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Vietnam hails burgeoning defense ties with India

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VnExpress

By Khanh Lynh   August 18, 2017 | 10:44 am GMT+7

Vietnam hails burgeoning defense ties with India

BrahMos supersonic missiles in India. Photo by Reuters

 

The purchase of defense equipment ‘is in line with Vietnam’s peaceful national defense policies.’

Vietnam is developing defense cooperation with India to allow the country to pursue its defense policies, foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said at a press briefing on Thursday.

She was responding to an inquiry about Vietnam’s purchase of a batch of short-range ramjet supersonic cruise missiles from India. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam hails burgeoning defense ties with India” →

On A Move That Will Anger China, Vietnam Says Yes, India Denies

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NDTV

All India | Written by Vishnu Som | Updated: August 18, 2017 18:11 IST
On A Move That Will Anger China, Vietnam Says Yes, India Denies

BrahMos missiles were co-developed by Russia’s NPO Mashinostroeyenia and India’s DRDO.

Highlights

  1. India-China in military stand-off for over 2 months at Sikkim border
  2. Vietnam indicates it has got BrahMos missile from India
  3. Missile signals Vietnam’s defending its claim to disputed South China Sea

New Delhi: For the first time ever, the government of Vietnam today confirmed – albeit carefully – that it has acquired BrahMos anti-ship cruise missiles from India. At a time when Delhi and China are locked in their worst military confrontation in decades, sources in the Defence Ministry denied selling the missile systems to Vietnam, though they did not want to comment on record. Tiếp tục đọc “On A Move That Will Anger China, Vietnam Says Yes, India Denies” →

The race to rescue Cambodian children from orphanages exploiting them for profit

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guardian

Despite good intentions, Australians and others from western countries are often propping up Asian orphanages that separate children from families. Now there’s new efforts to tackle some of the consequences of ‘voluntourism’

A family in Battambang, Cambodia, supported by the Cambodian Children’s Trust which works to keep families together and stop children going to orphanages.
A family in Battambang, Cambodia, supported by the Cambodian Children’s Trust which works to keep families together and stop children going to orphanages. Photograph: Tara Winkler
 Christopher Knaus

Much was hidden from the tourists visiting Sinet Chan in her rundown Cambodian orphanage.

When they returned to their hotels, cameras full and best intentions sated, they remained oblivious to the reality of what they had just supported. Tiếp tục đọc “The race to rescue Cambodian children from orphanages exploiting them for profit” →

Cambridge University Press accused of ‘selling its soul’ over Chinese censorship

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 Guardian

Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal

Cambridge University
A list of the blocked articles, published by CUP, shows they focus overwhelmingly on topics China’s one-party state regards as taboo Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA

in Beijing

Friday 18 August 2017 23.52 EDT Last modified on Saturday 19 August 2017 01.27 EDT

The world’s oldest publishing house, Cambridge University Press, has been accused of being an accomplice to the Communist party’s bid to whitewash Chinese history after it agreed to purge hundreds of politically-sensitive articles from its Chinese website at the behest of Beijing’s censors. Tiếp tục đọc “Cambridge University Press accused of ‘selling its soul’ over Chinese censorship” →

China cracks down on foreign spending sprees

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channelnewsasia

 
19 Aug 2017 06:32PM (Updated: 19 Aug 2017 06:40PM)

BEIJING: China is to restrict foreign investments in sports clubs, real estate and entertainment and is banning investment in pornography and “unauthorised” military technology.

The new rules were announced Friday (Aug 18) by the government which had previously encouraged overseas spending sprees, but then warned late last year of “irrational” acquisitions amid fears that powerful conglomerates were racking up dangerous debt levels. Tiếp tục đọc “China cracks down on foreign spending sprees” →

Thousands ill in Vietnam dengue outbreak

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Al Jazeera

Mosquito-borne disease outbreak stretches Vietnam medical system as officials report 10,000 new infections in one week.

A total of 90,626 people have been infected with dengue, of whom 76,848 have been hospitalised [Tran Van Minh/AP]

Vietnam is battling a raging dengue fever outbreak with more than 10,000 new infections reported over the past week.

The number of infected represents a 42 percent increase over the same period last year along with seven more deaths, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.

A total of 90,626 people have been infected, of whom 76,848 have been hospitalised, and 24 have died. Tiếp tục đọc “Thousands ill in Vietnam dengue outbreak” →

Tuyệt chủng hàng loạt lần thứ 6 trên trái đất đang diễn ra, các nhà khoa học cảnh báo

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English: Earth’s sixth mass extinction event under way, scientists warn

Các nhà nghiên cứu nói về “sự huỷ diệt sinh học” khi nghiên cứu chỉ ra hàng tỉ loài vật đã biến mất trong những thập kỷ gần đây.

Theo nghiên cứu, “sự huỷ diệt sinh học” ở động vật hoang dã trong những thập kỷ này chính là sự tuyệt chủng hàng loạt lần thứ sáu trong lịch sử trái đất và nó đang tiếp tục diễn ra nghiêm trọng hơn nhiều so với lo sợ trước đây.

Các nhà khoa học phân tích cả 2 loại loài vật phổ biến và quý hiếm và tìm thấy hàng tỷ quần thể địa phương và khu vực đã biến mất. Điều này là hệ luỵ của sự phát triển dân số và tiêu dùng quá mức con người. Các nhà khoa học cũng cảnh báo rằng sự tuyệt chủng này đe doạ sự sống còn của nền văn minh con người, và chúng ta chỉ còn một khoảng thời gian ít ỏi để hành động.
Tiếp tục đọc “Tuyệt chủng hàng loạt lần thứ 6 trên trái đất đang diễn ra, các nhà khoa học cảnh báo” →