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Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh
Dams, Drought and Disaster Along the Mekong River
By: Jennifer Rigby
Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2016
This article originally appeared in IRIN News.
A dry riverbed in Cambodia.IRIN
CHONG PRA LAY/CAMBODIA, 10 May 2016
internationalriver – The dry months before the monsoon rains arrive are often tough for Cambodian fishermen and farmers. But with rivers drying up and drinking water running out, conditions have rarely been as bad as they are now.
Full transcript: Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s Naval Academy commencement address
Child Labor in Vietnam – Lao động trẻ em tại Việt Nam
borgenproject – Over 1.75 million Vietnamese children, 9.6 percent of the population of people under 18 in the country, are laborers. Child Labor in Vietnam consists of children who are forced to work long hours, normally with little to no pay, in crowded factories or on agricultural farms. One third of the children work an average of 42 hours per week, and the majority are not able to attend school.
Snow in Vietnam and Other New Climate Patterns Threaten Farmers
In Vietnam climate change has scrambled the seasonal monsoons, leaving farmers struggling.
technologyreview – At around 5:00 each morning, loudspeakers crackle on in Ma Village, Vietnam (population 731). Mounted on concrete poles atop hilltops—a remnant of the 1950s information and propaganda apparatus—these loudspeakers, rather than the smartphones popular with Hanoi’s young office workers, are what provide locals in this mountain village with important news bulletins.
Criminal law: Jurisprudence no. 01/2016/AL – Hình luật: Án lệ số 01/2016
- TĐH: The following English document is my translation, following the model on civil jurisprudence done by the Vietnamese Young Jurists. I did this translation with the understanding that the Vietnamese Young Jurists are not planning to translate criminal jurisprudence.
Jurisprudence 01/2016/AL on a murder case
Jurisprudence no. 01/2016/AL was adopted by the Council of Judges of the Supreme People’s Court on 6 April 2016 and declared by the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court in Decision 220/QD-CA dated 6 April 2016.
Compelling questions for young Vietnamese
1. On education
This was the note that I took in a class-discussion session (sinh hoạt lớp) in 10th grade at my high school. This was what my head teacher (giáo viên chủ nhiệm) talked about among many things he talked in the usual sessions. Back then, I had a habit of writing down things that were the most appealing to me during these sessions.
My head teacher was a gymnastic teacher (not a usual thing back then – being a gymnastic teacher and a head teacher of a leading class in a high school).
Bloggers keep the windows open in Vietnam’s constitutional debates
Deteriorating Protection of Journalists’ Sources a Global Problem
A journalist conducts an interview in Kenya. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS
– The freedom of the press is a universally cherished democratic right, but what may have been overlooked as the World Day Freedom of Information was celebrated on Wednesday is that the ability of journalists to protect their source is increasingly coming under attack by authorities.
Jurisprudence – Achievement in Judicial Reform
Implementing the Resolution no. 49-NQ/TW of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee Communist Party of Vietnam on judicial reform, the Supreme People’s Court has recently laid out a series of solutions and achieved some accomplishment. Noticeably, the Council of Judges has promulgated the Resolution [no. 03/2015/NQ-HDTP] in which it formally authorizes the application of jurisprudence in the Vietnamese judicial system.
Mine Risk Education
LM – The main objective of Project RENEW’s Mine Risk Education is the risk of ERW accidents among chilren and adults is reduced and eventually eliminated through education, information, and public awareness in support of EOD quick response.
RENEW Deminer Dies From Injuries After Cluster Bomb Accident
Thursday, 19 May 2016
This is the moment that I have feared for 15 years, since Project RENEW was launched in 2001.
Yesterday Ngo Thien Khiet was killed by a cluster munition at a field site in Quang Tri Province, near the former DMZ. The 45-year-old deminer, a senior technician with eight years’ experience, was directing his team members in an area where several cluster bombs had been found and marked for destruction.
Ngô Thiện Khiết
Collaboration crucial to food security in Southeast Asia
The need to provide food for the region is more pressing than ever as the population grows, the agricultural workforce contracts and natural resources shrink. Every player in the food value chain needs to work together to address this, says a new report by Forum for the Future and FrieslandCampina.
Eco-business: Food security is crucial for the region because more than 60 million people will join the middle class over the next five years, according to research consultancy Accenture. Globally, food calories will have to increase 50 per cent by 2030 (from 2010) if the global population is to be fed properly, US non-profit the Population Institute estimates. Image: Shutterstock
Healing handshake: Son of US ex-POW meets former warden in Vietnam
Talk Vietnam
18 May 2016
An unusual meeting took place on Monday in the coastal city of Hai Phong in northern Vietnam between the son of a former U.S. prisoner of war (POW) and the Vietnamese prison warden who kept a watch on his father.
Former prison warden Senior Colonel Tran Trong Duyet welcomes Thomas Eugene Wilbur,whose father was a POW at the Hoa Lo Prison (known by Americans as the “Hanoi Hilton”).
The warden in question was Senior Colonel Tran Trong Duyet, who was in charge of Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi from 1968 to 1973.
What is it like to be trafficked to a foreign country and forced into prostitution?
What is it like to be trafficked to a foreign country and forced into prostitution? Just ask Charimaya Tamang. She survived trafficking and now advocates for other survivors
Nepali women of Ramechapp District, one of the six most heavily hit by the April 25 earthquake, are now facing increased human trafficking and unsafe migration. / Jessica Benton Cooney, USAID
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Some Days I Lived, Other Days I Died. Resilience in the face of exploitation
Charimaya Tamang knows all too well how easy it is to be trafficked in Nepal.
That’s because 22 years ago, it happened to her. At 16, Charimaya was alone cutting grass in the forest when she was ambushed by four men. After being drugged and losing consciousness, she awoke in Gorakhpur, near the Nepali/India border with her appearance completely changed — she had on makeup, a new hairstyle and different clothes.
Đọt Chuối Non 