Conversations on Vietnam Development
LARUNG GAR, China — Atop a hill, a growling chain saw drowned out loudspeakers broadcasting a lama’s chants from a nearby temple.
The chain saw, wielded by workers demolishing a row of homes, signaled the imminent end of thousands of hand-built monastic dwellings here at Larung Gar, the world’s largest Buddhist institute.
Tiếp tục đọc “China Takes a Chain Saw to a Center of Tibetan Buddhism”
By Haeril Halim
Indonesia has proposed the setting up of a new trade bloc that could counterbalance the dominance of the United States and China.
The US dominated the APEC forum in Lima, Peru, last week with its lucrative Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), championed by outgoing US President Barack Obama, which comprises 12 of the 21 APEC members, including Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Tiếp tục đọc “Indonesia proposes ‘ASEAN-Pacific axis’ alternative to TPP and Chinese initiative”
Loay hoay chặt – trồng, nuôi – bỏ: Lên bờ xuống ruộng vì theo phong trào
24/11/2016 22:14
Từng có nhiều bài học cay đắng cho nông dân ĐBSCL khi ồ ạt chạy theo phong trào, thấy cây nào, con gì cho lợi nhuận cao thì đổ xô trồng, nuôi. Hậu quả là khi cung vượt cầu, nông dân lại trắng tay
Cách đây không lâu, thấy cam sành cho lợi nhuận cao, hàng loạt hộ dân tại Hậu Giang, Vĩnh Long đã chuyển diện tích làm lúa sang trồng loại cây này.
Phải bỏ xứ ra đi
Kết quả kiểm tra của Chi cục Bảo vệ thực vật tỉnh Vĩnh Long cho thấy trong 6 tháng đầu năm 2016, toàn tỉnh có 700 ha đất lúa chuyển sang trồng cam sành, nâng diện tích loại cây này lên 8.000 ha/41.000 cây ăn trái. Theo nhiều nông dân, nếu không bị dịch bệnh, 1 ha cam sành có thể thu được trên 200 triệu đồng trong 1 hoặc 2 năm đầu thu hoạch.
Nhiều hộ dân ở Vĩnh Long đang phát triển cây thanh long trong khi chưa có đầu ra ổn định Ảnh: NGỌC TRINH Tiếp tục đọc “Cập nhật thực trạng nông nghiệp Việt Nam ngày nay – 27/11/2016”
Sunday, November 27, 2016 Mekong – Cửu Long
Cục Đường thủy nội địa “dán bùa” cho cát tặc trá hình: Trách nhiệm của ai?
LĐ – 247 NHÓM PV 9:28 AM, 21/10/2016
Cơ quan chức năng phát hiện DN tư nhân Sáu Hằng hút cát trái phép.
Bằng 3 văn bản nội dung có phần sơ sài, nhiều kẽ hở do phó Cục trưởng Cục Đường thuỷ nội địa phê duyệt, một DN tư nhân đã vô tư múc cát kiếm lời dưới chiêu bài nạo vét, xây dựng cảng thủy nội địa. Kết quả, cảng chưa thấy, lòng sông bị nạo vét thiếu kiểm soát mà trách nhiệm của cơ quan quản lý còn chưa rõ. Tiếp tục đọc “Cập nhật tin tức về nạn cát tặc – 27 tháng 11 năm 2016”
Updated : 11/22/2016 11:48 GMT + 7
Fifty newspapers and news websites have been dealt a blow by Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications, accused of publishing inaccurate reports on traditional fish sauce’s safety and thus causing widespread fear among consumers last month.
Tiếp tục đọc “50 Vietnamese media outlets fined over misleading fish sauce news”
The 2016 election campaign has revealed mounting concern and skepticism about American foreign policy commitments towards Asia, including signals towards anti-globalization and isolationism. Concerns have been raised about free trade and investment, the rise of China, territorial disputes, nuclear proliferation, and America’s presence in Afghanistan. The United States must not shrink from its leadership role in the international order and skillfully navigate a complex set of issues in Asia, according to a forthcoming policy report, Asian Views on America’s Role in Asia. This report presents policy recommendations for the incoming administration on issues most important to three sub-regions of Northeast Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. The recommendations culminate a series of closed-door, high-level working group meetings held in Seoul, Bangkok, Colombo, and New York from April to June of 2016.
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) is an informal process of dialogue and cooperation bringing together the 28 European Union member states, 2 other European countries, and the European Union with 21 Asian countries and the ASEAN Secretariat. The ASEM dialogue addresses political, economic and cultural issues, with the objective of strengthening the relationship between the two regions, in a spirit of mutual respect and equal partnership.
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”
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