Tác giả: Trần Đình Hoành

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. . 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.

UK truck deaths: How Vietnam is still a hotbed of people traffickers

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Three years after Al Jazeera uncovered Vietnamese human trafficking practices to the UK, the business is still going strong.

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UK police have charged the truck's 25-year-old driver with 39 counts of manslaughter [Hannah McKey/Reuters]
UK police have charged the truck’s 25-year-old driver with 39 counts of manslaughter [Hannah McKey/Reuters]

It was a terrifying way to die. The grim discovery of 39 people found frozen to death inside a container at the back of a truck in southern England earlier this month is a stark reminder of the risks people will take in search of a better life.

Police initially believed all the dead were Chinese citizens but more than 20 Vietnamese families, almost all from the same region, have since expressed fears that their loved ones were among the victims. Some say almost all of the 39 victims were Vietnamese.

British police have charged the truck’s 25-year-old driver with 39 counts of manslaughter.

The regular and highly dangerous smuggling of people from Vietnam to the United Kingdom was revealed in a 2016 Al Jazeera documentary.

Britain’s Modern Slave Trade revealed that Nghe An province – where families held a vigil for the truck victims last week – is a hotbed of people traffickers.

In one of Vietnam’s poorest regions, criminal gangs often exploit young people who are desperate to go to Western Europe and send money back to their families. Tiếp tục đọc “UK truck deaths: How Vietnam is still a hotbed of people traffickers” →

African swine fever keeps spreading across Asia – Đặc điểm dịch tả lợn Châu Phi

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World Organisation for Animal Health says no country is immune from being hit by the deadly animal virus

African swine fever, which has hit the world's top pork producer, China, especially hard, originated in Africa before spreading to Asia and Europe [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters]
African swine fever, which has hit the world’s top pork producer, China, especially hard, originated in Africa before spreading to Asia and Europe [File: Kacper Pempel/Reuters]

African swine fever will spread further across Asia, where it has devastated herds, and no country is immune from being hit by the deadly animal virus, the head of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Wednesday.

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Tìm thấy “Nai Chuột” quý hiếm ở VN – This shy, tiny ‘mouse deer’ was lost for almost 30 years. Researchers just captured images of it

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Ryan W. Miller,  USA TODAY

Neither mouse nor deer, this Vietnamese ungulate is shy, walks on the tips of its hooves and was just spotted in the wild for the first time in almost 30 years.

Environmental group Global Wildlife Conservation said the silver-backed chevrotain, known as the Vietnamese mouse deer, had been recorded in the wild only five times until a team of researchers recently rediscovered it outside Nha Trang.

A small, deer-like animal thought to have been extinct has been spotted for the first time in three decades in the northwestern jungle of #Vietnam, providing hope that reports of the animal’s demise may have been overstated.

There had been no confirmed sightings of the silver-backed chevrotain or ‘#mousedeer’ since 1990. But Vietnamese biologist An Nguyen along with colleagues Barney Long and Andrew Tilker refused to give up on the ungulate from the species, Tragulus versicolor. The mouse deer boast two-tone coloration and grey hairs tipped with white and are about 18 inches (45 centimeters) tall.

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Australian retiree convicted of terrorism and jailed for 12 years in Vietnam

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Sydney man Chau Van Kham, 70, found guilty over his membership of the Viet Tan political party

Chau Van Kham, left, is escorted to court in Ho Chi Minh City
 Sydney retiree Chau Van Kham, left, has been convicted of terrorism and jailed for 12 years by a Vietnamese court. Photograph: Vietnam News Agency/AFP via Getty Images

A Sydney retiree has been convicted of terrorism and jailed for 12 years by a Vietnamese court, in a judgment human rights advocates have described as “essentially a death sentence”. Tiếp tục đọc “Australian retiree convicted of terrorism and jailed for 12 years in Vietnam” →

How to Reverse the Global Drift Toward Authoritarianism

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About This Show

Autocrats and populists are on the march around the world, including in European countries that were seen until recently as firmly in the democratic camp. The phenomenon, coupled with the deepening of authoritarian tendencies in already-repressive Russia and China, has prompted worries that liberalism itself may be waning.

This week on And Now the Hard Part, we trace the roots of the problem and talk about how to fix it.

“As we emerged from the Cold War, I think there was a legitimate reason for us to believe that … democracy would be institutionalized around the globe,” said John Allen, a retired four-star general and the president of the Brookings Institution.

“[But] in the last few years, we have seen a real slip … in the context of both the attractiveness of democracy and the endurance of democratic institutions.”

Allen is our guest on the podcast this week.

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Sự bịa đặt, vu cáo trắng trợn của Cảnh Sảng

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Thứ Tư, 13/11/2019 16:38 PM GMT+7

(VTC News) – Phát biểu của ông Cảnh Sảng vu cáo Việt Nam “chiếm đảo” là sự leo thang mới trong những bịa đặt, vu cáo trắng trợn của Trung Quốc liên quan Biển Đông.

Ngày 8/11, tại buổi họp báo thường kỳ của Bộ Ngoại giao Trung Quốc, trả lời câu hỏi của phóng viên về việc “Việt Nam có thể xem xét các lựa chọn pháp lý để giải quyết tranh chấp với Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông, phản ứng của Trung Quốc là gì?”, người phát ngôn Bộ Ngoại giao Trung Quốc Cảnh Sảng ngang ngược cho biết: “Cốt lõi của vấn đề Biển Đông là vấn đề lãnh thổ, liên quan đến sự chiếm đóng quần đảo Nam Sa của Trung Quốc bởi Việt Nam và các nước khác có liên quan”.

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Hong Kong’s Violence Will Get Worse

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Police brutality has pushed protesters to extremes.

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Police fire tear gas to disperse protesters in Hong Kong

Police fire tear gas to disperse protesters in the Causeway Bay area of Hong Kong on Nov. 11. ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Hong Kong’s protests have seen their first death, and there will be more to come. After months of demonstrations over Beijing’s growing influence tore the city apart, a protester who fell several stories under dubious circumstances died on Friday, while another is fighting for his life after being shot at close range by police on Monday while unarmed. Another man, meanwhile, was set on fire by protesters for shouting pro-Beijing slogans and is in critical condition. Mass tear gassings of Central, Hong Kong’s business district, caused many professionals to stay home, while clashes between police and protesters—previously mostly restricted to weekends—raged through the city on a Monday morning following an attempt to declare a general strike. Tiếp tục đọc “Hong Kong’s Violence Will Get Worse” →

How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine

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Progessive.org

WagingPeacePhoto_Presidio 27 sit-in and singing.jpgIn October 1968, after fellow prisoner Richard Bunch was killed by a prison guard at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California, 28 prisoners sat in protest against the war, singing “We Shall Overcome.” Some of the “Presidio 27” were sentenced to up to 16 years hard labor.

How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine

Opposition to the Vietnam war burst into a wide range of activism, including wearing anti-war buttons while in uniform, petitions and demonstrations, guerrilla theater, staging hearings about war crimes, and throwing away the medals they earned.

Review by Roger Bybee Tiếp tục đọc “How Soldiers Brought a Halt to the U.S. War Machine” →

Chỉnh sửa sử sách

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Chào các bạn,

Đọc lịch sử Việt Nam thì từ đầu đến cuối chúng ta đều có thể thấy nhiều điều phi lý hoặc thiếu sót đây đó. Có thể vì nhiều lý do:

1. Lịch sử ta được viết bởi người đô hộ, dù đó là Tàu hay Tây.

2. Lịch sử ta được viết bởi trí thức ta, nhưng với văn hóa của người đô hộ – Tàu hay Tây – vì đó là văn hóa mà trí thức ta được học.

3. Lịch sử ta được viết bởi ta, nhưng là những ta chiến thắng, bôi bác và hủy bỏ công cán của những ta chiến bại.

4. Chúng ta không quan tâm đến lịch sử. Tiếp tục đọc “Chỉnh sửa sử sách” →

Territorial Disputes: The South China Sea: Reports and Documents

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Territorial Disputes: The South China Sea: Reports and Documents

This Research Guide provides links to primary documents, reports, periodical articles, and books on disputes and state claims in the South China Sea.

Congressional Documents

Reports

Subjects: Country Data, Maritime

US Senate Bill.1634 – South China Sea and East China Sea Sanctions Act of 2019

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S.1634 – South China Sea and East China Sea Sanctions Act of 2019 116th Congress (2019-2020) | 

BILL

Sponsor: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] (Introduced 05/23/2019)
Committees: Senate – Foreign Relations
Latest Action: Senate – 05/23/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.  (All Actions)

Tracker:

This bill has the status Introduced

Here are the steps for Status of Legislation:

  1. Introduced
  2. Passed Senate
  3. Passed House
  4. To President
  5. Became Law

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SIGNALING SOVEREIGNTY: CHINESE PATROLS AT CONTESTED REEFS

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September 26, 2019  |  AMTI Brief

Signaling Sovereignty: Chinese Patrols at Contested Reefs
China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels have been harassing a drilling rig operating in a Vietnamese oil and gas block near Vanguard Bank, an underwater feature in the South China Sea, since June. Meanwhile, a large contingent of CCG ships have since July been escorting the Chinese state-owned survey ship Haiyang Dizhi 8 operating off the Vietnamese coast farther north. These actions have drawn attention to the CCG’s increasing role in asserting Chinese claims over seabed resources throughout the South China Sea. They also highlight how the CCG’s access to newly-built port facilities on artificial islands in the Spratlys allows it to sustain such deployments. But less appreciated is the persistent presence the CCG maintains around several symbolically important features in the South China Sea: Luconia Shoals, Second Thomas Shoal, and Scarborough Shoal. Tiếp tục đọc “SIGNALING SOVEREIGNTY: CHINESE PATROLS AT CONTESTED REEFS” →