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.

Bước đi mới tôn vinh chữ Quốc ngữ

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BBC Hoàng Hưng

Nhà thơ Hoàng Hưng, TS Đào Hằng và nhà báo Lưu Trọng Văn tại Thư viện Ajuda, nơi lưu giữ văn bản nghiên cứu CQN đầu tiên của F. de PinaNhà thơ Hoàng Hưng, TS Đào Hằng và nhà báo Lưu Trọng Văn tại Thư viện Ajuda, nơi lưu giữ văn bản nghiên cứu CQN đầu tiên của F. de Pina

Nhà báo Lưu Trọng Văn và tôi, Hoàng Hưng, vừa làm xong một việc có ý nghĩa ở Lisbon, thủ đô Bồ Đào Nha, coi như mở đầu cuộc tôn vinh Chữ Quốc Ngữ (CQN) mà một nhóm người yêu tiếng Việt khởi xướng từ tháng 3 năm nay (2018).

Ông Nguyễn Đăng Hưng, nguyên GS Đại học Liege Bỉ, nhiều năm về Việt Nam giúp đào tạo cao học, là người có sáng kiến tôn vinh Cha Alexandre de Rhodes (nguyên cớ trực tiếp là do GS bất bình với “đề án chữ Việt mới” của một vị đã từng gây ồn ào truyền thông hồi đầu năm). Sáng kiến này được ông tung trên Facebook cá nhân và đưa ra trong buổi họp mặt các nhà văn thân hữu của mạng Văn Việt cuối tháng 3/2018. Tiếp tục đọc “Bước đi mới tôn vinh chữ Quốc ngữ” →

Renewable energy projects up in 10 months

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VNS

Viet Nam NewsHÀ NỘI — An average of nine projects in power generation and distribution were registered every month since June 2017, according to the Việt Nam Renewable Energy Report 2018.

The report was released by the financial and business information corporation, Stoxplus.

The registration of projects followed the Government’s approval of the price of 9.35 US cents per kilo-watt hour Feed-in Tariff (FiT) for solar projects.

According to Stoxplus, foreign and local investors are excited about renewable energy in Việt Nam, which is expected to grow at 23.2 per cent annually during 2020-30.
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Facebook Has Been Accused Of Helping The Vietnamese Government Crack Down On Dissent

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BuzzFeed News

The open letter from human rights activists and independent media groups in Vietnam criticizing Mark Zuckerberg comes ahead of his Congressional hearings and amid a rising tide of global criticism over Facebook’s content moderation policies.

Originally posted on 
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Megha Rajagopalan
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BuzzFeed News Reporter
Mark Zuckerberg leaves the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) after meeting with her on Capitol Hill the day before his scheduled hearing on April 10 before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.

Mark Zuckerberg leaves the office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) after meeting with her on Capitol Hill the day before his scheduled hearing on April 10 before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees.

Dozens of journalists, human rights advocates and civil society groups in Vietnam have criticized Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg in an open letter ahead of him testifying before Congress.

The letter claims Facebook inappropriately suspended accounts and removed content belonging to human rights activists and journalists at the behest of the government.
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Why #SaveSonDoong is larger than just about a cave?

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#SaveSonDoong was founded as a campaign to save the pristine charm of the world’s largest cave from mass tourism. But overtime, this citizen-led campaign started to carry more just the mission of saving one cave. In this talk, Lê Nguyễn Thiên Hương, one of the co-founders of #SaveSonDoong will reveal to you what its ultimate goal is actually about. Lê Nguyễn Thiên Hương is an educator by day and an environmental activist by night. She has been working in the field of education for a decade at different roles – a tutor, a teaching assistant, a teacher, a counselor, an admissions officer, etc. On the other hand, traveling has always been a big part of her life. And her expedition to Sơn Đoòng in 2014 has marked a big turning point for her. At the time, Hương was in the process of applying to graduate school for the major of Educational Psychology. But what she found out at Sơn Đoòng has changed her direction completely. Her #SaveSonDoong campaign earned her a scholarship to Brandeis University, where she did two Master degrees in Nonprofit Management and Sustainable Development. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

The father of lithium-ion batteries

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Chemistryworld

journey to winning Japan’s highest scientific honour

Akira Yoshino was about nine years old when his teacher gave him a book: Michael Faraday’s A chemical history of a candle. He’s never looked at a candle the same since. ‘There was a TV programme on the other day about candles and how they can only really be used on Earth. What happens when you’re in a zero gravity environment? The flame looks like it’s extinguished (it actually burns almost invisibly at a very slow rate). That fascinated me,’ he says with the broadest smile.

Akira Yoshino

Source: © Japan Prize Foundation

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Critically Endangered Giant Fish on Menu at Luxury Restaurants

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National Geographic

Vietnamese restaurateurs are illegally sourcing rare Mekong River megafish from Cambodian fishermen.

BY RACHEL NUWER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LINH PHAM

PUBLISHED 

FROM THE OUTSIDE Nha Hang Lang Nghe, in Danang, looks like any other respectable restaurant in Vietnam. Tables are invitingly laid out in the shade of a lush garden, and festive traditional art lines attractive brick walls. Families laugh over hot pots, and businessmen clink glasses.

Yet the veneer of wholesome normality masks a dark truth: Critically endangered giant river fish are Lang Nghe’s signature dish. Although it’s illegal to sell them in Vietnam, signs at the entryway entice diners with photos of imperiled Mekong giant catfish (“tasty meat, rich in omega-3”) and giant barbs (“good for men”), while a video showing a 436-pound giant catfish being cooked and eaten plays on a screen inside. Advertisements on social media likewise boast of the delightful flavor of the enormous fish, and of their rarity.
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An integrated system for real-time monitoring of rice production and climate risks – Hệ thống giám sát tức thời sản lượng gạo và rủi ro khí hậu

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In the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam, a map-based system is being develop for real-time monitoring of rice production and raising the alarm for various climate-related risks. Photo: Eisen Bernardo (CCAFS SEA)
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May 29, 2018

For quick response to the climate-related impacts to rice production in the Mekong River Delta, an integrated GIS-based system is being developed.

In 2017, the Department of Crop Production (DCP) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) of Vietnam, in cooperation with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Southeast Asia (CCAFS SEA), developed and implemented the Climate-Smart Maps and Adaptation Plans (CS MAP) project. CS MAP maps drought, flooding, and salinity intrusion, and develop long- and medium-term adaptive plans in the Mekong River Delta (MRD). The methodology used promotes stakeholders’ participation in identifying feasible solutions to address specific local problems for sustainable rice production at provincial level. Tiếp tục đọc “An integrated system for real-time monitoring of rice production and climate risks – Hệ thống giám sát tức thời sản lượng gạo và rủi ro khí hậu” →

10 Rivers Contribute Most of the Plastic in the Oceans

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ScientificAmerica

The 10 rivers that carry 93 percent of that trash are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa. The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste into the Yellow Sea.

 

Credit: Amanda Montañez; Source: “Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea,” by Christian Schmidt et al., in Environmental Science & Technology, Vol. 51, No. 21; November 7, 2017

Our seas are choking on plastic. A staggering eight million metric tons wind up in oceans every year, and unraveling exactly how it gets there is critical. A recent study estimates that more than a quarter of all that waste could be pouring in from just 10 rivers, eight of them in Asia.

“Rivers carry trash over long distances and connect nearly all land surfaces with the oceans,” making them a major battleground in the fight against sea pollution, explains Christian Schmidt, a hydrogeologist at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.
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How a Deaf-Blind Person Watches the World Cup

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mentalfloss

YouTube, Hélio Surdos

Brazilian Sign Language interpreter Hélio Fonseca de Araújo woke up on the day before the opening of the World Cup in 2014 thinking about how he could help his friend Carlos, who is deaf and blind, get access to all the excitement. So he hit the hardware store, rigged up a tabletop model of the field, and enlisted his friend Regiane to provide extra interpretation for all the complex information that needs to come through in a game. He recently brought the setup out again for this World Cup. Tiếp tục đọc “How a Deaf-Blind Person Watches the World Cup” →

Discovering the Causes of Cleft – Nguyên nhân sứt môi/hở hàm ếch ở trẻ em

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Operationsmile

The highest rates occur in Southeast Asia

Editor’s Note: The Philippines holds a special place in the history – and future – of our organization. It was there that Dr. Bill Magee, a plastic surgeon, and his wife Kathy, a nurse and clinical social worker, became inspired to create Operation Smile after witnessing firsthand the dire need for life-changing cleft surgeries while working an independent volunteer medical mission in 1982. Unable to provide surgery for so many children due to lack of resources, the Magees promised to return. We’ve been going back ever since. As we work into our 35th year, we’re highlighting the birthplace of Operation Smile with this four-story series. This story is the first of a two-part feature on the International Family Study. Tiếp tục đọc “Discovering the Causes of Cleft – Nguyên nhân sứt môi/hở hàm ếch ở trẻ em” →

Estimated Electricity Cost Of Mining One Bitcoin By Country

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Powercompare.co.ukEstimated Electricity Cost Of Mining One Bitcoin By Country

 

The map above shows a very rough estimate of the current electricity costs of mining one Bitcoin by country around the world.

Based on our research, Kuwait is the cheapest country in the world to mine Bitcoins while the Solomon Islands would be the most expensive.

Overall, Bitcoin’s total electricity consumption is huge. In November last year we reported that Bitcoin Mining Now Consuming More Electricity Than 159 Countries Including Ireland & Most Countries In Africa. Tiếp tục đọc “Estimated Electricity Cost Of Mining One Bitcoin By Country” →

Map of The Year Women Got The Vote By Country

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BrilliantmapWomen's Suffrage Mapped: The Year Women Got The Vote By CountryMap created by Cuba HolidaysThe map above shows when women got the right to vote in each country around the world.

2018 marks the centenary of Women’s suffrage in the UK and even then only with several restrictions (had to be over the age of 30 and meet property qualifications).

Women in the UK would not get get to vote on equal terms as men until the passage of the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act 1928.

Somewhat ironically, the Isle of Man gave women who owned property the right to vote in 1881 making it one of the first jurisdictions in the world to do so. Tiếp tục đọc “Map of The Year Women Got The Vote By Country” →

Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles

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Theguardian

The breakthrough, spurred by the discovery of plastic-eating bugs at a Japanese dump, could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis

 Scientists explain how plastic-eating enzyme can help fight pollution – video

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Higher Education in Vietnam

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By Nick Clark, Editor, World Education News & Reviews

ACCESS WES WEBINAR ARCHIVE: “EDUCATION IN VIETNAM”

Enrollment at the tertiary level has grown dramatically in Vietnam over the last decade, with the national gross enrollment ratio (college enrollment as a percentage of the total college-age population) rising from 10 percent in 2000 to 16 percent in 2005, and 25 percent last year, according to data from the UNESCO Institute of Statistics. However, the system faces a raft of challenges in responding to the employment needs of Vietnam’s growing economy, especially as it seeks to climb the value chain away from a focus on low-wage manufacturing towards modern industry and innovation.

In this article, we offer an overview of the Vietnamese higher education system, the challenges it faces, and the reforms needed to improve. In addition, we touch on the current mobility trends of Vietnamese students abroad, finishing with a look at some of the most commonly seen academic credentials, including a file of sample documents and advice on what credentials to request when evaluating Vietnamese files and how best to convert grades.
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Northern Vietnam gets a luscious lychee shine

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By Ngoc Thanh   June 22, 2018 | 09:46 am GMT+7

e.vnexpress.net

When it is lychee season, the streets of Bac Giang Province and surrounding areas are a sight to behold.

Over the last few days, Bac Giang Province, home to Luc Ngan District which is famous as the major lychee producing area in the country, has worn a decorated look.

The traffic of motorbikes carrying harvested lychees is several kilometers long. 

The traffic of motorbikes carrying harvested lychees is several kilometers long.
At 5:30 a.m., highway 279 is covered with the distinct red color from lychee as traders rush to deliver this seasonal fruit to wet markets. Lychee are freshly pick daily at 2 a.m.

At 5:30 a.m., highway 279 is packed with lychee traders rushing to deliver the seasonal fruit to wet markets. Lychee are freshly picked daily at 2 a.m.
Traffic lasted for many hours and some people even set up small locations to buy off lychee fresh from the market.

The street has been painted lychee red.

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