I am an attorney in the Washington DC area, with a Doctor of Law in the US, attended the master program at the National School of Administration of Việt Nam, and graduated from Sài Gòn University Law School. I aso studied philosophy at the School of Letters in Sài Gòn.
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I have worked as an anti-trust attorney for Federal Trade Commission and a litigator for a fortune-100 telecom company in Washington DC.
I have taught law courses for legal professionals in Việt Nam and still counsel VN government agencies on legal matters.
I have founded and managed businesses for me and my family, both law and non-law.
I have published many articles on national newspapers and radio stations in Việt Nam.
In 1989 I was one of the founding members of US-VN Trade Council, working to re-establish US-VN relationship.
Since the early 90's, I have established and managed VNFORUM and VNBIZ forum on VN-related matters; these forums are the subject of a PhD thesis by Dr. Caroline Valverde at UC-Berkeley and her book Transnationalizing Viet Nam.
I translate poetry and my translation of "A Request at Đồng Lộc Cemetery" is now engraved on a stone memorial at Đồng Lộc National Shrine in VN.
I study and teach the Bible and Buddhism. In 2009 I founded and still manage dotchuoinon.com on positive thinking and two other blogs on Buddhism.
In 2015 a group of friends and I founded website CVD - Conversations on Vietnam Development (cvdvn.net).
I study the art of leadership with many friends who are religious, business and government leaders from many countries.
I have written these books, published by Phu Nu Publishing House in Hanoi:
"Positive Thinking to Change Your Life", in Vietnamese (TƯ DUY TÍCH CỰC Thay Đổi Cuộc Sống) (Oct. 2011)
"10 Core Values for Success" (10 Giá trị cốt lõi của thành công) (Dec. 2013)
"Live a Life Worth Living" (Sống Một Cuộc Đời Đáng Sống) (Oct. 2023)
I practice Jiu Jitsu and Tai Chi for health, and play guitar as a hobby, usually accompanying my wife Trần Lê Túy Phượng, aka singer Linh Phượng.
Dưới đây là chi tiết các nhân sự Ủy ban Thường vụ Quốc hội, các cơ quan Quốc hội nhiệm kỳ khóa XV sau kiện toàn.
Ảnh ghép: NGỌC THÀNH
Ngày 18-2, Quốc hội đã thông qua nghị quyết về việc tổ chức các cơ quan của Quốc hội và nghị quyết của Quốc hội về số thành viên của Ủy ban Thường vụ Quốc hội khóa XV (sửa đổi), kiện toàn nhân sự.
President Donald Trump is on the verge of hitting America’s three biggest trading partners with sweeping tariffs, a far more aggressive use of his favorite economic weapon than anything he did during his first term.
It’s an enormous gamble, arguably a bigger one than any economic policy Trump enacted during his four-plus years in the White House. And this strategy has the potential to upend the thing many voters care about the most: the economy and the cost of living.
But Trump’s tariffs pose a big risk: They could backfire, lifting already-high consumer prices at the grocery store, rocking the shaky stock market or killing jobs in a full-blown trade war.
The Trump administration’s biggest swing at radically reshaping federal spending lasted just under 45 hours.
A sweeping freeze on trillions in federal spending for grants and loans, issued Monday night by the White House budget office to federal agencies without fanfare, sparked outrage and confusion – even among fellow Republicans. The impact touched all corners of the country, with state Medicaid funding portals briefly shuttered and programs like Meals on Wheels and Head Start scrambling to figure out if they were about to lose their funding.
This photo illustration shows the DeepSeek app on a mobile phone in Beijing this month. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty ImagesHong KongCNN —
Previously little-known Chinese startup DeepSeek has dominated headlines and app charts in recent days thanks to its new AI chatbot, which sparked a global tech sell-off that wiped billions off Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and shattered assumptions of America’s dominance of the tech race.
But those signing up for the chatbot and its open-source technology are being confronted with the Chinese Communist Party’s brand of censorship and information control.
Ask DeepSeek’s newest AI model, unveiled last week, to do things like explain who is winning the AI race, summarize the latest executive orders from the White House or tell a joke and a user will get similar answers to the ones spewed out by American-made rivals OpenAI’s GPT-4, Meta’s Llama or Google’s Gemini.
Good morning. Today, my colleague Peter Baker reflects on President Trump’s first week back in office. We’re also covering South Korea, the Covid lab leak theory and a parenting poem. —David Leonhardt
President Trump in the Oval Office. Doug Mills/The New York Times
Testing the limits
By Peter BakerI’m the chief White House correspondent.
On his first full day back in the White House, President Trump vowed to do what no president had ever done before. “We’re going to do things that people will be shocked at,” he declared. Of all the thousands of words that Trump uttered during his fact-challenged, talkathon-style opening days as the nation’s 47th president, those may have been the truest. Tiếp tục đọc “New York Times newsletter – January 26, 2025 – President Trump’s first week back in office”→
The president ordered the withdrawal of the country from the Paris climate agreement and took action on immigration policy and other issues such as creating the Department of Government Efficiency.
Trump Signs Executive Orders at Inaugural Celebration
President Trump signed several executive orders in front of his supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington.
“So I am revoking nearly 80 destructive, radical executive actions of the previous administration, they’ll all be null and void within about what, five minutes. Is that them over there? Five minutes.” “The first item that President Trump is signing is the rescission of 78 Biden era executive actions, executive orders, presidential memoranda and others.” [cheering] “Thank you, sir.” [cheering] “The next item here is the withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty.” [cheering]
Từ 0h, khi truy cập các kênh này trên một số nền tảng truyền hình số, người dùng nhận được thông báo “gián đoạn”, tự động chuyển sang kênh khác, hoặc chỉ còn màn hình đen.
“Theo thông báo của Đài Truyền hình Kỹ thuật số VTC, đơn vị sẽ chấm dứt toàn bộ hoạt động từ 15/1. Vì vậy, các kênh thuộc VTC sẽ ngừng sản xuất, phát sóng trên tất cả hạ tầng tiếp phát sóng”, website của nhà cung cấp dịch vụ FPT Play nêu.
Yoon Suk Yeol, the lionized prosecutor-turned-politician who led the impeachment of former president Park Geun-hye before becoming president himself, was arrested this morning at 10:33 am Seoul time on charges of insurrection related to his declaration of martial law on December 3, 2024. He is the first sitting South Korean president ever to be arrested. Tiếp tục đọc “The Arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol”→
A burned car left in the wake of the Palisades Fire is seen in the Santa Monica Mountains at sunrise on Tuesday, January 14. Continue watching on CNN >>
When President-elect Donald Trump mused about buying Greenland from Denmark during his first administration, the Danish prime minister called the idea “absurd” and rebuffed him outright.
Now, Danish officials are being warned by Trump allies and advisers that he is serious, multiple Danish officials told CNN. And they’re carefully weighing how to respond without sparking a major rupture with a close ally and fellow NATO member.
“The ecosystem supporting this idea is totally different now” than it was in 2019, when Trump first proposed it, said one senior Danish official. “This seems much more serious,” said another senior Danish official.
A ship is guided through the Panama Canal’s Miraflores locks near Panama City on April 24, 2023. Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty ImagesCNN —
Editor’s Note: This story originally published on December 23, 2024. It has been updated to reflect recent developments.
President-elect Donald Trump is not letting up on his suggestions that the US should retake the Panama Canal, an idea that has been rejected by the government of Panama, which has controlled the passage for decades.
In social media posts and remarks to supporters, Trump has accused Panama of charging the US “exorbitant rates” to use the canal and hinted at growing Chinese influence over the crucial waterway. And at an hour-long news conference at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday, he said the nearly half-century-old decision by the US to hand over control of the canal was a “terrible thing to do.”
Để đỗ trạng nguyên, nho sinh thường phải trải qua quá trình học tập vất vả, thuộc lòng nhiều sách kinh nghĩa, thông thạo làm thơ phú, ứng đối.
Theo “Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư”, nền khoa cử nước ta bắt đầu từ năm 1075, dưới thời vua Lý Nhân Tông.
Trong buổi đầu, thể lệ thi cử chưa ổn định. Về sau, theo sự phát triển của giáo dục và khoa cử, thể lệ thi cử ngày càng đi vào nền nếp, khuôn khổ, gồm 3 kỳ thi là Hương, Hội, Đình.
Nhiều vòng thi nghiêm ngặt
Thi Hương được tổ chức quy mô tỉnh hoặc liên tỉnh để chọn người vào thi Hội. Theo sách “Khâm Định Đại Nam Hội điển sự lệ”, kỳ thi Hương thời Nguyễn có ba vòng (tam trường) hoặc bốn vòng (tứ trường).
Luật này quy định chế độ hôn nhân và gia đình; chuẩn mực pháp lý cho cách ứng xử giữa các thành viên gia đình; trách nhiệm của cá nhân, tổ chức, Nhà nước và xã hội trong việc xây dựng, củng cố chế độ hôn nhân và gia đình.
1. Hôn nhân tự nguyện, tiến bộ, một vợ một chồng, vợ chồng bình đẳng.
2. Hôn nhân giữa công dân Việt Nam thuộc các dân tộc, tôn giáo, giữa người theo tôn giáo với người không theo tôn giáo, giữa người có tín ngưỡng với người không có tín ngưỡng, giữa công dân Việt Nam với người nước ngoài được tôn trọng và được pháp luật bảo vệ.
3. Xây dựng gia đình ấm no, tiến bộ, hạnh phúc; các thành viên gia đình có nghĩa vụ tôn trọng, quan tâm, chăm sóc, giúp đỡ nhau; không phân biệt đối xử giữa các con.
4. Nhà nước, xã hội và gia đình có trách nhiệm bảo vệ, hỗ trợ trẻ em, người cao tuổi, người khuyết tật thực hiện các quyền về hôn nhân và gia đình; giúp đỡ các bà mẹ thực hiện tốt chức năng cao quý của người mẹ; thực hiện kế hoạch hóa gia đình.
5. Kế thừa, phát huy truyền thống văn hóa, đạo đức tốt đẹp của dân tộc Việt Nam về hôn nhân và gia đình.
Top of the Agenda International Envoys Call for Accountability, Aid, and Peace in Syria Amid Transition
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen says that the war in Syria has not fully ended. In a testimony to the UN Security Council yesterday, he flagged the risk of ongoing fighting between armed groups in the country’s north. A cease-fire between U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters and Turkish-backed forces in the town of Manbij was extended to the end of this week, Washington announced. UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said that continued combat could impede the flow of aid into Syria, where the UN refugee agency expects some one million refugees to return in the first six months of 2025. An agency official called on countries not to force refugees to return.
Some three million refugees are in Turkey. Yesterday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged more than $1 billion to support Syrian refugees in or returning from Turkey, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for an upgrade to Turkey’s relationship with the European Union. Meanwhile, as mass graves in Syria have become accessible to outside investigators, the U.S. government, UN bodies, and human rights groups have begun compiling evidence on abuses under the Bashar al-Assad regime in order to seek accountability. (AFP, Reuters, Euronews)