Tháng: Tháng Hai 2017

Chinese official says U.S. should stop using Dalai Lama to stir up trouble

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Reuters Feb 4, 2017 Japan Times

BEIJING – The United States should stop using the Dalai Lama to create trouble for China, a senior Chinese official in charge of Tibet affairs told an influential state-run newspaper.

The U.S. is damaging ties with China, said Zhu Weiqun, head of the ethnic and religious affairs committee of the top advisory body to China’s parliament, according to the Global Times.

The Global Times, a tabloid known for writing strongly worded, hawkish and nationalist editorials, is published by the Communist Party’s flagship paper. Tiếp tục đọc “Chinese official says U.S. should stop using Dalai Lama to stir up trouble” →

China accuses US of putting stability of Asia Pacific at risk

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Beijing reacts to defence secretary James Mattis saying that the US would defend Japan in a conflict with China over disputed Senkaku islands

James Mattis reviews the guard of honour prior to a meeting with Japanese defence minister Tomomi Inada in Tokyo on Saturday.
James Mattis reviews the guard of honour prior to a meeting with Japanese defence minister Tomomi Inada in Tokyo on Saturday. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Japan Times

Friday 3 February 2017 23.54 EST Last modified on Saturday 4 February 2017 06.09 EST

China has accused the US of putting the stability of the Asia-Pacific at risk after Donald Trump’s defence secretary said Washington would come to Japan’s defence in the event of a conflict with Beijing over the disputed Senkaku islands.

James Mattis, on a two-day visit to Japan, said the islands, which are controlled by Japan but also claimed by China, fell within the scope of the Japan-US security treaty, under which Washington is obliged to defend all areas under Japanese administrative control. Tiếp tục đọc “China accuses US of putting stability of Asia Pacific at risk” →

Donald Trump is making China great again

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The US president has dismayed the world; Xi Jinping has wooed it. This could be a huge win for Beijing

‘Xi Jinping reminded his audience of China’s contribution to global economic stability since the financial crisis, of an average of 30% of global growth each year.’
‘Xi Jinping reminded his audience of China’s contribution to global economic stability since the financial crisis, of an average of 30% of global growth each year.’ Photograph: POOL/Reuters

Two years ago, some European and US experts gathered to discuss China in an elegant English country house. The setting was seductive, but the mood was dark. Two years into Xi Jinping’s presidency, China’s politics were turning away from the liberalising trend of the previous three decades, towards a hard-edged nationalism that was discomfiting China’s immediate neighbours and their western allies.

China was getting more powerful but less friendly, squeezing foreign competition out of its internal markets, throwing its weight around the South China Sea, crushing internal dissent and enforcing loyalty to the regime. Tiếp tục đọc “Donald Trump is making China great again” →

Phát triển bền vững ở Tây Nguyên

~ Phạm Thu Hương ~ 2 bình luận

DĐ – Tính nghiêm trọng của các vấn đề Tây Nguyên. Làm gì để giải quyết?

Nguyên Ngọc

I – Một số nét tổng quan

A – Khái niệm Tây Nguyên :

Theo địa lý hành chính hiện nay, Tây Nguyên gồm có năm tỉnh, kể từ bắc vào nam : Kontum, Gia Lai, Đắc Lắc, Đắc Nông, Lâm Đồng.

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Thế là Nàng đã mang thai!

~ Hoàng Thiên Nga ~ 5 bình luận

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          Kết quả siêu âm cho thấy nàng voi Ban Nang dự sinh vào cuối thu năm 2017, quả là đại hỷ cho tất cả những người yêu voi, mong muốn đàn voi nhà Đắk Lắk sinh sôi phát triển. Vì đã hơn 30 năm, đồng bào các dân tộc Tây Nguyên không thấy voi con nào chào đời từ những nàng voi nhà đang dần qua tuổi làm mẹ…

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U.S. warns North Korea of ‘overwhelming’ response to use of nuclear weapons

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U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis (left) speaks as South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo listens prior to their meeting at Defense Ministry in Seoul Friday. | KIM MIN-HEE / POOL PHOTO VIA AP

jAPAN TIMES

AP Feb 3, 2017

Seoul – In an explicit warning to North Korea, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday said any use of nuclear weapons by the North on the United States or its allies would be met with what he called an “effective and overwhelming” response.

U.S. defense secretaries have long offered assurances to South Korea and Japan that its nuclear “umbrella” will protect them, but Mattis’ statement was perhaps more pointed than most. He made the remarks during an appearance with his South Korean counterpart, Defense Minister Han Min-koo. Tiếp tục đọc “U.S. warns North Korea of ‘overwhelming’ response to use of nuclear weapons” →

Brazen Killing of Myanmar Lawyer Came After He Sparred With Military

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By WAI MOE, MIKE IVES and SAW NANG FEB. 2, 2017

The funeral of U Ko Ni, a top adviser to the governing National League for Democracy, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday. Ye Aung Thu/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

YANGON, Myanmar — The soft-spoken rights lawyer had devised a plan to replace Myanmar’s Constitution with one that would strip the military of its extraordinary political powers.

The lawyer, U Ko Ni, a top adviser to the governing National League for Democracy, had recently been working on a new draft, a colleague said, and he hoped to promote his project at a conference this month.

But when he returned to the Yangon airport on Sunday from a trip to Indonesia, cradling his young grandson in his arms as he waited for a taxi, a man drew a pistol and shot him in the head.

The killing appears to have been a rare political assassination in Myanmar, fueling rumors, distrust and worry about the country’s future.

“This bullet was not only for Ko Ni,” the colleague, U Thein Than Oo, a human rights lawyer in Mandalay, Myanmar, said by telephone. “It was for the N.L.D. and the people who want to amend and replace the 2008 Constitution and support the peace process.”

Rohingya Face ‘Campaign of Terror’ in Myanmar, U.N. Finds

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By NICK CUMMING-BRUCE FEB. 3, 2017

A refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, near the Burmese border. Over 200 Rohingya villagers who fled Myanmar to Bangladesh gave harrowing testimony to United Nations investigators about the treatment they received. Allison Joyce/Getty Images

GENEVA — Members of Myanmar’s Army and the police have slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children, gang-raped women and girls, and forced as many as 90,000 Rohingya Muslims from their homes, according to a United Nations report released on Friday.

The report, the world body’s first official account of a four-month government crackdown on ethnic Rohingya in Myanmar, said the actions of members of the army and the police “very likely” were crimes against humanity.

“The gravity and scale of these allegations begs the robust reaction of the international community,” said Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, whose office released the 50-page report.

Jim Mattis Says U.S. Is ‘Shoulder to Shoulder’ With Japan

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By MICHAEL R. GORDON and MOTOKO RICH FEB. 3, 2017

The American defense secretary, Jim Mattis, left; Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, second right; and the Japanese defense minister, Tomomi Inada, right, in Tokyo on Friday. Pool photo by Eugene Hoshiko

TOKYO — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis assured Japan’s prime minister on Friday that the United States would stand by its mutual defense treaty with the country, despite statements by President Trump during last year’s campaign that suggested he might pull back from American security commitments in Asia.

“I want there to be no misunderstanding during the transition in Washington that we stand firmly, 100 percent, shoulder to shoulder with you and the Japanese people,” Mr. Mattis said at the start of a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Travel Ban Drives Wedge Between Iraqi Soldiers and Americans

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By DAVID ZUCCHINO FEB. 3, 2017

Iraqi soldiers in Mosul. “This decision by Trump blows up our liberation efforts of cooperation and coordination with American forces,” one officer said. Ivor Prickett for The New York Times

BAGHDAD — Capt. Ahmed Adnan al-Musawe had survived another day battling Islamic State fighters in Mosul last weekend when he heard startling news: The new American president had temporarily barred Iraqis from entering the United States and wanted tougher vetting.

Captain Musawe, who commands an infantry unit of the Iraqi Army’s elite counterterrorism force, considers himself already fully vetted: He has been trained by American officers in Iraq and in Jordan. And backed by American advisers, he has fought the Islamic State in three Iraqi cities, including three months of brutal street combat in Mosul.

“If America doesn’t want Iraqis because we are all terrorists, then America should send its sons back to Iraq to fight the terrorists themselves,” Captain Musawe told a New York Times reporter who was with him this week at his barricaded position inside Mosul.

President Trump’s Jan. 27 executive order has driven a wedge between many Iraqi soldiers and their American allies. Officers and enlisted men interviewed on the front lines in Mosul said they interpreted the order as an affront — not only to them but also to fellow soldiers who have died in the battle for Mosul.

North Korean Leader’s Top Enforcer Is Now the One Getting Purged

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By CHOE SANG-HUN FEB. 3, 2017

The leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, at an undisclosed location in January. The decision by Mr. Kim to purge his top enforcer highlights the turmoil that has engulfed the upper reaches of his regime. Korean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

SEOUL, South Korea — The chief of North Korea’s powerful secret police, long considered the right-hand man for the top leader, Kim Jong-un, has been dismissed on charges of corruption and abuse of power, the South Korean government said on Friday.

The firing of the chief, Gen. Kim Won-hong, as minister of state security highlights the turmoil that has engulfed the upper reaches of Mr. Kim’s government. The general is the latest in a series of high-ranking party and military officials Mr. Kim has fired, demoted or executed as he tried to consolidate his totalitarian power through what South Korean officials and North Korean defectors have called a “reign of terror.”

Nước Đức: Khi niềm tin bị đánh cắp

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BQT – 15:39 | 29/12/2016

Người dân Đức ứng phó với khủng hoảng, khủng bố với một tâm thế hoàn toàn khác so với nhiều nơi trên thế giới.

Vụ khủng bố bằng xe tải hạng nặng tại chợ Giáng sinh ở Berlin ngày 19/12 mà một số báo chí gọi là “vụ 11/9” của Đức, khiến 12 người thiệt mạng và hàng chục người bị thương, còn đang trong quá trình điều tra nhưng dư âm của nó đang còn nóng và chắc chắn sẽ còn theo người dân Đức trong thời gian tới.

Nhưng vì sao là Đức và vì sao đúng dịp này? Liệu bọn khủng bố quốc tế có đạt được điều mà chúng mong muốn qua những hành động vô nhân tính này hay không?

nuoc duc khi niem tin bi danh cap
Quang cảnh đổ nát của khu chợ sau vụ việc kinh hoàng. (Nguồn: Reuters)

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Đại chúng hay tinh hoa?

~ Phạm Thu Hương ~ 2 bình luận

Nguyên Ngọc Thứ Năm,  26/1/2017, 12:51 (GMT+7)

Một trong những khó khăn có thật và lớn khiến những người đang chịu trách nhiệm về giáo dục rất đau đầu là phải giải quyết thế nào cho đúng mối quan hệ giữa số lượng và chất lượng. Ảnh: Hải Nguyễn

(TBKTSG Xuân) – Mấy năm gần đây tôi thường theo dõi các cuộc thi tú tài ở Pháp, vì thích thú, và cũng có phần muốn từ đó thử nghĩ lại thêm về giáo dục ở ta. Hình như vừa qua ta chú ý nói nhiều đến đại học, hẳn vì ở đây dễ thấy rõ sự quá lạc hậu so với thế giới, cũng lại là nơi liên quan trực tiếp đến việc đào tạo nhân lực cho xã hội. Song cũng có thể vấn đề chính của giáo dục còn ở chỗ khác, ở phổ thông, nơi ít được dư luận quan tâm hơn. Có vấn đề ở phổ thông rồi, tất đại học không thể không có vấn đề.

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Hạnh phúc nơi tình người vẫy gọi

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Hoàng Thiên Nga

          Mắt ông không còn nhìn thấy nữa, nhưng tựa vào cánh tay gầy của bà, đôi tình nhân không tuổi ấy không ngần ngại chọn Việt Nam làm đích trở lại hằng năm cho tới khi nào còn có thể, chỉ để được giúp đỡ và sẻ chia…

Tay trong tay đôi tình nhân không tuổi hạnh phúc đi khắp thế giới
Tay trong tay đôi tình nhân không tuổi hạnh phúc đi khắp thế giới

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