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.

6 Shocking Reasons Why You Can Never Trust “Organic” from China

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by | January 8, 2016

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Polluted water is a growing problem in China, where it may be used to water crops.

Multiple recent reports exposed conventional foods manufactured in China as fake and even toxic: scams involving rice that contains plastic, fake eggs made from chemicals and many food items containing high levels of arsenic.Now that country-of-origin labeling has been removed by Congress (for meat), and companies are struggling to find new sources of food to meet the growing demand for organics in the United States, it’s becoming more likely that your organic food could come from China or other countries rather than U.S. farmers. Tiếp tục đọc “6 Shocking Reasons Why You Can Never Trust “Organic” from China” →

Here’s How Chinese Stocks Short-Circuited

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Here’s How Chinese Stocks Short-Circuited

Beijing’s rules intended to stem market panic only made things worse. Blame human nature.

Here’s How Chinese Stocks Short-Circuited

It was an embarrassing about-face for Chinese securities regulators. Just days after introducing “circuit breaker” policies on Jan. 4 — which paused stock markets for 15 minutes on a five percent drop and shut them down for the day on a seven percent drop — Beijing announced Jan. 7 that it would suspend the new rules, effective immediately. Tiếp tục đọc “Here’s How Chinese Stocks Short-Circuited” →

CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – Jan 7, 2016

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Sunnylands Summit Provides Opportunity To Bolster U.S.-Southeast Asia Ties

By Murray Hiebert (@MurrayHiebert1), Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Chair for Southeast Asia Studies (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

January 7, 2015

President Barack Obama will host leaders from the 10 ASEAN countries for a summit at the lush Sunnylands retreat in southern California on February 15 and 16 in a gesture aimed at deepening U.S. ties to this dynamic region. The president raised the idea of the meeting with Southeast Asian leaders at the U.S.-ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur in November 2015, during which he and his ASEAN counterparts announced the upgrading of U.S.-ASEAN relations to a strategic partnership. The leaders will look to flesh out the ASEAN-U.S. Plan of Action 2016–2020 that they endorsed at the summit in Kuala Lumpur. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – Jan 7, 2016” →

CSIS Energy Publication | Assessing the Final Clean Power Plan: Emissions Outcomes

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FROM THE CSIS ENERGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAM

Assessing the Final Clean Power Plan:
Emissions Outcomes

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) is the most significant greenhouse gas (GHG) policy ever undertaken in the United States, and is expected to achieve significant emission reductions by the time it is fully implemented in 2030. However, calculating the ultimate emissions-abatement potential is more difficult than simply adding up the state reduction targets. While the EPA has set a floor on cumulative emissions from existing fossil-fuel-fired power plants, it has not set a ceiling, and projecting the actual emissions outcome on a national level is not straightforward due to the flexibility states have in implementation.

Our analysis deepens the understanding of the potential emissions outcomes of the CPP and what factors could influence that outcome. We start by explaining the primary factor that has the potential to undermine EPA’s emissions floor—leakage—and how EPA is attempting to address this issue. We then turn to a quantitative analysis of two potential pathways for state implementation plans (SIPs) under optimal implementation conditions. Bearing in mind that optimal implementation is unlikely, we also explore key drivers and decisions that could result in emissions that are higher or lower than our initial projections.

To read the full report, click here

By: John Larsen, Director, Rhodium Group, and Non-Resident Senior Associate, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS; Sarah Ladislaw, Director and Senior Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS; Michelle Melton, Associate Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, CSIS; and Whitney Herndon, Research Analyst, Rhodium Group

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CSIS: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN FOREIGN POLICY | VOLUME 9

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NEW PERSPECTIVES IN FOREIGN POLICY | VOLUME 9

Included in this issue:
 
  • Hayley Elszasz, “Marikana and ANC Regeneration: The Final Straw?”
  • Caroline Rohloff, “Cracks in the Ice: Russia’s Strategic Posturing in the Arctic”
  • Renzo Falla, “Violence, Corruption, and Impunity in Central America’s Northern Triangle”
  • James Mina, “Europe’s Fading Legacy in the Western Balkans”
  • Andrew Chapman, “Japan’s Proactive Pacifism in Action: Supporting International Law and Stability in the South China Sea”

New Perspectives, the CSIS journal for young professionals, seeks to bring new voices into the foreign policy conversation. The journal does not endorse specific opinions or policies. The views expressed herein are solely those of the authors and contributors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board, CSIS, or the CSIS Board of Trustees.

The editorial board welcomes your feedback. Please send any questions or comments tonewperspectives@csis.org.

      
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Các ngày lễ hội Việt Nam và các Ngày Quốc Tế của Liên Hợp Quốc

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Những ngày lễ ở Việt Nam được nghỉ

Nguồn: wikipedia

Các ngày lễ sau người lao động được nghỉ và hưởng nguyên lương:[1]

Tên gọi Ngày tháng Ý nghĩa Số ngày nghỉ
Tết Dương Lịch Ngày 1 /1 Ngày lễ Tết Quốc tế của hầu hết các quốc gia. 1
Tết Nguyên Đán ngày cuối tháng Chạp đến
mồng 4 tháng Giêng (Âm lịch)[2]		 Tết cổ truyền của dân tộc. 5
Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương 10 tháng 3 (Âm lịch) Tưởng nhớ đến công ơn dựng nước của các Vua Hùng. 1
Ngày Thống nhất đất nước 30 tháng 4 Kết thúc Chiến tranh Việt Nam. 1
Ngày Quốc tế Lao động 1 tháng 5 Kỷ niệm ngày của người lao động toàn thế giới. 1
Ngày Quốc khánh 2 tháng 9 Kỷ niệm ngày Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh đọc tuyên ngôn độc lập. 1

Tiếp tục đọc “Các ngày lễ hội Việt Nam và các Ngày Quốc Tế của Liên Hợp Quốc” →

Vietnam’s Divide: Slow Healing, Fewer Prospects for Children of U.S. Allies — Việt Nam vẫn còn chia cách: vết thương chậm hồi phục, ít có triển vọng cho con cái của đồng minh Mỹ

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(English and Vietnamese — Song ngữ Anh Việt)

Families who were allied with U.S. barred from Communist Party

December 23, 2015

John Boudreau 
K Oanh Ha

The Week That Was In Asia Photo Gallery

Photographer: Dita Alangkara/AP
Vu Tien, a university student in Ho Chi Minh City, holds photographs of his father who served in the military of the former Republic of Vietnam that governed the nation's south from 1954 to 1975.
Vu Tien, a university student in Ho Chi Minh City, holds photographs of his father who served in the military of the former Republic of Vietnam that governed the nation’s south from 1954 to 1975.
Source: Bloomberg News

As a graduate from one of Vietnam’s most prestigious schools, 22-year-old Cao would seem to have a bright future ahead of him — if only the past would get out of the way. He’s found his career prospects hemmed in by the lingering legacy of a war that ended nearly two decades before he was born. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s Divide: Slow Healing, Fewer Prospects for Children of U.S. Allies — Việt Nam vẫn còn chia cách: vết thương chậm hồi phục, ít có triển vọng cho con cái của đồng minh Mỹ” →

CSIS: Asia Maritime Transparency Initiatie, Dec. 18, 2015 brief

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A Case of Rocks or Islands?

This issue of AMTI explores the ongoing case between China and the Philippines at the arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. The Philippines argued the merits of its case against China’s claims in the South China Sea before an arbitral tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague from November 24 to 30. As it has since the case was filed in early 2013, China refused to recognize or take part in the proceedings. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS: Asia Maritime Transparency Initiatie, Dec. 18, 2015 brief” →

The Power of Smallholder Land Rights to Combat Climate Change

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By Kimberly Flowers, Lisa Bauer
Dec 16, 2015

Last weekend the world rejoiced over the historic, long-awaited climate-change agreement reached at the Paris Climate Conference (COP21). While the cooperation of 190 countries around a singular issue, especially one as pressing as climate change, should be applauded, the COP21 pact is missing something major: the role of agriculture.

This year is on target to be the hottest in recorded history. Just in the past few months, we have watched El Nino, which is likely to be one of the strongest on record, create unpredictable and chaotic weather patterns, taking a tremendous toll on harvests and pushing millions into extreme poverty and emergency levels of food insecurity. Ethiopia is experiencing its worst drought in decades, with predictions of at least 15 million people requiring emergency food assistance by early 2016. As climate change continues to threaten global stability, it pressures the international community to enact creative solutions. One solution that hasn’t received enough attention is increasing land rights for smallholder farmers, particularly for women in the developing world. Tiếp tục đọc “The Power of Smallholder Land Rights to Combat Climate Change” →

The U.S. Navy Wants to Show China Who’s Boss

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In a growing military rivalry with Beijing, U.S. commanders are looking for new anti-ship missiles and rewriting their war-fighting doctrine in the Pacific.

The U.S. Navy Wants to Show China Who’s Boss

Worried about China’s increasing naval might, the U.S. Navy is scrambling to buy new anti-ship missiles for the first time in decades, and throwing out its old playbook for war strategy in the Pacific.

Since the end of the Cold War, the American military has enjoyed unrivaled dominance on the high seas, with no other navy posing a serious threat. But over the past decade, China has rapidly built up a naval force to be reckoned with, spending tens of billions of dollars annually to produce dozens of new warships of every size, and a formidable arsenal of missiles aimed at undercutting America’s naval reach. Tiếp tục đọc “The U.S. Navy Wants to Show China Who’s Boss” →

CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – Dec 3, 2015

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Southeast Asian Nations Watch Paris for Deal to Cut Greenhouse Gases

By Murray Hiebert (@MurrayHiebert1), Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Chair for Southeast Asia Studies (@SoutheastAsiaDC), CSIS

December 3, 2015

Much of the focus at the Paris climate summit that began on November 30 will be on the delegations from the United States, China, and India, and the pledges of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters to limit emissions, protect forests, and launch rigorous renewable energy projects. Countries in Southeast Asia, several of which are among the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change, are watching closely to see if the nearly 200 participating countries put forward action plans robust enough to pull the world away from its trajectory toward perilous levels of global warming. Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS: Southeast Asia from Scott Circle – Dec 3, 2015” →

CSIS: Southeast Asia SIT-REP – Dec 10, 2015

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CSIS Southeast Asia SIT-REP

The SIT-REP gives you links to all of CSIS Southeast Asia’s (@SoutheastAsiaDC) best updates and programs in a five minute read. This issue includes a congressional testimony on democratic transitions in Southeast Asia, analysis of the prospect of joint Sino-Vietnamese development in the South China Sea, the threats posed by the Islamic State to Indonesia and Malaysia, and much more. Links will take you to the full publications, multimedia, or to registration for upcoming programs when available. To jump to a section, select one of the following:

Tiếp tục đọc “CSIS: Southeast Asia SIT-REP – Dec 10, 2015” →

Direct Democracy: The International IDEA Handbook

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Lead Writers and Editors: Virginia Beramendi, Andrew Ellis, Bruno Kaufman, Miriam Kornblith, Larry LeDuc, Paddy McGuire, Theo Schiller and Palle Svensson Contributors: Jennifer Somalie Angeyo, Nadja Braun, Mugyenyi Silver Byanyima, Mugyenyi Silver Byanyima, Humberto de la Calle Lombana, Krisztina Medve, Alfred Lock Okello Oryem, Rodolfo Gonzáles Rissotto and Daniel Zovatto

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Map on the use of the instruments of direct democracy worldwide

While many books on direct democracy have a regional or national approach, or simply focus on one of the many mechanisms associated with direct democracy, this Handbook delves into a global comparison of direct democracy mechanisms, including referendums, citizens’ initiatives, agenda initiatives and recall. A detailed look into each of these instruments is discussed in a chapter by chapter analysis of each tool, including comprehensive definitions, how each instrument can be used to shape political decisions and an outline of the steps most often involved in planning any given procedure.

Also included as a chapter in the Handbook are possible measures for best practices of implementation, designed for those who wish to tailor direct democracy instruments to their specific needs. In order to further complement the best practices, a variety of global case studies detail the practical uses of direct democracy mechanisms in specific contexts. These country case studies allow for in depth discussion of particular issues, including signature collection and voter participation, campaign financing, media coverage, national variations in the usage of direct democracy procedures and national lessons learned.

In addition, the uniquely comprehensive world survey outlines direct democracy provisions in 214 countries and territories and indicates which, if any, of these provisions are used by each country or territory at both the national and sub-national levels. Furthermore, the world survey includes valuable information regarding the binding or non-binding nature of referendums, as well as issues that can be brought forth to a referendum.

An overview of this Handbook is also available in English, French and Nepali.

UNDP Vietnam: Policy recommendations to the draft law on referedum

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12 Nov 2015

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The development of a Law on Referendum is a significant step toward building the rule-of-law state and the promotion of direct democracy in line with the provisions of the 2013 Constitution of Vietnam (hereafter, “the Constitution”). The analysis and recommendations in this Policy Brief and Recommendations have been made in reference to the Draft Law on Referendum (hereafter, “the Draft law”), which has been submitted to the XIII National Assembly of Vietnam, at its 10th Session in October 2015.