Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet — “All the servers are in Beijing” — he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country’s history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways.
Michael Anti (Zhao Jing), a key figure in China’s new journalism, explores the growing power of the Chinese internet.
Paddy Ashdown claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk he outlines the three major global shifts that he sees coming.
Throughout his career, Paddy Ashdown has moved across the international stage. He served as a Royal Marine and an intelligence officer in MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom, before becoming a member of Parlaiment. In 1988 he became the first leader of the newly formed Liberal Democrat party. After leaving Parlaiment he served as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The developed world holds up the ideals of capitalism, democracy and political rights for all. Those in emerging markets often don’t have that luxury. In this powerful talk, economist Dambisa Moyo makes the case that the west can’t afford to rest on its laurels and imagine others will blindly follow. Instead, a different model, embodied by China, is increasingly appealing. A call for open-minded political and economic cooperation in the name of transforming the world.
Dambisa Moyo’s work examines the interplay between rapidly developing countries, international business, and the global economy — while highlighting opportunities for investment. She has travelled to more than 60 countries over the past decade, studying the political, economic and financial workings of emerging economies, in particular the BRICs and the frontier economies in Asia, South America, Africa and the Middle East.
Dear everyone,
Below is the link to the World Happiness Report 2013 by the Earth Institute of Columbia University.Viet Nam ranks 63 out of 156 country.The report has 170 pages and you can download it here.
Wish you a great day!
Hoành
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading Violence will rise as climate changes, scientists predict
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.
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SeongJoon Cho for The Wall Street Journal
Hi cả nhà,
Em có xem mấy video tại Ted.com về âm nhạc rất hay, em vừa được mở mang đầu óc, vừa có cảm hứng và được học thêm tiếng Anh.
Em chia sẻ với cả nhà, chúc cả nhà cuối tuần vui vẻ. Continue reading Âm nhạc cuối tuần
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.
Dear everyone,
This “Overview of Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Vietnam” was done on Jan 27, 2012 by Transparency International. It is still wholly relevant today.
You can read and download the Overview at
Very good and easy reading.
Have a good day.
Hoanh
http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/17/jimmy-carter-america-no-longer-has-a-functioning-democracy/
8:56 PM 07/17/2013
Katie McHugh
Former 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.
Continue reading Jimmy Carter: ‘America no longer has a functioning democracy’
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