With a focus on civil and political rights, the Vietnam Programme seeks to support the development of a Vietnam governed according to the rule of law and human rights. By generating a space for discussion and facilitating the exchange of knowledge and experience, the Programme aims to contribute to a process driven by Vietnam itself and as reflected in their response to the Universal Periodic Review.
“Youth” is best understood as a period of transition from the dependence of childhood to adulthood’s independence and awareness of our interdependence as members of a community. Youth is a more fluid category than a fixed age-group.
However, age is the easiest way to define this group, particularly in relation to education and employment. Therefore “youth” is often indicated as a person between the age where he/she may leave compulsory education, and the age at which he/she finds his/her first employment. This latter age limit has been increasing, as higher levels of unemployment and the cost of setting up an independent household puts many young people into a prolonged period of dependency.
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This issue includes an analysis of Myanmar’s foreign policy outlook under the National League for Democracy government, an explainer on the Philippine presidential elections, and analyses on Vietnam’s challenges in dealing with China and the ASEAN Economic Community 2025’s blueprint, and much more. Links will take you to the full publications, multimedia, or to registration for upcoming programs when available. To jump to a section, select one of the following:
thediplomat – It was past midnight and Ngo Thi Mong Linh had already gone to sleep when her cellphone suddenly rang. Linh knew all too well what to anticipate from the other end.
“A sex worker was urging me to come to rescue her,” Linh recalled in an interview. “Her client robbed her of all her money after severely beating her up. When I was there, all she could do was embrace me and burst into tears.”
CAM LO, Vietnam — When Le Thi Mit is awakened at night by the moans of her 34-year-old son, she thinks back half a century, grappling with the vivid memories of American planes flying overhead to coat her village with toxic chemicals.
chanelnewsasisa – A water crisis is developing in central and southern Vietnam as the region is hit by its worst drought in recent history. The United Nations says 1.5 million people face an acute shortage of drinking water.
KON TUM, Vietnam: Life has become harder for Ta Dinh Hao since the rains stopped earlier than usual last September.
Hao’s cassava is surviving but doing badly. (Photo: Tan Qiuyi)
March 11, 2016 11.12am GMT
Our modern crops need some help in the immunity department.
theconversation – When you pick up the perfect apple in the supermarket it’s easy to forget that plants get sick just like we do. A more realistic view might come from a walk outside during summer: try to find a leaf without a speck, spot or blemish. Tough, huh? Those are the signs of a microscopic battle waged every day in and on plants.
Just like us, plants are covered in microbes. And just like us, plants have evolved an immune system to protect against the dangerous ones. But our current agricultural system works against plants’ natural immune defenses, by limiting the tools plants have to fight back and restricting evolution of new tools.
Chinese Politburo Standing Committee members Liu Yunshan, top left, and Zhang Gaoli, top right, at a meeting last month. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
BEIJING — There is a new no-go term on China’s Web: brother-in-law.Over the past few days, as the disclosures from the Panama Papers sent a shiver through the global elite, the search term “brother-in-law” briefly became a censor-evading path in China.
Developing a Scarborough Contingency Plan
by Gregory Poling and Zack Cooper
U.S. chief of naval operations Admiral John Richardson told Reuters on March 19 that the United States was monitoring increased Chinese activity around Scarborough Shoal. He warned, “I think we see some surface ship activity … survey type of activity … That’s an area of concern … a next possible area of reclamation.”
NARROW THE GAP 2015 FOR ENVIRONMENT
Vuong Thao Vy – LIN Grants Coordinator
Narrow the Gap Community Fund (operated by LIN Center for Community Development) brings local resources together to support local nonprofit organizations that are tackling the most pressing problems in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and to make it easier and more rewarding for people to become more strategic with their giving. Through Narrow the Gap Community Fund, LIN collects donations from various sources and manages the selection and allocation of small grants, three times each year, to local NPOs that are addressing community needs.
VE –Gần 30% trẻ em Philippines chưa từng đến lớp hoặc tốt nghiệp tiểu học, nhưng nước này giỏi tiếng Anh thứ ba châu Á, hơn hẳn Việt Nam hay Nhật Bản, Hàn Quốc.
Tất cả các tấm biển báo giao thông ở Philippines đều bằng tiếng Anh.
Trở về từ Philippines, nữ nhà báo Amy Chaves đã ấn tượng với trình độ tiếng Anh của dân chúng nơi đây và cho rằng các nước châu Á khác có thể học hỏi cách quốc gia này đã làm như thế nào:
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hungfingtonpost – Every year, more than three million babies die in their first month of life. Most of these deaths could be prevented if appropriate technologies were available in the hospitals of the world’s poorest countries.
Nga Tuyet Trang, the founder of Medical Technology Transfer and Services, orMTTS, is trying to make this happen.
Monday, March 21, 2016 10:29
Christine Lagarde in Vietnam on March 18.
The growth of slums in the developing world’s rapidly expanding cities is creating new opportunities for infectious disease to flourish and spread.
Madina market in Conakry, Guinea. Densely populated urban environments are ideal for the spread of infection.
An increasingly unprofitable global oil market is driving fuel prices to historic lows and hemorrhaging investment in conventional energy sources. Breaking with tradition, cheap oil no longer foretells disaster for renewable energy companies. On the contrary, disillusioned fossil fuel investors are seeking high-growth opportunities—just in time to ride the renewables wave in the wake of the 2015 Paris climate talks.
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