TUOI TRE NEWS Updated : 04/03/2017 16:28 GMT + 7
Consumers are seen at a pork stall at a small market in Ho Chi Minh City.
A recent World Bank report claiming that up to 40 percent of pork in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City is potentially contaminated with the salmonella bacteria has raised concern and doubt as to whether the ratio is too high compared with Vietnam’s own statistics.
The World Bank data may not truly reflect the meat safety situation in those cities, according to local insiders.
Thai Rangers patrol in the Rangae district of Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat on Mar 4, 2016. (Photo: AFP/Madaree Tohlala)
YALA, Thailand: Insurgents fired hundreds of shots into a police booth in restive Muslim-majority southern Thailand on Monday, wounding 12 officers in what police called the biggest such attack in years.
A decades-old separatist insurgency in the provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat has claimed more than 6,500 lives since it escalated in 2004, according to independent monitoring group Deep South Watch.
This new REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report presents views of 114 renowned energy experts from around the world, on the feasibility and challenges of achieving a 100% renewable energy future. Their thoughts are grouped into 12 Great Debates ranging from the future of heating and transport, the interconnection of sectors, the role of mega-cities and what utilities of the future could look like. The report does not predict the future but should spur debate about the opportunities and challenges of a 100% renewable energy future.
Read more at: http://www.ren21.net/future-of-renewables/global-futures-report/
Jesus,
You are the true light that give light to all of us.
You are with us,
full of grace and truth.
Out of your fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.* Continue reading Prayer 113
An Indian boy walks along a flooded bank of the Ganges River in Allahabad on July 10, 2016. | AFP-JIJI
JAPAN TIMES AFP-JIJI Apr 2, 2017
DEHRADUN, INDIA – An Indian court has recognized Himalayan glaciers, lakes and forests as “legal persons” in an effort to curb environmental destruction, weeks after it granted similar status to the country’s two most sacred rivers.
In a decision that aims to widen environmental protections in the mountainous region, the court granted the legal standing to the glaciers Gangotri and Yamunotri,m which feed India’s venerated Ganges and Yamuna rivers, which won the status in a landmark judgment in March.
Jesus,
How do we have an English website that many of our people will like to read?
A website or a blog or a Facebook page or an online newspaper…,
whatever written in English for our Vietnamese people that many of us will like to read. Continue reading Prayer 112
English: Southeast Asia’s war on drugs doesn’t work – here’s what does
Cuộc chiến đẫm máu đối với ma tuý của Tổng thống Rodrigo Duterte chỉ là một vấn đề mới nhất trong khu vực mà việc sử dụng ma tuý thường đối mặt với các biện pháp khắc nghiệt. 13 năm trước Thái Lan tiến hành một cuộc chiến chống ma tuý đã gây nên tình cảnh tương tự như Philippines
Ngày nay, các nhà làm luật ở Philippines đang lên kế hoạch khôi phục án tử hình để thúc đẩy chiến dịch chống ma tuý. Nhưng việc này, cũng vậy, không hiệu quả ở khu vực này.
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VIETNAM NEWS Update: March, 30/2017 – 09:00
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| Leaders of six provinces on Tuesday sat down with relevant ministers to talk about the construction of a coastal highway route, the detailed plan for which was approved back in 2010. — Photo vnexpress.net |
HÀ NỘI – Leaders of six provinces on Tuesday sat down with relevant ministers to talk about the construction of a coastal highway route, the detailed plan for which was approved back in 2010.
In 2012, President Barack Obama signed a presidential proclamation declaring March 29, 2012 Vietnam Veterans Day, and now each year on March 29 Vietnam vets are honored.
March 29 is also the day in 1973 that the final troops returned to the U.S. from Vietnam, marking the end of U.S. involvement in the war.
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TUOI TRE NEWS Updated : 03/27/2017 14:45 GMT + 7
Walls along several streets of District 1, Ho Chi Minh City have been given a touch-up with graffiti and mural paintings featuring rhinos, as part of a campaign to protect the endangered animal.
The campaign, named Rhinos Street Art Painting Project, is run by the Center of Hands-on Actions and Networking for Growth and Environment (CHANGE) and is backed by the local Youth Union and WildAct Vietnam, a non-government conservation charity.
Jesus,
My soul is flying
but is it flying to you?
Please lead it to where you want it to come.
Trust in you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
VIETNAM NEWS Update: March, 16/2017 – 09:00
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By Thu Vân
I cannot breathe. (So forgive the shrillness of this piece)
Suffocating doesn’t begin to describe the way my heart constricts these days as news about sexual abuse of children breaks out, one after another.
And as heartbreaking as the cases are, the brain explodes in the deafening silence from those we believe are there to uphold the law, protect our children.
TUOI TRE NEWS Updated : 03/29/2017 14:28 GMT + 7
Tourists dressed in shorts or sleeveless shirts can now borrow overcoats at popular tourist site Ponagar Cham Towers, an ancient place of worship in the south-central city of Nha Trang.
Situated on a knoll at the mouth of the Cai River, two kilometers north of Nha Trang, Ponagar Cham Towers is dedicated to the worship of Lady Po Nagar, widely believed to be the originator of the Cham people in southern Vietnam.
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese women have proven they can contribute greatly to the advancement of science, a field where men still dominate.
The plant has been used by people for a long time in an effort to inhibit cancer cells in humans. However, there had been no formal scientific study about the potential source of pharmaceutical materials until Ha’s research work.
1. Nguyen Thi Lang, head of the biotechnology department of An Giang University, has been praised for her scientific research conducted in the last 25 years and achievements in creating 73 rice varieties. Thirty-one varieties have been recognized by MARD and put into production in Mekong Delta.
Đọt Chuối Non 