Tiếng Việt từ thời LM de Rhodes – các cách dùng chúa nhật/chúa tàu/chúa nhà/thiên chúa” (phần 6A)

Linh mục Alexandre de Rhodes và cuốn Phép Giảng Tám Ngày

Nguyễn Cung Thông[1]

Phần này bàn về cách dùng chúa so với chủ vào thời LM de Rhodes đến truyền đạo. Đây là lần đầu tiên các danh từ này được kí âm bằng chữ quốc ngữ và phản ánh cách đọc chính xác của chữ . Phần này cũng bàn về các danh từ chúa nhật, chúa nhà, chúa tàu, thiên chúachúa ý từng hiện diện vào thời LM de Rhodes.

Các tài liệu tham khảo chính của bài viết này là bốn tác phẩm của LM de Rhodes soạn: (a) cuốn Phép Giảng Tám Ngày (viết tắt là PGTN), (b) Bản Báo Cáo vắn tắt về tiếng An Nam hay Đông Kinh (viết tắt là BBC), (c) Lịch Sử Vương Quốc Đàng Ngoài 1627-1646 và (d) tự điển Annam-Lusitan-Latinh (thường gọi là Việt-Bồ-La, viết tắt là VBL) có thể tra tự điển này trên mạng, như trang http://books.google.fr/books?id=uGhkAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false. Tiếp tục đọc “Tiếng Việt từ thời LM de Rhodes – các cách dùng chúa nhật/chúa tàu/chúa nhà/thiên chúa” (phần 6A)”

Bộ trưởng Nguyễn Văn Thể: dự án đường sắt đô thị ‘bộc lộ nhiều vấn đề’

03/11/2020 11:17 GMT+720Lưu

TTO – Trước Quốc hội, Bộ trưởng Bộ Giao thông vận tải Nguyễn Văn Thể thừa nhận việc triển khai các dự án đường sắt đô thị ‘đã bộc lộ nhiều vấn đề, đặc biệt vấn đề chậm tiến độ’.
Bộ trưởng Nguyễn Văn Thể: dự án đường sắt đô thị bộc lộ nhiều vấn đề - Ảnh 1.
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What Pompeo’s visit augurs for post election Vietnam-US relations

By Viet Anh   November 3, 2020 | 07:00 am GMT+7 vnexpress

With minor differences, international observers agree that the latest Vietnam visit by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signals post presidential election continuity.

While at least one expert is troubled by the lack of any new development, others see significance in the visit happening, per se.

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Central Vietnam: a month in tragedies

e.vnexpress November 3, 2020 | 10:28 am GMT+7

In just a month, central Vietnam got struck by three floods, four storms and a series of landslides that claimed 159 lives and left 71 missing.

On October 4, provinces from Thanh Hoa to Quang Ngai along the central strip of Vietnam recorded heavy rains due to a combination of a cold spell moving down from the north and winds from the east. After months of drought, rains brought joy to the people of central Vietnam. But little did they know the rain in fact signaled a streak of consecutive disasters.

Tiếp tục đọc “Central Vietnam: a month in tragedies”

Experiencing life of western farmers in Tram Chim National Park

vietnamnet 3/11/2020    07:25 GMT+7

Besides contemplating the beauty of nature in Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap Province, visitors to the park can also experience a day in life of farmers in the west of Vietnam.
Tourists visiting Tram Chim National Park in Dong Thap Province experience fishermen’s life. Photos: VNA

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Public debt: one fourth of state budget collections used to pay debt

vietnamnet 03/11/2020    07:00 GMT+7

The public debt to GDP ratio has been controlled well and has decreased in recent years. But the public debt repayment to budget revenue ratio has steadily increased because of many due debts.

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The government estimates that the public debt will be about 56.8 percent of GDP by the end of 2020; the government’s debt will be 50.8 percent; the government’s direct debt repayment obligation to state budget revenue ratio will be 24.1 percent; and the national foreign debt, 47.9 percent of GDP.

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Unique water ceremony of the Jrai people

vietnamnet 3/11/2020    06:40 GMT+7

Dam San Music, Dancing and Singing Theatre in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai recently hosted the water source worship ceremony for Jrai ethnicity locals in Krêl Village, Krêl Commune, Duc Co District.

The ceremony aims to wish for good health and bountiful crops.

As many as three shamans and four assistants join the ceremony. Offerings include a pig, 10 chickens, sticky rice and a jar of wine.

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Highlights from the year-end meeting of the National Assembly

vietnamnet 2/11/2020    21:01 GMT+7

The government is taking a cautious view in setting its development goals for 2021, which is understandable due to lingering risks from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Vietnamese National Assembly (NA)’s year-end meeting, scheduled to last for more than three weeks from October 20 to November 17, will focus on reviewing socio-economic development in 2020 and decide important matters related to socio-economic issues and the state budget for the next year. 

2020 economic review: Stays resilient despite Covid-19

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Vietnam’s GDP is estimated to grow at 2.0-3.0% in 2020 versus a target of 6.8% for the year.

This would result in the GDP growth rate averaging 5.9% over the 2016-2020 period, which falls short of the 5-year period target of 6.5-7.0%. Per capita GDP is estimated at US$2,750 in 2020, which also misses the target of US$3,200-3,500 by 2020.

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Development of coastal urban areas: a hot trend

vietnamnet 02/11/2020    19:34 GMT+7

“Coastal urban area” is a phrase that is appearing increasingly in the print and electronic media.

    
Rendering of NovaWorld Phan Thiet project in Binh Thuan Province. Photo: haiphathome.vn

It began after the launch of a series of large-scale coastal developments like NovaWorld Phan Thiet in Binh Thuan Province and NovaWorld Binh Chau in Ba Ria-Vung Tau in recent times and some even started offering their products for sale.

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Mekong Delta localities plant trees, build natural embankments to prevent erosion

vietnamnet 2/11/2020    11:30 GMT+7

More people in the Mekong Delta are planting trees and building embankments made of natural materials to prevent erosion along rivers and canals.

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A natural embankment in Phung Hiep District’s Bung Tau Town in Hau Giang Province (Photo: nhandan)

The delta, which has a dense river and canal network, has faced increasing erosion along rivers and canals in recent years because of human activity and climate change.

In Hau Giang Province, the Irrigation Sub-department built three natural embankments with a total length of 380 metres on a pilot basis to prevent erosion in Phung Hiep District and Nga Bay Town in 2017.

The natural embankments are made by filling eroded areas with soil and setting up a barrier made of cajuput trunks or bamboo between the embankments and water.

Cajuput and crabapple mangrove trees are planted inside the barriers so that their roots prevent soil erosion. Permeable fabric or fine nets are installed outside the barrier to hold the soil.

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Does investor protection increase foreign direct investment? A meta‐analysis

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Journal of Economic Surveys | 30 September 2020

Does investor protection increase foreign direct investment? A meta‐analysis

par Josef C. Brada, Zdenek Drabek, Ichiro Iwasaki

- Abstract

We undertake a meta‐analysis of the effects of international investment agreements for the protection of foreign investors on foreign direct investment using 2107 estimates drawn from 74 studies. Our meta‐analysis finds robust evidence that effect of international investment agreements is so small as to be considered zero. However, our results do not rule out the possibility that the effect of these agreements is, in fact, positive and that current research methods are insufficiently powerful or precise to identify the underlying genuine effect. FDI from developed countries appears to be more responsive to the existence of investment protection, and there is evidence of publication–selection bias in favour of studies that find a positive effect for investor protection.

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Does investor protection increase foreign direct investment? A meta‐analysis

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Journal of Economic Surveys | 30 September 2020

Does investor protection increase foreign direct investment? A meta‐analysis

par Josef C. Brada, Zdenek Drabek, Ichiro Iwasaki

- Abstract

We undertake a meta‐analysis of the effects of international investment agreements for the protection of foreign investors on foreign direct investment using 2107 estimates drawn from 74 studies. Our meta‐analysis finds robust evidence that effect of international investment agreements is so small as to be considered zero. However, our results do not rule out the possibility that the effect of these agreements is, in fact, positive and that current research methods are insufficiently powerful or precise to identify the underlying genuine effect. FDI from developed countries appears to be more responsive to the existence of investment protection, and there is evidence of publication–selection bias in favour of studies that find a positive effect for investor protection.

Read more (pdf)Does investor protection increase foreign direct investment? A meta‐analysis(PDF – 514.8 kb)