Conversations on Vietnam Development
Maggie Karner, a brain cancer victim, adamantly opposed legalizing physician-assisted suicide. (Photo: Family Institute of Connecticut via YouTube)
“My concern is for people who don’t have resources, who don’t have a choice.” Tiếp tục đọc “How California’s New Assisted Suicide Law Could Especially Hurt the Poor”
NEW YORK — As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted. The biggest regional trade and investment agreement in history is not what it seems.
You will hear much about the importance of the TPP for “free trade.” The reality is that this is an agreement to manage its members’ trade and investment relations – and to do so on behalf of each country’s most powerful business lobbies. Make no mistake: It is evident from the main outstanding issues, over which negotiators are still haggling, that the TPP is not about “free” trade. Tiếp tục đọc “The trans-Pacific free-trade charade”
Updated 5 October 2015
(originally published
9 November 2011)
The origins of our best drug against malaria have long been a mystery.
Meet Tu Youyou, who scoured ancient Chinese medical texts for the cure.
By Phil McKenna
Update: Tu Youyou has been awarded a share of the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology for her discovery of artemisinin. She shared the prize with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura, whose work led to the development of ivermectin, an important treatment for roundworm parasite diseases.
FORTY years ago a secret military project in communist China yielded one of the greatest drug discoveries in modern medicine. Artemisinin remains the most effective treatment for malaria today and has saved millions of lives. Until recently, though, the drug’s origins were a mystery.
“I was at a meeting in Shanghai in 2005 with all of the Chinese malariologists and I asked who discovered artemisinin,” says Louis Miller, a malaria researcher at the US National Institutes of Health in Rockville, Maryland. “I was shocked that no one knew.” Tiếp tục đọc “Nobel Prize goes to modest woman who beat malaria for China”
Washington Post
By Ishaan Tharoor February 16
People inspect damage at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo’s district of al-Sukari on March 7, 2014. (Hosam Katan/Reuters)
“It’s a childish story that keeps repeating in the West,” smiled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in an interview with the BBC last week. He was dismissing allegations that his regime is attacking Syrian civilians with barrel bombs, crude devices packed with fuel and shrapnel that inflict brutal, indiscriminate damage. Tiếp tục đọc “When the U.S. dropped barrel bombs in war”
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Hi , You’ve no doubt seen or heard the stories by now: Thousands of migrants, seeking refuge from conflicts, oppression and poverty in many parts of the world, paying smugglers and often meeting a tragic end at sea. Refugee crises have emerged in places as far-flung as Southeast Asia – where Myanmar’s minority Rohingya Muslims are seeking better fortunes abroad – and in the Mediterranean Sea. In fact, some groups say that the world is now in the midst of the worst refugee crisis to emerge since the end of World War II. The waves of migrants who have been displaced by conflicts in the Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa pose a particularly difficult challenge for the European Union – where political bonds have been frayed by the ongoing economic crisis. Download this FREE map to gain a deeper understanding of the migration patterns and the unique challenges they pose for European policymakers. |
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Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s FDI inflow hits record high so far in 2015”
A lot of land near Da Nang’s abandoned Nuoc Man Airport. Photo: H.TraTiếp tục đọc “Chinese investors snapping up Da Nang beachfront land in ‘dubious’ way: officials”
Chào các bạn,
17 Mục tiêu Phát triển Bền vững trong Chương trinh Nghi sự Phát triển Bền vững 2030 đã được có tên mới ngắn gọn là Các Mục tiêu Toàn cầu (The Global Goals).
Vậy mình đăng lại 17 mục tiêu với tên mới.
Mến,
Hoành
SHORT FORM – TÓM GỌN
1. No Poverty – Không Đói
2. Zero Hunger – Không Nghèo
3. Good Health and Well-being – Khỏe mạnh và Đời sống tốt đẹp
4. Quality Education – Giáo dục chất lượng
5. Gender equality – Bình đẳng giới
6. Clean water and Sanitation – Nước sạch và Điều kiện vệ sinh
7. Affordable and clean Energy – Năng lượng sạch và giá rẻ Tiếp tục đọc “Các Mục Tiêu Toàn Cầu – The Global Goals”
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States has been anticipated since it was announced in February. Now that Xi and U.S. President Barack Obama have issued their statements and held their big press conference, it’s time to ask: what actually came out of their meetings? Tiếp tục đọc “Takeaways from Xi Jinping’s US Visit”
FP Sit-Rep Spet 24, 2015
By Paul McLeary with Adam Rawnsley
You’ve got a friend in me. On the eve of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, two security firms claim to have uncovered proof that a Chinese military unit involved in cyber espionage has teamed up with a grassroots hacker collective in southern China. Together, the two have managed to break into sensitive computer networks in countries competing with China for control over the South China Sea.
But the best part of the story is how the researchers made the connection. Turns out, it was partly a simple case of laziness with a username that allowed cybersecurity firms ThreatConnect and Defense Group Inc. to link the army and the Naikon hacker group. The trail led to a man named Ge Xing, a member of People’s Liberation Army Unit 78020 who apparently used the username greensky27 all over the Web, including for work, creating a virtual map for researchers to trace the hacks.
The dominoes fall. What’s one more disturbing cyber story? FP’s Elias Groll writes that the hack of the Office of Personnel Management first revealed in June was much bigger than originally reported. The OPM said Wednesday that suspected Chinese hackers made off with 5.6 million sets of fingerprints, a much higher number than the 1.1 million that had previously been estimated. While there isn’t much that anyone can do with fingerprints just yet, an OPM spokesman offered the chilling assessment that this “could change over time as technology evolves.”
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(chinadaily.com.cn/Xinhua) Updated: 2015-09-25 09:43
US President Barack Obama hosts a private dinner for Chinese President Xi Jinping at Blair House in Washington DC, September 24, 2015. [Photo by Lan Hongguang/Xinhua]
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President Xi Jinping and President Barack Obama held a three-hour private dinner Thursday night, investing more time in building personal ties.
The private dinner, scheduled for two hours, extended to about three hours, with people around the event saying the two leaders explored many issues.
The two presidents walked shoulder to shoulder through the Pennsylvania Avenue before arriving at the Blair House, reminding audience of their talks during the past two years.
State Councilor Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Xi’s presidential office head and chief aid Ding Xuexiang joined the dinner.
On the US side, Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan Rice were on hand for the informal dinner. Tiếp tục đọc “Xi, Obama go tieless to untie various issues at private dinner”
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