Hiệp ước về ô nhiễm không khí thành công nhất từng biết đến trên thế giới

~ Thiều Linh ~ Bình luận về bài viết này 
English:The Most Successful Air Pollution Treaty You’ve Never Heard Of

Sự đồng thuận quốc tế về các vấn đề môi trường xuyên biên giới rất khó đạt được, nhưng 40 năm Công ước về Ô nhiễm không khí xuyên biên giới dài hạn (hay gọi là LRTAP- Long-Range Transboundary Air-Pollution –trong giới chuyên gia phát triển) rất thành công, nếu phần lớn không được biết đến, đã thành công trong cuộc chiến chống ô nhiễm không khí và biến đổi khí hậu. Công ước cũng đưa đến việc làm không khí sạch hơn và những khu rừng, đất và hồ nhiều sức sống hơn ở Bắc Mỹ và ngăn chặn 600.000 ca tử vong sớm hàng năm ở châu Âu.

Ngày 26 tháng 2, Trung tâm quản trị và Trung tâm Ross cho thành phố bền vững của WRI – của World Resource Institute, sẽ thảo luận những bài học mà các thành phố có thể sử dụng từ LRTAP tại Hội thảo về quản trị xanh. Các diễn giả từ WRI, Cơ quan bảo vệ môi trường và NASA Goddard sẽ nêu bật các chiến lược không khí xuyên biên giới và những ví dụ từ các thành phố trên khắp thế giới.
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Singaporean Yeo Jun Wei pleads guilty in US to working for Chinese intelligence

~ Trần Đình Hoành ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

  • Yeo Jun Wei, also known as Dickson Yeo, admitted to using his business as a front for collecting information
  • He was recruited by Chinese intelligence while working as an academic at the National University of Singapore
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Agence France-Presse Published: 1:44am, 25 Jul, 2020 SCMP
The Chinese flag flies behind barbed wire at the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco. Photo: AFP
The Chinese flag flies behind barbed wire at the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco. Photo: AFP
A Singapore national on Friday pleaded guilty to using his political consultancy in the United States as a front to collect information for Chinese intelligence, the US Justice Department announced.

Yeo Jun Wei, also known as Dickson Yeo, entered his plea in federal court in Washington to one charge of operating illegally as a foreign agent.

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US Secretary of State Pompeo Delivers a Speech on China at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library (July 23, 2020) – US Attorney General Barr’s Remarks on China Policy at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum (July 17, 2020)

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US Secretary of State Pompeo Delivers a Speech on China at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library (July 23, 2020)

 
Also, Secretary Pompeo remarks to the media (July 16, 2020)

 
Secretary Pompeo Delivers a Speech on “Unalienable Rights and the Securing of Freedom” (July 16, 2020) at min. 11:18

 
Attorney General Barr’s Remarks on China Policy at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum (July 17, 2020)

Rapid deterioration of US-China relations

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Excerpt from wikipedia

Rapid deterioration[edit]

See also: Second Cold War

Michael D. Swaine argued in 2019 that:The U.S.-China relationship is confronting its most daunting challenge in the forty years since the two countries established diplomatic ties. Current trends portend steadily worsening relations over the long term, with increasingly adverse consequences for all actors involved. Specifically, Beijing and Washington are transitioning from a sometimes contentious yet mutually beneficial relationship to an increasingly antagonistic, mutually destructive set of interactions. The often positive and optimistic forces, interests, and beliefs that sustained bilateral ties for decades are giving way to undue pessimism, hostility, and a zero-sum mindset in almost every area of engagement.[200]

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Da Nang braces for extensive Covid-19 testing

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By Viet Tuan   July 24, 2020 | 10:37 pm GMT+7Da Nang braces for extensive Covid-19 testingMedical staff at a Covid-19 quarantine area at Da Nang General Hospital in Da Nang, central Vietnam, January 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Dong. The Health Ministry will conduct extensive Covid-19 testing in at-risk areas of Da Nang with local manufactured test kits.

The ministry has requested the central city to make a list of all people in close contact with the suspected case. On Thursday night, all of them were tested and the results came back negative.

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Chinese fugitive taken into custody as US claims Houston consulate was a part of espionage network

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By Kylie Atwood, Nicole Gaouette and Jennifer Hansler, CNN

Updated 1924 GMT (0324 HKT) July 24, 2020

Washington (CNN)Senior US government officials said Friday that a Chinese scientist who had been hiding in the country’s San Francisco consulate after accusations of visa fraud is now in US custody and also charged that Beijing has been using its diplomatic outposts to run an espionage network to steal intellectual property from US businesses, universities and research centers.Tang Juan, a researcher who said she was focusing on biology, “was a fugitive from justice until last night,” a senior Justice Department official said, but has now been charged in Sacramento. The circumstances of Tang’s arrest were not clear, but she has not been charged with espionage.US officials made the announcement just hours before Washington’s deadline for Beijing to shutter its consulate in Houston, a move that triggered China to retaliate Friday by demanding the US close its consulate in Chengdu.Prosecutors earlier this week said that Tang concealed her connection to China’s military in order to enter the US, lied to federal investigators about those links and subsequently tried to avoid arrest by taking refuge in the San Francisco consulate.During an interview with FBI agents on June 20, “Tang denied serving in the Chinese military, claimed she did not know the meaning of the insignia on her uniform, and that wearing a military uniform was required for attendance at FMMU because it was a military school,” attorneys wrote in a July 20 court filing.

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Why has flooding been so severe in China this year?

~ Đào Thu Hằng ~ Bình luận về bài viết này

Intense rainfall and severe flooding that has battered China since early June 2020, has affected tens of millions of people and left at least 140 dead or missing. The Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze River has been put to the test in terms of its ability to  control floods along Asia’s longest river. But why have floods across a large region of China been so severe in the summer of 2020?

Reopening international flights during COVID-19: a new real-time big data dashboard applied to Vietnam

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Mở lại các chuyến bay quốc tế trong thời COVID-19: sử dụng dữ liệu lớn theo thời gian thực tại Việt Nam

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The Curious World of Soviet Bus Stops

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Nationalgeographic.com

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On a long-distance bicycle trip from London to St. Petersburg in 2002, photographer Chris Herwig encountered something unexpected in the barren post-Soviet landscapes—artsy, unusual, and almost spaceship-like bus stops. The more he rode, the more he came across such unique transit structures.

Pitsunda, Abkhazia, Georgia

As Herwig traveled through and later began living in post-Soviet states, he would keep an eye out for unusual bus stops. Having grown up in Canada, he says that the U.S.S.R. was always a mystery to him. Something dark and inexplicable. It fascinated him to find colorful, almost celebratory structures in a land that was once so rigidly governed.

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Vietnam supports a comprehensive solution to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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 15:08 | 22/07/2020VOV 

Vietnam supports a comprehensive, fair and lasting solution to the conflict between Palestine and Israel through dialogues and negotiations, as well as the exercise of indisputable legal rights of Palestinians.

Palestinian guy climbing to hospital window bidding farewell to mom, who died of Covid-19
Vietnam affirms support for Palestinian people’s struggle for inalienable rights
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vietnam supports a comprehensive solution to israeli palestinian conflict

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of the Vietnamese Permanent Mission to the United Nations, made the reaffirmation at an online meeting of the UN Security Council (UNSC) on July 21 discussing the Middle East situation, including the recent Palestinian issue.

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Covid-19 Vaccine’s Production and Licensing are sped up in Vietnam

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 15:06 | 22/07/2020Tarah Nguyen 

Covid-19 vaccine production is being implemented for researching to develop by Vietnam Ministry of Health in this morning’s seminar July 22, with the participation of national and international scientists.

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The overview of the conference on this Wed’s morning July 22. (Photo: qdnd)

Prof. Nguyen Thanh Long, acting Minister of Health, chairing the workshop said that Vietnam has currently had 4 researchers of vaccine production, developing in varied directions but all of them owned the technology.

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Prof. Nguyen Thanh Long, acting Minister of Health, said that Vietnam is planning to develop the Covid-19 vaccine to ensure for the Covid-19 prevention. (Photo: thanhnien)

At the workshop, four local vaccine researchers & manufacturers (including: VABIOTECH, POLYVAC, IVAC, NANOGEN) presented their Covid-19 vaccine studies. At the same time, delegates also exchanged discussions on draft regulations for researching, clinical production, licensing of and registration for Covid-19 vaccine in Vietnam and how to use the Covid-19 vaccine in an emergency medical situation.

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Toạ đàm “Phụ nữ trong lĩnh vực STEM – Khoa học, công nghệ, kỹ thuật, toán học” ngày 24.07.2020

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VUSAC Hanoi and The American Center in Hanoi (U.S. Embassy in Hanoi) jointly organize the Women in STEM panel discusison. Come join us.

In this event, speakers will share their personal experiences of being successful women working in STEM fields and lead the discussion on social barriers and gender equality issues in STEM fields. They will also talk about challenges to balance work and family and opportunities for women in STEM careers.

You will have an opportunity to listen to the stories of our inspiring speakers:

✔️ Ms. Pamnella Devolder, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy Hanoi
✔️ Ms. Doan Thi Thai Yen, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology
✔️ Ms. Trinh Thi Hoa, VEF Alumni, Consultant at World Bank and International Financial Institution

★ Time: 15:30 – 17:00, July 24
★ Venue: American Center, 170 Ngoc Khanh Street
★ Registration link: https://goo.gl/cNznmy