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.

Young artists reimagine Saigon’s iconic food, drink

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TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 03/21/2017 18:30 GMT + 7

From a glass of iced coffee to a plate of broken rice served with grilled pork chops, the most iconic food and drinks in Ho Chi Minh City have become the subject for a group of young Vietnamese painters.

‘Saigon on the move’ is a project by members of Bui Fine Arts Center (Bui), an academy dedicated to the training of young artists, and which looks to depict Saigon youths’ favorite food and drinks in paintings.

The works are a gift to “those who once stayed, are staying and will stay” in the dynamic southern metropolis, Bui wrote in the description of the photo album uploaded to Facebook on Sunday. Tiếp tục đọc “Young artists reimagine Saigon’s iconic food, drink” →

Vietnam’s Mekong Delta struggles with garbage amid lack of treatment plants

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Tuoi Tre News

Updated : 03/26/2017 12:51 GMT + 7

 

A waste treatment factory in the Mekong Delta province of Ving Long
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Rubbish has turned into a perennial problem in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta as current waste treatment projects barely meet the rising demand from rapid urbanization.

Local authorities are scratching their heads over the aching issue since the existing waste treatment factories are becoming overloaded.

Vinh Long is among the very few provinces in the ‘rice bowl of Vietnam’ to have a local waste treatment facility, which was developed by Phuong Thao Joint Stock Company. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s Mekong Delta struggles with garbage amid lack of treatment plants” →

Vietnamese detainee dies in Japan’s immigration centre – sources

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ChannelNewsAsia

Posted 26 Mar 2017 10:40

TOKYO: A Vietnamese man held in a Japanese immigration detention centre died on Saturday, six people told Reuters, drawing fresh attention to conditions in the country’s detention system.

The man died at the East Japan Immigration Center in Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, according to activists, a lawyer and a detainee held at the facility. Two men died at the same facility in 2014. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnamese detainee dies in Japan’s immigration centre – sources” →

Cambodia rejects paying ‘dirty debt’ to the US

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Al Jareeza March 21, 2017

Cambodia-US relations will further deteriorate if Trump insists on collecting debt incurred by an illegitimate regime.

General Lon Nol, former prime minister of Cambodia, who incurred the principal debt of $276m, attends a national solidarity rally in Cambodia on April 16, 1970 [Ian Brodie/Getty Images]
General Lon Nol, former prime minister of Cambodia, who incurred the principal debt of $276m, attends a national solidarity rally in Cambodia on April 16, 1970 [Ian Brodie/Getty Images]

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Vannarith Chheang is a Consultant at the Nippon Foundation in Japan.

The United States has renewed its demand for Cambodia to repay a war debt of $500m amid President Donald Trump’s push to improve the state budget. Such a demand has met with an outcry from Cambodian political leaders and their people, who have consistently called the debt “dirty” and “blood-stained”.

Clearly, the memory of the United States’ war in Indochina continues to shape Cambodian perceptions of and foreign policy towards the US. Cambodia is reluctant to pay the debt. However, should the US keep forcing Cambodia to service the debt, its moral high ground may be adversely affected. Tiếp tục đọc “Cambodia rejects paying ‘dirty debt’ to the US” →

Vietnam asks Google to remove 2,200 toxic YouTube videos

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TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 03/25/2017 17:06 GMT + 7

Vietnam’s broadcast watchdog has demanded that Google pull more than 2,200 videos with ‘toxic’ content from YouTube, a deputy chief official of the authority confirmed on Friday.

The Department of Broadcasting and Electronic Information under Vietnam’s information ministry said earlier this month that there are as many as 8,000 videos whose content is either fake or anti-government on Google-owned YouTube.

A list of more than a quarter of those videos has been sent to Google, so that the company can review and remove them from the world’s largest video-sharing platform, the department deputy head Le Quang Tu Do said on Friday. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam asks Google to remove 2,200 toxic YouTube videos” →

In Bến Tre school, students grow clean vegetables

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Update: March, 25/2017 – 09:00

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Caption: Students of Lương Thế Vinh High School in the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre grow clean vegetables in the schoolyard. — VNA/VNS Photo Phúc Hậu
Viet Nam News BẾN TRE — Students at Lương Thế Vinh High School in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre grow clean vegetables at school and have even begun to sell them.

Phan Thị Kim Thanh, a teacher at the school who manages the student-farmers, said: “The school has just been opened. There is an empty yard and the school decided students can use it to grow clean vegetables.” Tiếp tục đọc “In Bến Tre school, students grow clean vegetables” →

Falling Hồng river water levels hurting VN agriculture

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Vietnam News Update: March, 25/2017 – 09:00

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A section of the Hồng (Red) River running under Hà Nội’s Long Biên Bridge has dried up. The average water level of the river had dropped remarkably in recent years, affecting both agricultural production and the daily lives of local residents.— VNS Photo Đoàn Tùng

Viet Nam News

HÀ NỘI – The average water level of many parts of the Hồng (Red) river has remarkably reduced in recent years, badly affecting agricultural production and the living conditions of residents in the northern lowland and midland areas.

The level in some sections is two metres lower than the previous 20 years. The level in some parts reached the lowest point of 2.2m, causing difficulties for irrigation work, said experts at a conference held in Hà Nội on Wednesday to assess the impact of lower Hồng River water levels and to discuss solutions. Tiếp tục đọc “Falling Hồng river water levels hurting VN agriculture” →

Chinese premier warns Australia ‘taking sides’ could lead to new cold war

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Guardian

Li Keqiang says Beijing pursues foreign policy of peace and seeks ‘development paths suited to our traditions’

Chinese premier Li Keqiang told Malcolm Turnbull that Beijing respects Australia’s foreign policy.
Chinese premier Li Keqiang told Malcolm Turnbull that Beijing respects Australia’s foreign policy. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

The Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, has warned China does not want to see a new cold war, emphasising that throughout his country’s history, peace has “always been the most precious thing”.

With increasing tensions in the South China Sea a significant backdrop to his visit to Australia, Li told parliamentarians in Canberra on Thursday that China did not want to see countries “taking sides, as happened during the cold war”. Tiếp tục đọc “Chinese premier warns Australia ‘taking sides’ could lead to new cold war” →

Free funerals and food: A small comfort to South Korea’s elderly who live alone, die alone

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ChannelNewsAsia

Community teams are trying to ease the loneliness of the elderly poor, both in life and in death, in a country with the world’s highest elderly suicide rate.

The Angel Food Kitchen serves free meals in Seoul.

SOUTH KOREA: At a crematorium on the outskirts of Seoul, a group of mourners are preparing to collect the body of 54-year-old Seol Min Bok.

They will hold a wake for him, prepare his funeral rites, and then send him on his final journey with a dignified ceremony. Tiếp tục đọc “Free funerals and food: A small comfort to South Korea’s elderly who live alone, die alone” →

Netherlands, Việt Nam sign 49 food security contracts

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Vietnam news

Update: March, 24/2017 – 15:32

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Việt Nam is co-operating with other countries to seek solutions for food security and sustainable agricultural issues. — Photo http://dwrm.gov.vn
Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Forty-nine contracts were signed during the two-day regional conference on food security in Hà Nội, which ended Thursday, the Netherlands’ deputy minister of agriculture Marjolijn Sonnema said.

The Netherlands has three major contracts, which includes a commitment to an investment package worth 150,000 EUR (US$ 162,000) to develop a seafood index and governance, thereby supporting seafood companies in Asia towards achieving sustainability in aquaculture, Sonnema said. Tiếp tục đọc “Netherlands, Việt Nam sign 49 food security contracts” →

Brazil’s $60 million-a-day meat exports collapse to $74,000 amid inspection scandal

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Japan Times

A man inspects pieces of beef at a butchery after the Chilean government suspended all meat and poultry imports from Brazil, in Santiago Wednesday. | REUTERS

AP Mar 23, 2017

SAO PAULO – Brazil’s meat exports effectively collapsed this week, the agricultural minister said Wednesday, as several countries halted imports from the South American country in the wake of a meat inspection scandal.

Brazil is struggling to contain the scandal, in which investigators say that health inspectors were bribed to overlook expired meats and chemicals and that other products were added to meat to improve its appearance and smell. The government has largely tried to downplay the extent of the corruption, while also criticizing the federal police for how they have communicated about it. Tiếp tục đọc “Brazil’s $60 million-a-day meat exports collapse to $74,000 amid inspection scandal” →

Sand meant to protect beaches ‘stolen’ in central Vietnam

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TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 03/24/2017 13:55 GMT + 7

A huge amount of sand dredged in two river projects originally meant for protecting an eroding beach in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam has been directed away from its expected location.

In early 2017, the Quang Nam administration approved two dredging projects on Cua Dai River in the province’s Hoi An City, with the exploited sand meant to be used as an aid against erosion at the nearby Cua Dai beach.

However, ships transporting sand dredged from the projects have been spotted heading to locations other than Cua Dai beach. Tiếp tục đọc “Sand meant to protect beaches ‘stolen’ in central Vietnam” →

Echoes of war, seeds of hope

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Harvardgazette

In visit to Vietnam, Faust stresses importance of remembrance in healing from conflict

March 23, 2017 | Editor’s Pick Popular
Drew Faust travels to Asia
By Alvin Powell, Harvard Staff Writer

Even decades after the Vietnam War, the United States and Vietnam are still surveying the conflict’s aftermath, seeking understanding and healing of wounds physical and spiritual, individual and widespread, Harvard President Drew Faust said today during a visit to the Southeast Asian nation. Tiếp tục đọc “Echoes of war, seeds of hope” →

Four sand mining projects suspended in Đồng Nai

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Update: March, 24/2017 – 19:00

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Sand mining on the Thị Vải River in the southern province of Đồng Nai. — Photo dantri.vn
Viet Nam News ĐỒNG NAI — The southern Đồng Nai Province’s transport department on Thursday ordered four sand mining and dredging projects in the region to suspend operations.

The four projects are: dredging on the inland waterway of Thái Thiện stream from Thị Vải River to Kim Nhật inland wharf (Phước Thái Commune, Long Thành District); dredging on Ông Trung channel (Phước Tân and Tam Phước communes, Biên Hoà City); dredging and clearing of Buông River and Bến Gỗ River (Phước Tân and Tam Phước communes, Biên Hoà City); and dredging and operating inland waterway on Đồng Kho River (Phước An Commune, Nhơn Trạch District). Tiếp tục đọc “Four sand mining projects suspended in Đồng Nai” →

WB pledges $1.8 billion in 2017 assistance

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Vietnam news

Update: March, 24/2017 – 10:01

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Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc (R) receives WB CEO Kristalina Georgieva in Hà Nội yesterday. VNA/VNS Photo Thống Nhất

HÀ NỘI — The World Bank (WB) will earmark US$1.8 billion for Việt Nam in 2017 to support the nation’s poverty reduction, water resource management, agricultural development and urban improvement efforts.

Visiting WB CEO Kristalina Georgieva said this in Hà Nội yesterday as she met with Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân.

Prime Minister Phúc said that the WB has played a valuable role in the country’s socio-economic development, especially poverty elimination. Tiếp tục đọc “WB pledges $1.8 billion in 2017 assistance” →