India-China row deepens as Dalai Lama arrives in NE India

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Apr 4, 2017GAUHATI, INDIA – India said Tuesday that China should not interfere in its internal affairs, as the Dalai Lama began a weeklong visit to India’s remote northeast that Beijing has protested.

The Tibetan spiritual leader was greeted by cheering supporters as he arrived in Arunachal Pradesh. China claims the partly ethnically Tibetan Himalayan state as its own territory, and warned last month of “severe damage” to relations with India and increased regional instability if the Dalai Lama proceeds with his trip. Tiếp tục đọc “India-China row deepens as Dalai Lama arrives in NE India” →

Anger burns on Vietnam’s poisoned coast a year after spill

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  • Posted 04 Apr 2017 14:20
  • Updated 04 Apr 2017 15:45

Fish which an employee says are contaminated and decomposed are pictured at a frozen food storage facility in Vietnam’s central Ha Tinh province April 1, 2017. Photo taken April 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kham

QUANG TRI, Vietnam: “The big fish are all dead,” complained 50 year-old Mai Xuan Hoa, picking small fish from a net as he tried to rebuild his livelihood a year after Vietnam’s worst environmental disaster.

Sea life began washing up on April 6, 2016 near a steel plant being developed by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Corp . Within weeks, more than 200 km (125 miles) of coast had been sullied by the accidental release of chemicals including cyanide, phenols and iron hydroxide. Tiếp tục đọc “Anger burns on Vietnam’s poisoned coast a year after spill” →

218,000 holders of post-secondary degrees unemployed

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Last update 17:03 | 04/04/2017
218,000 holders of post-secondary degrees unemployed

Holders of bachelor, Master’s or doctorate degrees struggling with unemployment grew to more than 218,000 in the fourth quarter of last year, making up nearly half the number of skilled workers without a job.

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The latest Labor Market Newsletter of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs shows unemployment in the final quarter of last year slightly declined from the preceding quarter in terms of both number and rate.

Specifically, the jobless numbered 1.1 million, around 7,000 fewer than in the

third quarter of last year. The overall unemployment rate for the fourth quarter of 2016 was 2.31%, versus 2.34% in the preceding three months. Tiếp tục đọc “218,000 holders of post-secondary degrees unemployed” →

Modern slaves: labour trafficking in the south

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Fishermen unload tuna at Cát Lở Port in Vũng Tàu City. Workers face risks of being kidnapped for labour trafficking in the area. — VNA/VNS Photo Xuân Trường
Viet Nam News BÀ RỊA-VŨNG TÀU — At about 5pm on the last day of January, 24-year-old Nguyễn Đức Hiển from An Giang Province jumped off a fishing vessel as it was getting ashore near Cát Lở Port in Vũng Tàu City.

After being rescued by another fishing boat and handed over to the border guards of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province, Hiển revealed that he was tricked by a xe ôm driver in HCM City and sold to the leader of a labour trafficking ring for VNĐ3.5 million (US$154). Tiếp tục đọc “Modern slaves: labour trafficking in the south” →

Formosa Vietnam evaluated for furnace launch, one year after fish deaths

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Updated : 04/04/2017 16:00 GMT + 7

Vietnam’s environment watchdog is inspecting a steel mill developed by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group to decide whether or not it can put a blast furnace into use, one year after the facility’s wastewater caused mass fish deaths the along country’s central coast.

The mass fish deaths, affecting four central provinces, was first recorded on April 6, 2016, but Formosa only admitted its responsibility in June the same year, pledging US$500mn in compensation.

The Taiwanese company has promised to fix all of its violations and make sure its steel mill, located in Ha Tinh Province, follows all environmental standards and requirements set by the Vietnamese authorities. Tiếp tục đọc “Formosa Vietnam evaluated for furnace launch, one year after fish deaths” →

Tìm lời giải cho “bài toán nghĩa trang”

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07:03 Chủ Nhật ngày 26/03/2017

(HNM) – Báo Hànộimới ngày 20-2 có bài “Quy hoạch nghĩa trang khu vực ngoại thành: Cái khó đang bó… văn minh!”, phản ánh tình trạng chôn cất không theo quy hoạch dẫn đến lãng phí tài nguyên, gây ô nhiễm. Thực tế, việc nhiều nghĩa trang phải đóng cửa do hết đất chôn cất hoặc nằm trong khu dân cư là vấn đề bức xúc từ lâu, đòi hỏi có một kế hoạch dài hơi tổ chức nơi an nghỉ cho người đã khuất. Giải “bài toán nghĩa trang” không chỉ là yêu cầu thiết thực mà còn là xu hướng tất yếu của xã hội hiện đại.
Nghĩa trang Láng Hạ (quận Đống Đa) lọt thỏm giữa khu dân cư đông đúc.

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Quy hoạch nghĩa trang khu vực ngoại thành: Cái khó đang bó… văn minh!

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05:59 Thứ Hai ngày 20/02/2017

(HNM) – Chọn hướng đẹp, chọn phần đất “vượng” để an táng là suy nghĩ phổ biến của nhiều người, đặc biệt là những người cao tuổi ở các làng quê… Từ đây dẫn đến việc quy tụ các phần mộ không theo đúng quy hoạch nghĩa trang nhân dân (NT), thậm chí nằm rải rác ở các khu đất của hộ gia đình dẫn đến lãng phí tài nguyên đất, không văn minh và gây ô nhiễm môi trường. Quy hoạch NT khu vực ngoại thành Hà Nội dù đã được nhiều nơi thực hiện, song tình hình chung vẫn là “múa gậy trong bị” với nhiều cái khó không dễ giải quyết…

Việc sắp xếp những ngôi mộ cùng kích thước và thẳng hàng ở nghĩa trang thôn Vĩnh Phúc (xã Liệp Tuyết, Quốc Oai) sẽ tạo cơ sở để hình thành nghĩa trang văn minh.

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Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure

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Gutsy girls skateboard, climb trees, clamber around, fall down, scrape their knees, get right back up — and grow up to be brave women. Learn how to spark a little productive risk-taking and raise confident girls with stories and advice from firefighter, paraglider and all-around adventurer Caroline Paul.

Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure

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Vietnam’s economic growth slips to 3-year low in Q1

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TUOI TRE Reuters

Updated : 03/29/2017 16:34 GMT + 7

Vietnam’s economy grew at its slowest pace in three years in the first quarter, government data showed on Wednesday, as production was weak in agriculture, mining and manufacturing.

The General Statistics Office (GSO) said annual growth in January-March was 5.1 percent. That was the slowest expansion for any quarter since the first three months of 2014.

Nguyen Bich Lam, head of GSO, said that if current trends are maintained, Vietnam is “unlikely to reach” its 2017 growth target of 6.7 percent. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam’s economic growth slips to 3-year low in Q1” →

World Bank report on Vietnam’s pork safety sparks concern, doubt

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TUOI TRE NEWS

Updated : 04/03/2017 16:28 GMT + 7

Consumers are seen at a pork stall at a small market in Ho Chi Minh City.
A recent World Bank report claiming that up to 40 percent of pork in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City is potentially contaminated with the salmonella bacteria has raised concern and doubt as to whether the ratio is too high compared with Vietnam’s own statistics.

The World Bank data may not truly reflect the meat safety situation in those cities, according to local insiders.

The report, released on March 27, points out several alarming issues in Vietnam’s food safety risk management, such as the fact that 80 percent of pork is sold in wet markets, and 76 percent of meat is slaughtered in small and dirty facilities.

The World Bank also underlined that the most prevalent microbiological hazard in pork in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City is salmonella, with the bacteria found in 30 percent of the pork samples taken at slaughterhouses, and 40 percent of the pork found on sale at local markets. Tiếp tục đọc “World Bank report on Vietnam’s pork safety sparks concern, doubt” →

‘Biggest insurgent attack in years’ in Thai south wounds 12 police officers

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  • Posted 03 Apr 2017 17:10
  • Updated 03 Apr 2017 17:33

Thai Rangers patrol in the Rangae district of Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat on Mar 4, 2016. (Photo: AFP/Madaree Tohlala)

YALA, Thailand: Insurgents fired hundreds of shots into a police booth in restive Muslim-majority southern Thailand on Monday, wounding 12 officers in what police called the biggest such attack in years.

A decades-old separatist insurgency in the provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat has claimed more than 6,500 lives since it escalated in 2004, according to independent monitoring group Deep South Watch. Tiếp tục đọc “‘Biggest insurgent attack in years’ in Thai south wounds 12 police officers” →

Indonesia sinks more boats in war on illegal fishing

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  • Posted 03 Apr 2017 17:30

JAKARTA: Indonesia destroyed 81 mostly foreign boats at the weekend that had been caught illegally fishing in its waters, taking to more than 300 the number sunk since President Joko Widodo launched a battle against the poaching of fish in 2014.

The Southeast Asian country has some of the world’s richest fishing grounds, but authorities have struggled to prevent trawlers, often from Asian neighbours, from making incursions into the seas around the vast archipelago. Tiếp tục đọc “Indonesia sinks more boats in war on illegal fishing” →

Phần hồn Hội An phai nhạt

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01/04/2017 22:31

Nhà thờ tộc Tăng, một di tích đặc biệt ở phố cổ Hội An, sau khi trùng tu đang được tận dụng để kinh doanh
Nhà thờ tộc Tăng, một di tích đặc biệt ở phố cổ Hội An, sau khi trùng tu đang được tận dụng để kinh doanh

Nhiều nhà cổ thay tên đổi chủ, thay đổi chức năng và tình trạng biến động dân cư ở Hội An đang làm biến dạng những giá trị trong quần thể di tích được cho là “bảo tàng sống” này

Một buổi sáng giữa tháng 2-2017, người dân đi tập thể dục phát hiện mùi khét cùng đám khói bốc lên nghi ngút từ ngôi nhà cổ vắng chủ ở số 95 Nguyễn Thái Học, phường Minh An, TP Hội An, tỉnh Quảng Nam. Nhiều người hô hoán cùng nhau phá cửa xông vào dập lửa, di chuyển đồ đạc khỏi nhà để hạn chế thiệt hại. Một lúc sau, đám cháy được dập tắt với sự trợ giúp của lực lượng chức năng. Tiếp tục đọc “Phần hồn Hội An phai nhạt” →

This new REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report

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This new REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report presents views of 114 renowned energy experts from around the world, on the feasibility and challenges of achieving a 100% renewable energy future. Their thoughts are grouped into 12 Great Debates ranging from the future of heating and transport, the interconnection of sectors, the role of mega-cities and what utilities of the future could look like. The report does not predict the future but should spur debate about the opportunities and challenges of a 100% renewable energy future.

Read more at: http://www.ren21.net/future-of-renewables/global-futures-report/

Himalayan glaciers granted status of ‘living entities’

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Himalayan glaciers granted status of ‘living entities’
An Indian boy walks along a flooded bank of the Ganges River in Allahabad on July 10, 2016. | AFP-JIJI

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DEHRADUN, INDIA – An Indian court has recognized Himalayan glaciers, lakes and forests as “legal persons” in an effort to curb environmental destruction, weeks after it granted similar status to the country’s two most sacred rivers.

In a decision that aims to widen environmental protections in the mountainous region, the court granted the legal standing to the glaciers Gangotri and Yamunotri,m which feed India’s venerated Ganges and Yamuna rivers, which won the status in a landmark judgment in March. Tiếp tục đọc “Himalayan glaciers granted status of ‘living entities’” →