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Chính trường Israel: Ăn tiền và ở tù

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SÁNG ÁNH 2/1/2021 9:00 GMT+7 – TTCT

12 giờ đêm ngày 22-12-2020, Quốc hội Israel tự giải tán vì không thông qua được ngân sách quốc gia cho năm 2021. Bầu cử được ấn định vào ngày 23-3-2021. Chuyện này cũng không quá lạ. Việc Quốc hội Israel không hoàn tất nhiệm kỳ định lệ 4 năm không hiếm: từ lập quốc và bầu cử 1949 đến giờ mới có… 10 lần, đây cũng đã là lần thứ 4 phải tổ chức bầu cử chỉ trong 2 năm sau bầu cử lần trước.

Quốc hội Israel gồm 120 ghế đại biểu. Đảng nào có 61 ghế đa số sẽ cầm quyền, nhưng từ 1949, chưa từng có một đảng đơn lẻ nào kiếm đủ số ghế đó – nhiều nhất là 56 ghế. Tất cả các chính phủ cầm quyền tại Israel đều là liên minh giữa nhiều đảng khác nhau. Chuyện này âu cũng là thường tình, cho đến nay.

Ảnh: The New York Times

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Biển Đông

What Does Vietnam Want from the US in the South China Sea?

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The Diplomat

Despite seeking a balance between the superpowers, Vietnam desires more robust security ties with Washington.

Derek Grossman

By Derek GrossmanJanuary 04, 2021   

What Does Vietnam Want from the US in the South China Sea?
Sailors signal to an MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter as it hovers over the flight deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell during a training exercise in the South China Sea, July 22, 2016.Credit: Flickr/U.S. Navy

As the incoming Biden administration formulates its South China Sea strategy, one regional partner that looms large is Vietnam. Over the last few years, tensions between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea have remained high, impacting fishing and natural resource exploration in disputed waters. While the Biden administration is likely to continue the positive momentum in bilateral ties, it is less clear what specifically Hanoi seeks from Washington to help it effectively deter Beijing.

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Thông Tin

The Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative: Towards a Coherent Indo-Pacific Policy for India

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The Indo-Pacific region is increasingly being viewed as a global centre of gravity, both for its economic and demographic potential, and the security challenges that could frustrate those possibilities. India—as a champion of the principle of ‘Free and Open Indo-Pacific’ or FOIP—has initiated engagements with its partners in the region, such as the Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative (IPOI) that aims to ensure the security and stability of the region’s maritime domain. Even as the stakeholders have outlined a set of seven pillars for the initiative, there is still little clarity as to what can be expected from the IPOI. This paper offers recommendations for the IPOI to enable India play a more proactive and constructive role in the region.

Figure 1. Information-Sharing and Fusion Centres in the Indo-Pacific

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Nhân quyền

Essex lorry tragedy must spur greater effort to stop trafficking from Vietnam

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Mimi Vu, Dorothea Czarnecki and Nadia Sebtaoui, The Guardian

Criminal networks are depending on the chaos of Covid and Brexit. Now more than ever we need focus and international cooperation to prevent further tragedies

The 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated as they were being smuggled across the Channel in a sealed refrigeration trailer.

The 39 Vietnamese migrants who suffocated as they were being smuggled across the Channel in a sealed refrigeration trailer. Photograph: Essex PoliceSupported by

Humanity United

Fri 1 Jan 2021 08.30 GMT

Trials in the UK of the drivers and haulage organisers involved in the Essex lorry tragedy in which 39 Vietnamese migrants perished ended in guilty pleas and convictions. Vietnam also convicted the agents who brokered the victims’ journeys to the UK and sentenced them to terms of imprisonment.

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Giáo dục

Sách giáo khoa: Thử nghiệm, hỏng hóc & không ai chịu trách nhiệm

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Giáo dụcVĨNH HÀ 25/12/2020 11:45 GMT+7

TTCT – Một bảng tổng kết về trách nhiệm và hậu quả, cho vấn đề giáo dục quan trọng nhất trong năm khi bắt đầu thực hiện chính sách “một chương trình, nhiều bộ sách giáo khoa”.

Sự kiện lớn nhất của ngành giáo dục trong năm 2020 là việc bắt đầu thực hiện chính sách “một chương trình, nhiều bộ sách giáo khoa (SGK)” sau nhiều năm chuẩn bị. Trước khi bước vào năm học mới, các trường tiểu học trên cả nước được quyền chọn 1 trong 5 bộ SGK cho học sinh lớp 1. Những tưởng sự kiện này đánh dấu một bước ngoặt quan trọng trong nỗ lực cải cách giáo dục, cuối cùng lại thấy 5 bộ sách đều có nhiều sai sót. Năm nay cũng là năm đầu tiên có SGK biên soạn, xuất bản theo hình thức xã hội hóa.

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Food, Môi trường

How Vietnam came to embrace a new vision of the Mekong Delta’s future

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Analysis by David Brown on 24 December 2020

  • Vietnam’s investments in the Mekong Delta helped turn the nation into a top rice exporter and, subsequently, a manufacturing powerhouse.
  • Today, however, the “rice first” policy has become unsustainable, as climate change threatens the fertile Mekong Delta region in Vietnam’s south.
  • In recent years, policymakers have grappled over how to gird the country’s most important agricultural region against the effects of rising seas and upstream dam building.
  • This article is the first in a two-part series on the future of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta.
The Mekong River, a mega-biodiverse river that supports the lives and livelihoods of over 60 million people, is the site of over 100 planned dams. The river is already suffering major negative environmental and social impacts due to dams. Photo credit: VisualHunt.com

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Thông Tin

Vietnam’s Leap Year leaps from normal to the new normal

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By Minh Nga   December 26, 2020 | 07:26 am GMT+7 vnexpress

A pictorial flashback captures Vietnam moving to a pandemic induced “new normal,” experiencing other trials, tribulations and triumphs in a year that has been like no other.

Vietnam’s Leap Year leaps from normal to the new normal

Smartphones are out in full force as thousands capture footage and photos of fireworks that explode above Hanoi’s iconic Sword Lake to welcome the very first moment of 2020. Photo by Tat Dinh.

Vietnam’s Leap Year leaps from normal to the new normal

A man gets stuck in a traffic jam in HCMC on his way to deliver an ochna bonsai full of buds on January 20, five days ahead of this year’s Tet, or Lunar New Year. The yellow ochna flowers are a Tet icon in southern Vietnam. Expert gardeners time plants and branches to bloom in profusion for the holiday. Photo by Huu Khoa.

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Bang giao quốc tế

US Congress stings China with new Tibet law on the next Dalai Lama

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The Central Tibetan Administration welcomed the Tibetan Policy and Support Act passed by the US Congress, calling it a historic move and a clear message to China

WORLD Updated: Dec 22, 2020, 15:20 IST The Hindustan Times

Shishir Gupta

Shishir Gupta
Hindustan Times, New Delhi

The US Congress has passed a law that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to select the successor to His Holiness Dalai Lama.
The US Congress has passed a law that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to select the successor to His Holiness Dalai Lama.(Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

The US Congress has passed a bill that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to choose a successor to their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. The law has been described by Dharamshala, the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile, as a historic move and a clear message to China.

The Tibetan Policy and Support Act of 2020 (TPSA), which was passed by the US Senate, calls for the establishment of a US consulate in Tibet’s main city of Lhasa and underlines the absolute right of Tibetans to choose a successor to the Dalai Lama.

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Biển Đông

South China Sea: US destroyer sails near Spratly Islands to ‘assert navigational rights’

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Chinese military says American warship left when warned by PLATaiwan and Vietnam called out by the US Navy for requiring notice for ‘innocent passage’

Kinling Lo

Kinling Lo

Published: 8:30pm, 22 Dec, 2020SCMP

The USS John S. McCain neared the contested Spratly Islands on Tuesday. Photo: US Navy via AP

The USS John S. McCain neared the contested Spratly Islands on Tuesday. Photo: US Navy via APThe US Navy sent a destroyer near the Spratly Islands in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday to “challenge restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China, Vietnam, and Taiwan”.The operation came after the United States military warned in a document last week that it would be “more assertive” against Beijing. The document set out objectives for the US Navy, Marines and Coast Guard for 2021.

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Bang giao quốc tế

US strikes at the heart of China’s bid to become a tech superpower

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Analysis by Laura He, CNN Business

Updated 0947 GMT (1747 HKT) December 22, 2020

Trump administration dials up US-China tech tensions

Hong Kong (<a href=”https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/22/tech/smic-us-sanctions-intl-hnk/index.html&quot; target=”_blank” CNN Business)

China had been counting on its biggest chipmaker to help the country eventually reduce its reliance on the likes of Intel (INTC) and Samsung (SSNLF). The United States just put those ambitions in jeopardy. Washington announced Friday that it will require US exporters to apply for a license before they can sell to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC). The US government claims that the chipmaker can use its tech to help China modernize its armed forces. SMIC (SIUIF) says it has no relationship with the Chinese military. But in a statement on Sunday, the company acknowledged that while the restrictions are unlikely to hurt its short-term operations, its loftier goals are in doubt. The new US rules will have “a material adverse effect” on its ability to develop highly advanced chips, it said.

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Năng lượng tái tạo

Proposed Feed-in-Tariff reduction could “seriously damage” growth of wind power in Vietnam

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Vietnam might lose position of leading SE wind market: GWEC

Global Wind Energy Council

  • New proposed Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) extension by Vietnamese government would reduce tariffs for onshore and intertidal wind power by 17.4 per cent and 13.6 per cent respectively, one of the most dramatic reductions seen for wind power globally.
  • According to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), this FIT reduction threatens to deter investment and derail the long-term growth of wind power in Vietnam.
  • GWEC welcomes a FIT extension to compensate for permitting and COVID-19-related delays, which collectively will cause Vietnam to miss its 800 MW of wind power capacity target by 41 per cent.
  • GWEC, representing the global wind industry, recommends a minimum 6-month extension to the current FIT, followed by milder reductions to the FIT from May 2022 onwards.

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Nhân quyền

Facebook and YouTube accused of complicity in Vietnam repression

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The Guardian

Amnesty report accuses sites of openly signalling they will bow to authoritarian regimes

A person using Facebook at a cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam,

A person using Facebook at a cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam, last month. Photograph: Kham/ReutersRebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondentTue 1 Dec 2020 00.01 GMT

Facebook and YouTube are complicit in “censorship and repression on an industrial scale” in Vietnam, according to a report by Amnesty International that accuses the platforms of openly signalling that they are willing to bow to the wishes of authoritarian regimes.

Facebook’s executives have repeatedly promoted the platform as a bastion of “free expression”, but in Vietnam, where there is little tolerance for dissent, the company complied with hundreds of requests to censor content earlier this year. This includes peaceful criticism of the state by activists, which is protected under international human rights law.

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Biển Đông

China says aircraft carrier group on way to South China Sea for drills

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China says aircraft carrier group on way to South China Sea for drills - CNA

DECEMBER 21, 20208:13 AMUPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

By Reuters Staff

2 MIN READ

BEIJING (Reuters) – An aircraft carrier group led by China’s newest carrier, the Shandong, has sailed through the Taiwan Strait on its way to routine drills in the South China Sea, China’s navy said on Monday, after Taiwan mobilised its forces to monitor the trip.

While it is not the first time China’s carriers have passed close to Taiwan, it comes at a time of heightened tension between Taipei and Beijing, which claims the democratically ruled island as its territory.

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Phát triển chính trị

Vietnam’s 8-year corruption crusade turns the tide

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By Hoang Thuy, Viet Tuan   December 15, 2020 | 07:51 am GMT+7 vnexpressVietnam's 8-year corruption crusade turns the tideVietnamese policemen stand guard outside a courtroom hearing a trial involving former Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang, Hanoi, Vietnam, January 9, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Kham.

A hands-on, take-no-prisoners approach by top echelons of the Communist Party has been a decisive factor in the success of Vietnam’s eight-year corruption fight.

This was highlighted by senior officials in talks with VnExpress that identified several salient features and factors marking the headway made by the nation’s corruption fight since 2013.

A total of 133 cases and 94 incidents of serious corruption and economic violations were directly handled by Vietnam’s top anti-corruption agency.

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