17 May 2017 01:15PM (Updated: 17 May 2017 05:56PM)
China has said military construction on the islands it controls in the South China Sea will be limited to necessary defensive requirements, and that it can do what it likes on its own territory.
ibtimes More than 650 million people, or 10% of the world’s population, do not have access to safe water, putting them at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.
By David Sim
Updated May 12, 2017 15:12 BST
World Water Day is marked on 22 March every year to raise awareness of the water crisis facing much of the world’s population. The UN estimates that more than 663 million people do not have a safe water supply close to home. Instead of turning on a tap, they must spend countless hours queueing or trekking to sources of water. This water is often contaminated, putting people at risk of infectious diseases and premature death.
People gather to fetch water from a huge well in the village of Natwarghad in the western Indian state of Gujarat – Reuters
Jesus,
Please help me offer benefit and joy
to all your forms.
Help me quietly take upon myself
all hurts and pains of your forms.*
I love you, Jesus.
Tuoitrenews Kim Van – Updated : 05/12/2017 16:48 GMT + 7
Should you come across luggage wrapped with sticky tape on a baggage carousel, chances are it is bound for Vietnam.
Kim Van, a Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reader, recalls how she learned to protect her luggage from being rummaged through by screeners when traveling home to Vietnam – a revelation that Vietnamese have lost faith in airport services.
Vietnamese want to keep their luggage safe, but many feel being forced to resort to the ‘sticky tape method’ is a kick in the gut.
Môi trườngvietnamnews Update: May, 16/2017 – 18:00
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| The removal of hydropower projects and potential sites is because most of them are located in forest areas, meaning hydropower plant construction would seriously affect forest resources and local ecology.—VNA/VNS Photo |
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk have made the decision to scrap plans for constructing 17 small and medium hydropower plants with total capacity of 27.4 megawatts.
The province has also axed 69 sites which have potential to become future stations, with combined capacity totalling 117 megawatts.
Jesus,
Please tell me how to serve my dears humbly in love.
I’m breathing so slowly
and smiling so gently
to listen to your whispers, Love.
Amen.
PTH
In this file photo, Ereneio Dagami, who lost his house to Typhoon Haiyan, grates coconuts in the battered town of Catadman, in Eastern Samar province, central Philippines, Dec. 22, 2013. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
by Thin Lei Win | @thinink | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Wednesday, 10 May 2017 06:00 GMT
A project to provide coconut farmers with advice over their mobile phones aims to help them cash in on a growing market and lift them out of poverty By Thin Lei Win
BANGKOK, May 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Generosa Gonato’s mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer in the southern Philippines to be vigilant against bud rot, a common disease that is fatal for coconut trees. The message included the symptoms and how to treat it.
AL JAZEERA 6 APRIL 2017
The Syrian civil war is the deadliest conflict the 21st century has witnessed thus far.
As the Syrian conflict enters its seventh year, more than 465,000 Syrians have been killed in the fighting, more than a million injured and over 12 million Syrians – half the country’s prewar population – have been displaced from their homes.
In 2011, what became known as the ” Arab Spring ” revolts toppled Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak .
Tuoi Tre News – Updated : 05/14/2017 17:01 GMT + 7
A new program featuring street performances were opened on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening.
The Ho Chi Minh City Street Show was debuted at 7:00 pm, amazing local residents and tourists with a variety of gigs along the pedestrian street.
The program is set to take place from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm every Saturday and Sunday night on Nguyen Hue.
Jesus,
Please help me love with actions.*
And these actions are from you.
Whenever you see my deed that is not from you,
please replace it with yours.
Help me love you in everyone in a way that pleases you.
Thank you, Jesus.
vietnamnet – Last update 12:00 | 14/04/2017
VietNamNet Bridge – If embezzlement continues, breakthrough reforms initiated by local authorities will not bring the desired effects, Dang Dinh Dao from the Institute for Economics & Development Studies has said.
VCCI, in its 2016 PCI report, pointed out that there are still many ‘big stones’ that block enterprises’ way, including lack of transparency, difficulties to access land, unfair environment and under-the-table fees.
State management agencies have established ‘one-stop-shop’ units to ease administrative procedures that people and businesses have to follow. However, the units still cannot help. Businesses still have to spend three months on procedures which can be completed in one month.
vietnamnet – Last update 08:15 | 11/05/2017
VietNamNet Bridge – Many educational projects capitalized at trillions of dong have failed, but negative consequences have affected generations of students.
The new general education programming became a hot topic of discussion on education forums after MOET opened the draft frame curriculum for public opinion some days ago.
Many parents have expressed their concern that the new general education programming would once again fail like many other multi-trillion dong reform programs. If so, big money will be lost, while an entire generation of students will be spoiled.
Vietnamese students were once the ‘victims’ of the majoring-based classifying program initiated in 1993. Under the program, high-school students were classified into three groups. A-group were students majoring in natural sciences, while B-group comprised students majoring in technology and C-group social sciences.
vietnamnet – Last update 13:00 | 02/08/2016
Lying on the banks of Red River, Kim Lan pottery village in Gia Lam district, Hanoi has a more than 1,000 year-history of making of ceramics.
The craft reached its peak around the 13th and 14th centuries, making the village a pottery production centre for the capital city of Thang Long (now Hanoi). During that time, most of the country’s ceramic products exported to Japan were made in the village.
However, the craft fell into oblivion in the 17th century before being revived in the last three decades
Jesus,
Please open my heart
so that I can love and serve you in everyone.
With the grace you give,
I feed you when you hungry,
give you something to drink when you thirsty,
invite you in when you a stranger,
clothe you when you need clothes,
go to visit you when you sick or in prison*. Continue reading Prayer 147
Đọt Chuối Non 