Jesus,
Summer 2020 will have protests, I think.
June 2018, protests against new economic zones.
May 2016, protests against mass fish deaths.
May 2014, protests against HD-981 oil rig.
All protests are against China. Continue reading Prayer 482
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Vietnam Mass Protests Expose Hanoi’s China Dilemma
June 21, 2018
The protests highlight the difficulties in embracing Chinese investment while defending Vietnamese independence.
By Tom Fawthrop
The huge nationwide protests that rocked Vietnam last week have highlighted Hanoi’s headaches in dealing with China, both as a hostile power in the South China Sea and as a key trading partner and economic investor.
The history of Vietnam-China relations is steeped in a thousand years of Chinese colonization, conflict, and rebellion. The last Chinese invasion was a two-month border war in 1979.
Prayer 481
Jesus,
Before knowing you,
I thought my sadness that was a real thing.
So when the sadness came,
I was often sad for many days,
many months
and many years. Continue reading Prayer 481
Northern Vietnam gets a luscious lychee shine
By Ngoc Thanh June 22, 2018 | 09:46 am GMT+7
e.vnexpress.net When it is lychee season, the streets of Bac Giang Province and surrounding areas are a sight to behold.
Over the last few days, Bac Giang Province, home to Luc Ngan District which is famous as the major lychee producing area in the country, has worn a decorated look.
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The traffic of motorbikes carrying harvested lychees is several kilometers long. |
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At 5:30 a.m., highway 279 is packed with lychee traders rushing to deliver the seasonal fruit to wet markets. Lychee are freshly picked daily at 2 a.m. |
Prayer 480
Jesus,
Recently you look like a Zen master.
You eat, meditate after doing exercise,
brush your teeth, sleep,… mindfully,
looking like a Zen master.
You make me mindful with you,
I also eat, meditate after doing exercise,
brush my teeth, sleep,…
mindfully with you.
Together we live mindfully.
Amen.
PTH
Vietnam Electricity (EVN) Achieves its First and Positive Credit Rating from Fitch Ratings
Hanoi, June 7, 2018: Vietnam’s electricity company Vietnam Electricity, or EVN, is one step closer to issuing US dollar bonds and strengthening its financing capacity, following an endorsement by Fitch Ratings of its credit profile.
Now assigned an Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of ‘BB’ with a ‘Stable Outlook’ for long-term foreign currency, EVN’s ratings align with Vietnam’s sovereign rating. EVN’s sustainable financing strategy is supported by technical assistance from the World Bank.
Prayer 479
Jesus,
Peter could walk on water
perhaps because Peter asked you,
“Tell me to come to you on the water.”
You said to Peter only one word, “Come.”
Then Peter got down out of the boat,
walked on the water
and came toward you.*
So now I ask you,
“Tell me to come to you on the water.”
Amen.
PTH
Prayer 478
Jesus,
What is patriotism?
Loving country is to love people.
From the good to the evil.
From the poor to the corrupt.
From the patriot to quân phản động.
From people of this party to people of that party.
Loving country is to love all people.
Amen.
PTH
The sharing economy isn’t about sharing at all
JANUARY 28, 2015
The sharing economy has been widely hailed as a major growth sector, by sources ranging from Fortune magazine to President Obama. It has disrupted mature industries, such as hotels and automotives, by providing consumers with convenient and cost efficient access to resources without the financial, emotional, or social burdens of ownership. But the sharing economy isn’t really a “sharing” economy at all; it’s an access economy.
Open Letter to Amnesty International by a Former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience
ALAINETORG 13/06/2018 Camilo E. Mejia
Camilo Mejía, Foto: vebidoo.de
Through this letter I express my unequivocal condemnation of Amnesty International with regards to the destabilizing role it has played in Nicaragua, my country of birth.
I open this letter quoting Donatella Rovera, who at the time this quote was made had been one of Amnesty International’s field investigators for more than 20 years:
Prayer 477
Jesus,
Buddhist philosophy makes me sleepy.
Although I wrote some writings on Buddhist philosophy,
actually I only read a few short Buddhist texts.
I am studying the Bible and Buddhism,
so I can’t but study the Buddhism
strictly and completely.
I have to try. Continue reading Prayer 477
Remembering Đinh Tôn: 50 years later
Update: June, 16/2018 – 09:00 vietnamnews
Đinh Tôn.
Viet Nam News By Thomas Eugene Wilber
It began in Thọ Xuân District, Thanh Hóa Province, Việt Nam
At about 4pm local time on Sunday, the sixteenth day of June 1968, air force Captain Đinh Tôn and his wingman, Captain Nguyễn Tiến Sâm, taxied their MiG-21single seat fighter jets to the northwest end of Thọ Xuân airbase and lined up to take off. Completing final checks and accelerating to a normal launch transition, they climbed to about 300 metres altitude, banking to the right and heading south at a speed of 800 kilometres per hour.
Shrimp paste and fish sauce: A brief primer on Vietnam’s dipping history
Saigoneer Published on Monday, 18 June 2018 17:00
Written by Khanh Tran. Top photo by Kevin Lee.
It is a well-known fact among Vietnamese that their home country has a rich portfolio of fermented food, from mắm chua (pickled shrimp) to mắm tôm (shrimp paste). Here is a comprehensive look into not only these funky condiments’ history, taste and production, but also the emerging food science behind them.
For thousands of years, Vietnamese cuisine has taken great pride in its arsenal of preserved foodstuffs. Indeed, the category constitutes some of the most essential elements of Vietnamese flavors — think nước tương (soy sauce), nước mắm (fish sauce) or mắm tôm (shrimp paste) — these are condiments that few dishes go without.
Prayer 476
Jesus,
You do exercise and Ju Jitsu with me.
You attack me as fast as lightning.
Left, right, in front and behind me.
You are all around me. Continue reading Prayer 476
How the coffee industry is about to get roasted by climate change
Fall is always a good time to create new habits, and coffee chains know it.
These days, they are desperately trying to find any excuse to get you to drink their java.
Many chains used National or International Coffee Day, just passed, as a reason to offer their coffee at a discount, or even for free — with some conditions, of course.
A Ugandan coffee farmer inspects his plants in 2015. Coffee is the lifeblood of many families in Uganda but their success is threatened by climate change. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
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