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Năng lượng tái tạo, Trang tiếng Anh

Powering the Internet with renewable energy

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December 3, 2015

Googleblog – Today we’re announcing the largest, and most diverse, purchase of renewable energy ever made by a non-utility company. Google has already committed to purchase more renewable energy than any other company. Now, through a series of new wind and solar projects around the world, we’re one step closer to our commitment to triple our purchases of renewable energy by 2025 and our goal of powering 100% of our operations with clean energy. 842 MW of renewable energy around the world Today’s agreements will add an additional 842 megawatts of renewable energy capacity to power our data centers. Across three countries, we’re nearly doubling the amount of renewable energy we’ve purchased to date. We’re now up to 2 gigawatts—the equivalent to taking nearly 1 million cars off the road. These additional 842 megawatts represent a range of locations and technologies, from a wind farm in Sweden to a solar plant in Chile.

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Lịch sử, Song ngữ, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam’s Divide: Slow Healing, Fewer Prospects for Children of U.S. Allies — Việt Nam vẫn còn chia cách: vết thương chậm hồi phục, ít có triển vọng cho con cái của đồng minh Mỹ

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(English and Vietnamese — Song ngữ Anh Việt)

Families who were allied with U.S. barred from Communist Party

December 23, 2015

John Boudreau 
K Oanh Ha

The Week That Was In Asia Photo Gallery

Photographer: Dita Alangkara/AP
Vu Tien, a university student in Ho Chi Minh City, holds photographs of his father who served in the military of the former Republic of Vietnam that governed the nation's south from 1954 to 1975.
Vu Tien, a university student in Ho Chi Minh City, holds photographs of his father who served in the military of the former Republic of Vietnam that governed the nation’s south from 1954 to 1975.
Source: Bloomberg News

As a graduate from one of Vietnam’s most prestigious schools, 22-year-old Cao would seem to have a bright future ahead of him — if only the past would get out of the way. He’s found his career prospects hemmed in by the lingering legacy of a war that ended nearly two decades before he was born.

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Trang tiếng Anh, Văn Hóa

What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

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Chào các bạn,

Năm 1938, Đại học Harvard bắt đầu một nghiên cứu về những điều gì quan trọng nhất cho đời sống con người, kéo dài cho đến nay (77 năm) và vẫn tiếp tục. Đây là cuộc nghiên cứu về phát triển đời sống của người lớn dài nhất thế giới.

Nhóm người được nghiên cứu gồm 724 người, một nửa là sinh viên năm thứ 2 ở Harvard thời đó, tức là các đối tượng đến từ các gia đình quyền lực và thành công, và nửa kia là các thanh niên nghèo khổ ở Boston, gia đình thiếu ăn thiếu mặc. Khoảng 60 người trong số 724 người đó vẫn còn sống ngày nay.

Trong cuộc nói chuyện dưới đây, Robert Waldinger, giám đốc đời thứ 4 của cuộc nghiên cứu, cho biết sau hơn 75 năm nghiên cứu, nhóm nghiên cứu tìm thấy: Điều quan trọng nhất cho hạnh phúc của con người không phải là tiền bạc, quyền lực, hay mục tiêu nào cả, mà là quan hệ con người: Continue reading What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness →

Lịch sử, Thế giới, Trang tiếng Anh

The Untold Story of the U.S. and Cuba’s Middleman

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FP Report

New documents show how hard Switzerland worked to keep the Cold War from turning hot.

The Untold Story of the U.S. and Cuba’s Middleman

On the day the United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic ties after a half-century of acrimony, the scene at the newly opened Cuban Embassy in Washington was euphoric. A boisterous band played the Cuban national anthem as a three-man honor guard marched onto the front lawn and mounted the island nation’s flag. Five hundred dignitaries, including senior U.S. diplomats, a large visiting Cuban delegation, and U.S. lawmakers filled the nearly century-old mansion. Even Hollywood B-lister Danny Glover made an appearance.

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The Current State of Sustainable Energy Provision for Displaced Populations: An analysis

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Author: Rebecca Gunning, Independent Sustainable Energy Consultant

This paper examines the benefits and impacts of sustainable energy access for displaced populations, considers the challenges to energy access and assesses the role of the private sector in delivering energy for displaced populations.

Photo: iStockphoto
Photo: iStockphoto

By the end of 2013, the number of forcibly displaced persons worldwide had reached 51.2 million, of which 33.3 million were internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 16.7 million were refugees. Access to energy is a basic human need; for these displaced people however, access to energy is a real challenge. This initial research reviews camp situations (which are home to approximately 50% of refugees) and focuses on the evidence of the benefits and impacts of sustainable energy access for displaced populations. The paper also assesses how the private sector could help to provide energy for displaced populations.

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Trang tiếng Anh, Văn

Being a good servant – I am living my dream

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I can’t remember when I came to know the phrase “Living your dream” when I started learning English. The phrase doesn’t have a precise meaning in Vietnamese.  It implies that you have obtained what you have dreamed for, have tried and worked to make it come true.  For that, you are living your dream.

Do you have a dream? Let me tell you the stories of my dreams.

When I was a little girl, I had a wish (let call it a dream) to own a telescope since I loved astronomy. I then made my own telescope  while in junior (?) high school. My self-made telescope costed me about 15USD. Though the telescope did not work as good as I expected, it brought me enough joy. Continue reading Being a good servant – I am living my dream →

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The Power of Smallholder Land Rights to Combat Climate Change

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CSIS

Photo courtesy of Groman123 from https://www.flickr.com/photos/pkirtz/21038826799/
By Kimberly Flowers, Lisa Bauer
Dec 16, 2015

Last weekend the world rejoiced over the historic, long-awaited climate-change agreement reached at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21). While the cooperation of 190 countries around a singular issue, especially one as pressing as climate change, should be applauded, the COP21 pact is missing something major: the role of agriculture.

This year is on target to be the hottest in recorded history. Just in the past few months, we have watched El Nino, which is likely to be one of the strongest on record, create unpredictable and chaotic weather patterns, taking a tremendous toll on harvests and pushing millions into extreme poverty and emergency levels of food insecurity. Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, with predictions of at least 15 million people requiring emergency food assistance by early 2016. As climate change continues to threaten global stability, it pressures the international community to enact creative solutions. One solution that hasn’t received enough attention is increasing land rights for smallholder farmers, particularly for women in the developing world.

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Biển Đông, Trang tiếng Anh

CSIS: Asia Maritime Transparency Initiatie, Dec. 18, 2015 brief

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A Case of Rocks or Islands?
This issue of AMTI explores the ongoing case between China and the Philippines at the arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The Philippines argued the merits of its case against China’s claims in the South China Sea before an arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague from November 24 to 30. As it has since the case was filed in early 2013, China refused to recognize or take part in the proceedings.

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Phát triển kinh tế, Trang tiếng Anh

Why states with more marriages are richer states

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By Jim Tankersley October 20

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Washingtonpost – There is a story gaining steam among some academics that suggests the institution of marriage — particularly marriage for parents of young children — could play an important role in strengthening the American economy. It is a story about growth and poverty, about responsibility and work ethic.

And largely, it is a story about men.

According to new research, states with a high concentration of married couples experience faster economic growth, less child poverty and more economic mobility than states where fewer adults are married, even after controlling for a variety of economic and demographic factors. The study, from the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies, also finds that the share of parents who are married in a state is a better predictor of that state’s economic health than the racial composition and educational attainment of the state’s residents.

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ASEAN, Trang tiếng Anh

ASEAN and Global Change

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John Pang

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As we set our eyes on the long horizon of economic integration we should not neglect the important role ASEAN can play in the wider region today.

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RSIS – THIS HAS been a year of high expectations and of disappointment in Southeast Asia. Rarely has the economic and strategic importance of the region been as apparent. As China’s economy transitions towards “a new normal” marked by lower growth, structural and financial reform, and as the other BRICS markets have also slowed, investors have looked to ASEAN, with its favourable demographics and market-oriented economies, as both an alternative and a complementary market to China.

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Biển Đông, Trang tiếng Anh

The U.S. Navy Wants to Show China Who’s Boss

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FP Report – In a growing military rivalry with Beijing, U.S. commanders are looking for new anti-ship missiles and rewriting their war-fighting doctrine in the Pacific.

The U.S. Navy Wants to Show China Who’s Boss

Worried about China’s increasing naval might, the U.S. Navy is scrambling to buy new anti-ship missiles for the first time in decades, and throwing out its old playbook for war strategy in the Pacific.

Since the end of the Cold War, the American military has enjoyed unrivaled dominance on the high seas, with no other navy posing a serious threat. But over the past decade, China has rapidly built up a naval force to be reckoned with, spending tens of billions of dollars annually to produce dozens of new warships of every size, and a formidable arsenal of missiles aimed at undercutting America’s naval reach.

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Nhân quyền, Trang tiếng Anh

More than 2,000 enslaved fishermen rescued in 6 months

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By ESTHER HTUSAN and MARGIE MASON

Sep. 17, 2015 12:44 PM EDT

Seafood From Slaves 2,000 Free
In this Sept. 8, 2015 photo, a Burmese fisherman, center, is embraced by a friend as he leaves the…AMBON, Indonesia (AP) — More than 2,000 fishermen have been rescued this year from brutal conditions at sea, liberated as a result of an Associated Press investigation into seafood brought to the U.S. from a slave island in eastern Indonesia.

Dozens of Burmese men in the bustling port town of Ambon were the latest to go home, some more than a decade after being trafficked onto Thai trawlers. Grabbing one another’s hands, the men walked together toward buses last week. As they pulled away for the airport, some of those still waiting their turn to go home cheered, throwing their arms in the air.

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Nhân quyền, Trang tiếng Anh

Why do we know so little about corporate human rights abuses?

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UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

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Posted: 12/02/2015 12:53 pm EST

huffingtonpost – They called it “the plane that became a convertible.” In 1988, on a routine flight from Hilo to Honolulu, Aloha Airlines flight 243 depressurized mid-flight, ripping the top off the plane. A flight attendant, the only one who wasn’t strapped in, was sucked out of the plane with it.

The accident was a wake-up call for the aviation industry. For years, deregulation had attracted more companies to the sector, increasing pressure on airlines to extend the lifespan of their fleets and skip maintenance to keep them in the air.

After the accident, airlines and regulators decided to solve the safety problem head-on. The U.S. Federal Aviation Authority required every airline to report its maintenance, testing and accident data, and set statutory limits for how many times each piece of equipment could be used before it had to be retired.

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Phát triển chính trị, Trang tiếng Anh

Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew’s fight against corruption

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Lee Luan Yew
Tue, 03/31/2015 – 05:15 NEditor

31 March 2015

Lee Kuan Yew is no more. He will be remembered by many for many reasons. Today corruption.net is looking at why he will be remembered for his relentless fight against ant-corruption.

In October 1951, a large shipment of opium was hijacked by thieves from the port town of Punggol, in north-east Singapore. British authorities investigated and found that the thieves included several high ranking officers of the Singapore Police Force. In the aftermath of the scandal, the British colonial government set up the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in 1952 and sited in the Attorney-General’s Chambers.

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Phụ nữ, Trang tiếng Anh

The Persistent Gender Gap and How It Perpetuates Violence Against Women

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By Barbara Rodriguez

asiafoundation – November 25 marked International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and we are now in the midst of a global 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence. (Tune in next Thursday, December 10 at 11am EST to our live #GBVChat Tweetchat relay on Promising Approaches to Ending Gender-Based Violence.)

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Earlier this year, the UN found alarmingly high levels of violence against women and girls, with one in three women across the globe experiencing violence in their lifetimes. Worldwide, most violence against women is committed by a current or former intimate partner, leading some to warn that there is in fact no place less safe for a woman than in her own home.

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