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.

Thousands defy rally ban to celebrate Pakistani blasphemy murderer

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 01 Mar 2017 21:30

People attend a gathering to mark the anniversary of Mumtaz Qadri death next to the shrine built over his grave outside Islamabad, Pakistan, March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

ISLAMABAD: Thousands of religious hardliners in Pakistan defied a ban on demonstrations to rally on Wednesday in support of a man executed for murdering a popular governor over his call to reform the country’s blasphemy laws.

Mumtaz Qadri was executed on Feb. 29 last year for killing Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province.

Qadri had been assigned as one of Taseer’s bodyguards after the governor enraged the religious right by calling for reform to the country’s blasphemy laws in support of a Christian woman who had been sentenced to death. Tiếp tục đọc “Thousands defy rally ban to celebrate Pakistani blasphemy murderer” →

Court charges two women with Kim Jong-nam murder

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Al Jazeera

Under heavy security, Indonesian and Vietnamese nationals formally charged with murder and now face death penalty.

Two women were charged on Wednesday with the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, after his assassination by a liquid chemical weapon at a Malaysian airport.

Indonesian Siti Aisyah, 25, and Doan Thi Huong, 28, from Vietnam, were surrounded by a heavy police presence as they were charged in a Kuala Lumpur court over the February 13 killing.

Siti, wearing a red T-shirt, was brought in first to hear the murder charge read out before being taken away. Huong, also dressed casually, then heard the charge in Vietnamese.

The handcuffed women wearing body armour were both told they faced the death penalty if found guilty. Tiếp tục đọc “Court charges two women with Kim Jong-nam murder” →

Japanese emperor kicks off landmark visit to Vietnam

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channelNewsAsia

  • Posted 28 Feb 2017 12:57
  • Updated 28 Feb 2017 17:56

Japanese Emperor Akihito (left) and Empress Michiko (right) wave to their subjects as they depart for Vietnam from Tokyo’s Haneda Airport on February 28, 2017. (Photo: AFP/Kazuhiro Nogi)

HANOI: Japan’s emperor arrived in Vietnam on Tuesday (Feb 28) for a whirlwind tour that will include a meeting with families of Japanese soldiers who stayed there after World War II.

The emperor and empress were received by Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh and guards of honour at the Hanoi airport, where national flags were displayed.

The 83-year-old Akihito and his wife, Michiko, are on their first visit to the country, the latest in a series of trips to former battlegrounds. Tiếp tục đọc “Japanese emperor kicks off landmark visit to Vietnam” →

South Korea closes biggest dog meat market in run-up to Olympics

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The Guardian

Animals at market in Seongnam were kept in inhumane conditions and killed using electrocution, hanging and beating

Dogs are kept in a cage before they are slaughtered in Seongnam in South Korea.
Dogs are kept in a cage before they are slaughtered in Seongnam in South Korea. Photograph: Yun Suk-Bong/Reuters

in Tokyo

Tuesday 28 February 2017 04.01 EST Last modified on Tuesday 28 February 2017 04.10 EST

The shutters have started coming down at South Korea’s biggest dog meat market as the country seeks to head off international criticism over its practice of killing dogs for human consumption before it hosts the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Moran market in Seongnam sells more than 80,000 dogs, dead or alive, every year and accounts for about a third of South Korea’s dog meat consumption, according to local media. Tiếp tục đọc “South Korea closes biggest dog meat market in run-up to Olympics” →

China ‘anti-terror’ rallies: thousands of troops on streets of Urumqi

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The Guardian

More than 10,000 forces gather in capital of violence-stricken region of Xinjiang for second time in just over a week

Paramilitary policemen board a plane in Urumqi as they head for an anti-terrorism oath-taking rally in Kashgar.
Paramilitary policemen board a plane in Urumqi as they head for an anti-terrorism oath-taking rally in Kashgar. Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters

in Beijing

Tuesday 28 February 2017 05.07 EST Last modified on Tuesday 28 February 2017 18.38 EST

Thousands of troops have poured on to the streets of one of west China’s most important cities for the second time in just over a week, as a senior Communist party leader heralded an “all-out offensive” against terrorism in the violence-stricken region.

More than 10,000 rifle-toting forces gathered at the heart of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, for the latest in a series of spectacular mass “anti-terror rallies”. Tiếp tục đọc “China ‘anti-terror’ rallies: thousands of troops on streets of Urumqi” →

Thai prisons violate human rights, report says

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Al Jazeera

Prison conditions contravene UN treaties barring torture and stipulating minimum prisoner rights, group says.

Inmates sit on the floor inside Klong Prem high-security prison in Bangkok in 2016 [Jorge Silva/Reuters]

Thailand’s prisons fail to meet international standards with inmates routinely shackled, beaten, and stuffed into overcrowded cells, an international human rights group said.

Thailand also has the highest incarceration rate in Southeast Asia, jailing 425 out of every 100,000 people, according to the report by the International Federation for Human Rights, which was released on Tuesday.

More than 260,000 inmates are incarcerated in 148 prisons with an originally estimated capacity of less than 120,000, the report said, with the massive overcrowding forcing inmates to live in harsh conditions. Tiếp tục đọc “Thai prisons violate human rights, report says” →

Sea Change Awaits Trump in Thailand

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Asia Sentinel

Posted on February 25, 2017 By Benjamin Zawacki

Sea Change Awaits Trump in Thailand

Thai Army: the east is red

Kingdom can no longer be counted on in a confrontation with China

Three months after his election, a month after inauguration, Donald Trump has not publicly mentioned Thailand.  Yet in a looming foreign policy crisis over the South China Sea, the seeds of which the president partly inherited and has partly sowed, the kingdom is poised to play an outsized and oppositional role.

China has territorial disputes over the South China Sea with five Southeast Asian nations and a sixth with Taiwan.  In July 2016, a UN maritime tribunal ruled China’s means of demarcating territory unlawful.  Beijing’s defiance notwithstanding, this ruling put most of China’s claims on shaky legal ground, to say nothing of its 3,000 acres of artificial islands constructed since 2013.

As candidate, Trump used the presidential debates to deliver an economic indictment against China—manufacturing threat, currency manipulator, climate change propagandist—and announced plans to increase the US Navy’s fleet from 272 to 350 ships.  If the China claims were aimed at viewers and votes, the naval announcement was likely the more clearly heard in Beijing. Tiếp tục đọc “Sea Change Awaits Trump in Thailand” →

US, South Korea and Japan discuss sanctions on Pyongyang

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 28 Feb 2017 07:16
  • Updated 28 Feb 2017 07:27

WASHINGTON: Senior US, South Korean and Japanese officials met on Monday (Feb 27) to discuss how better to enforce international sanctions against North Korea’s nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes. The Washington talks came shortly after United Nations experts warned that Pyongyang has been flouting existing sanctions, and just as China’s top diplomat held talks at the White House.

US special representative for North Korea policy Joseph Yun met senior Japanese diplomat Kenji Kanasugi and South Korea’s special representative Kim Hong-kyun at the State Department.

In a statement, they condemned the North’s “flagrant disregard for multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions prohibiting its ballistic missile and nuclear programmes.” Tiếp tục đọc “US, South Korea and Japan discuss sanctions on Pyongyang” →

Gà Đông Tảo chết hàng loạt ở Hưng Yên

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Thứ hai, 27/2/2017 | 20:57 GMT+7
VnExpress

Đàn gà đang khỏe mạnh bỗng dưng chết khiến nhiều hộ chăn nuôi ở xã Đông Tảo (Hưng Yên) thiệt hại lớn. Chi cục thú ý tỉnh nói nguyên nhân do bệnh tụ huyết trùng.

Thời gian gần đây, trên địa bàn xã Đông Tảo (huyện Khoái Châu, tỉnh Hưng Yên) xuất hiện tình trạng gà chết hàng loạt, khiến nhiều hộ gia đình bị thiệt hại lớn. Một số con gà chết bị vứt bừa bãi gây ô nhiễm nguồn nước và bốc mùi hôi thối.

Bà Nguyễn Thị Xuân (62 tuổi, xã Đông Tảo) nói: “Nhà tôi đối diện mương nước, mấy ngày nay có mùi rất khó chịu bay vào nhà. Cứ  mỗi khi gió lùa là phải đóng kín cửa”.

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Bao tải chứa gà chết bị vứt bừa bãi ra mương nước. Ảnh: Quang Chiến

Chiều 27/2, ông Nguyễn Văn Chiến (Chủ tịch UBND xã Đông Tảo) cho hay tình trạng gà Đông Tảo chết hàng loạt được phát hiện từ dịp gần Tết Nguyên đán, tuy nhiên một số hộ gia đình có gà chết đã giấu thông tin dẫn đến tình trạng dịch bệnh khó kiểm soát.

“Nhiều hộ có gà chết đã lén lút cho gà vào bao tải rồi quăng ra khu vực mương nước hoặc bãi đất trống nơi vắng người qua lại”, ông Chiến nói và thông tin thêm đây thường là những hộ kinh doanh nhỏ lẻ ở quy mô vài chục con gà thành phẩm.

Sáng cùng ngày, UBND xã đã tổ chức lực lượng đi dọn những con gà chết mà người dân vứt bừa bãi để tiến hành tiêu hủy.

Lãnh đạo chi cục thú ý Hưng Yên nói về nguyên nhân gà Đông Tảo chết

“Sau khi phát hiện sự việc, lãnh đạo địa phương đã mời Chi cục thú y tỉnh Hưng Yên về tuyên truyền, hướng dẫn người dân cách phòng tránh dịch. Đồng thời yêu cầu thôn xóm thống kê số lượng gà chết và cố gắng tiêu hủy bằng cách chôn lấp, rắc vôi bột”, ông Chiến cho biết.

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Doctors taking ‘extra’ money: not a black-and-white issue

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vietnamnews

Update: February, 27/2017 – 09:00

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Doctors perform an operation at Saint Paul Hospital in Hà Nội. – VNA/VNS Photo Dương Ngọc

Viet Nam Newsby Thu Hà – Bảo Hoa

When Trần Xuân Hương’s husband was hospitalised last year after his cancer got worse, she took him to a big military hospital in Hà Nội in the hope of saving his life.

The first two days there, she noticed that other patients were getting infused with a bottle of medicine that her husband did not get.

Worried, she asked the doctor if her husband could get that medicine and was told she would have to buy it from outside the hospital for VNĐ1 million (US$44) per bottle.

After she had discretely handed over an envelope containing VNĐ1 million ($44) to the doctor, the medicine was made part of her husband’s daily regimen. Tiếp tục đọc “Doctors taking ‘extra’ money: not a black-and-white issue” →

Music Street plan to liven up HCM City

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VietnamNews

Update: February, 26/2017 – 09:00

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Street spirit: Students from the HCM City Conservatory of Music perform on Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street. Photo from the conservatory’s Facebook page

Viet Nam News Phương Mai talks to HCM City authorities about the latest plan to liven up the city’s streets. 

Though it has yet to be approved, a plan to establish a Music Street that would host both amateurs and professionals in downtown HCM City looks likely to get the go ahead.

District 1 officials, who submitted the plan to the People’s Committee, have proposed setting up the venue on either Alexandre de Rhodes or Hàn Thuyên streets, both of which surround the April 30 Park, one of the greenest sites downtown. Tiếp tục đọc “Music Street plan to liven up HCM City” →

Loans poured in for Cam Ranh Airport’s international terminal

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VietnamNews

Update: February, 27/2017 – 17:37

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A mock up of Cam Ranh International Airport’s international terminal.— Photo camranhairport.vn
Viet Nam News KHÁNH HÒA — The Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) and the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank) will provide loans for investment in Cam Ranh Airport’s international terminal in central Khánh Hòa Province.

An agreement on the loans, which are worth up to VNĐ2.9 trillion (roughtly US$127 million), was signed by the two banks at a ceremony in the province’s Nha Trang city on Monday. Tiếp tục đọc “Loans poured in for Cam Ranh Airport’s international terminal” →

Merkel ally calls for Europe to retaliate if Trump imposes trade tariffs

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 Telegraph
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Volker Kauder (L), 
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Volker Kauder (L),  Credit: Steffi Loos/Getty Images

Europe should impose punitive tariffs on imports from the United States if President Donald Trump acts to shield U.S. industries from foreign competitors, a senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a newspaper interview.

Trump has already formally withdrawn the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, distancing America from its Asian allies, and vowed to renegotiate the U.S. free-trade deal with Canada and Mexico.

The tycoon-turned-president has also threatened German carmakers with a border tax of 35 percent on vehicles imported into the U.S. market, saying such a levy would help create more jobs on American soil.

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Sand mining: the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of

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The guardian

From Cambodia to California, industrial-scale sand mining is causing wildlife to die, local trade to wither and bridges to collapse. And booming urbanisation means the demand for this increasingly valuable resource is unlikely to let up

A boat is stranded on the Poyang Lake in east China.
A boat is stranded on the Poyang Lake in east China, site of one of the world’s biggest sand mines. Photograph: Xinhua/Barcroft Images

The Guardian, Vince Beiser Monday 27 February 2017 02.15 EST

Times are good for Fey Wei Dong. A genial, middle-aged businessman based near Shanghai, China, Fey says he is raking in the equivalent of £180,000 a year from trading in the humblest of commodities: sand.

Fey often works in a fishing village on Poyang Lake, China’s biggest freshwater lake and a haven for millions of migratory birds and several endangered species. The village is little more than a tiny collection of ramshackle houses and battered wooden docks. It is dwarfed by a flotilla anchored just offshore, of colossal dredges and barges, hulking metal flatboats with cranes jutting from their decks. Fey comes here regularly to buy boatloads of raw sand dredged from Poyang’s bottom. He ships it 300 miles down the Yangtze River and resells it to builders in booming Shanghai who need it to make concrete.

The demand is voracious. The global urbanisation boom is devouring colossal amounts of sand – the key ingredient of concrete and asphalt. Shanghai, China’s financial centre, has exploded in the last 20 years. The city has added 7 million new residents since 2000, raising its population to more than 23 million. In the last decade, Shanghai has built more high-rises than there are in all of New York City, as well as countless miles of roads and other infrastructure. “My sand helped build Shanghai Pudong airport,” Fey brags. Tiếp tục đọc “Sand mining: the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of” →

Abu Sayyaf video ‘shows beheading of German hostage’

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Philippine army working to confirm reports that Abu Sayyaf fighters beheaded a German man they had seized in November.The army said it had received information reports that the hostage had been executed [EPA]

The Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf armed group has posted a video purportedly showing the beheading of a German man held for three months after demands for a ransom were not met.

The video, reposted on Monday by the monitoring group SITE, showed an elderly captive slumped on a grassy lot and a man holding a knife to his neck.

“Now, they’ll kill me,” the 70-year-old man said before he was executed on Sunday after a ransom demand deadline passed. Tiếp tục đọc “Abu Sayyaf video ‘shows beheading of German hostage’” →