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Reuters Dec 13, 2016 Japan Times
MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s allies in Congress on Tuesday filed a criminal complaint against a senator who has been an outspoken critic of a surge of extrajudicial killings unleashed by the president’s campaign against drugs. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippine lawmakers file criminal case against Duterte critic”
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Hai bà Trưng trên tranh dân gian
MTG – Ở Trung Quốc cũng như ở Việt Nam, lịch sử là do đàn ông viết. Hễ có một phụ nữ nào “nảy nòi” làm nên đại sự thì bị các ông tìm mọi cách bêu riếu cho lên bờ xuống ruộng ngay, trừ một số trường hợp đặc biệt như Hai Bà Trưng hay Bà Triệu ở Việt Nam.
AFP-JIJI Japan Times Dec 14, 2016
MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said he personally killed suspected criminals when he was mayor of a southern city to set an example for police.
Duterte made the comments in a speech to businessmen on Monday night as he discussed his campaign to eradicate illegal drugs, in which police and unknown assailants have killed thousands of people since he became president on June 30. Tiếp tục đọc “Philippines’ Rodrigo Duterte says he personally killed people”
The battle over land and resources turned bloodier in the past year with treble the number of land rights defenders killed, according to a human rights group that fears that the violence will get even worse. Tiếp tục đọc “Killings of land rights activists tripled in 2016”
YOU HEAR A MURDER SCENE before you see it: The desperate cries of a new widow. The piercing sirens of approaching police cars. The thud, thud, thud of the rain drumming on the pavement of a Manila alleyway — and on the back of Romeo Torres Fontanilla.
Roman Catholic churches in Manila have read a prayer against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s plans to re-impose the death penalty on heinous crimes, including drug-related offences. Tiếp tục đọc “Manila Catholic churches pray executions not reinstated”
![Rolando Espinosa was mayor of Albuera town in the eastern province of Leyte [File: Mark R Cristiano/EPA]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2016/12/6/f9d102363db543b185e33350e087bfa7_18.jpg "Investigators: Philippine police killed jailed mayor")
Philippine police killed a town mayor linked to illegal drugs while he was helpless in a prison cell, justice department investigators alleged.
The National Bureau of Investigation said on Tuesday that it filed murder complaints against two dozen police officers and personnel last week after a probe showed they shot dead Mayor Rolando Espinosa and his cellmate Raul Yap in the central province of Leyte in November. Tiếp tục đọc “Investigators: Philippine police killed jailed mayor”
Faced with a dire U.N. warning of a possible genocide in South Sudan, the United States was set this week to finally embrace an arms embargo against the world’s newest country to ratchet down the military might of its warring parties and, potentially, help spare the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire of worsening civil war. Tiếp tục đọc “U.S. Push to Halt Genocide in South Sudan Unravels at United Nations”
HONG KONG — When protesters disrupted an art exhibition by Zulkiflee Anwar Ulhaque, a political cartoonist, at the George Town Literary Festival in Malaysia on Saturday, he assumed that the police would want his help identifying those responsible.
Instead, said Mr. Zulkiflee, who goes by the name Zunar, he was questioned by the police, detained for a day and informed that he was under investigation for producing cartoons that purportedly defamed Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Tiếp tục đọc “A Malaysian Political Cartoonist on Facing His Fears, and Prison, for Art”
Cambodia’s UN-backed court upheld life sentences for two top former Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity, a verdict welcomed by survivors of the brutal regime.
“Brother Number Two” Nuon Chea, 90, and ex-head of state Khieu Samphan, 85, were the first top leaders to be jailed in 2014, belonging to a regime responsible for the deaths of up to two million Cambodians from 1975 to 1979. Tiếp tục đọc “Cambodian court upholds sentences of Khmer Rouge chiefs”
![An ICC prosecutor said the court may have jurisdiction to prosecute perpetrators of Philippines killings [Reuters]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2016/11/23/8cb36927eb7c4d5ba5cc08ce72420322_18.jpg "Rodrigo Duterte shrugs off 'bulls***' ICC threat")
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte denounced what he called “bulls***” Western threats to seek his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his role in a bloody crackdown on drug dealers.
In a speech on Monday, Duterte, who has been accused of ordering extrajudicial killings in his anti-narcotics campaign since taking office in June, scolded the US government for what he called hypocritical threats to try him in the Hague-based tribunal, to which Washington is not a signatory. Tiếp tục đọc “Rodrigo Duterte shrugs off ‘bulls***’ ICC threat”
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Bài 1 : Huyền thoại Thành Lồi
08:06 AM – 25/04/2016 TN
Thành Lồi là một thành cổ độc đáo của Vương quốc Chămpa, gắn liền với nhiều huyền thoại, hiện còn tại TP.Huế (Thừa Thiên-Huế). Di tích vừa được Bộ VH-TT-DL công nhận là di tích lịch sử quốc gia. Tiếp tục đọc “Bỏ quên di sản Chăm – 6 bài”
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| Những thành viên bảo vệ môi trường của Campuchia biểu tình ôn hòa trước đại sứ quán Trung Quốc ở Bangkok (Thái Lan) yêu cầu ngừng xây dựng thủy điện trên sông Mekong ở Campuchia – Ảnh: Reuters |
Một công trình sử dụng nguồn vốn vay Trung Quốc
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Vay vốn từ Trung Quốc lợi, hại gì?
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