Bình thường mới: Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long đối mặt với hạn hán và xâm nhập mặn

Hạn hán

vietnam.opendevelopmentmekong.net – 15 March 2022

Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long thiếu nước phục vụ sinh hoạt và sản xuất trầm trọng. Ảnh từ www.moitruongvadothi.vn.

1. Bối cảnh

Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (ĐBSCL) của Việt Nam là đồng bằng lớn thứ ba trên Trái Đất, là nơi sinh sống của gần 18 triệu người với sinh kế chủ yếu là sản xuất nông nghiệp và nuôi trồng thủy sản. Được coi là “Vựa lúa” của Việt Nam, ĐBSCL đóng góp hơn một nửa tổng sản lượng gạo của cả nước và 95% sản lượng gạo xuất khẩu, góp phần đưa Việt Nam trở thành quốc gia xuất khẩu gạo lớn thứ ba thế giới. Khu vực này cũng đóng góp 70% sản lượng trái cây và hơn 60% sản lượng thủy sản xuất khẩu của cả nước.1

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Biệt thự, bến du thuyền chiếm bờ sông Sài Gòn làm của riêng

Thực hiện: Ip Thiên – Q.Huy  16/03/2022

(Dân trí) – Bờ sông Sài Gòn đoạn qua phường Thảo Điền (TP Thủ Đức) bị những dãy biệt thự khủng bịt kín, gần như không còn lối ra. Các khu biệt thự biến mặt sông thành bến du thuyền, chiếm trọn không gian chung.

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Những năm gần đây, vấn đề các công trình xây dựng xây dựng vươn sát mặt sông Sài Gòn là thực trạng chưa có lời giải của TPHCM. Trong đó, khu vực sông Sài Gòn đoạn qua khu vực phường Thảo Điền (thành phố Thủ Đức) là điểm nóng của vấn nạn công trình, biệt thự bao vây đường bờ sông, người dân khó để tìm nơi tiếp cận, hóng gió trời hay tập thể dục.

Để được tận hưởng không khí của mặt sông, người dân buộc phải chọn phương án đi bộ xa hơn về đầu hoặc cuối đường Nguyễn Văn Hưởng, một con hẻm nhỏ nằm giữa đường hoặc trả tiền để vào nhà hàng, quán cà phê ven sông.

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Cần rút bài học gì từ thương vụ bị lừa đảo hơn 500 tỉ đồng từ Ý?

Lê Thị Thanh Tâm* – LS. Lê Trọng Thêm**

16/03/2022 21:53

(KTSG Online) – Thương vụ lừa đảo 100 container hạt điều có giá trị khoảng hơn 20 triệu đô la Mỹ đã thu hút sự quan tâm của dư luận trong tuần qua. Các thương nhân ngành điều cầu cứu khắp nơi và ngóng trông tin tức về số phận các container điều đang lênh đênh trên biển đến cảng nhận hàng tại nước Ý xa xôi.

Thương vụ Sứ quán Việt Nam tại Ý làm việc với ngân hàng Banca di Credito Popolare tại Napoli liên quan vụ 100 container hạt điều xuất khẩu. (Ảnh: TTXVN)

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PODCAST: Asia Stream: The old and new Cold War

From Nixon’s 1972 visit to Beijing condoning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we investigate what went wrong in the U.S.-China relationship

Nikkei – February 25, 2022 13:08 JST

NEW YORK — Welcome to Nikkei Asia’s podcast: Asia Stream.

Every week, Asia Stream tracks and analyzes the Indo-Pacific with a mix of interviews and original reporting by our correspondents from across the globe.

New episodes are recorded weekly and available on Apple PodcastsSpotify and all other major platforms, and on our YouTube channel.

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‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Then my friend was shot’ – podcast

At a summer camp for kids from conflict zones, I met my brave, funny friend Aseel. He was Palestinian. I was Israeli. When he was killed by police, my hope for our future died with him

theguardian.com – by Roy Cohen – Thu 13 Jan 2022 06.00 GMT

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Asia Stream: A tale of three cities

Asia is home to some of the world’s largest and most dynamic cities. Why do some of them fail?

Nikkei staff writersFebruary 18, 2022 11:59 JST

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NEW YORK — Welcome to Nikkei Asia’s podcast: Asia Stream.

Every week, Asia Stream tracks and analyzes the Indo-Pacific with a mix of interviews and original reporting by our correspondents from across the globe.

New episodes are recorded weekly and available on Apple PodcastsSpotify and all other major platforms, and on our YouTube channel.

LISTEN HERE

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Russia-Ukraine conflict: Implications for investors and businesses in Vietnam

geopoliticalmonitor – March 10, 2022 – By Randall Puah

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Ukraine has come under a full-blown invasion by the Russian military since Putin’s 24 February 2022 shock announcement of a “special military operation” in the country’s south-eastern Donbass region. The conflict has already caused market jitters, commodity price hikes, and exacerbated supply chain disruptions. It has also prompted a well-planned and coordinated effort by major US, European, and Asian economies to raise the economic costs for Putin. The key ones being:

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Myanmar’s troubled history: Coups, military rule, and ethnic conflict

cfrThe 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes.

A protester holds an image of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing during an anti-coup march in February 2021.
A protester holds an image of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing during an anti-coup march in February 2021. Getty Images

WRITTEN BY Lindsay Maizland

Last updated January 31, 2022 11:00 am

Summary

  • Myanmar, also known as Burma, has suffered decades of repressive military rule, widespread poverty, and civil war with ethnic minority groups.
  • The transition away from full military rule starting in 2011 spurred hopes of democratic reforms. But the military maintained control over much of the government and began a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
  • The military launched a coup in February 2021 and then cracked down on protests. The opposition formed a shadow government and fighting force, leading to a civil war and humanitarian crisis that could spill over Myanmar’s borders.

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Countries currently at war 2022

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The Oxford English Dictionary defines “war” as: (1) A state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country; (2) a state of competition or hostility between different people or groups, or (3) a sustained campaign against an undesirable situation or activity. There are many possible reasons for war to begin between—or more often, within—nations. Among these are economic gain, territorial gain, religion, nationalism, civil war, and political revolution. Often, countries’ leaders become primary motivators of conflict by instigating a territorial dispute, trying to control another country’s natural resources, or exercising authoritarian power over people.

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Bao giờ mới đến võ đài chuyên nghiệp?

HUY ĐĂNG 9/3/2022 11:00 GMT+7

TTCTNhững trận đánh triệu USD, dưới ánh đèn rực rỡ và khán đài cuồng nhiệt đầy ắp người… Giấc mơ về võ đài nhà nghề tưởng chừng không còn xa khi Nguyễn Thị Thu Nhi giành đai vô địch thế giới WBO hồi tháng 10 năm ngoái – cột mốc lịch sử của làng boxing chuyên nghiệp Việt Nam.

 Võ sĩ Thu Nhi (Ảnh: NVCC)

 Nhưng rồi chỉ vài tháng sau, “thiên thần đen” đứng trước nguy cơ giã từ võ đài nhà nghề, để trở về đấu võ… nghiệp dư.

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Bangladesh’s Identity Crisis: To be or Not to be secular

Fifty years after it gained its independence, Bangladesh’s commitment to secularism remains shaky.

thediplomat – By Shafi Md Mostofa – December 06, 2021

Bangladesh’s Identity Crisis: To Be or Not to Be Secular
Hundreds of Hindus protesting against attacks on temples and the killing of two Hindu devotees shout slogans in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, October 18, 2021.Credit: AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu

In a couple of weeks, Bangladesh will celebrate the golden jubilee of its victory in the liberation war against Pakistan. Fifty years have passed since it became independent, and secular nationalist forces gained the upper hand over religious ones in the war. However, Bangladesh has not been able to secure its secularism.

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A new culture of dissent is remaking Cuba’s politics

worldpoliticsreview.com – William M. LeoGrande Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Anti-government protesters march in Havana, Cuba, July 11, 2021 (AP photo by Eliana Aponte).

In mid-February, a court in Holguin, Cuba, about 500 miles east of Havana, handed down sentences of up to 20 years in prison to 20 people convicted of sedition the previous month. Their crime, and that of the hundreds of others like them still awaiting verdicts elsewhere, was to have participated in widespread protests last summer, some peaceful but some violent, that took the Cuban government—and the world—by surprise.

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The Kafala system and Vietnam’s domestic workers: Corruption and a Silenced Press

newmandalaANGIE NGOC TRAN – 15 FEB, 2022

While worker grievances about abuses and exploitation since 2015 have fallen on deaf ears with the renewal of a bilateral Vietnam-Saudi Arabia labour pact (2019-2024), a recent announcement from the official state media seems to appease recent bad publicity about labor export. It reveals an entrenched network of financial interests between recruitment companies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Security Agency has prosecuted some officials at the Consular Department level for accepting bribes to permit recruitment companies to organise commercial flights to bring overseas workers, who pay upwards of USD $3000 for the one-way flight and quarantine costs, to return to Vietnam. It’s not a coincidence that the corruption exposé happened after waves of social media and the UN special rapporteurs’ letter about human trafficking. Still, numerous worker complaints about Department of Overseas Labour (DOLAB) officials operating in the Vietnamese Embassy in Riyadh continue to fall on deaf ears.

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A Peace That Couldn’t Last – Negotiating the Paris Accords on Vietnam

ADST – Signed on January 27, 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were intended to finally end the Vietnam War, which had cost the lives of thousands of American soldiers, not to mention the millions of Vietnamese civilians who were killed, injured, or displaced. Initially, the Accords were negotiated in secret by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, the lead North Vietnamese negotiator. These secret negotiations took place over the course of five years in Paris, from 1968 to 1973, but it was only in the early 70’s that any real progress was made.

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How the Soviet Union’s fall pushed Putin to try and recapture Russia’s global importance

While serving in the KGB in East Berlin, Putin was shocked and humiliated to experience the collapse of Soviet power firsthand.

HistorySHAUN WALKER – FEB 28, 2022

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union stood for nearly half a century as one of the two lodes of global power. When it dissolved in 1991, Russia found itself losing relevance.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was a young KGB officer during this era, and the events of that time influenced many of the moves he made in the early years of his administration, with the goal of regaining the importance in the world the Soviet Union used to hold—and restoring Russian pride.

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