Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Shamshad Akhtar. Photo: ESCAP
1 December 2016 – Issuing a year-end update to its flagship economic and social development report, the United Nations development arm for the Asia-Pacific region said today that resilient domestic demand and policy support supported the region notch a steady growth rate of five per cent but warned that risks remain to financial stability.
Giêsu ơi,
Những cái bát này là của Giêsu,
nên em đang rửa chúng thật cẩn thận.
Tay trái em đang cầm một cái bát,
trắng, dày, không có hoa văn.
Tay phải em đang cầm miếng bọt biển nhiều màu.
Em nhúng miếng bọt biển vào nước rửa chén.
Đầu tiên em rửa bên trong bát,
rồi rửa bên ngoài,
rồi đến đáy. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 23 – Prayer 23
DEC.
2, 2016 New York Times
Teu Kapik Sibajak, left, and Aman Aqwi Sakkukuret, members of the Mentawai tribe, on the island of Siberut in Indonesia. Credit Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
DOROUGOK, Indonesia — The older man wore just a loincloth, revealing taut muscles and leathery skin from decades of living deep in the rain forest. Like other members of his tribe, he was covered head to toe in tattoos. Though he appeared strong, he had a pronounced hunch, and a cough from smoking too much tobacco.
Jesus,
Tonight you play music so good.
Each raindrop is a guitar fret.
Each tiny touch makes a sound. Continue reading Prayer 22
December 3, 2016 3.54am AEDT
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theconversation: The public gets a lot of its news and information from Facebook. Some of it is fake. That presents a problem for the site’s users, and for the company itself.
Facebook cofounder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg said the company will find ways to address the problem, though he didn’t acknowledge its severity. And without apparent irony, he made this announcement in a Facebook post surrounded – at least for some viewers – by fake news items.
Giêsu ơi,
Xin Giêsu làm mới trái tim em.
Làm sạch nó.
Và dùng trái tim tinh khiết ấy cho mọi ý muốn của Giêsu.
Trong mọi ý muốn của Giêsu, em mong Giêsu nhớ đến đất nước chúng em.
Xin giúp đỡ đất nước chúng em.
Và giúp đỡ trái đất. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 21 – Prayer 21
January 22, 2016: 11:03 PM ET
Jasmine Burton helped design an inexpensive, portable plastic toilet to address the lack of basic sanitation around the world
money.cnn.com: Everybody poops. But not everyone has access to a toilet.
“It’s shocking that this basic necessity is unavailable to nearly half of the world,” said Jasmine Burton, founder and president of Atlanta-based Wish for WASH.
Jesus,
I want to master English.
And I think most Vietnamese also want to master English.
Please help us.
Would you like to know why I want to master English? Continue reading Prayer 20
President-elect Donald J. Trump at a rally in Cincinnati last week. Two of his Twitter assertions about China, on tariffs and the South China Sea, were broadly correct. A third, about China’s currency, was out of date. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times
BEIJING — China warned President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday that he was risking a confrontation over Taiwan, even as Mr. Trump broadened the dispute with new messages on Twitter challenging Beijing’s trade policies and military activities in the South China Sea.
Jesus,
What do you think about One Belt, One Road?
This is China’s great ambition.
China wants to have a bigger role (maybe biggest role) in the world
by building railways and seaways from China to Asia, Europe and Africa. Continue reading Prayer 19
ANN The Jakarta Post
Bangkok | Fri, December 2, 2016 | 01:31 pm
A woman walks past a billboard featuring an image of an island in South China Sea on display with Chinese words that read: “South China Sea, our beautiful motherland, we won’t let go an inch” in Weifang in east China’s Shandong province. (Chinatopix via AP/-)
India, China and Russia on Thursday held their first round of consultation on Asia-Pacific Affairs which included regional security architecture, coordination within regional and multilateral fora, anti-terrorism and other regional issues, according to PTI as reported by The Statesman.
Giêsu ơi,
Nấu ăn nhá.
Giêsu giúp em nấu bữa ăn ngon cho nhà em nha.
Giêsu có thích trứng cút không? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 18 – Prayer 18
President Xi Jinping of China arriving to meet António Guterres, the next secretary general of the United Nations, on Monday at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. Credit Jason Lee/Reuters
BEIJING — China extended a warm welcome this week to the incoming United Nations chief, António Guterres, praising the world body and making clear that it wants a greater role there, at a time when Donald J. Trump’s election to the White House has many wondering whether American involvement will recede.
Giêsu ơi,
“Hãy tĩnh lặng và biết rằng ta là Chúa.”(1)
Em suy ngẫm những lời này
và cảm thấy Giêsu đang nói với em, Giêsu ạ.
“Hãy tĩnh lặng và biết rằng ta là Chúa.” Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 17 – Prayer 17
LARUNG GAR, China — Atop a hill, a growling chain saw drowned out loudspeakers broadcasting a lama’s chants from a nearby temple.
The chain saw, wielded by workers demolishing a row of homes, signaled the imminent end of thousands of hand-built monastic dwellings here at Larung Gar, the world’s largest Buddhist institute.
Đọt Chuối Non 