Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

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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Mekong-Japan partnership strategy agreed at Tokyo summit

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN – October 9, 2018 at 15:45 JST

Photo/IllutrationJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, center, speaks at the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting held in the State Guest House in Tokyo’s Moto-Akasaka district on Oct. 9. (Pool)

Five Southeast Asian leaders joined Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the State Guest House in Tokyo on Oct. 9 to adopt an agreement to strengthen ties between their nations and Japan.

The agreement, titled “Tokyo Strategy 2018,” was adopted by Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, as well as Japan, at the 10th Mekong-Japan Summit Meeting.

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Moon’s ’anti-corruption’ move invites ISDS lawsuits

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Korea Times | 26 September 2018

Moon’s ’anti-corruption’ move invites ISDS lawsuits

By Nam Hyun-woo

The Moon Jae-in administration’s campaign to “root out archaic irregularities” appears to have backfired as global private equity funds are rushing to file investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS) over the controversial merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries in 2015.

Following Elliott, which went after the Moon Jae-in government’s acknowledgement of the previous administration’s intervention in the merger, a separate U.S. private equity fund, Mason, has recently issued a similar claim. Those moves are placing the government in a dilemma over whether it should deny its own rationale or pay more than 1 trillion won (890 million) in compensation.

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Vietnamese, US veteran pilots gather in Hanoi

VietnamNetBridge 04/10/2018

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Vietnamese and American veteran pilots, who were once enemies of each other in the air during the anti-US war, gather in Hanoi on October 3 for the third time.

Vietnamese and American veteran pilots, who were once enemies of each other in the air during the anti-US war, reunited in Hanoi on October 3 for the third time.

Present at the gathering were Lt. Gen. Nguyen Duc Soat, hero of the People’s Armed Forces and head of the Vietnamese veteran pilot delegation, Charlie Tutt, head of the US veteran pilot delegation, representatives from the Air Defence – Air Force Service under the Vietnam Defence Ministry, and veteran pilots of the two countries.

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Vietnam’s Party chief Trong presented as presidential candidate

VNE – By Viet Tuan   October 3, 2018 | 06:59 pm GMT+7

Vietnam’s Party chief Trong presented as presidential candidate
Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is seen at a reception ceremony in Hanoi, January 23, 2018. Photo by Reuters/Kham

The Party’s Central Committee has nominated General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong to be the country’s next president.

The committee voted on Wednesday to introduce Trong as a candidate for the head of state post to Vietnam’s legislative National Assembly, which will be in sesssion between October 21 and November 19. No other candidates have been proposed for the job.

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Just watching the rain

October is coming – the rainy season is coming.

The first rains always make Snail feel a little joy. The first rains are often showers. People say, if it showers on the first date, that couple will get married. “Funny”, Snail smiles, although she keeps on believing in that legend.

Usually each shower lasts for a short time. Though only for a little time, earth and heaven seem closer than they are. Continue reading Just watching the rain

Lời cầu nguyện 537 – Prayer 537

l'oiseau sur une branche by mai trung thu
* Artist: Mai Trung Thu (1906–1980) * Title: L’OISEAU SUR UNE BRANCHE (THE BIRD ON A BRANCH), 1967 * Medium: ink and gouache on silk in the original frame by the artist * Size: 20 x 15 cm. (7.9 x 5.9 in.)

Chuỗi bài cầu nguyện

Giêsu ơi,

Em yêu nghệ thuật thị giác.
Em ước tranh của chúng em sẽ được trong sáng và sâu sắc.

Thứ nhất, phải trong sáng.

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