Jesus,
Many people say to me,
“You are so naive.”
They’re right.
I’m naive.
Perhaps because I’m naive,
you lead me to politics,
don’t you? Continue reading Prayer 585
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Where the dead help the living
By Trong Nghia
December 24, 2018 | 09:57 am GMT+7 express.vn
In northern Vietnam, old people risk their lives to pick up small notes drivers toss out on a highway to honor the dead.
It’s around noon and Hoang Van Dang sits quietly in a shabby hut on a national highway, his eyes glued to the street.
Then, suddenly, he plunges into the highway before returning with three VND500 and VND2,000 (8.6 cents) currency notes in his palm. The 76-year-old man in a pair of worn-out flip-flops is quick and agile.
Within 10 minutes he runs out to pick up bills five times.
Prayer 584
Jesus,
I read The Winning Side of Huy Đức 6 years ago.
Do you want me to read again?
I think I need to understand the historical time
as I understand my palm.
Amen.
PTH
Vietnam’s Latest Demand for Agent Orange Compensation Described as Last Resort
VOA August 29, 2018 6:10 AM
Ralph Jennings
FILE – The cleaning operation of the area that was used for storing Agent Orange is seen from a plane taking off from Danang international airport.
TAIPEI — Vietnam is demanding compensation from manufacturers of Agent Orange in what experts describe as a last resort for helping citizens who still fall sick or face disabilities linked to the defoliant the United States used during war in the country five decades ago.
The foreign ministry in Hanoi asked Thursday that Monsanto and other U.S. firms compensate victims of Agent Orange, the Vietnamese news outlet VnExpress International reported.
Prayer 583
Jesus,
Let’s read Matthew 19:16-24,
The rich and the Kingdom of God.
16 Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked,
“Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?”
17 “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied.
“There is only One who is good.
If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.” Continue reading Prayer 583
The fossil fuel era is coming to an end, but the lawsuits are just beginning
The Conversation | 18 December 2018 isds.bilaterals.org
The fossil fuel era is coming to an end, but the lawsuits are just beginning
by Kyla Tienhaara
Canada Research Chair in Economy and Environment, Queen’s University, Ontario
“Coal is dead.”
These are not the words of a Greenpeace activist or left-wing politician, but of Jim Barry, the global head of the infrastructure investment group at Blackrock — the world’s largest asset manager. Barry made this statement in 2017, but the writinghas been on the wall for longer than that.
Lời cầu nguyện 582 – Prayer 582
Giêsu ơi,
Nông dân chúng em.
Họ thật tội nghiệp.
Giêsu có nghĩ Vinafood cần phải chấm dứt hoạt động không? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 582 – Prayer 582
In Latin America, Big Brother China is watching you
The uptake of Chinese surveillance technology in the region sparks fears it could be subverted both by local governments and Beijing
Surveillance software at the Security China 2018 exhibition. Photo: Reuters
Meet the fake news trolls who influenced US and Indonesian polls for money
In 2016, more than 100 pro-Donald Trump websites were being run from one town in Macedonia.
VELES, Macedonia: His business card states, “The man who helped Donald Trump win US elections”, and Mr Mirko Ceselkoski is eager to read it out, saying: “It’s so funny that I became famous because of this.”
The Best of InAsia 2018
In Asia, December 19, 2018
Season’s Greetings. 2018 has been an eventful year, in Asia and in the stories shared here in the InAsia blog, where I had the pleasure in May to take over the reins from longtime editor Alma Freeman. We’re all grateful, at year’s end, for the continued engagement of our readers, and for the thoughtful contributions of our bloggers, who brought us their unique perspectives and insights on developments in Asia. Here are a few of the year’s most fascinating essays, some of them favorites of our readers and some favorites of yours truly. Enjoy! And be sure to join us in 2019, when our January 2 edition will feature predictions for the year ahead from our country representatives across Asia.
Lời cầu nguyện 581 – Prayer 581
Giêsu ơi,
Dạo phố nhá.
Giêsu muốn đi đâu?
…
Nhìn này, chỗ này đẹp quá.
Chỗ kia cũng đẹp nữa…
Những con phố quen. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 581 – Prayer 581
Vietnam’s illegal ivory market continues to thrive, report finds
Two surveys over an eight-month period found more than 10,000 ivory items on sale. Image courtesy of TRAFFIC.
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- Over two surveys conducted between November 2016 and June 2017, TRAFFIC’s researchers found more than 10,000 ivory items being offered on sale across 852 physical outlets and 17 online platforms, suggesting an ivory market that has continued to thrive over the past few decades.
- Physical retail stores in Ho Chi Minh City and Buon Ma Thuot had the highest number of ivory items for sale, the surveys found, but two villages, Ban Don and Lak, had a disproportionately high number of items on sale compared to the number of stores. Among the online platforms, social media sites had the highest number of posts offering ivory for sale.
Lời cầu nguyện 580 – Prayer 580
Giêsu ơi,
Gần 20 năm làm tình nguyện,
em cảm thấy hoạt động tình nguyện của chúng ta hầu như không phát triển.
Hoạt động tình nguyện của chúng ta là hoạt động xã hội của cá nhân
hoặc các nhóm nhỏ xíu, nhỏ và vừa ,
thiếu phối hợp thành các hệ thống lớn. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 580 – Prayer 580
Vietnam’s Sad Hunt: 300,000 Missing Souls
New York Times Dec. 21, 2018
Decades after the war with America ended, Vietnamese families continue to search for the remains of their kin who are still missing in action.
By Joseph Babcock (Mr. Babcock, a teacher of writing, is working on a book about contemporary Vietnam)
On July 27, the day a collection of remains believed to be those of American soldiers lost in the Korean War were flown out of North Korea, I was driving from Hanoi to Vietnam’s rural northern province of Yen Bai. My host that morning was Ngo Thuy Hang, the 42-year-old vice director of Marin, a local nonprofit devoted to helping Vietnamese families locate the remains of their loved ones.
2019: The Year Ahead in Asia
January 2, 2019 By The Asia Foundation
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first edition of InAsia for 2019. In our last issue we looked at some of our top stories from the year just ended, stories that chronicled the successes and failures, the triumphs, and the tribulations of 2018 through the eyes of our experts in Asia. This week, we invite you to look ahead with us to a still-young 2019, as The Asia Foundation’s country representatives offer their predictions of the stories that will dominate the news from Asia in the coming year. Here, to kick off 2019, are perspectives from our 18 offices in Asia. —John Rieger, editor, InAsia
