Dear brothers and sisters,
What do we learn history for?
To love people.
To love both the fool and wise man. To love both killers and the pure in heart. To love both evil people and good people. To love all people.
If we learn history but don’t love people, we’ll continue to make war. Continue reading What history learning is for?
Jesus,
Let’s visit Cửa Đại Beach (in Hội An).
I want to know how erosion here is.
…
Wow, look at a concrete dyke system.
Well.
However we have many things to do to save our beaches.
Amen.
PTH
JULY 25, 2019 / 6:17 AM / REUTERS
BAN NONG CHAN, Thailand (Reuters) – By this time of year, the Mekong River should have been rising steadily with the monsoon rains, bringing fishermen a bounty of fat fish.
Scientists and people living along the river fear the impact of the worst drought in years has been exacerbated by upstream dams raising the prospect of irreversible change on the river that supports one of Southeast Asia’s most important rice-growing regions.
Jesus,
The first time I draw my eyebrows like that.
Astute.
You make my face look strange.
These eyebrows make my eyes become bigger.
My friend said my eyes like Indian eyes.
She advised me to make up like Indian women.
Interesting.
If I make up like Indian women,
you’ll end my myopia?
Phấn nụ Huế matches for Central skin.
We’ll continue play make up next time?
I love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Dear brothers and sisters,
What is the secret to peaceful life?
Slow and simple.
Living slowly and simply is the secret to peaceful life.
Life is wonderful when we live slowly and simply.
Live slowly and simply.
Have a peaceful day.
Phạm Thu Hương
TABLE OF CONTENT
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
AUGUST 6, 2019
After buckling in previous confrontations, Vietnam is finally facing down Chinese expansionism in its oil and gas-rich waters
Normally, Vietnam would have backed down. In July 2017 and March 2018, when China reportedly threatened military action if Vietnam did not stop oil exploration in contested areas of the South China Sea, Vietnam blinked and withdrew its vessels.
Last year, Vietnam scrapped a US$200 million oil and gas development project with Spanish energy giant Repsol situated within its own exclusive economic zone (EEZ) due to Chinese pressure. However, when a Chinese survey ship and coastguard vessels sailed last month to the contested oil-rich Vanguard Bank, which also lies well within Vietnam’s southeastern EEZ, Hanoi stood its ground.
BY JAMES PALMER, FP
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A screen showing stock prices at a securities company in Beijing on August 5. GREG BAKER/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Welcome to the first edition of Foreign Policy’s China Brief, where every week we’ll bring you news and analysis from the most populous country in the world: the one with the angriest crowds, the hottest tech, and the smelliest dofu. I’m James Palmer, a senior editor at FP previously based in Beijing for 15 years. Every week, I’ll break down the news and explain it here.
Dear brothers and sisters,
How to feel the love of God?
Love your lover.
Loving your lover will help you feel the love of God. Continue reading Feeling the love of God
AUGUST 1, 2019
Two sides will sign a new defense agreement on August 5, opening the way for stronger strategic cooperation including in the South China Sea
By DAVID HUTT
On August 5, the European Union’s (EU) chief diplomat Federica Mogherini will sign a new defense agreement with Vietnam, the first such security deal Brussels will have with a Southeast Asian nation.
It is the latest indication that the EU is trying to forge a closer defense relationship with the region and Vietnam in particular, which is at the heart of disputes with China in the South China Sea.
Dear brothers and sisters,
I love the film Pure Love (Korean: 순정; RR: Sunjeong), a 2016 South Korean romance drama film. The film talks about a pure love. I love pure love, so I love the film.
In 1991, on an island, five friends spend the summer together. Two girls and three boys. All they are 17 years old. A girl can’t walk as a normal person, so her friends often piggyback her. A boy falls in love with the girl. He piggyback her more times than other friends. Continue reading Pure love
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
