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Janette Sadik-Khan: New York’s streets? Not so mean any more

Đường xá New York chật chội, nguy hiểm.

Janette Sadik-Khan, Giám đốc giao thông của thành phố New York nói về thí nghiệm 6 năm làm đường phố New York thân thiện hơn với người đi bộ và xe đạp, cho người dân nhiều chỗ để đi bộ và ngồi chơi, làm giao thông xe cộ nhanh hơn, các tiệm buôn bán tăng lợi tức, và thành phố thấy thoáng mát hơn, mà tốn rất ít tiền–chỉ cần sơn và một ít bàn ghế.

By the Numbers: Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia

The data driving Asia
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is a major driver of economic growth in many countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ASEAN’s five largest economies – Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam – have become increasingly attractive to international investors, partly as a result of rising production and wages in China and India. At the same time, some ASEAN countries have tackled corruption and inflation, taken steps to invest in infrastructure, and liberalized their economies to attract more foreign capital. We explore FDI trends in ASEAN by the numbers.

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Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict

Los Angeles Times
UC Berkeley researchers pull together data on ancient wars, road rage and more, and conclude that violence may increase between now and 2050 because of higher temperatures and extreme rainfall patterns.
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August 01, 2013, By Monte Morin

Long before scientists began to study global warming, author Raymond Chandler described the violent effects of dry, “oven-hot” Santa Ana winds gusting through the city of Los Angeles.

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The $4 Million Teacher

WSJ

South Korea’s students rank among the best in the world, and its top teachers can make a fortune. Can the U.S. learn from this academic superpower?

Kim Ki-hoon earns $4 million a year in South Korea, where he is known as a rock-star teacher—a combination of words not typically heard in the rest of the world. Mr. Kim has been teaching for over 20 years, all of them in the country’s private, after-school tutoring academies, known as hagwons. Unlike most teachers across the globe, he is paid according to the demand for his skills—and he is in high demand.

[image] SeongJoon Cho for The Wall Street Journal

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Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world

 

Bernie Krause has been recording wild soundscapes — the wind in the trees, the chirping of birds, the subtle sounds of insect larvae — for 45 years. In that time, he has seen many environments radically altered by humans, sometimes even by practices thought to be environmentally safe. A surprising look at what we can learn through nature’s symphonies, from the grunting of a sea anemone to the sad calls of a beaver in mourning.

Bernie Krause’s legendary soundscapes uncover nature’s rich sonic tapestry — along with some unexpected results.
 

Jimmy Carter: ‘America no longer has a functioning democracy’

http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/17/jimmy-carter-america-no-longer-has-a-functioning-democracy/

Jimmy Carter: ‘America no longer has a functioning democracy’

8:56 PM 07/17/2013

Katie McHugh

jimmy-carterFormer president Jimmy Carter condemned the effect U.S. intelligence programs had on U.S. moral authority in the wake of NSA revelations brought to light by leaker Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel reports.

“America has no functioning democracy,” Carter said at a meeting of The Atlantic Bridge in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday.

Carter also claimed there was currently no reason for him to be “optimistic” about Egypt’s internal conflicts and mused whether the standards The Carter Center applies to foreign elections could be fulfilled by U.S. elections, which he believes are plagued by confusing campaign rules and a lack of restrictions on free speech in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.

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The South China Sea in Focus

biendongThe Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asia Studies at CSIS is pleased to announce the release of our latest report, The South China Sea in Focus: Clarifying the Limits of Maritime Dispute, by Research Associate Gregory Poling.

Satellite imagery and geospatial analysis tools offer an unprecedented opportunity to harness new technologies in order to help resolve boundary disputes. The South China Sea in Focus uses these tools to provide a first and necessary step toward tackling the overlapping maritime disputes in the South China Sea: determining which waters are and are not in dispute under international law.

The report opens with a set of geographic information system (GIS)–based maps that provide an easily understandable benchmark against which policymakers and academics can judge the claims and actions of the South China Sea claimants. More detailed color maps and methodological information follow for those who want to dig deeper into the claims and the report’s conclusions.

To download the full report [from CSIS site] or order a hard copy, please click here.


By the Numbers: Vietnam and the Philippines strengthen Air and Sea Capabilities

The data driving Asia

Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu met with Vietnamese defense minister Phung Quang Thanh in Hanoi on March 5 to discuss strengthening maritime defense ties between their two countries. Following Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida’s January visit to Manila, the Philippines announced on February 11 that Japan will be donating ships to the Philippine Coast Guard in an effort to reinvigorate the bilateral security partnership. We look at the Philippines’ and Vietnam’s procurements and strengthening defense ties with their regional neighbors by the numbers:

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