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SEA Games 31: Kỷ lục HCV nhưng thiếu chiều sâu

HUY ĐĂNG 31/5/2022 6:00 GMT+7

Trong buổi họp báo tổng kết SEA Games 31, trưởng đoàn thể thao Việt Nam Trần Đức Phấn thừa nhận Việt Nam tuy giành đến 205 HCV ở kỳ SEA Games này, nhưng đến Asiad thì mục tiêu chỉ là… 3 HCV!

Ông Phấn còn khẳng định với những môn quan trọng như điền kinh hay bơi lội, khả năng giành huy chương ở Olympic trong 20 năm tới là bất khả thi.

 Tiến Minh 39 tuổi vẫn còn phải chiến đấu khi phía sau là khoảng trống mênh mang.  -Ảnh: Ngô Trần Hải An

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Council on Foreign Relations: Monitor World Conflicts

Council on Foreign Relations: Monitor World Conflicts
  
Tensions in the East China Sea The Global Conflict Tracker identifies conflicts around the world, follows their evolution, and assesses their impact on U.S. national security. Our newly redesigned and expertly researched tool from CFR’s Center for Preventive Action includes live data, background information, the latest developments, and critical resources to provide insight on the world’s strife.
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Russia’s military invasion risks a wider European conflict. Stay up to date.
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Decades of instability continue amid the 2021 Taliban takeover. Read about the history.
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The nation’s leader continues to provoke a global crisis with his nuclear ambitions. Learn about attempts at rapprochement.
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Cảnh báo vỡ nợ chéo từ “quả bom” trái phiếu (5 kỳ)

Cảnh báo vỡ nợ chéo từ “quả bom” trái phiếu – Kỳ 1: Bom nợ âm ỉ từ những hợp đồng ma quái

Hà Tâm – 20/05/2022 09:35 nhadautu

Ngây ngất trong men say của trái phiếu doanh nghiệp (TPDN), nhà đầu tư, doanh nghiệp phát hành, doanh nghiệp phân phối lẫn đơn vị tư vấn đều thực hiện những cú bắt tay dưới gầm bàn.

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Bom nợ từ đó âm ỉ hình thành và bắt đầu phát nổ.

Tàn dư của cú sốc trái phiếu doanh nghiệp Tân Hoàng Minh thật nặng nề. Thị trường trái phiếu khựng lại. Thị trường chứng khoán đỏ lửa. Doanh nghiệp hoang mang. Nhà đầu tư tháo chạy. Chính phủ quan tâm, lo lắng. Quốc hội đặt nhiều câu hỏi chất vấn. Trước sức ép từ nhiều phía, Bộ Tài chính đang tìm cách siết chặt thị trường này, cả cung lẫn cầu. Từ đây, một quả bom khác lớn hơn đang dần được kích hoạt: hiểm họa vỡ nợ chéo. Làm thế nào để kiểm soát rủi ro trái phiếu doanh nghiệp mà vẫn khuyến khích thị trường nợ phát triển đòi hỏi một cuộc cách mạng về cơ chế cho thị trường vốn. 

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What a Nobel laureate’s take on Donald Trump reveals about today

Opinion by Jane Greenway Carr

Updated 1734 GMT (0134 HKT) May 22, 2022, CNN

'It is White supremacy': CNN speaks to son of Buffalo massacre victim

(CNN) Shortly after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison wrote in The New Yorker: “Unlike any nation in Europe, the United States holds whiteness as the unifying force. Here, for many people, the definition of ‘Americanness’ is color.” Reflecting on efforts — largely by White men — to define themselves by sustaining that poisonous definition, Morrison argues that those “who are prepared to abandon their humanity out of fear of black men and women, suggest the true horror of lost status.”

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THE QUAD GOES TO SEA

ZACK COOPER AND GREGORY POLING

MAY 24, 2022 WarOnTheRocks

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The biggest announcement from President Joe Biden’s trip to Asia may be the one that got the least attention. The Quad, a grouping consisting of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, has just announced a maritime domain awareness partnership that will provide a new stream of data from commercial satellites to countries across the Indo-Pacific. This is a substantial addition to the Quad’s agenda and one of its most promising initiatives to date. Critically, it satisfies the desire of most regional partners for the Quad to provide public goods and address the needs of smaller states in and the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands. If properly executed, this effort could be a flagship project for demonstrating the Quad’s value to regional countries. Continue reading THE QUAD GOES TO SEA

The Xinjiang Police Files Should Prompt Action Against Uyghur Genocide

Olivia Enos , Contributor

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Photo of Hawagul Tewekkul, a 46-year-old Uyghur preliminarily sentenced to time in a political … [+] VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’S XINJIANG POLICE FILES

Looking through the photos of the 2,884 inmates in the Xinjiang Police Files is not for the faint of heart. You scroll – as you would on Instagram – past face after face of a people unjustly detained by the Chinese government for no other reason than that they are Uyghur.

The first thing I noticed in the photos were their eyes. Some look bewildered, others determined, others tear-filled, others entirely blank.

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Men and their worsening drinking habits

By Dang Khoa, Xanh Le   May 27, 2022 | 07:49 am GMT+7

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Men and their worsening drinking habits

People enjoy beer at a Hanoi restaurant. Photo by ReutersTran Van Minh of HCMC says he has “a knack for drinking” and feels “uneasy” if he does not drink for two or three days.

The factory worker claims he is not an alcoholic though he goes out drinking several times a week and consumes around a dozen cans of beer each time or the equivalent in hard liquor.

“Like many others, I drink because it helps me forget my problems.”

Often he blacks out after getting too drunk and wakes up the next day without remembering what happened.

Minh is one of many Vietnamese men who claim they cannot survive without drinking alcohol.

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Cross-border smuggling bogs down Vietnam’s sugar industry

Sugar contraband illicitly brought into Vietnam from Thailand is increasing, adding an additional burden to the country’s struggling sugarcane enterprises:

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Cross-border smuggling bogs down Vietnam’s sugar industry
Cross-border smuggling of sugar into Vietnam is muddying the sector and could support other illicit trafficking and trade. Artwork: Emilie Languedoc for Southeast Asia Globe

On any given day, smugglers pile bags of sugar near the banks of the Mekong River in Cambodia. 

After piling it into boats, they then ferry the sweetener into Vietnam’s southwestern provinces, awaited by motorbike drivers who evade custom officials to drop off the commodity at storehouses. 

In other cases, smuggling outfits mix the illicit sweetener with sugar produced in Vietnam, or change labels to prevent detection of the bootlegged good. Smugglers have also been known to send Vietnamese packaging to Cambodia to disguise sugar before the contraband is taken across the border. 

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Australia’s election: Quad continuity and climate alignment, with nuclear disagreements

By Graeme DobellGraeme Dobell (graemedobell@aspi.org.au) is Journalist Fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. He has been reporting on Australian and international politics, foreign affairs and defense, and the Asia-Pacific since 1975.

Australia’s election: Quad continuity and climate alignment, with nuclear disagreements

Sworn-in as Australia’s new prime minister, within hours Anthony Albanese was flying to Japan for the summit of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (“Quad”).

An accident of timing—the May 24 summit following Australia’s May 21 election—offered the leader of the Australian Labor Party plenty of flying-start symbolism.

Departing Canberra for Tokyo, Albanese said the “message to the world” was that Australia had a new government that would lift policy on climate change, while emphasizing foreign policy continuity and the value of “friendships and long-time alliances.”
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US-Iran Nuclear Talks Hit Snag

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President Joe Biden is keeping Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on a list of foreign terrorist organizations, according to officials. The decision could complicate international efforts to restore a 2015 deal meant to restrict Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Lifting the IRGC’s 2019 terrorist designation (see background) has been a precondition for Iran to return to talks with global leaders, who have been working on reviving the deal for over a year amid rising tensions between Arab nations and Iran-allied groups. 

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Trồng rừng độc canh có được tính vào mục tiêu phục hồi rừng?

16/09/2021

BVR&MT – Trên toàn cầu, các dự án trồng cây đang trở thành xu hướng thịnh hành nhưng nhiều người đang dựa vào thói quen cũ là trồng rừng độc canh và gọi chúng là rừng.

Các chuyên gia cho biết mặc dù các đồn điền độc canh thường khác biệt với mắt chúng ta như một khối nếu chúng ta nhìn thấy chúng từ mặt phẳng nhưng từ quan điểm màu sắc, chúng thường trùng lặp với rừng tự nhiên và do đó làm nhầm lẫn các thuật toán máy tính đang hoạt động với các điểm ảnh mờ. Hình ảnh: Rhett A. Butler / Mongabay

Cứ như thể một người dọn dẹp chuyên nghiệp đã được đưa vào khu rừng nhiệt đới. Tiếng chim hót và tiếng ếch nhái vắng lặng, những mái vòm lộn xộn được dọn sạch bong. Nơi từng là những đám dây leo và cây non hỗn độn nằm chen chúc dưới những dưới tán cây râm mát, giờ được thay thế bằng những cây có cùng chiều cao đứng ngăn nắp và xếp thành từng hàng ngay ngắn dưới cái nắng như thiêu đốt.

Đây là một dự án trồng rừng. Nhưng có điều gì đó rất sai.

Các cơ quan chính phủ Campuchia đã chào mời dự án trồng rừng Prey Lang là dự án lớn đầu tiên trong việc phục hồi tập trung vào khí hậu. Cục Lâm nghiệp Campuchia đã cấp cho nhà thầu Hàn Quốc Think Biotech nhượng quyền trồng 34.000 ha rừng mục đích rõ ràng là trồng cây và giảm nhẹ phát thải khí nhà kính. Nhưng những gì đã xảy ra trên mặt đất trông không giống như một chiến thắng trước biến đổi khí hậu.

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Council on Foreign Relations – May 27 briefs

Daily News Brief May 27, 2022
  Editor’s note: There will be no Daily Brief on Monday, May 30, in observance of Memorial Day.  
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Blinken Details U.S. Strategy Toward ChinaU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out (CNN) the Joe Biden administration’s strategy toward China in a speech yesterday (State Dept.), calling Beijing “the most serious long-term threat to the international order.” Blinken said Washington is determined to avoid a conflict or new Cold War with China. The U.S. approach—called “invest, align, compete”—hinges on efforts to invest in domestic sources of strength, align with allies and partners, and compete with China on issues such as technological innovation. Blinken reiterated that the U.S. strategy toward Taiwan is unchanged, and that Washington seeks to engage and cooperate with China where possible, especially on climate change. Officials said President Biden could hold a phone call (Politico) with Chinese President Xi Jinping within weeks.
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No more parties in Davos for Kleptocrats

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27/05/2022: No more parties in Davos

This week, policymakers, business executives and other public figures gathered in Davos, Switzerland where the World Economic Forum’s largest meeting took place in person after a two-year hiatus. We sat this one out, but our warning from Davos 2020 on how corruption eats away at democracy still rings true.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses Davos 2022 on 23 May.
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The Latest on Southeast Asia

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May 26, 2022
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The Latest on Southeast Asia

In Tokyo on May 23, President Biden announced the formation of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF). The framework will bring together the United States and a dozen other Indo-Pacific countries. The agreement will cover both traditional and digital trade standards, decarbonization and infrastructure, supply chain resiliency, taxation, and anti-corruption.

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Quad Joint Leaders’ Statement

MAY 24, 2022•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES The White House

Today, we – Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan, and President Joe Biden of the United States – convene in Tokyo to renew our steadfast commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific that is inclusive and resilient.

Just over one year ago, Leaders met for the first time. Today in Tokyo, we convene for our fourth meeting, and our second in person, to demonstrate, at a time of profound global challenge, that the Quad is a force for good, committed to bringing tangible benefits to the region. In our first year of cooperation, we established the Quad’s dedication to a positive and practical agenda; in our second year, we are committed to deliver on this promise, making the region more resilient for the 21st century.

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