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Nguyễn Thị Bảo Cúc
Có nhiều khi trở về nhà sau một ngày dài làm việc bận rộn nơi công sở, mình không muốn làm gì cả mà chỉ nằm dài trên trên sàn, trên ghế và thần người ra một lúc để yên lặng hoặc lắng nghe một bản nhạc không lời hay một bài hát có ngôn từ và giai điệu thư thái, chữa lành.
Sau nhiều lần tự cho phép mình khoảng thời gian ngắn để dừng lại, nghỉ ngơi, hồi phục trước khi tiếp tục những phần việc còn lại trong ngày, mình cảm thấy điều đó là không sao cả, và cần thiết. Đó chính là khoảng thời gian để bộ não đã vất vả của mình được nghỉ ngơi; các bộ phận khác của cơ thể mình cũng cần được tạm dừng trước khi tiếp tục chuỗi hành động với năng lượng mới. Mình hoàn toàn có quyền nghỉ ngơi, thư giãn như thế một lúc. Continue reading Dừng lại, nghỉ đã!
Big leap also benefited from year-earlier contraction and consumer spending
Recovery in private consumption contributed Vietnam’s double-digit growth in the third quarter. © AP
TOMOYA ONISHI, Nikkei staff writerSeptember 29, 2022 11:11 JSTUpdated on September 29, 2022 11:56 JST
HANOI — Vietnam’s economy as measured by gross domestic product grew 13.67% in real terms in the July-September period from a year earlier as exports to the U.S. surged, the government said on Thursday.
A sharp recovery in personal consumption also contributed to the first quarterly growth of more than 10% since 2009, when comparable data began to be compiled, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.
Continue reading Vietnam GDP grows 13.67% in Q3 on brisk exports to U.S.23 September 2022
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Distinguished President,
Excellencies,
Together with Ms. Jasminka Džumhur and Mr. Pablo de Greiff, I will present an update on the progress of the work of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, in conformity with this Council’s resolution 49/1, adopted in March 2022.
Last time the Commissioners were present at the Human Rights Council was in May this year. The Council then requested the Commission, in resolution S-34/1, to address events that took place in late February and March 2022 in the areas of Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy, and to brief the Council on the progress of that inquiry as part of its oral update in September. Consequently, we have so far mainly focused on events in those four regions.
Continue reading Update by the Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, at the 51st session of the Human Rights CouncilSGGP Thứ Sáu, 17/6/2022 10:02
Từng là người chặt gỗ trong các cánh rừng miền tây Quảng Bình, ông Nguyễn Đức Sự (ở thôn Tân Tiến, xã Cao Quảng, huyện Tuyên Hóa, tỉnh Quảng Bình) không nghĩ có ngày trở thành người giảng dạy cho nông dân nhiều vùng trồng rừng bằng chính kiến thức của mình học được. Không những thế, ông còn trở thành nhà thực vật thực thụ khi tiến hành ươm mầm gần 2.500 loài thực vật có hạt từ các cánh rừng quê ông.
Một góc rừng lim 3 năm tuổi do ông Sự ươm trồng tại xã Cao Quảng, huyện Tuyên Hóa, Quảng Bình
A new report says Russian birch wood is routed through Asia before being shipped to American stores.
Washingtonpost – By Michael Tatarski
Plywood allegedly made from Russian birch is being loaded on a ship in Haiphong, Vietnam, for export to the United States in May 2022. (Obtained by Environmental Investigation Agency)
October 1, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EDT
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Russian birch wood has continued to flow to American consumers, disguised as Asian products, despite U.S. economic sanctions imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, a new report says.
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a nonprofit watchdog group based in Britain, has found that most birch products currently being exported from Vietnam to the United States originate in Russia. According to Vietnam customs data, roughly 40,000 cubic meters of birch wood is transported every month from Russia andChina into Vietnam, where it’s assembled into furniture and plywood.
Continue reading How Russian timber bypasses U.S. sanctions by way of Vietnam
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Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield’s Remarks at the UN Security Council Stakeout Following a Vote on a Resolution Condemning Russia’s Sham Referenda
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield
U.S. Representative to the United Nations
New York, New York
September 30, 2022
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Let me thank all of you for waiting to see us this afternoon.
The illegal referenda that Russia held in Ukraine and the purported annexations of Ukrainian territory by force are a violation of the UN Charter and international law. They change nothing about the status and borders of Ukraine. That is the firmly-held conviction of the United States. This is the firmly-held conviction of the Secretary-General. And as you saw just now, that is the conviction of the Security Council – besides, of course, Russia.
Continue reading Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield’s Remarks at the UN Security Council (Following a Vote on a Resolution Condemning Russia’s Sham Referenda)By Fanny Potkin and Phuong Nguyen, Reuters
SINGAPORE/HANOI, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Vietnam is preparing new rules to limit which social media accounts can post news-related content, three people familiar with the matter said, as authorities tighten their control over news and information sources in the country.
The rules, expected to be announced by the year-end and with details yet to be hammered out, would establish a legal basis for controlling news dissemination on platforms like Facebook and YouTube while placing a significant moderation burden on platform providers, two of the sources added.
Continue reading Vietnam preparing rules to limit news posts on social media accounts – sources
Opinion by Ben Kritz – Monday
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AS if communist China was not already doing enough to degrade the rest of the world’s quality of life for its own gain, recent news from South and Central America further reinforces the impression that its rapaciousness knows no bounds. China’s Southeast Asian neighbors, particularly the Philippines, are already familiar with the Red Menace’s greediness when it comes to marine resources, but on the other side of the world, a massive, well-organized, industrial-scale effort to carry out illegal fishing on both sides of Latin America is threatening to wipe out fish stocks for a dozen countries.
Continue reading China to Latin America: All your fish belong to us| Waiting for Thermidor: America’s Iran Foreign Policy Ray Takeyh and Reuel Marc Gerecht A member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps waves the Iranian flag during a rally in downtown Tehran. Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesThe Islamic Republic of Iran may be on an accelerated schedule for revolutionary decay, at least if compared to the USSR. Read the opinion |
US STATE DEPARTMENT
MEDIA NOTE
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union.
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We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in our condemnation in the strongest possible terms of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its continued violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty, territorial integrity, and Independence.
President Putin’s efforts to incorporate Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions into the territory of the Russian Federation constitute a new low point in Russia’s blatant flouting of international law, and yet another example of Russia’s unacceptable violations of Ukraine’s sovereignty, the UN Charter, and the commonly agreed principles and commitments of the Helsinki Final Act and the Paris Charter.
Continue reading G7 Foreign Ministers’ Statemaent on the Illegal Annexation of Sovereign Ukrainian TerritoryThat’s a lot.
By Danial Martinus July 18, 2022 sea.mashable.com/
When we dive into the colonial history of Southeast Asia, things can get rather messy in terms of the way important events and the stories of significant figures are retold.
Looking at Malaysia, for example, brings about a whole library’s worth of history that simply can’t be told in one sitting. However, one such remnant of Malaysia’s past has come back to haunt the Southeast Asian nation.
More specifically, arbitration awards allegedly owed to the heirs of the last Sultan of Sulu, who in the 19th century reigned over parts of what is today the Philippines, the state of Sabah (Malaysia), as well as North and East Kalimantan (Indonesia).
Continue reading The long history of the Sultanate of Sulu & why Malaysia ‘owes’ it US$15 billion – 15 tỉ đô la và những di chứng thuộc địa| Top of the Agenda Putin Announces Plan to Annex Four Ukrainian Regions Russian President Vladimir Putin will sign a decree to annex (FT) the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia tomorrow, a Kremlin spokesperson said. This major escalation in the war in Ukraine comes after Moscow orchestrated votes, widely denounced as a sham, for the regions to join Russia. The regions compose some 15 percent of Ukrainian territory. Russia’s annexation will be the largest forceful takeover of European territory since World War II, according to the Financial Times. The United States and European Union plan to impose new sanctions over the annexation, Reuters reported. Yesterday, military leaders from over forty countries met in Brussels (NYT) to plan long-term military support for Ukraine. |
VNE – Thứ hai, 26/9/2022, 06:28 (GMT+7)
Giữa tháng 9, chị Hồng ngồi trong nhà hai gian lợp tôn, choáng váng khi thấy ảnh con gái trên mạng xã hội đi xe xịn, mặc đồ hiệu, giới thiệu mình là con đại gia.
Hải Hà, con gái chị Nguyễn Thị Hồng (47 tuổi, ở Bắc Giang) rời quê ra Hà Nội, rồi vào TP HCM kiếm sống cách đây 7-8 năm. Thi thoảng, cô gọi về cho mẹ, nói mở quán bán cà phê, hoa quả, nhưng không làm ăn được nên chẳng có tiền gửi mẹ. Chị Hồng không kết nối với tài khoản Facebook của con gái nên hoàn toàn không biết cô xây dựng hình ảnh “là người học thức, có bố là Việt kiều”, dù cô chưa học hết cấp 2. Hà thường xuất hiện bên siêu xe, mặc đồ thương hiệu nổi tiếng, ăn trong nhà hàng sang trọng.
“Tôi sốc nặng, mất ăn mất ngủ mấy đêm liền. Tôi không hiểu vì sao con mình lại trở nên như vậy”, người mẹ nông dân, nói.
ISEAS – 1-8-2022- Jing Jing Luo and Kheang Un
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
*Jing Jing Luo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the School of Public Affairs, Xiamen University, China. Kheang Un is Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University, USA.
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