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The new scramble for Africa: how China became the partner of choice

The Guardian
In 2014 alone China invested £56bn in African infrastructure. But is this colonialism in another guise?

train carriage Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s light rail system was built mainly with Chinese money. Photograph: Solan Kolli/EPA

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Addis Ababa has a surprise in store for those who haven’t visited in two years. Cutting through the heart of this booming city, where construction cranes are the most persistent feature of the skyline, is the Addis Ababa Light Rapid Transit (AALRT) network.

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UK condemned for deporting survivors of trafficking back to Vietnam

The Guardian – Activists say British authorities are failing to identify and protect victims who have been trafficked to the UK as slaves, many of them children

Detained Vietnamese migrants who were smuggled into the UK in a van
Detained Vietnamese migrants who were smuggled into the UK in a van. Many arrive with debts of up to £25,000 for their passage. Photograph: Solent News/Rex/Shutterstock

Tuesday 20 December 2016 2.00 EST

British authorities are failing to identify and protect Vietnamese victims of trafficking who are being deported back to Vietnam without adequate support or protection, according to anti-trafficking activists.

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Webcamming: the sex work revolution that no one is willing to talk about

theconversation_The development of the internet has completely transformed the way we do business; and the “oldest profession” is no exception. In a world of online chatrooms, webcam performers can market anything from conversation to explicit sex acts. And unlike pornography or prostitution, there are virtually no laws regulating this form of sex work.


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Where Buddhism’s Eight-Fold Path Can Be Followed With a Six-Figure Salary

DEC. 20, 2016 New York Times


White-clad devotees at Dhammakaya Wat, Thailand’s largest temple, in February. The number of adherents has grown into the hundreds of thousands both in Thailand and abroad. Credit Nicolas Asfouri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Lời cầu nguyện 33 – Prayer 33

Chuỗi bài cầu nguyện

Giêsu ơi,

Chúng em đang làm điều không thể.
Nhưng điều không thể với con người thì có thể với Giêsu.
Và nếu Giêsu thấy điều chúng em làm đẹp lòng Giêsu, xin ban phước cho điều đó,
biến nó thành điều có thể. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 33 – Prayer 33

ASEAN offers Myanmar humanitarian assistance for Rakhine

YANGON: The 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Monday (Dec 19) offered Myanmar humanitarian assistance, stressing that aid be distributed to those affected in northern Rakhine state.

Speaking after a closed-door meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers, ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh said that “we need to help Myanmar overcome this challenge”.

Xem hình ảnh trên TwitterIndonesia Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi walk after they attended ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting on Rohingya issue in Sedona hotel at Yangon, Myanmar December 19 , 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

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China agrees to return seized US underwater drone

ALJAREEZA – Beijing unhappy with the US “hyping up” the situation after the underwater drone was seized from South China Sea.


The USNS Bowditch, a T-AGS 60 class oceanographic survey ship, sails in open water in this undated photo [US Navy via AP]

China’s Defence Ministry said it had been in talks with the United States about returning an underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea, but the US was not helping by “hyping up” the issue.

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Lời cầu nguyện 31 – Prayer 31

Lời cầu nguyện 31

Chuỗi bài cầu nguyện

Giêsu ơi,

Giêsu là Đấng Cứu thế,
Giêsu đến và giải thoát chúng em khỏi ách nô lệ tinh thần.

Xin ban phước cho đất nước chúng em.
Xin giúp đất nước chúng em trở thành quốc gia vĩ đại nhất thế giới.
Và xin giúp chúng em sống như những người dân của quốc gia vĩ đại nhất thế giới.

Em cám ơn Giêsu.

Amen.

PTH
26-8-2025 Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 31 – Prayer 31

Lawrence Colburn dies; helped end Vietnam’s My Lai massacre

larrycolburnLarry Colburn and My Lai villager.  (Photo Credit: Chitose Suzuki/AP)

I met Larry Colburn in 1998 when he and Hugh Thompson returned to Viet Nam for the first time since the war. They met with victims of the My Lai Massacre, including survivors whose lives they helped to save during those awful hours of March 16, 1968.

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