Conversations on Vietnam Development
See Gaza’s first episode takes us to Oslo, where artists, students, and citizens fill the streets in support of Gaza. Though far from Palestine, their voices echo beyond Norway’s borders. Watch the first episode to see how they demand justice, resist violence, and call for accountability. Tiếp tục đọc “I see Gaza”
Al Jazeera English – 24-5-2025
Critics say the Cambodian government’s attacks on opposition members and activists have gone global.
On January 7, 2025, former Cambodian opposition politician, Lim Kimya, was gunned down outside a busy bus station in central Bangkok.
A former Thai marine confessed to carrying out the hit as a gun for hire, but two Cambodians with ties to their country’s governing party are on the run, suspected of organising the murder.
While Lim Kimya’s family and friends are seeking justice, Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Manet, denies his government had any involvement.
101 East investigates the brazen killing and Cambodia’s increasingly repressive government.
Doctors Without Borders / MSF-USA
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”
“Internal displacement refers to the forced movement of people within the country they live in.”
– 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.”
Tiếp tục đọc “Number of internally displaced people tops 80 million for first time”
Tibetan spiritual leader says in a new book that his people’s aspiration for freedom cannot be indefinitely delayed.
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Published On 11 Mar 202511 Mar 2025
The Dalai Lama has said that his successor will be born in the “free world” outside of China.
In a new book released on Tuesday, the 89-year-old spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism says that he will be reincarnated outside of Tibet, which is an autonomous region of China.
“Since the purpose of a reincarnation is to carry on the work of the predecessor, the new Dalai Lama will be born in the free world so that the traditional mission of the Dalai Lama – that is, to be the voice for universal compassion, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, and the symbol of Tibet embodying the aspirations of the Tibetan people – will continue,” the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet for India in 1959, writes in Voice for the Voiceless.
China considers Tibet, which has alternated between independence and Chinese control over the centuries, as an integral part of the country and views movements advocating greater autonomy or independence as threats to its national sovereignty.
Beijing has labelled the current Dalai Lama, who was identified as the reincarnation of his predecessor at two years old, a “separatist” and insisted on the right to appoint his successor after his death.
The Dalai Lama, who stepped down as the political leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile in 2011 to focus on his spiritual role, has denied advocating Tibetan independence and argued for a “Middle Way” approach, which would grant the mainly Buddhist territory greater autonomy.
In his book, the Dalai Lama writes that he has received numerous petitions from people in and outside Tibet asking him to ensure that his lineage continues, and says that Tibetan people’s aspirations for freedom cannot be denied indefinitely.
“One clear lesson we know from history is this: If you keep people permanently unhappy, you cannot have a stable society,” he writes.
Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies
Al Jazeera English – 1-5-2025
Enforced disappearances, torture, extrajudicial killings: The human rights abuses allegedly committed by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s regime have left scores of Bangladeshis scarred and traumatised.
After a student-led movement overthrew the government in 2024, the full extent of the suffering is finally coming to light as an interim government, led by 84-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, tries to rebuild a shattered nation.
From repairing the demoralised police force to seeking justice for victims and presiding over unstable relations with India, it’s a daunting task. How will Bangladesh rise from the rubble of a dictator’s rule? 101 East investigates.
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.
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.”
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
29:48 Writing, fatherhood, and healing
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 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.
By Mohamed A. Hussein and Mohammed Haddad Published On 26 Mar 202526 Mar 2025
Israel kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes.
That is an average of 30 children killed every day over the past 535 days.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children, including 15,600 who have been identified. Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead.
Many of the surviving children have endured the trauma of multiple wars, and all of them have spent their lives under the oppressive shadow of an Israeli blockade, affecting every aspect of their existence from birth.
About half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are children.
Over the past 17 months, Israeli attacks have left their homes in ruins, destroyed their schools, and overwhelmed their healthcare facilities.
To put this in perspective, if you had a room of 100 children:
The rest of the children bear the invisible scars of war, trauma that affects their mental health, safety and future.
They were the sons and daughters of Gaza, each with a life that should have been filled with innocence and the joy of childhood.
Tiếp tục đọc “Gaza’s stolen childhood – Who were the thousands of children Israel killed?”
Al Jazeera – 24-2-2025
Public schools in India are refusing to enroll children from Myanmar because the government doesn’t officially recognise Rohingya refugees.
An estimated 40,000 Rohingya Muslims live in slums across India.
The majority arrived after the 2017 military crackdown on the minority group.
Most refugees are undocumented and can’t afford private school fees, leaving a generation of children at risk of missing out on an education.
Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi reports.
The 180,000 names were part of a list of 800,000 Rohingya that Bangladesh submitted to Myanmar in six batches, Bangladesh government says.
Published On 4 Apr 20254 Apr 2025
Myanmar has confirmed that 180,000 Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh since fleeing their homeland are eligible to return, the Bangladeshi government has said.
Friday’s announcement, following talks in Bangkok, offered a possible breakthrough in the long-stalled repatriation process, although many Rohingya refugees say all of them should be allowed to go home.
Tiếp tục đọc “Myanmar confirms 180,000 Rohingya eligible to return, Bangladesh says”
By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN
Published 8:02 AM EDT, Wed April 9, 2025
Dua Lipa took advantage of the pockets in the vintage Chanel gown she wore to the 2023 Met Gala — a gesture that was not lost on many women who commented positively about the look online. Noam Galai/The Hollywood Reporter/Getty Images
Editor’s Note: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes investigates how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet.CNN —
It’s a familiar exchange to many women: “I love your dress.” “Thanks, it has pockets!”
So coveted is the spacious inset pouch in womenswear that when they exist, they are likely to attract attention. Take Dua Lipa’s look at the 2023 Met Gala — a vintage, cream-colored Chanel gown with pockets she was able to slip her hands inside, to the delight of many internet users, or Emma Stone’s decision to stuff the exaggerated hip pockets of her red Louis Vuitton dress with popcorn at Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary celebration.
Usable pockets seem like an obvious feature to include in ready-to-wear garments, but that is far from the case. It is standard for dresses and skirts to be pocketless, and when pockets do exist in slacks and blazers, they can be deceptively small. Other times, they’re just deceptive: see the fake pockets that come as a shallow lip over a disappointing seam on a pair of jeans, or a jacket with flaps but no actual opening beneath it.
Yet the demand for pockets is clear. Online, fantasies for pocket space find a like-minded audience, from designer Nicole McLaughlin’s hyperfunctional creations made from upcycled materials (chip-and-dip work vest, anyone?) to Y2K throwback creator Erin Miller cramming childhood paraphernalia into her old JNCO jeans, Mary Poppins-style. The question is rinsed and repeated in forums and on social media: Why don’t women get as many pockets as men?
Tiếp tục đọc “Dress Codes: Why don’t women get as many pockets as men?”Công an tỉnh Nam Định đã có mặt tại Công ty Thanh Bình An Lạc Viên để điều tra làm rõ vụ việc người dân tố cáo, bị ép mua hũ tro cốt giá cao.
Kênh Toàn Cảnh 24H, VTV9, March 6, 2025
Al Jazeera English – 12-3-2025
There are more than 200,000 foreign domestic workers in Singapore.
Under the law, they have to be at least 23 years old.
But one NGO says it is seeing more and more minors at its shelter for abused maids.
Most of these girls come from Myanmar, where investigations reveal a web of deceit and corruption in the recruitment process, and immigration officials are regularly bribed to doctor birthdates on travel documents.
Because of their youth, the girls are often easy targets for abusive employers and sexual predators.
But just how bad is the problem and what is being done to remedy it? 101 East investigates.
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