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Is China silencing artists in Australia? – 2 parts

Is China silencing artists in Australia? | 101 East Documentary

Al Jazeera – 26-8-2024

In the past two decades, Chinese contemporary art has taken the world by storm. But under Xi Jinping, many claim it has become a weapon for propaganda and that those who push political boundaries, face intimidation and censorship – even far away in Australia. Now artists are calling out China’s influence in the arts. In the first of a two-part investigation, 101 East asks: Is China silencing artists in Australia? Continue reading Is China silencing artists in Australia? – 2 parts

China 5 this week

Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis.THIS WEEK: China 5
Electric vehicle sales pass milestone, Huawei challenges Apple’s iPhone 16, new college textbook features Xi Jinping Thought on national security, Congress launches “China week” with key bills, and the wrath of Super Typhoon Yagi

An electric car charging station in China. Photo by MASTER via Getty Images.1. Electric Vehicle Sales Pass Milestone

What Happened: More than one million electric vehicles were sold in China during August, as battery-powered and plug-in hybrid models accounted for nearly 54% of all vehicle sales and demand for internal combustion engine cars continued to fall.
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Sinh con từ noãn/ tinh trùng của người đã mất: Những vấn đề pháp lý nảy sinh 

TiasangHồ Thị Thanh Trúc – Hoàng Xuân Sơn

Y học phát triển giúp nối liền sự sống sau khi chết. Nhưng khi kỹ thuật hiện đại giúp hiện thực hóa những mong mỏi rất nhân văn thì nhiều rắc rối pháp lý đã nảy sinh do chưa có quy định cụ thể về quyền lợi của các bên liên quan, đặc biệt là đứa trẻ sinh ra.

Vấn đề tưởng chừng nhỏ này thực chất lại là tâm điểm của những phát sinh rất rắc rối về pháp lý liên quan đến hàng loạt các văn bản luật khác nhau và cả các khái niệm tài sản, sở hữu, thừa kế… một phần thuộc về cơ thể mỗi người. Ảnh: istock.

Việc sinh con từ noãn hoặc tinh trùng của người đã qua đời diễn ra ở nhiều nơi trên thế giới kể từ sau ghi nhận lần đầu tiên vào năm 1980. Nhưng kể từ đây nhiều vấn đề pháp lý đã nảy sinh xung quanh quyền của người đã mất, của thân nhân, và quyền của trẻ sinh ra. Tương tự, ở Việt Nam, câu chuyện cảm động và nhân văn của một người phụ nữ sinh con cho người chồng đã chết ba năm ở Hà Nội vào năm 2013 là trường hợp sinh con cho người chồng đã chết đầu tiên được ghi nhận ở Việt Nam1. Báo chí cũng phản ánh tình trạng này diễn ra nhiều trên thực tế nhưng được giấu kín2.

Continue reading Sinh con từ noãn/ tinh trùng của người đã mất: Những vấn đề pháp lý nảy sinh 

‘Cruisezilla’ passenger ships have doubled in size since 2000, environmental group warns

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN

Updated 2:12 PM EDT, Thu August 8, 2024

Passengers leave Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, after arriving at Costa Maya Cruise Port on February 6, 2024.

Passengers leave Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, after arriving at Costa Maya Cruise Port on February 6, 2024. Paola Chiomante/ReutersCNN — 

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How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality

The climate crisis may be a collective problem, but its impacts do not fall equally. Women and girls often bear the heaviest burdens.

November 30, 2023

Editor’s note

This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how As Equals is funded and more, check out our FAQ.

Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, finding existing injustices and amplifying them. Women and girls already grapple with gender inequality, but when extreme weather devastates a community, the UN found that inequalities worsen: Intimate partner violence spikes, girls are pulled from school, daughters are married early, and women and girls forced from their homes face a higher risk of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Continue reading How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality

How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality

The climate crisis may be a collective problem, but its impacts do not fall equally. Women and girls often bear the heaviest burdens.

November 30, 2023

Editor’s note

This story is part of As Equals, CNN’s ongoing series on gender inequality. For information about how As Equals is funded and more, check out our FAQ.

Climate change acts as a threat multiplier, finding existing injustices and amplifying them. Women and girls already grapple with gender inequality, but when extreme weather devastates a community, the UN found that inequalities worsen: Intimate partner violence spikes, girls are pulled from school, daughters are married early, and women and girls forced from their homes face a higher risk of sexual exploitation and trafficking.

Continue reading How the climate crisis fuels gender inequality

China’s youth are ditching city life for countryside: What’s the allure?

CNA Insider – 3- 8-2024

In the past two years, digital nomad enclaves have been springing up across China’s rural towns and villages. The country’s biggest digital nomad hubs are both in Anji County, in the Eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. How have DN Yucun and DN Anji become magnets for a wave of young Chinese professionals seeking to redefine their approach to work and life?

Elsewhere, Chinese youth are leaving prestigious jobs in big internet firms in Beijing and Shanghai and returning to their rural roots.

In the west of China, in the province of Sichuan, a former ByteDance product manager gave up a career at ByteDance to become a new farmer, with plans to revolutionise farming practices in his rural hometown. Not far from him, a young couple with postgraduate degrees, left their jobs in Beijing – and an annual salary of 800,000 yuan, or 110,000 US dollars – to pursue dreams of being rural influencers. What enticed them to do so? Discover why attitudes towards rural living have been changing in China.

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Cambodia PM launches project linking Mekong river to sea via canal

VNE – By AFP   August 5, 2024 | 11:05 am GMT+7

Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet speaks during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Funan Techo Canal in Kandal province on Aug. 5, 2024. Photo by AFPCambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday launched a US$1.7 billion canal project that aims to provide a new link from the Mekong River to the sea.

Manet called the 180-km (110-mile) project “historic” and vowed to “finish it at all costs.”

“We must build this canal at all costs,” Manet said at the project’s launch ceremony before fireworks shot into the air and drums sounded after he pressed the launch button for the project.

The Funan Techo canal will run from the Mekong River, about an hour’s drive southeast of Phnom Penh, to the sea in the Gulf of Thailand.

The government says the canal will offer an alternative to transit via Vietnam and will reduce dependence on Vietnamese ports, generating economic activity worth 21-30% more than its cost.

It would create tens of thousands of jobs in the country, though it has not provided detailed evidence for those forecasts.

Laws against forced marriage in Australia

Photo Illustration by CNN, Shutterstock, aph.gov.au, Victoria County Court

She wanted ‘the world’ for her daughter. Instead, she got a landmark prison sentence

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN

 9 minute read 

Published 5:27 PM EDT, Sat August 3, 2024

Forced marriage is considered a form of gender-based violence that predominantly affects young women, whose control over their lives is passed without consent from their parents to their partners. It can lead to decades of physical and psychological abuse, and in some cases suicide or murder.

For more than two decades. Forced marriages have been reported within communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and India, among others. Continue reading Laws against forced marriage in Australia

A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests

Angela Fritz

By Angela Dewan and Angela Fritz, CNN

Updated 10:56 AM EDT, Sat August 3, 2024

Light blue and turquoise phytoplankton seen through the clouds highlight the ocean currents off the coast of Greenland. New research suggest an important system of these currents is at risk of collapsing as soon as next decade.

Light blue and turquoise phytoplankton seen through the clouds highlight the ocean currents off the coast of Greenland. New research suggest an important system of these currents is at risk of collapsing as soon as next decade. NASA Earth/Shutterstock/FILECNN — 

vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster that would transform weather and climate.

Several studies in recent years have suggested the crucial system — the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — could be on course for collapse, weakened by warmer ocean temperatures and disrupted saltiness caused by human-induced climate change. Continue reading A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests

World Bank recommends Vietnam to impose 155% alcohol tax

VNE – By Phuong Dung   July 31, 2024 | 11:13 am GMT+7

People hold glasses of beer. Photo by Pexels

The World Bank has recommended that Vietnam consider implementing a 155% special consumption tax on alcoholic beverages in response to the rising number of alcohol-related deaths and illnesses.

The bank has proposed to the Ministry of Finance that an absolute tax of VND16,500 ($0.65) per liter of alcohol be applied in addition to the existing 65% tax per product, according to a consultancy report.

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Việt Nam tiếp tục hành trình đòi công lý cho các nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin

Báo tin tức – Ngày đăng: 31/07/2024 – 11:37

“Mặc dù đã 3 lần bị tòa án Mỹ bác đơn kiện nhưng Hội Nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin vẫn tiếp tục theo đuổi đến cùng vụ kiện, ở lần thứ 4 này, chúng tôi kiện các công ty sản xuất hóa chất Mỹ, buộc họ phải chịu trách nhiệm cho việc đã hỗ trợ quân đội Mỹ rải chất độc hóa học da cam/dioxin gây ra hậu quả nặng nề trong giai đoạn từ năm 1961 đến năm 1971”.

Đây là thông tin được Thiếu tướng Nguyễn Hồng Sơn, Phó Chủ tịch Hội Nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin Việt Nam cho biết tại buổi giới thiệu Chương trình “Đi bộ đồng hành cùng nạn nhân da cam/dioxin”, ngày 30/7.

5.000 người đi bộ đồng hành vì nạn nhân độc da cam/dioxin Việt Nam nhân tháng hành động vì nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin và kỷ niệm 62 năm ngày thảm họa da cam/dioxin ở Việt Nam 10/8/1961 – 10/8/2023. Ảnh minh họa: Thanh Vũ/TTXVN Continue reading Việt Nam tiếp tục hành trình đòi công lý cho các nạn nhân chất độc da cam/dioxin

MoIT warns about international trade fraud

VNN – July 22, 2024 – 09:23

Trade experts said that the number of cases was increasing and taking place in all markets from Africa, the Middle East, India to developed countries such as the US, the Netherlands, and Italy.

Photo congdankhuyenhoc.vn

HÀ NỘI — The Vietnamese trade offices in many foreign markets have continuously warned Vietnamese businesses to be careful to avoid international trade fraud.

The number of Vietnamese businesses encountering fraud and scams with more sophisticated methods has risen and many businesses have lost tens of thousands of US dollars, even up to millions of US dollars, from the end of last year until now.

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Consumers’ belt tightening hits businesses

VNE – By Vien Thong   July 19, 2024 | 06:28 am GMT+7

Consumers shopping at a supermarket in HCMC’s District 3 in January 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Thanh Tung

Dang Hoang of HCMC has been cutting back on discretionary purchases like dining out, coffee and branded clothing since the beginning of this year.

The 31-year-old marketing employee says he has been waiting for discounts to find cheap clothes and cooking at home to reduce expenses.

A survey by market research company NielsenIQ Vietnam found 62% of consumers chose to cook at home in the first quarter of the year to save money, a three point increase from the previous quarter.

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Lương tối thiểu và ý nghĩa của tăng trưởng kinh tế

HẢI MINH 15/07/2024 18:15 GMT+7

TTCT – Lương tối thiểu, vốn gắn liền với mức sống của người lao động và chi phí của doanh nghiệp sử dụng lao động, trở thành đề tài nóng ở hàng loạt nước Đông Nam Á, bao gồm Việt Nam, trong thời gian qua.

Kế hoạch tăng lương tối thiểu của chính quyền Thái Lan đang gây nhiều tranh luận. Ảnh: HRM Asia

Báo chí các nước giật tít gần như đồng loạt: “Tăng lương ở ASEAN gây lo ngại cho các ngành hưởng lợi từ dịch chuyển chuỗi cung ứng” (Nikkei Asia 2-7), “Thủ tướng Thái Lan hối thúc ASEAN cùng tăng lương tối thiểu” (Thailand Business News 22-1), “Indonesia có chi phí tổ chức kinh doanh cao nhất ASEAN-5” (Jakarta Globe 24-6), “Lương tối thiểu của Philippines cao nhất trong khu vực” (BusinessWorld Online 13-3), “Malaysia đứng thứ tư về lương trung bình ở Đông Nam Á” (thesun.my 8-6).

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