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Religious extremism poses threat to ASEAN’s growth

January 18, 2018 Đọt Chuối Non Leave a comment

Asia – December 13, 2017 3:14 pm JST Cover story

Aided by social media, hardliners gain mainstream support

GWEN ROBINSON, Chief editor, and SIMON ROUGHNEEN, Asia regional correspondent

Buddhist monks protest the visit of a U.N. official in Yangon on Jan. 16, 2015. According to local media reports, they were angry that the international organization had urged the government to give members of the Rohingya minority citizenship. © Reuters

YANGON/JAKARTA — With Mt. Agung billowing volcanic ash into the sky above his home in Bali, Khairy Susanto was unsure if he could fly back after joining tens of thousands of fellow Indonesian Islamists at a rally near the presidential palace in Jakarta.

Năng lượng tái tạo, Trang tiếng Anh

Legal framework, roadmap needed for Việt Nam’s wind power

January 18, 2018 Đọt Chuối Non Leave a comment

vietnamnews Update: July, 29/2017 – 12:40

Việt Nam needs to develop a legal framework and feasible roadmap to turn its wind energy potential into reality, which will help to meet the country’s rapidly rising electricity demand. – Photo qdnd.com.vn

HÀ NỘI – Việt Nam needs to develop a legal framework and feasible roadmap to turn its wind energy potential into reality, which will help to meet the country’s rapidly rising electricity demand, experts have said.

Tobias Cossen, head of GIZ’s project on supporting the up-scaling of wind power said that Việt Nam has great potential to develop wind power as the country possesses around 3,000 km of coastline with excellent wind conditions.

Prayer 352

January 17, 2018 Phạm Thu Hương 1 Comment

Jesus,

Victims of human trafficking are poor.
Please help them come back home quickly.
Please protect them during their horrible imprisonment.
Please help them have better life after they are freed.

Amen.

PTH

Prayer 351

January 16, 2018 Phạm Thu Hương Leave a comment

Jesus,

Our tourism has many issues.
Unsafe roads, unsafe food, pollution,
thieves, beggars, scams
and destruction of unique natural beauties
in the name of modernization and economic development.

Poor our country.

I try to become the righteous.
Please love our country more.

Amen.

PTH

Apple faces iPhone slowdown legal action

January 16, 2018 Đọt Chuối Non Leave a comment

Last update 15:15 | 15/01/2018 vietnamnet

Two lawyers in Vietnam have started a movement to sue Apple over software that slows down older iPhones.

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Apple faces iPhone slowdown legal action

Nguyen Ngoc Hung and Tran Manh Tung from Hanoi Bar Association submitted a 600-page document to the HCM City People’s Court. They also created a website to encourage iPhone users to register and join in the lawsuit. As of now, over 1,800 people have registered.

Thế giới, Trang tiếng Anh

UN chief Antonio Guterres calls for ‘balance of power’ in UN Security Council

January 16, 2018 Đọt Chuối Non Leave a comment

Guterres said Group of 77 has a very important role to play not only in a multilateral world but in a world where international relations have more justice.

By: PTI | United Nations | Published: January 13, 2018 2:44 pm

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UN chief Antonio Guterres has called for establishing “balance of power” in the Security Council to make the world body more “democratic”. Speaking at a ceremony on Friday at which Egypt took over the chairmanship of the G77 and China from Ecuador, the UN Secretary-General called for a more democratic UN, with power divided in a more balanced way and with more effective diversity in the regional representation at all its bodies.

Prayer 350

January 15, 2018 Phạm Thu Hương Leave a comment

Jesus,

Environmental issues in our country are bad.
Deforestation;
depletion of natural resources;
water, soil, air pollution;
climate change impacts.
Many issues.

Wishing our fauna, flora and people could live together well.
Hard but possible,
for what is impossible with man is possible with you.*

Amen.

PTH

* Luke 18:27

Israel’s agriculture minister leads prayers for water

planetsave – WHAT DO YOU DO IF YOUR COUNTRY IS FACING WATER SHORTAGES EXACERBATED BY CLIMATE CHANGE? PRAY, APPARENTLY — ISRAEL’S AGRICULTURE MINISTER LEADS PRAYERS FOR WATER

by James Ayre

What Do You Do If Your Country Is Facing Water Shortages Exacerbated By Climate Change? Pray, Apparently — Israel’s Agriculture Minister Leads Prayers For Water

Môi trường, Trang tiếng Anh

Death toll from air pollution four times higher than traffic accidents

Last update 07:50 | 12/01/2018 vietnamnet

VietNamNet Bridge – Dr Le Viet Phu, a lecturer at Fulbright University, says the damages caused by air pollution to Vietnam in 2013 could be assessed up to $10 billion.

Vietnam is among 10 countries with the worst air quality

The figure was calculated based on WTP approaching method, which considers the willingness to pay for reduction in air pollution.

In 2013, the number of deaths because of PM 2.5 dust was 40,000, including 3,000 in HCMC.

Bang giao quốc tế, Trang tiếng Anh

Why do land mines still kill so many?

NEW YORK TIMES

JAN. 6, 2018 SundayReview | EDITORIAL By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

An assortment of land mines and bomb parts that were removed from the ground in Afghanistan. Photos by Larry Towell/Magnum Photos

The world is rolling backward, and at a disturbingly faster pace, in the struggle to limit carnage from land mines and other booby-trap explosives. The most recent numbers, covering 2016, are appalling.

Known casualties that year came to 8,605, including 2,089 deaths, according to a new report by Landmine Monitor, a research arm of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. The toll was nearly 25 percent higher than the 6,967 maimed and dead counted a year earlier, and more than double the 3,993 in 2014. And these numbers are almost assuredly an undercount. “In some states and areas, numerous casualties go unrecorded,” Landmine Monitor said.

The Mekong river under THREAT

Milton Osborne

Even if no dams are built on the mainstream below China, the cascade to which it is committed will ultimately have serious effects on the functioning of the Mekong once the dams are used to control the river’s flow. This will be the case because the cascade will:

• alter the hydrology of the river and so the current ‘flood pulse’, the regular rise and fall of the river on an annual basis which plays an essential part in the timing of spawning and the migration pattern. This will be particularly important in relation to the Tonle Sap in Cambodia, but will have an effect throughout the river’s course;

Prayer 349

January 14, 2018 Phạm Thu Hương Leave a comment

Jesus,

Blessed are the persons who receive you,*
believe you,**
believing that you love them,
believing that you are love.

Amen.

PTH

* John 1:12
**John 3:16

Môi trường, Trang tiếng Anh

Lack of care leads to elephant rampages

January 14, 2018 Đọt Chuối Non Leave a comment

Last update 11:34 | 12/01/2018 vietnamnet

VietNamNet Bridge – For centuries, residents in Phuc Son Commune, central province of Nghe An have lived comfortably with wild elephants, but as bamboo forests – the main diet of many elephants – are replaced with industrial trees, things are changing. Many elephant herds are now finding it difficult to find enough food to survive.

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Elephants at the Pu Mat National Park in the central province of Nghe An. Many elephant herds in the province are now finding it difficult to find enough food to survive. — Photo: baonghean.vn

Last October, six wild elephants went on a rampage in a commune village and destroyed family crops.

Prayer 348

January 12, 2018 Phạm Thu Hương Leave a comment