500 Greatest Songs of All Times
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Đây là bài hát được nghệ sĩ hip hop người Anh M.I.A. sáng tác (cùng với Diplo) và thu âm, phát hành năm 2007.
Bài hát xuất hiện trong phim Triệu phú khu ổ chuột năm 2008 và trong album nhạc phim.
Lời bài hát lấy cảm hứng từ những vấn đề của chính M.I.A. khi xin thị thực làm việc tại Mỹ, châm biếm nhận thức của người Mỹ về những người nhập cư từ các quốc gia thuộc Thế giới thứ ba. Continue reading Máy bay giấy – Paper planes
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the Vietnamese culture, when a person begins his talk with “I’m frank” or “I’m telling you frankly”,(tôi nói thẳng), you will start to get nervous, because you know the guy is going to dump all kinds of garbage on your head. They use “I’m frank” as a permit to insult you – the permit that they indeed issue to themselves.
I have never heard anyone respond: “Can you try not to be frank?” Continue reading I’m frank
9 December 2023
Manila, Philippines
The National Task Force West Philippine Sea (NTFWPS) vehemently condemns the illegal and aggressive actions carried out by the Chinese Coast Guard and Chinese Maritime Militia against the civilian Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessels Datu Sanday, Datu Bankaw, and Datu Tamblot today during a regular BFAR humanitarian and support mission of providing oil subsidy and grocery packs to over 30 Filipino fishing vessels near Bajo De Masinloc in the West Philippine Sea. As of this reporting the mission is on-going. Continue reading Statement of the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea
SÁNG ÁNH – 10/12/2023 15:26 GMT+7
TTCT – Thế giới toàn cầu, Giáng sinh dần phai nhạt màu sắc nghi lễ tôn giáo, mà được ăn mừng ở khắp nơi, như một hình thức văn hóa và tiêu thụ, có tính phong trào và thời trang.
Thánh Nicolas, tức ông già Noel, là giám mục thành Myra vào thế kỷ thứ 4, hiện là Demre ở Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ. Nhà thờ nguyên thủy của giám mục không còn nữa, nhà thờ này được xây trên nền cũ nhưng 200 năm sau. Ảnh: Đỗ Kh.
500 Greatest Songs of All Times
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Đây là bài hát của ca sĩ kiêm nhạc sĩ người Bắc Ireland Van Morrison, được phát hành vào ngày 27-1-1970, sau khi chuyển đến ngoại ô New York cùng vợ.
Bài hát thành công ngay lập tức và giúp Morrison trở thành nghệ sĩ lớn trong làng nhạc đại chúng.
Báo nhạc Rolling Stone xếp bài hát này hạng 231 trong 500 bài hát hay nhất mọi thời đại. Continue reading Vũ trăng – Moondance
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
For at least half of a century that I have observed with my own eyes, people in the world have taught each other to break up relationships faster and faster every day.
When I was little, no one talked about divorce in Vietnam – once in awhile you heard about someones in USA or Europe divorcing, like a strange activity that strange people in the West did because they had too much leisure time on their hand. Even when I got to the US in 1975, few Americans were divorcing, though a lot compared with innocent Vietnam. Continue reading Stick together
VNN – December 05, 2023 – 10:09
Coastal EZs have contributed significantly to the region’s socio-economic development but there exist limitations which must be tackled comprehensively to make coastal EZs a driving force for the regional development.
A view of Dung Quất Economic Zone. There are 19 coastal EZs in Việt Nam, 11 of which are in the central part of the country. — VNA/VNS Photo Danh Lam
HÀ NỘI — Coastal economic zones need breakthrough policies to attract investment and promote their role in accelerating socio-economic development.
Statistics from the Ministry of Planning and Investment show that there are 19 coastal EZs in Việt Nam, 11 of which are in the central part of the country.
Continue reading Coastal economic zones need breakthrough policies to attract investmentAs 2023 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the year.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay
December 8, 2023 9:21 am (EST) CFR
You are not alone if 2023 has you feeling worn down. It has been a trying year on the world scene, as the forces of disarray grew stronger. Ongoing wars ground on, while new ones erupted. Geopolitical competition increased, to the point where a meeting between rival heads of state became front-page news even though their talks yielded little tangible progress. In all, good news has been in short supply. So here are my top ten world events in 2023. You may want to read what follows closely. Many of these stories will continue into 2024 and beyond.
And if you would like visuals to go along with the list, here is the companion video my colleagues in CFR Digital have created recounting all ten events.
10. The global democratic recession continues. Optimists are predicting a fourth wave of global democratic expansion. That prediction was a bust in 2023.Freedom House started the year by announcing that 2022 marked the seventeenth straight year in which global freedom and democracy declined.As if to prove the point, Africa’s coup epidemic continued. In July, Niger’s military ousted the country’s democratically-elected president. Neighboring states threatened to intervene if the coup wasn’t reversed, but the military juntas running Mali and Burkina Faso threatened war in response. In August, Gabon’s military took power and made vague promises to eventually hold elections. A new progressive party won the most seats in Thailand’s May election. However, a backroom deal produced a pro-military government that left the election’s biggest winner on the outside looking in. India’s government continued to use the law and intimidation to silence critics, and many other democracies restricted freedom of expression. The trend of candidates claiming they would lose their election only if the vote were rigged continued. Far-right parties fared well across Europe, reviving memories of how European democracies collapsed a century ago. Guatemala’s attorney general tried to keep the country’s president-elect from taking office, while Peru’s attorney general used corruption investigations to pressure lawmakers to help her allies. Donald Trump called his opponents “vermin,” said that if he regained the White House he would not be a dictator “except for Day One,” and suggested he would use the presidency to target his political enemies. All in all, not a good year for democracy.
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Continue reading CFR: Ten Most Significant World Events in 2023500 Greatest Songs of All Times
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Đây là bài hát của ban nhạc rock người Anh Rolling Stones, phát hành vào tháng 8-1978.
“Beast of burden” – con thú gánh nặng -> nghĩa là động vật được thuần hóa và lao động vì lợi ích của con người (ví dụ dùng để chở/kéo hàng hóa nặng) như lừa, bò, ngựa… Nghĩa bóng là “thân trâu bò”. Continue reading Thân trâu bò
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Did you ever owe someone some kind of debt, monetary debt or emotional debt, that you couldn’t repay and now you have no chance to repay (because, say, the person is dead)?
How do you feel about that?
Continue reading Repaying old debtsFP asks experts two questions about the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.
DECEMBER 7, 2023, 7:48 AM FP
By Zaha Hassan, Daniel C. Kurtzer, Omar Dajani, Diana Buttu, Peter R. Mansoor, Daniel Levy, Ehud Olmert, Eugene Kontorovich, and Elliott Abrams
The war between Israel and Hamas—now in its ninth week after a brief cease-fire—has made talk of peace processes and hopes for final-status agreements seem more remote than ever. But the brief pause in fighting and the successful hostage exchange brokered with the assistance of Qatar—along with Egypt and the United States—suggested that there is space for diplomacy even amid a brutal war.
Rather than seeking blueprints for a permanent peace deal, which seems far-fetched given the current Israeli and Palestinian political leadership, Foreign Policy asked a range of experts two narrower questions:
—FP Editors
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces U.S. President Joe Biden on a sunny day as photographers snap photos in the background. Biden’s mouth is open and he squints against the sun as he speaks to Netanyahu, holding a pair of sunglasses in the hand he’s using to hug the other man.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) greets U.S. President Joe Biden on his arrival in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
500 Greatest Songs of All Times
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Đây là bài hát rock được viết bởi Barry Mann và Cynthia Weil và được thu âm thành đĩa đơn ăn khách năm 1965 của ban nhạc rock Anh Animals. Bài hát trở nên rất phổ biến với lực lượng vũ trang Hoa Kỳ trong Chiến tranh Việt Nam.
Báo nhạc Rolling Stone xếp bài hát này hạng 235 trong 500 bài hát hay nhất mọi thời đại. Bài hát cũng nằm trong danh sách 500 bài hát định hình nên nhạc rock and roll của Đền Danh vọng rock and roll. Continue reading Ta phải rời khỏi đây – We gotta get out of this place
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I talk to you about Buddhist teachings very often, not because I want to spread the Buddhist religion, but because I know that the Buddhist way of living is a very good way for us humans – meaning, for the entire troubling world of ours.
Buddhist way is not necessarily Buddhist religion. You don’t have to be a pagoda goer to live the Buddhist way – it is an observation-based philosophy with living guidelines on how to live productively and happily and, therefore, successfully, for anyone who wants to practice. You don’t have to be a Buddhist to practice the Buddhist way. It is for everyone , regardless of his/her religious affiliation or no affiliation at all. Continue reading Non-attachment
VNE – By Tat Dat December 5, 2023 | 08:58 am GMT+7
Workers at a garment and textile factory in Tan Do Industrial Park in the southern province of Long An. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran
Garmex Saigon Corporation, which recently laid off 1,945 workers, told the Ho Chi Minh Securities Exchange its losses have been increasing in direct proportion to output.
“We have reorganized our setup, cut our payroll, and temporarily ceased production to minimize losses,” CEO Nguyen Minh Hang said.
After the layoffs this year, the firm had only 37 employees left at the end of the third quarter.
Continue reading Garment giant in worker purge says more it produces, higher the lossesAs Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts.
By Mohammed Haddad and Alia Chughtai
Published On 27 Nov 202327 Nov 2023 Al Jareeza
Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza has killed nearly 15,000 people, including 10,000 women and children, in over 50 days, making it the deadliest war for the besieged Palestinian enclave till date.
Israel has rebuffed calls for a ceasefire as a four-day humanitarian truce comes to an end on November 28. It is unclear whether the truce will be extended.
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The beginning of the end? The hypothetical future of Palestinian politicslist 2 of 4
Gaza truce appears set to extend as Israel receives new list of captiveslist 3 of 4
Two more days of respite for Gaza residents as Israel, Hamas extend trucelist 4 of 4
US rights advocates launch hunger strike for Israel-Hamas ceasefireend of list
Continue reading Israel-Palestine conflict: A brief history in maps and charts
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