BEIJING — A well-known Chinese human rights activist who had not been seen or heard from for more than three weeks is in police custody, accused of possessing secret government documents and spiriting them abroad, state-run news outlets said on Friday.
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.
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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.
Bangladesh Is Vanishing The Opposition
The country’s growing number of ‘disappeared’ are paying for their fathers’ (alleged) sins.
When the plainclothes police came for Mir Ahmad bin Quasem, they didn’t even give him time to put on his shoes. According to his wife, at around 11 p.m. on Aug. 9, the young lawyer was dragged down the steps of their first-floor apartment in Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital, and into an unmarked van. Their two young daughters ran behind, screaming. Tiếp tục đọc “Bangladesh Is Vanishing The Opposition”
China Appears to Confirm It Has Militarized Disputed Spratly Islands
Satellite images released by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington this week showed “large antiaircraft guns and probable close-in weapons systems” on its outposts in the Spratlys.
Tiếp tục đọc “China Appears to Confirm It Has Militarized Disputed Spratly Islands”
China’s New Spratly Island Defenses
CSIS AMTI
Published: December 13, 2016
China appears to have built significant point-defense capabilities, in the form of large anti-aircraft guns and probable close-in weapons systems (CIWS), at each of its outposts in the Spratly Islands. AMTI began tracking the construction of identical, hexagon-shaped structures at Fiery Cross, Mischief, and Subi Reefs in June and July. It now seems that these structures are an evolution of point-defense fortifications already constructed at China’s smaller facilities on Gaven, Hughes, Johnson, and Cuarteron Reefs.
Gaven Reef
Philippine lawmakers file criminal case against Duterte critic
Reuters Dec 13, 2016 Japan Times
MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in Congress on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against a senator who has been an outspoken critic of a surge of extrajudicial killings unleashed by the president’s campaign against drugs. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippine lawmakers file criminal case against Duterte critic”
Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte says he personally killed people
AFP-JIJI Japan Times Dec 14, 2016
MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he personally killed suspected criminals when he was mayor of a southern city to set an example for police.
Duterte made the comments in a speech to businessmen on Monday night as he discussed his campaign to eradicate illegal drugs, in which police and unknown assailants have killed thousands of people since he became president on June 30. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte says he personally killed people”
For Taiwan, a Dilemma Over Identity, Economy and China
Tiếp tục đọc “For Taiwan, a Dilemma Over Identity, Economy and China”
Pageant Silences Beauty Queen, a Critic of China, at U.S. Contest
After the Chinese authorities blocked the Canadian beauty queen Anastasia Lin from attending the 65th annual Miss World pageant in China last year, the event’s British organizers offered her a consolation prize, of sorts: They promised to allow her a chance to compete in the 2016 finals, which are currently underway in suburban Washington.
Tiếp tục đọc “Pageant Silences Beauty Queen, a Critic of China, at U.S. Contest”
Killings of land rights activists tripled in 2016
ALJAZEERA Dec. 13, 2016
Roughly 16 land rights advocates have been killed each month from January through November.
The battle over land and resources turned bloodier in the past year with treble the number of land rights defenders killed, according to a human rights group that fears that the violence will get even worse. Tiếp tục đọc “Killings of land rights activists tripled in 2016”
North Korea’s Kim guides special operations drill targeting Blue House
Japan times
Reuters Dec 12, 2016
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided a special operations drill targeting the South, the North’s media reported on Sunday, as rival South Korea remained on alert for any attempt by the North to take advantage of political turmoil in the South.
The North’s KCNA state news agency report did not say when North Korean forces conducted the combat exercise, nor did it mention the South Korean parliament’s vote on Friday to impeach its president, Park Geun-hye. Tiếp tục đọc “North Korea’s Kim guides special operations drill targeting Blue House”
The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.
Tiếp tục đọc “The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.”
Beijing ‘seriously concerned’ by Trump’s One China remarks: Govt
- Posted 12 Dec 2016 15:32 ChannelNewsAsia
BEIJING: Beijing is “seriously concerned” by US president-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that he could drop Washington’s One China policy unless the mainland makes concessions on trade and other issues.
It issued its first clear warning Monday (Dec 12) over Donald Trump’s fiery rhetoric, as state media said the Asian giant could back “forces hostile to the US” if the president-elect follows through with threats to drop Washington’s One China policy.
It was the strongest signal yet from Chinese authorities that abandoning the One China policy, which guides relations with self-ruling Taiwan, would upset decades of carefully managed Sino-US relations and end cooperation between the world’s top two economies. Tiếp tục đọc “Beijing ‘seriously concerned’ by Trump’s One China remarks: Govt”
MÔI TRƯỜNG VÀ CON NGƯỜI Ở MIỀN SÔNG TIỀN, SÔNG HẬU – GS. THÁI CÔNG TỤNG
Friday, December 9, 2016 Mekong-Cuu Long
- Nhập đề
Ngày nay, với thế kỷ 21, nhiều vấn đề môi sinh được đặt ra, vì dân số tăng, vì ô nhiễm, vì tài nguyên thiên nhiên thì có hạn mà sự tiêu thụ thì vô hạn; mãi đến những năm cuối cùng của thế kỷ 20, vào năm 1992, nhiều xứ họp tại Rio ký bản thoả ước về bảo vệ tài nguyên trên trái đất, rồi đến hiệp ước Kyoto về giới hạn các sự phát thải các khí trên bầu trời … Dĩ nhiên các đề tài của những năm cuối thế kỷ 20 sẽ là tiền đề cho các cuộc thảo luận và thực thi để bảo vệ ngôi nhà chung của thế giới tránh khỏi các phá hủy môi sinh như phá rừng, nạn nhân mãn, thiên tai, sự liên hệ môi sinh và sức khoẻ, sự trở về thiên nhiên nối tâm linh vào khoa học. Tiếp tục đọc “MÔI TRƯỜNG VÀ CON NGƯỜI Ở MIỀN SÔNG TIỀN, SÔNG HẬU – GS. THÁI CÔNG TỤNG”
Cửu Long có phải là 9 Rồng?
Mekong-Cuu Long Dec. 9, 2016
“BÁO VĂN HÓA-CALIFORNIA” THỨ TƯ 02 MAR 2016
Sông Cửu Long ( người Âu Mỹ gọi là Mê Kông ) là một trong những con sông lớn nhất trên thế giới. Xuất phát từ vùng núi cao tỉnh Thanh Hải ( Trung Quốc), băng qua Tây Tạng theo suốt chiều dài tỉnh Vân Nam, qua các nước Myanma,Thái Lan, Lào, Campuchia trước khi đổ vào miền Nam Việt Nam. Tiếp tục đọc “Cửu Long có phải là 9 Rồng?”
The leading global thinkers of 2016
the leading global thinkers of 2016
THE CASE FOR OPTIMISM
An ugly strain of populism reared its head in America this year. After months of spewing sexist, racist, homophobic, and xenophobic rhetoric, Donald Trump stunned pollsters—and the citizens whose ballots earned Hillary Clinton the popular vote—by winning the White House. Nativist politics won out, and Americans joined other populations, including Brexit supporters and Colombians who rejected the long-awaited peace deal, in voting against their self-interest. Through democratic means, fear surpassed reason repeatedly in 2016, leaving many wondering who will handle the unprecedented crises that the world faces—the war in Syria, mass migration, climate change—and how. Tiếp tục đọc “The leading global thinkers of 2016”
CVD 