Conversations on Vietnam Development
Phóng sự của Hoàng Thiên Nga- Long Thủy
Chưa bao giờ, chưa ở đâu, việc hiến máu cứu người lại hào hứng, náo nhiệt, đa sắc màu các dân tộc như những ngày đầu năm 2017 này tại Đắk Lắk . Đồng bào các buôn làng Ê Đê, Xê Đăng, M’Nông, Dao, Tày, Nùng, Mông, Thái, v.v… sinh sống trên địa bàn huyện có phong trào thiện nguyện đa dạng nhất tỉnh hối hả trau chuốt lại những bộ trang phục truyền thống rực rỡ, để dự lễ và tham gia hiến máu trong ngày hội “Chữ Nhật Đỏ – Tình người Cư M’gar”.
Staff Writer Jan 15, 2017
China has pushed back against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestions that the “one-China” policy on Taiwan is negotiable, with the Foreign Ministry in Beijing urging the incoming administration to “recognize the high sensitivity of the Taiwan question.”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang on Saturday called the one-China principle “nonnegotiable” and “the political foundation” of China-U.S. relations. Tiếp tục đọc “Beijing says ‘one-China’ policy can’t be bargaining chip after Trump calls principle negotiable”
Jan 15, 2017
BEIJING – Writer Lu Yong had merely wanted to show support for a professor who had taken flak online for criticizing Mao Zedong, the founder of the communist state who died more than four decades ago.
Yet minutes after raising a sign to defend Deng Xiangchao’s right to free speech, Lu found himself surrounded by a group of Mao supporters who grappled at his face. Other companions were punched and kicked. Tiếp tục đọc “Critics attacked, history revised as China nationalism rises”
Staff Writer, Jan 15, 2017
Former United Nations chief and presumptive South Korean presidential candidate Ban Ki-moon has backed the deployment later this year of a U.S. anti-missile system to the country amid North Korea’s progress in its nuclear and missile programs.
“Given the reality of the Korean Peninsula being in an almost quasi-war situation, it is right for the government to take such a measure,” Ban was quoted by the Yonhap news agency as saying during a trip to the South Korean Navy’s 2nd Fleet Command in Pyeongtaek, 70 km south of Seoul. “I understand that it is to be deployed for defensive purposes as North Korea continues to develop nuclear weapons and accumulate ballistic missile technology,” he said. Tiếp tục đọc “Former U.N. chief Ban throws weight behind THAAD deployment”
In a notice published on its website, the Cyberspace Administration of China said late Friday that its offices across China should ensure that records are kept on the country’s many app stores, starting Monday.
Engaging Southeast Asia: Economic Recommendations for the New AdministrationBy Amy E. Searight, Senior Adviser and Director, and Murray Hiebert, Senior Adviser and Deputy Director (@MurrayHiebert1), Southeast Asia Program (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – January 12, 2017” |
Date:January 13, 2017
Source:University of California – Davis
sciencedaily_Summary:The sequencing of the genome of Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, has now been announced by researchers.
The first public genome sequence for Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, was released today by researchers at the University of California, Davis.
Funding for the sequencing was provided by Suntory group, an international food and beverage company based in Tokyo.
Tiếp tục đọc “Arabica coffee genome sequenced”
TTCT – Nếu coi sức lao động giá rẻ là một dạng tài nguyên, thì đó không phải là tài nguyên vô hạn: thời kỳ “dân số vàng” của Việt Nam sẽ kết thúc trong khoảng một thập kỷ nữa.
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Và đáng tiếc là lại đang có một luồng tư duy giúp doanh nghiệp tận thu loại tài nguyên này, càng nhanh, càng nhiều càng tốt. Tiếp tục đọc “Mồ hôi mất giá, giờ làm tăng lên”
Ghi chép của Trung Hải
Cư Mgar-huyện đa sắc tộc đã được chọn đăng cai làm điểm chính của chương trình Chữ Nhật Đỏ 2017 tại Đắk Lắk vừa là nơi “đất lành chim đậu”, vừa là nơi hội tụ của không ít bạn trẻ giàu nghị lực sống phi thường. Để biết vì sao báo Tiền Phong tiếp tục chọn trao nhiều suất học bổng đặc biệt cho các trò nghèo hiếu học huyện Cư Mgar, tôi tìm hiểu tận nơi, và đã rơi nước mắt …
Sáng thứ bảy 14/1/2017, cả thị trấn Quảng Phú-huyện Cư Mgar rực rỡ màu sắc trang phục truyền thống các dân tộc về dự lễ khởi động Chủ nhật đỏ “Tình người Cư Mgar”. Trọn buổi chiều, nhà thi đấu trường Đại học Tây Nguyên tưng bừng không khí hiến máu của sinh viên cùng nhiều vị khách đặc biệt…
Tiếp tục đọc “Đắk Lắk: Hiến máu như ngày hội văn hóa các dân tộc”
China and Russia have agreed to take unspecified “countermeasures” in response to the planned U.S. deployment of an anti-missile system to South Korea — a move that came as Defense Minister Tomomi Inada inspected a version of the system on the U.S. territory of Guam on Friday.
The countermeasures in response to the U.S. deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system will be “aimed at safeguarding interests of China and Russia and the strategic balance in the region,” China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, quoting a statement released after a meeting of Russian and Chinese security officials. Tiếp tục đọc “China, Russia take aim at U.S. anti-missile system planned for deployment in South Korea”
Kyodo, Japan Times Jan 12, 2017
SEOUL – North Korea has not yet acquired the technology of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that is capable of reaching the U.S. mainland, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said Wednesday.
In a briefing about the 2016 South Korean Defense White Paper, which was also released Wednesday, the official said South Korea has removed the ministry’s previous assessment included in the 2014 white paper that North Korea is believed to possess the capability of threatening the U.S. mainland with its missiles.
“North Korea has not yet completed an ICBM and has not yet reached the stage that can earn credibility,” the official said.
The official added that North Korea is trying to perfect the flight capability of its submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
The biennial report also said North Korea has about 50 kilograms of weapons-grade plutonium, having obtained about 10 kg last year through reprocessing of nuclear materials.
The 2014 defense white paper said North Korea is estimated to have about 40 kg of such plutonium.
A North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said Sunday that Pyongyang could carry out an ICBM test at any time and location determined by its leadership.
In response, the United States said it would shoot down any missiles that threaten its territory or that of its allies.
Ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said in a New Year address that his country has entered the final stage of preparing to test-launch the long-range missile.
Kim’s regime conducted two nuclear tests and test-launched more than 20 ballistic missiles last year in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
As for relations with Japan, the latest South Korean defense white paper maintained the position that the South will continue to make a resolute and stern response to Japan’s territorial claim over South Korea-controlled islets of Dokdo in the Sea of Japan. The islets are known as Takeshima in Japan.
Aside from the territorial dispute, South Korea will continue to cooperate with Japan in coping with North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats for the sake of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia, the paper said.
AFP-JIJI Japan Times Jan 12, 2017
WASHINGTON – US authorities on Wednesday announced sanctions against North Korean government agencies and senior officials — among them leader Kim Jong Un’s sister — in response to Pyongyang’s “serious” human rights abuses and censorship activities.
The latest action, which sees another seven individuals added to America’s growing list of sanctioned North Koreans, targets security and prison officials accused of rights abuses.
Those blacklisted include Kim Won Hong, who heads the Ministry of State Security (MSS). Tiếp tục đọc “U.S. sanctions North Korean officials for rights abuses”
HONG KONG — Rex W. Tillerson’s call for China to be denied access to its artificial islands in the South China Sea, made Wednesday during his confirmation hearing for secretary of state, set the stage for a possible crisis between the world’s two biggest economies should his comments become official American policy.
Mr. Tillerson told members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that China’s multibillion-dollar island-building campaign in the oil-and-gas rich sea was illegal and “akin to Russia’s taking of Crimea.”
“We’re going to have to send China a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops,” Mr. Tillerson told the senators. “And second, your access to those islands also is not going to be allowed.”
Should those words be translated into action after Donald J. Trump assumes the presidency on Jan. 20, it would be a remarkable change in the American approach to Beijing’s island-building in the South China Sea, which is transforming the area into what one Washington think tank said would by 2030 become “virtually a Chinese lake.” China asserts sovereignty over most of the South China Sea despite competing claims by countries including Vietnam and the Philippines and an international ruling rejecting most of Beijing’s assertions.
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