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Belt and rail: New Vietnam- China train aims to put relations on track
Updating a colonial legacy railway might offer more than a
smoother connection between sometimes tense neighbours.
An early morning start in Lao Cai in 2013 (Photo: Biggs/Flickr)
Published 15 Jan 2020 06:00 Lowry Institute
Last year, China and Vietnam unveiled plans to refurbish a colonial-era railway between the two countries. It was an attempt to update a historical legacy – and also signified new bilateral dynamics in a consequential and sometimes fraught regional relationship.
Mekong communities struggle as China tests dam equipment
Water levels have fluctuated sharply with testing, but some are encouraged that China gave warning of its plan.
by Leonie Kijewski , Al Jazeera
![People along the Mekong are struggling with sharply fluctuation water levels as China tests dam equipment. This Thai woman said her garden on the river bank was damaged by flash floods as water was released from the upstream dam [International Rivers via Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/1/12/eddfd6d2107149b2bb16d84b2343fdce_18.jpg "Mekong communities struggle as China tests dam equipment")
People along the Mekong are struggling with sharply fluctuation water levels as China tests dam equipment. This Thai woman said her garden on the river bank was damaged by flash floods as water was released from the upstream dam [International Rivers via Al Jazeera]
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Water levels on the Mekong River, which flows through China and five other countries before emptying into the South China Sea, have dropped once again after Beijing revealed it was testing equipment at one of its 11 dams in the upper reaches of the vital waterway.
Vietnamese goods in face of pressure from trade protectionism
By the end of last year, more than 160 trade remedies investigations were launched and applied to Vietnamese goods. It is forecast that there will be 25 export products being investigated this year.
Nine out of 16 cases of trade remedies investigations are on steel products, accounting for 60 percent. (Photo: SGGP)
In 2019 alone, the number of cases of trade remedies and disputes related to export products of Vietnam increased rapidly with nearly 20 cases, the highest level in history. The US remained the country which probed most into Vietnam’s export products with 31 cases, followed by Turkey with 21 cases, India with 21 cases and the EU with 14 cases. In terms of the subject of the trade remedies investigations, nine out of 16 cases were steel products, accounting for 60 percent.
Bữa cơm vội của Phó Trung đoàn trưởng hy sinh ở Đồng Tâm
Đọc bài quan trọng “Phân tích pháp lý về đất đai trong vu Đồng Tâm“
12/01/2020 06:00 GMT+7
Thượng tá Nguyễn Huy Thịnh và vợ chỉ kịp nắm tay nhau, ăn bữa cơm vội và dặn dò đôi điều trước khi anh làm nhiệm vụ rồi hy sinh ở Đồng Tâm (Mỹ Đức, Hà Nội).
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In the race to power Vietnam, green energy grows faster than policies can catch up
saigoneer.com – Tuesday, 31 December 2019.
Written by Michael Tatarski. Illustration by Hannah Hoang.
For a few months earlier this year, it seemed like there was no stopping the wave of renewable energy projects coming online in Vietnam.
In March, the Srepok 1-Quang Minh solar power plant, Vietnam’s largest at the time, opened in Dak Lak Province. In September, it was surpassed by the Dau Tieng Solar Power Complex in Tay Ninh Province, which is Southeast Asia’s largest solar farm. The following month, the Asia Development Bank agreed to help fund the country’s first floating solar power facility on a reservoir in Binh Thuan Province. If built, it will be the region’s largest such facility. And in October, Vietnam Electricity (EVN) announced that 12,765 rooftop solar systems are selling power to the grid nationwide.
The Dau Tieng Solar Power Complex in Tay Ninh. Photo via VnExpress/Quynh Tran.
Nhân chứng nói ông Lê Đình Kình ‘chết sau khi công an vào Đồng Tâm’
Đọc bài quan trọng “Phân tích pháp lý về đất đai trong vu Đồng Tâm“
10 tháng 1 2020 BBC
Bản quyền hình ảnh OTHER Image caption Ông Lê Đình Kình
Một người dân ở xã Đồng Tâm nói với BBC rằng ông Lê Đình Kình, và con trai thứ hai, Lê Đình Chức, đã qua đời sau biến cố công an đưa quân vào xã Đồng Tâm rạng sáng 9/1.
Tranh chấp đất Đồng Tâm: Máu đổ, người chết
Đồng Tâm: Dân bị thiệt hại có đòi được ‘bồi thường’?
Cách ứng xử với Đồng Tâm là ‘sai lầm về chính sách’?
Bàn Tròn Đặc Biệt: Đồng Tâm điểm nóng bùng phát ngay đầu năm 2020
Vai trò của tòa án ở đâu trong vụ Đồng Tâm?
Nhiều nguồn tin khác, trong đó có báo chí ở Việt Nam, nói thêm với BBC rằng họ cũng nghe tin ông Lê Đình Kình đã mất.
Đến cuối ngày 10/1, giờ Việt Nam, đã có xác nhận từ báo chính thống rằng ông Lê Đình Kình đã ‘tử vong’ trong lúc chưa rõ trường hợp ông Lê Đình Chức.
What the Philippines and Australia can learn from Vietnam about living with China
Photo: Flickr/Patrik M. Loeff
Published 5 Oct 2016 11:14 Lowry Institute
It is early days, granted, but the Philippines’ crude and crass new president Rodrigo Duterte appears increasingly intent on reversing his predecessor’s plucky South China Sea policy and pro-Alliance leanings, opting instead for a tilt towards China.
The Philippines’ proclivity to flip-flop in its great power relations reflects various factors. One is the absence of a strategic tradition. This is evident in the priority accorded by Duterte to domestic challenges over external security, even when the latter extends to China’s strategic encroachment within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, a legal violation explicitly flagged by The Hague arbitral ruling. Another is the disproportionate attention occupied by the US, Manila’s treaty ally. This has a distorting quality, be it along ‘pro’ or ‘anti’ alliance lines.
‘Pushing boundaries’: The rise of Samizdat publishing in Vietnam
Liberal Publishing House publishes and distributes books Vietnam’s government does not wants its citizens to read.
by Adam Bemma –
![Vietnam's publishing industry is tightly controlled by the government [File: Kham/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/1/13/b87f615839eb46618ace880f8a6da237_18.jpg "'Pushing boundaries': The rise of Samizdat publishing in Vietnam")
Vietnam’s publishing industry is tightly controlled by the government [File: Kham/Reuters]
Hanoi, Vietnam – Inside a cramped room in a secret – and temporary – location in northern Vietnam, a printer whirs to life, spitting out sheets of paper covered in text.
Neat piles are stacked on nearby tables and a man wearing an air respirator places one of them into a machine that cuts and binds the pages to a cover.
Đồng Tâm: Bộ công an lý giải việc công an vào Đồng Tâm – Đám tang ông Kình bị giám sát an ninh chặt chẽ (VOA) – Tướng Phạm Phú Thái: Đồng Tâm là vụ “lấn chiếm đất công”
Vietnam court sentences ex-minister to life in prison for fraud
Former information minister Nguyen Bac Son was accused of receiving $3m in bribes to help a deal with a mobile company.
![The Hanoi court sentenced Nguyen Bac Son to life in prison in a case that also saw another minister and a dozen executives receive lengthy prison terms [Nguyen Van Diep/VNA via AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2019/12/28/79a06003aac948899dfd71b8d23ed131_18.jpg "Vietnam court sentences ex-minister to life in prison for fraud")
The Hanoi court sentenced Nguyen Bac Son to life in prison in a case that also saw another minister and a dozen executives receive lengthy prison terms [Nguyen Van Diep/VNA via AP]
A court in Vietnam on Saturday sentenced a former information minister to life in prison after finding him guilty of taking $3m in bribes in connection with a controversial deal at state telecoms firm MobiFone.
South China Sea – Occupation and Island Building
OCCUPATION AND ISLAND BUILDING
Five claimants occupy nearly 70 disputed reefs and islets spread across the South China Sea. They have built more than 90 outposts on these contested features, many of which have seen expansion in recent years. AMTI has gathered satellite imagery of each outpost, along with other relevant information, to document their current status and any changes they have undergone in recent years. Explore the database below.
Click on the name of each country to see.
Đồng Tâm: ‘Cần mở một ủy ban đặc biệt để điều tra vụ việc’
Đọc bài quan trọng “Phân tích pháp lý về đất đai trong vu Đồng Tâm“
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Image captionLãnh đạo Bộ Công An Việt Nam hôm 11/01/2020 thăm hỏi thân nhân, gia đình những người thiệt mạng thuộc lực lượng cảnh sát trong vụ việc ở Đồng Tâm xảy ra hai ngày trước đó
Bộ Chính trị đảng Cộng sản và Quốc hội của Việt Nam cần họp gấp, cũng như cần mở ủy ban điều tra ‘riêng và độc lập’ở cơ quan lập pháp cao nhất để điều tra về việc ra quyết định tiến hành vụ ‘tập kích’ ở xã Đồng Tâm, huyện Mỹ Đức, Hà Nội hôm 09/01/2020, theo một ý kiến từ giới quan sát chính trị, xã hội tại Việt Nam.
Vietnam shipbuilding capabilities in the headlines with patrol vessel deliveries to Nigeria
The developments highlight Hanoi’s ongoing ambitions to increase the global reach of its shipbuilding capabilities.
Earlier this month, reports surfaced regarding Vietnam’s building of patrol vessels for Nigeria. The development spotlighted Hanoi’s ongoing ambitions to increase the global reach of its shipbuilding capabilities amid the opportunities and challenges that this objective continues to present for the country.
Chia sẻ câu chuyện 1 năm ở Malaysia
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Một tuần nữa là last working day của mình ở Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Thời gian trôi nhanh thật, mới đó đã 1 năm trôi qua từ ngày mình quyết định dành 1 năm trải nghiệm ở nước ngoài.
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