Update: April, 27/2019 – 09:49 VNA
A truck carrying clean water to serve people suffering from a water shortage in Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai District. — VNS Photo Đoàn Tùng
HÀ NỘI — As the summer approaches, people in the capital city of Hà Nội again face a dreadful nightmare of urban life – shortage of clean water.
This year, according to the Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the heat wave will be intense and long with temperatures reaching 39-42 degrees Celsius.
Jesus,
Let’s go to bed at 10 p.m
and wake up early in the morning.
I should follow the sun.
I should follow you.
Please help me go to bed and wake up on time.
Amen.
PTH
TĐH: Terry Gou, Chairman of Taiwanese firm Foxconn, with lots of investments in mainland China, has just announced his running for the presidency of Taiwan, against incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen. So now, stories about Foxconn and Tery Gou begin to take the front pages.
This story is somewhat personal to me. The little village Mount Pleasant in this story is right outside the border of City of Racine, where I worked as an accountant in Racine City Hall in my previous life before going to law school to become a lawyer. Last year, in our summer road trip to the US west coast, my wife and I stopped by Racine to take a look and took some pictures and was surprised by so much infrastructure construction going on. Now I understand the reason – the investment promise (still to be fulfilled) by Foxconn.
Valerie Bauerlein, The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday April 30, 2019
MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis.—Six miles west of Lake Michigan lies a cleared building site half again as big as Central Park, ready for Foxconn Technology Group’s $10 billion liquid-crystal-display factory.
Jesus,
Although I don’t listen and speak English well now,
although I have never lived abroad,
I believe I can understand the heart of Westerner
at least about 70%.
Why?
Because I know the Holy Bible, about 70%.
The Holy Bible is the heart of Westerner
as Buddhism is the heart of Easterner.
So knowing the Holy Bible is to understand the heart of Westerner.
Because I know the Holy Bible,
when I read their writings,
from musical writings to economic writings,
I can understand their feeling and thinking,
at least about 70%.
Most of our people like Buddhism.
They don’t care about the Holy Bible.
So although they’re good at English
and although they live abroad,
It would be hard for them to understand the heart of Westerner.
If we want to befriend the Westerners,
we should understand their heart and culture.
Our people should learn the Holy Bible.
Our people should learn about you.
Amen.
PTH
vietnamnet 26/04/2019 09:58 GMT+7
More and more international-standard resorts and hotels have arisen in Vietnam, but these facilities are not what foreign travelers want. They visit Vietnam to ‘return to nature’.
Returning to Canada after a trip to Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam in 2005, David Hutt, an Australian businessman, decided to come back to the beautiful island with his family members to enjoy the white sand and blue sea, the palm trees covering part of the beach, and red-earth trails.
vietnamnet 26/04/2019 16:07 GMT+7
Vietnam, listed among the easy-to-conquer markets for Huawei, has also become tougher amid calls for boycott of Huawei all over the world.
Huawei, the biggest telecom equipment supplier in the world, is facing a global crackdown on its telecommunications equipment because of a series of incidents recently, including the Canadian government’s arrest of its Chief Financial Officer and the US ban on Huawei and ZTE equipment.
Last update 07:40 | 05/04/2019 vietnamnet
A number of popular destinations in Vietnam have rather unique names. Despite the strangeness of some of the names, they have nonetheless attracted a large number of visitors to a stunning range of breathtaking natural scenery.
 Mua cave can be found in Hoa Lu district in the northern province of Ninh Binh. It has emerged as atop destination for travelers in the northern region |
Giêsu ơi,
Tình bạn là gì?
Tình bạn là chẳng nghĩ ngợi gì cả.
Ví dụ như Giêsu và em.
Em chẳng nghĩ Giêsu cao hơn em.
Em cũng chẳng nghĩ em thấp hơn Giêsu. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 633 – Prayer 633
Giêsu ơi,
Em biết vài tác giả,
thích viết
và là nhà văn chuyên nghiệp.
Lúc đầu, họ viết rất hay.
Sau khoảng 2-20 năm, họ bắt đầu đi xuống.
Chào các bạn,
Nói về Giêsu, nhất là vào Tuần Thánh là tuần trước ngày Phục Sinh, trong buổi ăn cuối cùng của các môn đệ, cao điểm là cảnh Mary Magdalene dùng dầu thơm để rửa chân cho Jesus và dùng tóc của mình để lau chân Jesus – một cảnh siêu tình cảm và lãng mạn dù ở thời đại nào. Ngay cả trong Thánh kinh chính thức (đã được dùng bởi các tổ phụ để xóa ảnh hưởng của Mary Magdalene và phụ nữ ra khỏi giáo hội cho đến ngày nay – phụ nữ ngày nay vẫn không được làm linh mục), thì Mary Magdalene là người đầu tiên thấy Giêsu sống lại, trong thời đại mà đàn bà không được làm nhân chứng chính thức trong các kiện cáo và lời nói được xem là không đáng tin. Tức là nói về Giêsu thì không thể nói về Mary Magdalene.
Mary Magdalene là nhân vật bí ẩn nhất trong Thánh kinh. Giáo hội, thời ban đầu đã cố tình biến Mary thành người đàn bà tội lỗi, bán dâm, bị quỷ ám, và xóa sổ Mary khỏi dòng chính của tư duy. Cho đến 1969 giáo hội (dưới ảnh hưởng đổi mới của Công Đồng Vaticano II) mới có chỉnh sửa lại cái nhìn rằng những cái nhìn trước kia là không có căn bản. Continue reading The Real Reason Why Mary Magdalene Is Such a Controversial Figure
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu giúp em cắt quả dưa hấu này nhá?
Giêsu giữ nó.
Rồi em cắt.
Mấy miếng dưa này ngon quá. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 631 – Prayer 631
Project RENEW update April 14, 2019
At age 30, Nguyen Thi Thuy has started in a job that everyone in Vietnam believed that only men could do. This mother of one daughter now leads an all-female clearance team of 16 members for clearing cluster munitions and other explosive remnants of war contaminated land in Quang Tri Province.
The youngest from a family of eight children in Gio Chau Commune, Gio Linh District, Nguyen Thi Thuy has been working with the Survey and Clearance Program of Project RENEW and Norwegian People’s Aid (RENEW-NPA) in Quang Tri Province since 2013.
vietnamnet 15/04/2019 16:37 GMT+7
China has vowed to stop importing solid waste by 2020, while Vietnam is still fumbling for solutions to control scrap imports.
Chinese agencies on March 28 announced the country’s plan to cut solid waste imports to zero percent by 2020 with an aim of encouraging plants to treat the high amount of domestic waste.
Prior to that, eight categories of steel, copper and aluminum scrap were added to the list of prohibited items in early 2019 and 24 categories of plastic scraps appeared in the list in late 2017.
At the meeting. Photo: VNF
The delegation consists of 10 assistants to US senators and congressmen from the Democrat and Republican parties on a working visit to Vietnam from April 12 to 20.
The trip is part of the Mutual Education and Cultural Exchange Act (MECEA) themed “Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership for peace and prosperity” and aims at boosting ties between the two nations and their parliaments in various areas, including trade collaboration, alleviation of war consequences, the East Sea issue, response to climate change and cybersecurity.
April 16, 2019 | AMTI BRIEF
Since early March, Chinese fishing vessels—apparently part of the country’s maritime militia force—have been operating near two Philippine-held features in the disputed Spratly Islands: Loaita Island and Loaita Cay, called Kota and Panata Islands by Filipinos. The Philippine press began to report this militia presence in early April, prompting the government to say it would protest to Beijing.
