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Where children opt for marriage over school

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By Hai Thu   July 5, 2022 | 11:37 am GMT+7

Where children opt for marriage over school

A H’Mong ethnic girl standing next to a corn field in Meo Vac District, Ha Giang Province. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh

Giang Thi Mai, an eighth grade student, remarried a week after escaping a marriage by abduction for fear of becoming a woman no one would marry.

On the morning of January 31, in a house surrounded by a peach garden in Ta De village in the northern Son La Province’s Van Ho District, the 14-year-old looked in the mirror, combed her long hair, put on lipstick, and then ventured out.

That day her cousin on the other side of the village was getting married, and Mai and a friend put on their best clothes and headed to the wedding.

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Asia Stream: the struggle for Hong Kong’s identity

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25 years after taking control of the territory, how is Beijing trying to change Hong Kong — and how is Hong Kong pushing back?

Nikkei staff writersJuly 2, 2022 07:23 JST

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NEW YORK — Welcome to Nikkei Asia’s podcast: Asia Stream.

Every other week, Asia Stream tracks and analyzes the Indo-Pacific with a mix of expert interviews and original reporting by our correspondents from across the globe.

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This episode, we take measure of the economic impact of China’s stringent laws in Hong Kong and then take a deep dive into the social and political costs of Beijing’s crackdown on the special administrative region.

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Pres. Biden’s tweets on US and NATO

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President Biden

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Earlier this year, the U.S. surged 20,000 additional U.S. forces to Europe to strengthen our NATO Alliance in response to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the changing security environment. We’ll continue to adjust our posture to ensure the defense of our Allies:

We’re working with Spain to increase U.S. Navy destroyers in Rota, establishing a permanent HQ in Poland, putting an additional rotational Brigade Combat Team in Romania, enhancing our Baltic presence, and sending two more F-35 squadrons to the UK.

NATO is ready to meet threats from all directions, across every domain: land, air, sea, cyber and space.

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Global migration is not abating. Neither is the backlash against it

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June 29, 2022

Around the world, far-right populist parties continue to stoke the popular backlash against global migration, driving some centrist governments to adopt a tougher line on immigration. But with short-term strategies dominating the debate, many of the persistent drivers of migration go unaddressed, even as efforts to craft a global consensus on migration are hobbled by demands for quick solutions. Learn more when you subscribe to World Politics Review (WPR).

Migrants rest on a Mediterranea Saving Humans NGO boat, as they sail off Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa, just outside Italian territorial waters, Thursday, July 4, 2019 (AP photo by Olmo Calvo).

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Xi Jinping brought Hong Kong to heel. Now he’s back in a city transformed 

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People wave Chinese and Hong Kong flags as fishing boats carrying banners celebrating the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's handover to China sail through the Victoria Harbour.
Chinese flags flutter above streets and red celebratory banners line the harbor front, as a beaming crowd of masked officials and school children wave and chant in unison inside Hong Kong’s high-speed rail terminus, welcoming the arrival of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. 

In his first trip outside mainland China since the start of the pandemic, Xi arrived in Hong Kong Thursday to mark the 25th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule on July 1 — a highly symbolic event at a pivotal time for both the city, and Xi himself. 
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CFR Daily News Brief June 30, 2022

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China’s Xi Visits Hong Kong, Praises Its ‘Rise From Ashes’Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for ceremonies marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the city’s handover from British rule. He said Hong Kong has “risen from the ashes” (SCMP) since his last visit in 2017. Since then, Beijing has cracked down on dissent and independent media in the city. While Xi’s 2017 visit was followed by a pro-democracy march (Bloomberg), Hong Kong’s streets have been empty of demonstrations this week because of the sweeping national security law Beijing imposed on the city in 2020 and warnings from police. It is Xi’s first trip outside mainland China since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The anniversary also marks the halfway point of a promise Beijing made to maintain liberal institutions in Hong Kong for fifty years. The United States and United Kingdom have accused Beijing of breaking the promise.
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‘Thanks, Putin’: Defense spending spikes across NATO

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FP – JUNE 30, 2022

NATO leaders emerged from their summit in Madrid this week touting a more muscular alliance ready to face down Russia and start tackling the long-term challenges from China. And it’s starting to look like they finally have plans in place to put their money where their mouths are.

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Sáu năm hoạt động của tuyến BRT Hà Nội

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Thứ tư, 29/6/2022, 10:37 (GMT+7) vnexpress

Được đầu tư vốn lớn cùng làn đường riêng, tuyến BRT đầu tiên của Hà Nội chưa thu hút được người dân, không giảm ùn tắc và thúc đẩy giao thông công cộng.

Tuyến BRT Kim Mã – Yên Nghĩa được phê duyệt từ năm 2007 với tổng vốn đầu tư khoảng 55 triệu USD, tương đương 1.100 tỷ đồng. Ngày 1/1/2017, tuyến bắt đầu hoạt động theo lộ trình Yên Nghĩa – Ba La – Lê Trọng Tấn – Tố Hữu – Lê Văn Lương – Láng Hạ – Giảng Võ – bến xe Kim Mã. Người dân di chuyển toàn tuyến dài 14,77 km sẽ mất khoảng 45 phút.

Dự án được thực hiện bằng vốn vay của Ngân hàng Thế giới (WB). Đây là hợp phần trong lộ trình dài hơi phát triển giao thông công cộng Hà Nội mà WB tham gia. Cơ quan này đưa ra nhiều mục tiêu khi xây dựng tuyến buýt nhanh, như cải thiện tình trạng ùn tắc, ô nhiễm; làm nền tảng phát triển hạ tầng giao thông công cộng; thúc đẩy người dân chuyển từ xe cá nhân sang phương tiện công cộng.

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 The G7 Leaders – along with the leaders of Argentina, India, Indonesia, Senegal, and South Africa – released a statement on Democratic Resilience

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2022 Resilient Democracies Statement

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We, the Leaders of Germany, Argentina, Canada, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Senegal, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Union, affirm our commitment to strengthening the resilience of our democracies and to working towards equitable, inclusive and sustainable solutions to global challenges, including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, and reaffirm our commitment to
the rules-based international order.

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CFR Daily News Brief June 29, 2022

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U.S., NATO Strengthen Military Presence in Europe

U.S. President Joe Biden said the United States will send more troops and weapons (FT) to Europe as part of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) defense buildup over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Washington will establish a new permanent army headquarters in Poland, send five thousand additional troops to Romania, and up its deployments in the Baltic states. NATO is seeking a response force of three hundred thousand troops, a sevenfold increase (Politico) from the current level. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called the announcements the biggest overhaul of NATO defenses since the end of the Cold War. Meanwhile, Turkey dropped its veto (Al Jazeera) on Finland’s and Sweden’s applications for NATO membership after the countries committed to toughening their approaches to groups Turkey views as threats.

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5 địa phương ở TP HCM nguy cơ ‘dịch chồng dịch’

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Thứ tư, 29/6/2022, 13:35 (GMT+7) vnexpress

Các quận huyện Bình Tân, 12, Tân Phú, Bình Chánh và TP Thủ Đức nguy cơ bùng dịch sốt xuất huyết cũng như Covid-19, theo Giám đốc Sở Y tế Tăng Chí Thượng.

Thông tin được ông Tăng Chí Thượng nói tại cuộc họp về tình hình kinh tế – xã hội giữa năm của UBND TP HCM, sáng 29/6. Cảnh báo được đưa ra trong bối cảnh biến thể Covid-19 mới đã xuất hiện tại Việt Nam, song tỷ lệ tiêm nhắc vaccine còn rất thấp và dịch sốt xuất huyết cũng đang bùng phát ở địa phương này.

Về Covid-19, ông Thượng dẫn Tổ chức Y tế Thế giới (WHO) cho biết các biến thể mới như BA.4 và BA.5 đang có xu hướng thay thế chủng cũ (BA.2) trên toàn cầu. Theo nhận định của Cục Y tế Dự phòng, BA.5 cũng có khả năng trở thành biến thể chủ đạo ở Việt Nam trong thời gian tới.

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How the Sri Lankan economy run out of money to pay for food and fuel

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Posted Fri 24 Jun 2022 at 9:06amFriday 24 Jun 2022 at 9:06am

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A woman cooks using a firewood hearth outside her house to the right of a small alleyway of houses.
Sri Lankan residents are using firewood to cook as fuel supplies become scarce during an economic crisis.(AP: Eranga Jayawardena)

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Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister says the island nation’s debt-laden economy has “collapsed” as it runs out of money to pay for food and fuel.

Short of cash to pay for imports of such necessities and already defaulting on its debt, the country is seeking help from neighbouring India and China and from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office in May, has emphasised the monumental task he faces in turning around an economy he said was headed for “rock bottom”. Continue reading How the Sri Lankan economy run out of money to pay for food and fuel →

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FACT SHEET: The United States Continues to Strengthen Cooperation with G7 on 21st Century Challenges, including those Posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)

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JUNE 28, 2022•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES The White House

Today President Biden met with G7 leaders to strengthen our cooperation on economic issues, cyberspace and quantum, and other 21st century challenges, including those posed by China to our workers, companies, and national security. The G7, representing over 50% of the world economy, is demonstrating that it is among the most potent institutions in the world today, with like-minded democracies solving problems.  

Committing to a unified approach to confront China’s unfair economic practices:  The G7 will release collective, unprecedented language acknowledging the harms caused by the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) non-transparent, market-distorting industrial directives. They will commit to working together to develop a coordinated approach to remedy the PRC’s non-market policies and practices to ensure a level playing field for businesses and workers. 

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Lịch sử của một tranh chấp lãnh hải

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CHIÊU VĂN 3/11/2021 6:00 GMT+7

TTCT – Trong các loại tranh chấp, thì tranh chấp đất đai, hay với các quốc gia, thêm tranh chấp lãnh hải, luôn là khó xử lý nhất và dễ dẫn tới đụng chân đụng tay nhất. Vụ việc mới đây, khi Kenya và Somalia lôi nhau ra tòa mà vẫn không giải quyết được việc phân định một vùng biển chồng lấn đã hàng nửa thế kỷ, là một ví dụ.

Tuần trước, Kenya tuyên bố “bác bỏ hoàn toàn” phán quyết có lợi cho Somalia của Tòa án Công lý quốc tế (ICJ), Liên Hiệp Quốc về tranh chấp biên giới trên biển giữa hai nước. 

Theo đó, một biên giới mới trên biển được xác định sẽ gần hơn với đường biên mà Somalia tuyên bố, dù Kenya vẫn giữ được một diện tích 100.000km2. 

Các đường biên giới tuyên xưng của Kenya và Somalia. Ảnh: herald-review.com

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