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.

Government extends visa-exemption policy for five countries’ citizens

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Update: June, 07/2017 – 15:00

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About 5.3 million international tourists have come to Việt Nam in the first five months this year, an increase of 30.8 per cent over last year’s figure.The Government has agreed to extend the visa exemption policy for citizens from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. — Photo gtgt.vn

HÀ NỘI — The Government has agreed to extend the visa exemption policy for citizens from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, said Mai Tiến Dũng, Minister-Chairman of the Government Office.

The policy, which ends on June 30 this year, will be extended until June 30, next year.

Accordingly, citizens from the above-mentioned countries will not have to apply for visa if their stay in Việt Nam does not exceed 15 days. Tiếp tục đọc “Government extends visa-exemption policy for five countries’ citizens” →

Valuation of climate change impacts for better responses

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Update: June, 07/2017 – 10:42

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Việt Nam needs tools to calculate damage relating to climate change impacts to improve natural disaster response and mitigation work, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoàng Văn Thắng said yesterday.— Photo donre.hochiminhcity.gov.vn

HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam needs tools to calculate damage relating to climate change impacts to improve natural disaster response and mitigation work, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoàng Văn Thắng said yesterday. Tiếp tục đọc “Valuation of climate change impacts for better responses” →

Myanmar military plane carrying more than 100 people missing

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This file photo taken on Aug 5, 2015 shows a Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 transport aircraft being unloaded at Sittwe airport in Rakhine state, similar to the aircraft carrying over 100 people that went missing between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon on Jun 7, 2017. (Photo: AFP/Ye Aung Thu)
07 Jun 2017 07:10PM (Updated: 07 Jun 2017 11:31PM)

YANGON: Pieces of a Myanmar military plane which went missing with more than 100 soldiers and family members aboard were found in the Andaman Sea late on Wednesday (Jun 7), a local official said.

Navy ships and aircraft had been searching since the afternoon when the plane lost contact with air traffic controllers.

More than a dozen children were believed to be among the passengers on the plane travelling from the southern city of Myeik to Yangon. Tiếp tục đọc “Myanmar military plane carrying more than 100 people missing” →

How can humans and elephants better coexist?

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The human-elephant conflict plays a huge role in the rapid decline elephant numbers. A panel of experts share ideas on how to mitigate this problem

A Mahout and elephant in Thailand’s Surin province.
A Mahout and elephant in Thailand’s Surin province. Photograph: Aroon Phukeed/Getty Images

Conservation must be higher up on the political agenda

We need conservation (not just fighting the illegal wildlife trade which has captured the limelight more recently) to be far higher up the political agenda. For example, we in the UK could be much more effectively linking overseas aid (budget of £12bn this year) to poverty relief, sustainable development and environmental protection, ecosystem services and conservation priorities. Will Travers, president, Born Free Foundation Tiếp tục đọc “How can humans and elephants better coexist?” →

Will Qatar’s Diplomatic Exile Spark the Next Great War?

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The Sunni Gulf powers have long been spoiling for a fight with Iran. This could be just the excuse they need.

Will Qatar’s Diplomatic Exile Spark the Next Great War?

Sarajevo 1914, Doha 2017? We could be at a historic moment akin to the assassination of the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which resulted in what became known as the Great War. This time, though, the possible clash is between a Saudi-United Arab Emirates force and Iran. Washington is going to have to act quickly to stop the march to war, rather than wait for the carnage to begin. Tiếp tục đọc “Will Qatar’s Diplomatic Exile Spark the Next Great War?” →

Consequences of attacks in Tehran will be felt around the world

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Guardian

Assaults on potent symbols of Iranian ideology, claimed by Isis, will stoke tensions with Saudi Arabia, Gulf states and Trump

Firefight erupts at the Iranian parliament in Tehran
 

Wednesday 7 June 2017 13.00 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 7 June 2017 13.10 EDT

In targeting the Iranian parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the terrorists who went on a lethal rampage in Tehran on Wednesday chose the two most potent symbols of the 1979 revolution.

For ordinary Tehranis, comparatively safe in recent years from such outrages, the attacks are deeply shocking. Tiếp tục đọc “Consequences of attacks in Tehran will be felt around the world” →

Chuyến đi TT Nguyễn Xuân Phúc gặp TT Trump, Việt Nam được gì?

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TT Nguyễn Xuân Phúc là lãnh đạo Đông Nam Á đầu tiên gặp TT Trump tại Nhà Trắng. Đây là một điểm thắng lợi ngoại giao?

Khó mà nói. Cho rằng được gặp trước tiên là một vinh dự cũng có lý. Và gặp sớm để chứng tỏ thiện chí thắt chặt ngoại giao của ta cũng có lý.

Đằng khác đến sớm quá thì có thể được xem là ta quá cần người, ta quá cố gắng để lấy lòng người, thì lại có thể chỉ ra điểm yếu của ta. Tiếp tục đọc “Chuyến đi TT Nguyễn Xuân Phúc gặp TT Trump, Việt Nam được gì?” →

Vietnam’s first ‘book city’ opens in Binh Duong

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TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 06/02/2017 18:50 GMT + 7

The first-ever ‘book city’ in Vietnam welcomed its first visitors on Thursday inside a mega shopping mall in Binh Duong, a neighboring province of Ho Chi Minh City.

The 3,000 square meter ‘Phuong Nam Book City’ features 500,000 books and reading spaces aimed at attracting Vietnamese youth to the venue at AEON Mall Binh Duong Canary at No. 01 Binh Duong Boulevard, Thuan An Town.

“We wanted to create a unique space for books, a place where every book that a reader needs could be found,” said Ngo Le Huan, deputy director of Phuong Nam Corp (PNC), the company behind the mega bookstore. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s first ‘book city’ opens in Binh Duong” →

This peace-wishing event is arguably ‘Vietnam’s merriest festival’

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TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 06/06/2017 15:11 GMT + 7

A photographer believes that the Dai Ky Yen Festival in the Mekong Delta region of southern Vietnam is the country’s ‘merriest festival’.

Photographer Huynh Phuc Hau has captured photos of a Dai Ky Yen celebration in his hometown in Binh Thuy Commune, Chau Phu District of An Giang Province.

The Dai Ky Yen (Wish for Peace) Festival is an annual Tuletary God Worshipping event that takes place every year on the ninth and tenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. Tiếp tục đọc “This peace-wishing event is arguably ‘Vietnam’s merriest festival’” →

Lễ hội Đại kỳ yên hóa trang tưng bừng ‘vui nhất Việt Nam’

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tuoitre

05/06/2017 14:03 GMT+7

TTO – Nhiếp ảnh gia Huỳnh Phúc Hậu tự hào giới thiệu với mọi người rằng Lễ hội Đại kỳ yên đình thần Bình Thủy – xã Bình Thủy, huyện Châu Phú, An Giang – quê anh là… vui nhất Việt Nam.

Lễ hội Đại kỳ yên hóa trang tưng bừng 'vui nhất Việt Nam'
Dẫn đầu đám rước là xe của Thần Du Vãng Cảnh đi vòng quanh xã. Ảnh: HUỲNH PHÚC HẬU

Mỗi năm, vào ngày mùng 9 và mùng 10 tháng Năm âm lịch, người dân xã Bình Thủy, huyện châu Phú, tỉnh An Giang lại tổ chức Lễ hội Đại kỳ yên (cúng Đình) nhằm tưởng nhớ vị Thần Hoàng Bổn Cảnh có công lập làng.

Ngoài những nghi thức đám rước, cúng lễ… người dân xã Bình Thủy đã biến lễ hội quê mình thành những ngày vui chơi náo nhiệt với nhiều hoạt động như thể thao, đua thuyền, hóa trang… Tiếp tục đọc “Lễ hội Đại kỳ yên hóa trang tưng bừng ‘vui nhất Việt Nam’” →

FECON inks co-operation agreement with Japanese expressway companies

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Update: June, 06/2017 – 19:00

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The Nam Cầu Giẽ tollbooth of BOT road project on National Highway No 1. — Photo FECON

HÀ NỘI — Two Japanese expressway companies will transfer their technology and management capacity in transport infrastructure to Việt Nam’s Foundation Engineering and Underground Construction Joint Stock Company (FECON).

The move is part of a strategic co-operation agreement on investment and development of transport infrastructure projects in Việt Nam signed between representatives of Japanese companies East Nippon Expressway Company (NEXCO) and Expressway International Company Limited (JEXWAY), and leaders of FECON and its subsidiary FECON Infrastructure JSC (FCI) in Tokyo today. Tiếp tục đọc “FECON inks co-operation agreement with Japanese expressway companies” →

Kabul truck-bomb toll rises to more than 150 killed: Afghan president

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People hold lit candles for the victims of blast in Kabul, Afghanistan June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

06 Jun 2017 02:26PM (Updated: 06 Jun 2017 03:56PM)

KABUL: The death toll from a truck-bomb explosion in Kabul last week has reached more than 150 people, President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday (Jun 6), making it the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital since the ouster of the Taliban in 2001.

The blast occurred when a sewage truck packed with what Ghani called “military-grade” explosives detonated at the entrance to a fortified area of that city that includes foreign embassies and government buildings.
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Arab states cut Qatar ties in major diplomatic crisis

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File photo of a Qatari waving the national flag in Doha. (Photo: AFP PHOTO/MARWAN NNAAMANI)

05 Jun 2017 11:16AM (Updated: 05 Jun 2017 08:23PM)

RIYADH: Arab nations including Saudi Arabia and Egypt on Monday (Jun 5) cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of supporting extremism, in the biggest diplomatic crisis to hit the region in years.

Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen and the Maldives joined Saudi Arabia and Egypt in severing relations with gas-rich Qatar, with Riyadh accusing Doha of supporting groups, including some backed by Iran, “that aim to destabilise the region”. Tiếp tục đọc “Arab states cut Qatar ties in major diplomatic crisis” →