Cheaper crude is hammering Russia and Venezuela while boosting oil-thirsty Asia. Its impact on the United States won’t be quite so black and white.
Is a U.S. recession in the offing? A Russian default? The bursting of a stock market bubble?
Sứ điệp ĐTC nhân Ngày Hòa bình thế giới 2015
Không còn nô lệ nữa, nhưng chỉ còn tình huynh đệ với nhau
1. Khởi đầu năm mới này, khoảnh khắc chúng ta đón nhận ân sủng của Thiên Chúa cho toàn thể nhân loại, tôi xin chân thành gửi lời chúc bình an đến mọi người nam nữ, cũng như cho mọi dân tộc và quốc gia trên thế giới, các nhà lãnh đạo quốc gia và chính phủ, và các chức sắc của tôn giáo, cùng với lời cầu xin để không còn những cuộc chiến tranh, xung đột và những nỗi đau đớn gây ra bởi con người, các dịch bệnh xưa cũng như nay và bởi những tàn phá do thiên tai. Tôi đặc biệt cầu xin để, khi đáp lại lời mời gọi cộng tác của chúng ta với Thiên Chúa và với mọi người thành tâm thiện chí để làm thăng tiến sự đồng tâm nhất trí, chúng ta biết kháng cự lại những cám dỗ xúi giục mình hành xử theo cách không xứng với tư cách làm người của chúng ta.
Continue reading Sứ điệp của Đức Giáo Hoàng Francis nhân Ngày Hòa bình thế giới 2015
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD DEC. 16, 2014
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Peshawar, Pakistan. Credit Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
With the slaughter of at least 145 schoolchildren and teachers at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Tuesday, the Taliban took its grisly war against the state to a more horrific place.
The massacre by the Pakistani Taliban, which has carried out increasingly deadly attacks in recent years, should prompt the country’s military and political leaders to reconsider their conflicted approach to the insurgency that is threatening the state’s survival. Continue reading The Taliban’s Massacre of Innocents in Pakistan
“The greatest and most endangered species in the Amazon rainforest is not the jaguar or the harpy eagle,” says Mark Plotkin, “It’s the isolated and uncontacted tribes.” In an energetic and sobering talk, the ethnobotanist brings us into the world of the forest’s indigenous tribes and the incredible medicinal plants that their shamans use to heal. He outlines the challenges and perils that are endangering them — and their wisdom — and urges us to protect this irreplaceable repository of knowledge.
A Free Press for Vietnam
Monsanto – nhà sảm xuất chất
độc da cm – trở lại Việt Nam
I retired 10 years ago after a long career as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada. When I was on the payroll, I was the designated scientist of my institute to address public groups and reassure them that genetically engineered crops and foods were safe. There is, however, a growing body of scientific research – done mostly in Europe, Russia, and other countries – showing that diets containing engineered corn or soya cause serious health problems in laboratory mice and rats.I don’t know if I was passionate about it but I was knowledgeable. I defended the side of technological advance, of science and progress. Continue reading Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food
For years, those in favor of same-sex marriage have argued that all Americans should be free to live as they choose. And yet in countless cases, the government has coerced those who simply wish to be free to live in accordance with their belief that marriage is the union of a man and a woman.
Ministers face a 180-day jail term and $1,000 fine for each day they decline to celebrate the same-sex wedding.
Just this weekend, a case has arisen in Idaho, where city officials have told ordained ministers they have to celebrate same-sex weddings or face fines and jail time. Continue reading Government to Ordained Ministers: Celebrate Same-Sex Wedding or Go to Jail
Emails: I am not sure whether words can describe my how I feel in these two days. My parents are Hong Kong police… I understand their thinking: Students are controlled and brainwashed by other parties… the Hong Kong government is not good but better than the Chinese government, occupying Central would lead to a severe effect on Hong Kong’s economy and social disrupt[ion]… Whenever I tried to explain, they would say I am too young to understand these things… The protest was not only formed by the voice of a group of students, but the voice of the majority of Hong Kong people. Living in Hong Kong for most of my life, it is so obvious that the city has changed so much. Not [for] the good.
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CNN crew gassed
As it happened: Hong Kong protests
Matthew O’Reilly is a veteran emergency medical technician on Long Island, New York. In this talk, O’Reilly describes what happens next when a gravely hurt patient asks him: “Am I going to die?”
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Dưới đây mình giới thiệu một bài thơ rất hay và xúc động vừa được trình bày ngày 23/9/2014 tại Đại hội đồng Liên Hợp Quốc.
Nhà thơ Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner đến từ đảo Marshall – Republic of Marshall Island đã có bài phát biểu trong lễ khai mạc Hội nghị thượng đỉnh về khí hậu của Đại hội đồng Liên Hợp Quốc đang diễn ra tại New York. Kathy đã được lựa chọn từ 500 ứng cử viên dân sự được đề cử bởi Liên hợp quốc. Continue reading Bài thơ Dear Matefete Peinam
by cogitASIA Staff • September 4, 2014
By Duong Tran
Vietnam has an urgent need to boost its capacity of electricity generation if it wants to sustain current-level growth rates. The Vietnamese government has laid out an ambitious plan to meet future electricity demands, but making use of multiple energy sources remains a challenge. In this context, the U.S.-Vietnam nuclear cooperation agreement could play a critical role in shaping the country’s electricity production over the next decades. Continue reading The U.S.-Vietnam 123 Agreement Could Help Vietnam’s Electricity Needs
India considers a Vietnamese offer to explore offshore drilling options despite Chinese protests.
August 27, 2014
thediplomat – India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday for a two day visit to the Southeast Asian country. The visit came at the invitation of her Vietnamese counterpart Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. In addition to meeting Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Swaraj also met Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, both on Monday. Continue reading India and Vietnam Seek Stronger Ties
BY ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL
RANAI Indonesia
(Reuters) – The word “sleepy” could have been invented for Ranai, the largest town in Indonesia’s remote and sparsely populated Natuna archipelago.
It has few cars and only two sets of traffic lights. The cloud-wreathed mountain looming over it resembles a slumbering volcano. Nearby beaches lie pristine and empty, waiting for tourists. Continue reading Remote, gas-rich islands on Indonesia’s South China Sea frontline
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