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.
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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.
Hoạt động nhằm lật đổ chính quyền nhân dân, Trần Đức Thạch bị phạt 12 năm tù
Sáng 15-12, Tòa án nhân dân tỉnh Nghệ An xét xử sơ thẩm vụ án hình sự đối với bị cáo Trần Đức Thạch, bị truy tố về tội “Hoạt động nhằm lật đổ chính quyền nhân dân”.
Bị cáo Trần Đức Thạch (SN 1952; thường trú tại xã Diễn Tân, huyện Diễn Châu, tỉnh Nghệ An), là lao động tự do. Trần Đức Thạch từng bị Tòa án nhân dân tối cao xử phạt 3 năm tù về tội “Tuyên truyền chống Nhà nước cộng hòa xã hội chủ nghĩa Việt Nam”.
More than most, four men shaped the oft-cited “strategic tensions” over the South China Sea.
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The south china sea is the most important body of water for the world economy—through it passes at least one-third of global trade. It is also the most dangerous body of water in the world, the place where the militaries of the United States and China could most easily collide.
Topics this year include China’s view of strategic competition with the United States; China’s promotion of alternative global norms and standards; China’s strategic aims in Africa; vulnerabilities in China’s financial system and risks for the United States; U.S.-China links in healthcare and biotechnology; China’s growing power projection and expeditionary capabilities; Taiwan; Hong Kong; and a review of economics, trade, security, political, and foreign affairs developments in 2020.
A tourist walks on the Mekong river bank outside Loei, Thailand, on Jan 10, 2020. (Photo: REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun)
14 Dec 2020 01:27AM(Updated: 14 Dec 2020 06:46AM) CNA
BANGKOK: A US-funded project using satellites to track and publish water levels at Chinese dams on the Mekong river was launched on Monday (Dec 13), adding to the superpowers’ rivalry in Southeast Asia.
The 4,350km waterway – known as the Lancang in China and flowing south through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam – has become a focus of competition.Advertisement
Vietnam’s Trade Minister Tran Tuan Anh (L) and Britain’s International Trade Secretary Liz Truss finalised a free trade pact which will see 99 percent of tariffs eliminated once it is fully implemented AFP/Nhac NGUYEN
HANOI: Britain and Vietnam on Friday (Dec 11) finalised a free trade agreement, the second deal London has reached in Southeast Asia in as many days while deadlock continues over post-Brexit European Union arrangements.
The journalist John Pomfret describes how Joe Biden’s approach to China may differ from that of the Trump Administration.Photograph by Lintao Zhang / Reuters
In September, the House passed a bill that would ban imports produced by Uighur forced laborers in Xinjiang. Companies such as Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola have mounted a lobbying campaign against the bill, which passed the House by an overwhelming margin of four hundred and six to three, and is likely to pass the Senate. If the bill does become law, it will be the latest sign that the relationship between the United States and China is as contentious as it has been in decades. The Chinese Communist Party’s use of forced labor, its authoritarian activity in Hong Kong, and its obfuscation about the coronavirus have raised bipartisan concerns about the future of the relationship between the U.S. and China.
CNA FILE PHOTO: An attendant walks past EU and China flags ahead of the EU-China High-level Economic Dialogue at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China on Jun 25, 2018. (Photo: REUTERS/Jason Lee)
Rights group says Chinese policing programme selects people for arrest for ‘everyday, lawful’ behaviour.
A Chinese police officer standing near what is officially called a ‘vocational education centre’ in Yining, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, September 4, 2018 [File: Thomas Peter/Reuters]
9 Dec 2020
A big-data program in China’s Xinjiang “arbitrarily selects” Muslims for detention, flagging behaviour such as wearing a veil, studying the Quran or going on the Hajj pilgrimage as reasons for arrest, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
A common hypersonic glide body launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii on March 19, 2020, during a flight experiment. Australia and the U.S. are teaming up on hypersonic weapons development. (Courtesy of the U.S. Navy)
MELBOURNE, Australia — Australia and the United States are partnering to develop and test an air-launched hypersonic cruise missile under the bilateral Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment program, or SCIFiRE, the two countries announced Monday.
The Mekong Delta region is set to get over 300 kilometers of expressways in the next five years as the government seeks to boost connectivity and economic growth.
“What happened was unexpected, our colleague was wrong, and we apologize on his behalf,” a female flight attendant said on her Facebook page.
Promising to strictly follow the rules and not cause any similar incidents in future, many also expressed the hope people will stop criticizing and even abusing them on social networks and in real life.
“We have been worried at work as some of our colleagues have been discriminated against and abused. I want to repeat we are sorry for what happened,” another flight attendant wrote on Facebook.
A flight attendant posts on his Facebook page, using the #WeApologize hashtag on December 2, 2020.
Previously, local news said verbal abuse and ostracism were reported by Vietnam Airlines staff. On December 3, a stranger attacked an attendant with a burning cigarette while the uniformed victim was waiting at a red light.
These posts from Vietnam Airlines flight attendants have attracted attention from netizens, who have shown encouragement and support, hoping the staff would overcome the upheaval soon.
The soured image of Vietnam Airlines attendants in the public eye was by
Under Covid-19 prevention protocols, flight crews must isolate themselves on returning to Vietnam. But the flight attendant, “patient 1342,” who returned to Vietnam from Japan on November 14 and entered quarantined for four days at a facility managed by Vietnam Airlines in HCMC’s Tan Binh District, went to another quarantine area and contracted the virus from a crew member who had returned from Romania.
Vietnam Airlines staff on a flight during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo by Tien Phong Newspaper.
After two tests showed he was negative for the coronavirus, he was let go but told to isolate himself at home.
But he came into contact with his mother and two friends, including an English language teacher who stayed with him for a few days.
On November 29, 15 days after he returned from Japan, he tested positive for the virus, and the next day the teacher did too. The latter had meanwhile spread the virus to a nephew and a student of his.
On December 3, local police said the flight attendant could be charged with “spreading dangerous infectious diseases to humans.”
Vietnam has recorded 1,358 Covid-19 cases so far, 119 still active. Thirty-five have succumbed to the disease, many of them elderly with underlying conditions like diabetes or kidney failure.Related News:
By Vu Ngoc December 3, 2020 | 06:36 pm GMT+7 vnexpressSatellite photo shows North Island, part of the Paracel Islands in the East Sea, September 2017. Photo by Planet Labs via Reuters.Vietnam Thursday asked China to stop escalating tensions with actions that exacerbate violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.
The American and Chinese flags are displayed outside a hotel in Beijing on May 14, 2019. (File photo: AFP/Greg Baker)
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WASHINGTON: Washington issued new entry rules for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members travelling to the United States, the New York Times reported on Thursday (Dec 3), citing the State Department.
The new policy – which took immediate effect on Wednesday – caps visas of Communist Party members and their immediate families to one month and a single entry into the country, the report said.
“For decades we allowed the CCP free and unfettered access to US institutions and businesses while these same privileges were never extended freely to US citizens in China,” a State Department spokesperson said in a statement quoted by the Times.
Applicants had previously been able to obtain 10-year visitor visas. The report estimated the new restrictions could theoretically apply to around 270 million people.
Taipei [Taiwan], December 3 (ANI): Despite the attempts by the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to curb freedom of expression, right to information, association and religion in Tibet, there has been a rise in domestic social media giving platform to voices challenging the government-sponsored news.
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Satellite photo shows North Island, part of the Paracel Islands in the East Sea, September 2017. Photo by Planet Labs via Reuters.Vietnam Thursday asked China to stop escalating tensions with actions that exacerbate violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.
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