internationalrivers – The Son La Hydropower Project is the largest and most complex dam project ever built in Vietnam. The project will displace more than 91,000 ethnic minority people, requiring the largest resettlement in Vietnam’s history. Most of these people will be moved between 50 to 100 kilometers away from their current homes and without access to the Da River—a source of livelihood for most of them.
CSIS – BY SOUTH CHINA SEA EXPERT WORKING GROUP | SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
This is the first product of the CSIS Expert Working Group on the South China Sea, which seeks to chart a feasible model for claimants to manage the maritime disputes.
On the top, the relatively healthy but overfished reef flat surrounding Thitu Island; on the bottom, a reef flat approximately 1.5 nautical miles away destroyed by Chinese clam harvesters. Both photos dated February 2016, courtesy of John McManus.
VIETNAMNEWS – Update: September, 17/2017 – 09:00
Friend of the war dead: Ngô Thị Thúy Hằng, Founder and Vice director of Centre of Legal Consultancy and Assistance for Families of Martyrs (MARIN). — Photo courtesy of CSIP
Viet Nam News by Nguyễn Hữu Phùng Nguyên
Ngô Thị Thúy Hằng gave up her stable, high-paid job in Hồ Chí Minh City to move to Hà Nội, almost 1,800 kilometres away. She has seemingly forsaken her youth in the quest for martyrs’ remains, leading the Centre of Legal Consultancy and Assistance for Families of War Martyrs (MARIN) through a long development journey of trials and tribulations.
Jesus,
‘Cause You want to make me happy,
not alone,
You bring friends to me?
The friends You bring to me are lovely
like You.
Thank You very much.
Amen.
PTH
VIETNAMNEWS – Update: September, 14/2017 – 05:00
A worker operates a steel pressing machine at Hoa Sen Group’s factory in Phú Mỹ I Industrial Zone, Bà Rịa Vũng Tàu Province. — VNA/VNS Photo Tràng Dương
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — After a year of thorough investigation of the anti-dumping and anti-subsidisation case on Vietnamese galvanised steel, the Australian Anti-Dumping Commission (ADC) has closed the subject. No further anti-dumping subsidies will be imposed..
VIETNAMNEWS – Update: September, 14/2017 – 09:00
A woman uses the application Bình Thạnh trực tuyến.—VNS Photo Đoàn Tùng
HCM CITY — A district in HCM City has stepped up its efforts to respond to residents’ complaints within five seconds via a newly-launched mobile application.At 9.36am last Friday morning, a message popped up on the computer screen of the Deputy Head of Bình Thạnh District’s Urban Management Division, Vũ Thị Hội Diễm. A photo attached to the message showed a motorbike parked illegally on the pavement on Điện Biên Phủ Street.
Jesus,
Wishing I become the crystal clear shell
so that we may gaze at You.
Amen.
PTH
tuoi tre – The country’s hotels are guilty until proven innocent.
Pho Duc Phuong, director of the Vietnam Center for Protection of Music Copyright
The director of a music copyright watchdog is insisting that hotels pay up for music that could potentially be consumed through television sets in their rooms, whether or not guests actually use their TVs.
Last update 00:43 | 14/09/2017 – vietnamnet
According to Dr. Johnathan Halevy from Family Medical Practice infirmary, half of preschool students and 40 percent of Vietnamese adolescents sleep less than a normal sleep of 8 hours.
Most Vietnamese kids sleep less than six hours a night, shorter than a normal sleep of 8-10 hours a day. Main reasons of lack of sleep attribute to surfing on social network, online game playing and learning pressure.
Chinese imports will raise panel prices
Guardian – Delicacies such as brie and gorgonzola contain ‘too much bacteria’, officials say, sending expats scrambling to buy up remaining stocks
Soft cheeses such as brie are to be banned from being imported into China. Photograph: Cate Gillon/Getty Images
Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong @haasbenjamin
Sunday 10 September 2017 01.05 EDT
Soft European cheese has fallen on hard times in China. Customs officials have banned a host of soft, mould-ripened cheese for containing “too much bacteria”, with authorities reportedly alarmed the mould contained colonies of bacteria that had not been officially approved.
Jesus,
Many mad men are wandering the streets.
If they all stay at mental hospitals,
the earth will be peaceful and secure, right?
Funny. Continue reading Prayer 252
Guardian – Independent commissioner calls for licensing to prevent trafficked migrants having to work in slavery-like conditions
The study analyses the experiences of more than a dozen individuals who experienced modern slavery in a nail bar. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian
Amelia Gentleman @ameliagentleman
Britain’s nail bars have such a high risk of modern slavery that a licensing scheme should be introduced to prevent trafficked Vietnamese migrants being employed in slavery-like conditions, Britain’s independent anti-trafficking commissioner is proposing.
VIETNAMNEWS – Update: September, 14/2017 – 03:00
The Bắc Luân II Bridge is expected to promote China- Việt Nam economic co-operation. – VNS Photo: nhandan.com.vn
Viet Nam News QUẢNG NINH – The opening of the Bắc Luân II Bridge is a promising China – Việt Nam economic co-operation, according to Nguyễn Đức Long, Chairman of Quảng Ninh Province People’s Committee.
Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình and Chinese ambassador to Việt Nam Hong Xiaoyong attended the bridge’s opening ceremony in Móng Cái City yesterday.
A methane gas treatment plant will produce electricity from the decomposing garbage
By Tuoi Tre News – September 13, 2017, 12:32 GMT+7
Garbage are dumped on a street in Hanoi.
Two Vietnamese firms and their South Korean partners have closed a deal on a project that will generate electricity from the largest landfill in Hanoi.
The two parties will cooperate in designing, constructing, financing and operating a facility that will gather, process, and treat methane gas emitted from decomposing garbage to produce electricity, according to the agreement signed in Hanoi on Tuesday.
Đọt Chuối Non 