Giai đoạn 2011-2015, Hà Nội sẽ giải quyết cơ bản chống ngập úng cho khu vực đô thị trung tâm phía Nam sông Hồng đến sông Tô Lịch, khắc phục khoảng 60 điểm ngập úng cục bộ trong đô thị trung tâm.
Theo bản Quy hoạch thoát nước Thủ đô Hà Nội đến năm 2030, tầm nhìn đến năm 2050 được trình kỳ họp HĐND TP đang diễn ra, giai đoạn 2011-2015, TP sẽ đáp ứng được các vấn đề bức xúc của thành phố về giảm thiểu ngập úng và ô nhiễm nguồn nước mặt.
Theo đó, sẽ giải quyết cơ bản chống ngập úng cho khu vực đô thị trung tâm phía Nam sông Hồng đến sông Tô Lịch (quận Hoàn Kiếm, Ba Đình, Đống Đa, Hai Bà Trưng, Hoàng Mai) với trận mưa có chu kỳ tính toán 10 năm và khắc phục khoảng 60 điểm ngập úng cục bộ hiện nay trong đô thị trung tâm.
Cảnh ngập lụt ở Hà Nội tháng 11/2008. Ảnh: VietNamNet
Cũng trong giai đoạn này, TP đề ra mục tiêu từng bước giải quyết ngập úng cục bộ cho các khu tập trung dân cư của các đô thị vệ tinh và cải tạo các hồ hiện trạng có chức năng điều hòa nước mưa trong khu vực đô thị trung tâm.
Hà Nội cho rằng, để đảm bảo đủ chi phí quản lý vận hành hệ thống thoát nước, thu gom và các nhà máy xử lý nước thải, cần thiết phải thu phí nước thải và tăng phí theo lộ trình. Theo tính toán ban đầu, sẽ thu 1.501 đồng/m3 vào năm 2015, 12.200 đồng/m3 đến năm 2020 và 52.500 đồng/m3 đến năm 2050 (tính theo giá hiện tại).
Hiện nay, tổng lượng mưa cả năm tại Hà Nội trung bình là 1.676 mm, cao hơn trung bình các thập kỷ trước. Vì vậy, trong tương lai, TP nhận định cần xem xét kế hoạch dự phòng cho hệ thống thoát nước đô thị với lượng mưa tăng lên theo kịch bản biến đổi khí hậu của Việt Nam.
A tunnel collapse opened up a sinkhole more than 18m deep along a Bangkok road early on Sept 24.
PHOTO: REUTERS Published Sep 25, 2025, 11:42 AM
BANGKOK – The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) has taken responsibility for the massive sinkhole dozens of metres deep in front of Vajira Hospital in Bangkok.
The location falls under Contract 1, which covers the design and construction of the tunnel and underground stations along the Taopoon-National Library section, involving a distance of 4.8km and worth 19.43 billion baht (S$778 million).
The contractor for this section is the CKST-PL joint venture, comprising CH Karnchang and Sino-Thai Engineering and Construction.
Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards on a road in the Nuseirat refugee camp area in the central Gaza Strip. Eyad Baba/AFP/Getty Images
Microsoft has terminated a set of services for the Israeli military after an investigation suggested Israel was using the company’s cloud computing technology for mass surveillance of Palestinians.
In a statement posted the company’s blog, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company had “ceased and disabled a set of services to a unit within the Israel Ministry of Defense.” The move comes after an investigation by The Guardian and Israel’s +972 Magazine in early-August reported that Israel’s military intelligence unit, known as 8200, relied on Microsoft Azure to store millions of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Microsoft announced on August 15 that it had begun a review of the allegations. Smith said Microsoft does not provide technology “to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians,” a principle it has applied “in every country around the world.” The review, Smith said, focused on business records, financial statements, internal documents and other records without accessing the content of the stored material.
During the investigation, the company says it found evidence that supports elements of the investigation from the news outlets, including Israel’s “consumption of Azure storage capacity in the Netherlands and the use of AI services.” Microsoft informed Israel of the decision “to cease and disable specific [Israel Defense Ministry] subscriptions and their services, including their use of specific cloud storage and AI services and technologies.”
An Israeli security official said, “There is no damage to the operational capabilities of the IDF.”
Robert Calabretta holds his baby photo from before he was adopted out of South Korea to a family in the United States, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, at his apartment in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As the plane descended into Seoul, Robert Calabretta swaddled himself in a blanket, his knees tucked into his chest like a baby in the womb. A single tear ran down his cheek.
The 34-year-old felt like a newborn — he was about to meet his parents for the first time since he was 3 days old.
Most of his life, he thought they’d abandoned him for adoption to the United States. When he finally found them, he learned the truth: The origin story on his adoption paperwork was a lie. Instead, he said, his parents were told in 1986 that their infant was very sick and they thought he had died.
“I am so sorry,” his birth father had written when they found each other, his words interrupted by fits of weeping. “I miss you. How did you endure this cruel world?”
Robert Calabretta sits for a portrait at the restaurant where he works, Feb. 15, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Calabretta is among a growing and vocal community of victims of an adoption system they accuse of searching out children for would-be parents, rather than finding parents for vulnerable children — sometimes with devastating consequences only surfacing today.
South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to supply some 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press found. Those children grew up and searched for their roots — and some realized they are not who they were told.
Their stories have sparked a reckoning that is rocking the international adoption industry, which was built in South Korea and spread around the world. European countries have launched investigations and halted international adoption. The South Korean government has accepted a fact-finding commission under pressure from adoptees, and hundreds have submitted their cases for review.
Nearly 250,000 South Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60 years following the Korean War. Some to loving homes. Others to tragic ends. Raised in places where they looked like nobody else, many were told to forget their past and be grateful.
But the innate desire to understand where you came from has led many Korean adoptees to search for their roots. In the process, they discover lies in their past and families they never knew existed. In this documentary, correspondent Wei Du travels around the world to meet Korean adoptees and accompany a few on their journey to reclaim who they are. Together, they reveal how an “orphan rescue” mission separated families and erased the roots of hundreds of thousands.
00:00 Meet the adoptees 01:44 The lie of Korea’s “orphans” 03:04 A song I no longer recognise 05:15 Why 10,000 Korean children were sent to Sweden 07:11 How Sweden became a hub for Korean adoptions 10:29 Why the US took in so many Korean children 15:06 GI babies: Korea’s children of US soldiers 19:54 Cult leader’s adopted Korean children 24:13 “Saved from prostitution”? The truth of my adoption 27:55 Why this US couple adopted in 2005 32:03 Lies in our adoption stories 38:22 How Sweden pressured Korea to give up more children 42:49 Chase’s biological sister visits for his 20th birthday 46:15 Anna’s life in Sweden: Always different 48:54 Phil’s search for his birth family 52:46 Rebuilding siblinghood: Mary & Chase’s struggle 58:17 Catherine’s complex relationship with her adoptive mother 1:00:47 Catherine and Anna reunite after 50 years 1:06:58 Phil returns to Korea after 50 years 1:08:58 Koroot: NGO supporting Korean adoptees 1:10:15 Were adoption agencies in it for the money? 1:11:53 “A child supply market”: Moses Farrow 1:17:24 Korea investigates human rights violations in adoption 1:19:26 Confronting the orphanage manager who sent him abroad 1:23:41 Adoptees find comfort in each other 1:26:25 Han Tae-soon’s hunt for her kidnapped daughter 1:29:28 The fight for truth continues
*Một tuần sau lũ quét xảy ra ở Nghệ An, các địa phương khác tiếp tục bị ảnh hưởng nặng nề bởi lũ quét, và đều xảy ra tại các tỉnh có tỷ lệ rừng tự nhiên bị chặt phá trên diện rộng*
Nghệ An: Lũ ồ ạt đổ về, gần mức 5.000 năm xảy ra 1 lần.
Lũ đổ về quá quá lớn khiến nhiều xã miền núi ở Nghệ An ngập sâu trong nước, người dân tất tả chạy lũ trong đêm. Lưu lượng nước về hồ thủy điện Bản Vẽ gần mức 5.000 năm xảy ra 1 lần.
Đêm 22.7, UBND tỉnh Nghệ An phát thông báo khẩn cho biết lúc 21 giờ cùng ngày, lưu lượng nước thượng lưu về hồ thủy điện Bản Vẽ đạt 9.543 m3/giây, gần đạt lưu lượng đỉnh lũ kiểm tra là 10.500 m3/giây (tần suất 0.02%, tức là 5.000 năm xảy ra 1 lần).
We are running out of time to save lives. The humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic, as a result of the ongoing Israeli-imposed siege that has lasted for over two months. We call on the Israeli authorities and their supporters to abide by International Humanitarian Law and follow the principles which allow for unhindered humanitarian aid for people trapped inside the Strip. Tiếp tục đọc “Palestinians in Gaza are facing a death sentence”→
– 83.4 million people were living in internal displacement at the end of 2024, more than twice as many as only six years ago (2018).
– 90 per cent had fled conflict and violence. In Sudan, conflict led to 11.6 million internally displaced people (IDPs), the most ever for one country. Nearly the entire population of the Gaza Strip remained displaced at the end of the year.
– Disasters triggered nearly twice as many movements in 2024 as the annual average over the past decade. The 11 million disaster displacements in the United States were the most ever recorded for a single country.
GENEVA, Switzerland – The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) reached 83.4 million at the end of 2024, the highest figure ever recorded, according to the Global Report on Internal Displacement 2025 published today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). This is equivalent to the population of Germany, and more than double the number from just six years ago.
“Internal displacement is where conflict, poverty and climate collide, hitting the most vulnerable the hardest,” said Alexandra Bilak, IDMC director. “These latest numbers prove that internal displacement is not just a humanitarian crisis; it’s a clear development and political challenge that requires far more attention than it currently receives.”
– 2024 had the most tropical primary forest loss since our records began two decades ago — disappearing at a rate of 18 football (soccer) fields per minute, nearly double that of 2023. – Almost half of this loss was due to fires, around 5 times more than a typical year in the tropics. Latin America was particularly hard hit with major fires across Brazil, Bolivia and numerous other countries. – Fires also continued to drive tree cover loss outside of the tropics, with high levels of loss once again in Russia and Canada. Overall, the world lost an area of forests nearly the size of Panama.
This data must be a wake-up call for global policies and finance that incentivize keeping forests standing. Read our analysisfor more findings from the University of Maryland GLAD Lab’s annual data
In July 2024, famine was detected in the Sudan’s Zamzam IDP camp. In the following months, the official alert expanded to other camps in Darfur and Western Nuba Mountains. From December until now, famine has been confirmed in five other areas of the war-torn country. A further 17 areas are at risk.
It is the first time since 2017 that a famine has been declared anywhere on Earth.
In the 20 months since the war between rival militaries erupted, 13 million Sudanese have been forcibly displaced and over 30.4 million are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, according to UN estimates.
CAO LANH CITY, Vietnam, March 29 (Reuters) – On her trusty motorcycle, Vietnamese artist Dang Ai Viet travels around the Southeast Asian country in a quest to ensure that the thousands of women who suffered the loss of two or more loved ones during the Vietnam War are not forgotten.
The 75-year-old has painted the portraits of 2,765 of the women, who are part of a group known in Vietnam as “heroic mothers”, in recognition of their sacrifice during the war that ended in 1975.
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Mahmoud Ajjour, nine (left), who was injured during an Israeli attack on Gaza City in March 2024, finds refuge and medical help in Doha, Qatar, on June 28, 2024 [Samar Abu Elouf, for The New York Times] Kim Phuc, nine (right) is seen running down Route 1 near Trang Bang after a South Vietnamese plane accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on its own troops and civilians, on June 8, 1972. The terrified girl ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing [Nick Ut/AP]
Ajjour had both of his arms blown off by an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, where Israel’s ongoing genocide has now killed at least 52,365 Palestinians since October 2023. In the award-winning photograph, the boy’s head and armless torso are cast in partial shadow, his gaze nevertheless intense in its emptiness.
We mark 50 years since the end of the U.S. war on Vietnam with the acclaimed Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese troops took control of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon as video of U.S. personnel being airlifted out of the city were broadcast around the world. Some 3 million Vietnamese people were killed in the U.S. war, along with about 58,000 U.S. soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of Lao, Hmong and Cambodians also died, and the impact of the war is still being felt in Vietnam and the region.
Nguyen says while the Vietnam War was deeply divisive in the United States during the 1960s and ’70s, American interference in Southeast Asia goes back to President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, when he rejected Vietnamese demands for independence from France. “And from that mistake, we’ve had a series of mistakes over the past century, mostly revolving around the fact that the United States did not recognize Vietnamese self-determination,” says Nguyen.
We Are Here Because You Are There”: Viet Thanh Nguyen on How U.S. Foreign Policy Creates Refugees
Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses why he chooses to use the term “refugee” in his books, and speaks about his own experience as a refugee. His new novel tells the story of a man who arrives in France as a refugee from Vietnam, and explores the main character’s questioning of ideology and different visions of liberation. Titled “The Committed,” the book is a sequel to “The Sympathizer,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. Nguyen says his protagonist is “a man of two faces and two minds” whose ability to see beyond Cold War divisions makes him the perfect figure to satirize the facile stories people tell themselves about the world. “He’s always going beyond the surface binaries to look underneath.” Nguyen is the chair of English and professor of English and American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His other books include “The Refugees” and the edited collection “The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen Interview: The Vietnam War Refugee Experience Behind The Sympathizer
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen reflects on his childhood as a refugee in America, his writing career, and family: from the trauma of displacement to the healing found in fatherhood and literature. Nguyen shares how these experiences have shaped his life and work, from his novel The Sympathizer to his commentary on war, cultural identity, and American life.
00:00 Introduction to Viet Thanh Nguyen and The Sympathizer
00:49 Refugee journey, family separation, and overcoming trauma
03:43 Humor, cultural expectations, and Vietnamese Catholic roots 05:29 Cultural identity, rebellion, and hidden writing career
07:14 Family relationships, cultural silence, and lessons in parenting 09:35 Impact of fatherhood, learning from children, and rediscovering play
12:13 Art, personal identity, and American cultural values 14:49 Vietnamese American identity, racism, and vision for the future
17:27 Teaching about war, challenges of digital information overload
20:31 Apocalypse Now, self identity struggles, and power of storytelling
24:41 Vietnam War legacy, draft-era resistance vs. modern volunteer military
26:47 Family history, generational trauma, and refugee story from Vietnam
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children. We discussed that with out guest Arwa Damon, founder of the International Network for Aid, Relief and Assistance (INARA)
The World Food Programme runs out of food in Gaza as Israeli blockade continues
The World Food Programme has run out of food 54 days after Israel imposed a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip. NBC News’ Matt Bradley reports on what families in Gaza are facing as Israel’s blockade continues.
WFP runs out of food stocks in Gaza, warns of famine
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