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ASEAN, Phát triển kinh tế, TPP, Trang tiếng Anh

TPP: An Important First Step in the Process of Asia-Pacific Economic Integration

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 • June 17, 2015

By Shinichi Isobe

Source: CSIS External Relations.

Although congressional authorization of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) is in limbo now, the House decided to take up the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) bill again by the end of Julyand kept the window of opportunity open. The TPA bill passed the House on June 12 but the TAA bill failed. Both are bundled as one package of a bill, and thus TAA needs to pass the House for the president to sign it. Once they are signed into law, the United States and Japan may conclude bilateral trade talks and that will lead to the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. Joint participation in TPP presents a significant opportunity for both countries to assume a leadership role in shaping the rules and norms for trade in the Asia Pacific, but TPP is one step in a long process of regional economic integration that will unfold in the years to come. Continue reading TPP: An Important First Step in the Process of Asia-Pacific Economic Integration →

Thể thao, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam finishes 3rd at SEA Games, now aims for 2016 Olympics

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TNN – SINGAPORE – Tuesday, June 16, 2015 17:24


Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, 19, has won 8 gold medals and broke 8 records at the 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore. Photo: Kha Hoa

Ranked third at the 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games with 73 gold medals, Vietnam has exceeded the target of 60 golds, with many young athletes now aiming to compete at the 2016 Olympics.

Tran Duc Phan, who led the Vietnamese delegate to the biennial multi-sport Games for the 11-nation block in Singapore from June 5-16, said the country’s participation has been successful. Continue reading Vietnam finishes 3rd at SEA Games, now aims for 2016 Olympics →

Bang giao quốc tế, Phát triển kinh tế, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam’s trade deficit with China suspected to be much higher than reported

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By Nguyen Nga – Tran Tam , TNN

HA NOI – Monday, June 15, 2015 08:07

Goods smuggled from China being destroyed. Photo: Ngoc Thang

Many Vietnamese economists have been raising questions about the actual trade deficit with China, saying that there is a huge mismatch between figures released by the two governments.

At a meeting of the National Assembly last week, Mai Huu Tin from the southern province of Binh Duong raised the issue, pointing out that while Vietnam reported the deficit at US$28.9 billion last year, Chinese statistics pegged it at $43.8 billion. Continue reading Vietnam’s trade deficit with China suspected to be much higher than reported →

Artificial island, Biển Đông, Phát triển chính trị, Phát triển kinh tế, Quốc phòng, Thế giới, Trang tiếng Anh

Southeast Asia’s Geopolitical Centrality and the U.S.-Japan Alliance

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By Ernest Z. Bower, Murray Hiebert, Gregory B. Poling, Phuong Nguyen

 

JUN 11, 2015

 
CSIS – Building on a careful analysis of Southeast Asia’s recent history, politics, economics, and place within the Asia Pacific, this report looks forward two decades to anticipate the development of trends in the region and how they will impact the U.S.-Japan alliance. How will Southeast Asian states come to grips with the political and economic rise of China? How will they modernize their military forces and security relationships, and what role can the United States and Japan play? Continue reading Southeast Asia’s Geopolitical Centrality and the U.S.-Japan Alliance →

Trang tiếng Anh, Y tế

Rights for disabled high on VN agenda

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Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga. — Photo VNA

NEW YORK (VNS) — The protection of the rights of people with disabilities was high on Viet Nam’s agenda, said Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations (UN)

“We have put in place legal, regulatory and policy frameworks to this end,” she said at the eighth Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that opened on Tuesday in New York. Continue reading Rights for disabled high on VN agenda →

Các vấn đề xã hội, Trang tiếng Anh

Viet Nam has some 1.75 million child labourers

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Around 1.75 million children, or nearly 10 per cent of children age 5 to 17 in Viet Nam, are child labourers. — Photo baogiaothong.vn

HA NOI (VNS) — Some 1.75 million children, or nearly 10 per cent of children age 5 to 17 in Viet Nam, are child labourers, according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) report.

The report was released on June 12 to coincide with World Day Against Child Labour. Continue reading Viet Nam has some 1.75 million child labourers →

Artificial island, Biển Đông, Thế giới, Trang tiếng Anh

Australia Has a Larger Role to Play in the South China Sea

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by  • June 4, 2015

Both the tone and substance of South China Sea discussions in Australian policy circles has undergone an important shift in recent months. What was previously a second-tier security concern to be watched closely and engaged diplomatically, but at a safe distance, has become a heated discussion about concrete responses. Australian policymakers are as concerned as anyone about China’s breakneck land reclamation in the Spratly Islands and the threats, both legal and military, they pose to the global commons. Australian officials and thinkers are seriously considering options to contest Chinese assertiveness, in tandem with the United States and other partners, which would have seemed distant possibilities a year ago. Continue reading Australia Has a Larger Role to Play in the South China Sea →

Phát triển chính trị, Phát triển kinh tế, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam obliged to buy Chinese trains for Hanoi’s urban railway: minister

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By Mai Ha, Thanh Nien News

HA NOI – Tuesday, June 09, 2015 20:11

The design of Cat Linh – Ha Dong elevated railway in Hanoi. Photo credit: Transport Ministry’s project management unit

Vietnam is obliged to buy 13 trains from China for Hanoi’s first urban railway line under a bilateral financing agreement, Transport Minister Dinh La Thang said on Tuesday, responding to question about the rationale for the purchase.

The Cat Linh – Ha Dong project is implemented in accordance with an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) arrangement, meaning that Vietnam has to hire Chinese companies for the work and use Chinese equipment, he said. Continue reading Vietnam obliged to buy Chinese trains for Hanoi’s urban railway: minister →

Biển Đông, Quốc phòng, Thế giới, Trang tiếng Anh

China Unlikely to Halt Island Construction in Disputed Sea

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War, blocked shipping lanes among scenarios for South China Sea, State report says

The alleged on-going reclamation of Subi Reef by China is seen from Pag-asa Island in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, western Palawan Province, Philippines / AP

The alleged on-going reclamation of Subi Reef by China is seen from Pag-asa Island in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, western Palawan Province, Philippines / AP

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June 9, 2015 5:00 am

Freebeacon – China will continue building islands in the disputed waters of the South China Sea but a major conflict in the region over the dispute is unlikely, according to a State Department security report.

“Beijing will continue to develop contested territories in the South China Sea,” says the internal report by the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). “Unlike fishing boats or patrol vessels, infrastructure investments, such as land reclamation and the construction of runways and lighthouses, signal a more permanent presence.” Continue reading China Unlikely to Halt Island Construction in Disputed Sea →

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Vietnam couple turn company into ‘incubator’ for ex-prisoners, junkies, disabled people

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UPDATED : 06/09/2015 08:05 GMT + 7

Nguyen Tan Thanh (right) and his wife, Phan Thi Xuan Thu (left), are pictured showing an Agent Orange boy how to perform a task at their company. – Tuoi Tre

 

TTN – A woman and her husband have turned their company into a ‘life university’ which offers former inmates, drug addicts or unruly people in Vietnam a second chance to start their lives afresh, and guides physically and mentally challenged youths toward a brighter future.

 
>> An audio version of the story is available here

For the past few years, residents in Chau Thanh District, located in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, have said jokingly that if any youth does not excel in their studies, they can go to ‘Hoan Vinh University.’ Continue reading Vietnam couple turn company into ‘incubator’ for ex-prisoners, junkies, disabled people →

Trang tiếng Anh, Văn Hóa

In Vietnam, cultural edifice dedicated to Chinese philosopher blasted for extravagance

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UPDATED : 06/09/2015 14:46 GMT + 7

Part of the Van Mieu (Temple of Literature), located in the northern province of Vinh Phuc, which costs a whopping VND271 billion (US$12.45 million) – Tuoi Tre

 
TTN – A project to build a multimillion-dollar cultural facility, which is intended to worship a highly revered Chinese philosopher/educationist and several noted Vietnamese academics of ancient times, in northern Vietnam has been frowned upon for its wastefulness.

The Van Mieu (Temple of Literature), which is in the making, has been criticized for being a colossal waste of the state budget. Continue reading In Vietnam, cultural edifice dedicated to Chinese philosopher blasted for extravagance →

Môi trường, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam UNESCO heritage threatened by erosion as dams stop sedimentation

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QUANG NAM – Monday, June 08, 2015 14:58

An eroded section at the Cua Dai Beach in Hoi An. Photo: Hoang Son
An eroded section at the Cua Dai Beach in Hoi An. Photo: Hoang Son

TNN – Hydropower dams on the Vu Gia – Thu Bon River system has hindered sedimentation downstream, causing severe erosion that could wipe out a popular beach in Hoi An town, experts warn.

“Climate change with a sea-level rise of 30cm is not the only reason for the current speed of erosion of Cua Dai Beach,” Vu Thanh Ca of the Scientific Research Institute of Sea and Islands said. Continue reading Vietnam UNESCO heritage threatened by erosion as dams stop sedimentation →

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War on poverty becomes faster, more sustainable

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Ethnic children in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai’s Man Than Primary School. Boosting support for poor ethnic people is one of goals targeted in a national programme on sustainable poverty reduction by 2020. — VNS Photo Thai Ha

HA NOI (VNS) — The national programme on sustainable poverty reduction until 2020 will be aimed at speeding up the process, preventing people from re-entering poverty situations – and creating conditions for the poor to access basic social services.

This was agreed by experts at a conference collecting ideas for the programme’s policies in Ha Noi on Wednesday. Continue reading War on poverty becomes faster, more sustainable →

ASEAN, Bang giao quốc tế, Biển Đông, Quốc phòng, Trang tiếng Anh

ASEAN must take a collective stance on the South China Sea

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4 June 2015

Author: Vignesh Ram, Manipal University

 
EAF – The South China Sea dispute has become the new normal in ASEAN meetings. The dispute, with its overlapping claims on various land features in the South China Sea, has started to figure as the most important territorial disputes in Asia, one that risks becoming a major power confrontation in the region. With this in mind, ASEAN must take a collective stand on the South China Sea.

Beijing deployed the Haiyang Shiyou oil rig 981 in May 2015 close to the Paracel Islands, triggering a furious reaction in Hanoi and the most serious uptick in tensions in the waters in years. (Photo: AAP) Continue reading ASEAN must take a collective stance on the South China Sea →

Bang giao quốc tế, Biển Đông, Thế giới, Trang tiếng Anh

Sabah’s Shadow on the South China Sea

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• By Jay L. Batongbacal I May 27, 2015

cogitasia – Philippine media went into a minor frenzy with the startling news that Manila purportedly offered Kuala Lumpur a quid pro quo in March: dropping the Philippine claim to North Borneo (Malaysia’s Sabah State) in exchange for Malaysian support for Manila’s arbitration case over the South China Sea. The media reports were quickly denied by the Philippines Department of Foreign Affairs, which noted the total absence of any reference to such a deal in the note that set off the firestorm. Recently, President Benigno Aquino III had to reiterate that his administration was not dropping the claim, prompting Malaysia to summon the Philippine Charge d’Affaires. Continue reading Sabah’s Shadow on the South China Sea →