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China Power Project It is our pleasure to send you the June edition of the ChinaPower Newsletter, the monthly newsletter of the CSIS China Power Project. The China Power Project centers on ChinaPower— a new website that provides an in-depth understanding of the evolving nature of Chinese power relative to other countries. The project examines five interrelated categories of Chinese power: military, economics, technology, social, and international image.
TĐH: As President Obama mentioned during his VN visit that human rights is a significant matter of US foreign affairs policy, I post here the 2015 report on human rights in Vietnam, compiled by the US Department of State. And to be fair, I also post the 2015 report on human rights in USA, compiled by Human Right Watch (because the US State Department doesn’t do a report on USA).
Human Rights is always a contentious matter among nations. However, knowing how a friend is seeing, correctly or incorrectly, another friend’s problem, hopefully will facilitate the VN-US dialogue and cooperation on Human Rights.
Sahisna Suwal, Guest Writer
thewaterproject – Located in the Southeastern part of Asia, Vietnam’s population totals to over 86 million with an estimated GDP per capita of $3100. Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world and almost two-thirds of its people live along the country’s three main river basins- Thai Binh, Mekong Delta and Dong Nai.
The Asian nation is spending big in the hope of winning a Nobel prize, but it will need more than cash to realize its ambitions.
Shin Woong-Jae A prototype axion detector in Daejeon, South Korea.
nature – Behind the doors of a drab brick building in Daejeon, South Korea, a major experiment is slowly taking shape. Much of the first-floor lab space is under construction, and one glass door, taped shut, leads directly to a pit in the ground. But at the end of the hall, in a pristine lab, sits a gleaming cylindrical apparatus of copper and gold. It’s a prototype of a device that might one day answer a major mystery about the Universe by detecting a particle called the axion — a possible component of dark matter.
Civil Law · Family Law
Jurisprudence no. 04/2016/AL
Jurisprudence no. 04/2016/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 the decision no. 220/QD-CA dated 6 April 2016.
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.
Đọt Chuối Non 