Demonstrators, holding signs of environmental-friendly messages, say they are demanding cleaner waters in the central regions after mass fish deaths in recent weeks, in Hanoi, Vietnam May 1, 2016.
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Vietnamese police broke up a demonstration in the capital, Hanoi, on Sunday when protesters gathered for the second time in a week to denounce a Taiwanese firm they accuse of causing mass fish deaths in central coastal provinces.
The beautiful beaches of Chile have long been a draw for tourists, but the dead whales, salmon, sardines and clams washing up on the shores lately have made them a lot less picturesque, and scientists believe El Niño is to blame.
Thousands Of Dead Sardines Are Clogging This River In Chile
theconversation – For centuries, happiness was exclusively a concern of the humanities; a matter for philosophers, novelists and artists. In the past five decades, however, it has moved into the domain of science and given us a substantial body of research. This wellspring of knowledge now offers us an enticing opportunity: to consider happiness as the leading measure of well-being, supplanting the current favourite, real gross domestic product per capita, or GDP.
Jumping to conclusions. Does GDP mislead us? Antoine Gady/Flickr, CC BY-ND
asiapathway – There seems to be a pushback against trade agreements in the post global financial crisis era. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was signed in early 2016, but US presidential candidates have spared no effort criticizing it so near-term ratification is highly uncertain. The WTO Doha Round is in the deep freeze after 14 years of negotiations. Unilateral trade liberalization has virtually come to a standstill.
Taipei Times
MORE FIREPOWER?An official said that the government would consider whether to add short-range anti-aircraft missiles as part of a review of the island’s defenses
A soldier aims his rifle next to a military transport plane on Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island) in the South China Sea on March 23.
Photo courtesy of a group of reporters visiting Itu Aba Island
Despite nearly 40 people having been killed in nine separate gold mineaccidents in Quang Nam alone since 2009, thousands continue to put their lives at risk while digging up ranges of mountains in the unlawful pursuit of the precious metal.
Sau bản tin tếng Anh là 2 video clips của truyền hình SBTN ở Mỹ. Các bạn cần lưu ý là công ty TV này không thân thiện với nhà nước VN, nên lời lẽ và phân tích có thể không trung lập. Hai người phát ngôn chính thức trên hai clips này là hai linh mục DCCT.
Về việc tôm cá chết hằng loạt, chúng ta cần chờ điều tra của các khoa học gia, nhưng mình đã có sưu tầm thông tin cho mình và đã tạm kết luận El Nino làm nước biển ở miền Trung nóng lên, là thủ phạm chính. Các nguồn pollution, nếu có ảnh hưởng đến tôm cá ở biển, là thủ phạm phụ.
Dù kết quả cuối cùng cho biết thế nào, chúng ta cần đợi các khoa học gia xác định.
Hundreds of people demonstrated in Vietnam on Sunday against a Taiwanese firm they accuse of causing mass fish deaths along the country’s central coast, with some also blaming the government for a sluggish response to a major environmental disaster.
Loewe, Markus / Nicole Rippin
Briefing Paper 3/2012
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
die-gdi _ Global patterns of poverty do not look like they did twenty years ago. Many developing countries have been able to raise their average per-capita income over the last two decades; 18 have even trespassed the highly noticed – though arbitrary – ceiling differentiating between ‘low income’ and ‘middle income countries’ (LICs and MICs).
edutopia – As a society, we learn about the world and advance our well being through science and engineering. The United States may be known around the world for its higher education, but compared to many other leading and steadily emerging countries, we lack a strong focus on educating scientists and engineers. One significant reason that we have fallen behind is that we do not encourage our female students to pursue career paths in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
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Dear Friends
This professor from Guangdong Research Institute for International Strategies in Guangzhou, China, is saying that the US activities to protect international freedom of navigation in the East Sea will prompt China to toughen its position, not very good for the US.
Well, China has already treated the US, ASEAN countries, and the world like a bunch of wimps, and the world as a lawless place. The world simply has to put China to its place and tell China that this world is NOT a lawless place for bullies.
And this is not the US v. China, stupid! This is the world of law against lawless China.
Hoanh
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Southeast Asian countries have set themselves renewable energy targets that are even more ambitious than some European countries, but they are behind schedule in reaching these goals. Government policies and private money are key to its progress.
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Blogger anhbasam jailed for five years for anti-State posts
Blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (anhbasam) and his assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy were imprisoned for five and three years, respectively, on the charge of abusing the rights to democracy and freedom to infringe on the interests of the State and rights and interests of organisations and citizens, during a trial in Hanoi on March 23.
Blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh (L) and assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy (R).
UNESCOBKK – Thailand’s adaptive capacity to climate change is high among Mekong countries, while the western coastline of Myanmar and the Cambodian Mekong lowland region are the areas of the sub-region most vulnerable to the phenomenon’s effects.
These were among the key findings of the report, “Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping for the Mekong River Basin”, based on a study carried out by UNESCO Bangkok and the Water Resources and Environment Institute (WREI) of Khon Kaen University’s Faculty of Engineering in Thailand.
Written by Nina Smith, Executive Director, GoodWeave
Published Thursday 31 March 2016
weforum – On a recent trip to India, I met a 12-year-old girl, Kushboo, in the village of Bhairupura, not far from Jaipur. Bhairupura is a village of the Raigar people, a scheduled caste who traditionally work in shoe-making. There’s nothing beyond the village but forest. Few outsiders visit Bhairupura, except for the agents working for the carpet manufacturers who operate modern factories in Jaipur.
Those factories are where international buyers are brought to tour. But many of their rugs are not produced at these locations. Rather, they are being made in villages like Bhairupura, by children like Kushboo – a cheap, captive and unseen workforce.
Đọt Chuối Non 