Center for Strategic & International Studies – 24 July, 2019
The South China Sea is the most contested piece of geography on the planet. CSIS’s Greg Poling explains how China uses maritime militias to intimidate its neighbors and assert its claim over the South China Sea.
Mongabay – by Michael Tatarski on 1 August 2019
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — In late January, WildAid and the Ho Chi Minh City-based Center of Hands-on Actions and Networking for Growth and Environment (CHANGE) launched a graphic anti-wildlife trafficking campaign focused on three animals: pangolins, elephants and rhinos.
TĐH: Gender is becoming increasingly confusing, unnatural, standardless and meaningless. In New Jersey (USA) parents now can mark in the newborn baby paperwork for birth certificate one of three choices for gender: (1) male, (2) female, and (3) undetermined. “Undetermined” because the parents “don’t know the baby’s gender until the baby is grown up and determines his/her/its gender for him/her/itself.”
Bisexual people make up 52 percent of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community, but in recent years, the words to describe the identity of someone who is attracted to more than one gender have become increasingly complex.
Dear brothers and sisters,
A beauty pageant is only to focus on judging and ranking body traits of the players. So these pageants disturb societies, especially our Eastern society.
These pageants make our society focusing only on judging and ranking body traits of our women and girls.
These pageants treat women as objects. Women’s only purpose is to look sexually attractive. So these pageants keep us in the medieval era. Continue reading End beauty pageants
By Ralph Jennings – May 9, 2019 11:22 PM
voanews – TAIPEI – Japan is helping Vietnam build a defense against the larger, more militarily powerful China as Vietnam says Beijing’s forces are occupying more than their legal share of the South China Sea.
Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya and his Vietnamese counterpart, Ngo Xuan Lich, met May 3 to “advance cooperation” on maritime security, Tokyo-based NHK television online said.
VNN July, 19/2019 – 09:00
HÀ NỘI — Villages across the country have benefited from the country’s economic development, however, many do not have measures in place to deal with environmental protection.
The village of Trát Cầu in Hà Nội, which produces blankets, bed sheets and pillows, is a typical example.
Jesus,
Although Jonah was sorrowful when he was in the whale,
perhaps he also was sorrowful when he lived in Nineveh.
Refusing to follow the will of God is sorrowful.
Following the will of God is sorrowful, too.
Poor Jonah.
Jesus,
Please comfort poor souls.
Amen.
PTH
washingtontimes – China and Vietnam have overlapping claims in the South China Sea and there’s hope diplomacy will prevail
Vietnam Dragon Surveillance Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
Beset by conflicts, stagnating economies, and political troubles, the region no longer looks set to rule the world.
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The air forces of four of Asia’s leading powers nearly came to blows in the skies over the Sea of Japan, or East Sea, last week. As Russia and China conducted their first joint aerial patrol, South Korean fighters fired more than 300 warning shots at a Russian command and control aircraft that crossed into South Korea’s air defense identification zone. Meanwhile, Japanese fighters scrambled in case Japanese territory came under fire.
Jesus,
I love you.
Your love makes my soul become the wind.
And the wind,
how can we know where it comes from or where it goes?
We’re free, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Last update 11:00 | 23/10/2017 vietnamnet
Pho Hien, a historical site in Hung Yen Province, was a famous merchant port in Vietnam and a small historic town on the banks of the Red River.
There are also many famous relic sites in Pho Hien such as Hien pagoda, Chuong pagoda, and Mau Temple. Let’s visit Hung Yen province to explore more about the beauty of Pho Hien.
Jesus,
You know why political instability often occurs in the summer?
Especially in the summer without rain?
Political instability such as
demonstrations against China
or China’s coming into our sea. Continue reading Prayer 664
ASEANBUSINESS STAFF MAY 31, 2019 – 5:32 PM
VIETNAM’S anti-corruption campaign has led to the unintended consequence of surging property prices in Ho Chi Minch City in particular, but measures to alleviate this should eventually help to stabilise the market, according to an article in the latest issue of ISEAS Perspective.
Jesus,
I miss you.
I miss you so much.
Although you’re always with me,
I miss you so much.
Let’s go on a date this weekend?
I’ll dress well,
then we’ll go to a coffee shop.
I’ll bring the Holy Bible,
then we’ll go to your heart.
I love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
latimes By DAVID PIERSON JULY 12, 2019
The requests that textile factory manager Huynh Thi Ai Diem receives are almost always the same: A foreign company is desperately trying to relocate production from China to Vietnam. Tariffs imposed by the U.S. have eaten away their profit margin. Can she help?
Huynh would like nothing more but is swift to provide a reality check. She only has enough workers, raw materials and factory space to produce one-fifth the volume of bath towels and apparel churned out by her chief competitors in China. Her prices are competitive, she says, but contrary to popular belief, they aren’t cheaper than those of her Chinese rivals.
Đọt Chuối Non 