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![Rolando Espinosa was mayor of Albuera town in the eastern province of Leyte [File: Mark R Cristiano/EPA]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2016/12/6/f9d102363db543b185e33350e087bfa7_18.jpg "Investigators: Philippine police killed jailed mayor")
Philippine police killed a town mayor linked to illegal drugs while he was helpless in a prison cell, justice department investigators alleged.
The National Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday that it filed murder complaints against two dozen police officers and personnel last week after a probe showed they shot dead Mayor Rolando Espinosa and his cellmate Raul Yap in the central province of Leyte in November. Tiếp tục đọc “Investigators: Philippine police killed jailed mayor”
Thứ tư, 30/11/2016 13:40
Công an tỉnh Vĩnh Long trong lúc tuần tra đã phát hiện sà lan có tải trọng khoảng 600 tấn hút cát trái phép trên sông Tiền.
Lực lượng chức năng kiểm tra sà lan 600 tấn đang hút cát trái phép
ẢNH DO CÔNG AN CUNG CẤP
Rạng sáng nay, 30-11, lực lượng Cảnh sát môi trường – Công an tỉnh Vĩnh Long phối hợp với Công an xã Đồng Phú (H.Long Hồ, Vĩnh Long) bắt quả tang 1 sà lan sắt, không mang số hiệu, có tải trọng khoảng 600 tấn đang có hành vi “khai thác cát sông không phép”.
Vào thời gian trên, lực lượng Công an tuần tra trên tuyến sông Tiền (thuộc thủy phận ấp Phú Mỹ 1, xã Đồng Phú, huyện Long Hồ), nơi tiếp giáp giữa 2 tỉnh Vĩnh Long và Tiền Giang, thì bắt quả tang một sà lan sắt đang dùng 2 máy bơm có công suất lớn để hút cát sông. Chiếc sà lan trên do Trương Văn Lên (32 tuổi, ngụ xã Hưng Lễ, huyện Giồng Trôm, Bến Tre) điều khiển chở theo 3 người làm thuê. Tiếp tục đọc “Sà lan 600 tấn hút cát lậu ở Vĩnh Long”
TTO – Mấy tuần nay ở thị trấn An Thới, huyện Phú Quốc (Kiên Giang), những chiếc tàu đồ sộ từ nước ngoài đến nhận cát rồi chở đi Singapore, trong khi các dự án tại Phú Quốc phải mua cát từ nơi khác về san lấp mặt bằng. Vì sao vậy?
 Khai thác cát ồ ạt ngoài biển ở Phú Quốc (Kiên Giang) để xuất khẩu –
Ảnh: NGUYỄN TRIỀU |
Đêm 30-11 và sáng 1-12, phóng viên Tuổi Trẻ đã thuê tàu ra tận nơi, xem tận mắt hoạt động bơm hút cát để xuất khẩu đang diễn ra ngoài khơi thị trấn An Thới.
Tiếp tục đọc “Vì sao cát Phú Quốc vẫn chảy sang Singapore?”
It was the sixth straight weekend that massive crowds gathered in the capital, Seoul, to force Park out of office, as the country’s three opposition parties introduced an impeachment bill in parliament.
Protest organisers told Al Jazeera the number of demonstrators swelled to 1.7 million as of 13:00 GMT on Saturday, surpassing last weekend’s 1.5 million people.
Tiếp tục đọc “Park impeachment filed as South Koreans step up protest”
Remember the messy bunches of wiring you’ve got caught up in, possibly more than once, on the streets of Hanoi?
Professional engineers have recently named the city’s wiring among the worst in the world.
Members of the U.K.-based Institution of Engineering and Technology, one of the world’s largest engineering institutions, have named Hanoi as the third most dangerous places for wiring on the planet, after cities in India and the Maldives.
Engineering and Technology, the institution’s award-winning magazine, surveyed 38,000 engineers to compile the worst and most dangerous examples of electrical wiring around the world.
More than 500 examples were submitted and readers were asked to vote for installations that veer the farthest away from safe and sensible standards.
An office block in Madras in eastern India was named the worst installation after receiving more than 50 percent of the votes, while second place went to a hotel in the Maldives.
This picture taken in Hanoi has caught the attention of many professional engineers around the world. Photo courtesy of Engineering and Technology
A street installation in Hanoi took third place. It is a collection of telecom, lighting and possibly mains cables, and according to E&T, it is “impossible” to tell the exact details as all of the cables are black.
“Fingers crossed for customers asking for support with wiring emergencies!” it said.
Nearly 60 percent of all fires and explosions that occurred in the country in the first six months of this year started from electrical problems, said the Ministry of Public Security.
On November 1, a massive fire from a billboard short circuit killed 13 people in Hanoi.
E&T’s readers found that unsafe wiring is not just a problem in Asia. Two of the top 12 examples of dangerous wiring are in France.
In 2013, Bill Gates surprised many around the world when he shared a photo of a utility pole with messy wiring in Vietnam on Facebook.
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BEIJING — China warned President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday that he was risking a confrontation over Taiwan, even as Mr. Trump broadened the dispute with new messages on Twitter challenging Beijing’s trade policies and military activities in the South China Sea.
Tiếp tục đọc “China Amplifies Warning on Taiwan, and Trump Takes a Tougher Line”
After enduring three years of a foundering economy and feuds with the West, things may be looking up for Russia. The Brexit vote in June exposed the deep discord in the European Union, giving Moscow a glimmer of hope that dissenting member states might break the bloc’s consensus on its sanctions against Russia in a future vote on their renewal. Though EU members decided unanimously in July to extend the measures, upcoming elections on the Continent could undermine the bloc’s unity. In the United States, meanwhile, Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election has opened a potential path to warmer relations between the United States and Russia, and perhaps even an end to Washington’s sanctions on Moscow. The turning political tides in Brussels and Washington could give the Kremlin the leeway to increase its influence in the former Soviet Union, leading the countries in Russia’s periphery to re-evaluate their foreign policy positions. Tiếp tục đọc “Russia’s Path to Another Resurgence”
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The prince, Maha Vajiralongkorn, accepted the invitation to be the king of Thailand in a ceremony on Thursday.
By REUTERS on Publish Date December 2, 2016. Photo by Bureau of the Royal Household, via Associated Press… Watch in Times Video »
BANGKOK — Thailand’s crown prince ascended to the throne on Thursday, seven weeks after the death of his father, King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died after reigning for seven decades.
Tiếp tục đọc “New King for Thailand as Crown Prince, Vajiralongkorn, Ascends to Throne”
Malaysia has accused Myanmar of engaging in “ethnic cleansing” of its Rohingya Muslim minority, as former UN chief Kofi Annan visits a burned-out village in violence-hit Rakhine state.
Tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled their homes since a bloody crackdown by the Myanmar army in Rakhine, sparked by a string of deadly attacks on police border posts in early October.
“The fact that only one particular ethnicity is being driven out is by definition ethnic cleansing,” Malaysia’s foreign ministry said in an unusually strongly-worded statement on Saturday.
Myanmar has balked at such criticism, saying the Rakhine crisis is an internal issue. However, international pressure on the country is mounting.
Malaysia’s statement noted that hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to neighbouring countries in recent years, including approximately 56,000 to Muslim-majority Malaysia. Tiếp tục đọc “Malaysia: Myanmar pursues ethnic cleansing of Rohingya”
DOROUGOK, Indonesia — The older man wore just a loincloth, revealing taut muscles and leathery skin from decades of living deep in the rain forest. Like other members of his tribe, he was covered head to toe in tattoos. Though he appeared strong, he had a pronounced hunch, and a cough from smoking too much tobacco.
The man, Teu Kapik Sibajak, grabbed his ax on a recent morning and went off through the forest to chop down a sago palm tree. Mr. Kapik delivered precise blows before he and a few friends stooped down and rolled pieces of the thick, heavy trunk toward his house. “Hard work, this!” he announced.
But the effort would be worth it: The tree’s leaves provide the roof for his wooden long house; its starchy insides can be cooked and eaten, or fed to the household’s pigs, ducks and chickens.
Mr. Kapik and his wife, Teu Kapik Sikalabai, are among the last of the Mentawai people living traditional lives deep in the forest on the remote island of Siberut.
They, and others like them, have for decades resisted Indonesian government policies that pressured the forest-bound indigenous groups to abandon their old customs, accept a government-approved religion and move to government villages. That shift, along with the inevitable lure the modern world has for their children, has led to major disjunction between generations of Mentawai.
The Mentawai tribe, which today numbers around 60,000, is a rare Indonesian culture that was not influenced by Hindu, Buddhist or Muslim currents over the last two millenniums. Instead, their traditions and beliefs strongly resemble those of the original Austronesian settlers who came to this vast archipelago from Taiwan around 4,000 years ago. If the tribe’s culture disappears, one of the last links to Indonesia’s early human inhabitants will go with it.
Tiếp tục đọc “Modern World Tugs at an Indonesian Tribe Clinging to Its Ancient Ways”
BEIJING — China’s leaders have been markedly reticent about what kind of leader they think Donald J. Trump will be. A pragmatic dealmaker, as his business background might indicate? Or a provocateur who tests the ways of statecraft?
Tiếp tục đọc “China Sees New Ambiguity With Donald Trump’s Taiwan Call”
US President-elect Donald Trump has spoken with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, in a major break with Washington’s policy on China, triggering protest from Beijing.
During Friday’s discussion, Trump and Tsai noted “the close economic, political and security ties” between Taiwan and the United States, according to the president-elect’s transition team. Tiếp tục đọc “Donald Trump speaks directly to Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen”
![Crowds waved 'We Are Indonesia' signs and held a giant red-and-white national flag [Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdmegaxxlarge/mritems/Images/2016/12/2/553be1b204db4eb4861cf4b824ba923b_9.jpg "Indonesians rally for unity after blasphemy protests")
Crowds waved ‘We Are Indonesia’ signs and held a giant red-and-white national flag [Reute
Tens of thousands of Indonesians have rallied in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, calling for tolerance and unity after massive protests were held against the city’s Christian governor.
The crowds on Sunday filled a major traffic circle in Jakarta and sprawled into its main thoroughfares, waving “We Are Indonesia” signs and a giant red-and-white national flag was held aloft. Tiếp tục đọc “Indonesians rally for unity after blasphemy protests”
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