Bắt quả tang cán bộ Cục thuế Quảng Ninh nhận hối lộ

Khi đang nhận trực tiếp 50 triệu đồng từ một DN, ông Hùng bị lực lượng công an bắt quả tang.

Công an tỉnh Quảng Ninh hôm nay cho biết, đang tạm giữ hình sự ông Lê Quốc Hùng (44 tuổi, Phó trưởng phòng Tuyên truyền và Hỗ trợ người nộp thuế, thuộc Cục thuế tỉnh Quảng Ninh) về hành vi nhận tiền hối lộ.

Ông Lê Quốc Hùng. Ảnh cơ quan Công an cũng cấp

Theo đó, ngày 5/4, ông Hùng bị bắt quả tang khi đang nhận 50 triệu đồng của một doanh nghiệp tại một quán cafe trên phường Bãi Cháy, TP Hạ Long.

Một lãnh đạo Cục thuế Quảng Ninh cho biết, sự việc liên quan đến ông Hùng đã được báo cáo lên Tổng cục thuế và UBND tỉnh Quảng Ninh. Cá nhân ông Hùng đã bị tạm đình chỉ công tác và sinh hoạt Đảng.

Hiện cơ quan công an đang mở rộng điều tra vụ việc.

President Trump Takes Steps to End 'Catch-and-Release' Policy

President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum to take steps to end “catch-and-release” policies as he pushes Congress to act on immigration.

The White House says Trump signed the memo that directs his administration to study ways of ending the practices. The policies generally refer to the release of unauthorized immigrants while they await immigration hearings instead of keeping them in custody.

The Trump administration is targeting “catch-and-release” after setbacks on immigration in Congress, including the failure of the president’s plan to grant a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 1.8 million people in exchange for $25 billion for border security and sharp cuts to legal immigration.

Biển lửa dữ dội thiêu rụi cả dãy nhà ở miền Tây

Bộ bàn ghế dát vàng mang phong cách châu Âu hay những bộ bàn ghế được ghép từ gỗ nu quý hiếm luôn thu hút sự chú ý. Còn mỗi lần cá trắm đen khổng lồ hay cá lạ nghi sủ vàng xuất hiện đều gây xôn xao.

Bộ bàn ghế dát vàng 2 tỷ, bí ẩn gỗ nu ngàn tuổi

Xuất hiện trong một cuộc triển lãm mỹ nghệ, bộ bàn ghế dát vàng mang phong cách châu Âu nhanh chóng thu hút sự chú ý đặc biệt của người xem bởi sự sang trọng và đẳng cấp. Giá của bộ bàn ghế dát vàng này là gần 2 tỷ đồng.

Còn những bộ bàn ghế hay sập, tượng được ghép từ những phiến nu nhỏ mà có giá đến cả tỷ đồng, thậm chí cả chục tỷ đồng. Gỗ nu được ví như một loại kim cương cực quý và hiếm, khó tìm và vô cùng đắt.

Bộ bàn ghế gồm 18 món trong đó 8 ghế sofa, 2 bàn, 8 đôn,.. được mạ vàng Ý.

Xôn xao trắm đen khổng lồ, cá lạ nghi sủ vàng, đàn rắn 3.000 con 

Một con cá trắm đen thuộc dạng khổng lồ hiếm có, nặng 61kg, dài 1,5m mà ngư dân đánh bắt được trên hồ Thác Bà, Yên Bái đã được một nhà hàng ở Hà Nội mua ngay.

Con cá trắm đen nặng 61kg ngư dân đánh bắt được ở hồ Thác Bà.

2 ngư dân ở tỉnh Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu vừa đánh bắt được con cá lạ nặng 9kg, dài hơn một mét, thân màu vàng óng ánh, nghi cá sủ vàng.

Khu nuôi thả rắn mòng bán tự nhiên của anh Phạm Ngọc Tĩnh (33 tuổi) nằm giữa cánh đồng ở thôn Tu Lễ (Kim Đường, Ứng Hòa, HN) có diện tích 350m2, thả hơn 2.700 con rắn lớn nhỏ các loại cũng gây chú ý.

Món ăn dát vàng giá rẻ, kem Trung Quốc 3.000 đồng

Đồ ăn dát vàng thường xuất hiện trên bàn tiệc của giới nhà giàu, với giá từ vài triệu tới vài chục triệu, thậm chí là tiền tỷ. Song ở Việt Nam, khoảng 2 năm lại đây, trào lưu kinh doanh đồ ăn dát vàng ngày càng nở rộ. Không chỉ rượu vảy vàng, bánh phủ vàng mà những món đồ ăn uống vặt như trà sữa, kem hay lẩu,... cũng được dát vàng 24k.

Đáng chú ý, thứ đồ ăn này cũng được bình dân hóa với giá chỉ vài chục ngàn đồng và đang xuất hiện tràn ngập thị trường.

Kem nội địa Trung Quốc được rao bán trên mạng xã hội.

Dù mới đầu hè, song kem Trung Quốc đã phủ sóng khắp thị trường, được người dân ồ ạt mua về ăn giải nhiệt bởi được gắn mác “hàng nội địa Trung Quốc”, và quan trọng hơn là giá loại kem này khá rẻ.

Mã thầy Tàu đội lốt đặc sản Việt, bí ẩn quả giống biwa Nhật

Củ mã thầy lấy buôn chỉ 13.000-16.000 đồng/kg, ra khỏi chợ đầu mối Long Biên lập tức được bán với giá 40.000-50.000 đồng/kg. Nhiều người mua về chế biến thành đủ món vì nghĩ đó là đặc sản Việt mà không hề hay biết có rất nhiều hàng Trung Quốc đội lốt.

Cách đây một năm, quả lạ hoắc có tên biwa Nhật đổ bộ thị trường Việt Nam và lập tức gây sốt. Năm nay, biwa Nhật vẫn là loại quả được chuộng mua, nhưng cơn sốt đã hạ nhiệt. Thay vào đó, loại thanh trà có hình dáng, mùi vị gần giống với quả biwa Nhật đang gây sốt, được bày bán khắp vỉa hè Hà Nội với giá 150.000 đồng/kg.

Chữa tiểu đêm nhiều lần không khó nếu biết CƠ CHẾ TÁC ĐỘNG KÉP: Khỏe thận-Phục hồi cơ bàng quang.

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Bia rượu vào là đi ngoài - Ngã ngửa nguyên nhân 90% nam giới không biết

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Cà muối Việt mang sang Nhật bán đắt gấp 10 lần

Giá một lọ cà pháo muối ăn liền tại Nhật Bản đắt gấp gần 10 lần so với ở Việt Nam nhưng chủ cửa hàng thực phẩm Việt tại Nhật này vẫn than “bán giá đó chưa giàu được đâu”.

Nhiều mặt hàng thực phẩm khác của Việt Nam hiện đang bán trên trang Amazon với mức giá khá cao cũng khiến nhiều khách hàng chú ý.

Giá mít tăng kỷ lục, thịt lợn vẫn 'rẻ bèo'

Nhà vườn đang trúng đậm do giá mít Thái đang tăng cao kỷ lục.

Tháng 3, giá mít Thái tại một số tỉnh miền Tây tăng cao, đạt mức kỷ lục từ 40.000-50.000 đồng/kg, tăng gấp 2-3 lần so với cùng kỳ năm trước. Nguyên nhân là do xuất khẩu sang thị trường Trung Quốc thời gian qua khá thuận lợi.

Trong khi đó, sau một năm giải cứu thịt lợn, đến nay giá lợn vẫn thấp, chỉ quanh mốc 29.000-32.000 đồng/kg. Nguồn cung thịt lợn ra thị trường vẫn vượt so với nhu cầu.

Cam, bưởi nguy cơ 'vỡ trận' tại dân ham

Do trồng ồ ạt, cung vượt cầu nên vụ cam, bưởi vừa qua giá bán đã giảm mạnh.

Trước việc vấn đề cây cam, bưởi đang có nguy cơ “vỡ trận” do người nông dânở nhiều địa phương ồ ạt trồng, đại diện Bộ NN-PTNT cho biết, theo quy định mới là không có quy hoạch, tới đây cũng sẽ không có. Bộ này cũng không được phép yêu cầu địa phương, nông dân không được trồng cây này, cây kia.

Hàng xách tay sắp 'hết đất sống'?

Hàng xách tay được bán tràn lan tại Việt Nam

Văn phòng Chính phủ vừa có văn bản hỏa tốc gửi tới 5 bộ, ngành gồm Tài chính, Công Thương, Công an, Y tế, NN-PTNT truyền đạt ý kiến của Phó Thủ tướng thường trực Trương Hòa Bình chỉ đạo tăng cường quản lý đối với hàng xách tay.

Theo các chuyên gia, không phải cứ hàng xách tay là tốt với người Việt, vì có thể mặt hàng đó có tên tuổi, có uy tín tại nước sở tại, nhưng lại không phù hợp với thể trạng, với điều kiện tại Việt Nam. Chưa kể, thị trường hàng xách tay Việt Nam cũng chia làm năm bảy loại. 

Thị trường ô tô tăng, giảm khó lường

Những ngày đầu tháng 4, trong khi nhiều mẫu ô tô lắp ráp và ô tô nhập khẩuđồng loạt tăng giá bán thì cũng có nhiều mẫu ô tô khác lại được giảm giá bán tới cả trăm triệu đồng.

Mẫu xe nhập khẩu Mitsubishi Pajero tiếp tục được giảm gần 200 triệu. Mẫu xe nhập khẩu Teana của hãng xe Nissan cũng được giảm tới 104 triệu. Mẫu xe ăn khách Toyota Vios được giảm từ 10-30 triệu đồng. Hãng xe Mỹ Chervolet cũng giảm giá một số mẫu ô tô lắp ráp trong nước từ 15-60 triệu đồng.

Trái ngược, nhiều hãng lại điều chỉnh tăng giá bán lẻ của nhiều mẫu ô tô. Hãng Honda Việt Nam tăng giá bán của 4 dòng xe nhập khẩu hưởng thuế 0% từ Thái Lan thêm 5 triệu đồng. Hãng Nissan cũng tăng giá bán cho 2 mẫu xe ăn khách là Nissan Sunny và X-Trail với mức 20-25 triệu đồng.

Stock Market Plummets After Trump Explores $100 Billion in New Chines

Stocks ended the week the way they began it: tumbling as investors worry that tariffs and harsh words between the U.S. and China will touch off a trade war that derails the global economy. The latest drop came as the White House proposed tripling the amount of goods from China that will be subject to tariffs.

The stock market changed direction again and again this week as investors tried to get a sense of whether the trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies will escalate. On Friday technology companies, banks, industrial and health care stocks sank. The market didn’t get any help from a March jobs report that was weaker than expected.

With administration officials sounding conciliatory one day and hostile the next and the president quick to fire off yet another tweet, investors simply don’t know what the U.S. wants to achieve in its talks with China, said Katie Nixon, chief investment officer for Northern Trust Wealth Management.

“The process itself seems to be quite chaotic,” she said. “We’re not quite sure what the long-term strategy is.”

The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 572.46 points, or 2.3 percent, to 23,932.76. It’s down 10 percent from its record high in late January.

The S&P 500, which many index funds track, lost 58.37 points, or 2.2 percent, to 2,604.47. The Nasdaq composite slid 161.44 points, or 2.3 percent, to 6,915.11. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks dipped 29.63 points, or 1.9 percent, to 1,513.30.

President Donald Trump’s administration spent the past few days reassuring investors that it’s not rushing into a trade war, and China’s government has done the same. But late Thursday, Trump ordered the U.S. Trade Representative to consider tariffs on another $100 billion in Chinese imports. China said it would “counterattack with great strength” if that happens.

Each nation proposed tariffs $50 billion in imports from the other at the start of this week. Stocks plunged on Monday, but they rallied over the next few days as officials from both countries said they were open to talks and that the tariffs might never go into effect.

The Dow average, which contains numerous multinational companies including industrial powerhouses Boeing and Caterpillar, swung dramatically this week, with almost 1,300 points separating its lowest point Monday afternoon from its high late Thursday. It fell 0.7 percent for the week.

On Friday Caterpillar, a construction equipment maker, slid $5.14, or 3.5 percent, to $142.99 and Boeing, an aerospace company, lost $10.28, or 3.1 percent, to $326.12. Among technology companies, Apple gave up $4.42, or 2.6 percent, to $168.378 and PayPal shed $3.09, or 4 percent, to $73.86.

Jason Pride, chief investment officer for Glenmede’s private client business, said Trump’s latest order caught investors off guard.

“It shows a willingness to go to the mat on this and fight it out,” he said. Still, Pride said all of the proposed tariffs add up to a pretty small fraction of trade between the U.S. and China, and overall, they wouldn’t affect the nation’s economy that much if they do go into effect.

Nixon, of Northern Trust, said businesses also support the idea of making changes in America’s trade relationship with China. Even though investors are optimistic about the state of the global economy and company profits continue to grow, Nixon said the administration is creating the thing investors hate the most: uncertainty.

The government reported that U.S. employers added 103,000 jobs in March, a weaker pace than the last few months. The Labor Department also said fewer jobs were added in January and February that it initially estimated. The unemployment rate remained low and the job market looks fundamentally healthy, but it’s possible some employers are struggling to find workers.

Benchmark U.S. crude dropped $1.48, or 2.3 percent, to $62.06 a barrel in New York while Brent crude, used to price international oils, lost $1.22, or 1.8 percent, to $67.11 per barrel in London. Oil prices fell almost 5 percent this week as investors wondered if an increase in trade tensions will reduce demand for oil by slowing down the global economy.

Bond prices rose, sending yields lower. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 2.77 percent from 2.83 percent. The lower yields mean banks can’t make as much money from lending, and that sent bank stocks lower.

In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline dipped 3 cents to $1.95 a gallon. Heating oil lost 2 cents to $1.96 a gallon. Natural gas rose 3 cents to $2.70 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Gold rose $7.60 to $1,336.10 an ounce. Silver edged up 1 cent to $16.36 an ounce. Copper fell 2 cents to $3.06 a pound.

The dollar fell to 106.85 yen from 107.12 yen. The euro rose to $1.2285 from $1.2256.

Germany’s DAX was down 0.5 percent while France’s CAC-40 fell 0.3 percent lower. The FTSE 100 in Britain lost 0.2 percent.

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index dipped 0.4 percent while South Korea’s Kospi slipped 0.3 percent but Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 1.1 percent after trading resumed following a holiday as investors caught up with the previous day’s global gains.

Jimmy Kimmel’s In-House Movie Critic Gives Us the Real Scoop on John Krasinski's A Quiet Place

Jimmy Kimmel is very excited to see his frenemy John Krasinski’s highly-anticipated horror movie, A Quiet Place, which opens in theaters this weekend. To generate more excitement for the film, Kimmel asked his “in-house movies critic” Yehya to review the film on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (although Yehya may have reviewed a film called “Quiet Please” instead).

Krasinski, who directed and co-wrote the film, stars alongside Emily Blunt (who Yehya reminds us starred in the film “Mary Putin”) as the parents of three young children, all living somewhat off the grid on the outskirts of New York City. Or as Yehya puts it, “He lives in the park with his family.” Their country idyll is interrupted by mysterious beasts who attack at the slightest noise, leading them to live very, very quiet lives.

“After he tells his kids ‘shhh,’ like nobody talk,” explains Yehya. “Because he hears something in the house like ghosts.” And, according to Yehya, if “you do bad, ghosts inside your body” like Patrick Swayze in “Ghostbuster.” Intriguing, right? Yehya ends by encouraging moviegoers to go see “Quiet Please” because “is good movie.”

For the record, TIME’s movie critic called A Quiet Place “one of the most poetic horror movies of recent years.”

The True Story Behind the Movie Chappaquiddick

The evening of July 18, 1969, started out as an ordinary midsummer’s night for one of America’s most extraordinary families.

Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy — who had come to Martha’s Vineyard to race in the Edgartown Regatta on the family’s prized Victura sailboat — was at a cookout for former volunteers and staffers on the 1968 presidential campaign of his brother Robert F. Kennedy, who had just been assassinated the month prior. The party was at a rented cottage on Chappaquiddick Island, and Ted Kennedy attended with Paul Markham, who worked on his 1962 senatorial campaign, and Joseph Gargan, a cousin. Late in the night, he left the party in a black Oldsmobile with 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, who had worked on the RFK campaign.

Then tragedy struck.

The car, with Kennedy at the wheel, careened off the island’s Dike Bridge. Kennedy managed to extricate himself from the overturned vehicle, but Kopechne drowned. Kennedy reported the accident to the police at 9:30 a.m. the next day.

That delay in reporting remains the central mystery surrounding the incident, and the resulting scandal destroyed any hopes of another Kennedy in the nation’s highest office. About a week after the fall, Kennedy told the world in a televised address from his home that he had been “overcome…by a jumble of emotions” in the wake of the event, in a statement masterminded by Ted Sorenson and a damage-control dream team of people who had served in his brother John’s administration. But weeks later, and even now, many agreed with Kopechne’s mother when she said she could not understand what had happened: “Why didn’t they get help?”

In John Curran’s new movie on the scandal (out April 6, starring Jason Clarke as Ted Kennedy, Kate Mara as Kopechne, Ed Helms as Gargan, and Jim Gaffigan as Markham), footage of the realization of the Senator’s brother’s dreams — the Apollo 11 astronauts landing on the Moon on July 20 per JFK’s order to get there by the end of the decade — is woven into the movie’s narrative of Ted Kennedy’s political dreams being dashed.

“The Kennedy debacle became a topic of more interest in much of Washington and elsewhere in the country than man’s landing on the Moon,” as TIME reported in its Aug. 1, 1969, cover story on the scandal. Psychiatrists even speculated that the turn on the wrong path was “some sort of subconscious desire to escape the path” on Kennedy’s part, to “avoid the burdens of becoming a presidential candidate.”

Though the film is primarily set during the week-long period between the scandal and Kennedy’s televised mea culpa, the timeline is based on the accounts documented in a Jan. 1970 inquest into whether there was evidence of any criminal act beyond the misdemeanor to which Kennedy had pleaded guilty, which was the leaving the scene of an accident. (He received a suspended sentence of two months.) In terms of why he did not call the authorities to help rescue Kopechne, the Senator explained that he was convinced it was too late for her.

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Here’s how TIME reported key details about the accident in the inquest:

The transcript told a great deal about Kennedy’s state of mind at the time of the accident. In a televised act of contrition a week after Chappaquiddick, the Senator was uncertain as to the length of time he spent trying to rescue Mary Jo and vague as to how long it took him to make his way back to the cottage where his friends were partying. By the time of the inquest, his memory had improved considerably. His testimony vividly described his and Mary Jo’s struggles to get out of the overturned car and his own seemingly miraculous escape: “I can remember the last sensation of being completely out of air and inhaling what must have been half a lungful of water and assuming that I was going to drown and that no one was going to be looking for us that night until the next morning, and then somehow I can remember coming up to the last energy of just pushing, pressing and coming up to the surface.”

He was even more specific on what happened after he surfaced and caught his breath some 30 feet downstream from the car. According to his account, he dived down to the car seven or eight times during a 15-to 20-minute period, trying to reach Mary Jo, then spent another 15 or 20 minutes resting on the bank before starting down the road to the cottage.

Kennedy’s companions placed his return to the cottage at 12:15 a.m. Gargan and Markham told almost identical stories of their return to the bridge with Kennedy, and their attempts to bring up Mary Jo. Gargan and Markham insisted that they advised Kennedy repeatedly to report the accident and summon help. By the time the trio reached the Chappaquiddick ferry landing, Kennedy seemed to agree. Believing somehow that a full explanation would send Mary Jo’s girl friends down to the bridge in a fruitless—and dangerous —attempt to dive for her themselves, Kennedy instructed Markham and Gargan not to alarm them, said that he would take care of reporting the accident, then plunged alone into the channel and swam across to Edgartown. This despite the fact that the ferry could have been summoned by telephone. Gargan acknowledged that earlier in the day he had discussed post-midnight ferry service with the boat operators. Also, a sign giving instructions about the service was at the landing.

…Kennedy did not report the accident on reaching Edgartown. Instead, he returned to his hotel, changed his clothes and, after a brief conversation with Innkeeper Russell Peachey in which he pointedly asked the time (2:25 a.m.), paced the floor of his room until daylight. Then occurred one of the more bizarre events in an already fantastic case. Rhode Island Businessman Ross Richards, who had won the previous day’s sailing race, testified that he ran into Kennedy outside the hotel around 7:30 a.m. Giving no indication in manner or appearance that anything out of the ordinary had happened, Kennedy calmly discussed boating, even said that he might accept Richards’ invitation to join him and his friends for breakfast.

He was still chatting with Richards and others when Gargan and Markham arrived at the hotel and asked him what he had done about the accident. He had done nothing. As Kennedy explained at the inquest: “I just couldn’t gain the strength within me, the moral strength, to call Mrs. Kopechne at 2 in the morning and tell her that her daughter was dead.” It was 9 before Kennedy notified the police. It was still later—around 11 a.m.—that Gargan told the five women who had been at the party that Mary Jo was dead.

The release of the transcript and Justice Boyle’s report seemed to preclude any further criminal action against Kennedy, though a new grand jury investigation is theoretically possible. But it did nothing to solve the mysteries that still surround the case or to resolve the doubts about Kennedy’s veracity. It also failed to account for local officials’ inept handling of the case from beginning to end. Police Chief Dominick Arena never asked Kennedy why he had not reported the accident for nine hours. District Attorney Edmund Dinis seemed noticeably reluctant to enter the case at all, then pressed belatedly—and vainly—for court permission to exhume Mary Jo’s body so that an autopsy could be performed. His questions throughout the inquest were somewhat less than probing. Justice Boyle’s handling of the inquest findings was inconclusive. He was empowered to bring charges, such as negligent driving or perjury, against Kennedy if he felt that they were warranted; instead, he merely wrote a report implying negligence and questioning Kennedy’s credibility. Last week Boyle, 63, retired after 36 years of court service.

A grand jury also looked into the case, and on April 1970, it was concluded that there was not enough evidence to indict Kennedy on any charges.

The accident’s run in the courts thus ended, but it would keep coming up throughout Kennedy’s life. A TIME-Harris poll published in the Aug. 8, 1969, issue found that while 68% of Americans agreed that “the same thing could have happened to anyone,” at the same time 40% agreed with that his reaction “showed that he should not be given high public trust, such as being President.” (On that last question 45% disagreed, and 15% were unsure.) It dogged him during failed presidential runs in 1972, 1976 and 1984.“NOBODY DROWNED AT WATERGATE,” some bumper stickers read. A TIME analysis ofwhether he could win in 1972 deduced that he couldn’t carry the Midwest because of the question of what a married man was doing in a car with a single woman in the first place. On the 1980 presidential campaign trail, Jimmy Carter made a dig at Kennedy by saying he had never “panicked in a crisis” — thought to be a coded reference to Kennedy fleeing the scene.

“His self-confessed ‘inexplicable’ behavior in a moment of stress raises the issue of how he might act in a major crisis,” a TIME essay on how the public judges political scandalsput it in the immediate aftermath of the event. “His carefully prepared and yet unsatisfying explanation leaves room for the suspicion that he was somehow trying to escape blame for his actions.”

But, of course, the scandal didn’t actually keep him from having a political career. As a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, he earned the nickname “Lion of the Senate” and left his mark on landmark laws ranging from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the Americans with Disabilities Act. That power trumps “postpresidential twilight,” TIME argued in his 2009 obituary—adding that, in fact, “his failure to get to the presidency opened the way to the true fulfillment of his gifts, which was to become one of the greatest legislators in American history.”