A year ago, Russia stopped supplying gas to the EU through the Nord Stream pipeline to hurt the bloc for its overwhelming support for Ukraine. The weaponization of its gas supplies has ended up hurting Moscow more
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‘I almost lost my will to live’: preference for sons is leaving young women in China exploited and abused
Published: September 1, 2023 1.52pm BST The Conversation
Author: Chih-Ling Liu Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University
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China has a gender crisis. The country has a huge surplus of men – around 722 million compared to 690 million women in 2022. This is largely because of sex-selective abortions linked to China’s one-child policy, which ended in 2015.
Though popular belief is that the policy was strictly enforced, many Chinese couples managed to have more than one child by paying fines, accepting benefit deprivations, or proclaiming their membership of a minority ethnic group. Often, they chose to do so because their first child was a girl. The one-child policy lasted three and a half decades, replaced by the two-child policy in 2016 and the three-child policy in 2021. But even today, the belief that boys have more value than girls persists.
Tiếp tục đọc “‘I almost lost my will to live’: preference for sons is leaving young women in China exploited and abused”Bình Thuận: Khu rừng hơn 600 ha sắp bị phá làm hồ thủy lợi
Tỉnh Bình Thuận chuẩn bị phá khu rừng tự nhiên hơn 600 ha ở xã Mỹ Thạnh (huyện Hàm Thuận Nam) để làm hồ chứa nước phát triển kinh tế.
Dự án hồ chứa nước Ka Pét dung tích hơn 51 triệu m3 đã được Quốc hội thông qua chủ trương đầu tư tổng vốn 874 tỷ đồng. Dự án lấy mặt bằng từ việc phá khu rừng tự nhiên rộng hơn 619 ha ở xã Mỹ Thạnh, huyện Hàm Thuận Nam.
Hồ sẽ được xây tại khu rừng sau khu dân cư hiện hữu của xã Mỹ Thạnh, cách chừng 2 km, kéo dài lên hướng núi rừng huyện Tánh Linh.
Khu rừng sắp bị cưa hạ tồn tại từ lâu đời, gắn liền không gian sống của người dân tộc Rai (Raglai) hàng trăm năm qua.
Hiện khu rừng được hai chủ rừng (Khu bảo tồn thiên nhiên Núi Ông và Ban quản lý rừng phòng hộ Sông Móng – Ka Pét) quản lý, có sự chung tay bảo vệ của cộng đồng địa phương thông qua chính sách nhận khoán.
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How Ukraine Will Win
Much has been said regarding the Russian defense network, and when you check them then there is no doubt that Russians have put a vast amount of effort to create them. At this point I can wholeheartedly recommend the maps which
has created to document them. But what many forget is that those are purely tactical elements which – detached from a overarching strategy – offer little.
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washingtonpost.com September 19, 2017 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
How many of today’s problems in the Global South are a direct legacy of colonialism? A recent journal article by Bruce Gilley, “The Case for Colonialism,” kicked up great controversy by arguing that the “orthodoxy” that Western colonialism was universally harmful to colonized peoples and countries is overstated. Colonialism, Gilley writes, was “both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate” in many places.
Gilley, a political scientist at Portland State University, studies Chinese politics and recently made waves for resigning his membership in the American Political Science Association over its alleged lack of political diversity. His article in Third World Quarterly, however, ignores many existing studies that answer these questions with better data and more rigorous analysis, and which come to a resounding conclusion of “no.”
Tiếp tục đọc “A controversial article praises colonialism. But colonialism’s real legacy was ugly.”What Is Colonialism and How Did It Arise?
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Explore how colonialism enriched empires and fundamentally reshaped countries such as India.
A Hindu servant serves tea to a European colonial woman in this undated photograph. Source: George Rinhart/Corbis via Getty ImagesSHARE
In the late seventeenth century, the Mughal Empire controlled almost all of the Indian subcontinent.
European visitors marveled at the empire’s wealth and grandeur. Antonio Monserrate, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary, called its cities “second to none either in Asia or in Europe with regards either to size, population, or wealth.”
For centuries, merchants around the world had traveled to India, eager to trade for coveted silk, spices, and textiles. And in 1700, India’s economy was larger than all of Western Europe’s put together, making up nearly 25 percent of the global economy. By 1973, however, that number had dropped to just 3 percent.
How did this happen?
The full story is long, winding, complex, and contentious. It involves centuries of war, technological innovation, and global trade that sent some economies soaring and brought others crashing down. But central to this story for India—and for so many countries around the world—is the history of colonialism, the practice of controlling another country or area and exploiting its people and resources.
Nobel Foundation withdraws invitation to Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend ceremonies
FILE – The Nobel laureates and the royal family of Sweden during the Nobel Prize award ceremony at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Saturday Dec. 10 2022. The Nobel Foundation has withdrawn its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision to invite them “provoked strong reactions.” Saturday’s U-turn came after several Swedish lawmakers said they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies. (Pontus Lundahl/TT via AP, File)
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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Foundation on Saturday withdrew its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the decision announced a day earlier “provoked strong reactions.”
Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its position from a year earlier and invited representatives of the three countries to attend, saying it “promotes opportunities to convey the important messages of the Nobel Prize to everyone.”
Some of the lawmakers cited Russia’s war on Ukraine and the crackdown on human rights in Iran as reasons for their boycott. Belarusian opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya on Friday called on the Swedish Nobel Foundation and the Norwegian Nobel Committee not to invite representatives of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s “illegitimate regime to any events.”
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The Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality under the Ministry of Science and Technology has issued International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) standards regarding climate change adaption as a practical action to realise Vietnam’s net zero commitments.
VNA Wednesday, August 23, 2023 09:06 https://link.gov.vn/cxKMN5Hf
Hanoi (VNA) – The Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality under the Ministry of Science and Technology has issued International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) standards regarding climate change adaption as a practical action to realise Vietnam’s net zero commitments.
The standards named TCVN ISO 14090:2020 contain principles, requirements and guidelines to instruct organisations and sectors to adapt to climate change. They can be applied to every organisation of all sizes, local, regional, international, and at all types of business, corporation, sector, and natural resource manager.
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