Giữa lúc dịch bệnh căng thẳng, ngày càng có nhiều tiếng nói kêu gọi chú trọng phát triển y tế cơ sở. Nhưng y tế cơ sở là y tế nào, huyện hay xã?
Tôi đặt câu hỏi như vậy vì y tế Việt Nam phân thành ba cấp kỹ thuật: tuyến trung ương, tuyến tỉnh và tuyến y tế cơ sở. Tuy nhiên trong ngôn ngữ hàng ngày cũng như trong tư duy làm việc thì một cách không chính thức, hệ thống y tế được phân theo bốn cấp tương ứng với đơn vị hành chính: tuyến trung ương, tuyến tỉnh, tuyến huyện và tuyến xã. Vậy vai trò của y tế huyện nằm ở đâu?
Matt Haldan, SCMP, Global Impact 20 August 2022
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The chip war between Washington and Beijing has never felt so real as it has in the past few months, which has seen a deluge of news related to the semiconductor industry as the United States seeks to reshore fabrication and China vies for technological self-sufficiency.
Not since the early days of the chip shortage in 2020 has there been so much related news, although that now feels like a teaser for what was to come.
In India, Hindu nationalists are promoting the conspiracy that Muslim men are tricking Hindu women into marriage and converting them in an attempt to create an Islamic republic.
The national government has found no evidence to support this claim, but laws have been passed in some of India’s largest states that could see Muslim men jailed for up to 10 years for committing this so-called “Love Jihad”.
This documentary follows a group training to protect Hindu girls, a teenage Muslim boy who says he was imprisoned without trial for talking to a Hindu girl, and interfaith couples fighting just to be together.
Fernandez: Cuba is not ready to ‘sacrifice’ socialism
Al Jazeera English – 28-5-2022
Leaders of the Americas prepare to gather in Los Angeles on June 6 for their ninth regional summit. But Washington has announced Cuba will be excluded, arguing the Caribbean nation does not meet the required democratic standards.
United States-Cuban relations have been hostile ever since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. In 2016, President Obama visited the island, calling the occasion an “historic opportunity” to leave the Cold War behind.
But under President Trump, all opportunities were lost. And now, under President Biden, relations remain tense.
So, what is next for the two countries? Cuba’s deputy foreign minister, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, talks to Al Jazeera.
Food, medicine and fuel shortages have driven Cubans to protest for “patria y vida” or “homeland and life”. And then there’s the pandemic. #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann looks at why life in Cuba is so tough.
Laborers work at a garment factory in Bac Giang province, near Hanoi, Vietnam. Photo by ReutersProductivity is rising, but not as fast as wages, creating the risk of an economic imbalance.
Vietnam’s labor productivity last year was among the lowest in Asia despite showing growth, according to a report published on Tuesday.
Average productivity in Vietnam increased by 36 percent from VND38.64 million per worker in 2006 to VND60.73 million ($1,660 to $2,600) in 2017, according to the Vietnam Annual Economic Report 2018.
However, the level is still below Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia, according to researchers from the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy.
“He was heartbroken when he mentioned Project 165 for the training and promotion of executives and managers abroad with the state budget. He said that out of 3,000 PhD students, 67% are abroad, 27% work in state agencies and the rest quit.” (PTH quotes)
Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Huu Dung chaired the conference – Photo: THAO LE
On the morning of August 19, the Southern Working Group of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front held a conference to recognize the thoughts and aspirations of people of all classes in the southern region in the third quarter of 2022. Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Huu Dung chaired the conference.
An incoming call with an unknown caller from outside of Vietnam. Photo by VnExpress/Luu QuyMinh Huy, a university student in Ho Chi Minh City, said he and his family have been terrorized by phone calls demanding repayment of loans he never took.
Someone has been calling Huy repeatedly over the past month, saying he owed money with high interest that will balloon to tens of millions of dong (VND10 million= $427.26) if it is not paid back quickly. When he denied ever using the service, the caller brought out a screenshot of an apparent contract with accurate personal information like ID card numbers, phone numbers and email addresses, even relevant information on Huy’s family members.
“This is information I’ve shared with multiple services online when I signed up for various accounts, but I have never submitted them to any credit service,” Huy said.
A year after the U.S. withdrawal, half of Afghanistan’s population faces a food emergency, and the Taliban regime acts with cruelty and indifference.
One year after the United States ended its longest war, there remains considerable disagreement over whether the war in Afghanistan was winnable or worth fighting. Congress has chartered a bipartisan commission to investigate the war and draw lessons for the future. But however one views the conflict, few would dispute that the exit from Afghanistan at the end of August 2021 was a chaotic mess—or that the United States has limited options for dealing with the Taliban regime.
TTCT – Bao giờ chính trị mới hết sợ nhà văn, qua trường hợp Salman Rushdie lại vừa bị đâm ngay trên đất Mỹ?
Salman Rushdie đã trở thành khuôn mặt đại diện cho tự do sáng tác trong một cuộc xung đột chồng chéo và phức tạp. Ảnh: PEN Canada
Cô ngồi một mình, áo hở rốn, coi dáng rất cô đơn tại quầy rượu mênh mông của khách sạn Atrium ở Praha. Lúc đó đã gần 2 giờ sáng, và hở rốn là vì cô mặc quốc phục sari của Bangladesh. Cô nhìn tôi và tôi đã định lại gần kéo ghế bên cạnh. “Khuya rồi, yên ắng nhỉ, bạn có thấy không, mọi thứ như là chùng hẳn xuống và 2 người mình vàng vọt như trong một bức tranh của Edward Hopper…”, tôi định nói.
Nhưng nào chỉ có 2 người mà là 3, và người thứ 3 cũng ngồi nhìn tôi là anh công an bảo vệ Taslima Nasreen làm tôi mất cả hứng. Năm đó, tại Hội nghị quốc tế Văn bút, nữ nhà văn này vì từ đạo Hồi và viết lách sao đó chống đối nên tính mạng bị đe dọa, và cũng như Salman Rushdie, bị một giáo sĩ treo án tử hình. Nhờ vậy nên mấy ngày trước tôi thấy cô đi xe BMW chống đạn đến đại hội, lúc nào cũng có một anh mặc đồ vest đi theo sau dáo dác. Tình hình rất là chán, tôi quyết định chỉ ủng hộ quyền tự do phát biểu và sáng tác của cô từ xa. Tôi gật đầu chào cô rồi đi ra khỏi khách sạn.
Những đụng độ văn chương, tôn giáo, tự do ngôn luận (và tự do sau ngôn luận) không bắt đầu hay kết thúc ở Salman Rushdie, nhưng với thế giới, nhất là phương Tây, thì văn sĩ 75 tuổi này lại trở thành bộ mặt cho cuộc tranh luận đó.
The paper provides a wealth of data about the current state of the nuclear industry and the potential for its growth over the next ten to twenty years, while also considering important questions about the geopolitical dimensions which underpin the relationships between the exporters and importers of nuclear technology and the ties, such as financing and provision of services in the nuclear energy value chain, which bind them over multiple decades
See full paper here at Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Turkish, Ukrainian Leaders Hold First Face-to-Face Meeting Since Start of War
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is meeting (AFP) with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and UN Secretary-General António Guterres in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. They are expected to discuss diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine, as well as a deal that Turkey and the United Nations brokered to resume grain exports from the country. Tiếp tục đọc “Council on Foreign Relations: Daily News Brief Aug. 18, 2022”→
TTCT – Khơi gợi cho chúng ta khát khao níu giữ tuổi trẻ, sử dụng hình ảnh người mẫu tuổi 50 với khuôn mặt, làn da không tì vết như tuổi 20, các công ty kinh doanh các sản phẩm chống lão hóa đang âm thầm biến chúng ta trở thành khách hàng trọn đời của họ.
Minh họa: Derek Brahney/The New York Times
Nhu cầu kéo dài vẻ ngoài tươi trẻ của mọi người – chủ yếu là phụ nữ – đã đưa ngành công nghiệp mỹ phẩm và chăm sóc da thành ngành công nghiệp trị giá tỉ USD. Theo dữ liệu từ Công ty nghiên cứu thị trường Euromonitor International, thị trường chống lão hóa đã tăng từ 3,9 tỉ USD năm 2016 lên 4,9 tỉ USD năm 2021 ở Mỹ. Thị trường chống lão hóa toàn cầu đã tăng từ 25 tỉ USD lên gần 37 tỉ USD trong cùng thời gian.
On August 14 1912, a small New Zealand newspaper published a short article announcing global coal usage was affecting our planet’s temperature.
This piece from 110 years ago is now famous, shared across the internet this time every year as one of the first pieces of climate science in the media (even though it was actually a reprint of a piece published in a New South Wales mining journal a month earlier).
So how did it come about? And why has it taken so long for the warnings in the article to be heard – and acted on?
This short 1912 article made the direct link between burning coal and global temperature changes. The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal, National Library of Australia
The fundamental science has been understood for a long time
American scientist and women’s rights campaigner Eunice Foote is now widely credited as being the first person to demonstrate the greenhouse effect back in 1856, several years before United Kingdom researcher John Tyndall published similar results.
Her rudimentary experiments showed carbon dioxide and water vapour can absorb heat, which, scaled up, can affect the temperature of the earth. We’ve therefore known about the relationship between greenhouse gases and Earth’s temperature for at least 150 years.
