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Probe ordered into handover of Hmong royal palace to gov’t department

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VNE – By Viet Tuan   August 21, 2018 | 10:06 am GMT+7

Probe ordered into handover of Hmong royal palace to gov't department
The Hmong royal family’s palace which has been handed over for use to a local culture department. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh

Vietnam authorities have agreed to “look into” how the former Hmong royal family’s palace was handed over for use to a local culture department.

The decision came following angry demands by the family in the northern highlands’ Ha Giang Province.

Vuong Duy Bao, grandson of the last Hmong King, Vuong Chi Sinh (or Vuong Chi Thanh, 1886-1962), wrote a letter to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc last month asking for the century-old palace to be returned to the family.

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Du lịch, Lịch sử, Trang tiếng Anh

A throwback to Saigon’s original tramway network

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Saigoneer.com – Published on Monday, 05 December 2016 11:06

Written by Tim Doling.

As ever-increasing levels of traffic congestion and air pollution turn many of Ho Chi Minh City’s road junctions into choking bottlenecks, many hopes are pinned on plans to construct a new urban railway network in the southern metropolis. Yet urban railways are hardly a new concept in this city, which was once home to one of Southeast Asia’s largest urban tramway networks.

Indochina’s first mechanized rail-guided transportation system was the one-meter gauge Saigon–Cho Lon “high road” steam tramway, operated by the Societe Generale des Tramways a Vapeur de Cochinchine (SGTVC) and opened to the public on December 27, 1881.

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Trang tiếng Anh

Facebook says it just found 652 fake accounts out of Russia — and Iran

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Twitter found and suspended Iran-linked accounts as well.

VOX By Emily Stewart Updated 
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg testifies before two Senate committees in April 2018.

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Facebook revealed on Tuesday that it has removed about 650 pages, groups, and accounts it determined are part of a coordinated disinformation campaign out of Russia — and Iran. Also on Tuesday, Twitter said it had suspended 284 Iran-linked accounts.

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Donald Trump’s attorney and fixer Michael Cohen pleads guilty to 8 federal counts

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NPR – August 21, 20183:25 PM ET

Heard on Morning Edition
Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Trump, leaves his apartment building in New York City on Tuesday.  Richard Drew/AP

Updated at 7:03 p.m. ET

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, has pleaded guilty to eight counts in federal court in New York, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday evening.

They include five counts of tax evasion, one count of falsifying submissions to a bank and two counts involving unlawful campaign contributions.

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Du lịch, Lịch sử, Trang tiếng Anh

The history of Hanoi’s lost tramway network

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Saigoneer.com – Published on Monday, 01 February 2016 10:37

Written by Tim Doling

When they first drew up plans for a citywide tramway network in 1894, it seemed as though the Hanoi authorities would follow Saigon’s example by opting for steam traction. Yet, by the time government approval was forthcoming in 1899, advances in technology made it possible to construct the entire system as a state-of-the-art, one-meter gauge electric tramway.

In 1900, the Compagnie des Tramways Électriques d’Hanoï et Extensions (CTEH) was to set up to build the first two tramway lines, which were jointly inaugurated in November 1901.

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Biển Đông, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam expands another outpost

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PUBLISHED: JUNE 13, 2018 ASIA MARITIME TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE

Vietnam continues modest expansions to its outposts in the Spratly Islands, most recently on Ladd Reef. Satellite imagery from March and June shows that Hanoi has dredged a new channel, which did not exist in older photos, and is expanding one of its two facilities (the other is a small lighthouse to the west) at the feature.

Ladd Reef

An image from March 18 reveals a channel recently dredged through the southern edge of the reef, with a barge and two large (roughly 160-foot) vessels just north of the mouth of this new entrance into the lagoon. At least 21 smaller ships, all of which appear to be Vietnamese fishing boats, are present inside the lagoon.

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Trang tiếng Anh

Funding coal in Southeast Asia is ‘collective suicide’

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eco-business.com – Experts at the Unlocking capital for sustainability forum observed that the finance sector, hampered by a short-term approach to investing, is lagging on sustainability, and that the financing of coal should be phased out as soon as possible.

Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam, Moxie Future founder Jessica Robinson, Standard Chartered Bank executive director, capital solutions, Rahul Sheth, and Georg Kell, chairman, Arabesque, and founding executive director, United Nations Global Compact. Image: Eco-Business

Left to right: Eco-Business managing editor Jessica Cheam, Moxie Future founder Jessica Robinson, Standard Chartered Bank executive director, capital solutions, Rahul Sheth, and Georg Kell, chairman, Arabesque, and founding executive director, United Nations Global Compact. Image: Eco-Business

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Bishops accused of brushing off sexual abuse complaints

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A priest raped a 7-year-old girl while visiting her in the hospital after she had her tonsils removed. Another priest forced a 9-year-old boy into having oral sex, then rinsed out the youngster’s mouth with holy water. One boy was forced to say confession to the priest who sexually abused him.

An estimated 300 Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — since the 1940s, according to a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report released Tuesday that accused senior church officials, including the man who is now archbishop of Washington, D.C., of systematically covering up complaints.

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Thông Tin, Trang tiếng Anh

Vietnam launches innovation network to tap diaspora expertise

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vnexpress.net By Staff reporters

August 20, 2018 | 08:45 am GMT+7

Vietnam launches innovation network to tap diaspora expertise
Vietnam’s officials and scientists launch Vietnam Innovation Network in Hanoi on Sunday. Photo by VnExpress/Ngu Hiep

The Vietnam Innovation Network, launched Sunday by the Prime Minister, aims to connect Vietnamese scientists across the world.

“The new network will enable Vietnamese experts working in technologically advanced countries to assist their home country in preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at the launch.

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