By Maya Taal
On August 31, 2013, Der Spiegel reported that the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) had hacked into the private communications of Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera. The German news magazine, citing documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, reported that the NSA deemed its operation to access the communications of interesting targets specially protected by Al-Jazeera “a notable success.”
Chào các bạn,
Dưới đây là link đến Glocal Trends 2030 (Các khuynh hướng toàn cầu 2030), một tường trình của National Intelligence Council (Hội đồng tình báo quốc gia) của Mỹ vào cuối năm 2012, về các khuynh hướng lớn của thế giới trong thời gian từ đây đến 2030. Đọc để ước tính cái khung lớn cho các hiện tượng có thể của thế giới trong tương lai gần.
Mến,
Hoành
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‘Welcome to the year of the whores’: Subtitling error on BBC News ushers in unexpected sign for Chinese New Year
By Mark Duell
BBC News has marked Chinese New Year by welcoming viewers into the ‘year of the whores’.
Continue reading BBC: “Chào mừng Năm của Gái làng chơi” – Welcome to the year of the whores
Năm 2013, Diane Dyad, 64 tuổi là người đầu tiên lội từ Havana, Cuba đến Key West, USA, 180 km, không có shark cage (hộp chống cá mập).
Nelson Mandela, the prisoner-turned-president who reconciled South Africa after the end of apartheid, died on Thursday, December 5, according to the country’s president, Jacob Zuma. Mandela was 95.(CNN) — Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday.
Mandela was 95.
Continue reading Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid icon and father of modern South Africa, dies
China’s announcement on Saturday that it has created an Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea — including airspace over a small group of islands claimed by both China and Japan — has prompted serious concerns and sharply worded protests from Washington and Tokyo.
Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — “All the servers are in Beijing” — he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country’s history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways.
Michael Anti (Zhao Jing), a key figure in China’s new journalism, explores the growing power of the Chinese internet.
Paddy Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk he outlines the three major global shifts that he sees coming.
Throughout his career, Paddy Ashdown has moved across the international stage. He served as a Royal Marine and an intelligence officer in MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom, before becoming a member of Parlaiment. In 1988 he became the first leader of the newly formed Liberal Democrat party. After leaving Parlaiment he served as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The developed world holds up the ideals of capitalism, democracy and political rights for all. Those in emerging markets often don’t have that luxury. In this powerful talk, economist Dambisa Moyo makes the case that the west can’t afford to rest on its laurels and imagine others will blindly follow. Instead, a different model, embodied by China, is increasingly appealing. A call for open-minded political and economic cooperation in the name of transforming the world.
Dambisa Moyo’s work examines the interplay between rapidly developing countries, international business, and the global economy — while highlighting opportunities for investment. She has travelled to more than 60 countries over the past decade, studying the political, economic and financial workings of emerging economies, in particular the BRICs and the frontier economies in Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East.
Dear everyone,
Below is the link to the World Happiness Report 2013 by the Earth Institute of Columbia University.Viet Nam ranks 63 out of 156 country.The report has 170 pages and you can download it here.
Wish you a great day!
Hoành
Đường xá New York chật chội, nguy hiểm.
Janette Sadik-Khan, Giám đốc giao thông của thành phố New York nói về thí nghiệm 6 năm làm đường phố New York thân thiện hơn với người đi bộ và xe đạp, cho người dân nhiều chỗ để đi bộ và ngồi chơi, làm giao thông xe cộ nhanh hơn, các tiệm buôn bán tăng lợi tức, và thành phố thấy thoáng mát hơn, mà tốn rất ít tiền–chỉ cần sơn và một ít bàn ghế.
Đọt Chuối Non 