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.

Analysis: First fatal attack on shipping by Yemen’s Houthi rebels escalates risk for reeling Mideast

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AP explains the escalatory risk of fatal Yemen Houthi rebel attack at sea

XXXXX in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. XXXXX. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

BY JON GAMBRELLUpdated 8:49 PM GMT+7, March 7, 2024

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The first fatal attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on shipping threatens to further sever a crucial maritime artery for global trade and carries with it risks beyond those just at sea.

Already, the White House is warning that there will be a response to Wednesday’s attack on the Barbados-flagged, Liberian-owned bulk carrier True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden. What that will look like remains unclear, but the U.S. has already launched round after round of airstrikes targeting the Houthis, a rebel group that has held Yemen’s capital since 2014, and more are likely on the way.

However, a wider economic, humanitarian and political impact is looming from the attack. It also further highlights Yemen’s yearslong war, now overshadowed by Israel’s grinding war on Hamas on the Gaza Strip that may reach into the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, raising the danger of worsening regional anger.

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Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

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Statement of the Commissioner-General of UNRWA to the General Assembly

4 March 2024, New York

Mr. President,

Excellencies, 

I am here today because UNRWA, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees, is at a breaking point.

75 years after its creation by this Assembly as a temporary UN entity, pending a just political solution to the question of Palestine, the Agency’s ability to fulfil its mandate is seriously threatened.

Your urgent action is needed to facilitate a political solution that will bring peace to Palestinians and Israelis, and in this context alone, allow the Agency to transition.

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Quốc phòng Việt Nam 2019 (Sách trắng Quốc phòng Việt Nam 2019)

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16:58 | 10/12/2019

LỜI MỞ ĐẦU

Trong lịch sử hàng nghìn năm dựng nước và giữ nước, dân tộc Việt Nam luôn coi trọng giữ ổn định bên trong và hòa hiếu, hữu nghị với các quốc gia, dân tộc khác để xây dựng và phát triển đất nước. Mỗi khi đất nước bị xâm lăng, toàn dân Việt Nam đồng lòng đứng lên đánh bại quân xâm lược, giữ vững núi sông, bờ cõi, độc lập, tự do. Kế thừa và phát huy truyền thống vẻ vang, dưới sự lãnh đạo của Đảng, quản lý của Nhà nước, nhân dân Việt Nam, trong đó Quân đội nhân dân làm nòng cốt, đã xây dựng nền quốc phòng toàn dân vững chắc, đẩy mạnh hội nhập quốc tế về quốc phòng, ngăn ngừa nguy cơ chiến tranh, bảo vệ Tổ quốc từ sớm, từ xa, bảo vệ nền hòa bình bền vững, thực hiện mục tiêu dân giàu, nước mạnh, dân chủ, công bằng, văn minh; đồng thời, duy trì sức mạnh quốc phòng cần thiết, sẵn sàng đánh bại mọi hình thái chiến tranh xâm lược.

Quân đội nhân dân Việt Nam đã và đang được đổi mới về tổ chức, trang bị, nghệ thuật quân sự; sức mạnh tổng hợp tiếp tục được tăng cường; khả năng sẵn sàng chiến đấu được nâng cao; thực sự là quân đội của nhân dân, lực lượng chính trị, lực lượng chiến đấu trung thành, tin cậy của Đảng, Nhà nước và nhân dân, lực lượng nòng cốt bảo vệ Tổ quốc trong tình hình mới.

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What would a new Palestinian government in the West Bank mean for the war in Gaza?

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The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process demanded by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Feb. 26)Photos

BY JOSEPH KRAUSSUpdated 9:02 AM GMT+7, February 27, 2024 AP

The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister announced his government’s resignation on Monday, seen as the first step in a reform process urged by the United States as part of its latest ambitious plans to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But it will do little to address the authority’s longstanding lack of legitimacy among its own people or its strained relations with Israel. Both pose major obstacles to U.S. plans calling for the PA, which administers parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, to govern postwar Gaza ahead of eventual statehood.

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List of United Nations resolutions concerning Palestine

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UN General Assembly Resolutions & UN Security Council Resolutions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

UN Security Council Chamber in New York City, United States

The following is a list of United Nations resolutions concerning Palestine. From 1967 to 1989 the United Nations Security Council adopted 131 resolutions directly addressing the Arab–Israeli conflict, with many concerning the Palestinians; Since 2012, a number of resolutions were issued dealing directly with the modern State of Palestine. The United Nations General Assembly also adopted resolutions. Tiếp tục đọc “List of United Nations resolutions concerning Palestine” →

Trump’s fate and an obscure section of the Constitution collide at Supreme Court

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FILE - The Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington, on Jan. 24, 2019. The Supreme Court will be taking its first look in the 156-year history of the 14th Amendment at a provision, Section 3, that's meant to keep former officeholders who "engaged in insurrection" from ever regaining power. The stakes couldn't be higher in arguments taking place on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE – The Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington, on Jan. 24, 2019. The Supreme Court will be taking its first look in the 156-year history of the 14th Amendment at a provision, Section 3, that’s meant to keep former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from ever regaining power. The stakes couldn’t be higher in arguments taking place on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

BY MARK SHERMAN AND NICHOLAS RICCARDIUpdated 12:04 PM GMT+7, February 6, 2024Share

WASHINGTON (AP) — From civil rights to privacy, the 14th Amendment has been a foundation for forging the norms of American law and democracy. But one of its provisions, adopted after the Civil War in 1868, has gotten almost no attention until now: That’s Section 3, the part that’s meant to keep former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from ever regaining power.

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A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men

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This box represents a real photo of a 9-year-old girl in a golden bikini lounging on a towel. The photo was posted on her Instagram account, which is run by adults.

🔥🔥🔥

wooowww

Mama mia ❤️❤️🥰💯🤗

Great body😍🔥❤️

Love

😍😍😍😍

Perfect bikini body

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😋😋😋😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Mmmmmmmmm take that bikini off

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

You’re sooooo hot

❤️🤗💋🌺🌹🌹💯

Y’all are dogs! She’s a child.

👏😍👏😍👏😍👏😍

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men – The New York Times

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men

Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.

Jennifer Valentino-DeVries
Michael H. Keller

By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller, New York Times

For this investigation, the reporters analyzed 2.1 million Instagram posts, monitored months of online chats of professed pedophiles and interviewed over 100 people, including parents and children.

Feb. 22, 2024

The ominous messages began arriving in Elissa’s inbox early last year.

“You sell pics of your underage daughter to pedophiles,” read one. “You’re such a naughty sick mom, you’re just as sick as us pedophiles,” read another. “I will make your life hell for you and your daughter.”

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ICJ Order (Jan 26, 2024) on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)

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(Feb. 16, 2024) Decision of the CIJ on South Africa’s request (dated Feb. 12, 2024) for additional provisional measures (on the Genocide case against Israel)
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Videos: International Court of Justice: Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem – Public hearings Monday 19 February 2024 – Monday 26 February 2024

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Majority of countries argue Israel violated international law in last historic hearing at UN court

A Palestinian flag flies outside the United Nations' highest court, rear, during historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Six days of hearings at the International Court of Justice, during which an unprecedented number of countries will participate in proceedings, are scheduled as Israel continues its devastating assault on Gaza. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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A Palestinian flag flies outside the United Nations’ highest court, rear, during historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Six days of hearings at the International Court of Justice, during which an unprecedented number of countries will participate in proceedings, are scheduled as Israel continues its devastating assault on Gaza. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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Cuộc hôn nhân Ngô Đình Nhu & Trần Thị Lệ Xuân

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Trong tâm tình tôn vinh ngày lễ Tình Yêu (Valentine) năm nay,  xin được chia xẻ đến quý bạn gần xa một câu chuyện tình yêu của một đôi trai tài gái sắc nhất vào thời xa xưa đó để chúng ta một lần nữa cảm nhận được những rào cản về gia đình, địa vị xã hội cũng như chênh lệch tuổi tác không bao giờ và cũng không thể nào ngăn cản được hai con tim đến với nhau để hợp thành nhứt thể.  

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What is the conventional notation for these logic statements?

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When I studied chemical engineering I often found the need to rewrite lecture notes, handouts and books in order to gain a thorough understanding of the subject I was reading. As much as time permitted I used to draw mindmaps of the reading material combining the symbols on the left in the image below:

The first ones are probably known, but some of these may need some explanation. I will list all of them with my own explantions to make clear what I mean.

  1. B is a part of A. B is a subset of A. B is a property of A.
  2. B is partly a part of A. B is a almost a subset of A. B is to a very small degree a property of A.
  3. A equals B. A and B are the same thing.
  4. B is a consequence of A. If A happens then B happens as a consequence.
  5. A becomes B. First there is only A, later there is only B.
  6. This describes a process or a verb. A is put into B. Example: A reactant (A) is fed into a reactor (B).
  7. A affects property B and causes a decrease, and B is a property of some other object as drawn in 1.
  8. A affects property B and causes an increase, and B is a property of some other object as drawn in 1.
  9. A intends to cause B to come into existance. Example: A company (A) strives to create profit (B).
  10. A strives/wants/intends to become B. Example: One strives to keep the concentration of reactant (A) in a reactor to be 0.1 mol/liter (B).

What are the conventional mathematical names and symbols used to denote these relations above?

Answer

Hành trình 5.500 dặm vượt Thái Bình Dương bằng bè luồng

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Chủ nhật, 11/2/2024, 00:00 (GMT+7) VNEXPRESS

THANH HÓA Trên chiếc bè như thời cổ đại, ông Lương Viết Lợi và đoàn thám hiểm vượt 5.500 dặm, đối diện nhiều cạm bẫy, hiểm nguy giữa đại dương mênh mông.

Mùa hè năm 1993, ông Lợi được nhà thám hiểm Tim Severin (1940-2020, người Ireland) lựa chọn để thực hiện hải trình dự kiến dài khoảng 6.400 dặm, tương đương 10.000 km vượt Thái Bình Dương từ Hong Kong đến Mỹ. Mục đích của chuyến đi là muốn kiểm nghiệm lý thuyết cách đây khoảng 2.000 năm những người châu Á đã tới châu Mỹ trên chiếc bè mảng đơn sơ.

Chiếc mảng Từ Phúc trên biển Thái Bình Dương. Ảnh: Tư liệu
Chiếc mảng Từ Phúc trên biển Thái Bình Dương. Ảnh: Tư liệu

Ngày 17/5/1993, sau ba tuần chuẩn bị và chạy thử ở ven biển Hong Kong, đoàn thám hiểm xuất phát từ cảng Aberdeen, gần đảo Po Ti (hay Bồ Đài) ở phía nam Hong Kong. “Trừ Lợi, tất cả chúng tôi đều cảm thấy như dân tập sự khi nhổ neo, giương buồm và bắt đầu ra khơi…”, Tim kể trong cuốn The China Voyage (Chuyến du hành Trung Hoa).

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North-south high-speed railway to require 13,800 staff

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By Anh Duy   February 6, 2024 | 10:24 am GMT+7 vnexpress

North-south high-speed railway to require 13,800 staff

The Shinkansen high-speed train in Japan. Photo by VnExpress/Anh DuyThe proposed north-south high-speed railway project would require around 13,880 people to operate by its scheduled opening date of 2040, according to the Vietnam Railways Corporation.

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What to know about Jewish settlers in the West Bank and why they are so controversial

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The following is my tweet in X about this issue.

Tran Dinh Hoanh @tdhoanh

About Jewish settlers in the West Bank:

The WH has set its sights on Israel’s settlers, a controversial movement that has grown in power over the years & is seen by the outside world as a major impediment to peace between Israel & the Palestinians.

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