Tác giả: Đào Thu Hằng

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.

Where the dead help the living

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By Trong Nghia   December 24, 2018 | 09:57 am GMT+7
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In northern Vietnam, old people risk their lives to pick up small notes drivers toss out on a highway to honor the dead.

It’s around noon and Hoang Van Dang sits quietly in a shabby hut on a national highway, his eyes glued to the street.

Then, suddenly, he plunges into the highway before returning with three VND500 and VND2,000 (8.6 cents) currency notes in his palm. The 76-year-old man in a pair of worn-out flip-flops is quick and agile.

Within 10 minutes he runs out to pick up bills five times.

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Hoang Van Dang sits in his hut by a national highway that runs near his house in Lang Son Province in northern Vietnam. Photo by VnExpress/Trong Nghia

Hoang Van Dang, 76, sits in his hut along a national highway that runs near his house in Lang Son Province. Photos by VnExpress/Trong Nghia

In Vietnam, Fake Death Certificates Are Weaponized to Hack Facebook Accounts

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Published on Monday, 24 December 2018 16:00Written by Saigoneer.

Vietnam’s fake document industry has upgraded for the information age.

Vietnam has one of the largest populations of Facebook users in the world. According to Noudhy Valdryno, a representative from Facebook’s Asia-Pacific Division, the country has 42 million daily users, accounting for 17% of Southeast Asia’s total 242 million. With a robust local Facebook user base comes darker implications, however, such as the manifestation of fake news, bullying or porn bots. Tiếp tục đọc “In Vietnam, Fake Death Certificates Are Weaponized to Hack Facebook Accounts” →

The last 92 Irrawaddy dolphins in Mekong River may not survive

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Experts are concerned that the Mekong dolphin is unlikely to survive Cambodia’s modernisation as a new dam is planned.

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An Irrawaddy dolphin, also known as the Mekong dolphin, swims in the river at Kampi village in Kratie province, 230 km (143 miles) northeast of Cambodia [File: Chor Sokunthea/Reuters]

An Irrawaddy dolphin, also known as the Mekong dolphin, swims in the river at Kampi village in Kratie province, 230 km (143 miles) northeast of Cambodia [File: Chor Sokunthea/Reuters]

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How Asia Fell Out of Love With China’s Belt and Road Initiative

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Countries are discovering that the promise of Xi Jinping’s signature infrastructure program is too good to be true.

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In late August, President Abdulla Yameen of the Maldives hailed the opening of a Chinese-built bridge connecting two islands in the archipelago as “the gateway into tomorrow and the opportunities beyond.”

One month later, Yameen was voted out and the new government of the palm-fringed nation off the coast of India began to uncover the mountain of debt with which he’d saddled the country. A pro-China strongman who jailed opponents and judges, Yameen borrowed heavily from Beijing to build a new runway for the main airport, housing developments and a hospital, as well as the 2.1 kilometer (1.3 mile)-long “China-Maldives Friendship Bridge.”

On a recent trip to New Delhi, Maldives officials opened up about their frustration over the scale of the debt to China—the equivalent of almost  20 percent of GDP—and the inexplicable preference given to Chinese financing under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In just one example, the previous government rejected a $54 million hospital bid in favor of an “inflated” Chinese offer of $140 million. Tiếp tục đọc “How Asia Fell Out of Love With China’s Belt and Road Initiative” →

Không khai thác bể than sông Hồng bằng mọi giá

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‘Không khai thác bể than sông Hồng bằng mọi giá’ là ý kiến chung của các chuyên gia, nhà quản lý tại Hội thảo ‘Đánh giá tiềm năng khai thác và sử dụng bể than sông Hồng’, tổ chức sáng ngày 4/12/2018.

Tiềm năng rất lớn…

Theo TS. Đào Văn Thịnh – Viện Địa chất và Môi trường, Tổng Hội Địa chất Việt Nam, bể than sông Hồng (BTSH) kéo dài khoảng 120 km từ thành phố Việt Trì, tỉnh Phú Thọ đến bờ biển vịnh Bắc Bộ, qua địa phận các tỉnh Hưng Yên, Thái Bình, Nam Định, Hải Dương, Hải Phòng và TP. Hà Nội. Khu vực tiềm năng có các vỉa than quy mô công nghiệp có thể khai thác vào khoảng 1.920 km2 thuộc địa bàn 3 tỉnh Hưng Yên, Thái Bình, Nam Định.

Theo các chuyên gia, việc khai thác BTSH là vấn đề rất lớn, phức tạp nên cần nghiên cứu kỹ lưỡng và thận trọng

TS. Thịnh dẫn số liệu từ kết quả Đề án điều tra, đánh giá tổng thể tài nguyên than phần đất liền BTSH được thực hiện theo Quyết định số 326/QĐ-TTg ngày 20/3/2012 của Thủ tướng Chính phủ cho biết, mục tiêu tài nguyên than cấp 333, 334a và 334b đạt 210 tỷ tấn trong đó tài nguyên cấp 333 đạt 10 tỷ tấn.

“Như vậy BTSH có tiềm năng tài nguyên than rất cao, Nếu tính đến độ sâu – 3.500m thì tổng tài nguyên than đạt 210 tỷ tấn, gấp 20 lần bể than Quảng Ninh” – ông Thịnh tính toán.

Bổ sung thông tin, GS.TS Trần Văn Trị – Tổng Hội địa chất Việt Nam – cho biết, theo các tài liệu địa chất, địa vật lý và khoan thăm dò từ năm 1961 đến nay (hiện lưu tại Tập đoàn Dầu khí Việt Nam, Tập đoàn Công nghiệp Than – Khoán sản Việt Nam và Tổng cục Địa chất và Khoáng sản Việt Nam) thì than ở đồng bằng sông Hồng có dạng vỉa hoặc thấu kính có bề dày thay đổi từ 0,3 – 10m. Nhãn hiệu than ở đây thuộc loại á-bitum (than mỡ) có chất lượng tốt với nhiệt lượng trung bình cao, khoảng 6.840cal/g; độ tro khoảng 13,26%; chất bốc khoảng 48,15% và lưu huỳnh ở mức 1,54%.

Đánh giá tiềm năng tài nguyên than của BTSH là rất lớn, song các chuyên gia cho rằng, điều kiện địa chất công trình và địa chất thủy văn của khu vực này khá phức tạp. Cụ thể, theo TS. Đào Văn Thịnh, trên phạm vi BTSH có các đứt gãy kiến tạo cỡ khu vực chạy qua và đa số là các đứt gãy đang hoạt động, đứt gãy sinh chấn, gồm: Đứt gẫy sông Hồng, sông Chảy, sông Lô và Vĩnh Ninh.

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China’s Golden Era in Portugal

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thediplomat

Why is this medium-sized southern European country being targeted by Chinese investors?

By Philippe Le Corre November 24, 2018

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Traffic accidents are eighth leading cause of death globally, according to WHO

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By Naomi Thomas, CNN

The highest death rates are in Africa and Southeast Asia: 26.6 and 20.7 deaths per 100,000, respectively.

Updated 0931 GMT (1731 HKT) December 7, 2018

The future of road safety 03:26

(CNN)The number of traffic-related deaths reached a high of 1.35 million in 2016, according to the 2018 Global Status Report on Road Safety, released by the World Health Organization on Friday. It has also moved up to the eighth leading cause of death for people of all ages, ahead of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis.

“Road safety is an issue that does not receive anywhere near the attention it deserves — and it really is one of our great opportunities to save lives around the world,” Michael Bloomberg, former New York mayor and the WHO global ambassador for noncommunicable diseases and injuries, said in the foreword of the report.
Although the report points out that progress has been made in certain areas, such as legislation, it has not happened quickly enough to meet the UN’s goals to halve road traffic deaths between 2016 and 2020.
Traffic deaths are now the leading global cause of deaths for children and young adults between 5 and 29 years old.

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Việt Nam thắng hai giải lớn tại liên hoan phim Singapore

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BBC
Việt Nam, phim tài liệu
Đạo diễn Phạm Thu Hằng và hai nhân vật chính trong phim “Mùa cát vọng”

Hai nữ đạo diễn của Việt Nam vừa giành hai giải nhất tại Liên hoan Phim Singapore 2018, quy tụ các nhà làm phim tài năng khắp châu Á.

Phim tài liệu dài đầu tay “Mùa cát vọng” (The future cries beneath our soil) của nữ đạo diễn Phạm Thu Hằng giành giải Đạo diễn Xuất sắc nhất ở hạng mục Phim phóng sự châu Á. Tiếp tục đọc “Việt Nam thắng hai giải lớn tại liên hoan phim Singapore” →

World’s largest car rental firm drives into Vietnam

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World’s largest car rental firm drives into Vietnam

Vietnam is the first stop for Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Asia. Photo acquired by VnExpress

Vietnam is the first stop for Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Asia, after 85 locations in Europe and the Americas.

The world’s largest car rental servicer, Enterprise Holdings, recently announced that its Enterprise Rent-A-Car service is now available in Vietnam.

The move is part of Enterprise Holdings’ goal to expand its car rental services across the Asia Pacific region.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car will operate in Vietnam through its Vietnamese franchise partner MP Logistics.

Cuong Dang, general director of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Vietnam, said the company currently has 300 rental cars, from 5 to 47 seaters, available in Ho Chi Minh City. The service is scheduled to be expanded to Hanoi and central Da Nang City in the first quarter of 2019.

Rent-A-Car’s initial strategy will be to grow a base of corporate customers, foreign employees of multinational companies with operations in Vietnam. The initial emphasis will be on long-term rentals with a chauffeur.

Later, it will expand its services to include short-term, chauffeur-driven options, self-drive rentals and leisure hire at popular tourist destinations likes Da Nang.

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Expert suggests using scrap tires to fight landslides

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VietNamNet Bridge – In Vietnam and the Mekong Delta in particular, landslides along rivers and coastal areas are becoming more serious and more frequent.

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Landslides are becoming more serious

Reports show that there are 562 landslide stricken areas in the Mekong Delta, with the total length of 786 kilometers. At least 42 areas of 148 kilometers in length are in a dangerous situation.

Every year, more than 500 hectares of land are eroded, causing the loss of residential land, protective forest land, specialized and production land, and causing damage to infrastructure and ecosystem. Tiếp tục đọc “Expert suggests using scrap tires to fight landslides” →

Will Vietnam follow China down the pollution path?

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A pedestrian crosses a smog-shrouded street in Lianyungang, eastern China’s Jiangsu province on December 19, 2016. Hospital visits spiked, roads were closed and flights cancelled on December 19 as China choked under a vast cloud of toxic smog, with forecasters warning the worse was yet to come.
Source: STR/AFP

THE news that China is bracing for smog waves as the winter heating season begins has once again put the dangerous levels of air pollution in Asia in the spotlight. With the air in Beijing and adjacent areas expected to become heavily polluted over the next week, China will be facing concern – yet again – over its underwhelming response to the problem.
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Can Vietnam achieve its vision of a ‘green transformation’?

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This picture taken on May 2, 2014 shows the first wind turbine towers from Vietnam’s first wind power plant along a sea coast at the southern coastal province of Bac Lieu. Up until 2014 Southeast Asian communist nation had been relying mainly on power produced from thermo and hydro power plants. Source: AFP /Duy Khoi

VIETNAM is facing a number of environmental pitfalls and policy hurdles on its path towards a sustainable energy sector, Frauke Urban, Giuseppina Siciliano, Linda Wallbott, Markus Lederer and Dang Nguyen Anh write.

Vietnam has experienced rapid economic growth over the past two decades, making it one of the strongest and fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia.

At the same time, the country has experienced increasing levels of urbanisation, industrialisation and high population growth.

While millions of people have been lifted out of poverty, Vietnam’s recent development trajectory has also resulted in increasing environmental pressures. Tiếp tục đọc “Can Vietnam achieve its vision of a ‘green transformation’?” →

200 years to go before Laos is cleared of unexploded US bombs from Vietnam war era

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SCMP

  • In the world’s most heavily bombed country, 20 million UXO have been cleared in the 45 years since clandestine US war ended
  • That leaves another 80 million still to be dug out and defused, if foreign governments continue funding the work.

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    Thanksgiving is an American tradition that is unknown in most of the world. Fifty years ago, however, it landed in Laos, the small, impoverished Southeast Asian nation that was to become perhaps the longest-suffering casualty of the United States’ war in Vietnam.

    Thanksgiving is held on the fourth Thursday in November. In 1968, that fell on November 28, and on that day, at the height of the war and on the orders of president Lyndon B. Johnson, turkey dinners were helicoptered in to American soldiers who were on a mission to sever the Ho Chi Minh Trail – the network of paths and tracks that constituted North Vietnam’s military supply lines to the south of the country – that ran through eastern Laos.

    Vietnam war photographer on PTSD and his final battle, with cancer

    LBJ’s festive dinners were flown in at the same time as the US began dropping millions of bombs on the trail, which it had already been targeting for four years. Half a century later, Laos is still dealing with the deadly legacy of that bombing campaign, which left an estimated 100 million pieces of unexploded ordnance on the ground. Tiếp tục đọc “200 years to go before Laos is cleared of unexploded US bombs from Vietnam war era” →

    Binh Duong to host Horasis Asia Meeting 2018

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    Binh Duong Convention Centre (Photo: horasis.org)

    Binh Duong (VNA) – The Horasis Asia Meeting 2018 will take place in the southern province of Binh Duong on November 25 – 27, said Tran Thanh Liem, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.

    The event will bring together about 400 guests from 60 countries and international organisations, along with 500 domestic guests, including leaders of the Government, ministries, agencies and representatives of cities, provinces and enterprises. Tiếp tục đọc “Binh Duong to host Horasis Asia Meeting 2018” →

    Christ’s stepping stone in Dai Viet

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    Great Figures of the Missionary Work

    Joaquim Magalhães de Castro

    Despite their initial failure in the process of evangelization, the Order of Preachers never left Cochinchina and today there still remains the memory of the many martyrs, monks and lay brothers, who left there, especially during the 19th century. A total of 59 martyrs – bishops, priests, laity, catechists, all members of the priestly fraternity of Saint Dominic.

    In the meanwhile, two other Portuguese missionaries, this time of the Augustinian Order disembarked on those shores and, in 1596, would eventually establish a mission, in Phuoc Kieu, neighboring village to Hoi An, known to the Portuguese as Cachão. However, a quarrel between a Christian and a soldier at the service of an important local Mandarin forced the two religious to abandon everything and return to Macau, thus failing another Christian attempt.

    The missionary situation in those kingdoms worried the bishop of Malacca, Friar Cristóvão de Lisboa. After all, the region in question was under its jurisdiction. Determined not to give up, that religious man, around 1610, send several prelates with the title of vicars. Unfortunately, against all expectations, the result was nil; one of them returned to Macau and the others confined themselves to play the role of chaplains in the boats of the Portuguese merchants.

    At that time a strong wave of persecution against the Catholic Church arose in Japan, especially between 1598 and 1614, forcing many Japanese Christians to take refuge in Macau or in Cochinchina. In turn, missionaries, unable to evangelize, returned to their base (Macau), but not for long, as will be shown.

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