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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Thu gom nước mưa, nước mặt đưa vào lòng đất bổ sung nhân tạo cho nước dưới đất

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Mekong-Cuulong Blog Sunday, October 9, 2016

Báo cáo tham luận

Người trình bày; PGS TS Đoàn Văn Cánh- Giảng viên cao cấp trường ĐH Mỏ Địa chất,

Chủ tịch Hội Địa chất thủy văn Việt Nam

PLEIKU : 21 – 23/7/2016

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7vxHAQlq7jzWWJJTWNhcHZZMmoxb2tabDQ5V1ZQOEhlNUJB/view?usp=sharing

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China blockades streets around military building as hundreds protest in capital

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 Reuters Tue Oct 11, 2016 | 6:15am EDT
Uniformed people take part in a protest outside the Bayi Building, a major Chinese military building in Beijing, China, October 11, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

 
Police in the Chinese capital on Tuesday blocked off streets near a major military building, as hundreds of people wearing green camouflage uniforms chanted and waved national flags to protest against the loss of their posts. Tiếp tục đọc “China blockades streets around military building as hundreds protest in capital” →

Chinese fishing boats sink a Korean coast guard vessel

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Korea Herald
Published : 2016-10-09 17:35

South Korea on Sunday filed a protest against China after two Chinese boats illegally fishing in Korean waters sank a Korean coast guard boat in their attempt to flee.

According to Incheon Coast Guard, the vessels, assumed to be 100-plus ton steel ships, on Friday deliberately crashed into an Incheon coastguard’s 4.5-ton speed boat, which was patrolling the area for illegal fishing in waters off Incheon in the western side of the peninsula, and fled the scene. Tiếp tục đọc “Chinese fishing boats sink a Korean coast guard vessel” →

Improving Relief and Development Responses to Climate Variability: Lessons from the 2015 – 2016 El Niño in Southern Africa

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Improving Relief and Development Responses to
Climate Variability: Lessons from the 2015 – 2016 El Niño in Southern Africa

El Niño weather system was one of the strongest on record, causing drought and flooding in locations across the world. Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were particularly hard hit. In Southern Africa, low or erratic rainfall caused serious drought and associated food insecurity in 10 countries, severely testing the coping strategies of households, communities, and governments and prompting an emergency response by donors. In June 2016, a team from the CSIS Global Food Security Project and CSIS Africa Program visited two of the hardest-hit countries—Malawi and Mozambique—to assess the scale of the disaster, observe the relief effort, and consider efforts by the United States to boost agricultural growth and build the resilience of affected countries.

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This report is made possible by generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Tracking China’s Compliance with the South China Sea Arbitral Award

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Lawfareblog

By Julian Ku, Chris Mirasola

Monday, October 3, 2016, 2:39 PM

Since the arbitral tribunal formed pursuant to the UN Convention for the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) handed China a stunning legal defeat in July, China has loudly proclaimed its intention to ignore the arbitral award.  For most analysts of the region, it has been a working assumption that China has not and will not comply with any parts of the award.   But China’s statements that it will ignore the award do not necessarily mean that it is currently in complete non-compliance or that it will never come into compliance in the future.  China’s actions, as opposed to terse public statements, must be assessed as a measure of its compliance. Tiếp tục đọc “Tracking China’s Compliance with the South China Sea Arbitral Award” →

Senators Call For Global Super Court To Be Renegotiated

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BuzzFeed News’ investigation of investor-state dispute settlement provokes a call for change on Capitol Hill.

Originally posted on Sept. 29, 2016, at 11:56 a.m. Updated on Sept. 29, 2016, at 4:13 p.m.

Chris Hamby

Chris Hamby

BuzzFeed News Reporter

Senators Sherrod Brown, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, who seek to limit the scope of ISDS. BuzzFeed News; Getty

Citing a BuzzFeed News investigation, a dozen senators urged President Obama to remove a controversial element of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the massive trade deal the administration is pushing Congress to ratify in the coming months. Tiếp tục đọc “Senators Call For Global Super Court To Be Renegotiated” →

China says interests outweigh differences with Vietnam

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REUTERS | Tue Sep 13, 2016 | 7:42am EDT
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (R) and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, September 12, 2016. REUTERS/Lintao Zhang/Pool

Common interests between China and Vietnam far outweigh differences, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Vietnam’s prime minister on Tuesday, calling for their dispute in the South China Sea to be resolved through talks. Tiếp tục đọc “China says interests outweigh differences with Vietnam” →