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.

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
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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.

Tiếp tục đọc “Merkel ally calls for Europe to retaliate if Trump imposes trade tariffs” →

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’” →

Sài Gòn của tôi, 50 năm trước

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Tác Giả: Nguyễn Đạt

Ðặt chân tới Sài Gòn năm 1954 [vậy bài này viết khoảng 2004.], lúc ấy tôi là đứa bé 9 tuổi, theo gia đình từ miền Bắc di cư vào miền Nam tự do. Ký ức của đứa bé 9 tuổi hẳn nhiên không thể ghi nhận được gì nhiều; nhưng đứa bé lớn lên và sinh sống tại Sài Gòn từ thuở ấy tới bây giờ, đã giúp tôi dễ dàng gợi dậy trong ký ức, ít nhất là những hình ảnh đậm nét của Sài Gòn, 50 năm về trước.

Ấn tượng về Sài Gòn trong tôi từ lúc ấy tới bây giờ cũng không phai nhạt bao nhiêu, dù đã hơn nửa thế kỷ trôi qua. Ấn tượng sâu đậm, bởi Sài Gòn những ngày tháng ấy quá mới lạ trong tâm trí tôi, đứa trẻ đã trải qua một đoạn đời ấu thơ tại Hà Nội.

Ðiều đầu tiên tôi nhận biết lúc ấy, tôi nói với cha tôi, là Sài Gòn có vẻ rất Tây so với Hà Nội. Cha tôi bảo, bởi vì một trăm năm Pháp thuộc, Sài Gòn và miền Nam là thuộc địa; trong khi Hà Nội của miền Bắc là bảo hộ. Tiếp tục đọc “Sài Gòn của tôi, 50 năm trước” →

Giáo dục tương kính và văn minh

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Chào các bạn,

Mấy hôm nay có chuyện rắc rối giữa ca sĩ Mỹ tâm và nhạc sĩ Vũ Xuân Hùng liên quan đến tác quyền của bài “Anh Thì Không.” Mình không nói đến chuyện này. Ca sĩ và nhạc sĩ luôn tạo sức mạnh cộng hưởng cho nhau trong âm nhạc. Mong rằng hai vị sẽ vượt qua được những tổn thương hiện nay để cùng hỗ trợ nhau trong lĩnh vực âm nhạc, ngõ hầu mai sau khi nói đến nhạc phẩm “Anh Thì Không” người ta sẽ nhắc đến một câu chuyện có hậu.

Mình chỉ muốn nói đến một vấn đề lớn hơn. Đó là thông tin qua vài bài báo mình đọc, một số fans của Mỹ Tâm lên mạng đến mọi nơi có bài không ủng hộ Mỹ Tâm, và comment chửi bới bằng những lời lẽ dữ dằn, thô tục, thiếu học thức, chống NS Vũ Xuân Hùng và những người viết bài có vẻ ủng hộ NS.

Đương nhiên là mỗi chúng ta có quyền nói lên ý kiến của mình. Nhưng nói chuyện văn minh là một chuyện. Vượt giới hạn lịch sự và lễ giáo, để đến mức chửi bới thô tục dữ dằn, thì đó lại là chuyện khác. Đây là vấn đề giáo dục lớn cho đất nước, phải không các bạn? Tiếp tục đọc “Giáo dục tương kính và văn minh” →

Old loves highlight Japan and Vietnam’s new bonds

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Japan Today

By My Pham Feb. 25, 2017 – 06:00AM JST

Old loves highlight Japan and Vietnam's new bonds
Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Xuan, 94, who married Japanese soldier Nguyen Van Duc during World War Two, poses with a portrait of him at her house in Hanoi, Vietnam. Reuters photo

HANOI —

“This is my husband,” said 94-year-old Nguyen Thi Xuan, holding up a pillow wrapped in a Vietnamese flag, with a Japanese army shirt pushed inside. She sleeps with it every night.

Xuan is among the few surviving widows of Japanese soldiers who were shipped home in the aftermath of World War II, many never to see their Vietnamese families again.

This week, Japan’s 83-year-old Emperor Akihito will meet some of the widows and their descendants, during one of many trips he has made to soothe the wounds of the war. Tiếp tục đọc “Old loves highlight Japan and Vietnam’s new bonds” →

Maze-like sidewalk fences pose challenges for pedestrians in Ho Chi Minh City

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Tuoi Tre News

Updated : 02/26/2017 11:21 GMT + 7

An entrance to the sidewalk around Cho Ray Hospital in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, is fenced with a maze-like set of barriers.
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Sidewalks along a major hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have been equipped with a complicated system of barricades, an effort originally meant to reclaim space from vendors for pedestrians but now turning out to create immense difficulty for the latter.

Promenades along the sections of Thuan Kieu and Nguyen Chi Thanh Streets that surround Cho Ray Hospital, considered the city’s best general infirmary located in District 5, have been fenced up to prevent sidewalk drivers and street vendors from encroaching on the spaces.

However, the fences have been put up like a maze, proving to be obstacles for local pedestrians.

According to observations by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters, the barriers were about 1.5 meters high, spanning over 200 meters around the hospital.

The sidewalks were divided into two sections, one for motorbike parking and the other exclusively for walkers.

The entrances to the pedestrian zones were filled with fences planted in a zigzag design, not only making it difficult for sidewalk drivers and food vendors but also for pedestrians to enter.

Most pedestrians are not likely to walk in the preserved space due to the complex fences. Photo: Tuoi Tre

After observing for nearly an hour, the journalists only saw about five people walking in the preserved space while many others chose to walk on the roadways to save time and effort.

Some people took advantage of the barriers to hang their hammocks whereas a few vendors also managed to place their stalls, chairs, and stables inside the walking areas.

“Though erected to bar vendors and drivers from ‘invading’ the sidewalks, these barriers have created immense challenges to pedestrians due to their complex design,” a local resident told Tuoi Tre. Tiếp tục đọc “Maze-like sidewalk fences pose challenges for pedestrians in Ho Chi Minh City” →

Singapore has consistently abided by ‘One China policy’: DPM Teo

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 26 Feb 2017 21:00
  • Updated 26 Feb 2017 22:17

File photo of Deputy Prime Minister & Coordinating Minister for National Security Teo Chee Hean. (Photo: Justin Ong)

SINGAPORE: Singapore has consistently abided by its “One China policy” and been a consistent friend and supporter of China’s peaceful development, said Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean in a written interview that was published on Sunday (Feb 26).

Commenting on the “broad and longstanding relationship” between the two countries, DPM Teo said that the two countries have worked well together to advance common interests, despite different perspectives on some issues.

Both countries also have a common interest in building a peaceful and growing region, and “this is much greater than any occasional differences of views”, he added.

He said that each of Singapore and China’s Government-to-Government projects have supported China’s developmental priorities at key stages. Tiếp tục đọc “Singapore has consistently abided by ‘One China policy’: DPM Teo” →

Vietnam says Kim Jong Nam murder suspect thought it was a prank

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ChannelNewsAsia

  • Posted 25 Feb 2017 22:00
  • Updated 25 Feb 2017 22:08

Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong is seen in this undated handout released by the Royal Malaysia Police to Reuters on February 19, 2017. Doan was arrested in connection with the murder of Kim Jong Nam. Royal Malaysia Police/Handout via Reuters

HANOI: The Vietnamese woman arrested as a suspect in killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader thought she was taking part in a prank video, Vietnam’s foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Hanoi had not previously confirmed that Doan Thi Huong was Vietnamese, saying only that it was in touch with authorities in Malaysia, where Kim Jong Nam was murdered on Feb. 13. Vietnamese embassy officials met her on Saturday. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam says Kim Jong Nam murder suspect thought it was a prank” →