Alex Perera –
Vietnam has a significant challenge ahead: power its remarkable economic growth with less polluting and more affordable clean energy.
This is no small task. According to the Vietnam Business Forum, the country’s current energy plan would increase coal use from 14 gigawatts (GW) to 55GW by 2030 and require 10 million tons of coal to be imported every year from 2017 onward.
Jesus,
Before knowing you,
creativity at work wasn’t easy.
After knowing you,
the more I focus on you,
the more I become creative.
Love you.
Amen.
PTH
Jesus,
I love an image –
Mary used a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume;
poured it on your feet
and wiped your feet with her hair.*
Every time I see the image,
I am filled with love.
Did you like the aroma of nard?
Why did Mary know you like the aroma? Continue reading Prayer 439
ILO/Vijay Kutty – Cycle rickshaw pullers in the old quarter of Delhi, India. According to a new ILO report, about 93 per cent of the world’s informal employment is in emerging and developing countries.
news.un.org – More than 61 per cent of the world’s employed population – two billion people – earn their livelihoods in the informal sector, the United Nations labour agency said on Monday, stressing that a transition to the formal economy is critical to ensure rights’ protection and decent working conditions.
“The high incidence of informality in all its forms has multiple adverse consequences for workers, enterprises and societies and is a major challenge for the realization of decent work for all,” said Rafael Diez de Medina, the Director of the Department of Statistics at the UN International Labour Organization (ILO).
Jesus,
Please touch my forehead with your lips.
Your kiss will be a gate that through it,
your peace and wisdom pour into my soul.
My soul will melt
and become a little stream,
flowing tenderly anywhere,
following your will.
Please kiss me deeply.
Amen.
PTH
aide-et-action – Lai Chau, December 9th, 2016 – Aide et Action Vietnam and its partner CISDOMA, has launched an initiative on the supplementary materials in Mong and Vietnamese languages for preschool and primary school (5 years old – 8 years old) in Tam Duong district, Lai Chau province. The Mother-Tongue Bilingual Based Education (MTBBE) approach uses Mong as the bilingual language of instruction, along with Vietnamese.
Jesus,
We should join the economy someday, do you think so?
Every time I go to a bank,
the bank seems weak.
It means our economy is weak, too, right?
We should study economics more.
Would you like to plan for me?
I’ll follow you.
Love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Jesus,
Do you know the thing I fear now?
I fear straying from you.
So please promise me, my beloved,
you would hold my hand tightly,
keep me in your right way,
fix the mistakes I create
and love me.
Yes, love me.
As long as you love me,
your love will lead me home.
Amen.
PTH
The movie about a father’s journey to take his son to hospital touched judges’ hearts at the festival
By Tuan Son / Tuoi Tre News Saturday, April 28, 2018, 14:02 GMT+7
Vietnamese director Luong Dinh Dung (R) poses for a photo with Reza Mirkarimi, director of the 36th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran, Iran, April 27, 2018.
Vietnamese independent movie Cha Cõng Con (Father and Son) has won Best Asian Film at the 36th annual Fajr International Film Festival that concluded on Friday in Iran.
The trailer for ‘Cha Cong Con’ (Father and Son).
Jesus,
On April 30,
I ask you a peace prayer for our forefathers
who lived in the difficult times.
And a prayer of our national harmony .
Wishing our children be taught history in schools that:
“At a time our people were divided
but that time has passed.”
Please bless us.
Amen.
PTH
English with Vietnamese subtitle (10 episodes)
Tiếng Anh, phụ đề Việt ngữ (trọn bộ 10 tập)
* THE VIETNAM WAR – 1: Déjà Vu – Bóng ma quá khứ (1858-1961)
Continue reading The Vietnam War – Cuộc Chiến Việt Nam (Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, PBS 2017)
Jesus,
Loving is not only giving but also taking.
Taking is ’cause of the love of the giver,
not ’cause of the need of the taker.
Receiving the love is also a form of loving.*
Amen.
PTH
The London-headquartered bank withdrew from the US$1.87 billion coal-fired power plant’s financing consortium, but eight other banks, including Singapore’s OCBC and DBS and Malaysia’s Maybank, closed the deal.
Railway coal depot with limestone karst background. Viet Nam, Quảng Ninh, Cẩm Phả. Image: garcycles8, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
eco-business_What will be one of Vietnam’s largest coal-fired power stations has secured enough funding to get built, but a key member of the financing syndicate has pulled out following a campaign that highlighted a major conflict with the bank’s climate policy.
Đọt Chuối Non 