Conversations on Vietnam Development
UNITED NATIONS — In an effort to tighten sanctions that largely failed to throttle North Korea’s nuclear program, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday imposed a cap on coal exports, the country’s chief source of hard currency.
Tiếp tục đọc “U.N. Stiffens Sanctions on North Korea, Trying to Slow Its Nuclear March”
AFP-JIJI Japan Times Dec 1, 2016
SYDNEY – A group of Australian schoolchildren working on a shoestring budget have recreated the HIV drug whose price was controversially jacked up 5,000 percent by a former hedge fund manager.
U.S. drug company chief Martin Shkreli became a global figure of hate after buying the rights to Daraprim and then raising the price in the United States from $13.50 a tablet to $750. Tiếp tục đọc “Aussie schoolboys recreate price-gouged HIV medicine”
Thomson Reuters Foundation The Japan Times
LONDON – In the backyards of rural Cambodia, a tiny weapon is being deployed to fight dengue fever, the world’s fastest-spreading tropical disease, which causes debilitating flu-like symptoms and can develop into a deadly hemorrhagic fever.
More than 3,000 households in Kampong Cham province, which has one of the highest dengue rates in Cambodia, have been given colorful guppy fish to breed in barrels of water that villagers keep close to their homes for cleaning and cooking.
Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Shamshad Akhtar. Photo: ESCAP
1 December 2016 – Issuing a year-end update to its flagship economic and social development report, the United Nations development arm for the Asia-Pacific region said today that resilient domestic demand and policy support supported the region notch a steady growth rate of five per cent but warned that risks remain to financial stability. Tiếp tục đọc “Asia-Pacific saw steady growth in 2016, but risks to financial stability remain – UN report”
ANN The Jakarta Post
A woman walks past a billboard featuring an image of an island in South China Sea on display with Chinese words that read: “South China Sea, our beautiful motherland, we won’t let go an inch” in Weifang in east China’s Shandong province. (Chinatopix via AP/-)
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
* currently not eligible for invitation per U.S. State Department
** Territories of France
The Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies is a Department of Defense institution providing a forum where current and future, military and civilian leaders from many Asia-Pacific nations gather to enhance Asia-Pacific security cooperation through programs of executive education, professional exchange and policy-relevant research.
Above is a listing of countries that are generally defined as the “Indo-Asia-Pacific” region and most are routinely invited to APCSS courses.
Other links to definitions of the Asia-Pacific Region:
It is our pleasure to send you the November edition of the ChinaPower Newsletter, the monthly newsletter of the CSIS China Power Project. The China Power Project centers on ChinaPower–a website that provides an in-depth understanding of the evolving nature of Chinese power relative to other countries. The ChinaPower Newsletter highlights the new and updated content on the website, as well as featured events and publications. We hope this newsletter provides you with a snapshot of the work we are doing to help our users better understand the complexity of China’s rise. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – ChinaPower November 2016 Newsletter”
The challenges and opportunities presented by China’s rise are hotly contested. To help make sense of the issue, ChinaPower hosted its inaugural conference on November 29, 2016. The conference featured a series of debates between leading experts on the nature of Chinese power. The audience was polled for their opinion both before and after each debate. Polling results, debate descriptions, and conference video are posted below.
Bài khảo sát được thực hiện trên toàn cầu bởi hơn 950.000 người trưởng thành đến từ 72 quốc gia và vùng lãnh thổ, đưa ra những nhận định về mối tương quan giữa năng lực Anh ngữ và thu nhập, sự đổi mới, và chất lượng cuộc sống.
ZURICH, Thụy Sỹ, Ngày 19 tháng 11 năm 2016 – Theo bảng xếp hạng năng lực Anh ngữ EF EPI (viết tắt của EF English Proficiency Index) do tổ chức giáo dục quốc tế EF Education First công bố hôm nay, người trưởng thành ở Hà Lan nói tiếng Anh tốt nhất thế giới, theo sát bởi Đan Mạch và Thụy Điển. Trong các nước Châu Á, Việt Nam xếp thứ 7 về trình độ Anh ngữ. Các nước Lào, Libya và I-rắc đang xếp cuối trong bảng xếp hạng. Tiếp tục đọc “EF: Việt Nam xếp thứ 7 Châu Á về trình độ Anh ngữ”
Faced with a dire U.N. warning of a possible genocide in South Sudan, the United States was set this week to finally embrace an arms embargo against the world’s newest country to ratchet down the military might of its warring parties and, potentially, help spare the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire of worsening civil war. Tiếp tục đọc “U.S. Push to Halt Genocide in South Sudan Unravels at United Nations”
WASHINGTON — Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room. Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics: that once a country becomes a liberal democracy, it will stay that way.
His research suggests something quite different: that liberal democracies around the world may be at serious risk of decline.
Tiếp tục đọc “How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’”
HONG KONG — When protesters disrupted an art exhibition by Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, a political cartoonist, at the George Town Literary Festival in Malaysia on Saturday, he assumed that the police would want his help identifying those responsible.
Instead, said Mr. Zulkiflee, who goes by the name Zunar, he was questioned by the police, detained for a day and informed that he was under investigation for producing cartoons that purportedly defamed Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Tiếp tục đọc “A Malaysian Political Cartoonist on Facing His Fears, and Prison, for Art”
BEIJING — China extended a warm welcome this week to the incoming United Nations chief, António Guterres, praising the world body and making clear that it wants a greater role there, at a time when Donald J. Trump’s election to the White House has many wondering whether American involvement will recede.
Tiếp tục đọc “China Welcomes Incoming Head of U.N., Where It Wants a Larger Role”
HONG KONG — Three prominent Chinese rights activists appear to have been detained in recent weeks by the police, part of a continuing crackdown on groups operating outside the umbrella of the state, advocacy groups say.
The three men, Jiang Tianyong, Huang Qi and Liu Feiyue, all disappeared within days of each other in November, each in a different province. The police have charged only Mr. Liu with an offense. Rights groups say he was detained on Nov. 17 or 18 in the central province of Hubei on suspicion of subverting state power, which can carry a sentence of life in prison.
Tiếp tục đọc “3 Chinese Rights Activists Disappear in Apparent State Crackdown”
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Jakarta’s governor, is not known for diplomatic remarks.
He has called Christianity a ridiculous religion. He curses during interviews and once lashed out publicly at me for being a white foreigner. Tiếp tục đọc “The Indonesian fire play”
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