·It’s been 17 days since Hamas launched its horrific attack against Israel, killing over 1,400 Israeli citizens, including defenseless women, children and the elderly. In the aftermath of such unspeakable brutality, the U.S. government and the American people have shared in the grief of families, prayed for the return of loved ones, and rightly declared solidarity with the Israeli people.
Continue reading Barack Obama: Thoughts on Israel and GazaPRESS STATEMENT
US DEPARTMENT OF STATE
OCTOBER 22, 2023
The United States stands with our Philippine allies in the face of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Coast Guard and maritime militia’s dangerous and unlawful actions obstructing an October 22 Philippine resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea.
Continue reading U.S. Support for our Philippine Allies in the Face of Repeated PRC Harassment in the South China Sea
China’s Belt And Road: Future Opportunities For Singapore? | Singapore & The BRI | Full Episode
thanhnien.vn 02/05/2023 17:03 GMT+7
Hàng ngàn học sinh nói sách giáo khoa mang định kiến giới khi nam giới thường gắn với công việc được cho rằng có địa vị cao, trong khi nghề nghiệp của nữ giới có địa vị thấp hơn hoặc chỉ đóng vai trò phụ tá.
Nghề nghiệp của nam giới thường có địa vị cao
Khi khảo sát gần 7.000 học sinh về định kiến giới ở trường học, tổ chức Saigon Children’s Charity (saigonchildren) và Viện Nghiên cứu quản lý phát triển bền vững (MSD) cho hay phần lớn học sinh nói sách giáo khoa thường gắn nhân vật nam với các công việc đòi hỏi sức mạnh hoặc kỹ thuật cao, chẳng hạn như bác sĩ, cảnh sát, luật sư và kỹ sư. Ngược lại, nhân vật nữ thường liên quan đến hoạt động giáo dục hoặc chăm sóc như giáo viên, nội trợ, y tá hoặc thư ký.
“Những địa vị được miêu tả dành riêng cho hai giới trong sách giáo khoa hàm chứa định kiến, với phần lớn các nghề nghiệp do nam giới đảm nhận là những việc có địa vị cao, trong khi các nghề nghiệp được khắc họa dành cho nữ giới có địa vị thấp hơn hoặc nữ giới chỉ đảm nhận vai trò là phụ tá cho ngành nghề của nam giới”, nhóm nghiên cứu nhấn mạnh trong báo cáo công bố ngày 27.4.
Continue reading Định kiến giới ngay trong sách giáo khoa ảnh hưởng gì đến học sinh?
AJ+ – 22-5-2021
Israeli occupation of Palestine tends to be a touchy subject for news media, so much so that they break journalistic standards and writing etiquette just to avoid implicating one party over another — which still seems to end up working out in Israel’s favor and never Palestine’s. That’s led to a media environment that can’t clearly call out the ethnic cleansing and apartheid inflicted upon Palestinians, doesn’t point to context when talking about the results of decades-long oppression and displacement, and can’t help but equivocate about two disproportionately affected populations. But maybe that’s starting to change.
Sana Saeed looks at what U.S. media coverage has gotten wrong about recent events in Gaza, Sheikh Jarrah and occupied Palestine, and offers her own media critique.
Saving Pangolins From Poachers In Cat Tien, Vietnam | The Last Defenders | Full Episode
CNA Insider – 15-9-2023
Cat Tien is one of Vietnam’s most biologically diverse and largest national parks. It is home to 40 species of critically endangered wildlife, including the vulnerable pangolin population.
Lam and Julong are anti-poaching officers from Save Vietnam’s Wildlife. Together with the government’s forest rangers, they form a forest protection team to fight against the threats posed by poaching to wildlife. They face the risk of possible violent confrontation with armed poachers and the danger of the unpredictable elements of the forest.
Al Jazeera English – 19-10- 2023
What’s happening with civilians in Gaza? Why is it so complicated to open Egypt’s border for aid? And where’s this all going? #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann answers three big questions on the Israel-Gaza war.
00:55 – What will happen to civilians in Gaza?
01:16 – Israel’s air assault on Gaza
01:56 – Israel’s total blockade on Gaza
02:34 – Half of Gaza’s population has been displaced
02:43 – Why people moved from the north to the south of Gaza
03:58 – Why can’t Egypt send supplies or open the Rafah crossing?
04:06 – The relationship between Egypt and Israel
04:51 – Egypt and Israel say some aid can now cross through Rafah
05:25 – The situation for Palestinian dual nationals in Gaza
06:06 – Why Egypt and Jordan don’t want to take any Palestinian refugees
07:30 – Where’s the Israel-Gaza war going? How will it end?
09:33 – Is Israel’s aim to wipe out Hamas actually possible?
This episode features:
Youmna ElSayed – Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza
Rami Khouri – American University of Beirut
Elijah Magnier – military analyst
Laila El-Haddad – Palestinian journalist & author
China’s Belt And Road Initiative: 10 Years Of Evolution And Beyond | Insight | Full Episode
CNA Insider – 12 thg 9, 2023
It is the 10th year of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). From Central and Southeast Asia to the Middle East and Africa, how has China’s mega infrastructure project changed the world? In this retrospective on the 10th anniversary of the BRI, Insight looks at the developments in Asia and Africa that have sprung from China’s marquee project. From growing trade links to environmental impacts to political influence, the BRI has undeniably changed the region. But with growing economic headwinds and a flagging Chinese economy, will Beijing continue to invest in the BRI? What will the next decade bring?
0:00 Introduction
01:10 Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia
07:55 How the war in Ukraine is shaping the BRI
12:13 Growing China-ASEAN trade
13:57 How the BRI increased durian exports from Thailand to China
17:54 Dams: Good for energy generation, bad for food supply?
26:28 China’s growing influence in the Middle East
31:21 Why China is investing so much in Africa
35:34 Debt trap diplomacy?
38:40 Rise in non-performing loans on the Belt and Road
40:16 A shift in strategy for the BRI?
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This video provides an introduction on the ILO Vision Zero Fund’s work to promote workplace safety and health on coffee farms in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam through training and collective action. In doing so, the project engages with national and international partners, including multi-national companies and NGOs. Farmers appreciate the training approach and share their learning and good practices for workplace improvements with other farmers in their community which promotes sustainability and scaling.
Date issued: 01 October 2023 | Size/duration: 00:07:38
GP – Viet Nam received aid worth more than US$677 million from foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) between 2020 and 2022.
THUY DUNG AUGUST 24, 2023 11:11 AM GMT+7
The figure was released at a meeting on works of foreign NGOs that took place in Ha Noi on August 23.
According to the 2022 report, 388 foreign NGOs have been operating in Viet Nam, including 148 from Europe, 118 from Asia-Pacific, and 122 from North America.
The value of foreign NGO aid disbursed to Viet Nam in 2022 reached more than US$223.7 million, down by nearly US$10 million compared to 2021 and equivalent to the level in 2020.
Continue reading Viet Nam receives over US$677 million from NGOs during 2020-2022
Chinese leader Xi Jinping speaks at the China-Central Asia Summit held this past May in Xi’an.Huang Jingwen/Xinhua/Getty Images
BeijingCNN — Chinese leader Xi Jinping is gathering world leaders in Beijing this week for a high profile forum with a clear set of goals: laud China’s role backing economic development over the past decade and project its expanding ambitions as an alternative global leader to the United States.
That bid takes on heightened significance as renewed conflict in Israel and Gaza threatens to trigger broader instability in the Middle East, a region where the US is the traditional power broker, but China has been growing its influence and efforts to play a role in peace.
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Israeli soldiers inspect the site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, Friday. Oct. 13, 2023. At least 260 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the attack by Hamas gunmen last Saturday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Read More
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Israeli tanks head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Friday, Oct.13, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)Read More
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Palestinians evacuate wounded people after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)Read More
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Palestinians inspect the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike at Al Shati Refugee Camp Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians. It will want to punish Hamas like never before, but without killing so many Palestinian civilians that it loses international support. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)Read More
BY MIKE CORDER AND JULIA FRANKEL APnews
Updated 3:14 AM GMT+7, October 14, 2023
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians and the devastating Israeli airstrikes and blockade of Gaza have raised accusations among international legal experts that both sides were violating international law.
Continue reading Experts say Hamas and Israel are committing war crimes in their fight
From CNN’s Caitlin Danaher in London
The United Nations has “unequivocally condemned” attacks on civilians in Israel and Gaza, and also Israel’s “further tightening of the unlawful blockade,” in a statement released Thursday.
The killings and hostage-taking by Hamas “constitute heinous violations of international law and international crimes, for which there must be urgent accountability,” the statement read.
There is no justification for such violence in Israel or Gaza, the statement said.
The UN also focused on the plight of Palestinians in Gaza.
“We also strongly condemn Israel’s indiscriminate military attacks against the already exhausted Palestinian people of Gaza, comprising over 2.3 million people, nearly half of whom are children. They have lived under unlawful blockade for 16 years, and already gone through five major brutal wars, which remain unaccounted for,” they said. “This amounts to collective punishment.”
The experts also warned the withholding of essential supplies, such as food, water and medicine, will “precipitate a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where its population is now at inescapable risk of starvation.” They called for the establishment of humanitarian corridors to allow people to leave Gaza.
The UN urged the international community to “address the root causes of the current conflict, including the 56-year-old occupation and the annexation pursued by Israel.”
BY JOSEPH KRAUSSUpdated 1:56 AM GMT+7, October 12, 2023Share
JERUSALEM (AP) — In the three and a half decades since it began as an underground militant group, Hamas has pursued a consistently violent strategy aimed at rolling back Israeli rule — and it has made steady progress despite bringing enormous suffering to both sides of the conflict.
But its stunning incursion into Israel over the weekend marks its deadliest gambit yet, and the already unprecedented response from Israel threatens to bring an end to its 16-year rule over the Gaza Strip.
Continue reading What was Hamas thinking? For over three decades, it has had the same brutal idea of victoryA $6 billion Chinese-built railway in Laos is transforming a small town on the border of China, easing transportation and promising new products for export. The 262-mile rail line is a key part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, aimed at upgrading trade and transport networks from Africa to the Pacific. China is looking to link its companies with new overseas markets while Laos has hopes of growing a robust export market. But what are the costs of developing this massive infrastructure? WSJ explores the ambition behind China’s envisioned rail network, the economic implications for Laos and challenges as other railways eye development.
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