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Illegal loggers in Vietnam train as jungle tour guides

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reuters – April 26, 20222:57 PM GMT+7

By Minh Nguyen

PHONG NHA, Vietnam, April 25 (Reuters) – Vietnamese logger turned jungle tour guide Ngoc Anh knows the value of trees.

For years he chopped them down illegally to sell as timber, often working with others to carry 100-kg logs out of a rapidly thinning forest.

But as extreme rainfall and floods increasingly devastated his community in the central province of Quang Binh, the 36-year-old read up on the ongoing climate and nature crises and turned instead to tourism and conservation.

Now, Ngoc Anh is one of 250 former loggers trained by an adventure tourism company to lead mostly foreign tourists through jungles and into some of the world’s largest cave systems in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site.

Nguyen Ngoc Anh, 36, who was an illegal logger turned forest protector poses at Phong Nha National Park, Quang Binh province
Nguyen Ngoc Anh, 36, who was an illegal logger turned forest protector poses at Phong Nha National Park, Quang Binh province, Vietnam, April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Hoang Trung

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Đường dây 1500 “Sugar baby”, công bố danh tính các “daddy” được không?

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Về chuyện công bố danh tính các “daddy”, mời các bạn đọc Chương 18: Công lý công bình không phân biệt trong Bộ Huyền sử Bồ tát Đông Hải do Trần Đình Hoành và Phạm Thu Hương cùng viết.

PTH

LĐ – HOÀNG LÂM  –  Chủ nhật, 24/04/2022 16:16 (GMT+7)

Một đường dây cung cấp “Sugar baby” bị phát hiện, thực chất là một đường dây mại dâm với con số lên tới 1.500 “Sugar baby” tham gia.

Đường dây 1500 “Sugar baby”, công bố danh tính các "daddy" được không?
Nữ sinh năm nhất cầm đầu đường dây mại dâm gồm 1500 “Sugar baby” vừa bị phát hiện ở TPHCM. Ảnh: CACC

Cơ quan công an cho biết, cầm đầu đường dây là một “tú bà” mới chỉ là sinh viên năm thứ nhất. Tú bà dùng mạng xã hội để giới thiệu những “Sugar baby” là những người đẹp, sinh viên tạo thành các nhóm kín để thu phí khách mua dâm.

1.500 “Sugar baby” là con số khó tin trong một đường dây. Và chỉ cần nhìn vào nguồn “cung” là đủ biết “cầu” cao như thế nào.

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Floods and Migrants of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: 25 Lessons from the Data

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By Le Thu Mach, Hoang Long Cao and Vu The Cuong

11 February 2022 at 10:10 (Updated on 25 April 2022 at 14:37)

Data on agricultural, hydropower, saltwater intrusion and rainfall patterns in Vietnam Mekong Delta explains where the country’s food comes from, why it’s disappearing and what can be done about it.

The fertile Mekong Delta is a crucial region for Vietnam’s continued food and economic security but a variety of factors have wreaked havoc on how Vietnam grows food, catches fish and ultimately survives a radically changing environment. Here, reporters analyze 20 years of data on agricultural, hydropower, saltwater intrusion and rainfall patterns in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta (VMD) to explain where the country’s food comes from, why it’s disappearing and what can be done about it.

1. Disappearing waters

Vietnam’s flood plains are disappearing, and fish, rice and people along with it. The flood peak in Tan Chau and Chau Doc in 2020 is only about 60% of that in 2002. From now on, VMD will have to wait from 50 to 100 years to have a big flood season. Within 15 years, the amount of fish caught in An Giang has plummeted by two-thirds.

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Russian troops use rape as ‘an instrument of war’ in Ukraine, rights groups allege

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By Tara John, Oleksandra Ochman and Sandi Sidhu, CNN

Updated 0420 GMT (1220 HKT) April 22, 2022

Karina Yershova, right, is pictured with her grandmother in an undated photograph provided by the family.

Karina Yershova, right, is pictured with her grandmother in an undated photograph provided by the family.

Lviv, Ukraine (CNN)When Russian troops invaded Ukraine and began closing in on its capital, Kyiv, Andrii Dereko begged his 22-year-old stepdaughter Karina Yershova to leave the suburb where she lived.

But Yershova insisted she wanted to remain in Bucha, telling him: “Don’t talk nonsense, everything will be fine — there will be no war,” he said.

With her tattoos and long brown hair, Yershova stood out in a crowd, her stepfather said, adding that despite living with rheumatoid arthritis, she had a fiercely independent spirit: “She herself decided how to live.”

Yershova worked at a sushi restaurant in Bucha, and hoped to earn her university degree in the future, Dereko said: “She wanted to develop herself.”

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As Russian soldiers surrounded Bucha in early March, Yershova hid in an apartment with two other friends. On one of the last occasions Dereko and his wife, Olena, heard from Yershova, she told them she had left the apartment to get food from a nearby supermarket.

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E.U. Takes Aim at Social Media’s Harms With Landmark New Law

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The Digital Services Act would force Meta, Google and others to combat misinformation and restrict certain online ads. How European officials will wield it remains to be seen.

Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton, top European officials, were among the main policymakers behind the Digital Services Act.
Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton, top European officials, were among the main policymakers behind the Digital Services Act.Credit… Thierry Monasse/Getty Images
Adam Satariano

By Adam Satariano

Adam Satariano, who is based in London, has covered European tech since 2016 and previously reported on Apple and Silicon Valley from San Francisco.

April 22, 2022

The European Union reached a deal on Saturday on landmark legislation that would force Facebook, YouTube and other internet services to combat misinformation, disclose how their services amplify divisive content and stop targeting online ads based on a person’s ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation.

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