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By the Numbers: Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia

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The data driving Asia
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a major driver of economic growth in many countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN’s five largest economies – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam – have become increasingly attractive to international investors, partly as a result of rising production and wages in China and India. At the same time, some ASEAN countries have tackled corruption and inflation, taken steps to invest in infrastructure, and liberalized their economies to attract more foreign capital. We explore FDI trends in ASEAN by the numbers.

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Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict

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Los Angeles Times
UC Berkeley researchers pull together data on ancient wars, road rage and more, and conclude that violence may increase between now and 2050 because of higher temperatures and extreme rainfall patterns.
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August 01, 2013, By Monte Morin

Long before scientists began to study global warming, author Raymond Chandler described the violent effects of dry, “oven-hot” Santa Ana winds gusting through the city of Los Angeles.

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Giáo dục, Trang tiếng Anh

The $4 Million Teacher

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WSJ

South Korea’s students rank among the best in the world, and its top teachers can make a fortune. Can the U.S. learn from this academic superpower?

Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country’s private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons. Unlike most teachers across the globe, he is paid according to the demand for his skills—and he is in high demand.

[image] SeongJoon Cho for The Wall Street Journal

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Môi trường, Trang tiếng Anh, Văn Hóa

Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world

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Bernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes — the wind in the trees, the chirping of birds, the subtle sounds of insect larvae — for 45 years. In that time, he has seen many environments radically altered by humans, sometimes even by practices thought to be environmentally safe. A surprising look at what we can learn through nature’s symphonies, from the grunting of a sea anemone to the sad calls of a beaver in mourning.

Bernie Krause’s legendary soundscapes uncover nature’s rich sonic tapestry — along with some unexpected results.
 

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Jimmy Carter: ‘America no longer has a functioning democracy’

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Jimmy Carter: ‘America no longer has a functioning democracy’

8:56 PM 07/17/2013

Katie McHugh

jimmy-carterFormer president Jimmy Carter condemned the effect U.S. intelligence programs had on U.S. moral authority in the wake of NSA revelations brought to light by leaker Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel reports.

“America has no functioning democracy,” Carter said at a meeting of The Atlantic Bridge in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday.

Carter also claimed there was currently no reason for him to be “optimistic” about Egypt’s internal conflicts and mused whether the standards The Carter Center applies to foreign elections could be fulfilled by U.S. elections, which he believes are plagued by confusing campaign rules and a lack of restrictions on free speech in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.

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Biển Đông, Trang tiếng Anh

The South China Sea in Focus

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biendongThe Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies at CSIS is pleased to announce the release of our latest report, The South China Sea in Focus: Clarifying the Limits of Maritime Dispute, by Research Associate Gregory Poling.

Satellite imagery and geospatial analysis tools offer an unprecedented opportunity to harness new technologies in order to help resolve boundary disputes. The South China Sea in Focus uses these tools to provide a first and necessary step toward tackling the overlapping maritime disputes in the South China Sea: determining which waters are and are not in dispute under international law.

The report opens with a set of geographic information system (GIS)–based maps that provide an easily understandable benchmark against which policymakers and academics can judge the claims and actions of the South China Sea claimants. More detailed color maps and methodological information follow for those who want to dig deeper into the claims and the report’s conclusions.

To download the full report [from CSIS site] or order a hard copy, please click here.

Biển Đông, Trang tiếng Anh

By the Numbers: Vietnam and the Philippines strengthen Air and Sea Capabilities

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Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu met with Vietnamese defense minister Phung Quang Thanh in Hanoi on March 5 to discuss strengthening maritime defense ties between their two countries. Following Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida’s January visit to Manila, the Philippines announced on February 11 that Japan will be donating ships to the Philippine Coast Guard in an effort to reinvigorate the bilateral security partnership. We look at the Philippines’ and Vietnam’s procurements and strengthening defense ties with their regional neighbors by the numbers:

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Phát triển kinh tế, Trang tiếng Anh

How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

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    TDH: It is obvious that China exports its products at unreasonably lơw prices on the world market by subsidizing its export firms, unfairly low-balling other countries’ firms around the world. This is typical monopolistic game. And the world obviously deosn’t have enough knowledge and the will to fight back.


How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

by Usha C.V. Haley and George T. Haley  |   8:00 AM April 25, 2013

Last week, LDK Solar, a struggling Chinese manufacturer of solar wafers and panels, announced that it had missed $24 million in bond payments. This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech, the main operating subsidiary of the world’s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment.

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Suspicious?

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https://dotchuoinon.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/mistrust.pngAny of you who have ever read “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” will know that Cao Cao is the most suspicious man in the world. Therefore, we have a saying “Overly suspicious like Cao Cao”. I remember when I was little, I extremely disliked Cao Cao when I read this novel, yet I kept thinking to myself: “Perhaps I should never be as suspicious to the point of cruelty as Cao Cao did, but maybe suspicion is something I should learn more about, otherwise how do I survive in this world?” And this question has followed me for many years as I grow up. Continue reading Suspicious? →

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Resourceful

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https://i0.wp.com/pandora.bonnint.net/video/widget/4219470.jpgHi everyone,

The word ‘resource’ means a source – source of money, source of materials, source of supports, source of people–basically sources that enrich us, as resources, in plural form, is the sum of properties possessed by a person, a company, or a nation. In daily working life, a resourceful person is someone who knows a lot of sources. Needless to say, this is a very important person for every project, as he/she has the ability to pull different sources of people or materials into the projects. Continue reading Resourceful →

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Bhutan becomes Happiness Lab for Western economists

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Asia Sentinel
May 3, 2013
by Cyril Pereira

The king could look happier...
The king could look happier…
First World pilgrims in suits seek Elixir of Joy in the Himalayas

Ever since the landmark April 2012 United Nations session convened by Bhutan on “Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm” attracted 600 participants including presidents, heads of state, economists, Nobel laureates, scholars, NGOs and spiritual leaders to consider Gross National Happiness (GNH) as a holistic extension to Gross National Product (GNP) indicators, Western economists and academics have lost no time clambering aboard the new bandwagon of hope.

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Can you teach anyone?

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Hi everyone,

I often receive questions from you guys like: A friend of mine keeps talking nonsense about things she does not understand, and I want help her improve her understanding, but I’m afraid she might get angry. What should I do? I have a friend who just doesn’t understand the spiritual life you preach, and is suffering because of it. Should I try persuading him again? Continue reading Can you teach anyone? →