Conversations on Vietnam Development
LIMA, Peru — A toxic political war over money, jobs and globalization killed the vast and complex trade deal that was supposed to be a signature legacy of President Obama. But the deal, between the United States and 11 Asian and Pacific nations, was never just about trade.
Tiếp tục đọc “China’s Influence Grows in Ashes of Trans-Pacific Trade Pact”
Cambodia’s Phka Rumdoul variety of fragrant rice, which won the World’s Best Rice award for three consecutive years from 2012 to 2014, narrowly missed its fourth crown at this year’s awards held in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand last week.
Thailand’s own Hom Mali – a close cousin of Phka Rumdoul – took top honours at the annual event in what attendees said was an extremely close contest. Tiếp tục đọc “World’s Best Rice: 1st prize Thai, 2nd Cambodian, 3rd American”
NOV. 21, 2016 New York Times
HONG KONG — Philippine officials said Monday that President Rodrigo Duterte planned to declare a marine sanctuary and no-fishing zone at a lagoon within Scarborough Shoal, a reef China seized in 2012.
Tiếp tục đọc “Philippines to Declare Marine Sanctuary in South China Sea”
Pacific Rim leaders vowed on Sunday to fight protectionism and Chinese officials said more countries are looking to join a China-led trading bloc after Donald Trump’s election victory raised fears the United States would scrap free trade deals.
Trump campaigned for U.S. president on a promise to pull out of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, and also threatened to impose steep tariffs against China and Mexico. Tiếp tục đọc “APEC leaders vow to fight protectionism, look to China on trade”
Membership: Joined 1989: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea (South Korea), Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, USA.
Republic of China (Taiwan – Chinese Taipei) joined 1991, Hong Kong (China Hong Kong) 1991, People’s Republic of China 1991, Mexico 1993, Papua New Guinea 1993, Chile 1994, Peru 1998, Russia 1998, Vietnam 1998.
| Related: Xi promotes Asia-Pacific FTA at APEC summit
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s keynote speech at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit on Saturday in Lima, Peru, placed China and the region at the forefront of a joint effort to reactivate the global economy, APEC participants and scholars have said. Tiếp tục đọc “Xi’s APEC speech puts China, Asia-Pacific in global “vanguard”” |
Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation and a former aide to Margaret Thatcher. The opinions in this article are those of the author.
(CNN) In just two months’ time, the world will bid farewell to President Obama. In his final overseas trip before exiting the White House next January, Mr. Obama stood alongside his German counterpart Angela Merkel at a press conference in Berlin, warning against a “meaner, harsher, more troubled world.”
The planned controls, which were announced in a late night Facebook post, follow accusations that a flood of fake news stories influenced the U.S. presidential election.
Tiếp tục đọc “Zuckerberg: Facebook will develop tools to fight fake news”
By Amy Searight, Senior Adviser and Director, Southeast Asia Program (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS
Welcome to our rebooted Southeast Asia from Scott Circle newsletter. The newsletter will continue to bring you commentary about U.S. engagement with Southeast Asia and highlights of key developments in the region on a biweekly basis. We are also consolidating our SitRep announcements and program highlights into this one regular update. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – Southeast Asia Report – Nov 17, 2016”
Since the early 2000s, countries in South-east Asia have seen a plethora of trade pacts.
Singapore signed a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with New Zealand in 2000. Soon, others like Malaysia and Thailand got in on the act.
In 2003, the Asean 10 resolved to turn their trade agreements of the 1990s on goods, services and investments into the Asean Economic Community (AEC), a major advance in regional economic integration. Tiếp tục đọc “South-east Asia needs a reset on trade deals”
Giải đáp 100 thắc mắc về đất đai, môi trường
Toàn cảnh buổi giao lưu trực tuyếnTheo đó, đây là lần giao lưu thứ 17 được Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường được tổ chức từ năm 2005 đến nay với sự tham gia của 63 Sở Tài nguyên và Môi trường trên cả nước.
THƯ VIỆN PHÁP LUẬT tổng hợp 100 thắc mắc nổi bật nhất trong rất nhiều những câu hỏi được người dân và các doanh nghiệp đặt ra gửi tới quý thành viên.
Theo Cổng TTĐT Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2016
It has been fourteen years of passionate struggle for Gerald Herman. Hailing from upstate New York, the expat director/producer’s nomadic sense of adventure led him to Vietnam where, in 2002, he founded and has programmed the Hanoi Cinematheque ever since. The only venue in the bustling Vietnamese metropolis that has steadfastly adhered to screening classic international cinema, it has remained the ‘best kept secret’ amongst the cinephiles of southeast Asia. “Cinema has always played an important role in Vietnamese society,” says Herman, who spoke to SCREEN-SPACE from his Paris base…
Tiếp tục đọc “Founder of Hanoi Film Heaven Reflects on Reel Legacy”
Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 6:53AMDespite being torn apart by the devastation of two separate aggressor invasions and often finding its artisans hamstrung by censorship and bureacracy, the 100 year-old Vietnamese film community has forged a strong brand and unique voice within the global cinema community.
(Picture, above: Tôi thay hoa vàng trên co xanh; Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass, 2015) Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam Film Industry”
By Euan McKirdy, CNN
Updated 12:37 PM ET, Mon November 14, 2016
US and China look to strengthen relations
Hong Kong (CNN)China’s leader has spoken to US President-elect Donald Trump to congratulate him on his stunning election victory.
Tiếp tục đọc “China’s Xi Jinping and Donald Trump speak after election win”
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