I'm from Hanoi, Viet Nam.
I'm an author of Dot Chuoi Non (dotchuoinon.com/author/hangbelu/), a blog on Positive thinking, founded by Dr. Tran Dinh Hoanh, an attorney in Washington DC.
I'm a co-founder of Conversations on Vietnam Development - cvdvn.net, a virtual think tank. I am a co-founder of two companies in Viet Nam working on children education services. I advise companies on STEAM education, English language education for children and students in Vietnam.
I'm studying the Buddha's teaching and the teaching of Jesus. I practice mindful living including meditation.
I hold a PhD on Sustainable Energy Systems from University of Lisbon and Aalto University.
I graduated from Hanoi University of Technology on Environmental Engineering. I obtained a Master degree of the same major from Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University.
My English-language blog at: hangbelu.wordpress/.
I play table tennis as a hobby.
Trích đề thi tốt nghiệp Cấp 3 THPT, 2026: Câu 1 (2,0 điểm): Nước Mỹ có Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk,… với những phát minh công nghệ góp phần làm thay đổi thế giới. Từ gợi dẫn trên, với tư cách người trẻ, anh/chị hãy viết đoạn văn nghị luận (khoảng 200 chữ) trả lời câu hỏi: Làm thế nào để có những “Steve Jobs Việt Nam”?
Đề thi Ngữ văn tốt nghiệp THPT năm nay đưa ra hình ảnh quen thuộc với giới trẻ thành thị nhưng lại có thể xa lạ với những đứa trẻ nông thôn.
Tâm điểm gây tranh cãi của đề thi là câu hỏi: Làm thế nào để có thêm những “Steve Jobs Việt Nam”?
Mặc dù câu hỏi đã có phần dẫn nhắc tới “Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk,… với những phát minh công nghệ góp phần làm thay đổi thế giới” giúp thí sinh hiểu được mục đích đặt câu hỏi dựa trên tên tuổi này, nhưng việc lựa chọn một nhân vật “Steve Jobs” như ngữ liệu cơ bản có thể không phù hợp với một kỳ thi phổ thông toàn dân.
Các thí sinh thi tốt nghiệp THPT ở một điểm trường thuộc phường Bến, Nghé TP HCM. Ảnh: Thanh Tùng
Goats, pigs, ducks…on a train? China’s public welfare trains may not have the speed or shine of their high-speed counterparts, but they serve a very important role: connecting villages to cities, offering farmers, livestock owners, and many others direct access to markets in urban centers. Passengers bring their livestock or farm produce to the market on these trains, paying ticket prices that are sometimes as low as 2 yuan ($0.30). CGTN’s Bhargab Sarmah explains how, even as China’s high-speed rail network takes massive strides, its public welfare trains ensure no one is left behind in the country’s development journey.
All aboard the “vegetable express”! This No. 7272 “slow train” from the mountains of southern China is a lifeline for rural farmers who rely on it to transport fresh harvest to the markets. Running 178 kilometers from Hunan Province to Guizhou Province, this train provides safe and convenient commute for farmers to sell their agricultural produce.
VTV.vn – Lần đầu tiên tại Việt Nam, thiên nhiên hoang dã không chỉ được kể lại qua những thước phim đã dựng sẵn, mà hiện diện trực tiếp trước mắt khán giả.
Sáng 16/6, Đài Truyền hình Việt Nam (VTV) chính thức ra mắt dự án Vietnam Wild Live với thông điệp “Kết nối thiên nhiên, lan tỏa nhận thức”.
Với mong muốn giúp khán giả trong và ngoài nước hiểu rõ hơn về nguồn tài nguyên thiên nhiên quý giá, tươi đẹp và đa dạng sinh học của Việt Nam, lần đầu tiên Đài Truyền hình Việt Nam thực hiện dự án Vietnam Wild Live, truyền hình trực tiếp tại Vườn Quốc gia Côn Đảo, dự kiến từ 12h30-14h30 từ ngày 25/6 đến 30/6/2026.
Chia sẻ tại buổi ra mắt dự án, nhà báo Nguyễn Thu Hà – Trưởng Ban Chuyên đề – Khoa giáo, Đài THVN cho biết, dự án là một bước tiến nhỏ nhưng có ý nghĩa lớn đối với những người làm truyền hình, đặc biệt là VTV. “Bởi vì lần đầu tiên sau rất nhiều năm chúng tôi làm trực tiếp tin tức, làm trực tiếp bóng đá, làm trực tiếp rất nhiều sự kiện… nhưng đây là lần đầu tiên chúng tôi làm trực tiếp thiên nhiên hoang dã. Chúng tôi mong muốn đưa thiên nhiên đến gần với công chúng và công chúng có thể thưởng thức, được ngắm nhìn, được hiểu biết rõ hơn về thiên nhiên tươi đẹp của đất nước, qua đó tăng thêm tinh thần bảo vệ thiên nhiên và tình yêu đất nước.
Bạn đã bao giờ từng mua hàng ở những gánh hàng rong?Bạn đã bao giờ ngẩn ngơ trước màu sắc rực rỡ trên những chiếc xe đạp cũ kỹ len lỏi qua từng con phố nhỏ?
Nét đẹp của đường phố khi xuất hiện những gánh hàng rong
Gánh hàng rong đã tồn tại ở mảnh đất phố thị từ xa xưa cho đến bây giờ, từ thuở xưa của kinh thành Thăng Long khi người dân thủ đô mưu sinh trên lề đường, trong những khu chợ dân sinh đủ các tầng lớp. Mỗi lần nhắc đến văn hóa hàng rong, người ta đều mặc nhiên xem nó như một điều thân thuộc, một nét đẹp văn hóa đặc sắc của Hà thành.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) faces a mounting challenge from transnational organized crime along its southern periphery. Myanmar has become the world’s most criminalized state, particularly after the 2021 military coup, providing a safe haven for illicit economies ranging from drug, human, and arms trafficking to illegal mining, cybercrime, and financial crimes.1 Other Mekong countries have also emerged as criminal hotspots, with Cambodia hosting around 100,000 trafficked victims in scam centers, according to a UN estimate.2 Sustained by corruption, weak governance, and entrenched Chinese criminal networks, these activities have disproportionately targeted Chinese nationals and thus have been framed as a matter of national security by the party-state.
In response, the PRC Ministry of Public Security (MPS) and other security agencies have intensified law-enforcement efforts in the Mekong region, designated as a “pilot zone” (实验区) for the Global Security Initiative (全球安全倡议). Chinese authorities have increased pressure on their neighbors and multiplied joint operations, resulting in the arrest and deportation of over 55,000 individuals from scam centers in northern Myanmar between August 2023 and April 2025.3 At the same time, Beijing has sought to pursue subregional security mechanisms under its leadership. These include coordinated Mekong river patrols with Laos, Myanmar, and Thailand, which were launched in 2011, and the Lancang-Mekong Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Center (LM-LECC), a spin-off intergovernmental body established in Yunnan in 2017 within the broader Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework.
Six Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) countries have achieved fruitful results in combating telecommunication fraud, online gambling, and drugs and human trafficking in 2025.
During the”Safe Lancang-Mekong 2025″ joint operation launched in late February last year, law-enforcement agencies from China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam cracked down on 8,012 telecommunication fraud and online gambling cases and arrested 14,047 criminal suspects, according to the Lancang-Mekong Integrated Law Enforcement and Security Cooperation Center (LMLECC).
Additionally, 122,503 drug-related cases were busted, leading to the arrest of 139,956 suspects and the seizure of over 82 tonnes of various drugs along with 169.73 tonnes of precursor chemicals.
Law enforcement officers also cracked down on 1,017 human trafficking cases, capturing 718 suspects and rescuing 1,469 victims.
Officials from the LMC countries met Monday and Tuesday in Kunming, capital of southwest China’s Yunnan Province, to exchange experiences and discuss further law enforcement and security cooperation.
All parties agreed to continue joint operations to combat telecommunication fraud, the most serious transnational crime in the Lancang-Mekong region.
Established in 2017 in Kunming, the LMLECC serves as a comprehensive intergovernmental international organization for law enforcement and security cooperation in the Lancang-Mekong River basin.
Female infanticide does not only occur in India and China, but in this case study we will focus on those two countries, two of the most populous countries in the world.
Note: China does not longer have a one-child policy. It was replaced with a two-child policy in 2015, and a three-child policy in 2021. This is expected to greatly decrease the prevalence of female infanticide and sex-selective abortions in China.
Introduction
In this article, female infanticide is the sex-selective killings of newborn female children due to a preference for male children. It typically results from, and is a reflection of, the low status of females in the surrounding culture, where males – and therefore also boys – are seen as more valuable than women and girls.
As other Asian economies race to conserve energy, China has huge reserves of oil and gas as well as alternative energy sources like wind and solar
Xi Jinping has been preparing for a crisis like this for years. China must secure its energy supply “in its own hands”, its president was reported to have said during a visit to one of its vast oilfields in 2021.
The US-Israel war on Iran plunged the Middle East into a deep conflict, with the strait of Hormuz – one of the most important waterways in global trade – all but closed and key energy facilities across the region under attack.
Oil exports from the Middle East have tumbled 61% over recent weeks, according to maritime tracking consultancy Kpler – roiling countries across Asia, which relied on the region for 59% of its crude imports in 2025, and have been left racing to conserve energy.
Baku Takahashi, a JICA expert, provides guidance on tree planting in Muong Phang Commune, Dien Bien Province. (Photo: JICA)
The Green Climate Fund has approved a funding proposal submitted by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Government of Viet Nam for a results-based payment project on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), recognising Viet Nam’s emission reduction achievements in 2014.
The proposal, titled “Viet Nam’s REDD+ Results-Based Payment for the Results Period of 2014,” was approved at the 44th meeting of the GCF Board held on March 26, 2026 in Republic of Korea.
Accordingly, Viet Nam will receive 71.96 million USD through a results-based payment mechanism, corresponding to independently verified greenhouse gas emission reductions. These results were achieved through efforts to curb deforestation and forest degradation, while increasing forest carbon stocks through tree planting and natural forest restoration. The funding from the project will be reinvested in strengthening forest-related policies, institutions and enforcement measures.
A local resident beside acacia trees planted in Phieng Ban Commune, Son La Province.
Through project activities, Viet Nam will gradually address the main causes of deforestation and forest degradation, promote sustainable forest management, and improve livelihoods for forest-dependent communities.
The project is expected to be implemented over six years, led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment of Viet Nam in coordination with provincial People’s Committees in the project areas. Target locations include provinces in the Northwest and Northeast regions, namely Dien Bien, Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Son La, Phu Tho and Tuyen Quang provinces.
The approval of this project further affirmed the long-standing and effective cooperation between JICA and Viet Nam in the field of REDD+, including support for development of policy, forest monitoring systems, the measurement, and calculation of emission reductions and elimination.
When leaders of Young Republican groups around the country exchange texts that say “I love Hitler”; that joke about gas chambers and rape, approve of slavery, sneer about “watermelon people” and monkeys in zoos, and throw around words like faggot and retarded, they aren’t just exposing their own anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, and misogyny. To see only the varieties of bigotry with which we’re painfully familiar is to miss the depth of MAGA’s moral collapse. Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman. It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent. The texts degrade all of us.
And they’re hardly surprising. Cruelty and humiliation have become the Trump administration’s common currency. With permission from President Donald Trump’s coarse rhetoric and vows of hatred, Elon Musk’s Nazi salute, Tucker Carlson’s flirtation with Holocaust denial, and Stephen Miller’s rage-filled threats, the young loyalists who wrote the texts were speaking the language of the people they admire most. Nor was it surprising when, the day after Politico revealed the texts’ existence, the image of an American flag altered into the shape of a swastika appeared on the cubicle wall behind a staffer in the Capitol Hill office of a MAGA congressman. In that culture, the rehabilitation of the man who stands for the worst in humanity was inevitable.
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It started with a tipoff. I was reporting on the trafficking and exploitation of migrant workers in the Gulf when a source I had known for more than a decade reached out. They told me that child sexual abuse trafficking in the US was surging. As the Covid pandemic pushed predators online, some were using Facebook and Instagram to buy and sell children.
It was 2021 and I was about to begin an investigation with Mei-Ling McNamara, a human rights journalist, that would lead to the tech company Meta losing a multimillion-pound court case in March this year. The company had not yet rebranded and was known as Facebook, and there had not been any reporting on how children were being trafficked on its platforms. Experts from anti-trafficking nonprofit organisations and an American law enforcement official talked me through the crimes they were seeing.
Economic inequality is a global phenomenon. And while the data suggests that inequality between countries has fallen, inequality within countries has risen. China, for instance, a country with very low levels of inequality just a few decades ago, now features inequality levels that are comparable to those in the US.
Một dòng học thuyết dựa trên bằng chứng khảo cổ cho rằng trống đồng Đông Sơn, Việt Nam có nguồn gốc từ Vân Nam, nằm ở Tây Nam Trung Quốc được mang xuống Bắc Việt Nam, phát triển rực rỡ tại Đông Sơn. Trống đồng sau đó được lan rộng ra toàn khu vực Đông Nam Á. Trống đồng là sản phẩm của quá trình hợp chủng giao thoa văn hoá, Đông Sơn, Việt Nam là điểm phát triển rực rỡ nhất, nhưng không phải là nơi khởi điểm của trống đồng.
Theo Ben Kiernan trong quyển Viet Nam: A history from earliest times to present (2017), kỷ nguyên đồ đồng tại vùng đất là nước Việt Nam ngày nay diễn ra muộn hơn Lưỡng Hà, Trung Hoa (3000 – 2800 BC) hay Ai Cập và Âu Châu (2200 – 2000 BC) rất nhiều. Nó cùng thời với mảnh đất Thái Lan, chỉ vào khoảng 1500 – 1400 BC.
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