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Nắng tốt dưa, mưa tốt lũ.

Crisis fermenting as cabbage shortage hits South Korea's kimchi culture
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...kimchi-culture

South Koreans are facing a shortage of a beloved dietary staple after a summer of extreme weather destroyed crops of cabbages – the main ingredient of kimchi.

The shortage, which has seen prices rise by up to 60%, comes just before the start of the traditional kimchi-making season, when people who prefer to make their own version season cabbages with chilli powder, garlic, and other ingredients before leaving it to ferment.

The cabbage shortfall is also affecting commercial producers, according to Bloomberg, with the country’s biggest kimchi maker, Daesang, saying it has been forced to suspend online sales.

According to South Korea’s cultural heritage administration, about 95% of Koreans eat kimchi more than once a day, storing it in separate fridges to prevent it from tainting other items such as milk. More than 60% percent have it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Có công ngồi xắt có ngày nên kimchi.

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Bloodsport: cock vs. cop - ông gà đá ông cò

Philippines local police chief killed by fighting cockerel
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...hting-cockerel

The police chief of a Philippine town has been killed during a raid on an illegal cockfight when one of the razor-sharp metal blades worn by the birds cut an artery in his leg and he bled to death.

The incident took place on Monday in Madugang village in Northern Samar province, where police have been cracking down on illegal cockfights because the gatherings have been blamed for helping to spread coronavirus.

Ch Lt Christian Bolok, who was in his mid-30s, was trying to grab a cockerel when one of its gaffs – the steel blades attached to its legs – severed his femoral artery, according to the provincial governor, Edwin Ongchuan.
“He was trying to confiscate the roosters,” Ongchuan said, adding that Bolok or his companions had tried to stem his blood loss by tying a cloth around his leg but may have applied the tourniquet in the wrong spot.

Officers arrested three farmers who had been taking part in the illegal fight, and were searching for three others. They seized seven cockerels, a pair of gaffs and 550 pesos (£8) in cash in the raid, a police report said.

Ongchuan and his local government praised Bolok’s dedication and determination to enforce coronavirus safeguards in Northern Samar, and the governor had given Bolok’s family financial support, officials said.

Cockfighting is a popular pastime and gambling sport in many rural areas of the Philippines. Some fights are licensed and legal, but many are not. All such events are currently prohibited as part of efforts to contain the coronavirus.

Tịch thu được 8 tiền Anh. Đúng là công cốck.

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Ném tiền qua cửa sổ:

Man arrested after showering commuters with money from 30th-floor window
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...h-floor-window

Police said the 29-year-old was “in a trance” after taking drugs at his home on the 30th floor of a building in Chongqing, in south-western China, when he began throwing cash out of the window to the streets below.

Local media reported the “heavenly rain of banknotes from the sky”, and a video of the 17 October incident has been viewed more than half a million times.

The footage shows traffic slowed to a crawl, or completely stopped in some sections, as dozens of people left their cars or walked onto the busy road to catch the banknotes.

Police were called and the man was taken into custody. The police said in a statement he had been detained for taking drugs and was under investigation and receiving treatment.

In 2017, also in Chongqing, a woman walked into traffic throwing bank notes behind her, prompting a police officer to pick them up as he followed her. Local media reported she told police she threw the 16,000 yuan (US$2,300) because she was in a bad mood.

Last year a man who threw 100,000 yuan into the air after having a bad day at work asked for people to return his money. Shishi city police in Fujian said the man’s actions caused a traffic jam and people fell over each other trying to grab the cash.

Tiền bạc là rác thằng đần
Của nhà vất hết cho chân vào cùm

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Ném tiền qua cửa sổ

Việt Nam làm gì có khủng bố mà tài với trợ.
Tiền tài trợ là chui vô túi tham mấy thằng lãnh
đạo. Tại sao Nhựt Bổn phải mua chuộc VN?
Bữa hổm nghe Mỹ dạy tiếng Anh cho công
an VN là đã thấy không bình thường.

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Human Right Watch kêu gọi Nhật ngừng tài trợ cho công an Việt Nam

30/10/2020, tổ chức nhân quyền Human Right Watch (HRW) ra thông cáo đề nghị chính phủ Nhật Bản “ngay lập tức hủy bỏ các kế hoạch cung cấp hỗ trợ tài chính cho bộ Công An Việt Nam”, vì những vi phạm nhân quyền nghiêm trọng của cơ quan này.

Thông cáo của HRW nêu rõ, hôm 19/10/2020, bộ Ngoại Giao Nhật công bố khoản tài trợ 300 triệu yên (2,84 triệu đô la Mỹ) cho bộ Công An Việt Nam để mua trang thiết bị chống khủng bố. Theo Tokyo, khoản tài trợ trên để giúp “tăng cường các biện pháp chống khủng bố và giữ gìn trật tự công cộng”, ổn định xã hội Việt Nam.

Tuy nhiên theo lời của ông Phil Robertson, phó giám đốc ban châu Á của tổ chức theo dõi nhân quyền này, “cung cấp thiết bị cho Việt Nam dưới vỏ bọc chống khủng bố và bảo vệ trật tự công cộng sẽ chỉ tạo điều kiện thuận lợi cho công an Việt Nam đàn áp những người biểu tình ôn hòa một cách khốc liệt hơn”, trong khi mà bộ Công An Việt Nam là đối tượng chủ yếu vi phạm nhân quyền một cách có hệ thống, với các vụ tra tấn ngược đãi các nghi can hình sự, cũng như các nhà hoạt động nhân quyền.

Thông cáo của HRW cũng dẫn ra một số trường hợp nghi can hình sự hay tù chính trị, những người bị giam giữ chỉ vì thực hành hoặc đòi các quyền cơ bản một cách ôn hòa, đã bị công an Việt Nam tra tấn, ngược đãi trong những năm gần đây.

“Những người đóng thuế cho chính phủ Nhật Bản cần yêu cầu chính phủ mình đề cao các nguyên tắc nhân quyền trong các chương trình tài trợ nước ngoài, bắt đầu bằng việc hủy bỏ gói tài trợ này cho cơ quan cấp bộ của Việt Nam xâm phạm nhân quyền nặng nề nhất”, ông Robertson nói trong thông cáo.

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Việt Nam làm gì có khủng bố mà tài với trợ.

Tiền tài trợ là chui vô túi tham mấy thằng lãnh
đạo. Tại sao Nhựt Bổn phải mua chuộc VN?
Bữa hổm nghe Mỹ dạy tiếng Anh cho công
an VN là đã thấy không bình thường.

Nghe nói có bọn khủng bố trấn lột tiền của nạn nhận lũ lụt.

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Hm, cái lũ miệng quan trôn trẻ ấy mà
khủng bố gì, cuớp giữa ban ngày còn
có luật pháp bảo vệ.

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Sư hổ mang Thích Hận Thù:

Firebrand monk surrenders to police days before Myanmar vote
https://news.yahoo.com/myanmar-fireb...125432164.html

The surrender of the monk Wirathu came just days ahead of a general election on Sunday which Suu Kyi’s ruling National League for Democracy party is expected to win.

“Mainly, I would like to request my fellow monks around the country to ask their followers to vote for the parties that work to protect the country’s race and religion,” Wirathu said to a small crowd of followers outside the police station in Yangon before entering.

In May last year, a court issued an arrest warrant for Wirathu, charging him with sedition for insulting comments he made about Suu Kyi at a nationalist rally while comparing the military’s representatives in parliament to Buddha.

If found guilty, he could be sentenced to three years to life in prison. Under Myanmar law, he would have to be defrocked by Buddhist authorities before he could be arrested.

Time Magazine called Wirathu “The Face of Buddhist Terror” in a cover story in 2013.

Wirathu was able to build upon widespread prejudice in Buddhist-majority Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslims, who are seen as having immigrated illegally from Bangladesh, even though many of their families have lived in Myanmar for generations.

Wirathu was accused of hate speech, and Facebook shuttered his account in 2018, but he managed to stay on other social networks and gave speeches around the country. The National Monks Council banned him from giving public talks for a year, but its action was not tightly enforced.

Đi với phật mặc áo cà sa
Đi với Burma mặc áo Quốc xã.

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vượt biên

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North Korean man who crossed border wants to defect: South Korea's military

SEOUL (Reuters) - A North Korean man who crossed the heavily fortified border with South Korea has said he wants to defect to the South, Seoul officials said on Thursday.

The man was taken into custody in the Demilitarised Zone separating the two Koreas on Wednesday, several hours after he was spotted crossing barbed wire fences installed along the border, prompting an urgent search operation.

Authorities have launched an investigation into how the man managed to cross the frontier, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

“I understand the person has expressed his willingness to defect,” JCS spokesman Kim Joon-rak told a briefing, declining to provide further detail during the ongoing investigation.

Kim said border controls were being further examined after the search for the man revealed that some parts of the fences equipped with electronic monitoring systems were found to have been damaged, possibly by typhoons.

There was no unusual movement from North Korean troops, Kim added.

The defection cames just as Seoul reopens tours to the southern part of the DMZ, which has seen several armed clashes but also served as a venue for key inter-Korean events, including some of the most recent summits.

The tours had been suspended in October 2019 after an outbreak of deadly African swine fever broke out in North Korea, and then due to concerns about the novel coronavirus this year.

This week’s DMZ crossing is the first since a North Korean soldier defected to the South in 2019. Another soldier crossed in 2018, and in a more dramatic 2017 incident, North Korean troops fired at a soldier when he drove an army truck through the DMZ.

Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Additional reporting by Sangmi Cha; Editing by Jane Wardell


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A-bomb survivors in Japan want Biden to push for nuke disarmament


Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki hope that negotiations on nuclear disarmament will advance under a Joe Biden administration. | KYODO

Hiroshima/Nagasaki – Survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Sunday welcomed Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the U.S. presidential election, and hope that negotiations on nuclear disarmament will advance under his administration.

Survivors of the 1945 bombings of the two cities expressed expectations that Biden, a Democrat who defeated Republican President Donald Trump in Tuesday's poll, will address the issue of nuclear weapons after he takes office in January next year.

"We expect to see progress in negotiations on nuclear disarmament after a change of president," said Kunihiko Sakuma, head of a Hiroshima-based group supporting survivors and himself an A-bomb victim.

"I would like the United States to participate as an observer in meetings of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which will take effect in January next year," Sakuma, 76, said, referring to the U.N. treaty adopted in 2017.

In August, Biden, the former vice president under Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, said he will strive for a world without nuclear weapons and criticized the Republican incumbent for undermining past efforts to curb the dangers of such arsenals.

"I will work to bring us closer to a world without nuclear weapons, so that the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are never repeated," Biden said in a statement released on the 75th A-bomb anniversary in Hiroshima.

Sakuma, however, said it may be difficult to change the policy of the United States, a major nuclear power.

"Even though he may want to eliminate nuclear weapons, it will be difficult to make a significant policy change unless (the United States) overcomes the perception that the existence of nuclear weapons ensures stability in the international community," he said, in reference to a theory of nuclear deterrence.

In Nagasaki, Mayor Tomihisa Taue said he would "welcome" Biden's effort to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

"If the United States moves toward nuclear disarmament, it will speed up the international community's efforts toward nuclear abolition," Taue said in a statement.

Takeshi Yamakawa, a former teacher who survived the attack in Nagasaki, said he would like Biden to present a specific plan to realize nuclear abolition, given that Obama — who had advocated a world without nuclear weapons — failed to accomplish it.

But since Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in 2016, Yamakawa, 84, said the president-elect should pay a visit to Nagasaki.

"Why shouldn't Mr. Biden become the first-ever U.S. president to visit Nagasaki? That will create an opportunity for him to show his desire to respond to the wishes of the survivors," he said.


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Dẹp TPP, Trâm dọn cỗ cho tàu ăn: RCEP!
Đây là hệ quả và hậu quả chính sách khôn ngoan của đương kim tổng thống Huê Kỳ.

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Asia-Pacific nations sign world's biggest free-trade agreement

Ten ASEAN nations, plus five other Asia-Pacific countries have signed the world's biggest trade deal in terms of GDP. The pact is expected to drive economic growth in a region hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic.



Fifteen nations in the Asia-Pacific region have entered into the world's largest free-trade agreement, which they hope will accelerate the recovery of their economies, ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, was signed on Sunday on the sidelines of the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), held via videoconference due to the pandemic.

The RCEP deal, signed eight years after negotiations first began, covers 2.2 billion people and a third of the world's economy.

The pact lowers tariffs, opens up the service trade and sets common trade rules within the bloc. The agreement covers trade, services, investment, e-commerce, telecommunications and copyright.

However, environmental protection and labor rights are not part of the agreement.

The China-backed agreement is seen as an alternative to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a now-defunct Washington trade initiative.

It includes the 10 member states of ASEAN; Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Brunei — along with Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea.

A notable absentee was India, which withdrew from the RCEP negotiations last year citing concerns over open up its agricultural and manufacturing sectors to more foreign competition.

ASEAN leaders have said they still intend to expand trade with India and that the door remains open for New Delhi to rejoin the bloc.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Saturday reaffirmed his government's support for " broadening a free and fair economic zone, including a possibility of India's future return to the deal, and hope to gain support from the other countries."

The trade deal allows China — by far the biggest economy and the most populous country in the region — to cast itself as the "champion of globalization and multilateral cooperation," Gareth Leather, senior Asian economist for Capital Economics, said in a report.

Hard-hit by pandemic

Countries around the world are facing an economic slowdown in the aftermath of the pandemic-induced lockdowns. Indonesia recently slid into its first recession in more than two decades, while the Philippines saw its economy contract by 11.5 percent in the latest quarter.

The RCEP deal does not include environmental protection and labor rights or commit countries to open services and other vulnerable areas of their economies.

It does, however, it does set rules for trade that will facilitate investment and other business within the region, said Jeffrey Wilson, research director at the Perth USAsia Center.

"RCEP, therefore, is a much-needed platform for the Indo-Pacific's post-COVID recovery," Wilson wrote in a report for the Asia Society.

Australia hopes to improve ties with China

Australia hopes the trade deal will improve its relations with China, its biggest trading partner.

Ties with Beijing became frayed earlier this year after Canberra called for an international inquiry into the source of the coronavirus, which first erupted in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.

The row escalated to a trade dispute which hit a dozen Australian industries and threatened exports to China of agricultural products, timber, and resources worth billions of dollars.

"The ball is very much in China's court to come to the table for that dialogue," said Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham.

"It is crucial that partners like China, as they enter into new agreements like this, deliver not only on the detail of such agreements but act true to the spirit of them," Birmingham told The Age newspaper.

adi/sms (AP, AFP, Reuters)


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