Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

Biển Đông, Trang tiếng Anh

CSIS – China Tightens Grip on Scarborough Shoal Post-Ruling – AMTI Brief

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China Tightens Grip on Scarborough Shoal Post-Ruling

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s recent trip to Beijing yielded a number of agreements, including a vaguely-worded commitment to peacefully resolve the South China Sea disputes. But there was no public breakthrough on one closely-watched topic: the ability of Filipino fishermen to return to Scarborough Shoal. An international tribunal ruled on July 12 that China’s closure of the shoal to Philippine fishing was illegal. But in the lead-up to Duterte’s visit, Filipino fishermen complained that it was becoming more, not less, difficult for them to approach Scarborough. Recent satellite imagery supports this conclusion.

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GMO, Nông nghiệp, Trang tiếng Anh

Heroin, Nazis, and Agent Orange: Inside the $66 Billion Merger of the Year

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These companies used to sell heroin and Agent Orange. Now, they want to form the world’s largest supplier of seeds and pesticides.

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BB – September 15, 2016 — 12:09 AM ICT

Two giants of the farming and chemical industries agreed to merge Wednesday in a $66 billion deal: the U.S.’s Monsanto and Germany’s Bayer, the original maker of aspirin. It’s the year’s biggest deal and will create the world’s largest supplier of seeds and farm chemicals, with $26 billion in combined annual revenue from agriculture. If the merger goes through, it will combine two companies with a long and storied history that shaped what we eat, the drugs we take and how we grow our food.

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ASEAN, Biển Đông, Trang tiếng Anh

The Philippines, China, the U.S., and ASEAN in 2017

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Asia Foundation October 19, 2016
By Steven Rood

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The Philippines will serve as ASEAN Chair in 2017, at which time ASEAN will mark its 50th anniversary. Having successfully served as host of APEC in 2015, the country has demonstrated that facilitating massive, significant international events is well within its capability—thus observers’ attention can focus on substance instead of administrative details. And there is considerable attention directed to the Philippines at the moment, not least because of the outspoken new president,Rodrigo Duterte.

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Lịch sử, Trang tiếng Anh

Tom Hayden, preeminent 1960s political radical and antiwar protester, dies at 76

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Washington Post – By Elaine Woo October 24 at 2:13 AM

In 1973, political activist Tom Hayden tells members of the media that he thinks public support was partially responsible for the decision not to send him and others of the Chicago Seven to jail for contempt. (George Brich/AP)

Tom Hayden, the preeminent 1960s radical who roused a generation of alienated young Americans, became a symbol of militancy by leading riotous protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and added Hollywood glamour to his mystique with an activist partnership and marriage to film star Jane Fonda, died Oct. 23 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 76.

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Quốc phòng, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam defense white papers

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VietNam National Defence (Vietnam White papers 2009) (09:51 | 09/28/2012)

Kết quả hình ảnh

(Bqp.vn) – The White Paper on Vietnam National Defence provides readers with an overview on the basic issues of the Vietnam’s national defence policy of which the building of all-people national defence, the building of the VPA and the Militia and Self-Defence Force are key matters. The issues addressed in the White Paper on Vietnam National Defence are aimed at contributing to the promotion of mutual understanding and confidence-building between Vietnam and other countries.

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TPP, Trang tiếng Anh

Should Free Traders Support the Trans- Pacific Partnership? An Assessment of America’s Largest Preferential Trade Agreement

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CATO Institute

By Daniel J. Ikenson, Simon Lester, Scott Lincicome, Daniel R. Pearson, & K. William Watson

September 12, 2016

After nearly six years of negotiations, a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement was reached in October 2015. The deal was subsequently signed by the governments of the United States and 11 other parties in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2016. In terms of the value of trade and share of global output accounted for by the 12 member countries, the TPP is the largest U.S. trade agreement to date.

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Năng lượng tái tạo, Trang tiếng Anh

Renewables 2016 Global Status Report

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REN 21

Key findings GLOBAL OVERVIEW

An extraordinary year for renewable energy The year 2015 was an extraordinary one for renewable energy,  with the largest global capacity additions seen to date, although  challenges remain, particularly beyond the power sector. The year  saw several developments that all have a bearing on renewable  energy, including a dramatic decline in global fossil fuel prices;  a series of announcements regarding the lowest-ever prices for  renewable power long-term contracts; a significant increase in  attention to energy storage; and a historic climate agreement in  Paris that brought together the global community.

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Bang giao quốc tế, Trang tiếng Anh

In Vietnam, Obama Charts the Way for a 21st-Century Partnership

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by  • May 22, 2016 • CSIS

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Secretary of State John Kerry poses for a selfie with Vietnamese students in Hanoi, Vietnam in August 2015. Source: State Department’s flickr photostream, U.S. Government Work.

If Bill Clinton traveled to Vietnam to “heal the wounds of war” in 2000 and George W. Bush to announce the country was open for business when he rang the bell of the Ho Chi Minh City stock exchange in 2006, President Barack Obama will usher in a new chapter in U.S.-Vietnam relations when he visits the capital Hanoi and economic hub Ho Chi Minh City on May 23-25.

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Nông nghiệp, Trang tiếng Anh

Bayer Makes $62 Billion Bid for Monsanto

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Combination would create one of the world’s largest agrochemical businesses

By Christopher Alessi

Bayer said the $122-a-share offer represents ‘value at a substantial premium’ for Monsanto shareholdersUpdated May 23, 2016 8:59 a.m. ET

wsj – FRANKFURT—German pharmaceutical and chemicals giant Bayer AG on Monday said it made an all-cash offer to acquire Monsanto Co. for $62 billion, valuing the U.S. company at a substantial premium in a deal that would create the world’s largest agrochemicals company.

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Trang tiếng Anh

China blockades streets around military building as hundreds protest in capital

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 Reuters Tue Oct 11, 2016 | 6:15am EDT

Uniformed people take part in a protest outside the Bayi Building, a major Chinese military building in Beijing, China, October 11, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Police in the Chinese capital on Tuesday blocked off streets near a major military building, as hundreds of people wearing green camouflage uniforms chanted and waved national flags to protest against the loss of their posts.

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Trang tiếng Anh

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1963, Vietnam – Hồ sơ mật VN 1963

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Read full text at US State Department website:
– January-August 1963
– August-December 1963
Đọc bản tiếng Việt do nhóm Thiện Pháp chuyển ngữ

VN-related documents (1945-1980) published by US State Department

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Preface

The publication Foreign Relations of the United States constitutes the official record of the foreign policy of the United States. The volumes in the series include, subject to necessary security considerations, all documents needed to give a comprehensive record of the major foreign policy decisions of the United States together with appropriate materials concerning the facts that contributed to the formulation of policies. Documents in the files of the Department of State are supplemented by papers from other government agencies involved in the formulation of foreign policy. This volume also includes documents from the private collections of various government officials connected with U.S. policy toward Vietnam.

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Nhân quyền, Phụ nữ, Trang tiếng Anh

Born to be free

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Authors/editor(s): Emma Fulu

APUW – A Regional Study of Interventions to Enhance Women and Girls’ Safety and Mobility in Public Spaces, Asia and the Pacific Region

In public and private spaces, women and girls experience and fear various types of violence, ranging from harassment, to rape and femicide. Momentum is growing around the issue of women and girls’ safety in urban, public spaces.

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GMO, Môi trường, Nông nghiệp, Trang tiếng Anh

First Agent Orange, now Roundup: what’s Monsanto up to in Vietnam? Ecologist Special Investigation

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The Ecologist, Mick Grant – 10th October 2016

A keyboard player, blind from birth due to a genetic defect induced by Agent Orange, performing at the War Remnants Museum. Photo: Mick Grant.

A keyboard player, blind from birth due to a genetic defect induced by Agent Orange, performing at the War Remnants Museum. Photo: Mick Grant.

With the International Monsanto Tribunal beginning this week (14-16 October) in The Hague, MICK GRANT reports from Vietnam with this special investigation for The Ecologist five decades after the company’s lethal herbicide Agent Orange first devastated the country – and discovers the agribusiness giant is sneaking its way back into Vietnam with modern herbicides and ‘Roundup-Ready’ GMO crops.

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Trang tiếng Anh

Improving Relief and Development Responses to Climate Variability: Lessons from the 2015 – 2016 El Niño in Southern Africa

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Improving Relief and Development Responses to
Climate Variability: Lessons from the 2015 – 2016 El Niño in Southern Africa

El Niño weather system was one of the strongest on record, causing drought and flooding in locations across the world. Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were particularly hard hit. In Southern Africa, low or erratic rainfall caused serious drought and associated food insecurity in 10 countries, severely testing the coping strategies of households, communities, and governments and prompting an emergency response by donors.

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Nhân quyền, Phụ nữ, Trang tiếng Anh

Infographic: Violence against women

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International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence

Date : 06 November 2015

UNWomen – One in three women worldwide have experienced physical or sexual violence — mostly by an intimate partner. Whether at home, on the streets or during war, violence against women is a global pandemic that takes place in public and private spaces. Together we can and must end this pandemic. Print options:11×17 | 21×32.5

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