eco-business.com – A UN report on the region’s lack of progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is disheartening. What’s going wrong?
Asian countries are the world’s top plastic polluters, yet there is no official indicator to measure targets for life below water (Goal 14) in Asia-Pacific. Image: Shutterstock CC 2.0
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Five houses collapse after a landslide along the O Mon River’s in Can Tho City on May 21 – PHOTO: LE HOANG VU
CAN THO – Landslides across the Mekong Delta region are getting more unpredictable and increasing in terms of location and speed, according to the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research.
After two landslides along the O Mon River in Can Tho City this month, 12 houses sank into the river, 28 houses collapsed, 35 others were on the brink of sliding, and a long stretch of roads and riverside crops were destroyed.
Jesus,
Wishing I’ll become absorbed in you.
Duality will disappear.
We’ll be one.
Amen.
PTH
Last update 14:29 | 21/03/2017 vietnamnet
Hon Kho is one of the Cham Islands (Cù lao Chàm), a cluster of islets located near the city of Hoi An in Quang Nam Province.
 The Cham Islands are recognised as a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO. |
 The Cham Islands collectively are comprised of eight separate islets that have a combined population of 3,000. |
Jesus,
Heaven and earth will pass away,
but your words will never pass away.(1)
We all come from dust, and to dust all return;(2)
but you,
the Creator of the ends of the earth(3),
are not coming and not going.
You simply are. Continue reading Prayer 459
Adani’s desperate bid to sell Carmichael coal to Vietnam
The invitation of an Adani Mining executive as a speaker at a “energy roundtable” in Hanoi organised by an Australian government agency is symptomatic of the desperate challenge the company faces getting its Carmichael coal project off the ground.
Adani Mining’s Senior Marketing Manager, Christine Evans, was listed by the Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) to speak on “future supply opportunities, international coal procurement practice” at the roundtable on May 22.
Jesus,
In your Last Supper with your disciples,
you predicted Peter would deny knowing you three times,
and indeed, Peter denied knowing you three times.*
Jesus,
you knew your disciple would deny you,
how did you feel? Continue reading Prayer 458
It’s one of the only countries in the world where the president is popular. Will Trump return the love?
HANOI, Vietnam — Before every shift at a Domino’s Pizza store in central Hanoi, Van Nguyen Hai, 20, puts on a uniform in the colors of the American flag. Then she takes up her position behind the register, in front of a wall decorated with a collection of images that represents milestones in the history of Domino’s: the flag of Panama, where the chain’s 8,000th store opened in 2006; a steaming brownie, in honor of a dessert the chain introduced that same year; and the logo for “The Apprentice,” which held a Domino’s-related challenge in 2005, featuring a tie-clad Donald J. Trump.
Jesus,
Ironic.
You said, “I am the life”(1)
when you were dying
and surely you would be dead.
Of course, no one believes in that.
Magical.
When you died,
your disciples believed in that,
believing that you were the life. Continue reading Prayer 457
Jesus,
There is nothing new under the sun,(1)
why did you do miracles,
from changing water into wine at the start(2)
to raising Lazarus from the dead at the end?(3)
Because humans like new things,
because humans believe they’ll grow in seeing new things,
you did miracles,
you did new and strange things. Continue reading Prayer 456
Jesus,
Your main job was to teach people how be one with God.
So why did you do miracles?
Miracles such as healing of
the blind, the lame, the lepers, the deaf and the dead?*
Was healing your way of touching people? Continue reading Prayer 455
Jesus,
Before knowing you,
healing by praying is a magic.
After knowing you,
healing by praying is nothing.
Making friend with you,
all things are possible.*
Amen.
PTH
The Seattle Times – The Associated Press
April 5, 2018 Vietnam gives harsh jail terms to 6 activists for subversion
In this April 5, 2018 photo, prominent human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, center, and defendant Nguyen Bac Truyen listen to the verdict at a trial in Hanoi.
Nguyen Van Mieng, the lawyer for prominent human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai said he was sentenced to 15 years in prison and five years of house arrest while his fellow activists received sentences from seven to 12 years at the one-day trial Thursday. (Vietnam News Agency via AP)
By Laura McClure and Daryl Chen on December 8, 2016 in Interviews
This compilation of reading assigned to students everywhere will expand your horizons — and your bookshelves.
In the US, most students are required to read To Kill a Mockingbird during their school years. This classic novel combines a moving coming-of-age story with big issues like racism and criminal injustice. Reading Mockingbird is such an integral part of the American educational experience that we wondered: What classic books are assigned to students elsewhere?
Update: May, 22/2018 – 06:00
Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng. — VNA/VNS Photo Phương Hoa
Viet Nam News – HÀ NỘI – Việt Nam requests that China immediately stop sending bombers to conduct drills in Việt Nam’s Hoàng Sa (Paracel) archipelago, said the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Lê Thị Thu Hằng.
Hằng made the statement in Hà Nội on Monday in response to a reporter’s question regarding the exercises, saying China’s dispatch of bombers to conduct take-off and landing drills in Hoàng Sa has seriously violated Việt Nam’s sovereignty over the archipelago.
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