Tháng: Tháng Ba 2017

Malaysian politicians offer thousands of dollars for ‘best essays’ slamming leaders

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  • By Sumisha Naidu
  • Posted 24 Mar 2017 20:05
  • Updated 24 Mar 2017 20:10

KUALA LUMPUR: UMNO’s information chief Annuar Musa on Friday (Mar 24) upped the ante in his war of words against the Democratic Action Party (DAP)’s Lim Kit Siang, increasing a RM10,000 (US$2,260) cash reward to RM50,000 (US$11,300) for someone who can write the best piece to prove his belief that Lim is “racist, anti-Islam, anti-Malay and a dictator”. Tiếp tục đọc “Malaysian politicians offer thousands of dollars for ‘best essays’ slamming leaders” →

UN will investigate crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar

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  • Posted 24 Mar 2017 19:08
  • Updated 24 Mar 2017 19:16

A Rohingya refugee girl carries a baby outside the food distribution center at Kutupalang unregistered Refugee Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, February 27, 2017. REUTERS/Claudia Jardim

GENEVA: The top United Nations human rights body agreed on Friday (Mar 24) to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state.

But Myanmar ambassador Htin Lynn, speaking before the decision was taken by consensus, rejected the move as “not acceptable”. Myanmar’s national commission had just interviewed alleged victims who fled to Bangladesh and would issue its findings by August, he said.

The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution without a vote, brought by the European Union and supported by countries including the United States, that called for “ensuring full accountability for perpetrators and justice for victims”. Tiếp tục đọc “UN will investigate crimes against Rohingya in Myanmar” →

Ở Tam Nông có đồng ‘hoa lạ’: hoa nhĩ cán

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  • Ở Tam Nông có đồng ‘hoa lạ’: hoa nhĩ cán
  • Hoa nhĩ cán nhuộm tím dòng kênh Đồng Tháp

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Ở Tam Nông có đồng ‘hoa lạ’: hoa nhĩ cán

21/02/2017 21:00 GMT+7

TTO – Lạ vì nhiều người lần đầu nghe danh. Qua mùa chim sinh sản, Vườn quốc gia Tam Nông thưa thớt chim gọi đàn. Bù lại là mùa của nhiều loài hoa dại, mà độc đáo hơn cả là hoa nhĩ cán, còn gọi là rong ly, tên khoa học là Lentibulariaceae.

Ở Tam Nông có đồng 'hoa lạ': hoa nhĩ cán
Đồng hoa nhĩ cán – Ảnh – Thanh Phong

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Environment minister urges water conservation in Vietnam

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Tuoi Tre News

Updated : 03/23/2017 18:35 GMT + 7

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha warned citizens at an event in northern Vietnam of the alarming scarcity of water, calling for the urgent conservation of water resources in the country.

A national campaign was organized in Bac Ninh Province on Wednesday morning to mark World Water Day, an event aimed at raising social awareness of water pollution and the importance of protecting resources.

The event was sponsored by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper and Comfort, a Unilever brand in Vietnam.

Situated downstream of many major rivers, Vietnam faces significant challenges brought about by a lack of water resources, Minister Ha explained at the event.

“Two-thirds of the water in Vietnam’s rivers come from outside the territory,” the official pointed out, adding that the average volume in the country is about 3,600 cubic meters per person a year, compared to the global average of 4,000 cubic meters per person. Tiếp tục đọc “Environment minister urges water conservation in Vietnam” →

Vietnam detains two for anti-state propaganda

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REUTERS/TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 03/23/2017 08:53 GMT + 7

Vietnam has detained two men for posting anti-state comments.

Bui Hieu Vo, 55, and Phan Kim Khanh, 24, were detained for investigation of “propaganda against the Socialist Republic of Vietnam”, the government said on its Facebook page on Wednesday.

The government said Vo posted “fabricated, distorted and defamed information” against the government and incited the use of petrol bombs and acid to attack leaders of the Communist Party, the state and the police..

Khanh managed two blogs, three Facebook pages and two YouTube channels to post “fabricated and distorted” information against Vietnam, the government statement said.

Vietnam last week also called on all companies doing business in the country to stop advertising on YouTube, Facebook and other social media until they had found a way to halt the publication of “toxic” anti-government information.

The government said both worked with the United States-based Viet Tan, or Vietnam Reform Party, which Hanoi has declared a terrorist group, and that any Vietnamese found to be involved with it would be regarded as co-conspirators and punished.

Hungry wild elephants trash crops, property

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Update: March, 24/2017 – 09:00

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A wild elephant enters the field of a resident in the southern province of Đồng Nai. The reduced and degraded habitats in the province ave resulted in lack of food. – Photo vtv.vn

Viet Nam News ĐỒNG NAI — Wild elephant habitats in the southern province of  Đồng Nai are being reduced and degraded, leading to a lack of food and more conflicts between animals and humans, according to local authorities.

Experts say the elephant requires a vast habitat but its living space has been shrunk due to human encroachment into the forest. Local foresters in Đồng Nai say the natural habitat for wild Asian elephants has shrunk from 50,000ha in the 1990s to 34,000ha in 2009. Tiếp tục đọc “Hungry wild elephants trash crops, property” →

Four central cities join One Planet City Challenge

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Update: March, 23/2017 – 09:00

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Solar panels on the roof of a residential apartment in Đà Nẵng. Thirty per cent of the city’s population are using solar powered water-heaters. — VNS Photo Công Thành

ĐÀ NẴNG — Four cities in Việt Nam – Huế, Đà Nẵng, Hội An and Đồng Hà – have agreed to enter World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge programme to show how cities can be a hub for creativity, ambition and innovation in dealing with climate change.

A WWF statement on Wednesday said cities generate 70 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, and WWF’s One Planet City Challenge is a biennial competition that recognises and rewards cities for developing infrastructure, housing, transport and mobility solutions to power the global transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. Tiếp tục đọc “Four central cities join One Planet City Challenge” →

Mekong Delta land subsidence causes explained

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Update: March, 23/2017 – 12:00

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People drill wells in Lương Tâm Commune, Long Mỹ District in southern Long An Province for daily use and production, particularly during droughts. Underground water exploitation is blamed as main cause for land subsidence in the Mekong Delta region. — VNA/VNS Photo Huỳnh Sử

HCM CITY — Up to four centimetres of land subsidence occurs in the Mekong Delta each year, and exploitation of groundwater is one of several factors causing it.

“The consequences of land sinking are much more serious than those of climate change and rising seas, especially in urban areas where people exploit groundwater,” Assoc Prof Dr Nguyễn Hiếu Trung of Cần Thơ University told a seminar held in Cần Thơ on Tuesday titled “Land subsidence in Mekong Delta: challenges and future solutions”. Tiếp tục đọc “Mekong Delta land subsidence causes explained” →

Food security at risk due to climate change

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Update: March, 23/2017 – 18:00

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Crops wither following a prolonged drought in Bình Thuận Province in July, 2015. – VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Linh

HÀ NỘI — More solutions are urgently needed to ensure Việt Nam’s food security as climate change has transitioned from a risk to a nationwide reality, said an agricultural deputy minister on Wednesday.

Việt Nam is still considered an agricultural country, with approximately 70 per cent of the population living in rural areas which are highly susceptible to climate change, said Agriculture and Rural Development Deputy Minister Lê Quốc Doanh at a regional conference on food security held in Hà Nội on Wednesday. Tiếp tục đọc “Food security at risk due to climate change” →

Conserving the floods in the Mekong Delta: A story from the Vietnam component of the Integrated Planning to Implement the CBD Strategic Plan and Increase Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change project

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International Union for Conversation of Nature

Wed, 12 Oct 2016

Intensive rice production is the predominant cause for the loss of biodiversity and resilience to climate change in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Today, less than 5% of the natural wetlands of the Delta remain. In order to intensively grow rice in the upper-delta deep flood zone, traditional low dyke systems that have supported 2 rice crops in a year while allowing floods to enter the dyke system in the flood season, have been converted into high dykes that displace the floods so that a third rice crop can be grown.

Consensus building at the second Mekong Delta Forum, June 2016 © IUCN Viet Nam Photo: Consensus building at the second Mekong Delta Forum, June 2016 © IUCN Viet Nam
Diversified lotus farming systems as flood retention areas © IUCN Viet Nam Photo: Diversified lotus farming systems as flood retention areas © IUCN Viet Nam
This costly hard infrastructure has disrupted the natural flood pulse of the Mekong Delta and reduced the amount of wetlands with devastating impacts on the aquatic biodiversity that underpins the fisheries livelihoods of particularly poor people, and the loss of sediment replenishment necessary for agricultural sustainability. Tiếp tục đọc “Conserving the floods in the Mekong Delta: A story from the Vietnam component of the Integrated Planning to Implement the CBD Strategic Plan and Increase Ecosystem Resilience to Climate Change project” →

Vietnam, World Bank sign $560 million to support Mekong Delta urban development and climate resilience

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PRESS RELEASE

Vietnam, World Bank sign $560 million to support Mekong Delta urban development and climate resilience

July 11, 2016
 Can Tho, July 11, 2016 — The World Bank and the State Bank of Vietnam today signed agreements for loans and credits worth $560 million for two projects to support urban development, climate resilience and sustainable livelihoods in the Mekong Delta.

Out of the total, $250 million will be used for the Can Tho Urban Development and Resilience Project, to reduce flood risk and improve connectivity between Can Tho city center and the new urban areas, benefiting more than 420,000 urban dwellers, and enhance the capacity of city authorities to manage disaster risk. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam, World Bank sign $560 million to support Mekong Delta urban development and climate resilience” →

Mekong Delta Plan

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Mekong Delta Plan download

Mekong Delta Plan website

Presentation by Dr. Martijn van de Groep, Chief Technical Advisor, MDP (2013)

Speech by Prime Minister Mark Rutte at the Mekong Delta Plan High-Level Meeting (june 17, 2014)

Presentation by Michael Tonneijck, Royal HaskoningDVH (6/6/2015)

Presentation by Dr. Martijn van de Groep, Chief Technical Advisor, MDP (2016)

Assessment studies for the Mekong Delta Plan

Strategic Delta Planning team (for Bangladesh, Vietnam, Netherlands)

Trung Á: Cuộc đọ sức của rồng và gấu – 2 phần

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Phần 1: Những đối tác “mắt khép hờ”
Phần 2: Đầu tư và thâu tóm

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Phần 1: Những đối tác “mắt khép hờ”

DUY VĂN 16.03.2017, 10:43

TTCT – Chuyến thăm ba nước Trung Á của Tổng thống Nga Vladimir Putin vừa khép lại tuần trước đã đặt vùng đất chiến lược về địa chính trị này vào sự chú ý mới: nơi giao cắt và chồng lấn ảnh hưởng của ba thế lực siêu cường đang lăm le phân chia lại thế giới.

Phần 1: Những đối tác “mắt khép hờ”


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Mongabay Series: A plan to save the Mekong Delta

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  A plan to save the Mekong Delta

Mongabay Series:
Part 1 – Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?
Part 2 – Vietnam sweats bullets as China and Laos dam the Mekong
Part 3 – Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems
Part 4 – A plan to save the Mekong Delta

18 October 2016 / David Brown

Rising seas and upstream dams are threatening to hammer the fertile region. Can Vietnam act in time to stave off disaster?

  • The Mekong Delta Plan is the product of several years’ work by Dutch and Vietnamese officials, supported by a platoon of experts from both nations.
  • It’s a blueprint for dealing not only with the effects of climate change and upstream dams but also with certain shortsighted activities by the Vietnamese themselves.
  • The region’s farmers as well as the relevant branches of government must be persuaded to buy into the plan.
This is the final installment of an in-depth, four-part series exploring threats facing the Mekong Delta and how they might be addressed. Read the first, second, third and fourth installments.“I think this year Vietnam got a taste of the new normal,” said Dinh Tuyen, my journalist friend in bustling Can Tho, the Mekong Delta’s hub city. “Less fresh water from rains or from up the river, and more salt water as sea levels rise.”We’d been talking about a story Tuyen had written in May for Thanh Nien, a leading Vietnamese daily. It featured photos of blue-green river waters, and called attention to a remarkable development: the Mekong’s southern branch was not, as usual, muddy with a cargo of silt. Tiếp tục đọc “Mongabay Series: A plan to save the Mekong Delta” →