tuoitre – Wednesday, November 06, 2019, 14:05 GMT+7
Vietnamese people’s proficiency in using English has fallen for the third year in a row to reach the lowest point since 2015, according to the 2019 English Proficiency Index compiled by the global education firm Education First (EF).
Vietnamese’ English skills improved from “very low” to “low” between 2011 and 2014, before maintaining a “moderate” proficiency level between 2015 and 2018, according to the annual EF report.
Dear brothers and sisters,
How to love all people?
To love God.
Only by loving God, we can love all people.
Love the cute, gentle and nice people.
Love the sinful and fierce people.
Love the good and bad people.
Love the righteous and the wicked.
Love the saints and the sinners. Continue reading Love God, love people
Dear brothers and sisters,
How to have a nice day?
Say this when you wake up in the morning: “I am at peace today. Thank you, Heaven and Earth / God / Buddha / Jesus.”
So easy.
If you do this for a month to a year, you’ll become more peaceful.
Try.
Have a nice day.
Phạm Thu Hương
People from abroad bring brains and energy, but there’s always the risk of a backlash.
By Michelle Jamrisko, Jason Clenfield, Sandrine Rastello, and Matthew Bristow
From New Economy Forum
Governments the world over are grappling with how to make immigration work for their economies without fanning political flames. Nativism helped crystallize support for Brexit in the U.K. and almost cost German Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term. President Trump says the U.S. immigration system is “broken”—and while some of his opponents may grudgingly agree with that, there is little common ground on how to repair it.
Dear brothers and sisters,
How to have peace?
Loving people.
Yes, loving people, we are peaceful.
Loving both the fool and wise man.
Loving both the poor and the corrupt.
Loving both killers and the pure in heart.
Loving both evil people and good people.
Loving all people.
Loving people, we are peaceful.
Have a peaceful day.
Phạm Thu Hương
In October 1968, after fellow prisoner Richard Bunch was killed by a prison guard at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California, 28 prisoners sat in protest against the war, singing “We Shall Overcome.” Some of the “Presidio 27” were sentenced to up to 16 years hard labor.
How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine
Opposition to the Vietnam war burst into a wide range of activism, including wearing anti-war buttons while in uniform, petitions and demonstrations, guerrilla theater, staging hearings about war crimes, and throwing away the medals they earned.
VNN – Update: November, 01/2019 – 21:09
HÀ NỘI — An area measuring 37ha at Biên Hòa airbase was handed over to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for a dioxin clean-up project at Biên Hòa Airport in Đồng Nai Province, the most contaminated spot in the country.
USAID Deputy Administrator Bonnie Glick, US Ambassador to Việt Nam Daniel J. Kritenbrink, Vice Minister of National Defence Senior Lieutenant General Nguyễn Chí Vịnh, and USAID-Việt Nam Mission Director Michael Greene attended the handover ceremony at the Việt Nam Ministry of National Defence’s headquarters in Hà Nội on Friday morning.
By Doan Loan October 29, 2019 | 12:25 pm GMT+7
Hanoi’s first metro line, the Cat Linh-Ha Dong route, has begun a 20-day commercial operation run for inspection purposes.
The trial will check all aspects or the line’s operations, from functioning stations with staff on duty at operation rooms and ticket booths. Electronic signs and loudspeakers are turned on to instruct metro commuters. Six to nine trains will operate on the route.
Hanoi, 24 October 2019 – The Mekong Delta is one of the most vulnerable deltas to climate change, particularly sea level rise. However, the social and economic developments in the region also have a significant impact on the land. Urbanisation, land-use transformation, intensification of economic activities and human protection against natural disasters has led to the large-scale extraction of fresh groundwater, heavy loading of infrastructure, upstream dykes and dam construction as well as loss of habitat and biodiversity.
Wind energy could cover more than one third of global power needs in 2050 reducing global carbon emissions by a quarter, new IRENA report finds
Beijing, China, 21 October 2019 – Asia could grow its share of installed capacity for onshore wind from 230 Gigawatt (GW) in 2018 to over 2600 GW by 2050, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) finds. By that time, the region would become a global leader in wind, accounting for more than 50 per cent of all onshore and over 60 per cent of all offshore wind capacity installed globally.
VNE – By Hoang Hanh October 29, 2019 | 04:40 pm GMT+7
A 66-year-old widow collects very moderate toll fees for a one-km path she and her husband built on their own six years ago.
They call her Mrs. BOT, but as an endearment, not a derogatory epithet. The term, build-own-transfer, otherwise carries the connotation of many expensive toll fee stations along Vietnamese roads.
Mrs. BOT of the southernmost province of Ca Mau is a total different story.
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Truong Thi Yen, 66, is at her home in Ca Mau Province, where she and her husband built a concrete road for locals for free. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Hanh. |
tuoitrenews – Saturday, October 26, 2019, 11:20 GMT+7
A U.S.-based “terrorist organization” is responsible for a blast that occurred at the tax department of Binh Duong Province in southern Vietnam last month, according to information released by the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security on Friday.
The explosion occured at the provincial tax department at 328 Binh Duong Boulevard in Thu Dau Mot City at around 9:00 am on September 30, 2019.
tuoitrenews – Friday, October 25, 2019, 10:28 GMT+7
The Chinese geological survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 8.
A Chinese oil survey vessel that had been operating illegally in Vietnam’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and Continental Shelf for more than three months made its exit from Vietnam’s waters on Thursday, Reuters reported.
The Chinese vessel, the Haiyang Dizhi 8, was tracked speeding away from Vietnam’s EEZ towards China on Thursday under the escort of at least two Chinese ships, Reuters reported, citing data from Marine Traffic, a website that tracks vessels.
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