Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

Can Vietnam achieve its vision of a ‘green transformation’?

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This picture taken on May 2, 2014 shows the first wind turbine towers from Vietnam’s first wind power plant along a sea coast at the southern coastal province of Bac Lieu. Up until 2014 Southeast Asian communist nation had been relying mainly on power produced from thermo and hydro power plants. Source: AFP /Duy Khoi

VIETNAM is facing a number of environmental pitfalls and policy hurdles on its path towards a sustainable energy sector, Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Linda Wallbott, Markus Lederer and Dang Nguyen Anh write.

Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth over the past two decades, making it one of the strongest and fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia.

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A Damaged Delta – Mekong Delta

Mekongeye.com 

A young girl helps her family from the Khmer community collect snails during low-tide in Southern Soc Trang Province. These mangroves were destroyed completely by bombing during the Vietnam War but over the last 25 years were able to grow back naturally, finally being protected and expanded by Government initiatives. Now, over 20 families come to the beach daily to collect snails and other fish that returned with the healthy mangrove eco-system.

By Luke Duggleby

Mekong Delta, September 17, 2018

Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is one of the world’s most at-risk areas from the effects of climate change, posing challenges both for its environment and population in years to come.

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Cambodia, Viet Nam make plans for implementing MRC Council Study recommendations

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Cambodia, Viet Nam make plans for implementing Council Study recommendations

MRC Vientiane, Lao PDR, 31st Oct 2018

Vientiane, Lao PDR, 31 October 2018 – Cambodia and Viet Nam have recently held consultations to begin the process of considering and implementing recommendations from the Mekong River Commission (MRC) Council Study into national policies and programs, while these are forthcoming in Lao PDR and Thailand. They aim to take advantage of the suite of new processes, tools, and datasets provided by the study to improve decision making on future sustainable development in the lower Mekong basin.

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EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements

Kết quả hình ảnh cho EU-Vietnam

VIETNAM | Brussels, 24 September 2018

EU-Vietnam trade and investment agreements (authentic text as of August 2018)

Disclaimer: The text of the EU-Vietnam trade agreement presented in this webpage is the text at the end of the negotiation conducted by the European Commission and is made public solely for information purposes. The agreement presented in this document is not binding under international law and will only become so after completion of the ratification process by each Party according to its internal legal procedures.

PREAMBLEPreamble

CHAPTER 1Objectives and General Definitions

CHAPTER 2National Treatment and Market Access for Goods

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Prayer 564

The prayer series >>

Jesus,

Please save Hanoi’s rivers.*

“Hanoi” means “lands inside rivers”.

Rivers make the history and culture of Hanoi.
When Hanoi no longer has these rivers,
Hanoi is not Hanoi anymore.

Please save Hanoi’s rivers.*

Amen.

PTH

Ảnh đầu bài: Chợ Cửa Đông. Tranh phục dựng của họa sĩ Nguyễn Thành Phong. Nguồn: Tìm lại dấu xưa Kẻ Chợ

* Câu này sử dụng tiêu đề của chuỗi bài Cứu những dòng sông Hà Nội – 4 bài

200 years to go before Laos is cleared of unexploded US bombs from Vietnam war era

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  • In the world’s most heavily bombed country, 20 million UXO have been cleared in the 45 years since clandestine US war ended
  • That leaves another 80 million still to be dug out and defused, if foreign governments continue funding the work.

BY PADRAIC CONVERY

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Thanksgiving is an American tradition that is unknown in most of the world. Fifty years ago, however, it landed in Laos, the small, impoverished Southeast Asian nation that was to become perhaps the longest-suffering casualty of the United States’ war in Vietnam.

Thanksgiving is held on the fourth Thursday in November. In 1968, that fell on November 28, and on that day, at the height of the war and on the orders of president Lyndon B. Johnson, turkey dinners were helicoptered in to American soldiers who were on a mission to sever the Ho Chi Minh Trail – the network of paths and tracks that constituted North Vietnam’s military supply lines to the south of the country – that ran through eastern Laos.

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China quietly upgrades a remote reef

November 20, 2018  |  AMTI BRIEF

Recent satellite imagery of Bombay Reef in the Paracel Islands shows that China has installed a new platform at the largely untouched South China Sea feature, which is also claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam. The modest new structure appears to be anchored on the north edge of the reef and is topped by a radome and solar panels. The development is interesting given Bombay Reef’s strategic location, and the possibility that the structure’s rapid deployment could be repeated in other parts of the South China Sea.

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China blames ‘excuses’ for APEC discord, as US ties sour again

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A major Asia-Pacific summit’s failure to agree on a communique resulted from certain countries “excusing” protectionism, a top Chinese diplomat said, in a veiled criticism of Washington that further sours the tone of China-U.S. ties ahead of a G20 meet.

Leaders attend the retreat session of the APEC Summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea November 18, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray

BEIJING: A major Asia-Pacific summit’s failure to agree on a communique resulted from certain countries “excusing” protectionism, a top Chinese diplomat said, in a veiled criticism of Washington that further sours the tone of China-U.S. ties ahead of a G20 meet.

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Khmer Rouge leaders found guilty of genocide in landmark ruling

By Steve George and Tim HumeCNN

Updated 5:18 AM ET, Fri November 16, 2018

(CNN) Almost four decades on from the collapse of Pol Pot’s tyrannical communist regime, an international tribunal has ruled that the Khmer Rouge committed genocide, a landmark verdict that is hoped will bring closure to millions of Cambodians.

More than 1.7 million people, or approximately a fifth of Cambodia’s population, are believed to have died from forced labor, starvation and execution under the Khmer Rouge which ruled the country between 1975 and 1979.

A Cambodian man sits in Choeung Ek Killing Fields near a tree that was used to beat children to death under the Khmer Rouge regime, on August 6, 2014 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
A Cambodian man sits in Choeung Ek Killing Fields near a tree that was used to beat children to death under the Khmer Rouge regime, on August 6, 2014 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

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