Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam scraps nuclear power plans as costs double

reneweconomy_Vietnam has become the latest country to dump its nuclear power plans – and to rule nuclear out of its energy mix for the foreseeable future – after the the country’s National Assembly voted on Thursday to abandon plans to build two new plants in partnership with Russia and Japan.

The Vietnamese government said in a statement that the decision, made in a closed session of parliament, was taken for economic reasons, after the price for the proposed plants – approved in 2009 – had doubled to nearly 400 trillion dong, or $US18 billion.

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50 Vietnamese media outlets fined over misleading fish sauce news

TUOI TRE NEWS – Updated : 11/22/2016 11:48 GMT + 7

 
Employees are seen at a traditional fish sauce making facility on Phu Quoc Island, off Kien Giang Province, located in southern Vietnam.

Fifty newspapers and news websites have been dealt a blow by Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications, accused of publishing inaccurate reports on traditional fish sauce’s safety and thus causing widespread fear among consumers last month.

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World’s Best Rice: 1st prize Thai, 2nd Cambodian, 3rd American

A man inspects Cambodian rice at the World Rice Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, last week. Photo supplied
A man inspects Cambodian rice at the World Rice Conference in Chiang Mai, Thailand, last week. Photo supplied

Cambodia’s prized rice falls short at awards

Mon, 21 November 2016 – 

Cambodia’s Phka Rumdoul variety of fragrant rice, which won the World’s Best Rice award for three consecutive years from 2012 to 2014, narrowly missed its fourth crown at this year’s awards held in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand last week.

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Xi’s APEC speech puts China, Asia-Pacific in global “vanguard”

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Lima, Peru, Nov. 19, 2016. Photo: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Lima, Peru, Nov. 19, 2016. Photo: Xinhua

China Radio International

2016-11-21 01:23:29 Xinhua Web Editor: Zhang Xu

TĐH: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is a forum for 21 Pacific Rim member economies that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region. It was established in 1989.Membership: Joined 1989: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, USA.

Republic of China (Taiwan – Chinese Taipei) joined 1991, Hong Kong (China Hong Kong) 1991, People’s Republic of China 1991, Mexico 1993, Papua New Guinea 1993, Chile 1994, Peru 1998, Russia 1998, Vietnam 1998.

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Lời cầu nguyện 8 – Prayer 8

Chuỗi bài cầu nguyện

Giêsu ơi,

Em yêu Giêsu.
Và em muốn hiểu Giêsu.
Hiểu trái tim Giêsu.
Hiểu cảm xúc của Giêsu.

Giêsu nói,
“Chính Thầy là con đường, là sự thật và là sự sống.
Không ai có thể đến với Chúa Cha mà không qua Thầy.
Nếu anh em biết Thầy, anh em cũng biết Cha Thầy.
Ngay từ bây giờ, anh em biết Người và đã thấy Người.” Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 8 – Prayer 8

CSIS – Southeast Asia Report – Nov 17, 2016

Engaging Southeast Asia in a Time of Flux

By Amy Searight, Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

Welcome to our rebooted Southeast Asia from Scott Circle newsletter. The newsletter will continue to bring you commentary about U.S. engagement with Southeast Asia and highlights of key developments in the region on a biweekly basis. We are also consolidating our SitRep announcements and program highlights into this one regular update.

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South-east Asia needs a reset on trade deals

Sanchita Basu Das For The Straits Times
Published – Nov 17, 2016, 5:00 am SGT

Cargo being unloaded at the Port of Manila. With globalisation, a macroeconomic instability in one country is felt around the world, such as during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, when South-east Asian countries suffered declines in international trade. PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Since the early 2000s, countries in South-east Asia have seen a plethora of trade pacts.

Singapore signed a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with New Zealand in 2000. Soon, others like Malaysia and Thailand got in on the act.

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“One Belt, One Road:” What’s in It For Us?

CSIS – By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. 07 Nov. 2016

Remarks to a Workshop of the China Maritime Studies Institute

Beipanjiang Highway Bridge in Guizhou province, China (Photo by Glabb / Wikimedia Commons)

Alexander the Great is said to have declared that “logisticians are a humorless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.” He was the one of the first strategists to understand the importance of connectivity and also to point out that there are not a lot of jokes about it. The speed and reliability of transport and other forms of communication matter greatly to economic efficiency as well as to war.

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Vietnam Film Industry

VIETNAM – DateThursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:53AM

Despite being torn apart by the devastation of two separate aggressor invasions and often finding its artisans hamstrung by censorship and bureacracy, the 100 year-old Vietnamese film community has forged a strong brand and unique voice within the global cinema community.

(Picture, above: Tôi thay hoa vàng trên co xanh; Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass, 2015) 

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