Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh
Hong Kong: 1.7m people defy police to march in pouring rain
Demonstrators carry umbrellas as they march along a street in Hong Kong on Sunday in defiance of a police ban. Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP
An estimated 1.7 million people in Hong Kong – a quarter of the population – defied police orders to stage a peaceful march after a rally in a downtown park, after two months of increasingly violent clashes that have prompted severe warnings from Beijing and failed to win concessions from the city’s government.
Prayer 669
Jesus,
Mary Magdalene took about a pint of pure nard,
an expensive perfume;
she poured it on your feet
and wiped your feet with her hair.
(John 12:1-11)
Were you not surprised by her actions?
Had she done such to you many times before?
And perhaps she didn’t only wipe your feet,
but also wiped your many other spots with her hair.
Beijing starts military exercise in disputed South China Sea as tensions with Vietnam rise
Three-day training drill near Paracels starts on Tuesday as Hanoi faces pressure at home over Vanguard Bank stand-off
Laura Zhou Published: 8:15pm, 15 Aug, 2019 SCMP
China started a series of military training exercises near the Paracel chain of islands in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday, amid growing tensions with Vietnam over the vital maritime trade route.
Ships were prohibited from entering three locations in and near the Paracels from Tuesday morning until Thursday afternoon, according to three brief notices published on the Maritime Safety Administration website on Monday. No details were given of the purpose of the training, nor which military units would be involved.
Nam Dinh – the native land of the Tran Kings
Last update 14:30 | 07/11/2016 vietnamnet
VietNamNet Bridge – Nam Dinh, a coastal province in the southern Red River Delta, is the sacred land of the Viet people, Tran Kings and national hero Tran Hung Dao, the spirit of the Tran Dynasty.
Nam Dinh has nearly 4,000 historical cultural sites including 77 national, 216 provincial ones; and many typically historical, cultural, architectural monuments like Keo Hanh Thien pagoda, Ngoi Bridge, Luong temple, Nam Dinh flagpole.
Who was Jesus? (7)
Dear brothers and sisters,
Who was Jesus?
Jesus was a person who knew what eating and drinking were.
To Jesus, eating and drinking were the good things. Continue reading Who was Jesus? (7)
Lowly in heart
Dear brothers and sisters,
The world teaches us to become lofty people, people having all things and doing all things. And Jesus teaches us to become lowly people, people having nothing and doing nothing.
Magical. Having nothing but having all things. Doing nothing but doing all things.
More deeply, by becoming nothing, Jesus teaches us to become strong people, people fearing nothing. Hallelujah! Continue reading Lowly in heart
China’s incursion into Vietnam’s EEZ and lessons from the past
AMT BY HUONG LE THU | AUGUST 8, 2019
The Haiyang Dizhi 8, a survey vessel belonging to a Chinese government-run corporation, began surveying a large swath of seabed on July 3 northeast of Vanguard Bank (Bai Tu Chinh) off the coast of Vietnam. The ship was apparently undertaking an oil and gas survey across two blocks, Riji 03 and Riji 27, which fall within Vietnam’s continental shelf under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The survey ship has been escorted by other vessels, including the China Coast Guard and maritime militia. At the same time, China Coast Guard ships have been harassing Vietnamese drilling operations in Block 06-01 to the south.
Potential implications for Taiwan of new assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs
There is much excitement within Washington’s Asia policy world regarding the June 13 confirmation by the US Senate of David R. Stillwell as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. The role has been without a confirmed political appointee for the entirety of the Trump administration. Finally, there is an official at the Department of State, chosen by the president—and hopefully trusted by him—to manage US diplomatic efforts in the Indo-Pacific region.
What history learning is for?
Dear brothers and sisters,
What do we learn history for?
To love people.
To love both the fool and wise man. To love both killers and the pure in heart. To love both evil people and good people. To love all people.
If we learn history but don’t love people, we’ll continue to make war. Continue reading What history learning is for?
Prayer 668
Jesus,
Let’s visit Cửa Đại Beach (in Hội An).
I want to know how erosion here is.
…
Wow, look at a concrete dyke system.
Well.
However we have many things to do to save our beaches.
Amen.
PTH
Missing Mekong waters rouse suspicions of China
JULY 25, 2019 / 6:17 AM / REUTERS
BAN NONG CHAN, Thailand (Reuters) – By this time of year, the Mekong River should have been rising steadily with the monsoon rains, bringing fishermen a bounty of fat fish.
Scientists and people living along the river fear the impact of the worst drought in years has been exacerbated by upstream dams raising the prospect of irreversible change on the river that supports one of Southeast Asia’s most important rice-growing regions.
Prayer 667
Jesus,
The first time I draw my eyebrows like that.
Astute.
You make my face look strange.
These eyebrows make my eyes become bigger.
My friend said my eyes like Indian eyes.
She advised me to make up like Indian women.
Interesting.
If I make up like Indian women,
you’ll end my myopia?
Phấn nụ Huế matches for Central skin.
We’ll continue play make up next time?
I love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
The secret to peaceful life
Dear brothers and sisters,
What is the secret to peaceful life?
Slow and simple.
Living slowly and simply is the secret to peaceful life.
Life is wonderful when we live slowly and simply.
Live slowly and simply.
Have a peaceful day.
Phạm Thu Hương
World Bank: New research on development issues in Vietnam – Volume 11, number 7 (2019 July)
TABLE OF CONTENT
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
- Contract Farming in the Mekong Delta’s Rice Supply Chain: Insights from an Agent-Based Modeling Study.
- Toward Sustainability or Efficiency: The Case of Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Vietnam.
- Are Vietnamese farmers able to combat global climate change? A case study on perceptions and attitudes towards sustainable forest management and REDD+ in Central Vietnam.
- Drivers of forest change in Hoa Binh, Vietnam in the context of integration and globalization.
- Forest Ecosystem Services and Local Communities: Towards a Possible Solution to Reduce Forest Dependence in Bach Ma National Park, Vietnam.
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