ChannelNewsAisa Posted 15 Mar 2017 01:03
Seized smuggled rhino horns are displayed at a customs office in Hanoi, Vietnam. (AFP/STR)
HANOI: Vietnam police seized more than 100 kilogrammes of rhino horn smuggled into the country in suitcases from Kenya on Tuesday (Mar 14), the latest illegal haul in the wildlife trafficking hub.
Vietnam is a hot market for rhino horn, believed to have medicinal properties and is in high demand among the communist nation’s growing middle class.
Jesus,
I earnestly invite you into the house that you let me borrow for life.
Please help me clean it up
and use it freely.
You’re welcome, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
VIETNAMNEWS Update: March, 14/2017 – 10:01
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| Foreign Ministry spokesman Lê Hải Bình yesterday accused China of infringing on Việt Nam’s sovereignty and urged it to respect international law. — VNA/VNS Photo Phạm Kiên |
HÀ NỘI – Foreign Ministry spokesman Lê Hải Bình yesterday accused China of infringing on Việt Nam’s sovereignty and urged it to respect international law.
He spoke in response to reports that China had opened an illegal tourism route to Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Archipelago and that a Chinese coast guard vessel had pursued a Vietnamese fishing ship, coded QNg 95215 TS, in the area of Bạch Quy (Passu Keah) Island in Hoàng Sa.
By Calvin Godfrey March 13, 2017 | 02:18 pm GMT+7
e.VnExpress A diplomatic kerfuffle in Phnom Penh reminds us that the U.S. owes Vietnam $25.7 billion.
Last week, for seemingly no reason whatsoever, an anonymous U.S. State Department official made the strongest argument to date for Donald Trump to make good on wartime reparations promised to Vietnam by his political idol, Richard Nixon.
Jesus,
Please help me be always brave to look at you in me.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
20:24 13.03.2017(updated 21:51 13.03.2017)
China plans to increase the number of its Marine Corps units from 20,000 to 100,000 in order to protect its vital marine communications and growing interests abroad, according to Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post citing military sources and experts.
More are working into old age to survive, in the world’s most rapidly aging country. Will solutions be too little, too late for Vietnam’s growing ranks of elderly poor? Part 1 of a regional series on elderly poverty explores the issues.
82-year-old Tran Thi Huong does what she must to survive, like walk the city streets to sell lottery tickets.
HO CHI MINH CITY: Having slogged in the tiny, dimly lit kitchen since 4am, the Chau sisters are finally done mixing, kneading, steaming and cooking, some seven hours later.
Jesus,
I let the dead bury their own dead and follow you.*
Love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Footnote:
* Matthew 8:18-22
I forwarded this first to a delegation of Veterans For Peace who are now touring Viet Nam for 17 days, and I am accompanying them. They have seen some of the terrible legacies of the war in Viet Nam — consequences very similar to what neighboring Laos and Cambodia have experienced. So this article has special resonance for them.It is also a reminder of the hard bargain the U.S. insisted upon during negotiations with Viet Nam which led to normalization of diplomatic relations in 1995. The current government of Viet Nam was required to repay an old debt of the Saigon regime which collapsed in 1975, loans which had been provided during the war totaling some $145 million US dollars. The Vietnamese eventually agreed, and repaid the first installments totaling about $15 million before then-Sen. John Kerry and Sen. John McCain intervened (and rightly so, in the opinion of many veterans) with congressional action which converted that debt to an “education” fund to provide study opportunities for Vietnamese students in the U.S. and American students in Viet Nam. That was better than an outright repayment, of course — particularly when U.S. humanitarian assistance at that time was less than $4 million a year, for efforts related to UXO cleanup and disability programs that might bring some relief to families facing the awful consequences of Agent Orange.
Sometimes simple fairness and justice, common decency, and morality must take precedence over the U.S. government’s bookkeeping requirements. (It might occur to some of us that the U.S. Ambassador in Cambodia should be reminded of that.)
CS
MARCH 11 201
Fury in Cambodia as US asks to be paid back hundreds of millions in war debts
Half a century after United States B-52 bombers dropped more than 500,000 tonnes of explosives on Cambodia’s countryside Washington wants the country to repay a $US500 million ($662 million) war debt.
Jesus,
Am I the person who hunger and thirst for righteousness?
If I am, why am I not blessed?
Why am I not filled?*
My God, Continue reading Prayer 93
NIRAS Published: 19-07-2016
Vietnamese women will benefit from NIRAS capabilities in comprehensive water planning (HELVA) at a new, local pilot projectExploiting Synergies between Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) and Urban Farming in Vinh Yen, Vietnam – such is the title of HELVAs first international project.
Local women in Vinh Yen will be involved in an urban farming initiative, where water for the vegetables will come from a SUDS system (local drainage of rain water, which is picked up locally, instead of being discharged into the sewer).
Jesus,
You say you understand me,
why do you wait until I feel discomfort, then you come and answer?
You soothe my heart by blowing me the wind of miracles? Continue reading Prayer 92
Published March 07, 2017 FoxNews.com
India has the highest bribery rate among the 16 Asia Pacific countries surveyed in Transparency International’s report. (Transparency International)
More than 900 million people in 16 Asian Pacific countries are experiencing bribery and corruption, according to a report by Transparency International published Tuesday.
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