bilateral cooperation over the past 15 years.
President of the VFF Central Committee Tran Thanh Man said the two sides have obtained important outcomes in bilateral coordination over the last 15 years. To improve their partnership, the two agencies need to regularly exchange information through meetings. 
Man said the NA Standing Committee and the Presidium of the VFF Central Committee should continue working together to fine-tune mechanisms and policies, promote patriotic emulation movements and make law and ordinances. They also need to take part in supervisory activities of the NA and the NA Standing Committee, he noted.
NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said the two agencies have been coordinating effectively, helping to promote their activities as well as of the political system. Particularly, the bilateral coordination has greatly contributed to the reform and improvement of the quality of the NA’s activities, which have become more transparent and closer to people.
She also urged closer and more effective coordination to fulfill each side’s political tasks, especially the building of some draft laws pertaining to human rights, the rights and fundamental obligations of citizens, and the State apparatus, and the amendment of the joint resolution stipulating the organisation of NA deputies’ meetings with voters.
The top legislator also urged both sides to work closely to prepare for the NA’s collection of votes of confidence for persons who hold positions elected or approved by the NA at the parliament’s sixth session in October.
Deputy PM pays homage to Most Venerable Thich Thanh Sam
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh and a Government delegation pay tribute to Deputy Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Discernment Council Most Venerable Thich Thanh Sam. (Photo: VNA)
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh and a Government delegation on March 14 paid tribute to Deputy Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Discernment Council Most Venerable Thich Thanh Sam who passed away on March 13 in Bac Ninh province at the age of 90.
Writing on the funeral book, Deputy PM Binh showed his deep sorrow, stating that Most Venerable Thich Thanh Sam was a good example of a dignitary who devotedly cared for the development of Buddhism and the nation.
“He was a vivid evidence of the close ties between Buddhism and the nation,” Binh wrote, stressing the Most Venerable’s passing is a great loss to the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, monks and Buddhist followers both at home and abroad.
Most Venerable Thich Thanh Sam became a monk when he was 13. 
He joined the revolution against the French colonists and was arrested and detained by the enemy in 1952. When peace was resumed in 1954, he engaged in teaching farmers in Cao Duc commune, Gia Binh district of Bac Ninh to read and write.
He became a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1962.
Most Venerable Thich Thanh Sam was an active member of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha since the organization was formed in 1981. He was elected as Vice President of the Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha at the fifth national congress of the organization in 2002, and then Deputy Patriarch of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha’s Discernment Council in the next congress.
In 2004, he was elected as a member of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee.
He made numerous contributions to Buddhism and the nation and had been conferred with the first and third class Independence Order, the second class War Resistance Order, among others.
The dignitary’s funeral will be held on March 16 in Kinh Bac ward, Bac Ninh city in Bac Ninh province.
Earlier, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Secretariat and head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai, and representatives of many ministries, sectors and localities as well as Buddhist followers also paid homage to the deceased.
PM orders to cut time in granting construction permits
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued Directive 08/CT-TTg on measures to cut time required for granting construction permits and relevant procedures. 
Over the past years, the granting of construction permits has been improved positively in terms of procedures and time. 
However, there are some shortcomings with prolonged waste time and unsynchronized procedures due to the lack of laws, the application of a single window system, close coordination among relevant agencies, and incompetent public servants. 
On February 6, 2017, the Government issued Resolution 19-2017/NQ-CP on main duties and measures for improving the business environment and enhancing national competitiveness in 2017 and orientations towards 2020 which regulates some measures to streamline administrative procedures and cut time in granting construction permits and related procedures to better the business and investment environment in order to achieve the average of ASEAN 4 groups.  
Accordingly, the PM tasked ministries, agencies, and localities to timely and effectively implement Resolution 19 to cut time in granting construction permits from 166 days to 120 days in maximum.
Under Directive 08, PM Phuc asked for further application of IT, the single window system, online public service, and public postal service with a view to further cutting time in granting construction permits.
Specifically, the time in assessing construction designs and granting construction permits will cut from 82 days to only 63 days (down 19 days).
Implementers include the Ministries of Construction, Transport, Agriculture and Rural Development, Industry and Trade, Public Security, National Defense and Departments of Construction, Transport, Agriculture and Rural Development, and Industry and Trade. 
The Directive will be conducted in 2018. 
The PM assigned the Ministry of Public Security, provincial People’s Committees, department of fire prevention, fighting, and rescue to cut time for fire and explosion assessment from 30 days to 20 days. 
Time in power and water supply will be streamlined from 14 days to seven days in maximum.
The Ministries of Natural Resources and Environment, provincial People’s Committees, Departments of Natural Resources and Environment, land registration offices were asked to reduce time in land and property-related land registration from 30 days to 20 days. 
The Government chief also noticed the importance for close coordination among relevant agencies and perfection of the legal system on this field./.
14 legal documents issued in February
The Government and the PM issued 14 legal documents, including 12 Decrees and two Decisions. 
Decree No. 15/2018/ND-CP detailing the execution of a number of articles of the Law on Food Safety, including food safety requirements in the production, trading and use of additives. The Decree consists of eight chapters and 44 articles. 
Decree No. 22/2018/NĐ-CP detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Intellectual Property in 2005 and Law Amending and Supplementing a Number of Articles of the Law on Intellectual Property in 2009 regarding copyright and related rights includes six chapters and 51 articles. 
Decree No. 23/2018/NĐ-CP defines  compulsory fire and explosion insurance products. 
Decree No. 24/2018/NĐ-CP deals with complaints and denunciations settlements in the domain of labor, occupational education and activities of sending Vietnamese laborers to work abroad under contracts, jobs, labor safety and hygiene. 
Decree No. 25/2018/NĐ-CP focused on amending and supplementing some articles of Decree No. 60/2014/NĐ-CP prescribing printing activities.
Three new Deputy Ministers appointed
The PM has appointed two Deputy Ministers of Planning and Investment and a Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs. 
Mr. Vu Dai Thang, former Vice Chairman of the Nam Dinh Province’s People’s Committee was assigned as Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment. 
Mr. Le Quang Manh, former head of the Local and Territorial Economy Department of the Ministry of Planning and Investment was appointed as Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment. 
The PM assigned Ms. Nguyen Thi Ha, Deputy Secretary of the Bac Ninh Province’s Party Committee as Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.  
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