Huynh Anh Dung, 34, at his family farm in Soc Trang Province, Vietnam. His rice crop failed in February because of salty water. Credit The New York Times
nytimes – SOC TRANG, Vietnam —When the rice shoots began to wither on Lam Thi Loi’s farm in the heart of the Mekong Delta, a usually verdant region of Vietnam, she faced a hard choice: Let them die in the parched earth, or pump salty water from the river to give them a chance..
Một bài viết rất thú vị về tâm lý thuộc địa của người Phillipines. Trong cùng một bối cảnh của bài viết, nếu thay người Phillipines thành người Việt Nam, chúng ta sẽ thấy rất nhiều điểm tương đồng trong tâm lý thuộc địa của người Phillipines, người Việt Nam và các nước thuộc địa khác như thế nào.
This is a very interesting article. In the same context, if we replace the Filipinos by the Vietnamese, we’ll see many similarities of the colonial mentality of the Filipinos, of the Vietnamese and other colonial countries.
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“Tangkilikin ang saraling atin,” (Patronize what is ours), we hear this statement spoken quite often. Cliché as it may sound but Filipinos do not live by it.
TĐH: Hillary Clinton đã làm nên lịch sử như là người phụ nữ đầu tiên được đề cử ứng cử tổng thống. Nếu Hillary thắng, Hillary sẽ nên lịch sử như là nữ tổng thống đầu tiên của nước Mỹ, và sẽ tốt cho VN vì Hillary rất quý VN.
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Philadelphia (CNN)As Hillary Clinton playfully batted away an avalanche of balloons Thursday night, she appeared proud, happy and reconciled to her historic moment.
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A septuagenarian woman in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Binh has raised and taken care of her two disabled sons who are victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin on her own for more than four decades.
Nguyen Van Hai, 44, and Nguyen Van Hien, 41, who are both victims of dioxin, have been in the loving care of their 73-year-old mother Tran Thi Dang, of Le Thuy District, in the last 44 years.
FORBES – JUL 25, 2016 Brett Davis CONTRIBUTOR
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Vietnam has been ranked the fifth happiest country in the world
in a study by the UK think tank the New Economics Foundation.
The Happy Planet Index report measured elements that contribute towards a happy life in 140 countries and looked at factors such as life expectancy, wellbeing, inequality and ecological footprint. The list was topped by Costa Rica, followed by Mexico, Columbia and Vanuatu, making Vietnam the happiest country in Asia.
What is the Human Rights Guide to the SDGs?
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The Guide illustrates the human rights anchorage of the 17 goals and provides concrete links between the 169 targets and the range of human rights instruments and labour standards.
Thereby, the Guide reaffirms that human rights instruments and the 2030 Agenda are tied together in a mutually reinforcing way: human rights offer a legally-binding framework as well as guidance for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. In turn, the SDGs can contribute substantially to the realization of human rights.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is an age-appropriate, culturally relevant approach to teaching about sex and relationships by providing scientifically accurate, realistic, non-judgemental information. Sexuality education provides opportunities to explore one’s own values and attitudes and to build decision-making, communication and risk reduction skills about many aspects of sexuality.
Marianne Brown in Hanoi
theguardian: As church activists hand out information on ‘safe sex days’ to students, Vietnam’s high abortion rate suggests a need for accurate contraception advice
A clinic offering 4D foetus imaging in Hanoi. For decades, communist Vietnam enforced a two-child policy, using a mix of administrative penalties and subsidised family planning. Photograph: Hoang Dinh Nam/AFP/Getty Images
On a Saturday morning, about 100 people gather for mass at Thai Ha church in Hanoi. During the sermon, the priest talks about the dangers of sex before marriage and the sin of killing an unborn child. Behind the pews, on a table, sits a small coffin containing foetuses and stillborn babies collected by volunteers over the week from private clinics. Today there are 13 in the box.
CSIS – The CSIS Global Food Security Project and the International Youth Foundation/CSIS Youth, Prosperity, and Security Initiative at CSIS brought together a select group of young agricultural entrepreneurs from Feed the Future focus countries for one week to Washington, D.C. to gather insights and inform U.S. policymakers on how to improve youth engagement in agricultural development.
9 July 2016
Author: Veasna Var, UNSW Canberraeastasiaforum: In a 2006 speech, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen praised China, saying that ‘China talks less but does a lot’. China is certainly doing a lot in Cambodia, becoming the country’s largest aid donor and source of foreign investment.
eco-business: Panelists at a forum for business leaders say that aligning business targets and sustainability practices as well as partnerships are essential in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Panelists at the inaugural session of the Thought Leadership Series. Speakers from Diageo, City Developments Limited, Save the Children, Unilever and Corporate Citizenship discuss the implications of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to businesses in Singapore. Image: Hive Consulting
Map showing the location of Chinese bases in Hainan and reclaimed islands and infrastructure in the South China Sea.
Is China about to declare an Air-Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over the South China Sea? And how effectively would it be able to enforce such a zone?
VNN – Update: June, 05/2016 – 09:00
The day’s haul: A local farmer loads dragon fruit to sell at markets. VNA/VNS Photo Đình Huệ
Around 20 years ago, farmers in Long An Province’s Châu Thành District began to grow dragon fruit instead of paddy, which did not yield much profit. The fruit, now grown on almost 90 per cent of the land, has brought about a miraculous economic transformation, Văn Đạt discovers.
6 July 2016 – Author: Ian Coxhead, University of Wisconsin-Madison – eastasiaforum
The biggest macroeconomic challenge facing Vietnam today is sustaining growth. Most doi moi-era growth has resulted either from efficiency gains associated with the introduction of a market economy (opening domestic markets and trade, relaxing restrictions on labour movement and land transactions) or from expanded endowments of low-skill labour and capital. GDP continues to grow at a very respectable rate, albeit lower than that projected in national planning documents.
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