Những cú biến động chính trị cho đến năm 2017 là những biểu hiện chính trị của các lực lượng sâu hơn thế rất nhiều ở trong cuộc chơi này. Ở phần lớn các nước phát triển, xu hướng già hóa dân số và giảm năng suất được xếp lớp với sáng tạo công nghệ và sự dịch chuyển lao động đi kèm với nó. Suy thoái kinh tế của Trung Quốc đi với việc liên tục tiến hóa của những hợp phần kinh tế trong sự nền kinh tế biến động này. Đồng thời thế giới đang cố gắng đối phó với việc ngày càng giảm nhu cầu của Trung Quốc sau nhiều thập kỷ tăng trưởng kỷ lục, Trung Quốc cũng dần từng bước chậm nhưng chắc di chuyển nền kinh tế của mình thành chuỗi giá trị để sản xuất và lắp ráp mà rất nhiều các yếu tố đầu vào trước đây đã từng nhập khẩu, với mục đích tăng lượng bán hàng trong nước cho chính mình. Kết hợp tất cả các lực lượng này sẽ có một tác động mạnh và lâu dài đến nền kinh tế toàn cầu và cuối cùng để hình thành hệ thống quốc tế trong nhiều thập kỷ tới. Tiếp tục đọc “Dự báo tình hình chính trị thế giới 2017”
Tháng: Tháng Mười Hai 2016
Trump praises Putin for holding back in U.S.-Russia spy dispute
By Richard Cowan and Polina Devitt | PALM BEACH, Fla./ MOSCOW
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for refraining from retaliation in a dispute over spying and cyber attacks, in another sign that the Republican plans to patch up badly frayed relations with Moscow.
Putin earlier on Friday said he would not hit back for the U.S. expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies by President Barack Obama, at least until Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Tiếp tục đọc “Trump praises Putin for holding back in U.S.-Russia spy dispute”
FBI, DHS release report on Russia hacking
The Hill
By Katie Bo Williams – 12/29/16 03:02 PM EST 8,319
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday released a joint report detailing how federal investigators linked the Russian government to hacks of Democratic Party organizations.
The document makes clear reference to the hacks of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, though it does not mention either by name.
White House announces retaliation against Russia: Sanctions, ejecting diplomats
(CNN)President Barack Obama took unprecedented steps Thursday to retaliate against alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election, prompting vows from Russian authorities that Moscow will respond in kind.
The administration described Russia’s involvement as “Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities” and sanctioned four Russian individuals and five Russian entities for what it said was election interference. The administration also ordered 35 Russian diplomats to leave the country and two Russian compounds are being closed.
This is the first time the names of Russian officials involved in the hacking have become public on the sanctions list.
Tiếp tục đọc “White House announces retaliation against Russia: Sanctions, ejecting diplomats”
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Head of Japan’s top ad firm to quit after new recruit’s death from overwork
President of Dentsu to step down a year after Matsuri Takahashi killed herself, sparking calls for Japan to overhaul work culture
The head of Japan’s biggest advertising agency is to resign, as prosecutors launch an investigation into his firm for enforcing excessive overtime after an overworked employee took her own life.
Tadashi Ishii, the president of Dentsu, said he would step down next month, just over a year after Matsuri Takahashi killed herself at a company dormitory in a case Japanese authorities classified as karoshi, or death from overwork. Tiếp tục đọc “Head of Japan’s top ad firm to quit after new recruit’s death from overwork”
As China’s Largest Freshwater Lake Shrinks, Solution Faces Criticism
HONG KONG — Long celebrated as China’s largest freshwater lake, Poyang reaches more than three times the expanse of Los Angeles in the summer wet season. It is home to the rare Yangtze finless porpoise, and its mud flats are the primary winter feeding grounds for thousands of birds that fly south each autumn to escape Siberia’s chill, including the critically endangered Siberian crane.
Now it is Poyang itself that is at risk.
New births bring hope for Mekong dolphins in Cambodia
Japan Times Dec 28, 2016
PHNOM PENH – Conservation group WWF announced Tuesday that 10 new Irrawaddy dolphin calves were sighted this year in the section of Mekong River that runs through Cambodia, raising hope of saving the species from local extinction.
It said the birth of the calves — seven in Kratie province and three in Stung Treng province — are a “great encouragement and reward” of its decade-long collaborative efforts with Cambodia’s Fisheries Administration to protect the critically endangered species. Tiếp tục đọc “New births bring hope for Mekong dolphins in Cambodia”
North Korea plans nuclear push in 2017: Top defector
- Posted 27 Dec 2016 19:18
- Updated 27 Dec 2016 19:20
North Korea now has the ability to put a nuclear warhead on a missile, such as this rocket shown in a picture taken from North Korean TV shows North Korea’s rocket launch of earth observation satellite Kwangmyong 4. (AFP/YONHAP)
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is planning a “prime time” nuclear weapons push in 2017 to take advantage of leadership transitions in South Korea and the United States, a high-ranking defector said Tuesday (Dec 27).
In his first press conference since fleeing his post as North Korea’s deputy ambassador to Britain in August, Thae Yong-Ho said Kim had issued a directive at a rare ruling party congress in May to “complete” nuclear development by the end of next year. Tiếp tục đọc “North Korea plans nuclear push in 2017: Top defector”
Taiwan warns of increasing threat as Chinese warships conduct drill
- Posted 27 Dec 2016 12:58 ChannelNewsAsia
Chinese J-15 fighter jets waiting on the deck of the Liaoning aircraft carrier during military drills in the Bohai Sea, off China’s north-east coast AFP/-
TAIPEI: Taiwan warned on Tuesday that “the threat of our enemies is growing day by day”, as Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier sailed towards the island province of Hainan through the South China Sea on a routine drill.
The drill comes amid renewed tension over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, following U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with the island’s president that upset Beijing.
“The threat of our enemies is growing day by day. We should always be maintaining our combat alertness,” Taiwan Defence Minister Feng Shih-kuan said on Tuesday. Tiếp tục đọc “Taiwan warns of increasing threat as Chinese warships conduct drill”
Chinese warships enter South China Sea near Taiwan in show of force
Beijing’s only aircraft carrier cruises past Taiwan’s Pratas Islands in an exercise state media said showed the country’s improving combat capabilities
Reuters
Monday 26 December 2016 20.03 EST
A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier entered the South China Sea on Monday after passing south of Taiwan, the self-ruled island’s defence ministry said.
The ministry said the carrier, accompanied by five vessels, passed south-east of the Pratas Islands, which are controlled by Taiwan, heading south-west. The carrier group earlier passed 90 nautical miles (167km) south of Taiwan’s southernmost point via the Bashi channel, between Taiwan and the Philippines.
China live-fires aircraft carrier group amid Taiwan tensions with US
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Ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi declining to say whether fighter jets were scrambled or if submarines had been deployed but added: “Staying vigilant and flexible has always been the normal method of maintaining airspace security.”
Chen said the ministry was continuing to “monitor and grasp the situation”.
The move, which China called a routine exercise, comes amid renewed tension over Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, following US President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with the island’s president.
China’s Soviet-built Liaoning aircraft carrier has taken part in previous exercises, including some in the South China Sea, but China is years away from perfecting carrier operations similar to those the United States has practised for decades.
Johnny Chiang , a senior Taiwan opposition Nationalist lawmaker, said the Liaoning exercise was China’s signal to the US that it had broken through the “first island chain”, an area that includes Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan.
The US state department on Monday said its position had not changed since July, when it said it was continuing to monitor China’s military modernisation and that it expected nations conducting defence exercises to comply with the law. Representatives for the Pentagon declined to comment.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump, said the incoming team had no comment on China’s move. Trump takes office on 20 January and has already made headlines over a series of statements on China and Taiwan.
In Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said people should not read too much into what the carrier was up to, because its movements were within the law.
“Our Liaoning should enjoy in accordance with the law freedom of navigation and overflight as set by international law, and we hope all sides can respect this right of China’s,” she told a daily news briefing.
Influential state-run Chinese tabloid the Global Times said the exercise showed how the carrier was improving its combat capabilities and that it should now sail even further afield. “The Chinese fleet will cruise to the eastern Pacific sooner or later. When China’s aircraft carrier fleet appears in offshore areas of the US one day, it will trigger intense thinking about maritime rules,” the newspaper’s editorial said.
China has been angered recently by US naval patrols near islands that China claims in the South China Sea. This month, a Chinese navy ship seized a US underwater drone in the South China Sea. China later returned it.
Japan said late on Sunday it had spotted six Chinese naval vessels including the Liaoning travelling through the passage between Miyako and Okinawa and into the Pacific. A Japanese government spokesman said on Monday the voyage showed China’s expanding military capability and Japan was closely monitoring it.
China’s air force conducted long-range drills this month above the East and South China Seas that rattled Japan and Taiwan. China said those exercises were also routine.
In December last year, the defence ministry confirmed China was building a second aircraft carrier but its launch date is unclear. The aircraft carrier programme is a state secret.
Beijing could build multiple aircraft carriers over the next 15 years, the Pentagon said in a report last year.
China claims most of the South China Sea through which about $5tn in ship-borne trade passes every year. Neighbours Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That’s Cheaper Than Wind
bloomberg_Emerging markets are leapfrogging the developed world thanks to cheap panels.
by Tom Randall
December 15, 2016, 1:00 PM GMT+7 December 15, 2016, 1:04 PM GMT+7
Giáo dục kỹ năng sống giúp trẻ tránh bị xâm hại tình dục
Video kỹ năng sống dành cho trẻ em, giúp các em biết các kỹ năng cần thiết để bảo vệ bản thân tránh bị xâm hại tình dục. Video do “How to tell your child” sản xuất và UNFPA tại Việt Nam dịch và làm phụ đề
Ba cách Facebook có thể giảm tin tức giả mạo mà không cần kiểm duyệt
English: Three ways Facebook could reduce fake news without resorting to censorship
| Công chúng nhận được rất nhiều tin tức và thông tin từ Facebook. Một số trong đó là tin giả mạo. Đó là một vấn đề cho người dùng trang web, và cho chính công ty Facebook. Tiếp tục đọc “Ba cách Facebook có thể giảm tin tức giả mạo mà không cần kiểm duyệt” |
Không bỏ lại ai phía sau: Quyền để phát triển
English: Leave No One Behind: The Right to Development
Tại Rome, ngày 5/12/2016 – Khi ngày nhân quyền đang đến gần mùng vào 10/12, đây là dịp để dừng và nhìn lại gốc rễ của sự phát triển của thế giới như là nền tảng của bước tiếp theo. Vào ngày này 30 năm trước, cộng đồng quốc tế đã thực hiện cam kết loại bỏ tất cả những rào cản đối với bình đẳng và sự phát triển bao gồm tất cả mọi người.
Ngày 4/12/1986 đánh dấu ngày Đại Hội đồng Liên Hợp Quốc chính thức thông qua bản tuyên ngôn về quyền phát triển, một văn bản mang tính bước ngoặt mô tả sự phát triển như quyền bất khả xâm phạm của con người.
Tiếp tục đọc “Không bỏ lại ai phía sau: Quyền để phát triển”
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