Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

One more city experiments with battery-powered electric buses to serve tourists

vietnamnet 06/06/2019    01:52 GMT+7

Hoi An city which was recognized as a World Heritage site by UNESCO is the tenth city to be allowed to experiment with battery-powered electric buses inner city to serve tourists.

One more city experiments with battery-powered electric buses to serve tourists

According to the project, in the first phase, 30 buses out of 120 electric buses each carrying 8-14 passengers will run. The remaining fleets will be used in the second phase after report of effectiveness of the first phase.

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Thailand’s Inequality: Unpacking the Myths and Reality of Isan

June 5, 2019

By Rattana LaoAsia Foundation

For decades, the ethnically and linguistically diverse people of Isan, Thailand, have been the subject of pervasive bias, often described as docile and uneducated, or as “unsophisticated peasants” who can be bought and manipulated by ambitious politicians. Bordered by Laos and the Mekong River to the north and east, and by Cambodia to the southeast, these 20 provinces in Thailand’s northeast have long been the country’s poorest and least fertile region. But Isan is also Thailand’s most populous region, with 22 million inhabitants, 33% of the country’s total population. It is a population that matters deeply to the country’s future prosperity.


Isan region

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Prayer 646

The prayer series

Jesus,

I don’t like Đà Nẵng to become the second Singapore.

Why?

Đà Nẵng needs balance
between urban development and nature protection.
Singapore seems to know only urban development.
Singapore hasn’t got as many natural features as Đà Nẵng.
Singapore seems to know how to do the best with what it has.

However, Đà Nẵng should have a greater dream.

Amen.

PTH

Mình chỉ ngủ

Chào các bạn,

Mình chỉ ngủ là bài hát của ban nhạc rock người Anh The Beatles, phát hành vào tháng 8 năm 1966. Dù được ghi công trạng cho cả Lennon và McCartney, đây là một sáng tác của John Lennon.

John Lennon thích ở trên giường, không chỉ để ngủ mà còn để đọc, để xem TV hay để làm bất cứ điều gì, thế nên bài hát này được Lennon dành riêng cho những “hoạt động” đó. Những cuộc biểu tình “trên giường” của Lennon và vợ Yoko Ono đã mở rộng ý tưởng của bài hát: Nên dành thời gian trên giường để tránh ồn ào xung quanh và tránh gây ra những bất an như chiến tranh, đánh nhau,… (Xem chi tiết ở bài báo dưới đây.) Continue reading Mình chỉ ngủ

Prayer 642

The prayer series

Jesus,

I had wanted to be one with you,
then when you came to be one with me,
I denied you.

Jesus,
you ate and drank with everyone, including sinners;
you befriended everyone, especially the poor and the miserable;
you opened yourself to everyone, including those who hated you.
You said,
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

Jesus,
please keep me as a channel of your peace.
(Make me a channel of your peace)

Please keep me calm
so that you may use me as an instrument of your peace works on earth.

Amen.

PTH

Vietnam and the Mekong’s Synthetic Drug Epidemic

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Mainland Southeast Asia remains a hotspot for illegal drug manufacturing, and Vietnam is emerging as a transit hub.

Although Vietnam has some of the world’s most stringent drug laws — those convicted of possessing or smuggling more than 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine face death – the country has also been facing the existence of a key smuggling and trafficking hub for illegal drugs around the Golden Triangle, at the intersection of China, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar. The Golden Triangle is the world’s second-largest drug producing region, and the effects are being felt in Vietnam.

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Online sale of elephant tusks continues to boom

vietnamnet 29/04/2019    07:56 GMT+7

Elephant tusks are available in many places, from souvenir shops and jewelry shops to tourist sites. But the sales there are very small compared with transactions via online markets.

MT, at No 81-83 Nguyen Van Cu street, is a well known souvenir shop in Buon Ma Thuot City. There are many stalls inside, including a jewelry and souvenir stall which display products made of elephant tusks.

Online sale of elephant tusks continues to boom

N, a salesman, showed many products, from bracelets, rings, pens, combs and a section of an elephant tail with black feathers. Each feather was priced at VND100,000.

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