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.

The Next Revolution in Rice: An Interview with Dr. Robert Zeigler of IRRI

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In Asia

August 12, 2015

In 1966, IRRI, the International Rice Research Institute, achieved one of the key breakthroughs of the Green Revolution, the “miracle rice” IR8, whose shorter, sturdier stalks were strong enough to support the much higher yields produced with modern fertilizers and pesticides. Fifty years later, rice remains vitally important to Asia, and, indeed, the world. But with the looming threat of climate change, and dwindling supplies of land and water for agriculture, rice production is once again under pressure. Dr. Robert Zeigler, director general of IRRI, spoke recently with In Asia. He says the world needs a Green Revolution 2.0, and, in fact, it is already under way.

Photo/Conor Ashleigh

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China’s Meltdown Spells Even More Peril for Petro-States

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Oil prices were already fighting a massive hangover. Now, market convulsions in China threaten oil-dependent regimes from Russia to Venezuela.

China’s Meltdown Spells Even More Peril for Petro-States

The Chinese contagion that sparked “Black Monday” is especially worrisome for crude oil prices, which this summer were thought to have finally found a floor after a year of steady price declines. But that floor suddenly looks rotten: U.S. benchmark crude prices fell well below $40 a barrel on Monday, their lowest levels since the depths of the global financial crisis. Tiếp tục đọc “China’s Meltdown Spells Even More Peril for Petro-States” →

Tax survey: 41 percent of foreign firms have to pay bribes in Vietnam

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August 13, 2015 by thanhniennews

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People wait to file tax forms at an office in Hanoi. Photo: Ngoc Thang

A new survey has found that when it comes to tax procedures in Vietnam, foreign companies are more likely to be asked to pay “unofficial fees” to tax officials.

The survey conducted last year by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) found 41 percent of foreign-invested firms in the country had to offer under-the-table money to be treated properly. Tiếp tục đọc “Tax survey: 41 percent of foreign firms have to pay bribes in Vietnam” →

US visa regulation flaws allow for embassy corruption

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Al Jazeera
20 Aug 2015

A US foreign service officer sentenced to prison for issuing fake visas, making millions, as others got away.

Calvin Godfrey

The US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City where Sestak worked as the head of the non-immigrant visa division
[Calvin Godfrey/Al Jazeera]

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam –   In what the prosecutors had dubbed “one of the largest bribery schemes involving a foreign service officer in the history of the United States”, last week a court in Washington DC sentenced 44-year-old Michael T Sestak to 64 months in prison. Tiếp tục đọc “US visa regulation flaws allow for embassy corruption” →

Vietnam changes university admission process; schools, students, parents in trouble

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TTN – UPDATED : 08/20/2015 13:26 GMT + 7

Students wait to withdraw their papers at the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City. Tuoi Tre

If you have walked by colleges around Ho Chi Minh City recently, it is not hard to see long lines of students and parents tiredly waiting to withdraw their profiles.

Today is the last day for students in Vietnam to apply for their universities and colleges, and this year, entering universities is more troublesome for them because the Ministry of Education and Training has applied a number of changes to the university entrance exam and admission. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam changes university admission process; schools, students, parents in trouble” →

Secretary Kerry on U.S.-Vietnam: Looking to the Future – Hướng tới tương lai

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Secretary of State John Kerry
Daewoo Hotel Hanoi, Vietnam
August 07, 2015

Secretary Kerry on U.S.-Vietnam: Looking to the Future

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Hoa Kỳ-Việt Nam: Hướng tới tương lai

7/8/2015 – Khách sạn Daewoo, Hà Nội, Việt Nam

Vâng, xin chào tất cả quý vị (vỗ tay). Đây thực sự là thời khắc lịch sử khi chúng ta kỷ niệm 20 năm bình thường hóa hệ ngoại giao giữa Hoa Kỳ và Cộng hòa Xã hội Chủ nghĩa Việt Nam. Đây là cả một chặng đường dài. Và tôi xin chúc mừng tất cả các bạn đã nỗ lực góp phần tạo nên thành quả này.

Tôi thực sự vui mừng vì Ngài Phó Thủ tướng, Bộ trưởng Bộ Ngoại giao Phạm Bình Minh đã đến dự. Rất cảm ơn ông vì mối quan hệ đối tác và những nỗ lực của ông. Chúng tôi thực sự trân trọng những gì mà ông đã làm. (vỗ tay) Tiếp tục đọc “Secretary Kerry on U.S.-Vietnam: Looking to the Future – Hướng tới tương lai” →

ĐIỀU BẤT NGỜ QUA TRẢI NGHIỆM CÙNG MÔ HÌNH VNEN

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VNEN
Mô hình dạy học VNEN là mô hình với nhiều ưu điểm về đổi mới phương pháp dạy học. Và đặc biệt trong tổ chức dạy học theo mô hình VNEN là việc khai thác linh hoạt các công cụ học tập trong dạy học. Tôi rất tâm đắc với đó và tôi đã thành công trong việc khai góc cảm xúc trong tiết học.
 

Một hoạt động trong tiết học theo mô hình VNEN. Các em viết và chia sẻ cảm xúc của mình với bạn

Với phương châm xây dựng lớp học thân thiện, tôi đã đặt mục tiêu là tạo được sự thân thiện, gần gũi cô trò như những người bạn để cùng chia sẻ, tâm tình. Trong quá trình là giáo viên chủ nhiệm lớp, tôi đã tạo ra nhiều cơ hội để các em được gần gũi nhau, gần gũi với cô để chia sẻ những diều trong cuộc sống. Chính vì điều đó mà tôi nhận được từ các em rất nhiều những tâm sự thầm kín mà chính bố mẹ và những người thân trong gia đình của các em cũng không biết. Tiếp tục đọc “ĐIỀU BẤT NGỜ QUA TRẢI NGHIỆM CÙNG MÔ HÌNH VNEN” →

Thực hiện mô hình trường học mới ở 1.600 trường THCS

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TTO – Năm học 2015-2016, Bộ GD-ĐT sẽ triển khai mô hình trường học mới tại 1.600 trường THCS sau khi đã triển khai mô hình này ở 3.700 trường tiểu học và thí điểm ở 24 trường THCS vào năm học trước.
Trao đổi tại cuộc tập huấn cán bộ, giáo viên chủ chốt của Hà Nội ngày 3-8 về việc này, ông Nguyễn Xuân Thành, phó vụ trưởng Vụ GD trung học, Bộ GD-ĐT, cho biết đề án cho bậc THCS chỉ tập trung vào việc tập huấn khoảng 2.000 cán bộ, giáo viên trong tổng số 3-4 vạn giáo viên tham gia chương trình này.

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Nâng cao năng lực cho cán bộ, GV dạy học mô hình VNEN hè 2015

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Bộ GD&ĐT

Nhằm nâng cao năng lực cho cán bộ GV dạy học mô hình VNEN ở các địa phương, trong tháng 7/2015, đã diễn ra 5 đợt tập huấn dạy học mô hình VNEN cấp cụm tỉnh, thu hút hơn 11.000 học viên tham dự. Đây cũng là năm đầu tiên, nhiều cán bộ giáo viên ở các trường nhân rộng (không nằm trong dự án) được tham gia tập huấn do Ban quản lý dự án VNEN tổ chức.

Năm nay, nội dung tập huấn được Ban tổ chức chuẩn bị khá kỹ lưỡng, tập trung vào 5 vấn đề chính: Tiếp tục đọc “Nâng cao năng lực cho cán bộ, GV dạy học mô hình VNEN hè 2015” →

17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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Below is an excerpt from the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, showing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals

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Sustainable Development Goals

  • Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
  • Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
  • Goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
  • Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
  • Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
  • Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
  • Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*
  • Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
  • Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
  • Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
  • Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

* Acknowledging that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary international, intergovernmental forum for negotiating the global response to climate change. Tiếp tục đọc “17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” →

Việt Nam tổ chức tham vấn quan trọng về kế hoạch hành động liên quan đến các quyền con người

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UNDP

imagePhoto: UNDP Viet Nam/ ShutterstockHà Nội, ngày 5 tháng 8 năm 2015 – Một buổi tham vấn quan trọng về kế hoạch hành động quốc gia trọng điểm nhằm giải quyết các vấn đề liên quan đến quyền con người đã được tổ chức tại Hà Nội vào ngày hôm nay. Tiếp tục đọc “Việt Nam tổ chức tham vấn quan trọng về kế hoạch hành động liên quan đến các quyền con người” →

Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

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TĐH: This document, an Agenda for global action
for the next fifteen years, will be formally adopted
by UN members on the Sustainable Development
Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York
from 25-27 September 2015
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Preamble

This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan. We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. We are determined to take the bold and transformative steps which are urgently needed to shift the world onto a sustainable and resilient path. As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which we are announcing today demonstrate the scale and ambition of this new universal Agenda. They seek to build on the Millennium Development Goals and complete what these did not achieve. They seek to realize the human rights of all and to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. They are integrated and indivisible and balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental. The Goals and targets will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet: People We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment. Planet We are determined to protect the planet from degradation, including through sustainable consumption and production, sustainably managing its natural resources and taking urgent action on climate change, so that it can support the needs of the present and future generations. Prosperity We are determined to ensure that all human beings can enjoy prosperous and fulfilling lives and that economic, social and technological progress occurs in harmony with nature. Peace We are determined to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies which are free from fear and violence. There can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development. Partnership We are determined to mobilize the means required to implement this Agenda through a revitalised Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, based on a spirit of strengthened global solidarity, focussed in particular on the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable and with the participation of all countries, all stakeholders and all people. The interlinkages and integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals are of crucial importance in ensuring that the purpose of the new Agenda is realised. If we realize our ambitions across the full extent of the Agenda, the lives of all will be profoundly improved and our world will be transformed for the better. Tiếp tục đọc “Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” →

Consensus Reached on New Sustainable Development Agenda to be adopted by World Leaders in September Tue, Aug 4, 2015

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UNEP

Ambitious new agenda would end poverty by 2030 and universally promote shared economic prosperity, social development and environmental protection

2 August, New York-The 193 Member States of the United Nations reached agreement today on the outcome document that will constitute the new sustainable development agenda that will be adopted this September by world leaders at the Sustainable Development Summit in New York.Concluding a negotiating process that has spanned more than two years and has featured the unprecedented participation of civil society, countries agreed to an ambitious agenda that features 17 new sustainable development goals that aim to end poverty, promote prosperity and people’s well-being while protecting the environment by 2030. Tiếp tục đọc “Consensus Reached on New Sustainable Development Agenda to be adopted by World Leaders in September Tue, Aug 4, 2015” →

China’s Crisis: The Price of Change

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Geopolitical Weekly

August 18, 2015 | 08:08 GMT

 

By Rodger Baker

Last week was an eventful one for China. First, the People’s Bank of China shocked the financial world when it cut the yuan’s reference rate against the U.S. dollar by nearly 2 percent, leading to a greater than 2 percent drop in the value of the yuan in offshore trading. The decline triggered a frenzy of speculation, including some expectations that the Chinese move would trigger a race to the bottom for Asian currencies. Beijing said the adjustment was designed to fix distortions between the trading rate of the yuan and the rate it should have been at according to speculation, and that subsequent large shifts were unlikely. The International Monetary Fund, however, noted that the move could lead to a freer floating yuan — something the IMF has asked of Beijing before the organization considers including the yuan in its Special Drawing Rights basket of currencies. In comments made on the sidelines of its annual report on the Chinese economy, released later in the week, the IMF also noted that the yuan was not undervalued, despite the decline. Tiếp tục đọc “China’s Crisis: The Price of Change” →