Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

How will China’s New Silk Road change Thailand and Cambodia?

ChannelNewsAsia

Series:
– What are China’s plans for the Belt and Road initiative in ASEAN?
– How will China’s New Silk Road shape Myanmar’s economy?
– How will China’s New Silk Road change Thailand and Cambodia?
– How is China’s New Silk Road transforming Vietnam and Laos?

The New Silk Road is China’s grand trillion-dollar strategy to link up 65 countries and 4.4 billion people. How will these developments in Indochina impact the rest of ASEAN?

Projects such as spectacular casino resorts and mega high-speed railways are being celebrated in Cambodia and Thailand – but have also caused discontent among some locals.

U.S. prepares for biggest-ever Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (R) meets Vietnam’s Defence Minister General Ngo Xuan Lich in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam October 17, 2018. 

REUTERS WED OCT 17, 2018

Phil Stewart

BIEN HOA AIR BASE, Vietnam (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday visited a former American air base in southern Vietnam that will soon become the biggest-ever U.S. cleanup site for contamination left by the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

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The deceptive promise of free trade

Deustch Welle, Published on Jun 6, 2018

Global trade is a hot topic of the G7 summit in Canada. Is free trade truly free – and fair? What roles do US President Trump, economic powerhouse China, and the EU play in global trade?

When it comes to global trade, it would seem that trickery, threats and deception are the order of the day – yet all this takes place largely beyond the reach of the public eye.

RENEW project handles 590 explosive devices in Quang Tri

Vietnam News Agency (Vietnam+)

VNA SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2018 – 17:52:00 PRINT


Various explosive devices found at the construction site in Quang Tri (Photo: nhandan.com.vn)

Quang Tri (VNA) – A team of the “Restoring the Environment and Neutralising the Effects of the War” (RENEW) project said it safely moved 590 explosive devices from a construction site in the central province of Quang Tri.

The mission took place from October 10-11, right after the team received a report on explosive devices from workers, who were building a guest house of Quang Tri town’s military high command at a location near the southern bank of Thach Han river.

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A late start: Renewable energy development in Vietnam

August 21st, 2018 by  CleanTeachnica


By Lars Blume, Green ID Vietnam

Vietnam is located on the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. The country’s total length is 1,650 kilometers from the northernmost point to the southernmost point. Vietnam has a diverse topography consisting of hills, mountains, deltas, coastline, and continental shelf. The topography is lower from the Northwest to the Southeast. There are two major deltas with fertile arable land in Vietnam; the 16,700 sq km Red River Delta, locally known as the Northern Delta, and the 40,000 sq km Mekong River Delta, or the Southern Delta. The country has a long coastline of 3,260 km, running from Mong Cai in the North to Ha Tien in the Southwest.

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The peddler girl from Sa Pa who made it big

VNE – October 9, 2018 | 01:22 pm GMT+7

She was named by Forbes Vietnam as one of the 30 most influential under-thirty in the country.

Tan Thi Shu was born in 1986 in a poor H’Mong family in Sa Pa, a beautiful mountainous town in the northern province of Lao Cai.

Her family was in fact so poor it could only afford one meal a day. She started working at the age of 12, selling brocade fabric. A year later, like most of her peers, she became a peddler in Sa Pa.

Her mind was always teeming with unanswered questions: “Why are my parents so poor? Why am I different from the rest? Why can’t I go to school and have the same opportunities as others? Wherever I go, I can’t find anyone else who looks like me…”.

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Prayer 543

The prayer series

Jesus,

Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is not good for us.

ISDS is a mechanism
that allows foreign investors
to bring claims against host governments
to an international arbitral tribunal.

ISDS is a postcolonial relic that should be abolished.

Before abolishing ISDS,
please protect our government.
Give our government your wisdom
and help our government stand firmly
no matter how strong the ISDS storm is.

We trust you.

Amen.

PTH

Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital: a symbol of friendship between Việt Nam and Cambodia

Update: October, 08/2018 – 09:00

A patient is transferred to Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital by helicopter. — VNA/VNS Photo

Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Srey Phirum Khun, 45, used to spend 8 hours travelling from Cambodia’s Kampong Speu Province to HCM City in Việt Nam for health checkups and treatment. Today, she no longer faces the grueling journey thanks to the inauguration of the Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital in January 2014.

“I no longer have to travel abroad for treatment. It helps save my money and time,” she said with a smile.

Khun was just one of many who have benefited from the joint cooperation between Việt Nam and Cambodia in the medical sector.

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