Jesus,
I swear I’ll become a channel of your peace.
This is the way I support your dream.
This is also the way I show my filial piety to my dad, mom, grandfathers, grandmothers and ancestors.
Will we go together?
Together till the end?
I know you love me.
I love you, too, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
oceanconservancy.org – AUGUST 4, 2017
© COURTESY OF ERIC DESROBERTS
The growing threat of trash entering our ocean is a global problem, but this is truly an instance where thinking globally and acting locally applies. Scientists have estimated that about 8 million metric tons of plastic are entering the ocean every year and about 80% of this starts on land (Jenna R. Jambeck 2015). Left unabated, this translates to an ocean with 1 ton of plastic for every 3 tons of fish by 2025!
Jesus,
A new year – a new chance.
A chance to live better.
Living closer to people.
Much closer to their feelings.
Praying for others much more.
Especially sinners, outcasts, enemies…
Thank you for giving me the new chance – the new life.
Please make me a channel of your peace in the new year.
Amen.
PTH
Jesus,
Please bless all families.
Wishing their old things pass away,
new and good things follow them
in New Year and forever.
May you fill all families with joy, love and peace.
Amen.
PTH
Visitors to Hue Imperial Palace have the chance to revisit the olden days and enjoy a real traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) through a “Huong xua banh Tet” (Old atmosphere of Tet traditional cakes) program organized by the Hue Monuments Conservation Center.
 The program includes Hue singing, royal and folk games, calligraphy performances, and a Chung cake and Tet cake wrapping contest. Continue reading Hark back to royal days with Tet at Hue Imperial Palace |
Jesus,
Please save homeless people,
offer them shelter and hope.
Please save street children from abuse, hunger and self-destruction.
Please save vulnerable people in our society.
Amen.
PTH
Giêsu ơi,
Xin giúp em thành thật với chính mình.
Chỉ khi thành thật với chính mình,
em mới có thể thành thật với người khác.
Thành thật nghĩa là nhìn mọi việc như nó là.
Không thành kiến với bất cứ ai hay bất cứ điều gì. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 373 – Prayer 373
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Over half a million children were abandoned or put up for adoption by distraught parents, under China’s family planning policy. Now, Get Real goes on a journey with those seeking to reunite with their families.
China’s One Child Policy resulted in at least half a million children given up by their parents. Get Real follows one group of volunteers on a desperate mission to reunite these families separated for decades, in this country of over 1 billion.
Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok. 2011. ISBN – 978-92-9223-394-5
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The documentation project of children’s traditional games was undertaken in five cultural sites in four country partners: Luang Prabang (Lao PDR), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Penang (Malaysia), the Northern region and Bangkok (Thailand).
It was made into an interactive CD with cartoon animation, highly accessible by children and teachers. It is also accompanied by three short documentary films of children’s games in Thailand.
Jesus,
The book “Một cơn gió bụi” of Trần Trọng Kim is very good.
Before knowing you,
my heart hurts in studying our history 100 years ago.
After knowing you, I become calmer.
Thanks to knowing you,
I see everything more as “Một cơn gió bụi”.
I love you, Jesus.
Amen.
PTH
Last update 16:00 | 08/11/2017 vietnamnet
VietNamNet Bridge – Many overseas Vietnamese, or Viet Kieu, have given up the plan to buy houses iand settle down here because they cannot meet required procedures.
Huynh Dang Hai, a Viet Kieu in France, said soon after the government released the decision allowing Viet Kieu to buy houses in Vietnam, he returned to Vietnam to purchase a villa.
However, he could not obtain house ownership certificate because he could not prove he was born in Vietnam. Some relatives and neighbors met the local authority officials and acted as witnesses for Hai. However, this was not enough.
8 March 2005 –The United Nations General Assembly today approved a non-binding declaration calling on all UN Member States to ban all forms of human cloning, including cloning for medical treatment, as incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life.
By a vote of 84 in favour, 34 against and 37 abstaining, with 36 absent, the Assembly acted on the recommendation of its Legal, or Sixth, Committee to adopt the text, called the United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning. But some delegates said they opposed banning therapeutic cloning.
Giêsu ơi,
Mỗi lần đọc lịch sử đất nước 2.000 năm qua,
em luôn ngưỡng mộ tổ tiên chúng em.
Em ước mình có thể làm những điều tuyệt vời như tổ tiên chúng em đã làm.
Tuổi trẻ tổ tiên chúng em thật vinh quang.
Giờ đây em ước con cháu chúng em ở thế kỷ 50 sẽ tự hào về chúng em – những người trẻ của thế kỷ 21,
rằng, chúng em đã sống với Tâm linh Tích cực. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 371 – Prayer 371
asia.nikkei.com – Local cultivation in emerging Asian markets proves cheaper than exports
HIDEKI SHINOHARA, Nikkei staff writer
A woman wearing a traditional hat sits in a rice field outside Hoi An, Vietnam. © Reuters
NIIGATA, Japan — Japan’s rice farmers are venturing into the rest of Asia to grow their crops locally. Supported by an increase in the number of Japanese restaurants across the region, the farmers are teaming up with locals to apply their expertise, hoping to ride the strong brand power that Japonica rice enjoys.
The trend lets locals indulge their taste in high-quality Japanese rice without paying stratospheric prices for imported versions, as some wealthy Chinese are doing.
Last update 07:38 | 07/11/2017 vietnamnet
Vietnam needs up to US$10.2 billion to invest in new water supply and sewerage projects to meet increasing clean water demand, which will approximate 10 million cubic meters a day by 2020.
Residents use tap water in Phuoc Kien commune, Nha Be district, HCMC
According to Technical Infrastructure Bureau under the Ministry of Construction, Vietnam now has nearly 800 urban areas with clean water supply capacity totaling 7.4 million cubic meters a day, up 1.6 times over ten years ago.
Đọt Chuối Non 