NDTV – China and Vietnam have long traded barbs over the strategic and resource-rich South China Sea, which Beijing claims most of.
World | Agence France-Presse | Updated: September 06, 2017 10:40 IST
Tensions have flared in recent months between the two countries over the disputed sea
Hanoi: Vietnam has delivered a sharp rebuke to China over military drills in the South China Sea, the second such warning in a week as tensions rise between the countries over the disputed waterway.
Last update 15:38 | 06/09/2017 – vietnamnet
The Vietnamese Buddhist community welcomed the gods into their presence today (September 5) at pagodas and temples throughout Vietnam in celebrations to honour parents, both living and those who have followed the sun.
The Le Vu Lan festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar and can be considered the most prominent celebration within Buddhism in the Southeast Asian country.
Giêsu ơi,
Nhìn lá cờ của chúng em này.
Một ngôi sao năm cánh.
Và sao vàng.
Hơi giống hình ngũ giác.
Hơi giống sao Kim,
biểu tượng của tình yêu, sắc đẹp, hoàn hảo và nữ tính. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 245 – Prayer 245
Snake hunters have been risking their lives in order to make a living
By Tuoi Tre News – September 5, 2017, 11:34 GMT+7
The hunters wade across streams throughout the night to stalk on snakes and other wild animals. Photo: Tuoi Tre
A number of ethnic minority men from the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have been making a living hunting snakes, including venomous ones, in a strip of forbidden forest for over a decade now.
Al Jazeera – Why are the more than one million Rohingya in Myanmar considered the ‘world’s most persecuted minority’?
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees sit inside a shelter at the Kutupalang refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh [Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters]
Last update 08:23 | 31/08/2017 – vietnamnet
VietNamNet Bridge – More and more households plan to install solar panels on their roofs to generate electricity. Once EVN completes its policy on electricity purchase, households will be able to join the electric power market.
Research shows that HCM City has an abundant source of energy from sunlight, with high radiation, about 1,581 kWh/m2/year on average. The highest radiation level of 6.3 kWh/m2/day can be obtained in February and the lowest of 3.3 KWh/m2/day in July. There are 100-300 sunny hours every month.
Jesus,
I don’t know how I am now.
I’ll open the Holy Bible
and you’ll give me your answer?
Yes…
I make myself a cup of coffee, no sugar no milk. Continue reading Prayer 244
Thieves have even stolen a bowl of pork bones and a chopping knife
By Tuoi Tre News – September 03,2017, 14:15 GMT+7
Rooms rented by low-income workers and peddlers in Tan Tao Ward, Binh Tan District in Ho Chi Minh City are often ‘visited’ by thieves, even in broad daylight. Photo: Tuoi Tre
An increase in theft, muggings and robberies have worried neighborhoods around industrial parks in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces, despite law enforcers’ best efforts to reduce them.
Al Jazeera – Criticism of Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test is voiced around the world from South Korea and the US to China and Russia.
![Pyongyang claimed a "perfect success" with its sixth and most powerful nuclear test [Toru Hanai/Reuters]](https://i1.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2017/9/3/ed94fdac52fe4f739a9c86240a7089b5_18.jpg "World leaders unite in condemnation of North Korea")
Pyongyang claimed a “perfect success” with its sixth and most powerful nuclear test [Toru Hanai/Reuters]
President Donald Trump has reacted to what he is calling “a major nuclear test” by North Korea, branding the North “a rogue nation” whose “words and actions continue to be very hostile and dangerous” to the United States.
Last update 09:00 | 03/09/2017 – vietnamnet
VietNamNet Bridge – Disconnected from the outside world for a long time, a village in the middle of a huge reservoir is discovering the benefits of community-based tourism, Luong Thu Huong reports.
Not too long ago, Ngoi Village was living in a world of its own, quietly minding its own business, virtually unnoticed in the midst of a massive reservoir created by a hydropower project.
Jesus,
You want me to teach you martial arts?
You are a master…
Okay.
I’m practicing stretch…
Oh, you join in the session now? Continue reading Prayer 243
The US has conducted three “freedom of navigation” operations in the South China Sea since January — the last one by the USS John S. McCain, a destroyer that collided with a cargo ship days later off Singapore, killing 10 sailors AFP/James Vazquez
02 Sep 2017 04:51PM (Updated: 02 Sep 2017 04:59PM)
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is planning to conduct more regular patrols in the South China Sea – as many as two to three a month – to assert freedom of navigation in disputed waters claimed by China, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (Sep 1).
Last update 15:46 | 02/09/2017 – vietnamnet
Authorities of Gia Lai Province’s Kon Chro District are struggling to deal with suicide in the locality, with hundreds of locals having killed themselves in recent years, with poverty in the region seen as the root cause.
Dinh Thi Eo sits in her house in Gia Lai Province.
Statistics from the district showed nearly 450 people, including children, reportedly committed suicide since 2014. Since early this year, 69 cases have been recorded, Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper reported.
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A man sits by the river in Garbahaarey town in the Gedo region of Somalia. Photo by AMISOM Public Information/Flickr.
Droughts in Somalia. Water rationing in Rome. Flooding in Jakarta and Harvey-battered Houston. It doesn’t take a hydrologist to realize that there is a growing global water crisis. Each August, water experts, industry innovators, and researchers gather in Stockholm for World Water Week to tackle the planet’s most pressing water issues.
What are they up against this year? Here’s a quick rundown on the growing global water crisis.
Jesus,
I sought you in churches and pagodas,
but you were not there.
I sought you in books and teachings,
but you were not there.
I came back to the room of my heart,
and you were there. Continue reading Prayer 242
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