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.
Rights of legal aid beneficiaries and environmental rights: Article 34 of Decree No. 7/CP dated 12/1/2007 on guidelines for implementing 2006 Law on legal aid stipulates: poor people, policy supported groups and other marginalized groups are entitled to legal aid services in eight fields, including environmental law
Dr Truong Thi Quoc Khanh – permenant Deputy of the National Assembly’s Commission on Science, Technology, and Environment – presented at the workshop
IUCN – Legal aid beneficiaries are entitled to, represention by counsel in order to lodge a complaint, to conduct negotiations or during legal proceedings. All of these activities shall be provided at no cost, and be followed-up, monitored by the state legal aid center, lawyers, or legal counselors.
SUMMARY
In Vietnam, corruption in the health sector is considered a serious problem by both the government and citizens at large. The country’s health system is particularly susceptible to corruption due to uncertainty, asymmetry of information between health officials and patients, and conflicts of interest between health officials and private companies.
LM – Project RENEW established a mobile outreach program to provide prostheses, orthotics and education to explosive remnants of war survivors in the remote communities of Vietnam.
Susan Eckey, Former Deputy Director General for Humanitarian Affairs, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visits with the P&O team.
Photo courtesy of Dang Quang Toan/Project RENEW.
According to a 2014 report compiled by Vietnam’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Quang Tri province currently has 37,292 persons with disabilities, 13,023 of whom were disabled by Agent Orange and 5,094 by explosive remnants of war (ERW).1,2,3 Disabled persons living in rural areas often live in poverty and do not have access to basic services. For those with injuries resulting from unexploded ordnance (UXO), prosthetics are difficult to obtain.
Is Vietnam diverting its civilian know-how to create an indigenous nuclear weapons program? Not yet, says the CSS’ Oliver Thränert, but increased tensions or overt conflict with China could lead Hanoi to develop its own nuclear deterrent.
By Oliver Thränert for Center for Security Studies (CSS)
Jane Nakano on Japan’s energy policy and its approach to the Middle East, Russia, and the South China Sea.
By Mina Pollmann – March 16, 2016
thediplomat_Five years after the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, public debates over nuclear power are still having an impact on Japan’s energy mix — and that, in turn, helps shape Japanese foreign policy. The Diplomat speaks with Jane Nakano, a senior fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the connection between Japan’s energy security concerns and its foreign policy decision making.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Energy is key to the realisation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which calls for a well-connected ASEAN to drive an integrated, competitive and resilient region. Energy is key to the realisation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) which calls for a well-connected ASEAN to drive an integrated, competitive and resilient region.
Đọt Chuối Non 