IPS correspondent Sinsiri Tiwutanond spoke to Global Green Growth Institute’s director-general Dr. Frank Rijsberman about Asia’s fight against air pollution.
– At the start of the year the pollution in Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, reached six times the World Health Organization’s guideline levels for air quality.
EURACTIV Jul 16, 2018 (updated: Jul 20, 2018)
China is set to make further inroads into European infrastructure, as a state-owned company attempts to gain full control of Portugal’s power grid.
The case could be a game changer when it comes to third country foreign investments in the EU. Currently, the Commission lacks the proper legal framework to “protect” EU common interests and it could be a wake-up call to speed up the procedure to establish an investments screening mechanism.
By Marc Goichot July 25, 2018 | 09:39 am GMT+7
vnexpress.net Vietnamese restaurant owners, chefs and customers are complicit in the crime of catching, advertising, serving and eating an endangered species.
Most people in Vietnam knows it is illegal to sell tiger meat or pangolin scales or rhino horn.
It is common knowledge that trading elephant ivory is a criminal offense, punishable by fines and jail time. But few of us seem to know that it is just as illegal to sell a Mekong Giant Catfish or Giant Barb.
Map created by Cuba HolidaysThe map above shows when women got the right to vote in each country around the world.2018 marks the centenary of Women’s suffrage in the UK and even then only with several restrictions (had to be over the age of 30 and meet property qualifications).
Women in the UK would not get get to vote on equal terms as men until the passage of the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928.
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July 18, 2018 By Eileen Pennington
The 2018 Chatham House International Policy Forum convened last week at a time of international angst. Two British cabinet ministers had resigned over Brexit negotiations, creating more uncertainty around the tenure of Prime Minister May. President Trump’s contentious meeting with NATO officials sparked questions about the U.S. commitment to that institution. And the U.S. administration’s efforts to undermine a World Health Organization resolution promoting the benefits of breastfeeding focused attention on recent challenges to international norms and relationships that threaten hard-won gains toward gender equality.
Jesus,
If you meet my grandmother in your Heaven,
please say to her that,
my dad misses her.
Plese bring her into my dad’s dream
and let her lull my dad to sleep
like when my dad was a baby.
Amen.
PTH
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| A part of the Nhuệ River running through Thanh Trì District’ Hữu Hòa and Tả Thanh Oai communes. — VNA/VNS Photo Trọng Đạt |
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The Nhuệ-Đáy river basin continues to suffer from pollution despite a range of environmental protection projects that have been carried out by several agencies, including Hà Nội’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
Lê Tuấn Định, deputy head of the department, said the level of pollution in the water had steadily worsened and that many stretches of the river were seriously polluted, especially during the dry season.
Last update 12:03 | 27/11/2017 vietnamnet
Ben Tre has enormous potentials in not only agriculture but also tourism. Making full use of the favourable ecosystem, Ben Tre tourism has been developing in a more professional and sustainable manner, making it the local spearhead economic sector.
Ben Tre – home to small islets amid wide rivers of Tien, Co Chien and Ham Luong – is renowned for its rich historic values and orchards, especially coconuts.
JRC scientists have mapped tourism hotspots in Europe for all four seasons and created an index on the estimated vulnerability of regions to shocks in the tourism sector.
With travel becoming easier and less expensive, tourism has become an important economic sector in the European Union. In 2016, the EU had an estimated 40.5% market share of global international tourist arrivals.
Jesus,
You know I’m studying Buddhist philosophy,
you become a Buddha,
wearing a yellow cloak,
mindful eating,
mindful walking,
mindful ironing,…
You become my model.
You’re teaching me about zen.
I love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Former school groundsman dying of cancer accuses maker of popular herbicide of suppressing evidence of risks.
Keen gardeners everywhere will be watching the outcome of a court case in the United States, in which a former school groundsman who is dying of cancer says the manufacturers of a well-known weed killer caused his illness.
Last update 09:00 | 11/11/2017 vietnamnews
Love cycling? Keen on travelling? Eager to learn about ethnic groups?
A 100km cycling tour through the northern province of Cao Bang may satisfy all these desires.
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| Threshing: Tourists take part in the harvest. |
The Centre for Rural Economic Development (CRED) recently held an experimental bike tour linking Quang Uyen and Trung Khanh districts in Cao Bang. Odf the 21 taking part, 18 were foreign professionals — and the rest Vietnamese.
VNN – Update: July, 13/2018 – 18:05
ĐẮK LẮK — As of this month, Yok Đôn National Park will no longer offer elephant riding for tourists visiting the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk.
Under an agreement signed by the national park and Animals Asia Foundation on Friday, the park committed to develop an alternative tourism activity designed around watching elephants in social groups within an elephant sanctuary. This will help to move the region away from elephant-riding tourism towards an animal-friendly alternative.
Jesus,
All things will die.
My fear.
The person that made me fear.
And I.
40 years later.
Or 4.000 years later.
All things will die. Continue reading Prayer 497
Đọt Chuối Non 