| The Conversation In the coming days, presidents, prime ministers and top diplomats will descend on my adopted home of New York City for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. As I attempt to find a route around the inevitable security roadblocks impeding my cycle to work, those world leaders will be navigating far more consequential barriers: the ones holding back progress to peace and security for civilians in any one of the many current conflict zones. Tiếp tục đọc “U.N. Security Council: what it will take to break the gridlock” |
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Tiếng Việt từ TK 17: các thanh hỏi ngã trong chữ quốc ngữ và giọng Sài Gòn (phần 47A)
Nguyễn Cung Thông
Bài này (phần 47A) bàn về giọng Sài Gòn và những đặc tính của giọng này cũng như các nguyên nhân có thể dẫn đến 5 thanh điệu (vì không phân biệt rõ thanh hỏi và thanh ngã) như trong tiếng Việt hiện đại. Nội dung tóm tắt các trao đổi trên diễn đàn du học sinh Colombo Plan ở Úc về cùng chủ đề vào tháng 8 và tháng 9 năm 2024. Nếu cách phát âm của từng chữ là yếu tố quan trọng để phát hiện phương ngữ của tiếng Anh, Pháp thì thanh điệu lại là một tiêu chuẩn ban đầu cho ta phân biệt phương ngữ tiếng Việt một cách đơn giản. Bài này chú trọng vào khuynh hướng thay đổi thanh hỏi và ngã của giọng Bắc so sánh với giọng Nam Bộ (Sài Gòn) hiện nay, đặc biệt qua sự ghi nhận bằng chữ quốc ngữ. Tiếp tục đọc “Tiếng Việt từ TK 17: các thanh hỏi ngã trong chữ quốc ngữ và giọng Sài Gòn (phần 47A)”
“The Houthis Have Defeated the U.S. Navy,” or, What is a Navy For?
The mission of the U.S. Navy has for centuries been to keep the sea lines of communication open, but the United States is abandoning that task in the Middle East today.
Blog Post by Elliott Abrams, CFR
August 31, 2024 10:45 am (EST)
A recent article in the Telegraph newspaper in London by former Royal Navy Commander Tom Sharpe was entitled “The Houthis Have Defeated the U.S. Navy.” If that is not correct, it is only because the U.S. Navy has been ordered not to fight. Tiếp tục đọc ““The Houthis Have Defeated the U.S. Navy,” or, What is a Navy For?”
‘Cruisezilla’ passenger ships have doubled in size since 2000, environmental group warns
By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN
Updated 2:12 PM EDT, Thu August 8, 2024
Passengers leave Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world, after arriving at Costa Maya Cruise Port on February 6, 2024. Paola Chiomante/ReutersCNN —
Tiếp tục đọc “‘Cruisezilla’ passenger ships have doubled in size since 2000, environmental group warns”Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?
Al Jazeera – 4 thg 8, 2024
The Democratic party has united around their new presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, after Joe Biden dropped out. Harris has injected new energy into the party and the campaign, but it looks set to be a very tight race against Donald Trump.
Start Here with Sandra Gathmann explains how Kamala Harris has shaken up the race for the White House and runs through the big issues that are playing out in Harris’ campaign. Chapters:
Tiếp tục đọc “Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?”A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the world
“I hid in my bed, I didn’t go outside at all…”
“… I wouldn’t leave my bed for even half a step.”
“To be honest, I felt like I had given up.”
By Jessie Yeung, Sophie Jeong, Carlotta Dotto, Woojin Lee, Kenneth Uzquiano and Saki Toi
Published May 25, 2024
(CNN) — Charlie was 15 when his life inexplicably shrank to fit within the frame of his lower bunk bed in his family’s cramped Hong Kong apartment.
“I felt very depressed, confused, like I didn’t know what I wanted,” said Charlie, who’s now 19 and still learning how to navigate the world outside.
Charlie is among millions of hikikomori, a Japanese term for people who cut themselves off from society, sometimes for months or years – often Gen Z and Millennials in the prime of their youth.
The phenomenon first emerged in Asia, and is particularly well-documented in Japan – but similar stories are surfacing in other parts of the world including the United States, Spain and France.
Tiếp tục đọc “A shrinking life: Why some Asian youth withdraw from the world”Malaysia’s ‘orangutan diplomacy’ plan slammed as ‘obscene’
By Heather Chen, CNN
4 minute read
Published 12:05 AM EDT, Sun May 12, 2024
Two baby orangutans play with each other at the wildlife department in Kuala Lumpur. They were seized in July after traffickers were attempting to sell them. OLIVIA HARRIS/Reuters/LandovCNN —
China has “panda diplomacy,” Australia parades koalas at global summits – and now Malaysia plans to join the Asia-Pacific trend for adorable ambassadors, by gifting orangutans to countries that buy its palm oil.
But the idea has come under heavy criticism from conservationists, who note that palm oil is one of the biggest factors behind the great apes’ dwindling numbers – with one leading conservation professor calling the plan “obscene.”
Tiếp tục đọc “Malaysia’s ‘orangutan diplomacy’ plan slammed as ‘obscene’”Security Council Press Statement on Mass Graves in Gaza
Press release
Security Council
SC/15692
10 May 2024
Security Council Press Statement on Mass Graves in Gaza
The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Pedro Comissário Afonso (Mozambique):
The members of the Security Council expressed their deep concern over reports of the discovery of mass graves, in and around the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza, where several hundred bodies, including women, children and older persons, were buried.
The members of the Security Council underlined the need for accountability for violations of international law and called for investigators to be allowed the unimpeded access to all locations of mass graves in Gaza to conduct immediate, independent, thorough, comprehensive, transparent and impartial investigations to establish the circumstances behind the graves.
The members of the Security Council reiterated their demand that all parties scrupulously comply with their obligations under international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law, in particular regarding the protection of civilians and civilian objects.
The members of the Security Council reaffirmed the importance of allowing families to know the fate and whereabouts of their missing relatives, consistent with international humanitarian law.
The members of the Security Council emphasized the imperative of all parties to immediately and fully implement resolutions 2728 (2024), 2720 (2023) and 2712 (2023).
2003 – Tran Quang Co: A Memoir
The memoir of Trần Quang Cơ (1927-2015), former member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), brings to light the intense diplomacy among great powers and regional players over the continued conflicts in Indochina after the unification of Vietnam as well as the bitter disagreements within the Vietnamese leadership over the country’s political priorities during the period of 1975-1993.
Cơ put together his memories and thoughts on “many sensitive developments” in Vietnamese foreign relations that he believed had been “intentionally or unintentionally” forgotten (rơi rụng) in the state-endorsed history “to ‘smooth over’ (tròn trĩnh) the historical record.” Completed in Vietnamese in 2001 (updated in 2003) and informally circulated on the internet, Merle Pribbenow’s English-translation makes this valuable historical source available to wider audiences.
AP Photos chronicle 6 months of devastation in Gaza war with no sign of an end
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Palestinians flee from the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza after an Israeli ground and air offensive on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Associated Press photographers have captured what six months of devastating war have brought for Israel and for Palestinians. At its six-month mark, it is not clear what direction the war will now take. Weeks of mediation by the U.S., Egypt and Qatar for a longer cease-fire have so far been unable to make a breakthrough. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
ICJ Order (Jan 26, 2024) on the Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel)
Read and Download full Court Order Jan. 26, 2024 >>
Read and Download Summary of Court Order of Jan 26, 2024 >>
(Feb. 16, 2024) Decision of the CIJ on South Africa’s request (dated Feb. 12, 2024) for additional provisional measures (on the Genocide case against Israel)
Read and Download Court Order of 16 Feb, 2024 >>
Videos: International Court of Justice: Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem – Public hearings Monday 19 February 2024 – Monday 26 February 2024
What the full series on the CIJ website >>
Majority of countries argue Israel violated international law in last historic hearing at UN court
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A Palestinian flag flies outside the United Nations’ highest court, rear, during historic hearings in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of the West Bank and east Jerusalem, plunging the 15 international judges back into the heart of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Six days of hearings at the International Court of Justice, during which an unprecedented number of countries will participate in proceedings, are scheduled as Israel continues its devastating assault on Gaza. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
Tiếp tục đọc “Videos: International Court of Justice: Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem – Public hearings Monday 19 February 2024 – Monday 26 February 2024”What is the conventional notation for these logic statements?
When I studied chemical engineering I often found the need to rewrite lecture notes, handouts and books in order to gain a thorough understanding of the subject I was reading. As much as time permitted I used to draw mindmaps of the reading material combining the symbols on the left in the image below:
The first ones are probably known, but some of these may need some explanation. I will list all of them with my own explantions to make clear what I mean.
- B is a part of A. B is a subset of A. B is a property of A.
- B is partly a part of A. B is a almost a subset of A. B is to a very small degree a property of A.
- A equals B. A and B are the same thing.
- B is a consequence of A. If A happens then B happens as a consequence.
- A becomes B. First there is only A, later there is only B.
- This describes a process or a verb. A is put into B. Example: A reactant (A) is fed into a reactor (B).
- A affects property B and causes a decrease, and B is a property of some other object as drawn in 1.
- A affects property B and causes an increase, and B is a property of some other object as drawn in 1.
- A intends to cause B to come into existance. Example: A company (A) strives to create profit (B).
- A strives/wants/intends to become B. Example: One strives to keep the concentration of reactant (A) in a reactor to be 0.1 mol/liter (B).
What are the conventional mathematical names and symbols used to denote these relations above?
Answer
Gaza crisis: Babies being born ‘into hell’ amid desperate aid shortages
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