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. . 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.

UPDATED: Imagery Suggests Philippine Fishermen Still Not Entering Scarborough Shoal

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Published: October 27, 2016

Despite earlier reports, it appears that Filipino fishermen are still not fishing inside Scarborough Shoal. New imagery from October 29 showed a China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel anchored just inside the mouth of the lagoon, where it has been for most of the period since China seized the shoal in 2012, apparently blocking access. At least 17 Philippine fishing vessels were present along the exterior of Scarborough’s reef. This corroborates reports that Filipino fishermen fished “just outside Scarborough’s lagoon” over the last week. There were also two Chinese civilian ships in the vicinity. According to the Philippine Navy, three other CCG vessels continue to patrol near Scarborough. Tiếp tục đọc “UPDATED: Imagery Suggests Philippine Fishermen Still Not Entering Scarborough Shoal” →

IBM’s Watson AI Recommends Same Treatment as Doctors in 99% of Cancer Cases – Watson Của IBM Đưa ra Cách Trị 99% Ca Ung Thư như ý BS

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Futurism

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In Brief
  • Watson recommended treatment plans that matched suggestions from oncologists in 99 percent of the cases it analyzed and offered options doctors missed in 30 percent of them.
  • AI could be revolutionary for healthcare as it can process many more research papers and case files than any human doctor could manage.

Paging Dr. Watson

Artificial intelligence (AI) is about more than just the promise of a robot butler — it can actually save lives. AI’s contribution to the healthcare industry and in medical research could be hugely significant. IBM sees that and wants Watson, its AI technology, at the forefront of this development. Tiếp tục đọc “IBM’s Watson AI Recommends Same Treatment as Doctors in 99% of Cancer Cases – Watson Của IBM Đưa ra Cách Trị 99% Ca Ung Thư như ý BS” →

Trang trại rau đầu tiên đạt chứng nhận hữu cơ của Mỹ và Liên minh châu Âu

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Posted by On June 27, 2016
Nguồn: Quang Minh – Báo Kinh tế nông thôn.

(KTNT) – Ngày 4-11 [2015], tại TP. Hồ Chính Minh, Hệ thống phát triển và phân phối thực phẩm hữu cơ Organica tổ chức đón nhận chứng nhận canh tác hữu cơ theo tiêu chuẩn của Bộ Nông nghiệp Mỹ (USDA organic) và Liên minh châu Âu (EU) cho trang trại rau tại Long Thành (Đồng Nai).

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Đại diện Control Union trao giấy chứng nhận sản phẩm hữu cơ cho Bà Phạm Phương Thảo. Tiếp tục đọc “Trang trại rau đầu tiên đạt chứng nhận hữu cơ của Mỹ và Liên minh châu Âu” →

Local Residents Force Monsanto to Tear Down GMO Seed Plant in Argentina

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Monsanto have announced that they will dismantle their half-built multi-million dollar GMO seed plant in Malvinas, Argentina, following protests from local citizens over the past 3 years.

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Local Malvinas citizens and GMO Free campaigners from across Argentina forced Monsanto to stop the construction of their GMO seed plant in 2014, through well-coordinated protests at the construction site. Tiếp tục đọc “Local Residents Force Monsanto to Tear Down GMO Seed Plant in Argentina” →

Nhà văn Võ Thị Hảo: Thủ phạm xả “bom nước” miền Trung

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Diễn Đàn Thế Kỷ

Thứ Năm, ngày 27 tháng 10 năm 2016

 
Kẻ máu lạnh “kích nổ bom nước”
 
Đã mười ngày trôi qua kể từ đợt xả lũ của thủy điện Hố Hô ngày 14.10.2016, người VN vẫn tiếp tục chờ đợi nhà cầm quyền VN sẽ truy tố những thủ phạm gây chết người do xả lũ thủy điện vừa qua ra trước pháp luật, trả lại công lý cho dân.
Nhưng chỉ vô vọng. Như nhiều đợt trước đây. Nhà chức trách không có lấy một hành động nào nhằm đem lại công lý cho những nạn nhân của “bom nước thủy điện”.
Quy trình giết người của “ cá mập” lợi ích nhóm là vậy. Quy trình này chỉ  lập sẵn để bảo kê cho mọi hành động hại dân của hệ thống cầm quyền tham nhũng và đồi bại hiện hành.

Tiếp tục đọc “Nhà văn Võ Thị Hảo: Thủ phạm xả “bom nước” miền Trung” →

Vietnam’s Military Modernization

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The Diplomat
Vietnam's Military Modernization
Vietnamese soldiers of the marine patrol force march during a parade marking their 70th National Day at Ba Dinh square in Hanoi, Vietnam (September 2, 2015).
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After extraordinary growth in military hardware, Vietnam is consolidating its new gains.

By Zachary Abuza and Nguyen Nhat Anh
October 28, 2016

In the past 10 years, there has been a fundamental shift in the capabilities of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA), which for the first time has the ability to project power and defend maritime interests.  No country in Southeast Asia has put more military hardware online in the same period of time as Vietnam. This military modernization has been driven almost exclusively by the threat posed by China over territory in the contested South China Sea.  Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s Military Modernization” →

CSIS – China Tightens Grip on Scarborough Shoal Post-Ruling – AMTI Brief

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China Tightens Grip on Scarborough Shoal Post-Ruling

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s recent trip to Beijing yielded a number of agreements, including a vaguely-worded commitment to peacefully resolve the South China Sea disputes. But there was no public breakthrough on one closely-watched topic: the ability of Filipino fishermen to return to Scarborough Shoal. An international tribunal ruled on July 12 that China’s closure of the shoal to Philippine fishing was illegal. But in the lead-up to Duterte’s visit, Filipino fishermen complained that it was becoming more, not less, difficult for them to approach Scarborough. Recent satellite imagery supports this conclusion. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – China Tightens Grip on Scarborough Shoal Post-Ruling – AMTI Brief” →

Tom Hayden, preeminent 1960s political radical and antiwar protester, dies at 76

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Washington Post

In 1973, political activist Tom Hayden tells members of the media that he thinks public support was partially responsible for the decision not to send him and others of the Chicago Seven to jail for contempt. (George Brich/AP)
By Elaine Woo October 24 at 2:13 AM

Duterte’s Flip-Flop Into Bed With China Is a Disaster for the United States

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FP

With the Philippine president ditching Washington for Beijing, the contest to control the South China Sea just got a lot more complicated.

Duterte’s Flip-Flop Into Bed With China Is a Disaster for the United States

International relations theorists of a “realist” persuasion like to claim that states are rational actors pursuing their strategic interests in an anarchic world where power alone matters. Ideology and domestic politics do not much concern these thinkers; they believe that a nation’s foreign policy is much more likely to be shaped by factors such as geography, demography, and economics. Tiếp tục đọc “Duterte’s Flip-Flop Into Bed With China Is a Disaster for the United States” →

The Philippines, China, the U.S., and ASEAN in 2017

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Asia Foundation October 19, 2016
By Steven Rood

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The Philippines will serve as ASEAN Chair in 2017, at which time ASEAN will mark its 50th anniversary. Having successfully served as host of APEC in 2015, the country has demonstrated that facilitating massive, significant international events is well within its capability—thus observers’ attention can focus on substance instead of administrative details. And there is considerable attention directed to the Philippines at the moment, not least because of the outspoken new president, Rodrigo Duterte. Tiếp tục đọc “The Philippines, China, the U.S., and ASEAN in 2017” →

3 chiến hạm Hải quân Trung Quốc thăm cảng Cam Ranh

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VnExpress Thứ tư, 19/10/2016 | 14:39 GMT+7

Hai chiến hạm hộ vệ tên lửa cùng tàu hộ tống chở theo 750 sĩ quan và thủy thủ Hải quân Trung Quốc sẽ thăm và giao lưu với Hải quân Việt Nam, ngày 22-26/10.

Ngày 19/10, Sở Ngoại vụ Khánh Hòa cho biết, hai chiến hạm hộ vệ tên lửa cùng tàu hộ tống Hải quân Trung Quốc sẽ có chuyến thăm cảng quốc tế Cam Ranh (Khánh Hòa) 4 hôm, từ ngày 22 đến 26/10.

Tổng số sĩ quan và thủy thủ đoàn là 750 người, do Tham mưu trưởng hạm đội Đông Hải (Trung Quốc) – Vương Hồng Lý làm trưởng đoàn.

Tiếp tục đọc “3 chiến hạm Hải quân Trung Quốc thăm cảng Cam Ranh” →

CSIS – Over the Line: Tracking Energy Competition in the East China Sea

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Over the Line: Tracking Energy Competition in the East China Sea

Two related disputes between Japan and China in the East China Sea flared again in early August. Between August 5 and 9, more than 200 Chinese fishing ships entered the waters around the Senkaku Islands (called Diaoyu in China), accompanied by China Coast Guard vessels. That same weekend, the Japanese foreign ministry accused China of deploying a radar system on one of its oil platforms in the East China Sea. Japan sees those platforms as a violation of the spirit of a 2008 agreement on joint exploration of resources near the two countries’ disputed continental shelf. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS – Over the Line: Tracking Energy Competition in the East China Sea” →

Nguồn gốc người Việt – Người Mường

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Nguồn: Văn Hóa Nghệ An

 

 

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1963, Vietnam – Hồ sơ mật VN 1963

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Read full text at US State Department website:
– January-August 1963
– August-December 1963
Đọc bản tiếng Việt do nhóm Thiện Pháp chuyển ngữ

VN-related documents (1945-1980) published by US State Department

Preface

The publication Foreign Relations of the United States constitutes the official record of the foreign policy of the United States. The volumes in the series include, subject to necessary security considerations, all documents needed to give a comprehensive record of the major foreign policy decisions of the United States together with appropriate materials concerning the facts that contributed to the formulation of policies. Documents in the files of the Department of State are supplemented by papers from other government agencies involved in the formulation of foreign policy. This volume also includes documents from the private collections of various government officials connected with U.S. policy toward Vietnam.

Tiếp tục đọc “Foreign Relations of the United States, 1963, Vietnam – Hồ sơ mật VN 1963” →

First Agent Orange, now Roundup: what’s Monsanto up to in Vietnam? Ecologist Special Investigation

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The Ecologist, Mick Grant
10th October 2016

A keyboard player, blind from birth due to a genetic defect induced by Agent Orange, performing at the War Remnants Museum. Photo: Mick Grant.
A keyboard player, blind from birth due to a genetic defect induced by Agent Orange, performing at the War Remnants Museum. Photo: Mick Grant.

With the International Monsanto Tribunal beginning this week (14-16 October) in The Hague, MICK GRANT reports from Vietnam with this special investigation for The Ecologist five decades after the company’s lethal herbicide Agent Orange first devastated the country – and discovers the agribusiness giant is sneaking its way back into Vietnam with modern herbicides and ‘Roundup-Ready’ GMO crops.

Tiếp tục đọc “First Agent Orange, now Roundup: what’s Monsanto up to in Vietnam? Ecologist Special Investigation” →