Đầu đàn – Leader of the pack

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Đây là bản hit nhạc pop số 1 vào năm 1964 của nhóm nhạc nữ người Mỹ Shangri-Las. Đĩa đơn này là một trong những bài hát nổi tiếng nhất của nhóm cũng như là một ví dụ văn hóa đại chúng về “bài hát bi kịch tuổi teen”.

Bài hát được George “Shadow” Morton, Jeff Barry và Ellie Greenwich sáng tác. Continue reading Đầu đàn – Leader of the pack

Unlearning

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Life has a lot of roughness – people cheating, backstabbing, betraying, badmouthing, oppressing, hitting each other on the head – so the older we are, the more we become rough as everyone else in the world.

That is a big problem: There is a natural tendency for all of us to become rougher with time.

That is why Jesus said: “If you want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, be like children.” And Siddhartha taught that we are born with a Buddha heart, which becomes sinful as we grow up in an ignorant world. Continue reading Unlearning

‘Repaired’ HCMC road leaves houses flooded

All affected families petition UBND of HCMC to compensate them for “damages” to their homes from street repair works. If HCM City say “no” then they should think aout suing the City in Court. – PTH.

Phan Van Ket watches the waist-high water in the alley through the window of his house.

VNE – By Quynh Tran   November 20, 2023 | 09:17 am GMT+7

The “upgrading” of a street along Lo Gom Canal in HCMC’s District 8 has left its houses lower than the road level, meaning floods inundate the homes every time it rains.

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Climate change hits women’s health harder. Activists want leaders to address it at COP28

Mamta Kumari, a farm worker, takes a brief break between harvesting wheat on a farm in Nanu village in Uttar Pradesh state, India, on Oct. 17, 2023. As the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP is set to convene later this month in Abu Dhabi, experts are urging policymakers to respond to climate change’s disproportionate impact on women and girls, especially where poverty makes them more vulnerable. (Uzmi Athar/Press Trust of India via AP)
Mamta Kumari, a farm worker, takes a brief break between harvesting wheat on a farm in Nanu village in Uttar Pradesh state, India, on Oct. 17, 2023. As the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP is set to convene later this month in Abu Dhabi, experts are urging policymakers to respond to climate change’s disproportionate impact on women and girls, especially where poverty makes them more vulnerable. (Uzmi Athar/Press Trust of India via AP)

BY UZMI ATHAR, PRESS TRUST OF INDIA, AP, Updated 9:02 AM GMT+7, November 21, 2023

NEW DELHI (AP) — Manju Devi suffered in pain for two months last year as she worked on a farm near Delhi, unable to break away from duties that sometimes had her standing for hours in the waist-deep water of a rice paddy, lifting heavy loads in intense heat and spraying pesticides and insecticides. When that pain finally became too much to bear, she was rushed to a hospital.

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Mấy anh trai hè – The boys of summer

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Đây là bài hát của nhạc sĩ người Mỹ Don Henley. Lời bài hát được viết bởi Don Henley và phần nhạc được sáng tác bởi Mike Campbell, phát hành vào ngày 26-10-1984.

Lời bài hát dường như nói về sự trôi qua của tuổi trẻ và bước vào tuổi trung niên, với chủ đề hoài niệm về “tình yêu mùa hè” và hồi tưởng về mối tình đã qua. Trong cuộc phỏng vấn năm 1987 với báo nhạc Rolling Stone, Don Henley giải thích bài hát nói về sự già đi và thắc mắc về quá khứ. (Don Henley – The Boys Of Summer, Wikipedia). Continue reading Mấy anh trai hè – The boys of summer

China’s ‘predatory’ trawler fleet and the fishing industry’s dirty secret

Nov 17, 2023 at 6:04 AM EST00:46 Newsweek

China’s ‘Predatory’ Trawler Fleet And The Fishing Industry’s Dirty Secret

By Micah McCartney

Freelance China News Reporter

China’s alleged abuse of the world’s oceans was examined in recent studies into its vast fishing fleet, which is accused of destroying maritime ecosystems far from its shores and perpetuating the industry’s forced labor practices.

China-flagged ships on the high seas were involved in “theft on a grand scale, unrestricted warfare on natural resources,” said a report by the SeaLight project, which says it uses “commercially available technology to shed light on the maritime ‘gray zone.'”

Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing by Chinese vessels was happening throughout the Asia-Pacific, including within other countries’ exclusive economic zones (EEZ), according to SeaLight, which is under Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation.

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Vietnamese youth obsessed with being trendy

VNE – By Quynh Nguyen   November 17, 2023 | 11:15 am GMT+7

Customers wait in line to buy coin pancakes on Hoi Vu Street, Hanoi, September 2023. Photo by Thanh Lan

When Kieu Oanh heard that the latest new drink, hand-pounded lemon tea, had become popular in Hanoi, she did not hesitate to travel 30 km from Bac Ninh to stand in line.

This is not the first time the 24-year-old girl was quick to try out foods that had gone viral on social media. Whenever she discovered a new food or hangout spot within a 200 km radius, she invited her friends to go with her.

“Instead of listening to other people’s experiences, I want to experience it myself,” the office worker said.

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Nào nào – C’mon everybody

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Đây là bài hát được nhạc sĩ nhạc rock and roll người Mỹ Eddie Cochran sáng tác (cùng với Jerry Capehart) và biểu diễn, phát hành năm 1958.

Dù qua đời ở tuổi 21 trong một vụ tai nạn ô tô tại Anh năm 1960, Eddie Cochran (3-10-1938 – 17-4-1960) vẫn là người có ảnh hưởng lớn ở Anh.

Báo nhạc Rolling Stone xếp bài hát này hạng 411 trong 500 bài hát hay nhất mọi thời đại. Continue reading Nào nào – C’mon everybody

Dyslexia và hành trình để có đầu óc khỏe mạnh

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Những năm đầu tiểu học, mình luôn bị đau đầu khi học, chẳng hiểu tại sao, thế nên mẹ đưa mình đi khám bệnh.

Mẹ đạp xe đạp từ đầu này thành phố đến đầu kia thành phố (Đà Nẵng lúc đó là thành phố thuộc tỉnh Quảng Nam – Đà Nẵng). Dù phải cố gắng ngồi yên sau xe đạp (xe đạp lúc đó không có lắp ghế sau chở bé), không được ngọ nguậy làm mẹ té, phải luôn chú ý hai chân, không để hai chân lọt vào bánh xe làm đứt chân, với em bé 7 tuổi học lớp Hai, được ra ngoài đi chơi là vui rồi, nhằm nhò gì mấy chuyện đó. Continue reading Dyslexia và hành trình để có đầu óc khỏe mạnh

AP PHOTOS: Emotions run high at pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrations around the world

FILE - Demonstrators use the flashlights on their mobile phones as they protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, in Barcelona, Spain on Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)
FILE – Demonstrators use the flashlights on their mobile phones as they protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, in Barcelona, Spain on Nov. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESSUpdated 12:43 PM GMT+7, November 18, 2023Share

In the weeks since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on Oct. 7, people across the globe have taken to the streets en masse — some in support of Israel and some in support of Palestinians.

In Tel Aviv, Israel, friends and family of some 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza call for their return as they participate in a five-day “March for the Hostages” from Tel Aviv to the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

In Manila, capital of the Philippines, activists scuffle with police while marching toward the United States Embassy in solidarity with the Palestinians. In Washington, D.C., a river of people fills the National Mall in support of Israel — a sea of Israeli and U.S. flags.

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Thăm lại Xa lộ 61 – Highway 61 revisited

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Xa lộ 61 là con đường chạy từ quê nhà của Bob Dylan ở Minnesota đến New Orleans, Louisiana. Anh ấy nói trong cuốn sách “Biên niên sử” của mình, “Xa lộ 61 bắt đầu từ nơi tôi đến, Duluth, chính xác.” Anh ấy nói thêm, “Tôi luôn cảm thấy như mình đã bắt đầu trên con đường này, luôn ở trên con đường này và có thể đi đến bất cứ đâu từ con đường này.” Continue reading Thăm lại Xa lộ 61 – Highway 61 revisited

Leisure living is not good

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Nhàn cư vi bất thiện – Leisure living is not good. It means if you have a leisure life, you are not busy with working, then it is not good for you.

Why?

When we have so much time in our hand because we are not working on anything, we become couch potato. Our health is on the way downhill – we are overweight, our muscles weaken from lacking physical activities, cholesterol builds up everywhere in our body from the veins to the heart, and we will start having all kinds of diseases due to the deterioration of the body and the immune system. In addition, when we have too much idle time, our mind goes down because it is inactive so much, and the mind may often wander off into negative thinking, unhealthy thoughts, ailing attitude. Continue reading Leisure living is not good