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.
The United States and Vietnam are poised to significantly enhance their economic and technological ties, bringing the former foes closer at a time of increased Chinese assertiveness in the region.
The deal, expected to be announced when President Biden makes a state visit to Vietnam next weekend, is the latest step by the Biden administration to deepen relations in Asia. For Hanoi, the closer relationship with Washington serves as a counterweight to Beijing’s influence.
Semiconductor chips are seen on a printed circuit board in this illustration picture taken February 17, 2023. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration
31 Aug 2023 01:53PM(Updated: 02 Sep 2023 12:32AM) Channelnewsasia
HANOI : A chronic shortage of engineers in Vietnam is emerging as a major challenge to the growth of its semiconductor industry and to U.S. plans of fast-tracking the Southeast Asian nation as a chips hub to hedge against China-related supply risks.
Semiconductors are expected to be a focal point when U.S. President Joe Biden visits Hanoi from Sept. 10 with the goal of formally elevating ties between the two countries. He will offer Vietnam support to boost its chips production, U.S. administration officials said.
Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis, a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. She is a weekly opinion contributor to CNN, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and a columnist for World Politics Review. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion on CNN.CNN —
When an airplane owned by Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin plummeted in a fiery crash northwest of Moscow last week, observers in Russia and around the world immediately recalled two indisputable facts. First, that Prigozhin had openly challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin, and second, that countless others who had defied Putin have met untimely, violent deaths.
Frida GhitisCNN
In the quest to understand what happened, one other fact was clear: The Kremlin was not the place to seek straightforward, credible answers. The Kremlin’s word is, shall we say, not a good source for independent, reliable truth.
All development is about people: the transformative process to equip, link, and enable groups of people to drive change and create something new to benefit society. Development can promote societies where all people can thrive, but the change process can be complex, challenging, and socially contentious. Continued progress toward sustainable development is not guaranteed. The current overlapping crises of COVID-19, climate change, rising levels of conflict, and a global economic slowdown are inflaming long-standing challenges—exacerbating inequality and deep-rooted systemic inequities. Addressing these challenges will require social sustainability in addition to economic and environmental sustainability. Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century seeks to advance the concept of social sustainability and sharpen its analytical foundations. The book emphasizes social sustainability’s four key components: social cohesion, inclusion, resilience, and process legitimacy. It posits that •Social sustainability increases when more people feel part of the development process and believe that they and their descendants will benefit from it. •Communities and societies that are more socially sustainable are more willing and able to work together to overcome challenges, deliver public goods, and allocate scarce resources in ways perceived to be legitimate and fair so that all people may thrive over time. By identifying interventions that work to promote the components of social sustainability and highlighting the evidence of their links to key development outcomes, this book provides a foundation for using social sustainability to help address the many challenges of our time.
Luật sư Lê Văn Hòa, (cựu) Tổ trưởng Tổ Kiểm tra Án Oan của Ban Nội Chính Trung Ương phân tích và kết luận rằng vụ án này có nhiều dấu hiệu oan sai. Tuy nhiên, ý kiến cuẩ Tổ kiêm tra Án Oan, đã không thuyết phục được các thẩm phán. VN gần đấy đã có quyết định tử hình tử tù Nguyễn Văn Chưởng.
Cộng đồng quốc tế lên tiếng yêu cầu VN hoãn thi hành án để xem xét lại vụ việc:
Các hành khách chuẩn bị đáp một chuyến bay giải cứu về Việt Nam.
Để bảo đảm mức độ khả thi, cơ quan tài phán mà các nạn nhân tìm kiếm nên là ở Hoa Kỳ và trước hết nên là những người hoặc có quốc tịch nước ngoài hoặc song tịch.
Đại án “chuyến bay giải cứu” đang khép lại. Nhà nước coi như đã xong việc của mình khi “dằn mặt” được một số quan chức hư hỏng và ban phát được một ít “công lý” cho người dân đang ngập tràn bức xúc. Với các nạn nhân, toà tuyên cần: “liên hệ với các doanh nghiệp” để đòi lại quyền lợi của mình.
Nước lên đem đất phù sa vào làm cho ruộng đất tốt thêm, cá theo nước vào hồ, có hàng ức triệu con, để nhân dân chài lưới mà sinh nhai. Dân Cao Miên giàu về nghề đánh cá. Nước tràn vào các khu rừng gần hồ, mênh mông như biển, ngập cả cây cối.
Mùa ấy gọi là “mùa cá lên ngàn“. Trong khi ấy thì không gì thú bằng một con thuyền đủng đỉnh dạo chơi trên mặt nước.
(Trích Quốc văn Giáo khoa thư)
Giải nghĩa. – Đất phù sa = đất sông bồi lên.
Đoạn văn trên đây tôi được học cách đây hơn nữa thế kỷ, lúc đó còn nhỏ, chỉ biết các dòng nước không trong xanh như trong hình ở sách giáo khoa, vì lẽ sông Tiền, sông Hậu của quê hương tôi, màu nước lúc nào cũng đục, màu của bùn, đất, cát ..của phù sa chảy theo dòng nước… phù sa trôi dạt và bám thành những giồng đất vườn quanh năm cho chúng tôi trái ngọt, những cánh dồng do phù sa bồi đắp cho chúng tôi những cánh đồng bát ngát lúa vàng óng ánh, những cành lúa nặng trĩu những hạt lúa no tròn, thơm lừng trong chén cơm hàng ngày của người nông dân cần cù chất phát của vùng đất do phù sa bồi đắp mà Ông Cha đã dầy công dựng nên trong tiến trình mở nước về phương Nam: Đồng Bằng Sông Cửu Long.
Amazon Nations Gather in Brazil to Talk Shared Rain Forest Protection Policy
The eight nations of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization are discussing joint goals for rain forest protection (AP) during a two-day summit that begins today in the Brazilian city of Belém. While several member countries have announced domestic rain forest protection goals, the forty-five-year-old bloc has only held three summits to date, the most recent being in 2009. Brazilian officials said they hope revived political coordination can improve conservation results, while some twenty thousand Indigenous people have held parallel events outside the summit to push for a bigger voice in forest governance. The summit declaration is expected to include announcements on fighting cross-border organized crime and protest what Amazon countries see as unfair trade barriers in the name of environmental protection, Folha de S.Paulo reported. Tomorrow, Amazon countries will meet with (Reuters) envoys from Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Republic of Congo—three other major rain forest nations—and are expected to announce a joint declaration on global forest protection.
Top of the Agenda Nigeria Cuts Power Supply to Niger as Neighbors Debate Coup Response
Nigeria cut off its electricity supply to Niger as part of sanctions imposed in response to the military’s decision to overthrow the country’s government last week, AFP reported, while the World Bank announced that it was suspending development aid (AFP) other than private-sector partnerships. A bloc of West African nations led by Nigeria is meeting for a second day of talks today on how to respond to the coup, while U.S. President Joe Biden called today for the release (VOA) of Niger’s ousted president and ordered a partial evacuation of the U.S. embassy in the capital, Niamey.
While the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reacted strongly to the coup with sanctions and threats of military action, Niger’s military has leaned on other military regimes nearby. Yesterday, a Nigerien coup leader met with Mali’s military government (NYT), which has close ties with the Russian private military company Wagner Group.
NEW YORK; August 1, 2023, Asia Society – A new Task Force on U.S.-China Policy report, Prioritizing Southeast Asia in American China Policy, lays out reasons why Southeast Asia is a critically important but under-appreciated region when it comes to U.S. interests and U.S. competition with China, and recommends actions for the U.S. government, in the face of China’s growing influence in the region.
Economic growth has slowed in 2023 as tighter financial conditions weakened investment and consumer demand. Market adjustment to changing conditions in Vietnam has been held back by poor compliance with corporate reporting rules in both the private and public sectors.
Vietnam’s economic performance in 2022 beat expectations, lifted by strong export growth and a recovery in domestic consumption after the difficult years of the pandemic. Robust demand growth at home and abroad helped economic growth achieve 8.02 per cent for the year, second only to Malaysia in East and Southeast Asia.
Jonathan Pincus, Senior international economist United Nations Development Programme
Unfortunately, the rebound lost steam early this year. Demand in Vietnam’s main export markets weakened as central banks raised interest rates to control inflation. The Fed Funds rate – the interest rate at which the US Federal Reserve loans money to commercial banks – rose from near zero in April 2022 to 5 per cent last month, the highest in 15 years. Despite interest rate hikes, inflation has remained high around the world, even as energy prices moderated.
FILE – The Iron Gate Dam powerhouse and spillway are seen on the lower Klamath River near Hornbrook, Calif., on March 2, 2020. This dam, along with three others on the Klamath River, are scheduled to be removed by the end of 2024. Crews will work to restore the river and surrounding land. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)
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FILE – The Klamath River winds runs along state Highway 96 on June 7, 2021, near Happy Camp, Calif. Work has begun on removing four dams along the Klamath River, the largest dam removal project in history. All the dams are scheduled to come down by the end of 2024. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)
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FILE – Demian Ebert, the Klamath program manager for PacifiCorp, looks at a tank holding juvenile chinook salmon being raised at the Iron Gate Hatchery at the base of the Iron Gate Dam on March 3, 2020, near Hornbrook, Calif. The Iron Gate Dam is one of four dams along the Klamath River scheduled to be removed by the end of 2024. Once the dams are gone, crews will work to restore the river and surrounding land. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)
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FILE – Jamie Holt, lead fisheries technician for the Yurok Tribe, right, and Gilbert Myers count dead chinook salmon pulled from a trap in the lower Klamath River on June 8, 2021, in Weitchpec, Calif. Work has begun on the largest dam removal project in history along the Klamath River. Four dams will be removed by the end of 2024. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)
BY ADAM BEAMUpdated 11:05 AM GMT+7, July 31, 2023Share
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Theo Tờ trình số 4225/TTr-BCT ngày 03 tháng 7 năm 2023 của Bộ Công Thương về việc phê duyệt Quy hoạch tổng thể về năng lượng quốc gia thời kỳ 2021 – 2030, tầm nhìn đến năm 2050; ý kiến của các bộ, ngành, địa phương về Quy hoạch tổng thể về năng lượng quốc gia thời kỳ 2021 – 2030, tầm nhìn đến năm 2050.
CVD 