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Article Hero Image AppleInsider may earn an affiliate commission on purchases made through links on our site. Apple informed TechCrunch of the product's end of life in a statement today. HomePod mini has been a hit since its debut last fall, offering customers amazing sound, an intelligent assistant, and smart home control all for just $99. We are focusing our efforts on HomePod mini. We are discontinuing the original HomePod, it will continue to be available while supplies last through the Apple Online Store, Apple Retail Stores, and Apple Authorized Resellers. Apple will provide HomePod customers with software updates and service and support through Apple Care. The company plans to sell remaining HomePod units until stock is depleted, though Apple's online storefront is already sold out of Space Gray models. Support will also continue until the product is declared obsolete. Announced at WWDC 2017, HomePod was Apple's first foray into the smart … [Read more...] about Apple discontinues full-size HomePod, to focus on HomePod mini

APPF focuses on global security (12-01-2005) National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Van An chaired the first plenary session of APPF 13. — VNA/VNS Photo QUANG NINH — Matters of regional and global political security were discussed at the first plenary session of the on-going 13th Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh on Tuesday. Legislators from across the region discussed international terrorism, the Korean peninsula nuclear issue, the Middle East peace process, and the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). Addressing the session, Vietnamese National Assembly Deputy Chairman Truong Quang Duoc said, "The challenges facing our region are becoming more complicated. More than ever, we have to strengthen co-operation through regional and international mechanisms in order to better cope with threats to peace and security in the region." All solutions to global issues must conform to the fundamental principles of international … [Read more...] about APPF focuses on global security

Seminar focuses on Japanese Diet (11-03-2005) HA NOI — The National Assembly’s Library Information and Scientific Research Centre and the Japanese House of Representatives’ Bureau of the Secretariat have jointly organised a seminar on the functioning of the Japanese Diet. The three-day event, which concludes today in Ha Noi, was attended by officials and staff of the NA Office, Parliament members and NA committee heads. The Japanese delegation, led by Susumu Fujino, introduced the structures of the Japanese Diet and the House of Representatives; the relationships between the Diet and the Cabinet, and between the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors; the Diet’s supervisory role; the voluntary vote regime; the law-making and amending processes. "These are issues that are of interest to Vietnamese participants in the context of the ongoing reforms in NA to enhance its effectiveness and in amending laws for the economy and international integration," said … [Read more...] about Seminar focuses on Japanese Diet

UN visit focuses on child rights (06-05-2005) Vice President Truong My Hoa meets with Chairman Jacob Egbert Doek. — VNA/VNS Photo Tung Lam HA NOI — Implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child is the responsibility of every office, organisation and individual in Viet Nam, said Vice President Truong My Hoa yesterday. Hoa met yesterday in Ha Noi with Jacob Egbert Doek, chairman of the United Nations’ Committee on the Rights of the Child. Hoa said the Party and State attach importance to raising public awareness about protecting and providing for children. In addition to passing laws to protect children, Viet Nam has many action plans committed to enhancing children’s lives. The Party and State are committed to helping disabled, ethnic minority, and poor children, she said. Doek said he appreciates Viet Nam’s efforts and his visit is aimed at understanding the situation of Vietnamese children and checking up on the Government’s … [Read more...] about UN visit focuses on child rights

Deputies asked to focus on draft laws at sitting (03-08-2005) HA NOI — The National Assembly’s deputies have been called on by their Chairman Nguyen Van An to focus on discussing and contributing their opinions about draft laws that will go to parliament before the end of the year. The chairman made his request at the beginning of a 15-day sitting to prepare legislation for the November sitting of the assembly in Ha Noi yesterday. The laws the deputies have to consider are: The Anti-Corruption Law; The Law for Practising Thrift and Combating Waste; The Negotiable Instruments Law; The Housing Law; the Environment Protection Law, amended; the Intellectual Property Law; the Youth Law; the Electronic Transaction Law; the People’s Police Law; the Business Law; the Investment Law; the Value Added Tax Law, amended; the Special Consumption Law, amended; the Petition and Denunciation Law, amended and the Bidding Law. An said the forthcoming 8th session of the assembly … [Read more...] about Deputies asked to focus on draft laws at sitting

PM asks Nghe An to focus on infrastructure, irrigation works (11-08-2005) Prime Minister Phan Van Khai meets local people in Nghe An Central Province ‘s Hung Nguyen District on Wednesday. — VNA/VNS Photo The Thuan NGHE AN — Prime Minister Phan Van Khai yesterday asked authorities and senior officials in the central Nghe An Province to concentrate on attracting investments and build transport infrastructure and irrigation works. Khai, who was accompanied by a Government working group, said roads and irrigation networks were necessary for improving the quality of life of ethnic minority people living in the province. Ethnic minority people, Khai said, should be encouraged to change their crops to cultivating high-yielding varieties and raising livestock. The province had potential to breed dairy cattle and develop processing industry for boosting economic growth, he said. The province’s leaders were asked to develop proper solutions to quickly … [Read more...] about PM asks Nghe An to focus on infrastructure, irrigation works

NA focuses on judiciary, calls for more efficiency (01-11-2005) Ha Noi — Viet Nam’s judiciary was heavily scrutinised in the National Assembly yesterday. The discussion focused on how to make courts, prosecutors and law enforcement agencies more efficient and how to set appropriate compensation for any miscarriage of justice. The lawmakers were responding to a report by the Chief Judge of the People’s Supreme Court, the Supreme People’s Procuracy and the Government that dealt with preventing crime and ensuring that sentences were carried out. Deputy Hoang Van Minh, Central Nghe An Province, asked why serious economic crime and drug trafficking kept increasing. He suggested that the solution was to engage the entire political system and society in the fight against crime and criminals. Deputy Nguyen Nghiem, southern Binh Phuoc Province, emphasised that it was important to enhance the strength of the people in the fight against crime. A campaign in his … [Read more...] about NA focuses on judiciary, calls for more efficiency

Tenth Congress to focus on Party leadership and national renewal (19-01-2006) Delegates of the Party Central Committee (PCC) ’s 13th plenum listen to Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh’s closing speech. — VNA/VNS Photo Dinh Xuan Tuan Ha Noi — The 10th National Party Congress would focus on increasing the Party’s leadership and fighting capacity while also boosting people power across the nation. These key focus areas, along with a need to focus on work aimed at helping Viet Nam make the transition from a developing to a developed country, were identified at the Party Central Committee’s (PCC) 13th plenum, which closed in Ha Noi yesterday. The 13th plenum ended successfully yesterday with delegates reaching consensus on preparations for the upcoming 10th National Party Congress, said Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh. "The PCC’s 13th plenum demonstrates the determination of the PCC, as well as the will of the entire Party, to make good … [Read more...] about Tenth Congress to focus on Party leadership and national renewal

PM asks development fund to focus lending on poverty (20-02-2006) HA NOI — Prime Minister Phan Van Khai on Saturday urged the Development Assistance Fund (DAF) to focus its lending on the State’s key projects and poverty reduction projects that benefit remote and ethnic minority-inhabited areas.While working with the DAF in Ha Noi, PM Khai also asked the organisation to ensure that its lending activities are carried out legally, effectively and thriftily. In addition, the PM praised the DAF’s achievements over recent years, describing it as an important loan-provision channel that has helped boost the country’s economic growth and modernisation process. After six years of operations, the DAF had provided more than 6,600 projects with VND179 trillion in committed loans, nearly VND125 trillion of which had been disbursed, the Government leader said. The DAF is assigned to provide loans worth VND31 trillion for development projects this year. To do so, it is required to raise … [Read more...] about PM asks development fund to focus lending on poverty

Viet Nam-US ties to focus on peaceful co-operation (04-03-2006) Ha Noi — The head of the Vietnamese permanent mission to the United Nations, Ambassador Le Luong Minh, has stressed that relations between Viet Nam and the United States are developing positively in a cooperative, friendly, constructive and multi-faceted spirit. He added that these developing ties have been based on a foundation of equality and mutual respect, as agreed by the two countries’ leaders, for the countries’ mutual benefit and for peace and development in the region and the rest of the world. He made the remarks at a round-table meeting on US ties with Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos and Cuba, which was jointly hosted by the US-based Fund for Reconciliation and Development (FRD), the Institute of International Education and the Asia Society in New York on March 1. Regarding differences between Viet Nam and the US in both bilateral relations and international forums, Ambassador Minh affirmed Viet … [Read more...] about Viet Nam-US ties to focus on peaceful co-operation