FP – Leery of anything political, young Chinese elites are helping the government banish the student massacre from memory.
I still remember the first time I talked about the Tiananmen incident with my university roommates. It was the eve of the 20th anniversary of June 4.
“Do you girls know what day is it today?”
“June 4.”
“Anything else?”“I know what you mean,” said the girl whose bunk bed lay under mine. “It’s the anniversary. But what can we do?”
The hazy smog of Hanoi and the Red River via Flickr (Addison Berry)
asiancorrespondent – ON March 5, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi issued a startling report on local pollution levels that caused considerable alarm for a city not used to Beijing-style waves of smog.
As the country’s most prosperous city, the nature of poverty in Ho Chi Minh City has changed over the past decade, as is the case among many of Viet Nam’s middle income neighbours. Photo: Paul Arps / CC2.0
This article originally appeared in IRIN News.
CHONG PRA LAY/CAMBODIA, 10 May 2016
internationalriver – The dry months before the monsoon rains arrive are often tough for Cambodian fishermen and farmers. But with rivers drying up and drinking water running out, conditions have rarely been as bad as they are now.
borgenproject – Over 1.75 million Vietnamese children, 9.6 percent of the population of people under 18 in the country, are laborers. Child Labor in Vietnam consists of children who are forced to work long hours, normally with little to no pay, in crowded factories or on agricultural farms. One third of the children work an average of 42 hours per week, and the majority are not able to attend school.
In Vietnam climate change has scrambled the seasonal monsoons, leaving farmers struggling.
technologyreview – At around 5:00 each morning, loudspeakers crackle on in Ma Village, Vietnam (population 731). Mounted on concrete poles atop hilltops—a remnant of the 1950s information and propaganda apparatus—these loudspeakers, rather than the smartphones popular with Hanoi’s young office workers, are what provide locals in this mountain village with important news bulletins.
Jurisprudence 01/2016/AL on a murder case
Jurisprudence no. 01/2016/AL was adopted by the Council of Judges of the Supreme People’s Court on 6 April 2016 and declared by the Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court in Decision 220/QD-CA dated 6 April 2016.
1. On education
This was the note that I took in a class-discussion session (sinh hoạt lớp) in 10th grade at my high school. This was what my head teacher (giáo viên chủ nhiệm) talked about among many things he talked in the usual sessions. Back then, I had a habit of writing down things that were the most appealing to me during these sessions.
My head teacher was a gymnastic teacher (not a usual thing back then – being a gymnastic teacher and a head teacher of a leading class in a high school).
A journalist conducts an interview in Kenya. Credit: Isaiah Esipisu/IPS
– The freedom of the press is a universally cherished democratic right, but what may have been overlooked as the World Day Freedom of Information was celebrated on Wednesday is that the ability of journalists to protect their source is increasingly coming under attack by authorities.
Implementing the Resolution no. 49-NQ/TW of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee Communist Party of Vietnam on judicial reform, the Supreme People’s Court has recently laid out a series of solutions and achieved some accomplishment. Noticeably, the Council of Judges has promulgated the Resolution [no. 03/2015/NQ-HDTP] in which it formally authorizes the application of jurisprudence in the Vietnamese judicial system.
LM – The main objective of Project RENEW’s Mine Risk Education is the risk of ERW accidents among chilren and adults is reduced and eventually eliminated through education, information, and public awareness in support of EOD quick response.
Thursday, 19 May 2016
This is the moment that I have feared for 15 years, since Project RENEW was launched in 2001.
Yesterday Ngo Thien Khiet was killed by a cluster munition at a field site in Quang Tri Province, near the former DMZ. The 45-year-old deminer, a senior technician with eight years’ experience, was directing his team members in an area where several cluster bombs had been found and marked for destruction.
Ngô Thiện Khiết
Đọt Chuối Non 