Calmness when solving problems of our country

Dear brothers and sisters,

Many people solve problems of our country with a lot of pain. However a few people solve with a little pain, or no suffering.

So how to solve problems of our country without suffering?
Or, how to reach calmness when solving problems of our country?

To keep the equanimity heart.

Example: While I’m working for the rights of women and girls, I usually pray to Jesus and Buddha that: “Please keep my heart in equanimity. Yes, the equanimous heart. You and I know that the best thing I can do for them all, both the persecutors and the mourners, is to keep the equanimity heart.”

The world always has persecutors and mourners. The best thing we can do for them all is to keep the equanimity heart. And we will solve the problems of our country deeper and better.

Keep the equanimity heart.

Have a calm heart.

Phạm Thu Hương

USAID helps Vietnam strengthen e-Government capacity

14/10/2020    10:11 GMT+7 vietnamnet

USAID helps Vietnam strengthen e-Government capacity

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At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA)

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed by Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung and USAID Acting Director Bradley Bessire in Hanoi on October 13.

Under the MoU, the USAID will also help the Vietnamese side further develop the national public service portal, an electric platform connecting the Government with people and enterprises.

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Keep an Eye on Taiwan

The battle over the island may be a Cold War relic, but it will shape the future.

MICHAEL SCHUMAN OCTOBER 10, 2020 The Atlantic

Man holding the Taiwan flag up in the air, in front of a blue sky

JOSE LOPES AMARAL / NURPHOTO / GETTY

Taiwan is one of those flash points that has never flashed. The dispute over the island’s fate has had the potential to erupt into conflict between China and the United States for decades. But the feared Chinese invasion has never come. The situation has remained deadlocked for so long that Taiwan’s quandary often drifts into the background of Asian affairs, overshadowed by seemingly more-pressing concerns, such as North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and inflamed tensions between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.

Not now.

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Ho Chi Minh City aims to be rubbish-free

14/10/2020    10:10 GMT+7 vietnamnet

More than 71% of wards and communes in Ho Chi Minh City have been recognised as “clean” areas – one of the outstanding results of the 200-day emulation movement held to celebrate its upcoming municipal Party Congress. 

The movement also had a positive spill-over effect, helping the city take steps towards becoming “a rubbish-free city”.

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Hallelujah

500 Greatest Songs of All Times

Chào các bạn,

Hôm nay chúng ta cùng thưởng thức bài hát Hallelujah rất nổi tiếng nhé.

Nội dung bài hát được lấy từ những giai thoại trong Kinh thánh, và cả trải nghiệm cuộc đời của tác giả. Tác giả bài hát là Leonard Norman Cohen, sinh ngày 21 tháng 9 năm 1934, là một ca sĩ – nhạc sĩ, nhà thơ và tiểu thuyết gia người Canada.

Cohen ghi âm bài hát và phát hành trong album Various Positions năm 1984 với một chút thành công. Nhờ đó John Dale ghi âm bài hát và làm bài hát thêm nổi tiếng, và gợi hứng cho Jeff Buckley hát và ghi âm phát hành bài hát trong album Grace 1994, đưa bài hát lên đến đỉnh ở Mỹ và nhiều quốc gia. Continue reading Hallelujah

Sống với tính thánh của mình

Chào các bạn,

Tạo hóa sinh ra mọi người đều bình đẳng, và nếu bạn cảm thấy bạn sinh ra đã bị bất bình đẳng, vì bố mẹ bạn nghèo, vì bạn bị khuyết tật, vì dân tộc bạn chậm tiến… thì những bất bình đẳng bên ngoài đó vẫn không làm mất đi những bình đẳng mỗi chúng ta đều có bên trong.

Giả sử bạn sinh ra chỉ có một chân, và chỉ biết bò lết, rồi nhảy lò cò một chân, và sau đó có lẽ là chống nạng hay đi với chân giả cả đời. Điều đó chẳng thể cản được bạn trở thành luật sư, bác sĩ, nhạc sĩ hay giáo sư hàng đầu thiên hạ. Ngoại trừ môn chạy đua, bạn có thể làm hầu hết mọi nghề khác với khả năng của một đại sư phụ. Continue reading Sống với tính thánh của mình

Friendship with Buddha

Dear brothers and sisters,

What does Buddha think about friendship?

Friendship is to think of nothing.

Buddha doesn’t think that we’re lower than Buddha.
Buddha also doesn’t think that Buddha is higher than us.
Buddha is our friend and we are Buddha’s friend. Buddha and we are friends.

Friendship is like that. True friendship is like that. Buddha thinks like that.

So we shouldn’t think that Buddha is higher than us.
We shouldn’t also think we’re lower than Buddha.
We should befriend Buddha because of a pure friendship between us and Buddha.

Befriend Buddha.

Have a friendship day.

Phạm Thu Hương

The treat of taking shelter from the rain

Right in the heart of Saigon, walking out of a hotel after a day long seminar, before heading home, I tried to find a place to get some good warm food for dinner, like noodle soup or anything similar. Since I got this miserable sinus, tears and nose had been running all day long.

It was getting dark, and starting to rain. And I did not have an umbrella with me (again, whenever it rained). I told myself to walk fast, hoping to find a place to seat and eat while waiting for the rain to stop. It was in the middle of a busy central district, no shortage of coffee shops and restaurants, but I couldn’t find any place I wished while the rain was getting really heavy. I had to stop to take shelter from the rain. Otherwise, I would be completely soaked and even more miserably sick. Continue reading The treat of taking shelter from the rain

Chinese military spokesperson tells U.S. to halt provocative actions

By Reuters Staff

Chinese Military Spokesperson Tells U.S. to Halt Provocative Actions |  World News | US News
FILE PHOTO: The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS John S. McCain prepares to depart from dry dock at Fleet Activities Yokosuka after an extensive maintenance period in Yokosuka, Japan, November 27, 2018. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Tyra Watson/U.S. Navy/Handout via REUTERS

HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Chinese military spokesperson said on Friday that the U.S. destroyer John McCain had entered waters around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea claimed by China without China’s permission.

“We demand the U.S. immediately stop such provocative actions, (and) strictly control and restrict military operations in the sea and air,” the spokesperson said in a post on an official WeChat account.

The spokesperson also said it would take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security and to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.

Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by Hugh Lawson

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Flooding death toll swells to 29 in central Vietnam

By Nguyen Quy   October 13, 2020 | 01:37 pm GMT+7 VNExpressFlooding death toll swells to 29 in central VietnamPeople row boats on a flooded street in Hue in central Vietnam, October 11, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Giang Huy.

The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by prolonged heavy rains in central Vietnam has climbed to 29 as of Tuesday morning.

Twenty three had succumbed to floodwaters, three had lost their lives in boating accidents, with the remaining three were killed by electric shock while cleaning out their homes, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Twelve other people are still missing while the floods have inundated over 130,000 houses and 4,000 hectares of crops, damaging several roads and bridges, the committee said.

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Largest solar plant in Southeast Asia begins operating in Vietnam

Largest solar plant in Southeast Asia begins operating in Vietnam
An aerial view of the 500kV substation of the Trung Nam Thuan Nam Solar Power Plant in the central province of Ninh Thuan. Photo courtesy of Trungnam Group.

By Dat Nguyen   October 13, 2020 | 12:13 pm GMT+7 VNExpress

The largest solar farm in Southeast Asia has been commissioned in Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan.

The 450 megawatt Trung Nam Thuan Nam Solar Power Plant, which spreads over an area of nearly 560 hectares in Thuan Nam District, went on stream on Monday evening, 102 days after construction began in mid-May.

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Sống tập trung

Chào các bạn,

Các bạn có biết tại sao trong Thiền học, phương pháp Thiền căn bản nhất và quan trọng nhất là ngồi hít thở và tập trung theo dõi hơi thở mình không?

Thiên hạ thường nói phét về những phù phép của ngồi Thiền, như là xuất hồn ra khỏi xác đi chơi đâu đó, hay là Thiền đến mức đầu óc mình thông thái và quán thông mọi việc trong thiên hạ.

Sự thật là, Thiền chỉ có vài công năng: Continue reading Sống tập trung

Infographics: Urban Development in Viet Nam

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URBANET’s latest infographic series with interesting facts and figures about urbanisation and urban development in Viet Nam.

Urbanisation in Viet Nam – Urban and Rural Population in Viet Nam | Viet Nam Infographics © GIZ

The graphic displays the steady growth of Viet Nam’s urban population since 1950. The growth of the rural population stagnated in the early 2000s and is projected to decrease over the next decades. Prospects suggest that by 2040 more people will live in urban than in rural areas.

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