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In Hanoi, Clinton highlights closer ties with Vietnam, pushes for human rights

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, talks with Vietnamese reporters after a press conference at the Government Guest House in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Clinton is in the Vietnamese capital to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum on security. (AP Photo/Julian Abram Wainwright, Pool)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, talks with Vietnamese reporters after a press conference at the Government Guest House in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday, July 22, 2010. Clinton is in the Vietnamese capital to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum on security. (AP Photo/Julian Abram Wainwright, Pool) (Julian Abram Wainwright – AP)

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Vietnam and China to strengthen relations despite territory dispute

Hanoi – The top diplomats of Vietnam and China on Wednesday pledged to strengthen relations despite territorial conflicts over the South China Sea.

As current chair of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Vietnam would “do our best to strengthen strategic relations between ASEAN and China generally, and between Vietnam and China in particular,” Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem told Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.

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Asean Should Take Lead to Promote Peace, Vietnam Says

July 20 (Bloomberg) — Southeast Asian nations should take the lead in promoting regional peace, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said ahead of a security forum this week involving the world’s biggest powers.

“Asean should further demonstrate its ability and role as a leading force for the promotion of dialogue and cooperation,” Dung said at the opening ceremony in Hanoi of a meeting of the group’s foreign ministers.

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Vietnam history overview

Vietnam is located in a region considered a cradle of mankind, one of the earliest agricultural centres practicing wet rice farming, where the stone and metallurgical revolutions took place.

On the basis of socio-economic development in the time of the Đong Son culture and given the struggle with nature and against aggression, Van Lang State, the first State in Vietnam was established in the 7th century B.C.

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US lawmakers ask Secretary of State Clinton to raise human rights issues in Vietnam

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US lawmakers have asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to raise human rights when she visits Vietnam next week, saying that the issue should be at the heart of the nations’ growing relationship.

In a letter to Clinton sent Thursday, 19 members of the House of Representatives wrote that Vietnam “holds in its cells hundreds of prisoners whose only crime is to peacefully advocate for social justice.”

Clinton’s visit “represents a crucial opportunity not only to raise pressing concerns for imprisoned activists but to integrate human rights issues into the core of US-Vietnam bilateral policy,” they wrote.

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Child-Abuse Case Reveals Vietnam’s Lax Social Services

By Martha Ann Overland / Ho Chi Minh City

For much of the past year, residents of a village in Vietnam’s southern Ca Mau province heard a child screaming in terror in a nearby house, but no one alerted the authorities. As 14-year-old Nguyen Hoang Anh was being branded with hot irons, had solvents poured in his wounds and had his teeth pulled out with pliers, those who heard him ignored his cries. Neighbors feared the couple that employed the boy on their shrimp farm might retaliate against them if they notified officials. Others, knowing police rarely interfere in domestic issues, did not know whom to call.

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Vietnam announces bold nuclear plans

Mike Ives

12 July 2010

The reactors in central Vietnam would generate 15,000 megawatts of power

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Vietnam has announced ambitious plans to develop a nuclear power industry, with the aim of having eight nuclear reactors up and running by 2030.

According to the official Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien officials announced last month (22 June) that the reactors would be located in five central provinces, and would generate 15,000 megawatts of power — enough to meet ten per cent of the country’s power demand.

The first reactor at the first plant, in Ninh Thuan province, will be operational by 2020, according to the plans, putting Vietnam on track to be the first country in South-East Asia to use nuclear power.

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Outsourcing To Vietnam

Oxford Analytica, 03.15.10, 06:00 AM EDT

Rising labor costs and tensions with China have sent companies looking for labor in Vietnam, but Hanoi has its own set of serious problems.

Vietnam is viewed as a viable alternative to China for foreign (particularly U.S.) companies seeking to establish or increase their lower-cost manufacturing capacity.

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In Vietnam, a sign of the times

From French to anti-communist to communist, each regime has put its imprint on street names. Take Saigon — oops, Ho Chi Minh City — where nearly all 60 French-named streets have been renamed.

Ho Chi Minh CityA historic photo, from the early 1900s, of the Rue Catinat, which later became the Tu Do (Freedom) Street, and still later Dong Khoi (Uprising) Street. Believed to have been taken between 1900-1910Credit: Collection Philippe Chaplain – Fédération Nationale du Patrimoine] *** [] (Collection Philippe, Federation Nationale / July 4, 2010)

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times July 5, 2010

Reporting from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam —

Literature lovers who come looking for Rue Catinat in this city once known as Saigon better hope they happen upon a Francophile octogenarian.

The street, made famous in Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American,” hasn’t been called that in more than half a century. These days, it’s called Dong Khoi (Uprising) Street. (And before that, it was called Freedom Street. But more about that later.)

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‘Virginity test’ helps free 3 in Vietnam rape case

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By TRAN VAN MINH,Associated Press WriterFriday, July 2

HANOI, Vietnam – An acupuncturist who claims she can detect a man’s virginity based on a small dot on the ear has become a minor celebrity in Vietnam, where she is credited with helping to free three convicted rapists from prison.

Traditional medicine practitioner Pham Thi Hong started lobbying for the men’s release, pleading their case all the way to the president, because she believes all three men are virgins and therefore could not be guilty of rape.

“They all had small red spots on the back of their ears,” said Hong, 54. “The spots should have disappeared if they had had sex. My many years of experience told me that these men did not have sex before.”

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Vietnam GDP Growth Quickens to 6.4% on Bank Lending

By Jason Folkmanis

July 1 (Bloomberg) — Vietnam’s economic growth accelerated in the second quarter as revived bank lending helped boost manufacturing and consumer spending.

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Về ngạn ngữ

Trên Đọt Chuối Non chúng ta thường đọc nhiều câu danh ngôn rất hay, là những câu ngắn gọn, nhưng chứa đựng triết lý sống và bài học làm người, cách ứng xử trong nhiều tình huống… tuy vậy, nhiều câu ngạn ngữ hay danh ngôn cũng có giá trị tương đối và phãi vận dụng đúng tình huống, hoàn cảnh, tùy đối tượng, chứ không thể máy móc tuyệt đối. Xin đơn cử một ví dụ:

Câu nói “Cha nào con nấy” không thể áp dụng trong mọi trường hợp để qui kết rằng cha làm chuyện xấu, tất nhiên con cũng sẽ làm điều xấu. Hay như câu “Đông tay vỗ nên kêu”, có khi dối nghịch với câu “Lắm thầy thối ma”, nếu trong trường hợp cả đám người xúm vào toàn là thầy rất đại ngôn, nói nhiều hơn làm và cứ “mười người mười ý” nên chuyện thành hỏng bét.

Hôm nay xin tiếp tục loạt bài trong VOA Special English Program, mời các bạn và các em nghe bài Những Câu Ngạn Ngữ Cổ và Đúng
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Bản Việt ngữ do Trần Hồng Hải dịch
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CÁC CÂU TỤC NGỮ XƯA MÀ ĐÚNG

Hôm nay chúng ta sẽ giải thích thêm về tục ngữ. Một câu tục ngữ là câu nói ngắn gọn,nổi tiếng thể hiện một sự thật phổ biến hay niềm tin.Tục ngữ có ở mọi nơi trên thế giới. Nhiều tục ngữ đưa lời khuyên về cách sống.Một số tục ngữ có từ hằng trăm năm trước,nhưng ngày nay vẫn được sử dụng .

Chẳng hạn,con trai tôi giống cha nó về nhiều mặt. Chúng ta thường nói cả hai chứng minh cho câu tục ngữ cha nào con nấy.

Con gái tôi rất thấp.Nó muốn cao hơn.Nhưng tôi nói điều tốt đẹp ẩn chứa bên trong.Kích thước không quan trọng. Một số vật giá trị rất nhỏ,giống như kim cương và những đồ nữ trang khác.Nhưng tôi cũng bảo lũ trẻ nhà tôi rằng đừng trông mặt đoán người.

Đừng để bị lừa bởi bề ngoài.Một thứ có thể nhìn có giá trị, nhưng có lẽ thật sự chẳng đáng giá.Hơn nữa,tôi bảo chúng đừng trông mặt mà bắt hình dong.Không nên đánh giá mọi thứ dựa vào hình thức.

Một câu tục ngữ khác nữa là Đừng cắn nhiều hơn sức mình có thể nhai.Có nghĩa là đừng cố gắng làm nhiều hơn những gì mình có thể.

Đôi khi tôi bảo bọn trẻ hợp sức giải quyết một vấn đề.Rốt cuộc, hai người hợp sức tốt hơn một.Hai người làm việc cùng nhau sẽ đạt kết quả tốt hơn.Nhưng một tục ngữ khác nói lắm thầy thối ma, nhiều người hỏng việc.Nếu quá nhiều người thử làm gì,thì công việc sẽ không hoàn thành tốt.

Tôi cũng bảo lũ trẻ rằng ác giả ác báo.Đừng làm điều xấu với người khác chỉ bởi vì một người khác làm như thế với mình.

Một số người rất bi quan:Họ luôn nghĩ đến những điều xấu đang đến hoặc sắp xảy ra.Những người khác lại rất lạc quan:Họ luôn hướng đến hướng tốt đẹp.Họ nghĩ rằng mọi việc rồi sẽ ổn.

Nhừng người lạc quan có lẽ nói trong cái rủi lại có cái may.Họ có thể tìm thấy mặt tốt trong tình huống xấu.Những người khác vừa lạc quan lẫn bi quan.Họ hi vọng điều tốt nhất và chuẩn bị cho cái xấu nhất.

Một số người thường lo họ sẽ làm gì trong một tình huống sắp sửa xảy ra.Chúng ta sẽ nói rằng lo bò trắng răng.

Thường thì ngăn chặn một vấn đề dễ hơn nhiều so với việc tìm những cách để giải quyết.Vậy nên chúng ta nói phòng bệnh hơn chữa bệnh.

Cuối cùng,tôi đã từng thích câu tục ngữ này:Có thể bắt được nhiều ruồi với mật ong hơn giấm.Mật ong ngọt hơn giấm.Nói cách khác, bạn sẽ dễ kéo người khác về phe mình bằng lời thuyết phục mềm mỏng hơn là bằng những hành động thiếu thân thiện.

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PROVERBS THAT ARE OLD AND TRUE

Proverbs are popular around the world.

Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
Today we explain more proverbs. A proverb is a short, well-known saying that expresses a common truth or belief. Proverbs are popular around the world. Many proverbs give advice about how to live. Some proverbs are hundreds of years old, but they are still used today.
For example, my son is just like his father in many ways. We often say the two of them prove the proverb that the apple does not fall far from the tree.

My daughter is very short. She would like to be taller. But I tell her that good things come in small packages. The size of something is not always important. Some valuable things are very small, like diamonds and other jewels.
But I also tell my children that all that glitters is not gold. Do not be fooled by appearances. Something may look valuable, but may not really be valuable. Also, I tell them do not judge a book by its cover. You should not judge something only by its appearance.

Another proverb is, do not bite off more than you can chew. This means do not try to do more than you are able to do.
Some times I tell my children to cooperate to solve a problem. After all, two heads are better than one. Two people working together can get better results. But another proverb says too many cooks spoil the broth. If too many people try to do something, then the job will not be done well.

I also tell my children that two wrongs do not make a right.You should not do something bad just because someone did the same to you.
Some people are pessimists: they always think about how bad things are or will be. Other people are optimists: they always look on the bright side.They think things will be all right.
Optimists might say that every cloud has a silver lining. They can find something good even in a bad situation. Other people are both pessimists and optimists.They hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
Some people often worry about what they will do in a situation that might happen in the future. We could tell them do not cross that bridge until you come to it.

It is usually much better to prevent a problem from happening than it is to find ways to solve it. So we say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Finally, I always liked this proverb: You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Honey is sweet while vinegar is not.In other words, you can win people to your side more easily with gentle persuasion than by hostile actions.

by Shelley Gollust