University of Minnesota – Extension
Background on Southeast Asian Parenting
Daniel Detzner, College of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota; Blong Xiong, College of Human Ecology, University of Minnesota; Patricia A. Eliason, General College, University of Minnesota
Reviewed April 2010 by the author (Daniel Detzner).
Jesus,
Work with the empty mind.
The working way that You are leading me.
Magical!
The more the mind is empty,
the more I work effectively.
And this effect is beyond my thinking.
Magical!
Amen.
PTH
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 7, 2017. (TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP/Getty Images)
As the global community continues to put pressure on Myanmar to stop the violence in Rakhine State, Channel NewsAsia speaks to ordinary Myanmar citizens about their take on the situation.
A file photo of Aung Sann Suu Kyi as she arrived at the National League for Democracy Party’s headquarters after the 2015 general election in Myanmar. (Photo: Pichayada Promchertchoo)
YANGON: While there has been widespread global condemnation of the violence taking place in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, many ordinary people in the country are standing solidly behind the government and State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
November 21, 2016
Bumpy and slippery roads cannot stop young Dao minority group children in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam, from going to kindergarten. At school, they play with friends, learn new things, and get to know their surroundings, proving that early childhood education is one of the best investments a country can make.
Jesus,
You want to eat?
Okay, we eat.
You want to sleep?
Okay, we sleep. Continue reading Prayer 258
Last update 09:00 | 27/06/2017 – vietnamnet
Its official name is Le Hong Phong Market, but for decades people have been calling this market in HCM City’s District 10 “Cambodian Market” simply because it sells certain products from Cambodia.
Cambodian Market has expanded with locals getting in on the act, but its true Cambodian soul is still preserved by around 15 stores run by the children and grandchildren of the families that fled Cambodia more than 40 years ago.
 Tu Xe stall |
Jesus,
Today is the new day,
please keep me in You all day.
Though the winds of change and chance unexpectedly come,
I will stand firm because Your stillness covers me all day.
Amen.
PTH
Peter Edwards – VIETNAM ’67 AUG. 4, 2017
In July 1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson sent two of his principal advisers, Clark Clifford and Gen. Maxwell Taylor, to Australia and New Zealand with an urgent mission. Protests were raging in American streets and on university campuses. Hawks and doves were battling in Washington. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was heading toward resignation, an admission that his Vietnam policy had failed.
According to rights groups, exploitation of migrant workers is frequently reported in Taiwan, where around 600,000 foreigners are hired as caregivers, fishermen, construction and factory workers. (Photo: AFP/Sam Yeh)
19 Sep 2017 06:08PM
TAIPEI: A group of foreign fishermen in Taiwan were locked in tiny windowless rooms around the clock to stop them escaping while not at sea, prosecutors said in the island’s latest abuse case involving migrant workers.
Jesus,
We grill bánh tráng.
The crack sound is joyful.
We eat it.
Crispy in our mouth. Continue reading Prayer 256
globalwitness – Press release / Oct. 26, 2015
Rubber giant Vietnam Rubber Group (VRG) has been expelled from the world’s leading forest certification body, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), following an investigation into illegal land and forest clearance in Cambodia. Responding to a complaint submitted by Global Witness last November, the FSC found that the state-owned company had illegally destroyed at least 50,000 hectares of forest for its rubber plantations in Cambodia alone, including wildlife sanctuaries and protected areas.
Dong Hy – VietNamNet Bridge –
The massive mineral exploitation at four sites in Dong Hy district in Thai Nguyen province has led to serious consequences: the houses of 133 families have been affected by subsidence and cracking, and locals do not have water for daily life.
A pit belonging to Thai Nguyen Black Metallurgical JSC is located in a residential quarter.
Duong Van Tuyen in Hoa Binh hamlet in Cay Thi commune, whose house is located next to a pit, said many years ago, there was no serious problem because the exploitation was carried out at shallows.
vietnamnews – Update: September, 17/2017 – 09:00
The book is the brainchild of Phạm Kiều Oanh, a social worker and community developer, who first encountered the concept of social enterprises more than 10 years ago. — Photo baomoi.com
Viet Nam News “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” This aphorism, coined more than 100 years ago by George Bernard Shaw in his play Man and Superman, sums up the essence of the 27 women and men whose stories are told in Vietnamese and English in a newly published compilation entitled Redefining Success.
Jesus,
Because “the Word was God”*,
while communicating with everybody,
I always turn my face toward the Word,
toward You.
When turning my face toward You,
the Light will shine on me
and the darkness will fall behind me. Continue reading Prayer 255
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