Cách dùng ‘Finished’ trong câu hỏi

bbc Bạn Taher Abudllah ở Yemen hỏi: Trong hội thoại tôi nghe một ai đó nói ‘Are you finished at the flat?’ Cách diễn đạt này là sai hay đúng? Nếu đúng, thì tại sao? Vì tôi biết rằng cách nói đúng là ‘Have you finished…?’ Trả lời: Trước hết xin nói rằng cả hai [...]

Why Vietnam’s Political Reshuffling Won’t Fix A Struggling Economy

 By Geoffrey Cain / HANOI Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011 Time Leaders pose for a photo with delegates from the military during a tea-break at the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party in Hanoi on Jan. 18, 2011 Kham / Reuters Sarcastic observers joked that the scene — the monotonous non-event held every five [...]

Special Report: Vietnam capitalist roaders follow China’s trail

Motorists go past a poster promoting the Vietnam Communist Party Congress in Ho Chi Minh City January 4, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Kham By John Ruwitch and Jason Szep HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters), Jan 13 – Nguyen Duc Tai was on a mission one sweltering January morning in Vietnam’s commercial capital, Ho Chi Minh City. [...]

Goodnight Tonight – Paul McCartney and the Wings

OO – OO-OO-OO-OO, OO-OO-OO. OO-OO-OO, OO – OO-OO-OO. DON’T GET TOO TIRED FOR LOVE, DON’T LET IT END. (oo-) DON’T SAY GOODNIGHT TO LOVE, IT MAY NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN.

US says China’s military has seen secret expansion

BBC 17 August 2010 Last updated at 04:02 ET China’s People’s Liberation Army tests missiles in the South China Sea The growth of China’s military is shrouded in secrecy which could give rise to “misunderstanding and miscalculation”, a US defence department report says. China has been upgrading its land-based missiles, expanding its submarine force and [...]

Vietnam-U.S. joint exercises start

HANOI, Vietnam, Aug. 11 (UPI) — The United States and Vietnam began controversial naval exercises amid smiling photo opportunities between sailors but also mounting Chinese concern over its ocean territorial claims. The guided missile carrier USS McCain and the aircraft carrier USS George Washington are taking part in the non-combat training exercises in the South [...]

Obama restores rank of disgraced Vietnam general

By PAULINE JELINEK and ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press Writers Pauline Jelinek And Robert Burns, Associated Press Writers – Wed Aug 4, 11:13 pm ET WASHINGTON – More than 30 years after his death, an Air Force general has been exonerated of charges that he violated presidential restrictions on aerial bombing during the Vietnam War and [...]

Wikipedia and FBI in logo use row

Seal that prompted the FBI action A row has broken out between Wikipedia and the FBI over the use of its seal. In a letter sent to Wikipedia’s San Francisco office, the FBI said that “unauthorised reproduction of the FBI Seal was prohibited by US law”. “Whoever possesses any insignia…or any colourable imitation thereof..shall be [...]

China air force exercises ‘carry message’

China has announced a number of military exercises in recent weeks A large airborne military exercise is underway in China’s central and eastern provinces and seas. Fighter jets, spy planes and helicopters, along with 12,000 soldiers, are taking part in the drill. It is one of several announced in official media in recent weeks. The [...]

’2.5 million people affected’ by Pakistan floods officials say

Up to two-and-a-half million people have been affected by devastating floods in north-west Pakistan, the International Red Cross has said. Rescuers are struggling to reach 27,000 people still cut off by the floods, which are the worst in 80 years. At least 1,100 people have died and thousands have lost everything.

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China Renews Criticism of US Over China Sea Dispute

VOA News 30 July 2010 A Chinese defense official is criticizing the United States for taking an interest in a South China Sea dispute for the second time this week. Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said Friday that remarks last week by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were an unwelcome attempt at the “internationalization” of [...]

Vietnam rejects French officer’s ashes request

Gen Bigeard was a veteran of WWII, French Indochina and Algeria Vietnam has turned down a request to scatter the ashes of a French war veteran at the site of a battle which helped end colonial rule by France. General Marcel Bigeard, one of France’s most decorated soldiers, who died last month, reportedly asked to [...]

Vietnam restricts online gaming over youth concerns

By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) — Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has cut off overnight public Internet access in businesses and banned advertisements of online games pending new regulations amid a public outcry over the games’ influence on youth, the state-run news agency reported. The move also temporarily stopped the licensing of online [...]

North Korea warns of nuclear ‘sacred war’

24 July 2010 Thousands of personnel will be taking part in the naval exercises starting on Sunday North Korea says it will use its “nuclear deterrent” in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend. Pyongyang was ready to launch a “retaliatory sacred war” at any time, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) [...]

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) (Julian Abram Wainwright – [...]

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,” [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Spy swap – Mỹ và Nga trao đổi tù nhân gián điệp

July 9, 2010 – Vienna Airport

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 [...]

Vietnam announces bold nuclear plans

Mike Ives 12 July 2010 The reactors in central Vietnam would generate 15,000 megawatts of power 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 [...]

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.

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. A historic photo, from the early 1900s, of the Rue Catinat, which later became the Tu Do (Freedom) Street, and still later [...]

‘Virginity test’ helps free 3 in Vietnam rape case

By TRAN VAN MINH,Associated Press Writer – Friday, 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 [...]

Vietnam GDP Growth Quickens to 6.4% on Bank Lending

More From Businessweek Kobe Steel Plans to Start Vietnam Plant Construction in July Vietnam May Step Up Pace of Privatizations, Hung Says (Update1) Thailand May Lose Top Rice Shipper Perch by 2015, Group Says Vietnam Seeks Lower Interest Rates to Bolster Economic Growth Vietnam Inflation Slows a Third Month on Food Prices By Jason Folkmanis [...]

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 [...]

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