NEW YORK (VNS) — The protection of the rights of people with disabilities was high on Viet Nam’s agenda, said Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, Permanent Representative of Viet Nam to the United Nations (UN)
“We have put in place legal, regulatory and policy frameworks to this end,” she said at the eighth Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities that opened on Tuesday in New York. Continue reading Rights for disabled high on VN agenda→
Around 1.75 million children, or nearly 10 per cent of children age 5 to 17 in Viet Nam, are child labourers. — Photo baogiaothong.vn
HA NOI (VNS) — Some 1.75 million children, or nearly 10 per cent of children age 5 to 17 in Viet Nam, are child labourers, according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) report.
Both the tone and substance of South China Sea discussions in Australian policy circles has undergone an important shift in recent months. What was previously a second-tier security concern to be watched closely and engaged diplomatically, but at a safe distance, has become a heated discussion about concrete responses. Australian policymakers are as concerned as anyone about China’s breakneck land reclamation in the Spratly Islands and the threats, both legal and military, they pose to the global commons. Australian officials and thinkers are seriously considering options to contest Chinese assertiveness, in tandem with the United States and other partners, which would have seemed distant possibilities a year ago. Continue reading Australia Has a Larger Role to Play in the South China Sea→
The design of Cat Linh – Ha Dong elevated railway in Hanoi. Photo credit: Transport Ministry’s project management unit
Vietnam is obliged to buy 13 trains from China for Hanoi’s first urban railway line under a bilateral financing agreement, Transport Minister Dinh La Thang said on Tuesday, responding to question about the rationale for the purchase.
War, blocked shipping lanes among scenarios for South China Sea, State report says
The alleged on-going reclamation of Subi Reef by China is seen from Pag-asa Island in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, western Palawan Province, Philippines / AP
Freebeacon – China will continue building islands in the disputed waters of the South China Sea but a major conflict in the region over the dispute is unlikely, according to a State Department security report.
“Beijing will continue to develop contested territories in the South China Sea,” says the internal report by the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). “Unlike fishing boats or patrol vessels, infrastructure investments, such as land reclamation and the construction of runways and lighthouses, signal a more permanent presence.” Continue reading China Unlikely to Halt Island Construction in Disputed Sea→
Nguyen Tan Thanh (right) and his wife, Phan Thi Xuan Thu (left), are pictured showing an Agent Orange boy how to perform a task at their company. – Tuoi Tre
TTN – A woman and her husband have turned their company into a ‘life university’ which offers former inmates, drug addicts or unruly people in Vietnam a second chance to start their lives afresh, and guides physically and mentally challenged youths toward a brighter future.
Part of the Van Mieu (Temple of Literature), located in the northern province of Vinh Phuc, which costs a whopping VND271 billion (US$12.45 million) – Tuoi Tre
TTN – A project to build a multimillion-dollar cultural facility, which is intended to worship a highly revered Chinese philosopher/educationist and several noted Vietnamese academics of ancient times, in northern Vietnam has been frowned upon for its wastefulness.
An eroded section at the Cua Dai Beach in Hoi An. Photo: Hoang Son
TNN – Hydropower dams on the Vu Gia – Thu Bon River system has hindered sedimentation downstream, causing severe erosion that could wipe out a popular beach in Hoi An town, experts warn.
Ethnic children in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai’s Man Than Primary School. Boosting support for poor ethnic people is one of goals targeted in a national programme on sustainable poverty reduction by 2020. — VNS Photo Thai Ha
HA NOI (VNS) — The national programme on sustainable poverty reduction until 2020 will be aimed at speeding up the process, preventing people from re-entering poverty situations – and creating conditions for the poor to access basic social services.
EAF – The South China Sea dispute has become the new normal in ASEAN meetings. The dispute, with its overlapping claims on various land features in the South China Sea, has started to figure as the most important territorial disputes in Asia, one that risks becoming a major power confrontation in the region. With this in mind, ASEAN must take a collective stand on the South China Sea.
TNN – Ho Huu Hanh, 16, in Ho Chi Minh City’s neighbor province of Dong Nai, was born without arms. His mother said her family was very sad at his birth while neighbors boycotted him as a “monster.” But since he turned 3, he started to make his legs come in to help. Continue reading Nothing’s impossible: Vietnamese teen boy does it all without arms→
AMTI – Secretary of Defense Ash Carter’s address at this weekend’s Shangri-La Dialogue was generally well received by conference attendees and Asia-security watchers. A few critics have argued that Carter was “just talk.” What none have noted, however, is the fact that the Secretary’s remarks were the latest installation in a series of moves by the administration to articulate a fact-based approach to the South China Sea. This approach is a nuanced one and does not necessarily constitute a “strategy” for countering China’s recent moves. It is, however, a wise way to engage two key audiences to whom Carter was speaking at Shangri-La: other states in the region and China itself. Let me explain.
By Ralph Ellis, Jethro Mullen and Steven Jiang, CNN
Updated 3:19 PM ET, Tue June 2, 2015
Story highlights
Tornado hit part of Yangtze River where ship capsized, China Meteorological Center says
Survivor says he barely had time to grab a life jacket before escaping ship, report says
Authorities confirm 14 survivors and seven deaths
Jianli County, China (CNN)Most of the passengers on the Eastern Star cruise ship had gone to bed. A violent storm struck and rain pounded the windows with such force that water seeped into the cabins, survivor Zhang Hui told Xinhua, China’s state-run news agency.
The ship began tilting, Zhang told the agency, reaching an angle of 45 degrees at one point. Small bottles rolled off the table in his cabin.
“Looks like we are in trouble,” he remembers telling a colleague.
When the ship with more than 458 people aboard overturned late Monday, he said, it happened so quickly he only had 30 seconds to grab a life jacket and get out of his cabin. He went into the dark and choppy waters of the Yangtze River during the middle of the storm, later confirmed to be a tornado. Continue reading Survivor: Chinese cruise ship capsized quickly during violent storm→
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