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Yoshiro Mori: Tokyo Olympics chief steps down over sexism row

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EPA - Yoshiro Mori acknowledged that his comments about women were "inappropriate" and against the Olympic spirit

The head of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee has resigned after he was criticised for making "inappropriate" remarks about women.

Yoshiro Mori, 83, was quoted as saying women talk too much and that meetings with many female board directors would "take a lot of time".

The remarks set off a firestorm of protest and Mr Mori apologised at the time but said he would not resign.

But on Friday he apologised for his "inappropriate statement".

"What is important is to hold the Olympics from July. It must not be the case that my presence becomes an obstacle to that," he said at a special committee meeting on Friday, where he also announced his resignation.

It is not immediately clear who will replace Mr Mori, a former Japanese prime minister. He had initially selected well-known sports administrator Saburo Kawabuchi, 84, to replace him but this also led to protests.

The resignation came as pressure mounted on him over the past week. Major sponsors came forward to criticise his comments, including Toyota, one of the biggest Olympic backers.

Toyota's president Akio Toyoda said the company was "disappointed".

On Tuesday, a group of female lawmakers wore white in a protest against his remarks, with some men doing the same in solidarity.

And Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said she would not attend a meeting of high-level Olympic officials in protest.

According to local media, almost 400 people have also withdrawn applications to volunteer at the Olympic games, which are scheduled for later this year.

The committee board currently has 24 members, five of whom are women. In 2019, the committee - which is responsible for selecting Japanese Olympians - set itself a goal of increasing the number of female board directors to 40%.

"If we increase the number of female board members, we have to make sure their speaking time is restricted somewhat, they have difficulty finishing, which is annoying," Mr Mori was quoted as saying.

"We have about seven women at the organising committee, but everyone understands their place."

Mr Mori is known in the country for a string of gaffes and undiplomatic statements made while in office from 2000 to 2001.

He told Japan's Mainichi newspaper that female family members had also lambasted him after his comments.

"Last night, my wife gave me a thorough scolding. She said: 'You've said something bad again, haven't you? I'm going to have to suffer again because you've antagonised women'," he said.

"This morning, my daughter and granddaughter scolded me as well," the paper quoted him as saying.

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83 về hưu là quá muộn rồi, mấy cha nội càng ngồi lâu càng vô tích sự. Được ăn được nói thì hông ai muốn xách gói đi về.

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Già không phải là cái tội. Già là cái tật cơ. :)

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Ăn ở hay mà gặp dở thì gọi là số; ăn ở dở mà gặp hay thì gọi là may.



Powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolts Tohoku area



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The manager of a liquor store in the city of Fukushima cleans up after the earthquake on Saturday night. | KYODO

A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck late Saturday off the coast of Tohoku, leaving at least 100 people injured across six prefectures just weeks before the 10th anniversary of the March 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.

The quake, which measured a strong 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale — the second-highest level — jolted Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures in the Tohoku region. No tsunami warning was issued, but the earthquake was the strongest to hit the region since April 7, 2011, the Meteorology Agency said.

People were reported hurt in Miyagi, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Saitama and Chiba prefectures, but no serious injuries were confirmed.

Nationwide, at least 950,000 homes temporarily lost power, but that was mostly resolved as of Sunday morning.

The quake, which was also felt in Tokyo, where it registered a 4 on the Japanese scale, struck at around 11:07 p.m., according to the Meteorological Agency. The epicenter was off the coast of Fukushima, about 220 kilometers (135 miles) north of Tokyo. Its focus was estimated to be at a depth of about 55 kilometers.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said during a meeting of Cabinet ministers Sunday morning that no deaths had been reported in the quake, but urged vigilance amid the prospect of continued aftershocks up to a strong 6 on the Japanese scale.

“We urge the people in the affected areas to continuously pay attention to information from entities such as municipalities, be on alert and be ready to act fast and consider weather changes after tomorrow,” Suga said.

Public broadcaster NHK said that the government would set up a special liaison office to coordinate with the affected regions.

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi directed the Self-Defense Forces to gather information on the scope of the damage and be prepared to respond immediately.

Kishi told reporters Sunday morning that the SDF would be dispatched immediately if there were requests from local municipalities.

At a news conference early Sunday morning, a Meteorological Agency official said aftershocks of up to a strong 6 on the Japanese scale could occur for at least a week. The official said Saturday’s quake was believed to be an aftershock of the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck the same region on March 11, 2011.

“Because (the 2011 quake) was an enormous one with a magnitude of 9.0, it’s not surprising to have an aftershock of this scale 10 years later,” said Kenji Satake, a professor at the University of Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute.

The quake registered a strong 6 in the southern part of Miyagi, and in the Nakadori central and Hamadori coastal regions of Fukushima, the Meteorological Agency said.

Power outages had been reported in parts of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, and Tochigi prefectures, according to media reports. Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings had reported blackouts across several prefectures as of early Sunday morning.

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No abnormalities had initially been detected at the Fukushima Nos. 1 and 2 nuclear power plants, according to Tokyo Electric Power, but the Sankei newspaper later reported water at the spent fuel pools of the No. 1 plant’s reactors 5 and 6 buildings had partially spilled over. The spillage was limited to inside the buildings.

Meanwhile, Japan Atomic Power Co.’s inactive Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in the village of Tokai in Ibaraki Prefecture and Tohoku Electric Power Co.’s Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture both reported no abnormalities, according to their operators.

Following the quake, JR East temporarily halted operations of its Tohoku, Joetsu and Hokuriku shinkansen lines. Power outages occurred on some sections. A landslide had covered a section of the Joban Expressway in Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, officials said, but no vehicles were found to be trapped.

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Horizontal shaking lasted for a few minutes inside a traditional inn in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, with plates for food scattered in its dining room.

“The initial jolt felt more powerful than the one I experienced in the Great East Japan Earthquake,” said Tomoko Kobayashi, 68, who works at the inn. “I wondered if it would end.”

After the 7.3 quake, many smaller earthquakes with magnitudes between 3 and 5 occurred off Fukushima.

The quake, which comes less than a month before the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, registered a 4 on the Japanese scale as far north as Aomori Prefecture and as far west as Shizuoka Prefecture.

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Pháp: 10 ngàn người ký tên yêu cầu VN tôn trọng nhân quyền


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ACAT: Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT-France) is an ecumenical organisation fighting against torture and the death penalty around the world and defending asylum rights. ACAT-France is made up of 10,000 activists, 400 local groups and 17 staff members

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N. Korean defector undetected for hours after swimming to South

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A North Korean defector wore a diving suit and fins during a daring six-hour swim around one of the world's most fortified borders, a Seoul official said, and was caught only after apparently falling asleep.

Bungling South Korean forces did not spot the man's audacious exploit despite him appearing several times on CCTV after he landed and triggering alarms, drawing heavy criticism from media and opposition MPs.

Even after his presence was noticed, the man -- who used diving gear to make his way by sea around the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula -- was not caught for another three hours.

The man, reportedly in his 20s, landed north of the town of Goseong on the east coast.

"He presumably had swum for about six hours, wearing a padded jacket inside a diving suit and fins. His clothing appeared to have kept him warm and allowed him to stay afloat," an unnamed Joint Chiefs of Staff official was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency on Tuesday.

Tidal currents worked in his favour, the official said, and he abandoned most of his equipment before making his way through a drainage channel under the barbed-wire fences that run along the coast.

Over more than three hours surveillance cameras caught him eight times, audible alarms sounding twice, but border guards did not notice.

Eventually a manhunt was launched, and troops found him three hours later, apparently asleep, his facemask hanging in a tree.

Officials say the defector, presumed to have been a civilian in the North, has expressed a desire to defect.

The military acknowledged troops had "failed to abide by due procedures" and vowed to strengthen border security.

And in a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, Defence Minister Suh Wook acknowledged that surveillance systems in the area were "malfunctioning and outdated".

Only a handful of Northern defectors ever directly cross the DMZ or swim past the maritime border -- although the last such publicly known incident was in November, when questions about security were also raised.

The vast majority of defectors instead first travel to neighbouring China, sometimes staying there for years before making their way on to the South via third countries.

More than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to the South over the decades but numbers plummeted to just 229 last year, after Pyongyang imposed a strict border closure to protect itself from the coronavirus that first emerged in neighbour and key ally China.

The incident was evidence the South Korean military was "close to a near collapse", the conservative Chosun Ilbo newspaper said Wednesday.

"Is this unit the only unit not doing its job properly? We think not," it added in an editorial.

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Saudi heir complicit in Khashoggi murder
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/24/jamal-khashoggi-murder-us-report-saudi-arabia-mbs-king-salman-complicit


The White House confirmed on Wednesday that Biden’s call to the 85-year-old ruler would take place “soon” and that the declassified report on Khashoggi’s murder was being readied for release. Biden, who said he has read the report, is insisting that he speak only to the king.

Reuters, citing four officials familiar with the matter, reported late on Wednesday that the assessment would find Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved and likely ordered the murder.

The revelation comes as the White House is facing calls by human rights activists and Saudi dissidents to “strike a blow” against Saudi human rights violations with new sanctions that they say could help rein in Prince Mohammed’s crackdown on dissidents and turn the page on the Trump administration’s “embrace of despots”.

Media reports have in the past said that US intelligence agencies had a medium- to high-degree of confidence that the crown prince and de facto ruler was responsible for ordering Khashoggi’s killing in the Saudi consulate.

“The release of the report is a long-awaited step that must be accompanied by accountability to ensure that this barbaric crime doesn’t happen again,” said Khalid Aljabri, a Saudi who is living in exile in Canada and is the son of Saad Aljabri, a former senior official and aide to Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince who is now in jail.

“Toothless sanctions by the Trump administration didn’t deter MBS [as the crown prince is often known] from going after others. The Biden administration must take more effective steps by sanctioning senior officials and political figures, institutions and entities that contributed to the murder,” he said.

Agnès Callamard, the outgoing special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing for the United Nations, who investigated the Khashoggi murder, said that targeted sanctions against Prince Mohammed’s personal assets and bank account ought to be ordered as a “minimum” if intelligence showed the crown prince ordered or incited the crime. She added that Biden ought also to exert pressure on the Saudis to identify the location of Khashoggi’s remains, allow for Khashoggi’s children to leave Saudi if they wish, and, if evidence suggests he ordered the killing, freeze Prince Mohammed’s diplomatic engagements with the US.

“Banishing the persons responsible for ordering the killing of Jamal Khashoggi from the international stage is an important step towards delivering justice to Jamal Khashoggi,” Callamard said.

Con vua thì lại làm sát thủ
Con sãi ở chùa lại nướng bánh đa
(Ca dao găm)

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Father and son extradited to Japan over Carlos Ghosn escape
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The Massachusetts men, held at a suburban Boston jail since their arrest in May, were handed over early on Monday, said one of their attorneys, Paul Kelly. Their lawyers had argued the accusations do not fit the law Japan wants to try them under and that they will be treated unfairly and subjected to “mental and physical torture”.

They have accused Japan of pursuing the pair in an attempt to save face after the embarrassment of Ghosn’s escape.

Michael Taylor, a US army special forces veteran in the past hired to rescue abducted children, has never denied the allegations. He gave an interview to Vanity Fair last year in which he described the mission in detail. When asked why he did it, he responded with the motto of the special forces: “De oppresso liber” or “to liberate the oppressed”.

He refused to discuss the details of the case in an interview last month because of the possibility he would be tried in Japan. But he insisted that his son was not involved and was not even in Japan when Ghosn left.

Ghosn, who became one of the auto industry’s most powerful executives by engineering a turnaround at the Japanese manufacturer, had been out on bail after his November 2018 arrest on charges that he underreported his future income and committed a breach of trust by diverting Nissan money for his personal gain.

Prosecutors have described one of the most “brazen and well-orchestrated escape acts in recent history”. Authorities say the Taylors were paid at least $1.3m.

On the day of the escape, Michael Taylor flew into Osaka on a chartered jet with another man, George-Antoine Zayek, carrying two large black boxes and pretending to be musicians with audio equipment, authorities said. Ghosn, free on bail, headed to the Grand Hyatt in Tokyo and met Peter Taylor, authorities say.

The elder Taylor and Zayek met the two others at the Grand Hyatt and shortly after split up. Peter Taylor took a flight to China while the others got on a bullet train and went back to another hotel near the airport, where Taylor and Zayek had booked a room. They all went in; only Ghosn’s rescuers were seen walking out.

Authorities say Ghosn was inside one of the big black boxes. At the airport, the boxes passed through a security checkpoint and were loaded on to a private jet headed for Turkey, officials said.

The Taylors had hired lawyers connected to Donald Trump, including the ex-White House attorney Ty Cobb, in an attempt to get Trump to block the extradition before he left office.

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South Korea envoy hopes to wrap up talks with U.S. on defence costs

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is seeking to iron out remaining differences and sign a deal with Washington on sharing costs for stationing 28,500 American troops in the country, its chief envoy said on Thursday.

Jeong Eun-bo made the comment as he arrived in Washington for the first face-to-face talks on Friday with U.S. envoy Donna Welton since President Joe Biden’s administration took office in January. They held their first video conference last month.

The negotiations had been gridlocked after former U.S. President Donald Trump rejected Seoul’s offer to pay 13% more, for a total of about $1 billion a year, and demanded as much as $5 billion.

South Korean sources have raised hopes the Biden administration will agree to a deal close to their proposal. Seoul currently pays Washington about $920 million a year.

“There are issues that we are trying to resolve as much as possible through this upcoming face-to-face meeting,” Jeong said in televised remarks to reporters in Washington.

Jeong said he was hoping the meeting would be the “last round of negotiations,” but added further discussions might be needed.

“We will be working to strike a deal as early as we can,” he added.

Both sides are “very close” to agreement, the Yonhap news agency said, citing the U.S. State Department. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Seoul has also been pursuing a multi-year deal to head off “operational disturbances” that had arisen as the allies renew it every three five or years, Jeong said.

After the last pact expired at the end of 2019 without a new one, some 4,000 South Koreans working for the U.S. military were placed on unpaid leave, prompting the two countries to scramble for a stopgap agreement to let them return to work.

Jeong’s visit comes as the Biden administration is conducting a review of its North Korea policy and Washington and Seoul are arranging the first trip to South Korea by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

Japan’s Kyodo News reported the two Cabinet officials would travel to Japan and South Korea from March 15 to 17, citing unnamed Tokyo officials. Seoul’s presidential office said on Friday that both sides were discussing their visit but that no details had been set.

Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Editing by Peter Cooney

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Singapore says "national shame" for armed forces to use weapons against own people

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore’s foreign minister said on Friday it was a “national shame” for the armed forces of a country to use weapons against their own people as he called on Myanmar’s military rulers to seek a peaceful solution to the unrest in the country.

"It is the height of national shame for the armed forces of any country to turn its arms against its own people," said Vivian Balakrishnan, repeating that Singapore was appalled by the violence against civilians in the country.

The United Nations has said at least 54 people have been killed since the Feb. 1 coup. More than 1,700 people had been arrested, including 29 journalists.

Balakrishnan and his counterparts in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) had held talks with a representative of the junta earlier this week.

Singapore along with a number of other ASEAN foreign ministers have called for the release of political detainees including civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Balakrishnan said on Friday the foreign ministers were in daily contact with each another over Myanmar.

However, he said that while ASEAN should play a constructive role in facilitating a return to normalcy and stability, there would be s limited impact from any external pressure on the situation in Myanmar. "If you look over the past 70 years, the military authorities in Myanmar, frankly, do not respond to economic sanctions, do not respond to moral opprobrium," the Singapore minister said.

He said that while references to the ASEAN charter and human rights declaration were essential, they were not sufficient to change the junta's behaviour.

"The keys ultimately lie within Myanmar. And there's a limit to how far external pressure will be brought to bear," Balakrishnan said. (Reporting by Aradhana Aravindan in Singapore Editing by Ed Davies)

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Phong trào Trà Sữa.



Asia's 'Milk Tea' activists give cross-border support for democratic change

An online solidarity movement is bringing together democracy activists throughout Asia for a fight against authoritarianism. But how much difference can a popular hashtag actually make?

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The Milk Tea Alliance is nurturing transnational solidarity with protests such as this one in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 8

Solidarity between pro-democracy advocates has been gaining momentum across Asia in the last couple of months, both in cyberspace and in the streets.

The informal Milk Tea Alliance unites like-minded political activists from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Myanmar.

Although their agendas at home vary, protesters clashing with riot police in Myanmar can relate to Thais demanding reform of the monarchy. Hong Kongers contesting Beijing’s National Security Law, meanwhile, can resonate with Taiwanese resisting Chinese mainland encroachment.

Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of political science at Thailand's Chulalongkorn University, told DW that the growing transnational movement "has aligned the aspirations of young demographics across Asia, favoring democratic norms and values against authoritarianism in their countries and beyond."

How did the Milk Tea Alliance come about?

In recent months, young pro-democracy activists in Asia have shown how online activism can morph into collective international action by sharing tried-and tested protest tactics.

The pan-Asian coalition started out in April last year as a humorous hashtag after a Thai actor retweeted a photo that categorized Hong Kong as an indedendent country.

Fervent Chinese nationalists lashed out at the outspoken Thai Twitter users, only to have their comments deflected with self-deprecating humor.

Netizens in Hong Kong and Taiwan quickly chimed in on the online spat, and the three nations formed an anti-China front. They dubbed themselves the Milk Tea Alliance — after the popular East and Southeast Asian beverage.

Though it initially emerged as a pushback against China’s dominance in the region, the movement has since widened to represent a larger struggle but with one common cause: fighting authoritarianism.

Myanmar joins the club

Myanmar's youth have also taken to the streets to protest against the military's seizure of power in a coup on February 1. Some of the protesters are the latest members of the cross-border network pushing for democracy.

"For many young protesters, joining the Milk Tea Alliance alongside other Asian youth represents a rejection of the closed and authoritarian society the military maintained for decades through violence and terror," Ronan Lee, a visiting scholar at the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London, told DW.

More than 50 people have been killed and nearly 1,500 people have been arrested since the Myanmar army ousted the democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) monitoring group.

The Myanmar military — which ruled the country from 1962 for almost five decades — had expected that it would be able to quell the unrest by arresting key politicians and notable activists. However, "this time Myanmar's protests have far more leaders than the military expected and continue [to demonstrate] even after a thousand arrests," Lee noted.

"Diversified leadership structures learned from the Milk Tea Alliance have helped Myanmar’s protesters frustrate military efforts [to crack down on protests]," he added.

From hashtag to pan-Asian movement

In one of the latest displays of transnational solidarity, activists across Asia took to the streets at the end of February in support of Myanmar demonstrators.

Some also answered calls from pro-democracy campaigners to hold online protests by posting photos of themselves showing the three-finger salute — a gesture borrowed from The Hunger Games film trilogy and a symbol of resistance shared with the Thai pro-democracy movement.

"Today we witnessed transnational solidarity across #MilkTeaAlliance. It is no longer just a hashtag. You made it a movement," tweeted the Milk Tea Alliance account on February 28.

Pursuing a democratic future

As authorities continue to crack down on prominent pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and Thailand, prospects of any major political shift in the region appear slim.

Professor Thitinan says while the Milk Tea Alliance holds opportunities for further growth, the movement will need stronger coordination efforts to stand up to authoritarian forces.

"The Milk Tea Alliance has potential to catch on as a significant political force across Asia as the younger generations grow up and have more means to carry on political activities. But this requires leadership, coordination, and organization," Thitinan told DW.

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The Milk Tea Alliance is nurturing transnational solidarity with protests such as this one in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 8

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"Shoot me instead"




Nữ tu Công Giáo quỳ trước cảnh sát Miến Điện, xin ngưng giết chóc
Mar 9, 2021 cập nhật lần cuối Mar 9, 2021

MYITKYINA, Miến Điện (NV) – Một nữ tu Công Giáo mới đây đã quỳ xuống trước các cảnh sát viên tại một thành phố ở vùng Bắc Miến Điện, khẩn khoản xin họ đừng bắn vào người biểu tình phản đối quân đội đảo chánh cướp chính quyền.

Nhưng cố gắng của vị nữ tu này sau cùng cũng không chặn được đổ máu, theo bản tin của hãng thông tấn Reuters hôm Thứ Ba, 9 Tháng Ba.

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Nữ tu Ann Rose Nu Tawng quỳ xin cảnh sát chớ bắn vào người biểu tình ở Myitkyina. (Hình: Myitkyina News Journal/AFP/Getty Images)

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Japan marks a decade since Fukushima nuclear disaster

Environmental groups say the crippled nuclear plant's decommissioning effort is hopeless. Some local people fear it is not safe to return to communities that were beneath the radioactive plume.

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Workers walk near the reactor buildings at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 1, 2021

As Japan prepares to mark the 10-year anniversary of the most destructive natural disaster in its recorded history and the nuclear accident that it triggered, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant has expressed confidence that efforts to decommission the site are on schedule.

Anti-nuclear campaigners are critical of that position and insist that Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s plan to complete the decommissioning of the three reactors that suffered meltdowns has "no prospect of success and is delusional," while people living in areas that were directly beneath the plume of radioactivity in March 2011 say their lives have been changed irreparably and forever.

The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant followed the magnitude-9.1 Great East Japan Earthquake on the afternoon of March 11, 2011. The quake, the fourth most powerful anywhere in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900, caused a series of tsunami waves that in places reached more than 40 meters high and bore down on the coast of northeast Japan.

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Screengrab obtained on March 15, 2011, shows an explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant

'People shouldn't be told that it's safe to come back'

The tsunami broached the nuclear plant's sea defenses and flooded the lower parts of four of the site's six reactor buildings, causing the failure of emergency generators required to keep water pumps circulating cool water for the reactors. The overheating of the reactor cores caused three of the units to suffer meltdowns, with operations of the fourth unit suspended for maintenance at the time of the disaster.

In the days after the accident, the government ordered the evacuation of more than 154,000 people living in surrounding towns and villages. Plans were also quietly drawn up for the evacuation of a vast swathe of the north of Japan in the event that one or more of the reactor chambers was breached and released vast amounts of radiation into the atmosphere.

That scenario never came to pass, although the Fukushima accident is still classed as the second most serious nuclear accident in history, behind the Chernobyl disaster, and experts estimate that around 18,000 terabecquerels of radioactive caesium-137 were released into the Pacific Ocean, along with varying amounts of strontium, cobalt, iodine and other radionuclides.

Nobuyoshi Ito ignored requests from the authorities to leave his home on the outskirts of the town of Iitate after the disaster a decade ago. He insisted that he was already old, that the radiation would be unlikely to impact his longevity and that he needed to remain to serve as a human test subject.

Now 76, he has spent the last decade monitoring radiation levels in the surrounding hills, as well as in crops that he grows and wild fruit and vegetables.

"Three years ago, they lifted the evacuation order and they have been encouraging people to return ever since," he told DW. "I've been recording the radiation levels since the accident and they have certainly gone down, but the soil here will be contaminated for years to come. People should not be told that it's safe to come back because I do not believe it is."

Complex nuclear decommissioning project

Akira Ono, the head of the Fukushima site and chief decommissioning officer, said in an interview this week that there is no need to revise the target of completing work to render the reactors safe, which has been set at between 2041 and 2051.

"We will stick to the 30-to-40-year finishing target and will compile a timeline and technology and development plans accordingly," he told the Associated Press.

That is despite new revelations that levels of cesium on the primary containment chambers of two of the reactors are far higher than previously believed, which will further complicate the decommissioning work. Also, much remains to be discovered about the melted fuel that fell out of the core to the base of the containment chambers of the three reactors.

And even though no nuclear decommissioning project of the scale of Fukushima has ever been attempted before and, in some areas, the technology has yet to be developed to enable the work to be completed, TEPCO intends to press ahead with its efforts and is due to release an updated roadmap of its efforts before the end of March.

A decade of deception and delusion?

Shaun Burnie, a nuclear specialist for Greenpeace East Asia, insists there is no likelihood of TEPCO's schedule being met and that the authorities are continuing to ignore the risks to people's lives.

"Successive governments during the last 10 years … have attempted to perpetrate a myth about the nuclear disaster," he said in a statement to DW. "They have sought to deceive the Japanese people by misrepresenting the effectiveness of the decontamination program and ignoring radiological risks.

"At the same time, they continue to claim that the Fukushima Daiichi site can be returned to 'greenfield' status by mid-century," he said. "The decade of deception and delusion on the part of the government and TEPCO must end. A new decommissioning plan is inevitable, so why waste more time with the current fantasy?" he asked.

According to research conducted by Greenpeace, just 15% of the 840 square kilometers (324.3 square miles) identified as being most contaminated from the nuclear fallout has been decontaminated, while the towns of Namie and Iitate, which the government announced were safe for evacuees to return to, still have radiation above safe levels.

Burnie said a "fundamental rethink in approach and a new plan" for the decommissioning of the site is required. The least bad choice, Greenpeace believes, is to keep all material that has been contaminated with radiation on site indefinitely, including the nuclear fuel debris, "if it is ever retrieved."

"Fukushima Daiichi is already and should remain a nuclear waste storage site for the long term," he concluded.

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Hơn 6500 người thiệt mạng, chủ hãng cỏ Hòa Lan tẩy chay Qatar.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ucOyk_UOE

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Tân chính phủ cũng lò dò đến sụp bẫy của bé mập.




Kim Jong Un's sister slams the US and South Korea

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of the North Korean dictator, lashed out at Washington as top US diplomatic and military representatives are set to visit Seoul.

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Kim Yo Jong (l) is in charge of handling Pyongyang's ties with Seoul

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister lambasted the United States and South Korea, state media reported on Tuesday, in a broadside aimed at coinciding with the arrival of top US officials in Seoul.

With the US and South Korea starting joint military drills near the North Korean border last week, Kim Yo Jong said she was aiming to "warn the new US administration of trying hard to spread the smell of gunpowder on our land from across the ocean."

"If it wants to sleep in peace for coming four years, it had better refrain from causing a stink at its first step," the KCNYA reported her as saying in a statement.

North Korea questions linger

The statement comes a day before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are due to arrive in Seoul for their first talks with South Korean counterparts. The pair will also visit Tokyo as part of their four-day trip.

The timing of Kim's comments seems designed to ensure that North Korea will be at the top of Blinken and Austin's agenda.

On Monday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the White House had made efforts to communicate with the North Korean government but that the United States' overtures had yet to yield a response.

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Thousands flee into Thailand following Myanmar air strikes

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Karen villagers gather in the forests as they hide from military airstrikes in the Deh Bu Noh area of the Papun district, north Karen state, Myanmar, Sunday, March 28, 2021. - Copyright Free Burma Rangers via AP

Thai authorities along the country's northwestern border braced themselves on Monday for a possible influx of more ethnic Karen villagers fleeing new airstrikes from the Myanmar military.

Myanmar military aircraft carried out three strikes overnight on Sunday into Monday, according to Free Burma Rangers, a humanitarian relief agency that delivers medical and other assistance to villagers. The strikes possibly injured one person but caused no apparent fatalities, a member of the agency said.

Earlier on Sunday, an estimated 3,000 people crossed the river dividing the two countries into Thailand’s Mae Hong Son province following two days of aerial attacks.

Video shot that day shows a group of villagers, including many young children, resting in a forest clearing inside Myanmar, having fled their homes. They carried their possessions in bundles and baskets.

In Sunday’s previous attacks, Myanmar military aircraft dropped bombs on a Karen guerrilla position in an area on the Salween River in Karen state’s Mutraw district, according to workers for two humanitarian relief agencies.

Two guerrillas were killed and many more were wounded in those attacks, said a member of the Free Burma Rangers.

On Saturday night, two Myanmar military planes twice bombed Deh Bu Noh village in Mutraw district, killing at least two villagers.

The attacks may have been retaliation for the Karen National Liberation Army, which is fighting for greater autonomy for the Karen people, attacking and capturing a government military outpost on Saturday morning.

According to Thoolei News, an online site that carries official information from the KNU, eight government soldiers including a second lieutenant were captured in the attack and 10 were killed, including a lieutenant colonel who was a deputy battalion commander. The report said one Karen guerrilla had been killed.

The tension at the frontier comes as the leaders of the resistance to last month’s coup that toppled Myanmar’s elected government are seeking to have the Karen and other ethnic groups band together and join them as allies, which would add an armed element to their struggle.

The airstrikes mark an escalation in the increasingly violent crackdown by the Myanmar government against opponents of the Feb. 1 military takeover.

At least 114 people across the country were killed by security forces on Saturday alone, including several children — a toll that has prompted a U.N. human rights expert to accuse the junta of committing “mass murder” and to criticise the international community for not doing enough to stop it.

The Security Council is likely to hold closed consultations on the escalating situation in Myanmar, U.N. diplomats said Sunday, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of an official announcement. The council has condemned the violence and called for a restoration of democracy, but has not yet considered possible sanctions against the military, which would require support or an abstention by Myanmar’s neighbour and friend China.

The coup, which ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government, reversed years of progress toward democracy after five decades of military rule. It has again made Myanmar the focus of international scrutiny as security forces have repeatedly fired into crowds of protesters.

As of Sunday, at least 459 people have been killed since the takeover, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, which has tallied deaths it was able to verify. The true toll is thought to be higher.

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Ngoại trưởng Mã Lai bợ đ* "đại ca":



Malaysian Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein
said to Chinese counterpart Wang Yi:


You’re my big brother. Wang Yo said, we are brothers. Deal.

(coi nữa) (https://twitter.com/QiZHAI/status/1377825950281310210)

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Taiwan says European countries helping with submarine project


TAIPEI (Reuters) - European countries are providing help for Taiwan’s indigenous submarine project, the island’s defence ministry said, in a rare admission that the sensitive programme is not getting assistance solely from the United States.

Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has worked for years to revamp its submarine force, some of which dates back to World War Two. It is no match for China’s fleet, which includes vessels capable of launching nuclear weapons.

The U.S. government in 2018 gave the green light for U.S. manufacturers to participate in the programme, a move widely seen as helping Taiwan secure major components, though it is unclear which U.S. companies are involved.

In a statement late Friday, Taiwan’s Defence Ministry denied a report in U.S.-based publication The National Interest, which cited Taiwanese news reports from 2019, that North Korea had discussed helping Taiwan with the submarines.

“In the development of our submarines there has never been, there is not now and will never be any contact with North Korea; assistance is all provided by important countries in Europe and the United States,” it said, without giving details.

European countries are generally wary of allowing arms sales to Taiwan due to fear of angering China, though in 2018 Taiwan said it was talking to a company based in the British territory of Gibraltar about the new submarine fleet’s design.

Two of Taiwan’s four active submarines were built in the Netherlands in the 1980s, though the country subsequently refused to sell further ones to the island.

France has also sold Taiwan frigates and fighter jets. Taiwan said last year it was seeking to buy equipment from France to upgrade the ships’ missile interference system.

State-backed CSBC Corporation Taiwan began building the new submarines last year, aiming to deliver the first of the eight planned vessels in 2025.

Taiwan’s defence minister said last month it that the United States had approved the export of sensitive technology to equip the fleet.

Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by William Mallard

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Japan and Germany to hold first '2 plus 2' dialogue talks in April - Yomiuri


TOKYO (Reuters) - The foreign and defence ministers of Japan and Germany are looking to hold a “2 plus 2” dialogue online in mid-April, the daily Yomiuri reported on Monday.

The “2 plus 2” talks will be the first among the two countries, and they are expected to discuss ways to defence and a “free and open Indo-Pacific” in face of an increasingly assertive China, the report said, citing multiple unidentified sources.

Although the exact schedule is not yet confirmed, the two parties are looking to speak on April 16, the Yomiuri also said.

Countries such as the United States and Japan have become increasingly alarmed as China takes an increasingly aggressive foreign policy approach in the Indo-Pacific region.

A German frigate expected to set sail for Asia in August will become the first German warship to cross the South China Sea since 2002 on its return journey.

Reporting by Sakura Murakami; Editing by Kim Coghill

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Tai vách mạch mạng:

China launches hotline to report ‘illegal’ comments about Communist party
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/12/china-launches-hotline-to-report-comments-about-communist-party


China’s cyber regulator has launched a hotline to report online criticism of the ruling Communist party and its history, vowing to crack down on “historical nihilists” ahead of the party’s 100th anniversary in July.

The tip line allows people to report fellow internet users who “distort” the party’s history, attack its leadership and policies, defame national heroes and “deny the excellence of advanced socialist culture” online, said a notice posted by an arm of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) on Friday.

The notice did not specify what punishments would be handed to those who are reported through the hotline, but netizens in China already face jail time and other legal punishments for posting content that is critical of the county’s leadership, policies and history.


Thời của bọn nâng bi.

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Nguyên lý "Sâm-bổ-lượng".



Trung Quốc nghiên cứu kết hợp nhiều vac-xin để nâng cao hiệu quả

https://s.rfi.fr/media/display/476be482-9b85-11eb-b8b4-005056bff430/w:1280/p:16x9/AP21091494230307.webp

Sau khi thừa nhận vac-xin chống Covid-19 của Trung Quốc kém hiệu quả, giám đốc Trung Tâm Kiểm soát dịch bệnh của Trung Quốc, Cao Phúc (Gao Fu) nêu lên khả năng kết hợp nhiều loại thuốc khác nhau « nhằm nâng cao khả năng đề kháng » chống lại virus corona chủng mới.

Hiện tại hai tập đoàn dược phẩm Trung Quốc SinovacBioTech và Sinopharm sản xuất bốn loại vac-xin đang được sử dụng. Thuốc của Trung Quốc đã được dùng để tiêm chủng chống Covid-19 tại 25 quốc gia trên thế giới trên tổng số gần 50 quốc gia đã đặt hàng vac-xin « made in China » theo tổng kết của hãng tin Mỹ AP.

Hãng tin Anh, Reuters trong ngày 12/04/2021 nhắc lại cách nay hai ngày tại Thành Đô nhân một cuộc hội thảo, giám đốc Trung Tâm Kiểm soát dịch bệnh của Trung Quốc nhìn nhận thuốc của Trung Quốc « hiệu quả không cao » như các loại vac-xin thế hệ mới dùng công nghệ ARN. Chuyên gia này cho biết Trung Quốc đang hướng tới khả năng kết hơp nhiều loại vac-xin khác nhau nhằm « điều chỉnh » mức độ hiệu quả đề kháng.

Chỉ vài giờ sau tuyên bố gây chấn động trong giới y khoa Trung Quốc, giám đốc Cao Phúc trả lời Hoàn Cầu Thời Báo trong số ra ngày Chủ Nhật 11/04/2021 tỏ ra mập mờ hơn : kết quả các nghiên cứu trên thế giới về tính hiệu quả của thuốc Trung Quốc « vừa cao vừa thấp » vấn đề đặt ra là « làm thế nào để có được hiệu quả tối ưu ».

Cũng chuyên gia này bác bỏ tin báo chí quốc tế loan tải theo đó ông ghi nhận « hiệu quả thấp » của thuốc Trung Quốc. Ngoài ra cũng trên tờ Hoàn Cầu thời báo, giám đốc Cao Phúc nêu lên khả năng điều chỉnh số liều thuốc tiêm, điểu chỉnh thời hạn tiêm chủng giữa hai đợt chích và thậm chí là « kết hợp các loại vac-xin với các công nghệ khác nhau ». Lãnh đạo Trung Tâm Kiểm Soát Dịch Bệnh Trung Quốc tin rằng đó sẽ là « giải pháp tốt nhất »

Reuters nhắc lại hiện nay thời gian giữa hai mũi tiêm vac-xin của tập đoàn Sinovac BioTech được ấn định là ba tuần. Một nghiên cứu của Brazil cho thấy mức độ hiệu quả đạt chưa đầy 50 % tức là không đáp ứng tiêu chuẩn của Tổ Chức Y Tế Thế Giới.

Giới khoa học không được cung cấp thông tin và dữ liệu về mức độ hiệu quả của vac-xin do tập đoàn Sinopharm sản xuất. Thống kê chính thức của Bắc Kinh cho biết hai loại vac-xin của Sinovac và Sinopharm, theo thứ tự hiệu quả đến 79,4 và 72,5 %.


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"....
Releasing into the ocean is done elsewhere. It's not something new.
There is no scandal here,"
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in 2021. :z66:


Vài năm tới còn ai dám đi Á Châu ăn Sushi và tắm biển nữa?





Fukushima: Japan approves releasing wastewater into ocean

Japan has approved a plan to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

The water will be treated and diluted so radiation levels are below those set for drinking water.

But the local fishing industry has strongly opposed the move, as have China and South Korea.

Tokyo says work to release water used to cool nuclear fuel will begin in about two years.

The final approval comes after years of debate and is expected to take decades to complete.

Reactor buildings at the Fukushima power plant were damaged by hydrogen explosions caused by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The tsunami knocked out cooling systems to the reactors, three of which melted down.

More than a million tonnes of water have been used to cool the melted reactors.

Currently, the radioactive water is treated in a complex filtration process that removes most of the radioactive elements, but some remain, including tritium - deemed harmful to humans only in very large doses.

It is then kept in huge tanks, but the plant's operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TepCo) is running out of space, with these tanks expected to fill up by 2022.

About 1.3 million tonnes of radioactive water - or enough to fill 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools - are currently stored in these tanks, according to a Reuters report.

Is there opposition?

Environmental groups like Greenpeace have long expressed their opposition to releasing the water into the ocean.

The NGO said Japan's plans to release the water showed the government "once again failed the people of Fukushima".

The country's fishing industry has also argued against it, worried that consumers will refuse to buy produce from the region.

The industry was hit extremely hard after the 2011 disaster, with many countries banning the import of sea food caught off Japan's north-eastern coast.

The decision has also prompted criticism from Japan's neighbours. Ahead of the decision, South Korea's foreign minister on Monday expressing "serious regret".

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian also urged Japan to "act in a responsible manner".

"To safeguard international public interests and Chinese people's health and safety, China has expressed grave concern to the Japanese side through the diplomatic channel," Mr Zhao said.

The US appears to support Japan's decision, however, saying it seemed to have "adopted an approach in accordance with globally accepted nuclear safety standards".

How safe is this water?

Japan argues that the release of the waste water is safe as it is processed to remove almost all radioactive elements and will be greatly diluted.

The plan has the backing of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which says the release is similar to the disposal of waste water at other plants around the world.

"Releasing into the ocean is done elsewhere. It's not something new. There is no scandal here," IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in 2021.

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The 2011 tsunami overcame the sea wall and hit the plant


Scientists argue that the elements remaining in the water are only harmful to humans in large doses. With dilution the treated water poses no scientifically detectable risk, they say.

While the tritium is radioactive, it has a half-life of around 12 years, meaning it will disappear from the environment over a period of decades rather than centuries.

Radiation from tritium can be ingested, however, which is why fishing industry groups are concerned about the risk of it getting into the food chain and being consumed through sea food.

The risk of this happening is not zero, but the scientific consensus is that it does not pose a threat to human health :z66:.

Scientists also point out that vastly more radiation has been released into the pacific by nuclear weapons tests carried out by the US, UK and France during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

What happened in Fukushima?

On 11 March 2011, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the north-eastern coast of Japan, triggering a 15-metre tsunami.

While the back-up systems to prevent a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant survived the initial quake, further damage was inflicted by the tsunami.

As the facility's cooling systems failed in the days that followed, tonnes of radioactive material were released. The meltdown was the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.

Around 18,500 people died or disappeared in the quake and tsunami, and more than 160,000 were forced from their homes.

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Trả thù biển cả?

Japan scraps mascot promoting Fukushima wastewater dump
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/15/japan-scraps-mascot-promoting-fukushima-wastewater-dump


The Japanese government has been forced to quickly retire an animated character it had hoped would win support for its decision this week to release more than 1m tonnes of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea.Although the water will be treated before being discharged, it will still contain tritium, a radioactive hydrogen isotope represented on a government website by a cute fish-like creature with rosy cheeks.

The character’s appearance in an online flyer and video on the reconstruction agency’s website angered Fukushima residents.

Local fishing communities say the water’s release will destroy a decade of hard work to rebuild consumer confidence in their seafood.
Work to release the diluted water will begin in about two years, the government has said, and the process is expected to take decades.

“Nuclear power plants are highly specialised and difficult to understand,” an agency official told Kyodo, adding that the tritium mascot would be redesigned to take into account public sentiment.

Japan’s decision to discharge the water also angered neighbouring countries. South Korea said it was considering taking the issue to the international tribunal for the law of the sea, possibly to seek an injunction, according to a spokesperson for the president, Moon Jae-in.

The Chinese foreign ministry said releasing the water would set a bad precedent for the disposal of wastewater. “The ocean is not Japan’s rubbish bin, the Pacific Ocean is not Japan’s sewers,” said Zhao Lijian, a foreign ministry spokesperson.

Zhao invited Japan’s deputy prime minister, Taro Aso, to drink some of the treated water, after Aso said it was harmless enough to consume. “A Japanese official said it is OK if we drink this water, so then please drink it,” Zhao said.

Ừa, đóng vô chai bán chắc cũng có người chịu mua.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sEERZYuTt8

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Hãi hùng




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8lmiWNGbk8

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Hổng sao đâu anh Joe. Chuyện nhỏ mà!

Cà-Ri chịu khó "tranh thủ" "nằm đôi" và "ho đôi" vài hôm, là Thiên Sứ sẽ giải quyết mọi sự đâu vào đó thôi. Tin hông? Hổng tin thì nghe Thiên Sứ phán nè:

__ "America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people." (<= Bớ người ta! Cái mớ văn phạm Tiếng Anh "cao cấp" này là của Thiên Sứ à nha bà con. Ngài phán sao thì tui viết lại y chang vậy, đừng bắt lỗi tui à)




https://youtu.be/ZvpFdurzZGY


Chú thích: Trong mớ chữ của Vượn có vụ "nhảy đôi" (khiêu vũ) và "hát đôi" (song ca) nên khi thấy hai thằng Cà-Ri nằm cùng giường ho sù sụ thì tui phang luôn là "nằm đôi" & "ho đôi" cho nó đúng trường hợp vậy mà. :24:

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Việt Nam gọi là nằm ghép (https://tuoitre.vn/con-benh-nhan-nam-ghep-khong-duoc-danh-qua-nhieu-giuong-cho-dich-vu-theo-yeu-cau-20190812194037613.htm): chỗ này "ghép" 3 luôn.

https://media-cdn.laodong.vn/Storage/NewsPortal/Uploaded/nguyentrungbao/2015_03_05/cover1_opt_UHOK.jpeg

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__ Trời thần ơi! Cái này phải gọi là "hãi hùng đôi" hả anh Joe?


Trả lời câu hỏi của Tuổi Trẻ về tình trạng bệnh nhân phải nằm ghép, nằm cáng, nhưng bệnh viện dành tới 25%, thậm chí 40% số giường kế hoạch cho "dịch vụ y tế theo yêu cầu" có mức giá cao, ông Liên cho hay...
"Các bệnh viện phải rà soát, nếu bệnh nhân còn phải nằm ghép thì không dành quá nhiều giường cho dịch vụ" - ông Liên nói.
Thiệt tình! Bệnh viện mà "rà soát" (rột rột) cứ như là đang dò mìn ngoài mặt trận vậy há. Từ trước đến nay, XXG chưa thấy qua mấy chữ "nằm cáng" "nằm ghép" này bao giờ...

__ Bởi, ta nói "quê hương tui ra ngõ gặp anh hùng 'tiến hoá' đều đều" là vậy nè!

Dạ thưa, "tiến" kiểu này thì tớ xin được làm người "lạc hậu" với mớ chữ của Bố tớ để lại, cho nó chắc ăn nha (ai mà rủ tui đi ăn "khế ngọt tiến hoá," tui bóp cổ kêu ặc ặc ráng chịu à!). :z13: :24:

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__ Trời thần ơi! Cái này phải gọi là "hãi hùng đôi" hả anh Joe?



Diễn tả nỗi sợ trên giường ba người chắc gọi là "Tam kinh" (đến từ tam tự kinh)

(Nhân chi đau tính hoảng loạn)

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Indonesia: Time running out for submarine crew as air supply dwindles

The deadline to locate a missing Indonesian submarine before its oxygen runs out passed early Saturday with no sign of the vessel. Five nations are now participating in a massive search operation in the Bali Sea.

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The frantic search for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew members on board continued on Saturday as hope for a rescue wanes as the vessel's oxygen reserves are estimated to be almost depleted.

Hundreds of military personnel were battling against time to find the German-built KRI Nanggala 402, which disappeared in the Bali Sea on Wednesday as it prepared to conduct a torpedo drill.

Oxygen on the submarine is estimated to last only three days after losing power, a deadline that passed early Saturday.

"We will maximize the effort today, until the time limit tomorrow at 3 am,'' military spokesperson Major General Achmad Riad had told reporters on Friday. A press conference is scheduled for later Saturday.

An oil spill was spotted during an aerial search in the area where the craft is believed to have submerged, indicating a possible fuel leak.

There were also concerns that the vessel could have broken apart as it sunk to depths as low as 700 meters (2,300 feet) — well beyond the depth it is designed to withstand.

The 44-year-old submarine is one of five in the island nation's fleet.The commander of the Indonesian submarine fleet is also on board.

Five countries, including Australia, India, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States have sent specialized ships and aircraft to aid the search.

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Vital medical supplies reach India as COVID deaths near 200,000

Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, and a surge in infections pushed the death toll close to 200,000.

A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in the capital New Delhi, though a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain had no surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses to spare.

France is sending eight large oxygen-generating plants this week while Ireland, Germany and Australia are dispatching oxygen concentrators and ventilators, an Indian foreign ministry official said, underlining the crucial need for oxygen.

U.S. President Joe Biden reaffirmed U.S. commitment to helping India, saying he was expecting to send vaccines there while senior officials from his administration warned that the country was still at the "front end" of the crisis.

India's first "Oxygen Express" train pulled into New Delhi, laden with about 70 tonnes of oxygen from an eastern state, but the crisis has not abated in the city of 20 million people at the epicentre of the world's deadliest wave of infections.

"The current wave is extremely dangerous and contagious and the hospitals are overloaded," said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, adding that a large public area in the capital will be converted into a critical care hospital.

With frustration mounting, relatives of a recently deceased COVID-19 patient assaulted staff with knives at a hospital in the southeast of New Delhi, injuring at least one person, a hospital spokeswoman said.

A video posted on social media showed several people brawling with guards at the same hospital. Delhi High Court has advised local authorities to provide security at hospitals.

The World Health Organization said it was working to deliver 4,000 oxygen concentrators to India, where mass gatherings, more contagious variants of the virus and low vaccination rates have sparked the second major wave of contagion.

With vaccine demand outstripping supply in the country of 1.3 billion people, two U.S. drugmakers have offered support.

Gilead Sciences (GILD.O) said on Monday it would give India at least 450,000 vials of its antiviral drug remdesivir. Merck & Co (MRK.N) said on Tuesday it was partnering with five Indian generic drugmakers to expand production and access to its experimental COVID-19 drug molnupiravir.

India is also negotiating with the United States, which has said it will share 60 million doses of AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine with other countries. A senior official participating in the talks said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been assured of priority for India.

Supply uncertainty could force Maharashtra, India's hardest-hit state, to postpone inoculations for people aged between 18 and 45, a government official said.

Biden said he had spoken on Monday at length with Modi, including about when the United States would be able to ship vaccines to India, the world's second most populous country, and said it was his clear intention to do so.

MOUNTING TOLL

India's 323,144 new cases over the past 24 hours stood below a worldwide peak of 352,991 hit on Monday, and 2,771 new deaths took the toll to 197,894.

But the fewer confirmed infections were largely due to a drop in testing, according to health economist Rijo M John of the Indian Institute of Management in Kerala, a southern state.

"This should not be taken as an indication of falling cases, rather a matter of missing out on too many positive cases," he said on Twitter.

The U.S. State Department's coordinator for global COVID-19 response, Gayle Smith, warned India's challenge will require a sustained effort: "We all need to understand that we are still at the front end of this. This hasn't peaked yet."

Dr K. Preetham, an administrator at the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, said patients there were having to share oxygen cylinders because of the oxygen shortage.

New Delhi is in lockdown, as are the southern state of Karnataka and Maharashtra, where the country’s financial capital Mumbai is situated.

An uneven patchwork of restrictions, complicated by local elections and mass gatherings such as the weeks-long Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival, could trigger COVID-19 breakouts elsewhere.

About 20,000 devout Hindus gathered by the Ganges river in the northern city of Haridwar on the last auspicious day of the festival for a bath they believe will wash away their sins.

"We believe Mother Ganga will protect us," said a woman on the riverbank, where people bathed with few signs of physical distancing measures.

India has turned to its armed forces for help with the pandemic. Even China, which is locked in a military standoff with India along their disputed Himalayan border, said it was trying to get medical supplies to its neighbour.

In some cities, bodies were being cremated in makeshift facilities in parks and parking lots. Television channels showed bodies crammed into an ambulance in the western city of Beed as modes of transport ran short.

SUPPLY UNCERTAINTY

India has converted hotels and railway coaches into critical care facilities to make up for the shortage of beds, but experts say the next crisis will be a lack of healthcare professionals.

Companies ranging from conglomerates such as Tata Group and Reliance Industries Ltd (RELI.NS) to Jindal Steel and Power (JNSP.NS) have stepped forward to help supply medical oxygen.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has said India’s economy, the world’s sixth largest, could falter because of the spike in infections, creating a drag for the global economy.

Australia halted direct passenger flights from India until May 15, joining other nations taking steps to keep out more virulent variants of the virus.

India has an official tally of 17.64 million infections, but experts believe the real number runs much higher.

Companies ranging from conglomerates such as Tata Group and Reliance Industries Ltd (RELI.NS) to Jindal Steel and Power (JNSP.NS) have stepped forward to help supply medical oxygen.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has said India’s economy, the world’s sixth largest, could falter because of the spike in infections, creating a drag for the global economy.

Australia halted direct passenger flights from India until May 15, joining other nations taking steps to keep out more virulent variants of the virus.

India has an official tally of 17.64 million infections, but experts believe the real number runs much higher.

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Video from India shows a body falling out of a battered ambulance as the health system buckles under huge COVID-19 surge


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A video from India shows a COVID-19 patient's body falling out of an ambulance and onto the road on Friday, a particularly stark moment as the country's strained healthcare system struggles in a huge surge of the virus.

Friday's incident has caused consternation both online, where it was shared widely, and from families gathered outside the medical facility in Vidisha, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, according to the newspaper The Indian Express.

In the video, the ambulance can be seen leaving the gates, then swerving a corner. A side panel falls open and a shrouded body falls out onto the road. Family members can then be heard yelling in protest.

A medical official later said the ambulance was old and had been donated by an unspecified nongovernmental organization.

The scene is a snapshot of a healthcare system under immense strain as the number of new coronavirus cases skyrockets.

Day after day last week, the country set global records for the highest number of new cases, a situation worsened by critical shortages both of oxygen and vaccines.

The most recent figures available on Johns Hopkins University's tracker — from Sunday — showed the country's highest-ever number for new daily cases, 353,000.

Outside the Vidisha facility — converted from an unfinished medical college — families were upset because of how little information they were getting, India Today, a news magazine, reported.

Complaining of not being able to visit, and of getting no updates from medics, families were barring staff from leaving until they got more information, according to The Indian Express.

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"My relative has died, but the hospital is not providing any details," one family member, Prakash Lodhi, told India Today.

"We don't even know whether he died this evening or yesterday itself. No one is telling us anything. We have been waiting for four, five hours outside the hospital."

GS Varma, a Vidisha official, told India Today the families' "concerns are genuine."

"But we can't allow everyone to go in," he said. "They are also angry that no one is answering their calls. The doctors aren't able to answer calls because they are treating patients. It isn't possible for them to attend all calls, but we will make arrangements to improve the situation."

The Vidisha Medical College dean Sunil Nandeshwar told The Indian Express that the ambulance was a donation from an NGO and was old. In the video, the vehicle's rear windows appear to be broken.

Families also complained that they could not retrieve bodies themselves, The Indian Express reported. A local official named Pankaj Jain told the paper that bodies instead had to be cremated under COVID-19 protocol.

Though India is the world's largest producer of vaccines, rich countries' rush to acquire a surplus has helped create a major disparity in global distribution.

This week, the US offered further help for the country's vaccine production, while the UK has begun sending ventilators, the BBC reported.

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Thương tâm: Hô hấp thê tạo



Ấn Độ: Vợ tuyệt vọng hô hấp cứu chồng bị COVID-19 trước của bệnh viện

Last updated Apr 27, 2021

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Bà Renu Singhal hồi sức bằng miệng cho chồng bị dương tính với COVID-19. (Hình: India Today)

AGRA, Ấn Độ – Vào ngày 26 Tháng Tư, truyền thông Ấn Độ lan truyền bức hình gây chấn động dư luận: một người vợ đang hô hấp nhân tạo bằng miệng để cố gắng cứu chồng mình bị nhiễm COVID-19.

Bà Renu Singhal, một cư dân của Awas Vikas Sector 7 ở Uttar Pradesh’s Agra, đã đưa chồng là ông Ravi Singhal (47 tuổi) đến Bệnh viện Cao Đẳng Y Tế Sarojini Naidu (SNMC) sau khi ông ta bị khó thở.

Ông Singhal không được vào trong, vì bệnh viện không còn giường, oxy cũng không đủ. Cả hai ngồi chờ trên chiếc xe kéo tự động bên ngoài. Khi tình trạng của ông Singhal trở nên tồi tệ, trong nỗ lực cuối cùng cứu chồng, Renu đã dùng miệng làm hô hấp nhân tạo cho ông trên xe. Bà không nghĩ đến việc sẽ bị lây nhiễm COVID-19 từ chồng, mà chỉ nghĩ làm sao cứu được ông.

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Bà Renu Singhal được dìu ra ngoài sau khi chứng kiến cái chết của chồng ngay trên tay mình. Chồng bà không được bệnh viện tiếp nhận, vì không còn giường và oxy cho bệnh nhân. (Hình: India Today)

Lực bất tòng tâm, dù cố gắng níu kéo, van nài chồng ở lại, ông Singhal vẫn từ từ lịm dần, rồi gục chết trên tay vợ. Đó là những giây phút ám ảnh nhất trong cuộc đời bà Renu.

Bức ảnh bi thảm của vợ chồng bà Renu đã gây chấn động dư luận Ấn Độ, khắc họa thêm mảng tối u ám đang đeo bám người dân nước này vì đại dịch COVID-19.

Số phận của ông Singhal cũng như hàng ngàn số phận tử vong mỗi ngày vì COVID-19 trong tình hình hiện nay ở Ấn Độ, như cô Sunita, 31 tuổi, vừa qua đời trên một con đường ở New Delhi khi bị hàng chục bệnh viện, phòng khám từ chối tiếp nhận vì hết oxy và giường bệnh.

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Heartbreaking pictures show Agra woman resuscitating dying Covid positive husband by breathing into mouth
In a desperate attempt to save her Covid-19 positive husband, a woman in Agra tried to resuscitate him by breathing into his mouth but couldn't save his life.

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Woman performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her Covid-19 positive husband (India Today photo)

Renu Singhal, seeing her Covid-19 positive husband gasping for breath, tried to resuscitate him but couldn't save his life. Even as she performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her husband, Ravi Singhal died on her lap inside an auto outside a hospital in Agra.

Renu Singhal, a resident of Awas Vikas Sector 7 in Uttar Pradesh's Agra, had brought Ravi Singhal (47) to the Sarojini Naidu Medical College (SNMC) and Hospital after he experienced breathlessness.

Renu Singhal took an auto from her residence in Sector 7 and reached the government facility.

As his condition deteriorated, in desperate attempts to save him, Renu even tried to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to him. But, Ravi died gasping for breath. Photos of a visibly distraught Renu went viral on social media.

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Reports of Covid-19 patients dying due to the shortage of oxygen and beds in the hospitals have become common in the city. Overwhelmed due to an unprecedented rise in the number of virus-infected patients, hospitals, running out of medical oxygen and beds, are now turning people away.

The hospitals' refusal to admit patients due to the unavailability of beds has left people running from pillar to post either to get their ailing family members admitted to hospitals or to procure medical oxygen and medicines. Or it is a combination of the two factors in some cases.

India on Monday saw a deluge of over 3.52 lakh Covid-19 cases and 2,812 deaths in a single day. A total of 2,812 Covid-19 patients died due to the infection, according to health ministry data, taking total coronavirus fatalities to 1,95,123.

Maximum casualties were reported in Maharashtra (832), followed by Delhi with 350 daily deaths. 53.18 per cent of the new cases are reported from these five states, with Maharashtra (66,191 cases) alone responsible for 18.75 per cent of the new cases.

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EU-China investment deal put on ice over sanctions

The EU's long-time-coming investment deal with China is facing major hurdles. The EU's economy commissioner says diplomatic tensions have made conditions for the deal "unfavorable."

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The two sides signed the deal in 2020, but recent sanctions have jeopardized the deal

A diplomatic spat between the European Union and China has jeopardized a major investment agreement, officials said on Tuesday.

EU Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis told AFP news agency that efforts to win approval for the deal were effectively on ice.

"We now in a sense have suspended ... political outreach activities from the European Commission side," Dombrovskis said in an interview.

"It's clear in the current situation with the EU sanctions in place against China and Chinese counter sanctions in place, including against members of European Parliament (that) the environment is not conducive for ratification of the agreement," Dombrovskis said.

A spokesperson for the European Commission told DW that the ratification process had not begun, and was subject to a legal review.

The spokesperson said the ratification process was now effectively paused as it "cannot be separated from the evolving dynamics of the wider EU-China relationship."

Chinese sanctions were "unacceptable and regrettable," the spokesperson added.

What is the EU-China agreement?

Brussels and Beijing signed a new investment agreement in 2020 intended to guarantee a stable framework of conditions for trade and investment in each other's markets.

The EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) was signed in December after seven years of negotiation.

To enter into force, it must still be ratified by EU member states and the European Parliament, where it faces massive opposition.

The pact would offer European companies access to Chinese markets and facilitate Chinese investment in Europe. It also sets level playing field rules that prevent state assistance from undercutting competition, and sustainable development provisions.

Why have relations deteriorated?

In March, the EU imposed sanctions against China for its treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region. These were the first human rights sanctions against China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

In response, Beijing immediately announced counter-sanctions against members of the European Parliament, and others.

Doubts have been raised about the deal in recent months, with experts and human rights advocates calling on the EU to ditch the deal.

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Cứu vật vật trả thân,
cứu người người trả ... tượng.

Noto một làng chài nhỏ trên bán đảo Ishikawa có gần 20 ngàn dân, trích 30 triệu Yên, tương đương 270 ngàn USD, từ tiền viện trợ dịch covid của chánh phủ Nhựt để tạc tượng con mực khổng lồ. Mạng xã hội Nhựt người thích chí kẻ dè bỉu cho là hoang phí. Một phát ngôn viên của làng nói với tờ Fuji News Network rằng con mực sẽ trở thành điểm hấp dẫn du khách dndu ngoạn coi "mực bay". Nghe Wiki đồn rằng Nhựt có loài mực bay, đặc biệt vùng biển nơi này có mực bay để coi và lên dĩa ăn luôn. Con mực này có thể bay xa tới 30 thước (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_flying_squid).



Covid: Japan town builds giant squid statue with relief money

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THE TONARINOPOTI YOUTUBE CHANNEL - Flying squid are a delicacy in the fishing town of Noto, however tourism has dropped considerably due to the pandemic

A seaside town in Japan has raised eyebrows after it used funding from an emergency Covid-19 relief grant to build a giant statue of a squid.

The 13m-long (43ft) sea creature lies in the port of Noto, where flying squid is the town's delicacy.

It reportedly used 25m yen ($228,500; £164,700) of the emergency funding to build the statue.

Noto officials have told local media it is part of a long term plan to lure tourists back after the pandemic.

Japan is battling another surge in coronavirus cases, and Tokyo is currently under a state of emergency - the third for the country since the pandemic began.

The fishing town of Noto - which is located in Ishikawa prefecture on Japan's central-west coast - has had a very low number of cases, but it has been impacted by the significant drop in tourists.

Noto received 800m yen ($7.3m; £5.3m) through the national grants, which were intended as an emergency economic boost to help regional areas affected by the pandemic, reports Yahoo Japan.

The funds did not have to be spent directly on Covid relief. Some however have criticised the town's administration for spending so much money on the giant cephalopod, especially as the pandemic is not yet over.

One local told the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper that while the statue may be effective in the long run, the money could have been used for "urgent support", such as for medical staff and long-term care facilities.

But a spokesperson for the town told Fuji News Network that the statue would be a tourist attraction and part of a long term strategy to help promote Noto's famous flying squid.

Like in many other countries, the coronavirus pandemic has badly hit Japan's tourism industry. The country is hosting the Olympics this year but no international fans will be allowed at the event, which could amount to losses of 200bn yen ($1.8bn; £1.3bn), according to Takahide Kiuchi, an executive economist at Nomura Research Institute.

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Cứu vật vật trả thân,
cứu người người trả ... tượng.

Noto một làng chài nhỏ trên bán đảo Ishikawa có gần 20 ngàn dân, trích 30 triệu Yên, tương đương 270 ngàn USD, từ tiền viện trợ dịch covid của chánh phủ Nhựt để tạc tượng con mực khổng lồ. Mạng xã hội Nhựt người thích chí kẻ dè bỉu cho là hoang phí. Một phát ngôn viên của làng nói với tờ Fuji News Network rằng con mực sẽ trở thành điểm hấp dẫn du khách dndu ngoạn coi "mực bay". Nghe Wiki đồn rằng Nhựt có loài mực bay, đặc biệt vùng biển nơi này có mực bay để coi và lên dĩa ăn luôn. Con mực này có thể bay xa tới 30 thước (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_flying_squid).



Covid: Japan town builds giant squid statue with relief money

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/BAE1/production/_118314874_squid1.jpg
THE TONARINOPOTI YOUTUBE CHANNEL - Flying squid are a delicacy in the fishing town of Noto, however tourism has dropped considerably due to the pandemic

A seaside town in Japan has raised eyebrows after it used funding from an emergency Covid-19 relief grant to build a giant statue of a squid.

The 13m-long (43ft) sea creature lies in the port of Noto, where flying squid is the town's delicacy.

It reportedly used 25m yen ($228,500; £164,700) of the emergency funding to build the statue.

Noto officials have told local media it is part of a long term plan to lure tourists back after the pandemic.

Japan is battling another surge in coronavirus cases, and Tokyo is currently under a state of emergency - the third for the country since the pandemic began.

The fishing town of Noto - which is located in Ishikawa prefecture on Japan's central-west coast - has had a very low number of cases, but it has been impacted by the significant drop in tourists.

Noto received 800m yen ($7.3m; £5.3m) through the national grants, which were intended as an emergency economic boost to help regional areas affected by the pandemic, reports Yahoo Japan.

The funds did not have to be spent directly on Covid relief. Some however have criticised the town's administration for spending so much money on the giant cephalopod, especially as the pandemic is not yet over.

One local told the Chunichi Shimbun newspaper that while the statue may be effective in the long run, the money could have been used for "urgent support", such as for medical staff and long-term care facilities.

But a spokesperson for the town told Fuji News Network that the statue would be a tourist attraction and part of a long term strategy to help promote Noto's famous flying squid.

Like in many other countries, the coronavirus pandemic has badly hit Japan's tourism industry. The country is hosting the Olympics this year but no international fans will be allowed at the event, which could amount to losses of 200bn yen ($1.8bn; £1.3bn), according to Takahide Kiuchi, an executive economist at Nomura Research Institute.

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Trong oanh tạc nét chỉ có cái phinh 1 phút chiếu cảnh con "mực bay" này đang ... bơi, chớ hổng phải đang bay. Ngoài cái phinh này ra có mấy cái hình chụp cả đàn mực đang bay lên khỏi mặt biển của một ông nhiếp ảnh nào đó chụp năm 2013. Nếu muốn coi mực bay phải đến Nhựt. Chỉ "du lịch internet" là không đủ đô :z13: (Nhớ chích ngừa trước khi đi Nhựt :)):



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Belgium ambassador’s wife invokes immunity over Seoul assault claims
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/17/belgium-ambassadors-wife-invokes-immunity-over-seoul-assault-claims


The ambassador, Peter Lescouhier, previously said that he “sincerely regrets the incident involving his wife”, adding that he “wants to apologise on her behalf”.

The woman, named in media reports as Xiang Xueqiu, was questioned on Thursday, said a detective at Yongsan police station in central Seoul, without providing further details.

The Belgium embassy “has expressed it would maintain the right of immunity for the ambassador’s wife”, said a detective at Yongsan police station in central Seoul, adding the police would not pursue the case.

Reports say the envoy’s wife tried on clothes in a Seoul store before walking out, prompting an assistant to run after her to ask about an item she was wearing and triggering the confrontation.

CCTV camera footage showed her pulling at one employee’s arm and hitting her in the head, before slapping another worker across the face who tried to intervene.

The footage – provided by the family of an alleged victim – was widely reported by local media and circulated online and turned public opinion sharply against the ambassador’s family.

Bà vợ ông đại sứ thật ra gốc Tàu, sư tử Á đông.

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Nghe đồn nhiều cửa tiệm ở Đại Hàn
còn để bản cấm luôn người Việt Nam vô tiệm
của họ hoặc cảnh cáo người Việt có camera
quay phim vì bị trộm cắp quá nhiều.

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Timor-Leste begins to reckon with alleged Catholic church sex abuse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/a-ticking-time-bomb-timor-leste-begins-to-reckon-with-alleged-catholic-church-sex-abuse


Daschbach, born in Pittsburgh and a former member of the Society of the Divine Word, was a powerful man. He was regarded as an expert in local language and many residents were convinced he had magical powers. Over the years the shelter, which had the support of international donors, took care of more than 600 orphans, poor children, vulnerable adults and abused women.

Lita says that in the evenings, as they gathered for prayers, Daschbach would take a girl on his lap.

“She was the one who would go to spend the night with him in his room and on his bed,” Lita says in an interview with Neon Metin (https://neonmetin.info/buletin/2021/02/21/testimony-from-topu-honis-victim/). “In the following night, there would be another girl. The priest himself would say, ‘Tonight, you sleep with me.’”

Lita says he also used a list of the names of the children, taped to the door of his room, to indicate which girl should spend the night with him.

When Daschbach took her into his room, she says, he would lock the door, close the windows, then rape her.

Nhập Gia tô tuỳ tục.

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Chung quy chỉ vì mê tín đồ.


Chẳng tham ruộng cả ao liền,
Tham về cái bút cái nghiên cho đồ.

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Chẳng tham ruộng cả ao liền
Tham vì giấy phép chiếu phin bên Tàu
(Cena dao)

John Cena ‘very sorry’ for saying Taiwan is a country
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/26/john-cena-very-sorry-for-saying-taiwan-is-a-country


On Tuesday, Cena apologised for calling Taiwan “a country” in an interview he gave to a Taiwanese broadcaster early this month, saying that it was not appropriate.

“I made a mistake, I must say right now. It’s so so so so so so important, I love and respect Chinese people,” Cena said to his 600,000 fans on his Chinese Weibo account. “I’m very sorry for my mistakes. Sorry. Sorry. I’m really sorry. You have to understand that I love and respect China and Chinese people.”

The controversy began when Cena, early this month, told Taiwanese broadcaster TVBS in Mandarin that: “Taiwan is the first country that can watch F9,” referring to his latest film, Fast & Furious 9.

China is the world’s biggest movie market. Over the weekend, the film – which has yet to be shown in the US – took in at least $135.6m (£96m) in China alone, making it one of the biggest openings for a Hollywood film since the coronavirus pandemic.

In showing the significance of the Chinese market to the film’s producers as well as investors, the lead actor, Vin Diesel, told the state-owned Xinhua news agency that the reason why the film premiered in China a month before North America is because those behind the work see China as their family. “It is a kind of show of gratitude to the family,” he said.

#Kiss Ass and Odious.

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Lớn đi học mai kia làm nông phu ... nhân.



Local government under criticism for running international marriage campaign

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By Jun Ji-hye

The government of Mungyeong City in North Gyeongsang Province is facing criticism from women's and immigrants' rights groups for its campaign aimed at encouraging farmers of Korean nationality in the city to get married to Vietnamese students studying in Korea.

The groups said that such a campaign is clearly racist and discriminatory, not only against a particular country, but also against all immigrant women and international students living in Korea.

The Women Migrant Human Rights Center of Korea said Friday that it had found Mungyeong City's promotional material for the campaign online in mid-April, in which the city government aimed to help male farmers who are older than the usual "marriageable age" get married to Vietnamese students. The city government said that the campaign was designed to help reverse Korea's population decline and the aging of Korean society.

In the material, the city government also asked international marriage brokers to cooperate.

The center claimed that the city government, which is supposed to be tasked with preventing commercial international marriages, has actually encouraged such marriages instead.

It filed a petition with the National Human Rights Commission of Korea against the city government later that day.

"Sixty-three other civic groups, including the Korea Women's Hotline, along with 144 individuals, participated in the submission of the petition," a center official said. "We believe that the Mungyeong city government's campaign violated immigrant women's rights to equality as well as their rights to pursue happiness in Korea."

A Vietnamese student, who participated in a joint press conference held in front of the commission, said that targeting Vietnamese students for marriage was a result of negative stereotypes and prejudices that suggest Vietnamese women come to Korea only to try to get married with Koreans.

"We, the students, holding student visas, are in Korea to receive a high-quality education and pursue our dreams," the student said.

"I sincerely urge the authorities of Mungyeong to withdraw the campaign. Marriage should be the choice of a couple themselves and thus, local governments should not treat a specified group simply as a means to increase the population."

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The government of Mungyeong City in North Gyeongsang Province is facing criticism from women's and immigrants' rights groups for its campaign aimed at encouraging farmers of Korean nationality in the city to get married to Vietnamese students studying in Korea.

Gọi là chính sách “Người cày có vợ.”


"We, the students, holding student visas, are in Korea to receive a high-quality education and pursue our dreams," the student said.

Nói dậy là có ý kỳ thị mấy anh Hàn cuốc à nha.

Chẳng ham ruộng cả ao liền
Ham vì cái bút cái nghiên anh Hàn.
(Cao ly dao)

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Gọi là chính sách “Người cày có vợ.”

Chánh sách "người già có tụ"



Nói dậy là có ý kỳ thị mấy anh Hàn cuốc à nha.

Chẳng ham ruộng cả ao liền
Ham vì cái bút cái nghiên anh Hàn.
(Cao ly dao)


Bút còn có mực phổng phao
Bút mà hết mực shutdown trăm chiều.

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Chính sách "người già có thừa tự":

China announces three-child limit in major policy shift
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/china-announces-three-child-limit-in-major-policy-shift
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/31/china-announces-three-child-limit-in-major-policy-shift)

China has announced that couples will be permitted to have up to three children in a major policy shift from the existing two-child limit, after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country.

“To actively respond to the ageing of the population … a couple can have three children,” state media Xinhua reported on Monday, citing a meeting of China’s elite politburo leadership committee hosted by President Xi Jinping.

China’s fertility rate stands at 1.3 – below the level needed to maintain a stable population. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, there were officially 12 million babies born in 2020, 2.65 million fewer than were born in 2019, an 18% fall. Preliminary data released earlier this year, based on registered births, had indicated a year-on-year drop of 15%.

Đẻ vì nước kiến thiết quốc gia...

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Đẻ vì nước kiến thiết quốc gia...


Tình trạng 1 con ở tàu ngược với gà.
Gà trống nở ra bị đem giết hết. Tàu cái chưa
sinh đã bị phá.

(Bây giờ dương thịnh âm suy)

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Tiêm xuống đất cho xong.



Tiêm chủng COVID tại Việt Nam: Dân lo ngại vaccine Trung Quốc

Đầu tháng này, Bộ Y tế Việt Nam loan báo đang xem xét hồ sơ vaccine Covid do hãng dược Sinopharm của Trung Quốc sản xuất để cấp phép sử dụng khẩn cấp có điều kiện. Thứ trưởng Y tế Trương Quốc Cường chiều 3/6 cho biết tổng số vaccine Việt Nam đặt hàng là khoảng 170 triệu liều và hy vọng từ tháng 8 số lượng vaccine nhập về sẽ nhiều.

Mặc dù ông Cường không đề cập tới vaccine của Trung Quốc, nhưng rất nhiều người dân đã bắt đầu lo lắng về khả năng vaccine Trung Quốc sẽ được đưa vào Việt Nam tiêm chủng rộng rãi trước tình trạng khan hiếm vaccine từ các nước phương Tây do giá thành cao và quá trình đàm phán chậm chạp.

Bà Nguyễn Thanh Hạnh, một cư dân sống tại quận Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội, nói với VOA bà ‘rùng mình’ khi nghe tin vaccine Trung Quốc đang được xem xét cấp phép tại Việt Nam bởi xưa nay chưa bao giờ bà tin vào các sản phẩm ‘Made in China’.

“Đồ ăn thức uống vào người thì sau 4 tiếng có thể thải ra hết, chứ đằng này vaccine tiêm vào người thì tôi sợ quá. Tôi đã chuẩn bị sẵn rồi, nếu người ta kêu ra phường tiêm vaccine Trung Quốc thì tôi cho người tiêm ít tiền để họ tiêm xuống đất cho xong, chứ tôi không tiêm,” bà Hạnh thẳng thắn chia sẻ.

Cùng chung suy nghĩ như bà Hạnh, vợ chồng anh Nguyễn Anh Tuấn ở quận Thanh Xuân, Hà Nội, cho biết họ hy vọng Việt Nam sẽ không nhập vaccine từ Trung Quốc, mà ít ra cũng phải là vaccine Sputnik V từ Nga.

“Lúc đó vợ chồng em sẽ để mọi người tiêm trước, mình thì tìm cách chưa tiêm vội. Cứ từ từ xem hiệu quả và liệu có nguy hiểm gì không đã,’ chị Nguyễn Thu Huyền, vợ anh Tuấn, nói về cách đối phó riêng nếu vaccine Trung Quốc được nhập về sử dụng đại trà.

Tâm lý lo lắng này, theo tìm hiểu của VOA, xuất phát từ thực tế rằng bao lâu nay, Việt Nam đã phải ‘trả giá đắt’ vì các sản phẩm chất lượng kém ‘Made in China’, từ hàng tiêu dùng, thực phẩm hoa quả, cho tới các công trình xây dựng được thực hiện bởi các nhà thầu Trung Quốc.

Trong khi đó, cũng có một số người khác cho rằng giải pháp sử dụng vaccine Trung Quốc để dập dịch cũng có thể hợp lý vào thời điểm này, với tâm thế ‘có còn hơn không’ trong khi khó tiếp cận với vaccine chất lượng cao từ Mỹ và Tây phương.

Anh Nguyễn Hoàng Liêm, một kỹ thuật viên lâu năm trong lĩnh vực nhập khẩu thiết bị y tế và dược phẩm tại Hà Nội, cho VOA biết anh sẽ ‘xung phong’ tiêm lô vaccine đầu tiên nhập khẩu từ Trung Quốc, nếu có, trong thời gian tới.

“Thực tế vaccine Tàu cũng được, quan trọng là nó bán cho mình hàng chuẩn. Chỉ sợ là chỉ được lô đầu tiên thôi. Việt Nam hay thích hàng rẻ, mà rẻ thì Tàu nó kiểu gì nó cũng cung cấp cho, nhưng chất lượng không đảm bảo. Từ xưa đến nay vẫn thế mà. Lô đầu tiên thì chắc là chất lượng sẽ ổn và tiêm thì cũng không sao đâu,” anh Liêm bày tỏ.

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4 tháng Sáu, tưởng niệm thảm sát Thiên An Môn.

Tất cả những đứa trẻ này đều không có
mặt ở Bắc Kinh hoặc chưa sinh ra vào
thời điểm có cuộc thảm sát, nhưng có một
nền tảng ý thức hệ rõ ràng.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi82KyJktLo

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VắcXiêm:

Thailand starts Covid vaccine drive using jabs made by king’s firm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/07/thailand-starts-covid-vaccine-drive-using-jabs-made-by-kings-firm


Thailand aims to vaccinate 70% of the population before the end of the year, and is relying primarily on AstraZeneca doses produced by Siam Bioscience, a company owned by King Maha Vajiralongkorn. The company is also due to supply vaccines to eight other countries (https://www.astrazeneca.com/country-sites/thailand/press-relaese/thai20210428.html) in the region.

Con vua thì lại làm ăn
Con sãi ở chùa lại chích vắc xiêm...

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VắcXiêm:

Thailand starts Covid vaccine drive using jabs made by king’s firm
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/07/thailand-starts-covid-vaccine-drive-using-jabs-made-by-kings-firm



chích vắc xiêm...


Tiêm la. (chắc chích thuốc Thái đau lắm)




The Vietnamese reading of [G4479][G7291] (see Gouien, Eugène, 1957, Dictionaire vietnamien - chinois - français, Saigon) is:

tiêm la (p.1242) = tiem la: ("orthodoxal" reading)
xiêm la (p.1581) = siem la: (non-"orthodoxal" reading)


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Trong đầm gì ngộ bằng sen,
viền đen lá trắng lại chen ông già



Modi announces federal takeover of India's vaccination program

Facing growing criticism over India's botched COVID-19 response, the PM has said all adults will be offered free jabs in a major policy reversal. The announcement comes as India cautiously lifts restrictions.

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India's infection numbers have been driven by massive 'super-spreader' events including political rallies staged by Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking in a televised national address on Monday, declared that the federal government would once again be taking control of the country's coronavirus vaccination program and offering free vaccinations to all adults in the country.

"All those above 18 will get free vaccinations," Modi said, announcing that the program will start on June 21, "Whether it is the poor, the lower-middle class, the middle class, or the upper-middle class — under the federal government program, everyone will get free vaccines."

"We will increase the speed of procuring vaccines and also increase the pace of the vaccination program," the prime minister said. Under the new policy, 75% of all vaccines made in India are to be purchased by the national government with private hospitals able to purchase the remaining 25%.
New policy could keep Indian hospitals from marking up vaccine prices

The changes reverse a previous policy, launched in April, that tasked states and the private sector with vaccinating those between the ages of 18 and 44. Under that prior policy, the central government gave free shots to front-line workers and people over 45 — with states and private hospitals left to give jabs to those between 18 and 44.

In his remarks, Modi said private hospitals would not be allowed to charge patients more than 150 rupees ($2.06 / €1.70) over the cost of each dose. Under the previous policy, states competed against one another as well as private institutions to acquire doses, making them both scarce and expensive — as well as leading to accusations that companies and hospitals were profiting off the situation.

"The center would have a lot more clout in dealing with the multinationals ... rather than individual states or smaller players directly negotiating with these companies," as Sudarshan Ballal, chairman at Manipal Hospitals, told Reuters news agency.

India's vaccine program 'arbitrary and irrational' says Supreme Court

Pressure has been mounting on Modi and his government over its disastrous handling of the pandemic, especially after a new variant began driving infection rates ever higher, pushing official new infections to a peak of more than 400,000 a day in May. Last week, the Supreme Court of India called the country's vaccination program "arbitrary and irrational," bemoaning its inefficiency and inequity.

To date, India has administered just over 222 million vaccinations — less than 5% of the country's estimated adult population of 950 million has been fully inoculated. Some hospitals say a uniform vaccine distribution policy could ease the burden of procurement and prices.

Observers say the new policy will help get the situation under control, "This [centralized inoculation policy] eliminates states having to compete with one another for vaccine supplies, leaving them to concentrate on distributing them rapidly to their populations," as Gautam Menon, professor of physics and biology at Ashoka University in Delhi, said.

India has been administering the AstraZeneca vaccine, produced locally by the Serum Institute; Covaxin, made by local firm Bharat Biotech; and will launch Russia's Sputnik V this month.

India eases lockdown measures as infections drop

This week, India's capital, New Delhi, and its financial hub, Mumbai, also began easing lockdowns that have been in place since April as infection levels have begun to fall.

In New Delhi, businesses and shops will be allowed to reopen, albeit with limited hours, and its subway will resume operations at 50% capacity. In Mumbai and across the coastal state of Maharashtra — which was one of the worst-hit in April and May — malls, movie theaters, restaurants and offices reopened in districts where test positivity rates have fallen below 5%. Maharashtra's huge rail network, however, will remain closed.

Some health experts fear restrictions are being eased too soon and there are concerns the virus is still spreading unchecked through India's rural villages, where testing and medical care are extremely limited.

With new infections and deaths declining, the government hopes that reopening the country could resuscitate its economy — which grew at only a 1.6% annual rate in the January-March quarter.

India documented 100,636 new official coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, bringing its total number of infections close to 29 million, second only to the United States. On Monday, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced that 2,427 people had died from COVID-19 over the previous 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll to 349,186.

Both figures are widely believed to be massive undercounts.

js/aw (AFP, AP, Reuters)

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tiêm la (p.1242) = tiem la: ("orthodoxal" reading)
xiêm la (p.1581) = siem la: (non-"orthodoxal" reading)




Xiêm với Tiêm là những cách đọc chữ Chiêm. Xiêm la, Tiêm la nghe giống Chen la (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenla) (Chân lạp, Chiêm thành).

Tìm Xiêm như thể tìm Chiêm
Xiêm la bể Thái, Tiêm thành bể Nam

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Bảo kê




Nhật Bản sẽ bảo vệ tàu chiến Úc theo luật an ninh mới

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Các tàu Hải quân Úc sẽ được Lực lượng Phòng vệ Nhật Bản bảo đảm an ninh nếu yêu cầu, theo một thỏa thuận ngày 09/06/2021 liên quan đến luật an ninh quốc gia mới do chính quyền tiền nhiệm thông qua. Như vậy Úc là quốc gia thứ hai sau Hoa Kỳ được hưởng quyền này.

Theo báo Nhật Asahi, thỏa thuận đã đạt được sau cuộc họp qua video giữa lãnh đạo quốc phòng và ngoại giao hai nước. Phía Nhật Bản là ngoại trưởng Toshimitsu Motegi và bộ trưởng Quốc Phòng Nobuo Kishi, và đồng nhiệm phía Úc là Marise Payne và Peter Dutton.

Đạo luật an ninh quốc gia, vốn gây tranh cãi, có hiệu lực từ năm 2016 cho phép Lực lượng Phòng vệ Nhật Bản bảo vệ các tàu Hải quân Mỹ. Từ khi bắt đầu được đưa ra Quốc Hội thảo luận, Úc đã được coi là ứng viên tương lai được bảo vệ, nếu có nhu cầu.

Nhật Bản và Úc đã siết chặt hợp tác trong những năm gần đây, một phần nhằm đối phó với sự bành trướng của Trung Quốc trên biển Hoa Đông và Biển Đông. Quyết định mới đây cho thấy hai nước đã gần như là đồng minh. Một khi nhận được yêu cầu bảo vệ từ Úc, Hội đồng An ninh Quốc gia sẽ quyết định mà không nhất thiết phải báo cáo chi tiết với Quốc Hội Nhật Bản. Trong cuộc họp hôm qua, đôi bên cũng đồng ý gia tăng các cuộc thảo luận nhằm tạo điều kiện viếng thăm lẫn nhau trong các cuộc tập trận chung.

Thông cáo chung Nhật-Úc lần đầu tiên nêu ra Trung Quốc là quốc gia đáng quan ngại do các hành động trên Biển Đông. Thông cáo nói rằng Nhật Bản và Úc « phản đối các yêu sách và hoạt động trên biển của Trung Quốc không phù hợp với Công ước Liên Hiệp Quốc về Luật Biển (UNCLOS) », đồng thời nhấn mạnh « tầm quan trọng của hòa bình và ổn định tại eo biển Đài Loan ».

Theo luật an ninh sửa đổi, việc bảo vệ các chiến hạm và phi cơ Mỹ chủ yếu được tiến hành trong các cuộc tập trận chung, và trong năm 2020 đã có đến 25 cuộc – con số cao nhất từ trước đến nay.

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Dụ kê: Nam Dương hối lộ - Chích một mũi thuốc được tặng con gà



Indonesian officials give away live chickens to residents willing to get vaccinated

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Residents aged over 45 in Cianjur regency, West Java are gifted live chickens if they get vaccinated.

(CNN)Live chickens are being given away by local authorities in rural Indonesia as an incentive for older residents to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
The program, in Cianjur regency, West Java, is part of the district's effort to increase the number of vaccines administered to citizens age 45 and over.
Galih Apria, assistant police commissioner in the sub-district of Pecat, said older residents had been very hesitant about getting the shots during the early rollout of the government's vaccination program.

"Early on, there was a lot of misinformation and hoaxes about the vaccine circulating online, especially on social media," Galih said. "Lots of elderly people thought that it does not prevent Covid-19 but would cause serious diseases and even death."

Police launched the free chicken program last month in collaboration with the sub-district government and local health centers.
Before the program was initiated, only 25 in 200 residents were willing to get the vaccine, Galih said -- but "now, we have 250 people per day who are willing to get vaccinated."

He added that giving out chickens was a sign of affection and respect toward the elderly, and it made older people more at ease with police officers, health officials, and with the vaccine itself.
Hundreds of villagers from three villages in Pecat have gone to get the vaccine, according to CNN affiliate CNN Indonesia.
Galih said authorities have given away 500 free chickens as a result of the program -- but they have also taken other steps to push for broader vaccination.
"We had to explain and educate people on the safety and benefits of the vaccine so that they would stop being so scared," he said. "We go door-to-door and encourage people to get vaccinated."
Medical staff and army personnel are helping police distribute the vaccine, and "do medical checkups so that people can get the vaccine on the spot," said Galih.
Elis Sumiati, an elderly woman who received the vaccine through the program, told CNN Indonesia: "I didn't know if I even needed the vaccine, but now after they brought the chicken and said I can get the vaccine -- yes thank you, I'm happy."

Indonesia has reported one of the largest coronavirus outbreaks in Asia, with nearly 2 million total cases and more than 53,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The archipelago has recently seen an uptick in infections, with its two most populous islands, Java and Sumatra, reporting a sharp rise in the weeks following the Ramadan holidays, according to Reuters.
The immunization drive in Indonesia has also progressed slowly, with fewer than 20% of people over 50 targeted for inoculations having taken the first dose, according to data from the Health Ministry.

However, Galih believes localized efforts in villages and towns can go a long way in helping the elderly get vaccinated.
"The response to this program has been amazing," he said. "It is great to see our elders becoming happy after seeing the chickens and we are also able to protect them with the vaccine at the same time."

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He added that giving out chickens was a sign of affection and respect toward the elderly, and it made older people more at ease with police officers, health officials, and with the vaccine itself.

Muốn dân nhậu đi chích thì chắc chính phủ phải dụ bằng con cầy.

Con gà cục tác vác xin
Con lợn ủn ỉn chủng ngừa đi thôi
Con chó khóc đứng khóc ngồi
Bạn ơi đi chích đem tôi về nhậu…
(Cầy dao)

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Muốn dân nhậu đi chích thì chắc chính phủ phải dụ bằng con cầy.


Dân nhậu này là dân nhậu Bắc kỳ mới khoái ăn thịt chó thôi.

Dân nhậu Nam kỳ mà muốn dụ đi chích thì chánh phủ phải khiêng nguyên hàng thịt, tôm, cá, rau rợ lại nào gỏi, nào lẩu, nào cá đút lò, nào bò lúc lắc ... "đứng bét bảng" là chuột đồng rô-ti.

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Dân nhậu Hà lan thì dụ bằng cá:

Netherlands offers free herring as Covid jab incentive
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/17/netherlands-offers-free-pickled-herring-as-covid-jab-incentive
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/17/netherlands-offers-free-pickled-herring-as-covid-jab-incentive)

Early batches of Hollandse nieuwe, or new-season Dutch herring, a traditional delicacy consumed to the tune of 75m a year, are being distributed to vaccination centres (https://m.haarlemsdagblad.nl/cnt/DMF20210616_99365160?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic) around the country as an encouragement for people to get their jabs.

The first barrel of Hollandse nieuwe – young herring caught from mid-May when their fat content is considered just right, then gutted, soused and consumed raw either whole or on bread with chopped onion – is usually auctioned off for a good cause.

This year, with an auction impossible, due to Covid restrictions, it was presented “on behalf of the Dutch people” to the head of the municipal health services organising the country’s vaccination campaign.

More barrels have been sent to vaccination centres nationwide, where the fish – whose annual arrival on 15 June is celebrated with ceremonies and flag-waving – is being offered to staff and to everyone who shows up for their shot.

As for recipients, she said: “A herring for a jab. Who could possibly resist?”



Cá không ăn hết cá ươn
Dân không đi chích trăm đường dân hư
(Cá dao)

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Hong Kong: Toà báo bị trấn áp, dân đổ xô mua báo để ủng hộ dân chủ | VOA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3yGMxs0J7Y

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Coi bộ thuốc không "ép phê".

China administers 1 billion vaccine doses

Beijing aims to fully inoculate 40% of its 1.4 billion people by the end of June. Meanwhile, Indians are enjoying newfound freedoms as COVID curbs are eased, but experts are still worried. Follow DW for the latest.

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Medical workers hold a mass vaccination drive in China's Qingdao

China has administered more than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines, the country’s health authority said on Sunday. This figure accounts for more than a third of the shots given across the world.

While it remains unclear what percentage of the country’s nearly 1.4 billion people have been inoculated, authorities have set a target of fully vaccinating 40% of the population by the end of June.

China’s one billion doses landmark was crossed soon after the 2.5 billion milestone was surpassed globally on Friday.

After a shaky start to its inoculation campaign, China is pushing for a more aggressive vaccination strategy. Different measures, like free vaccines or special perks, have been ordered to encourage more residents to take the shot.

Some residents have received shopping coupons in Beijing, while authorities in the central Anhui province have given free eggs as part of the vaccination drive.

Asia

The Philippines has secured its largest coronavirus vaccine order yet. The government signed a deal for 40 million doses of the BioNTech-Pfizer jab. Deliveries are due to arrive in September. The government hopes to vaccinate up to 70 million out of its 110-million population this year.

Shopping malls and markets across India's capital, New Delhi, saw large crowds over the weekend as the country registered its lowest daily rise in coronavirus cases in nearly three months.

The scenes were a contrast to April and May when coronavirus cases went through the roof and hospitals in the city ran short of oxygen to treat seriously ill COVID patients.

Several Indian states have begun easing regional lockdowns amid the receding second wave.

However, doctors have warned that India could be pushed towards another devastating third wave of the virus if residents let their guard down.

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Crowds at a vegetable market in Ahmedabad as coronavirus restrictions are eased

A member of the Olympic team from Uganda has tested positive upon arrival at Japan's Narita International Airport, the first coronavirus case among athletes arriving for the Tokyo Olympics next month.

While foreign spectators have been banned from the stadiums, organizers are set to decide whether domestic spectators will be allowed.

According to a poll from Jiji news, if the Games are held, 64% of the public want them without spectators.

South Korea is set to relax social distancing rules from July 1, allowing gatherings of up to six people, up from four, and letting restaurants, cafes and night-life venues stay open until midnight.

The country has inoculated 29.2% of its population and is on track to meet the 70% target by September.

"The new social distancing system is an effort to find a balance between quarantine and daily life recovery amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic," said Health Minister Kwon Deok-cheol.

Middle East

Israel has re-introduced mask mandates in certain areas after coronavirus outbreaks at schools, the health ministry announced. The country only lifted the mask requirement nationwide five days earlier.

Masks are now required indoors and outdoors in the Binyamina area south of Haifa and in Modiin-Makkabim-Reut. Forty-five students tested positive in a school in Binyamina, and around a dozen new cases have been reported in Modiin, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

Americas

The United States will send 2.5 million doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine to Taiwan, three times higher than an earlier pledge. The shipment, which will arrive later Sunday, is seen as a public health and geopolitical message.

"The donation reflects our commitment to Taiwan as a trusted friend, and a member of the international family of democracies," the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto US embassy, said on social media.

Europe

In Berlin, supporters of the city's infamous nightclub scene staged a protest calling for more freedom to party.

Accompanied by by bass and booming beats, protesters floated on boats down a canal that winds through Berlin's well-known club districts, Kreuzberg and Neukölln.

The protest was also in opposition to the city's monthslong "dance ban" that has barred indoor dancing events. Starting on Friday, clubs in the German capital could once again stage parties outside.

Organizers argued that clubs have been left behind while restrictions were rolled back for bars and restaurants.

Meanwhile, the German government is reportedly planning to introduce special FFP2 medical masks for children. "One of the lessons of the pandemic is that we need to develop standards for infection protection masks that are specifically for children," a Health Ministry spokesperson told the newspapers of the Funke media group.

While case numbers in Germany have been trending down, experts have expressed increasing alarm about the threat posed by the delta variant. The German economic research institute Ifo described the variant on Sunday as a "serious danger for the German economy.

Portugal is experiencing a rise in COVID cases, with officials now reporting that the more infectious delta variant is behind the spike.

Over 60% of new infections in the capital Lisbon involve the delta variant, according to official data reported by Portuguese media. The city is currently under a multi-day lockdown that is due to lift on Monday.

Sunday saw the end of France's monthslong nightly curfew — which was lifted two weeks earlier than planned. The 11:00 p.m. curfew was unpopular among some youths, with police and partygoers clashing over the weekend at an unauthorized rave.

The decision to lift the curfew came the same day as regional elections in the country and as France scrapped a requirement to wear masks outside.

In Britain, airlines and holiday companies are planning a "day of action" next week to ramp up pressure on the government to ease travel restrictions.

The travel sector is concerned that strict quarantine requirements could remain in place over the summer for returnees from many tourism hotspots and also deter travelers to the UK.

Pilots, cabin crew and travel agents will gather in Westminster, central London, and at airports across Britain on Wednesday to try to drum up support.

The UK's aviation industry has been harder hit by the pandemic than its European peers, according to data published by pilots trade union BALPA on Sunday. It showed daily arrivals and departures into the UK were down 73% on an average day earlier this month compared to before the pandemic. Spain, Greece and France were down less than 60%.

rs, see/nm (Reuters, AFP, AP, dpa)

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Chới với bạn xa thích hơn láng giềng gần.

"Người Đài có mặt".


Mỹ gửi tặng 2,5 triệu liều vac-xin cho Đài Loan



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Khách Sạn Lớn ở Đài Bắc kết đền thể hiện cảm ơn Mỹ đã viện trợ 750 nghìn liều vac-xin ngừa Covid-19 cho Đài Loan, ngày 06/06/2021. AP - Chiang Ying-ying

Thanh Hà

Trên mạng xã hội Facebook, đại diện văn phòng ngoại giao Hoa Kỳ tại Đài Loan thông báo 2,5 triệu liều thuốc Moderna chống Covid-19 đang trên đường đến Đài Bắc. Đợt viện trợ y tế này nhằm thể hiện tình liên đới của Mỹ đối với « một nước bạn đáng tin cậy, một thành viên trong gia đình các nền dân chủ trên thế giới ».

Hãng tin Anh Reuters nhắc lại khối lượng hai triệu rưỡi liều vac-xin Moderna nói trên cao hơn gấp ba lần so với khoản viện trợ của Mỹ cho Đài Loan được dự tính ban đầu. Lô thuốc này sẽ đến Đài Loan vào chiều nay 20/06/2021. Tại Washington, phát ngôn viên bộ Ngoại Giao Mỹ, Ned Price, trên Twitter lưu ý đây là một cử chỉ trợ giúp Đài Loan « vô điều kiện (…) những liều thuốc này không theo đuổi các mục tiêu chính trị hay kinh tế. Vac-xin cung cấp chỉ nhằm cứu mạng người »

Tuy nhiên theo Reuters, Washington đang chạy đua với Bắc Kinh trên phương diện « ngoại giao vac-xin ». Trung Quốc luôn xem Đài Loan là một phần lãnh thổ và đã đề xuất viện trợ cho Đài Bắc thuốc thuốc ngừa SARS-CoV-2 nhưng chính quyền của tổng thống Thái Anh Văn đã từ chối lòng tốt của Hoa Lục.

Đài Loan đã đặt mua hơn 5 triệu vac-xin của Moderna, 10 triệu liều của AstraZeneca nhưng tới nay mới chỉ nhận được thuốc một cách nhỏ giọt. Trong khi đó thì đại dịch Covid-19 đang bùng lên trên lãnh thổ Đài Loan, nơi mà đến nay mới chỉ có khoảng 6 % trong số hơn 23 triệu rưỡi dân số được tiêm chủng.

Hôm đầu tháng 6/2021 một phái đoàn gồm ba thượng nghị sĩ Hoa Kỳ trên một chuyến bay quân sự với 750.000 vac-xin đã đáp xuống phi trường ở Đài Bắc. Đó là đợt viện trợ đầu tiên của Mỹ cho Đài Loan. Nhưng theo lời tổng thống Thái Anh Văn trong hai tuần qua, Washington quyết định đẩy mạnh viện trợ y tế cho Đài Bắc.

Đài Loan là nguồn cung cấp linh kiện điện tử và bán dẫn cho Hoa Kỳ. Trong tuần chính phủ Đài Loan thông báo cho phép nhà tỷ phú Quách Đài Minh (Terry Gou) sáng lập viên tập đoàn chip điện tử lớn nhất thế giới Foxconn đàm phán với các đối tác quốc tế để mua vac-xin ngừa Covid-19.

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China has administered more than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines, the country’s health authority said on Sunday. This figure accounts for more than a third of the shots given across the world.

Làm ra 1 tỉ liều vắc xin đã khó tin, cho nên nói chích nửa tỉ người ở khắp nước Tàu thì càng thấy nghi ngờ. Trừ phi chích ngừa qua mạng thì may ra.

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Chích cho vơi đi những ngục hình...

Philippines president Duterte: ‘You choose, Covid vaccine or I will have you jailed’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/22/philippines-president-duterte-you-choose-covid-vaccine-or-i-will-have-you-jailed


President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to jail people who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Philippines battles one of Asia’s worst outbreaks, with a cumulative total of more than 1.3 million cases and 23,000 deaths.

“You choose, vaccine or I will have you jailed,” Duterte said in a televised address on Monday following reports of low turnouts at several vaccination sites in the capital Manila.

Bệnh dịch là bác thằng bần
Ở nhà trốn chích cho chân vào cùm.

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Hong Kong: Toà báo bị trấn áp, dân đổ xô mua báo để ủng hộ dân chủ | VOA


No news is bad news.

Hongkongers queue for hours to buy final Apple Daily edition
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/24/hong-kong-apple-daily-queue-final-edition-newspaper


Across Hong Kong on Thursday morning the queues stretched for hundreds of metres, wrapping around corner after corner. Starting before dawn, crowds in the city of 7.5 million people lined up for hours to buy the final print edition of the Apple Daily newspaper, forced to close by authorities (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/23/hong-kong-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close)which had accused it of national security offences.

Normally selling 80,000 copies a day, they printed a million. It was in such hot demand that by mid morning Hongkongers were crowdsourcing an online spreadsheet of convenience stores that still had copies for sale.

After police raided the newsroom last week and the security secretary froze the paper’s assets and accounts, Apple Daily’s parent company, Next Digital Media, had no choice. Unable to pay staff or operating costs, it announced the website, app and social media accounts would shut down on midnight Wednesday and the final newspaper would hit the stands on Thursday.

Inside the newsroom, staff took group photos, while some wept as they put together the last edition, watched by reporters from rival outlets who were there to cover a significant moment for their industry.

Journalists took copies of the last paper down to the gate, one climbing the fence to hold them aloft and hand them out to the gathered supporters. Police later arrived to disperse the crowds, warning they could breach pandemic-related bans on gathering, broadcaster RTHK reported.

An Apple a day keeps the censor away.

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Như Táo đem tin ngày buồn…

‘The pressure is unbearable’: final days of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/25/final-days-hong-kong-apple-daily-pressure-unbearable


Supporters gathered outside the building. The office in Tseung Kwan O is outside the city and not somewhere people would go unless they lived or worked there, says Kwan, still surprised and touched that people turned up.

A Yuen Long restaurant owner, 25 miles away, insisted on delivering food to the team. People hung messages of thanks on the fence, shouted and shone their torchlights through the rain.

“Some of my colleagues were looking out the window and he or she said: don’t look down or you’ll cry,” says Kwan.

“I was like, what the ***** we’re reporters – I must look! So I did look, and I did cry.”

Staff lined the windows and balconies, shining their lights. A small group walked down to the crowds, one man climbing the fence to hand out copies of their final edition, hot off the press. The staff saw out the rest of the night together inside the newsroom, as 1m papers hit the streets.



Hongkongers queued up (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/24/hong-kong-apple-daily-queue-final-edition-newspaper) from midnight to buy them all.

Không có gì quý hơn báo chí tự do.

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Vĩ nhân:

Massive human head in Chinese well forces scientists to rethink evolution
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/25/massive-human-head-in-chinese-well-forces-scientists-to-rethink-evolution


The skull, which is 23cm long and more than 15cm wide, is substantially larger than a modern human’s and has ample room, at 1,420ml, for a modern human brain. Beneath the thick brow ridge, the face has large square eye sockets, but is delicate despite its size. “This guy had a huge head,” said Stringer.

The researchers believe the skull belonged to a male, about 50 years old, who would have been an impressive physical specimen. His wide, bulbous nose allowed him to breathe huge volumes of air, indicating a high-energy lifestyle, while sheer size would have helped him withstand the brutally cold winters in the region. “Homo longi is heavily built, very robust,” said Prof Xijun Ni, a paleoanthropologist at Hebei. “It is hard to estimate the height, but the massive head should match a height higher than the average of modern humans.”

Râu xồm hàm bén mày dài
Vai năm tấc rộng lưng mười thước cao

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Vĩ nhân:
Râu xồm hàm bén mày dài
Vai năm tấc rộng lưng mười thước cao



Đọc một cái tưởng là bà Triệu Thị Trinh


https://i.imgur.com/CMhFVpx.jpg

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Gần bùn mới biết tanh banh vì bùn


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xKsDQ7c14o

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Đất bùn dậy sóng. Trên núi mà cũng có sóng thần (mountain tsunami).

Vũ vô kiềm toả năng lưu khách
Địa bất ba đào dị nịch nhân.

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Father reunites with son 24 years after his abduction in China


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzs2JN-LHWs

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Sợ tàu như sợ cọp


Taiwan to open representative office in China sceptic Lithuania

TAIPEI, July 20 (Reuters) - Taiwan announced on Tuesday that it will open a de facto embassy in the Baltic country of Lithuania, which risks further straining ties with Beijing by deepening diplomatic engagement with an island that China considers its own territory.

Lithuania said earlier this year it plans to open its own representative office in Taiwan, a decision that angered Beijing. The country announced last month it would also donate 20,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Taiwan. (read more) (https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/lithuania-donates-covid-19-vaccines-taiwan-2021-06-22/)

Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told reporters in Taipei the new mission in Vilnius would be called the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania, though he did not say when it would open.

"Taiwan and Lithuania are both at the strategic forefront of defending democratic institutions," Wu said.

"I believe that through the close connection of shared values, the two countries' peoples can work together to play a positive role in the international community and contribute to world peace, stability and prosperity."

The United States welcomed the move, with its de facto embassy in Taiwan saying: "All countries should be free to pursue closer ties and greater cooperation with Taiwan, a leading democracy​, a major economy, and a force for good in the world".

Only 15 countries have formal diplomatic ties with Taiwan, but many others have de facto embassies which are often termed trade offices, as is the case for the European Union, of which Lithuania is a member state.

China has ramped up pressure on countries not to engage with Taiwan.

In February, the South American country of Guyana revoked a deal for Taiwan to open a representative office there only a day after Taipei had announced it. Taiwan blamed Chinese "bullying" for the decision.

Lithuania has been sceptical of other aspects of Beijing's policies, and appeared to signal its concerns by only sending its transport minister, rather than a government leader, to a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and central and eastern European countries in February.

Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore

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Nghe nói dân Đài loan qua Việt nam lấy vợ, vậy Tàu cộng cứ khuyến khích dân Tàu lấy người Đài loan, rồi dần dần cả nước thành sui gia.

Bất chiến tự nhiên thành... hôn.

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Nghe nói dân Đài loan qua Việt nam lấy vợ, vậy Tàu cộng cứ khuyến khích dân Tàu lấy người Đài loan, rồi dần dần cả nước thành sui gia.

Bất chiến tự nhiên thành... hôn.


Hèn gì, Việt Nam sếp sòng châu Á và sắp bá chủ thế giới rồi. Mưu đồ thôn tính cả thế giới theo trình tự thời gian:

https://i.imgur.com/iM6INOY.jpg

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Đến lượt Trung Quốc bị lụt....


China: Deadly flooding in Henan — in pictures Massive flooding has devastated the central Chinese province of Henan, affecting hundreds of thousands of people.

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Thừa cơ nước lụt thả câu?

Foreign journalists harassed in China over floods coverage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/26/foreign-journalists-harassed-by-chinese-citizens-over-floods-coverage


Reporters from the Los Angeles Times and German outlet Deutsche Welle were confronted by an angry crowd in Zhengzhou on Saturday, who filmed and questioned them, and accused them of “rumour mongering” and slandering China. Other journalists have also been targeted, with a specific focus on the BBC.

The journalists Alice Su and Mathias Boelinger, were on the ground in Zhengzhou, covering the aftermath of last week’s deadly floods, after almost a year’s worth of rain dropped around Zhengzhou in three days, overwhelming streets and subway tunnels. The rains then moved north, further devastating major cities and rural areas.

Stephen McDonell, another BBC correspondent in China, said on Twitter there was a “clearly orchestrated campaign of harassment”, with a focus on the BBC, which included threats of violence and family-targeted abuse sent to the private phones of to those working in the foreign media.

“You have to ask why organs of the Communist party are doing this given that the reporting I’ve seen would appear to engender sympathy for the people of Henan,” he said.

In the past 18 months at least 16 US journalists have been expelled, and at least four journalists – including the BBC’s John Sudworth and two Australian journalists – were forced to flee. Two others – Australian TV anchor Cheng Lei and Chinese Bloomberg journalist Haze Fan – were arrested and detained on undefined national security accusations.

Hạch báo cho người xem lụt.

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Stephen McDonell, another BBC correspondent in China, said on Twitter there was a “clearly orchestrated campaign of harassment”, with a focus on the BBC, which included threats of violence and family-targeted abuse sent to the private phones of to those working in the foreign media.

“You have to ask why organs of the Communist party are doing this given that the reporting I’ve seen would appear to engender sympathy for the people of Henan,” he said.




Đơn giản là vì sợ lòi ra nhiều cái yếu kém, thiếu thốn, xấu xí khác nữa ...etc.

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Nhất nhật tại Tàu, thiên thu tại ngục:

Chinese billionaire pig farmer jailed for ‘provoking trouble’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/28/chinese-billionaire-pig-farmer-sun-dawu-jailed-for-provoking-trouble


Sun Dawu, a Chinese billionaire pig farmer and agricultural mogul, has been sentenced after weeks of hearings in secret to 18 years in prison and fined 3.11m yuan (£345,000) for a catalogue of crimes including “provoking trouble”, in a case observers believe was politically motivated.

The court in Gaobeidian, near Beijing, said Sun was guilty of crimes including “gathering a crowd to attack state organs”, “obstructing government administration” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, a catch-all term often used against human rights figures and dissidents.

Sun, an outspoken supporter and friend of Chinese political dissidents, was arrested on 11 November alongside more than 20 others including his wife, two sons and daughters-in-law.

Sun, who turned 67 this month according to his lawyers, is a former pig farmer who founded the Dawu Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Group. The billion-dollar business has about 9,000 employees and a purpose-built company town that Sun reportedly ran to reflect his vision of an equitable rural society, with residents given free or discounted access to healthcare, schooling and entertainment amenities.

Sun admitted to making mistakes, including posting messages online and unspecified mistakes over the “land issue”.

In September, Ren Zhiqiang, a former real estate mogul who criticised Xi’s handling of the pandemic in an online essay, was jailed for 18 years on corruption charges (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/22/ren-zhiqiang-who-called-chinese-president-a-clown-jailed-for-18-years).

Được ăn được nói được trói đem đi.

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Tháng tám có chiếu vua ra
Cấm đồn tin dữ người ta hãi hùng.

Thailand bans sharing of news that ‘causes public fear’ amid pandemic criticism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/30/thailand-bans-sharing-of-news-that-causes-public-fear-amid-pandemic-criticism


The Thai government has outlawed sharing news that “causes public fear”, even if such reports are true, as officials face mounting criticism over their handling of the pandemic.

The latest restrictions forbid people from distributing “information causing public fear”, or from sharing “distorted information causing misunderstanding which affects national stability”.

The measures have been widely condemned by media groups and rights experts as attempts to shut down negative news reports and silence debate.

Sunai Phasuk, senior researcher on Thailand in Human Rights Watch’s Asia division, described it as a “serious blow” to press freedom in the country.

Sunai said he feared the measures would be used against online reporters and critics who use social media to share political news and commentaries that do not flatter the government.

The government has faced particular criticism over its delayed vaccination campaign: roughly 5% of the population is fully vaccinated. Online, images have circulated of people dying on the street, fueling public anger towards the government.

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Thailand reports record 20,920 coronavirus cases in a day

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BANGKOK - Thailand reported on Thursday a record 20,920 coronavirus cases, bringing total cases in the Southeast Asian nation to 693,305 since the pandemic began last year.

It also reported 160 additional fatalities, bringing total deaths to 5,663, the health ministry's website showed.

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Bến đỗ tạm dung.


US announces temporary 'safe haven' for Hong Kong residents

US President Joe Biden said the "significant erosion" of rights and "politically motivated arrests" were behind the move. Hong Kong residents in the US can now extend their stay.

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President Biden said the move was in response to Beijing's 'assault on Hong Kong's autonomy'

President Joe Biden on Thursday offered Hong Kong residents living in the United States an 18-month extension to their visas to provide them with "a safe haven" from Beijing's crackdown in the territory.

In a statement, the White House said the "politically motivated arrests" of politicians, activists and journalistsshowed a "significant erosion" of rights and freedoms.

Last week, Tong Ying-kit, 24, became the first person to be convicted in Hong Kong under a controversial national security law. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.

What did Biden say?

Under the new measure, most of the Hong Kongers living in the US will be able to apply for visa extensions that will also give them the right to work.

Biden cited Beijing's crackdown on pro-democracy protests in 2019 and erosion of rights in Hong Kong as a reason for the measure.

"Over the last year, the PRC [People's Republic of China] has continued its assault on Hong Kong's autonomy, undermining its remaining democratic processes and institutions, imposing limits on academic freedom, and cracking down on freedom of the press," the White House statement read.

"Offering safe haven for Hong Kong residents who have been deprived of their guaranteed freedoms in Hong Kong furthers United States interests in the region."

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki added: "This action demonstrates President Biden's strong support for people in Hong Kong in the face of ongoing repression by the People's Republic of China, and makes clear we will not stand idly by as the PRC breaks its promises to Hong Kong and to the international community,"

Psaki said the US would continue to "support of people in Hong Kong" in the future.

What is the situation in Hong Kong?

US relations with China worsened after a trade war that intensified under former President Donald Trump.

Hong Kong saw mass pro-democracy protests in 2019 against a new law that would have allowed for extraditions to mainland China.

Protests were quelled by Hong Kong police leading to the arrest of hundreds of activists and journalists in the aftermath. Over 10,000 people in total have been arrested due to anti-government protests, according to the White House.

In June 2020, Hong Kong's government passed a controversial national security law that has allowed for the arrest of over 100 opposition politicians and activists.

The closure of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper and a reshuffle to the Hong Kong Legislative Council have also heightened tensions.

As a result of the measures in Hong Kong, the US government issued more sanctions on Chinese officials in the former British colony. China reacted with sanctions of its own on US officials, including former Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

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Sài-Gòn 2 - "Light version"?


Taliban overrun city of Kunduz — as it happened

The Taliban have overrun the northern provincial capital of Kunduz as their offensive continues. It is a major blow for Afghan forces and it is not the only city where fierce fighting is taking place.

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The Taliban have entered the city of Kunduz and have engaged in fierce fighting

The Taliban have taken key government sites in Kunduz
The city was a former base of operations for the German Bundeswehr
The Taliban have seized two other provincial capitals: Sar-e-Pul and Taleqan
Fighting is continuing in Lashkar Gah, Herat and Kandahar



These live updates are now closed. For more on the Taliban offensive, click here (https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-un-envoy-urges-taliban-to-halt-attacks-on-cities/a-58785564).


Taliban warn the US against intervening

The Taliban's political spokesperson Mohammad Naim told Al-Jazeera TV on Sunday that the radical Islamist group had no ceasefire agreement with the Afghan government and warned the US against further intervention.

He also blamed the government for the fighting, calling them the aggressors and claimed the Taliban's attacks were a response.

Separately, Al-Jazeera quoted another Taliban spokesman as saying that the militants wanted peace.

"We have the capabilities to take over cities but we were waiting for them and our policy is for peace and reconciliation but of course when they [government] launched an offensive against us, they started the bombing campaign against us, we reacted and took two provincial centres," said Suhail Shaheen.

Can the Taliban take control of the whole of Afghanistan?

Adam Weinstein, research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told DW that he does not think it is inevitable that the Taliban take over the whole country, but the Afghan government will have to change its strategy.

Weinstein was not sure that the Biden administration would be willing to accept the risk associated with continued support for the Afghan government which may mean the end of US airstrikes against the Taliban.

He also believes that the peace talks are no longer viable, but that better resistance from the Afghan army and pressure from other regional actors could force the Taliban to the negotiation table.


Kunduz plays a key role for the Taliban

Journalist Charlie Faulkner talked with DW from Kabul about the importance of Kunduz to the Taliban, the site where they relaunched their insurgency in 2010 and also where they were defeated in 2003.

Faulkner explained that it was also a symbol of revenge for the militant group as this is where hundreds of Taliban fighters were loaded into trucks in which they ended up suffocating to death.

She also highlighted the difference of opinion between urban and rural Afghans, saying that while those in the cities were largely against the Taliban, those in the villages just want peace, with some even supporting the Taliban.

Taliban claims control of Takhar province

Spokesperson for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid, published a statement on Twitter claiming that the whole of the Takhar province was under the control of the Islamist group.

The province capital Taleqan fell to the militants earlier in the day.

Germany's Bundestag foreign affairs chair warns of Afghanistan 'disaster'

German lawmaker Norbert Röttgen, who chairs the Bundestag's foreign affairs committee, warned that the recent pullout of US troops from the country risks creating a "disaster" in Afghanistan.

"US President Joe Biden still has a chance to prevent the first major foreign policy disaster that has arisen from his wrong decision to order the rapid withdrawal of American troops without consulting his allies," Röttgen told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.

The 56-year-old said there was no longer any prospect of a political solution with the Taliban making territorial gains.

"So if the Europeans have any remaining military capabilities, including the Germans, that would be needed now, then we should make them available," he said.

Top German politicians repeatedly warned that withdrawing too quickly from Afghanistan could create a security vacuum.

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned in November that a premature exit could also hamper peace talks between the government and the Taliban, a hard-line Islamist group.

'Security situation deteriorating,' says German Foreign Office

The German Foreign Office sees an increasing deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan.

A ministry spokesman told the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency on Sunday that the situation was developing rapidly. "In view of the current developments, an update of the asylum situation report is currently being prepared," he said, referring to the Office's report which cites a greater threat to certain groups amid the advance of the Taliban, but no general threat to returnees.

In July, the Afghan government called on European states to suspend deportations to the country for three months due to the unstable security situation.

At the time, Finland announced a temporary suspension, while Germany said it had no plans to stop deporting rejected asylum seekers.

Since 2016, Germany has carried out 35 deportation flights to Afghanistan.

Germany resumed deportation flights to Afghanistan earlier this year after they were put on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Where else have the Taliban launched offensives?

Taliban forces are fighting in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province.

Airstrikes damaged a health clinic and a high school in the city, a provincial council member said on Sunday.

A Defense Ministry statement confirmed that airstrikes were carried out in parts of the city. It said forces targeted Taliban positions, killing 54 fighters and wounding 23 others. It made no mention of a clinic or school being bombed.

Majid Akhund, deputy chairman of the Helmand provincial council, said airstrikes hit a health clinic and a school in the city's 7th police district late Saturday. He added the area is under Taliban control so any casualties could have been caused by the Taliban there.

Pro-Taliban sources said the Taliban have taken complete control of the city of Taleqan in northeastern Takhar Province that borders Tajikistan.

Fighting was also reported on the outskirts of Herat, in the west, and Kandahar in the south.

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In early July, Afghan militia were patrolling against the Taliban in northern Takhar province

How has the international community responded?

Carl Bildt, co-chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations accused the Biden administration of pulling out of Afghanistan prematurely.

Bildt, who is a former Swedish prime minister, said "the United States is running away."

"Saigon 1975 all over again," he tweeted, referring to Washington’s withdrawal from Vietnam.

Ambassador Ghulam M. Isaczai, Afghanistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, said the ongoing violence was "too painful to watch."

The senior diplomat tweeted a graphic video that he said showed a dead child who had been killed by Islamist militants.

"Afghan children are bearing the brunt of this violence unleashed by [the] Taliban on Afghanistan. The world cannot sit on the sideline for another tragedy to unfold," he wrote on Twitter.

DW has not been able to independently verify the video's content.

The Taliban's sweeping offensive

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Taliban overrun Kunduz

The fundamentalist Taliban group overran the northern city of Kunduz on Sunday.

The Taliban's advance on the provincial capital comes after two others fell to the insurgents in the past two days.

The insurgents have taken control of all key government facilities in the city, except for a military base and the airport, where high-ranking local officials have reportedly pulled back to.

The airport lies around 8 kilometers (5 miles) south of Kunduz city center.

The Taliban overran the city amid "fierce street-to-street fighting," Amruddin Wali, a member of the Kunduz provincial council, told AFP.

The Taliban claimed in a Twitter post that it had seized a large number of armored vehicles, weapons and military equipment.

The Ministry of Defense said government forces were fighting to retake these key sites.

"The commando forces have launched a clearing operation. Some areas, including the national radio and TV buildings, have been cleared of the terrorist Taliban," it said in a statement.

Fighting was continuing at the city's airport and other parts of the city, provincial council member Ghulam Rabani Rabani said.

Health officials in Kunduz said that 14 bodies, including those of women and children, and more than 30 injured people, had been taken to hospital.

Kunduz has been a perennial target for the Taliban, who briefly overran the city in 2015 and again in 2016 but never managed to hold it for long.

It is a strategic crossroads with good access to much of northern Afghanistan as well as the capital, Kabul, about 335 kilometers (200 miles) away.

It is one of the country's larger cities with a population of more than 340,000. Kabul has a population of over 4 million.

The German Bundeswehr's Kunduz connection

The German military was stationed in Kunduz province from 2003 to 2013, following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

More Germans were killed in clashes in Kunduz and the neighboring province of Baghlan than anywhere else.

The German military in Kunduz attracted international attention in 2009, when Georg Klein, who was then a colonel, ordered a NATO air attack that killed more than 100 people.

Last year, before the Bundeswehr withdrew from Afghanistan, around 100 German soldiers were stationed in the region in Camp Pamir.

Heavy fighting in Sar-e-Pul

Meanwhile, fighting between the Taliban overran the provincial capital of the northern Sar-e-Pul province.

"The Taliban have surrounded an army battalion on the outskirts of the city. All other parts of the city are under Taliban control," Mohammad Hussein Mujahidzada, a member of the Sar-e-Pul provincial council, told news agency AFP.

Taliban seize Sheberghan

The fundamentalist Taliban group seized the northern city of Sheberghan on Saturday.

Sheberghan is the capital of Jowzjan Province and is home to Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum.

Dostum, who is allied with the United States, said he is calling for reinforcements from the Afghan government.

Kabul-based journalist Franz Marty told DW it is likely that Dostum's forces will wage a "counteroperation" in the coming days.

Taliban fighters helped free prisoners from the city's jail, according to videos on social media.

The deputy governor of Jowzjan, Qader Malia, told the AFP news agency the city had "unfortunately fallen."

Taliban making rapid territorial gains

The Taliban are ramping up their offensive as the US and NATO allies pull out troops from the country.

Anti-Taliban protesters in recent weeks have shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is the greatest) to show their support for Afghan security forces in the heavy fighting against the group.

The Taliban captured the provincial capital of Zaranj in southwestern Nimroz province on Friday.

Journalist Ali Latifi, who is also based in Kabul, told DW the Taliban may be trying to "confuse" Afghan government forces, as the two provincial capitals are located in completely different areas of the country.

"The Taliban are trying to stretch the security forces out as thin and as wide as they possibly can," Latifi said. At the same time, he said it begs the question whether the Taliban can keep up fighting on multiple fronts as well.

Could the fighting spread to Kabul?

In regards to the fighting possibly spreading to the country's capital, Kabul, Latifi said the "fortress city" is more secure than other parts of the country.

"Kabul is where they will put all of their focus and their attention," Latifi said, referring to the Afghan government.

"If they do manage to lose Kabul, then that's obviously the ultimate blow to them. They will do everything they can to hold on to the national capital," he added.

A bomb killed an Afghan Air Force pilot in Kabul on Saturday, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the attack.

Kamran Bokhari, the director of analytical development at the Washington D.C.-based Newlines Institute think tank, told DW the war in Afghanistan is "far from over" and asserted the Taliban are by and large "a rural and suburban force."

"They have not yet managed to demonstrate the capability to mount successful assaults against well-defended cities and provincial capitals," Bokhari said of the group.

Complete US pullout expected later this month

US President Joe Biden announced in April he would withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. The pullout is now expected to be fully complete by August 31, according to recent statements from the commander-in-chief.

Critics of the withdrawal have warned the Taliban could possibly take over the entire country and roll back advancements in women's rights.

The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 in pursuit of al-Qaida, the jihadist group behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Taliban was ousted from power during the invasion, with the US working with NATO allies to train Afghan security forces.

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Taliban "giải phóng" Kabul :z51:. Sắp tới thời khắc của tổng thống "Dương văn Ashraf Ghani" ?

Taliban militants start entering Kabul - live updates

The Afghan capital is the last major city to be held by government forces, after all other key cities fell to the Taliban offensive. The militant group said they have no plans to take Kabul by force.

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The Taliban has made gains across the country in recent days.


Britain vows to evacuate nationals, former staff
Taliban says it will not take Kabul by force
US starts evacuation of its embassy



Britain vows to evacuate nationals, staff

Britain's government said on Sunday that it was working on evacuating its citizens and former UK staff from Afghanistan.

"Home Office (interior ministry) officials are right now working to protect British nationals and help former UK staff and other eligible people travel to the UK," it wrote on Twitter.

The UK government has come under criticism from some British newspapers for not doing enough to help Afghans who worked with its military over the past two decades.

Taliban starts entering Kabul

The Taliban, an Islamist militant group that has seized large parts of Afghanistan, started entering the outskirts of Kabul on Sunday, local officials said.

Gunfire and sirens were heard sporadically across Kabul.

The Afghan capital is the last major city held by government forces after insurgents made several advances elsewhere this month amid the withdrawal of allied troops.

Taliban wants to avoid forceful takeover

The Taliban later pledged not to take the capital "by force."

"No one's life, property and dignity will be harmed and the lives of the citizens of Kabul will not be at risk," the militant group said in a statement.

Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen later told the Al-Jazeera English channel that they are "awaiting a peaceful transfer of Kabul city'' after they entered the capital's outskirts.

Shaheen declined to offer specifics on any possible negotiations between his forces and the government.

Matin Bek, the chief of staff to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, wrote on social media: "Don't panic! Kabul is safe!"

The Taliban started an offensive nearly two weeks ago, capturing a number of key towns, cities and border posts.

US starts Kabul evacuation

Sunday's move on Kabul comes as international forces start to evacuate their diplomats amid the worsening security situation.

US intelligence officials said earlier this week that they believed it might take as long as three months for the Taliban to seize the Afghan capital.

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The key strategic locations inside the Afghan capital

Peace talks have been taking place in Doha, Qatar, since last September between the Afghan government and the Taliban.

But the negotiations, which are being mediated by the international community, have failed to bear fruit.

Ghani wants stability

In a televised speech on Saturday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani vowed that he would not give up the "achievements" of the past 20 years.

He warned that the country is in "serious danger" of facing "instability."

Ghani, an academic economist who spent most of his career in the United States, became president in 2014, winning a second term five years later.

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Taliban càn quét, phụ nữ Afghanistan lo sợ quay về ‘những ngày đen tối’

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Zarmina Kakar, một nhà hoạt động vì quyền của phụ nữ, khóc trong một cuộc phỏng vấn với hãng tin AP ở Kabul, Afghanistan, ngày 13 tháng 8, 2021.


KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Trời mới chập tối và Zahra, mẹ cô và ba chị em gái đang trên đường đi ăn tối tại nhà của một người chị em khác thì họ thấy mọi người bỏ chạy và nghe thấy tiếng súng trên đường phố.

“Taliban ở đây rồi!” mọi người thét lên.

Chỉ trong vài phút, mọi thứ thay đổi đối với cư dân 26 tuổi này ở Herat, thành phố lớn thứ ba của Afghanistan.

Zahra lớn lên ở một nước Afghanistan hầu như sạch bóng Taliban, nơi phụ nữ dám mơ có được nghề nghiệp và các em gái được học hành. Trong năm năm qua, cô làm việc với các tổ chức phi lợi nhuận địa phương để nâng cao nhận thức cho phụ nữ và vận động cho bình đẳng giới tính.

Những ước mơ và hoài bão của cô sụp đổ vào tối ngày thứ Năm khi Taliban tràn vào thành phố, cắm những lá cờ trắng của họ với tuyên ngôn tín ngưỡng Hồi giáo ở quảng trường trung tâm khi mọi người vội vàng lên xe máy và xe hơi phóng về nhà.

Giống như hầu hết những cư dân khác, Zahra, cha mẹ và năm anh chị em của cô giờ rút vào trong nhà, quá sợ không dám ra ngoài và lo lắng về tương lai. Hãng tin AP quyết định không nêu tên đầy đủ của cô để tránh biến cô thành mục tiêu tấn công.

“Tôi bị sốc nặng,” Zahra, cô gái trẻ với gương mặt bầu bĩnh và giọng nhỏ nhẹ, nói. “Làm sao tôi, một người phụ nữ đã rất nỗ lực và cố gắng học hành và thành đạt, giờ lại phải trốn chui trốn nhủi ở nhà?”

Giữa cuộc tiến công chớp nhoáng trong những ngày qua, Taliban hiện kiểm soát hơn hai phần ba đất nước, chỉ hai tuần trước khi Mỹ theo lịch trình sẽ rút đi những binh sĩ cuối cùng của mình. Và họ đang dần tiến sát thủ đô Kabul.

Cơ quan tị nạn của Liên Hợp Quốc cho biết gần 250.000 người Afghanistan đã rời bỏ nhà cửa của họ kể từ cuối tháng 5 vì lo sợ Taliban sẽ áp đặt lại cách hiểu nghiêm ngặt và tàn nhẫn của họ về Hồi giáo, xóa sạch các quyền của phụ nữ. 80% những người tản cư là phụ nữ và trẻ em.

Tổ chức có chủ trương Hồi giáo bảo thủ này đã cai trị Afghanistan trong năm năm cho đến khi bị lật đổ trong cuộc xâm lược do Mỹ dẫn đầu vào năm 2001. Trong khoảng thời gian đó, họ ngăn cấm trẻ em gái học hành và phụ nữ đi làm, và thậm chí không cho họ đi ra khỏi nhà mà không có người thân là nam giới đi cùng. Taliban cũng thực hiện các vụ hành quyết công khai, chặt tay những kẻ trộm và ném đá những phụ nữ bị buộc tội ngoại tình.

Chưa có báo cáo được xác nhận nào về các biện pháp cực đoan như vậy tại các khu vực mà các chiến binh Taliban chiếm giữ gần đây. Nhưng tin nói họ đã chiếm cứ một số ngôi nhà và phóng hỏa ít nhất một trường học.

Tại một công viên ở thủ đô Kabul, từ tuần trước đã được biến thành nơi trú ẩn cho những người tản cư, các gia đình nói với AP hôm thứ Sáu rằng các em gái đi về nhà trên một chiếc xe lam ở tỉnh Takhar miền bắc đã bị chặn đường và bị đánh đòn vì đi “dép hở hang.”

Một giáo viên ở tỉnh này cho biết không ai được phép đi chợ nếu không có người nam đi cùng. Khoảng 3.000 gia đình chủ yếu đến từ các tỉnh miền bắc gần đây bị Taliban chiếm hiện đang sống trong lều bên trong công viên, một số trên vỉa hè.

Zahra đã thôi đến văn phòng khoảng một tháng trước khi các chiến binh áp sát Herat, và cô làm việc từ xa tại nhà. Nhưng ngày thứ Năm, các chiến binh Taliban phá vỡ tuyến phòng thủ của thành phố và kể từ đó cô không làm việc được nữa.

Mắt cô rưng rưng khi nghĩ đến khả năng cô sẽ không thể quay lại làm việc được nữa; rằng em gái 12 tuổi của cô sẽ không thể tiếp tục đến trường (“Con bé thích đi học,” cô nói); rằng anh trai của cô sẽ không thể chơi bóng đá; hoặc cô sẽ không thể tự do chơi đàn guitar. Cây đàn treo trên tường phía sau cô khi cô nói chuyện.

Cô liệt kê một số thành tựu mà phụ nữ đã đạt được trong 20 năm qua kể từ khi Taliban bị lật đổ — những tiến bộ tường bước nhưng có ý nghĩa trong một xã hội vẫn hết sức bảo thủ do nam giới thống trị: Trẻ em gái giờ được đi học, và phụ nữ tham gia trong Quốc hội, chính phủ và doanh nghiệp.

Marianne O'Grady, phó giám đốc quốc gia của tổ chức CARE International tại Kabul, cho biết những bước tiến của phụ nữ trong hai thập niên qua là rất to lớn, đặc biệt là ở các khu vực thành thị. Bà nói bà không hình dung được là mọi thứ sẽ quay trở lại như cũ, ngay cả sau khi Taliban tiếp quản.

“Không thể để cho hàng triệu người thất học được,” bà nói. Nếu phụ nữ “lùi lại sau những bức tường và không thể ra ngoài nhiều, thì ít nhất bây giờ họ có thể giáo dục những người họ hàng và hàng xóm và con cái của họ theo những cách mà 25 năm trước không có.”

Dẫu vậy, cảm giác sợ hãi dường như bao trùm khắp nơi, đặc biệt là ở phụ nữ, khi lực lượng Taliban chiếm thêm lãnh thổ mỗi ngày.

“Tôi cảm thấy chúng tôi giống như con chim làm tổ để sống và dành toàn bộ thời gian để xây tổ, nhưng rồi bất ngờ và bất lực nhìn người khác phá hủy nó,” Zarmina Kakar, 26 tuổi, một nhà hoạt động vì quyền phụ nữ ở Kabul, nói.

Kakar được một tuổi khi Taliban tiến vào Kabul lần đầu tiên vào năm 1996, và cô nhớ lúc mà mẹ cô dẫn cô đi mua kem, khi mà Taliban còn cai trị. Mẹ cô đã bị một chiến binh Taliban đánh đòn vì để lộ khuôn mặt trong vài phút.

“Ngày giờ này một lần nữa, tôi cảm thấy nếu Taliban lên nắm quyền, chúng tôi sẽ quay trở lại những ngày đen tối đó,” cô nói.


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Taliban tấn công còn nhanh hơn Covid's Delta Variant.
TT Ashraft Ghani bỏ chạy. Taliban tiến vào Kabul. :(

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Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul


By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ, TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL25 minutes ago


KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.

The Taliban, which for hours had been in the outskirts of Kabul, announced soon after they would move further into a city gripped by panic throughout the day as helicopters raced overhead to evacuate personnel from the U.S. Embassy. Smoke rose near the compound as staff destroyed important documents. Several other Western missions also prepared to pull their people out.

Civilians fearing that the Taliban could reimpose the kind of brutal rule that all but eliminated women’s rights (https://apnews.com/article/religion-taliban-7ab054c063e4ea1c14be9e4811f42982) rushed to leave the country as well, lining up at cash machines to withdraw their life savings. The desperately poor — who had left homes in the countryside for the hoped-for safety in the capital — remained in their thousands in parks and open spaces throughout the city.

President Ashraf Ghani flew out of the country, two officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief journalists. Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the Afghan National Reconciliation Council, later confirmed in an online video that Ghani had left.

“The former president of Afghanistan left Afghanistan, leaving the country in this difficult situation,” Abdullah said. “God should hold him accountable.”

In a stunning rout, the Taliban seized nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, despite the billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and NATO over nearly two decades to build up Afghan security forces. Just days earlier, an American military assessment estimated it would be a month before the capital would come under insurgent pressure.

https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-bagram-e1ed33fe0c665ee67ba132c51b8e32a5

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Taliban tấn công còn nhanh hơn Covid's Delta Variant.
TT Ashraft Ghani bỏ chạy. Taliban tiến vào Kabul. :(




Sáng ra tin tức tình trạng A-Phú-Hãn đầy khắp
các mặt báo.
Cảnh tượng di tản căng thẳng không khác gì
Sài-Gòn 1975. Trực thăng, đầm già, máy bay
quân cụ ... Tổng thống đầu hàng.
Liệu Mỹ và NATO có học được gì từ bài học sa
lầy thứ 2 này sau 46 năm hay không?

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Taliban càn quét, phụ nữ Afghanistan lo sợ quay về ‘những ngày đen tối’


Zarmina Kakar, một nhà hoạt động vì quyền của phụ nữ, khóc trong một cuộc phỏng vấn với hãng tin AP ở Kabul, Afghanistan, ngày 13 tháng 8, 2021.



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Hy vọng có thể tránh được những cảnh đẫm máu, không như khi ISIS chiếm Mosul của Iraq. Giữa Taliban và ISIS, thì ISIS tệ hơn Taliban nhiều. Taliban ít nhất là một phong trào quốc gia và không có tham vọng tấn công bất kỳ ai khác bên ngoài đất nước của họ và người Shia đã từng sống dưới quyền cai trị của họ. Nhớ qua báo chí năm 2014, khi Mosul sụp đổ, các thánh đường, đền đài và nhiều di sản thế giới được UNESCO công nhận bị phá hủy bởi những kẻ cuồng tín ISIS ghê tởm này. Lần cuối khi Taliban cai trị Afghanistan, Taliban đã không tiến hành cuộc diệt chủng đối với người Shiite. Tuy nhiên Taliban đó là của trước đây, giờ có thể tệ hơn... :z51:

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Hy vọng có thể tránh được những cảnh đẫm máu, không như khi ISIS chiếm Mosul của Iraq. Giữa Taliban và ISIS, thì ISIS tệ hơn Taliban nhiều. Taliban ít nhất là một phong trào quốc gia và không có tham vọng tấn công bất kỳ ai khác bên ngoài đất nước của họ và người Shia đã từng sống dưới quyền cai trị của họ. Nhớ qua báo chí năm 2014, khi Mosul sụp đổ, các thánh đường, đền đài và nhiều di sản thế giới được UNESCO công nhận bị phá hủy bởi những kẻ cuồng tín ISIS ghê tởm này. Lần cuối khi Taliban cai trị Afghanistan, Taliban đã không tiến hành cuộc diệt chủng đối với người Shiite. Tuy nhiên Taliban đó là của trước đây, giờ có thể tệ hơn... :z51:


Taliban không có tham vọng chống đối nước ngoài nhưng họ ủng hộ các tổ chức khủng bố, ví dụ như tổ chức Al-kaida. Cũng vì lẽ đó mà Mỹ nhảy vào A-Phú-Hãn và kéo theo đồng minh. Rốt cuộc bắt được thủ lãnh Al-kaida ở ... Pakistan.

Hiện tại không biết người Taliban muốn gì. Nhưng ngày xưa 15 cuộc tàn sát đẫm máu mà Liên Hiệp Quốc cáo buộc do Taliban gây ra là tàn sát dân của mình. Một kiểu như "Khờ Me đỏ".

Nghe bên thể thao nói, phái đoàn lực sĩ tàn tật của A-Phú-Hãn chuẩn bị đi Thế Vận Hội Paralympics đã hủy bỏ. Đó là bước đầu trở lại giai đoạn trước năm 2000 ở A-Phú-Hãn: thời đại không TV, không nhạc nhiết cải lương, đàn ông không cạo râu, đàn bà trùm kín người, phụ nữ không được đi học. Nếu mọi sự chỉ dừng lại trong nước A-Phú-Hãn, thì cũng không có liên can gì tới hòa bình thế giới.

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Pentagon says 17,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan in one week
By Lexi Lonas - 08/21/21 01:19 PM EDT (https://thehill.com/policy/defense/568860-pentagon-17000-people-evacuated-from-afghanistan-in-one-week)





Efforts to evacuate Britons and eligible Afghans from Kabul are gathering pace, the British ambassador says, with nearly 6,000 flown out on UK flights since 13 August. (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58296816)





France evacuates 570 people from Afghanistan (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/france-evacuates-570-people-from-afghanistan/articleshow/85514578.cms)





Australia has evacuated around 1,000 citizens people from Kabul in the past week, and Payne said her country would be willing to support further rescue missions. (https://www.dw.com/en/joe-biden-hopes-to-end-afghan-evacuations-on-time-live-updates/a-58953028")






Earlier today, Germany's defense minister told reporters that their military has airlifted almost 2,000 people out of Kabul. (https://www.npr.org/2021/08/21/1030023038/german-politicians-fret-over-afghan-refugees-as-election-looms)





Canada has evacuated more than 1,100 people from Afghanistan: immigration minister (https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-has-evacuated-more-than-1-100-people-from-afghanistan-immigration-minister-1.5556767)

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Lương y như kỵ mã:

Vaccines on horseback
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/04/vaccines-on-horseback-fiji-doctors-take-long-and-muddy-road-to-protect-remote-villages-from-covid


To reach Nakida village in the highlands of Fiji, Dr Losalini Tabakei and her colleagues hiked for hours, up and down mountains, through forests, down muddy slopes, across rivers and along treacherous ridges with steep slopes of bamboo forest on either side.

Their supplies – clothing, medical equipment and, crucially, the Covid-19 vaccines they were bringing to administer to the remote community of just 60 people – were sent separately on horseback; the vaccines in refrigerated boxes, the rest in bags wrapped in plastic. The horses took the longer but flatter route to the town along the river.

The country is grappling with a devastating Delta outbreak that has seen more than 500 people die and 47,000 cases – more than 5% of the country’s population of about 900,000 people. The Pacific nation has the dubious honour of having the highest per-capita rate of infection at times over the past month.

Nước thanh bình ba trăm năm cũ
Vắc xin trao bác sĩ từ đây
Xứ người cách chục đường mây
Cứu dân là trọng niềm tây sá nào
(Chích phụ ngâm)

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Lương y như kỵ mã:



Sao bằng "bộ đội ủn xế độp".

OK. Câu này đem vô phòng đối thơ Đặc Trưng thì sẽ "bị rớt từ vòng gởi xe".

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Vậy sửa lại thành: Lôi thôi giống bộ đội.

Bộ đội đem đối lại kỵ mã là siêu hay và chuẩn vị. Ngó mấy ảnh cũng lôi thôi thiệt.

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Một điều mà bài báo này hoàn toàn không đề cập tới rằng thuốc này chỉ hữu hiệu
khi bệnh phát 5 ngày đầu (theo tờ Đặc san bác sĩ ở Đức (https://www.aerzteblatt.de/nachrichten/127820/COVID-19-Oraler-Wirkstoff-Molnupiravir-halbiert-Hospitalisierungs-und-Sterberate-bei-frueher-ambulanter-Therapie)). Những ai phát hiện trễ
mình bị covid-19 thì sau 5 ngày thuốc này không còn công hiệu chận vi trùng covid-19
nữa. Và chỉ công hiệu với những người mắc dịch nhẹ đến trung bình nặng. Ai bị nặng
rồi là chỉ còn nước húp cháo rùa.
Chích ngừa một mũi thuốc mắc nhứt hiện tại chỉ có 35 USD. Uống hết một lần trị
thuốc này cái hãng Merck kia thu vô túi 700 USD. Và nếu thuốc này được mua vô
điều trị. Nhà nước sẽ bắt đầu cân nhắc vụ .... miễn phí!

Các nước châu Á đổ xô mua thuốc viên chống COVID của Merck

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Thuốc viên chống virus, molnupiravir, đang thử nghiệm của Merck chữa COVID.

Chính phủ Thái Lan đang thương lượng với công ty Merck & Co để mua 200.000 liệu trình thuốc viên chống virus đang thử nghiệm của Merck chữa COVID. Như vậy Thái Lan trở thành quốc gia châu Á mới nhất đổ xô mua thuốc này sau khi bị tuột hậu sau các nước phương Tây về vaccine.

Ông Somsak Akksilp, Tổng giám đốc Tổng cục Dịch vụ Thuốc men, cho hay Thái Lan đang thương lượng một hợp đồng mua thuốc chống virus vừa kể tên là molnupiravir.

Hàn Quốc, Đài Loan và Malaysia cũng cho hay đang thảo luận để mua thuốc trong khi Philippines, nơi đang diễn ra cuộc thử nghiệm thuốc này, nói họ hy vọng cuộc nghiên cứu ngay trong nước sẽ giúp họ tiếp cận dễ dàng hơn với loại thuốc vừa kể.

Các nước này đều từ chối tiết lộ chi tiết về các cuộc thương thuyết.

Diễn tiến này xảy ra sau khi dữ liệu từ cuộc thử nghiệm lâm sàng lâm thời công bố ngày 1/10 cho thấy thuốc có thể giảm khoảng 50% rủi ro nhập viện hay tử vong đối với bệnh nhân có nguy cơ cao bệnh COVID-19 nặng.

Thuốc viên molnupiravir, được bào chế để cài sai lầm vào mã gen của virus, sẽ là thuốc uống đầu tiên chống COVID-19.

Các nước châu Á muốn sớm có được nguồn cung về loại thuốc này sau khi bị thiếu hụt về vaccine, nhưng chưa thấy chính phủ Việt Nam lên tiếng.

“Chúng tôi hiện đang làm việc trên thỏa thuận mua bán với Merck hy vọng sẽ hoàn tất trong tuần này…Chúng tôi đã đặt trước 200.000 liệu trình,” ông Somsak nói. Ông cho biết sớm nhất là tháng 12 này sẽ có thuốc dù còn tuỳ thuộc vào sự chấp thuận của Cơ quan Quản trị Thực phẩm và Dược phẩm Mỹ và cơ quan thẩm quyền dược phẩm Thái Lan đối với loại thuốc này.

Số ca nhiễm COVID hàng ngày tại Thái Lan xuống dưới 10.000 hôm 4/10, lần đầu tiên kể từ giữa tháng 7. Cho tới nay, nước này đã tiêm 55,5 triệu liều vaccine COVID và tiêm chủng hoàn toàn cho 31% dân số.

Merck hy vọng sản xuất 10 triệu liệu trình molnupiravir trước cuối năm nay. Công ty đã có hợp đồng với chính phủ Mỹ cung cấp 1,7 triệu liệu trình với giá 700 đô la một liệu trình.

Công ty nói sẽ giảm giá dựa trên tiêu chuẩn thu nhập của mỗi nước.

Một phát ngôn viên của Ủy ban châu Âu cho hay Brussels có thể tổ chức đấu thầu chung mua thuốc cho EU, tương tự như chiến lược mua vaccine COVID.

Một phát ngôn viên Bộ Y tế Đức cho biết chính phủ đang theo dõi việc phát triển các liệu pháp mới, nhưng từ chối bình luận về việc liệu Đức có định đặt mua thuốc của Merck hay không.

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Xuyên tâm liên thì hữu hiệu trước khi dính covid 5 ngày.

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Cãi nhau vì món ăn: miếng ăn là miếng tồi tàn.

Japan’s curry inflames tensions with Korea
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/12/japans-island-shaped-curry-inflames-tensions-with-korean-neighbours


A seafood curry sold in Japan includes mounds of rice shaped to resemble the Takeshima islands, which Koreans refer to as Dokdo.

The rocky islets, which lie roughly equidistant between the two countries in the Japan Sea – or the East Sea according to Koreans – are administered by South Korea, but Japan insists they are an integral part of its territory.

The dish at the centre of the controversy is served at a restaurant in Shimane, the Japanese prefecture closest to the disputed territory. The dish features a Japanese flag planted in one of the mounds of rice surrounded by a “sea” of curry sauce.


Ði tới Shimane mình muốn cho lớn chuyện thì đớp cơm cà ri. (Chiếc thuyền nản)

Việt nam bán chè xôi nước rồi cắm thêm cờ tam tài xong đặt tên là chè Hoàng sa, chè Trường sa cũng được.

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Tàu cộng càu nhàu tàu Mỹ:

Chinese military condemns US and Canada over warships in Taiwan Strait
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/17/chinese-military-condemns-us-and-canada-over-warships-in-taiwan-strait


China sent around 150 aircraft into the zone over a four-day period beginning on 1 October in a further heightening of tension between Beijing and Taipei that has sparked concern internationally.

The US military said the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Dewey sailed through the narrow waterway that separates Taiwan from its neighbour China along with the Canadian frigate HMCS Winnipeg on Thursday and Friday.

US Navy ships have been transiting the strait roughly monthly, to the anger of Beijing, which has accused Washington of stoking regional tensions. US allies occasionally also send ships through the strait, including Britain last month (https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/british-frigate-sails-through-taiwan-strait-2021-09-27/).


Kỷ sở bất dục vật thi ư láng giềng.

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Tàu cộng càu nhàu tàu Mỹ


Việt cộng thua Lào cộng vì tàu cộng thiên vị tàu...lửa.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAF-kYdqzd8

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Bù lại thì Tàu cộng có gởi tàu chiến ra canh chừng Hoàng sa Trường sa dùm Việt cộng rồi đó. Việt nam làm chủ, Trung cộng quản lý.

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Đắt như tôm hùm tươi:

Smuggling Australian rock lobsters into China a national security threat
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/22/smuggling-australian-rock-lobsters-into-china-a-national-security-threat-hong-kong-customs-chief-says


Lobsters are one of a number of products from Australia that China has restricted imports of as relations between the countries plunged.But they remain a prized and much sought-after delicacy in mainland China.

Imports of Australian rock lobsters to Hong Kong – which maintains no restrictions on the crustaceans – have since sky-rocketed, with suspicions that the vast majority end up on mainland tables.

In June, Bloomberg reported that Hong Kong has become the world’s largest importer of Australian lobsters, with monthly trade growing more than 2,000% from October to April.

Last week, Hong Kong and mainland authorities seized 5,300 kilograms of smuggled Australian lobsters, worth around US$540,000, and arrested 13 people.

Lobsters are just one of a cornucopia of in-demand goods that gangs smuggle into China.

Recent speedboat smuggling busts have netted everything from luxury watches, handbags and shoes to endangered animal parts, cosmetics, wines, whiskey and cigars.

Chuyện ăn ở tại lòng ta
Chữ Tôm kia lớn bằng ba chữ Tàu.
(Thị trường tân thanh)

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Thằng hề lại xuất hiện.
Tokyo một phen hoảng loạn.




Man stabbed, 16 others hurt as attacker starts fire on Tokyo train


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfX2AzpH3NM


A man dressed in Batman’s Joker costume was arrested for attempted murder after a knife and fire attack on a Keio Line train in Tokyo on Sunday night left 17 people injured, one seriously, authorities said, as revelers were heading to the city center for Halloween.

Police arrested the 24-year-old man, who identified himself as Kyota Hattori, at the scene. A male passenger in his 70s was in critical condition after being stabbed in the chest as the train was moving around 8 p.m.

Hattori was quoted by investigators as saying he “wanted to kill people and be given the death penalty,” and hoped to do so if he killed two or more people. He also told them he had scattered lighter fluid.

According to the police, Hattori referenced an incident in August on an Odakyu Electric Railway commuter train in Tokyo in which a man stabbed and slashed 10 passengers amid heightened security for the Tokyo Olympics.

The other victims in Sunday’s incident ranged in age from their teens to their 60s. In addition to the seriously injured man, 16 people sustained minor injuries including smoke inhalation.

The incident, which caused panic among passengers who scrambled to escape through train windows, took place on a 10-car train bound for Shinjuku, a busy station in central Tokyo, from Hachioji in the west of the capital.

Investigative sources and eyewitnesses said the suspect was brandishing what looked like a kitchen knife and holding a plastic bottle in his other hand as he walked through the train.

After riding the train in the eighth car from the front and stabbing the man in his 70s, Hattori moved to the sixth car where he scattered the fluid and burnt a seat. The train then filled with smoke.

A male passenger, who was about a meter away from Hattori, said the knife looked like it was stained with fake blood. “I thought it was a Halloween prank,” he said.

The limited express train made an emergency stop at Kokuryo Station in Chofu, western Tokyo, and the fire was put out about 30 minutes later after more than 40 firefighting vehicles were mobilized.

“I heard a loud bang and saw flames and smoke in the back. Everyone was panicking,” a male passenger said.

Photos and videos of the incident, which took place on the day of Japan’s general election, were posted on social media by eyewitnesses. People were seen climbing out of train windows onto the platform after the doors failed to immediately open when the train stopped. Screaming could be heard and someone saying, “Run away.”

In a video posted to social media, the assailant was seen dressed in clothes that resemble those of the Joker, the villain from the Batman franchise. After the train had stopped, he was seen sitting alone on a train seat, calmly smoking a cigarette. Another video showed the same man surrounded by police.

The man reportedly did not resist being taken into custody.

One of the passengers, who said, “I saw a woman crying and shivering. I thought I was going to die,” was reminded of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo cult in 1995 that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000.

A number of attacks on trains and station premises in the Tokyo area have occurred recently.

On Oct. 15, two men were stabbed by a man at JR Ueno Station, and two people were injured in a Tokyo subway station in late August after a man sprayed sulfuric acid in the face of another man.

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"Chuột chạy bờ ao chó chạy hàng rào, chỗ nào cũng thúi".

Vietnam’s addiction to coal shows tough climate choices developing Asia faces on emissions pledges

Coal already accounts for about a third of the country’s operational energy mix and its capacity is set to increase by 2030 under a new draft development plan
Most of Vietnam’s operational coal capacity has been funded by firms from China, Japan, South Korea, and to a smaller extent, the US – all countries that are trying to decarbonise

"...
A recent report from non-profit financial think-tank Carbon Tracker showed that five Asian countries – China, India, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam – are responsible for 80 per cent of the world’s planned coal-fired power stations.
..."

(more) (https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3153361/vietnams-addiction-coal-shows-tough-climate-choices)

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Vỏ tàu, ruột Đức.
Đồng tiền là tiên là Phật. Việt Nam nên đi biểu tình
trước nghị viện Châu Âu bài xích Đức bán động cơ
tàu chiến, tàu ngầm cho Trung Quốc.

German engine technology found in Chinese warships

Engines developed in Germany can evade export control bans due to their status as a so-called dual-use technology, a German media investigation has revealed.

https://static.dw.com/image/43370917_303.jpg
The Chinese navy has been carrying out maneuvers in the South China Sea

Several types of Chinese navy warships are powered by engines that were either developed or built by German manufacturers, an investigation by public broadcaster ARD and the Welt am Sonntag newspaper revealed Saturday.

The two companies involved are MTU in Friedrichshafen and the French branch of the Volkswagen subsidiary MAN, according to the report.

Both companies told the media they have always complied with export control regulations and have put into the public record that they have been involved with China's military.

The details on MTU's engine deliveries in China were found on the publicly available website of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

SIPRI catalogs arms deals and weapons transfers for publications and reports.

Dual-use technologies fall into a 'gray area'

According to SIPRI, MTU was a regular supplier of engines for Luyang III class missile destroyers through a licensed production plant in China until at least 2020.

https://static.dw.com/image/59741167_401.jpg
China's Luyang class destroyers are equipped with state-of-the-art weapons systems

Additionally, MTU reportedly supplied engines that were used in China's Song-class submarines.

However, the company's headquarters told ARD and Welt am Sonntag that they had "definitively stopped" supplying engines for the submarines.

The company claims it had not "entered into any contracts with the Chinese Defense Ministry or armed forces."

Yet, with the establishment of a joint venture in China in 2010, the head of the company known as Tognum at the time had noted deliveries of "marine engines for the Chinese navy and coast guard."

Likewise, in 2002 SEMT Pielstick, the French subsidiary of MAN, published news of its delivery of PA6 engines manufactured for a new frigate generation under license in China on the company website. That item can still be located on the site's archive pages.

SIPRI noted that the MTU engine installed on China's warships is a so-called dual-use technology not requiring an export license.

"There's a gray area there," said Siemon Wezeman of SIPRI.

EU's toothless arms embargo

The Chinese navy is commissioning more Luyang III destroyers this year. Ships in this class come equipped with surface-to-air missiles and cruise missiles.

China commissioned the Kaifeng in July to commemorate 100 years since the founding of the ruling Chinese Communist Party.

Following the massacre of students and others protesting for democracy in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the EU imposed an arms embargo but with limited binding effect.

Sebastian Rossner, a Cologne-based lawyer and export expert, told Germany's ARD public broadcaster: "Because the EU arms embargo on China was not formally decided in accordance with the European treaties, certain exports of ship engines may also be permissible for the Chinese navy."

"If you want to change this, the EU must either amend the Dual-Use Regulation or formally impose an arms embargo," he added.

China has aggressively asserted territorial claims to disputed islands in the South China Sea in recent years, raising tensions with the United States and its European allies.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned one year ago of "rapidly increasing arms dynamics" in the Indo-Pacific region.

In August, the German frigate Bayern set off from Wilhelmshaven for a six-month journey to the Indo-Pacific.

Germany has sought to strengthen its presence in the region, and a Chinese stop was meant to help defuse tensions over the naval mission. But in September, China denied Germany's request to allow the Bayern to make a port call in Shanghai.

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Thu tiền khờ:

Singapore to start charging Covid patients who are ‘unvaccinated by choice’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/09/singapore-to-start-charging-covid-patients-who-are-unvaccinated-by-choice


Singapore will no longer pay the Covid-19 medical bills for people “unvaccinated by choice”, the government said, as the country grapples with a surge in cases.

The government currently covers the full Covid medical costs for all Singaporeans, as well as permanent residents and long-term visa holders, unless they test positive soon after returning home from overseas.

However from 8 December, the government said it will “begin charging Covid-19 patients who are unvaccinated by choice”.

Covid-related medical bills will still be paid for people who aren’t eligible for a vaccine. The government will also foot the bill for individuals who are partially vaccinated until 31 December, giving them time to get a second dose.

Có chích thì chích cho xong
Đừng để mắc dịch đau lòng bà con
(Corona dao)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoRQtmopp-s

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Bóc lột: thời giờ là tiền... lương.

Japanese train driver sues after wages docked 28p over one-minute delay
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/11/japanese-train-driver-sues-wages-docked-one-minute-delay


The driver, who has not been named by Japanese media, is seeking the ¥43 plus ¥13 overtime, as well as ¥2.2m damages for the mental anguish caused by his employer’s decision, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.

The dispute arose after the driver, who had been scheduled to move an empty train to a depot at Okayama station in western Japan, realised he was waiting at the wrong platform.

His mistake held up the driver transfer at the correct platform by one minute and caused a further one-minute delay to the train’s arrival at the depot, the newspaper said.

The firm initially withheld ¥85 for the two-minute delay but reduced the penalty to correspond with a one-minute delay after the driver complained to the local labour standards office.


Của một đồng, công một phút.

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Chó chết:

Covid health workers kill dog while owner was in quarantine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/15/outcry-in-china-after-covid-health-workers-kill-dog-while-owner-was-in-quarantine


On Friday a resident of Shangrao, in Jiangxi province, posted allegations on Weibo that her pet dog was beaten to death by health workers inside her apartment while she was quarantining in a hotel that didn’t allow animals. In video purportedly from her apartment’s security camera posted online, one of two PPE-wearing individuals is shown hitting the dog with what looks like a crowbar.

It follows a similar case earlier this month when cats belonging to a Chengdu resident quarantining as a close contact were euthanised. The animals had not been tested for the virus.

In September, Harbin officials were accused of overreacting when they euthanised three cats that had returned positive readings for the virus while their owner was in hospital.

Sát sinh chi vị dịch.
(Kinh Dịch 2019)

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Cha chung không ai cười:

North Korea bans laughing, drinking for 11 days on 10th anniversary of Kim Jong-il's death
https://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-bans-laughing-drinking-185544410.html


For the 10th anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death, North Koreans were required to enter an 11-day mourning period and adhere to several bans the government imposed, such as laughing, drinking alcohol and participating in leisure activities, a resident of Sinuiju told Radio Free Asia (https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/mourning-12132021210022.html) (RFA).

“In the past many people who were caught drinking or being intoxicated during the mourning period were arrested and treated as ideological criminals. They were taken away and never seen again,” the source said, adding that celebrating birthdays and mourning lost loved ones are also not allowed during this period.

Local police were also informed to stay vigilant for anyone “who fail[s] to appear appropriately bereaved,” another source said.

Một nụ cười là mười viên thuốc độc.

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Phá tượng:

Jesus statue smashed in spate of attacks on India’s Christian community
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/27/jesus-statue-smashed-in-spate-of-attacks-on-indias-christian-community


Amid growing intolerance and violence against India’s Christian minority, who make up about 2% of India’s population, several Christmas events were targeted by Hindu right wing groups, who alleged Christians were using festivities to force Hindus to convert.

In Agra in Uttar Pradesh, members of right wing Hindu groups burned effigies of Santa Claus outside missionary-led schools and accused Christian missionaries of using Christmas celebrations to lure people in.

In Assam, two protesters in saffron, the signature colour of Hindu nationalism, entered a Presbyterian church on Christmas night and disrupted proceedings, demanding that all Hindus leave the building.

In state of Haryana, on Christmas Eve, an evening celebration at a school in Pataudi was disrupted by members of a right wing Hindu vigilante group. Storming into the school shouting slogans such as “Jai Shri Ram”, now a clarion call for Hindu nationalism, they claimed that the festive event, which included Christmas songs and dance and teachings of the bible, was being used for “religious conversion under the garb of celebrating Christmas” and alleged they were “brainwashing children through drama and speeches into accepting Christianity”.

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us, above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
(J. Lennon)

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Con Sen: Cao mên sắp thành Cao ly?

PM’s son anointed as Cambodia’s next leader
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/29/who-is-hun-manet-pms-son-anointed-as-cambodias-next-leader


At last week’s congress, the Cambodian People’s party (CPP), which holds every parliamentary seat, voted unanimously for 44-year-old Hun Manet to succeed his father.

In 2017, Hun Sen had the main opposition party dissolved amid accusations of a plot to overthrow the government, meaning life under Hun Manet is almost inevitable. The burning question now among observers is whether he will follow in the dictatorial path of his father.

Very little is known about Hun Manet, says Dr Lee Morgenbesser, senior lecturer at Griffith University’s school of government and international relations in Australia.

Con như cha là nhà có gốc.

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Nghèo còn gặp cô vi:

Covid crisis leaves Sri Lanka on brink of bankruptcy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/02/covid-crisis-sri-lanka-bankruptcy-poverty-pandemic-food-prices


The meltdown faced by the government, led by the strongman president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is in part caused by the immediate impact of the Covid crisis and the loss of tourism but is compounded by high government spending and tax cuts eroding state revenues, vast debt repayments to China and foreign exchange reserves at their lowest levels in a decade. Inflation has meanwhile been spurred by the government printing money to pay off domestic loans and foreign bonds.

Inflation hit a record high of 11.1% in November and escalating prices have left those who were previously well off struggling to feed their families, while basic goods are now unaffordable for many. After Rajapaksa declared Sri Lanka to be in an economic emergency, the military was given power to ensure essential items, including rice and sugar, were sold at set government prices – but it has done little to ease people’s woes.

In an usual approach, government minister Ramesh Pathirana said they hoped to settle their past oil debts with Iran by paying them with tea, sending them $5m worth of tea every month in order to save “ much needed currency”.

Kiếp này nợ trả chưa xong
Làm chi thì cũng nợ chồng kiếp sau
(Đoạn trường tân thanh)

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Dinh tê rồi lại dinh ni:

Man who crossed into North Korea ‘defected to South in 2020’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/03/man-who-crossed-into-north-korea-defected-to-south-in-2020


A ministry official later told reporters they believed the man, who is in his 30s, came to the South in November 2020. “Footage showed he had an identical look and dress as the person who defected from the North in 2020,” the official said.

When the suspected defector entered from North Korea in 2020, he was not detained until 14 hours after crossing the border, prompting a vow from South Korea’s military to beef up security.

In Saturday’s case, the person’s presence near the border went unnoticed for nearly three hours after CCTV cameras recorded the person scaling a fence and tripping alarms, the military said in a briefing on Sunday.

South Korean troops launched a search operation after spotting the person at 9.20pm local time, but could not stop their crossing into the North at about 10.40pm.


Gã kia dại nết hư đời
Mà con người thế là người đong đưa
(Đoạn Hàn tân thanh)

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Dinh tê rồi lại dinh ni:

Man who crossed into North Korea ‘defected to South in 2020’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/03/man-who-crossed-into-north-korea-defected-to-south-in-2020


Gã kia dại nết hư đời
Mà con người thế là người đong đưa
(Đoạn Hàn tân thanh)



Chắc anh lính Bắc Hàn muốn trêu tuần cảnh Nam Hàn. Có đi có lại mới toại lòng nhau.

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Khi nào dân nổi can qua...

Dozens of protesters and police dead amid Kazakhstan unrest
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/protesters-police-die-amid-kazakhstan-unrest


Witnesses in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, described scenes of chaos on Thursday, with government buildings being stormed or set on fire and widespread looting. Many of those demonstrating said the protests had begun peacefully earlier in the week, and turned violent after a heavy-handed government response.

Many protesters said they had been prompted to come out earlier in the week as a result of long-simmering frustrations with the political and economic situation in the country, Bukeeva said. However, on Wednesday, the situation turned violent, with some claiming provocateurs had arrived to deliberately cause trouble, and others noting that police were almost entirely absent from the city centre.

Events have escalated quickly since the protests started over a rise in fuel prices in the west of the country over the weekend. They quickly spread, and by Tuesday thousands of people had taken to the streets in Almaty.
Bóng cờ đám cháy xa xa
Sầu lên ngọn ải oán ra giữa đường
(Chinh phạt ngâm)

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Giặc Kim Chánh Ân chưa tới là đã bị giặc covid oánh tan tác chim muông rồi.

Lực lượng Mỹ ở Hàn Quốc nâng cảnh báo COVID-19 vì ca nhiễm cao kỷ lục

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Tư liệu - Căn cứ quân sự của Mỹ ở Yongin, Hàn Quốc

Lực lượng Mỹ ở Hàn Quốc (USFK) nâng cảnh báo bảo vệ y tế của mình vào ngày thứ Bảy sau khi công bố số liệu cho thấy số ca nhiễm virus corona mới hàng tuần ở mức cao nhất, 682 ca.

Các ca mới nâng tổng số ca nhiễm lên 3.027. Lực lượng Mỹ cho biết gần 90% binh sĩ, gia đình và những người có liên hệ khác đã được tiêm ngừa.

Tại nước láng giềng Nhật Bản, ngày thứ Sáu, Thủ tướng Fumio Kishida cho biết chính phủ sẽ thắt chặt các biện pháp hạn chế ở ba khu vực có các căn cứ quân sự của Mỹ để ngăn chặn một đợt gia tăng các ca COVID-19 mà một số quan chức cho rằng các căn cứ này góp phần gây nên.

Kế hoạch "Bravo Plus" của quân đội Mỹ ở Hàn Quốc sẽ cấm ăn uống tại các nhà hàng bên ngoài căn cứ và vào các trung tâm thương mại trong nhà, quán bar, hộp đêm, phòng tập thể dục, công viên giải trí, rạp hát và tiệm mát-xa, lực lượng Mỹ nói trên website ngày thứ Sáu.

Du hành đến thủ đô Seoul cũng bị cấm, ngoại trừ công vụ hoặc những người sống hoặc làm việc ở đó, nhưng các hoạt động bao gồm mua sắm tạp hóa và thờ phượng tôn giáo được phép tiếp tục.

"Do sự hiện diện liên tục của COVID-19 ở USFK và Hàn Quốc, USFK đã gia tăng điều kiện bảo vệ y tế cho kế hoạch 'Bravo Plus' khắp toàn bán đảo," lực lượng Mỹ nói.

Hàn Quốc trước đó đã báo cáo số ca nhiễm hàng ngày cao kỉ lục với khoảng 7.800 người sau khi nước này nới lỏng các quy định giãn cách xã hội theo kế hoạch "sống chung với COVID-19" vào tháng 11, khiến nhà chức trách phải khôi phục các biện pháp hạn chế khắc nghiệt hơn vào tháng sau.

Cơ quan Kiểm soát và Phòng ngừa Dịch bệnh Hàn Quốc báo cáo 3.510 ca nhiễm mới cho ngày thứ Sáu, nâng tổng số lên 661.015 ca, với 5.986 ca tử vong.

Bộ Quốc phòng Hàn Quốc cho biết 19 ca nhiễm mới đã được xác nhận trong số các quân nhân Hàn Quốc tính đến ngày thứ Sáu, với tổng số ca nhiễm là 3.403.

/* nguồn: https://www.voatiengviet.com/a/luc-luong-my-o-han-quoc-nang-canh-bao-covid-19-vi-ca-nhiem-cao-ki-luc/6388454.html

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Thiếu phụ Nam dương: trai dại gái mang

Indonesian woman flogged 100 times for adultery, man gets 15 lashes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/13/indonesian-woman-flogged-100-times-for-adultery-man-gets-15-lashes


Ivan Najjar Alavi, the head of the general investigation division at the East Aceh prosecutors’ office, said the court handed down a harsher sentence for the woman after she confessed to investigators she had sex outside of her marriage.

Judges found it difficult to convict the man, who was then the head of the East Aceh fishery agency and also married, because he denied all wrongdoing, Alavi said.

As an alternative ruling, the judges found the married man guilty of “showing affection to a female partner who is not his wife” after the couple were caught at a palm oil plantation in 2018.

He was initially sentenced to 30 lashes but his successful appeal at the sharia supreme court in Aceh reduced the sentence to 15.

Thương nhau mấy quật cũng liều
Mấy roi cũng chịu mấy hèo cũng ăn
(Ca dao)

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Từ Bibi hỉ xả:

Benjamin Netanyahu ‘near to plea bargain’ in corruption trial
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/16/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-plea-bargain-trial


Israeli media were dominated on Sunday by the news that Netanyahu, the chair of the Likud party and leader of the opposition since being ousted last year from a 12-year-stint in government, has reached advanced talks with the state attorney’s office.

In the reported agreement, Netanyahu will admit to two counts of breach of trust, resulting in a suspended prison sentence and a few months of prison time that will be converted to community service.

The major remaining sticking point appears to be the insistence of the attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, on a charge of moral turpitude – a formal declaration that Netanyahu is desperate to avoid as it could bar him from political life for seven years.


Nghĩ mình phương diện quốc gia
Gia-vê ngó xuống người ta cười vào
(Chính trường tân thanh)

[Triển]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XExdNErAac

[ốc]

Thuyết âm u:

India’s ‘love jihad’ conspiracy theory turns lethal
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/they-cut-him-into-pieces-indias-love-jihad-conspiracy-theory-turns-lethal
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/21/they-cut-him-into-pieces-indias-love-jihad-conspiracy-theory-turns-lethal)

Mullah, a 24-year-old Muslim man from the southern Indian state of Karnataka, was killed in September – allegedly for falling in love with a Hindu girl.

In India, interfaith marriages have always carried a social stigma and faced resistance by all faiths as they often require religious conversion.

But, in recent years, since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) came to power, such unions – particularly between Hindu women and Muslim men – have become a dangerous political flashpoint due to a discredited but pervasive conspiracy theory known as “love jihad”.

Those who believe in the theory claim that Muslim men are luring Hindu women into marriage on false pretences, in order to convert them to Islam and ensure Muslim dominance over the Hindus in India.

Cuộc tình thương đau êm êm trôi theo nước xuôi về đâu?
(Phạm Duy)

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Tự lăng xê: mua danh 30 vạn

China hires western TikTokers to polish its image during 2022 Winter Olympics
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/22/china-hires-western-tiktokers-to-polish-its-image-during-2022-winter-olympics


Vipinder Jaswal, a US-based Newsweek contributor and former Fox News and HSBC executive, signed a $300,000 contract with China’s consulate general in New York to “strategise and execute” an influencer campaign promoting the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics in the US.

The contract, which has been registered with the US Department of Justice, lays out a detailed public relations strategy. According to the agreement, between 22 November and 13 March, when the Winter Paralympics end, each influencer will be asked to produce three to five “deliverables”, meaning content that is crafted to fit the targeted audience. Jaswal claims his company has received up to 50 pitches from influencers ranging from former Olympians to entrepreneurs.

Jaswal, who was born in the UK, received $210,000 shortly after the contract was sealed with Chinese diplomats, he told the Observer. He promised Beijing that his influencers would bring an estimated 3 million impressions on social media platforms frequently used by young Americans.


Có tiền mua tiếng cũng được.
(Châm ngôn)

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No kidding:

China’s young adults are resisting marriage and babies
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/24/china-generation-z-resisting-marriage-and-babies


Census data from the years 2000 and 2010 show that college-educated young Chinese between the ages of 25 and 29 are most likely to be single. And women in developed Chinese cities, in particular, have fewer ambitions to get married.

On social media and in daily life, the resistance to early marriage is strongly on display. In 2017, for example, a Shanghai-based chamber choir performance struck a chord with millions of young Chinese people facing the same dilemma across the country. The viral song Spring Festival Survival Guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdXowqlv5U&feature=emb_logo) – or What I Do Is For Your Own Good in English – told insisting Chinese parents: “My dear family, please just let me live my own life.”

Tình gia thất nào ai chẳng ớn
Dòm mẫu thân từ phụ thấy thương
(Thân phụ ngâm)

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Ngày quốc hận:

Myanmar’s junta struggles to prevent protests planned for coup anniversary
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/31/myanmars-junta-threatens-protesters-planning-coup-anniversary-action


Myanmar’s military junta has threatened sedition and terrorism charges against anyone who shuts their business, claps or bang pots on Tuesday, as it tries to stamp out any protests planned to mark the one-year anniversary of the coup.

On Tuesday, activists plan to hold a “silent strike” and have called for members of the public to stay at home between 10am and 4pm. At the end of the strike, people will clap or bang pots, an act that is traditionally thought to drive out evil spirits, and which is often used as a form of protest against the military.

The junta has warned the public not to participate in such protests, announcing in junta-controlled media that people who do so will face a variety of legal charges. Over the past week, business owners have been sent notices from local administrators, reiterating such threats, and warning their property could be confiscated. They have been required to sign a document to pledge their agreement.

Some shop owners who had told customers that their businesses will be closed on 1 February have already been arrested, according to local media outlet the Irrawaddy.

Many businesses are proposing getting around the military threats by dramatically raising prices, opening only for a few hours and closing for “lunch break”, or keeping their store open but not selling items.


Một phen thay đổi sơn hà
Mảnh thân chiếc lá biết là về đâu?
Trên lầu cao dưới cầu nước chảy
Phận đã đành trâm gãy bình rơi
(Nguyễn đình Chiểu)

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Đấu tranh bất hành động: Bãi công, bãi khóa, bãi thị, bãi hưu...

Silent strike empties streets in Myanmar on anniversary of coup
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/01/silent-strike-empties-streets-in-myanmar-on-anniversary-of-coup


Streets were deserted and shops abandoned across many of Myanmar’s towns and cities on Monday, as the public defied threats by the military junta and stayed at home in a “silent strike” on the first anniversary of the country’s coup.

Some opened their stores but left them unattended to get around the threats. In one image shared widely on social media, a seller mockingly left a sign next to their food stall that said: “All menu items are available.” Beside it, empty bowls were labelled “beans”, “tofu” and “kale”.

Before the anniversary of the coup, the US, Britain and Canada announced new, coordinated sanctions against Myanmar officials, including the attorney general, Thida Oo, the supreme court chief justice, Tun Tun Oo, and the anti-corruption commission chair, Tin Oo.

Hông lẽ nguyên đám đó là họ hàng với nhau, tên gì mà toàn là "ầu ầu" còn hơn cả giai thừa của 100.

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Nước thanh bình hai ba năm cũ
Súng gươm trao phụ nữ từ đây
(Chiến phụ ngâm)

Mothers of the Myanmar revolution
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/04/mothers-myanmar-revolution-i-worry-about-whether-he-has-warm-clothes


Peh Reh is one of a rising number of young men and women across Myanmar leaving their families to take up arms as the country is plunged into violence, poverty and mass displacement, with more than 1,400 civilians killed (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/01/myanmar-coup-a-year-under-military-rule-in-numbers) in military crackdowns on the pro-democracy movement since February 2021.

As the people of Myanmar endureinternet blackouts, arbitrary arrests, a ruthless curtailing of freedom of speech, and escalating military attacks on civilian areas, many of the country’s youth have decided armed resistance is their only option.

Some mothers have joined the revolution themselves, including Shwe Yun Eain*, a 23-year-old farmer from Sagaing region’s Myaung township. In October she left her three-year-old daughter with her mother and went off to fight.

She has spent the past three months training with the country’s first all-female armed resistance group, the Myaung Women Warriors (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/16/we-are-warriors-women-join-fight-against-military-in-myanmar).

Nước khe cơm ống gian nan
Dãi dầu nghìn dặm lầm than một đời
Buổi chiến trận mạng người như rác
Phận đã đành đạn lạc tên rơi
Lập loè ngọn lửa ma trơi
Tiếng oan văng vẳng tối trời càng thương
(Nguyễn đình Chiểu)

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Trông người mà nghĩ đến ta:

shock waves from Ukraine reach Taiwan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/of-course-i-worry-shockwaves-from-ukraine-reach-taiwan


There is speculation about whether Beijing might use this crisis to make its move, while the world is focused on Ukraine. “China may think about using military action against Taiwan at any moment,” Taiwan’s foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said earlier this month. The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, warned (https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4449513) “the shock will echo around the world” if Ukraine was endangered, specifically citing Taiwan.

The crisis has raised questions about Taiwan’s preparedness and the commitment of its friends. The threat of invasion has loomed for decades, but when the day comes Taiwan will need help to survive, and so people are watching closely how the international community is responding to Ukraine.

Lannie, a 20-year-old student, says she fears that China appears to be helping Russia, and that could mean Russia helps China later on. “I don’t think we will have war today, but now I see everything happening I’m a little bit worried.”

Several analysts argue that this week is a wake-up call for all western governments that have been strong on the rhetoric about Taiwan but haven’t yet really had to act.

Online, many Taiwanese commenters fear those governments have already shown how far they are willing to go, and it is not enough.


Mỹ nhân tự cổ như danh kỹ
Thất hứa nhân gian mấy chục lần

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Unlucky 13:

At least 13 people dead after tourist boat sinks off Vietnam coast
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/26/people-dead-after-tourist-boat-sinks-off-vietnam-coast


The accident occurred as the vessel carrying 39 local tourists and crew members was returning to Hội An from Cu Lao Cham island – a popular spot for diving, snorkelling and water sports.


Cũng có kẻ vào sông ra bể
Cánh buồm mây chạy xế gió đông
Gặp cơn giông tố giữa dòng
Đem thân vùi dập vào lòng kình ngư
(Nguyễn đình Chiểu)

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Bế quan toả covid:

China shuts down city of 17.5m people in bid to halt Covid outbreak
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/13/china-shuts-down-business-centres-in-bid-to-halt-covid-outbreak


Everyone in Shenzhen, a finance and technology centre that abuts Hong Kong, will undergo three rounds of testing after 60 new cases were reported Sunday. All businesses except those that supply food, fuel and other necessities were ordered to close or work from home.

Shenzhen is home to some of China’s most prominent companies, including telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies Ltd., electric car brand BYD Auto, Ping An Insurance Co. and Tencent Holding, operator of the popular WeChat message service.

Một nền Thẩm quyến khoá xuân hai tuần
(Dịch trường tân thanh)

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Tàu còn có chuyện để né tránh ngoại giao. Trong khi Đức thứ Sáu này thả cửa hết, mặc cho vi trùng hoành hành. Họ đã hết cách rồi. Sống chung với vi trùng và Putin. Nghe tân bộ trưởng bộ Kinh Tế hôm qua nói, mỗi ngày sẽ cách xa nguồn năng lượng của gấu mập vĩ đại, đến cuối năm nay Đức sẽ độc lập với Nga (lệ thuộc vào kẻ khác). Giờ tới đó, chắc sẽ còn những chương trình táo bạo như ... mỗi Chủ Nhật bỏ chạy xe hơi để tiết kiệm nhiên liệu.

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Bớt xài xe hơi cũng tốt cho con người, cho quốc gia, cho môi trường, cho hoà bình. Thế giới oánh nhau hoài cũng vì tranh giành những vùng đất có dầu. Bỏ dầu xăng thành phật.

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Bớt xài xe hơi cũng tốt cho con người, cho quốc gia, cho môi trường, cho hoà bình. Thế giới oánh nhau hoài cũng vì tranh giành những vùng đất có dầu. Bỏ dầu xăng thành phật.


Năng vận động.
Giảm thịt
Ăn đậu hũ Thanh Sơn. :z13:

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Việt Nam có một kẻ khùng


Đại tá Lê Thế Mẫu kiên trì ca ngợi TT Putin và tin vào thắng lợi của Nga ở Ukraine
14 tháng 3 2022

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Người dân ở Berlin mang hình Putin, Lukashenko ra ví với Hitler trong biểu tình chống cuộc xâm lăng của Nga ở Ukraine

Đại tá Lê Thế Mẫu, nguyên Trưởng Phòng thông tin KHQS, Viện Chiến lược Quốc phòng, trở thành nhà bình luận hàng đầu của đài báo Việt Nam về Nga-Ukraine và tình hình quốc tế.

Trước đó, ông đã khẳng định góc nhìn của mình là ủng hộ viên của Tổng thống Nga, qua phát biểu trên Sputnik được các đài báo VN giới thiệu lại, rằng "Tổng thống Nga Putin là chính khách uyên bác" trong bài đăng ngày 21/12/2018.

Trả lời báo Sputnik của Nga, bản tiếng Việt trong tuần qua ông khẳng định "sau tất cả, nước Nga sẽ chiến thắng".

Ngoài ra, ông tin rằng "Tiêu diệt phát xít mới ở Ukraina là cơ hội duy nhất cứu thế giới khỏi chiến tranh mới ở châu Âu" (Sputnik).

Vì Bộ Ngoại giao Việt Nam không phát biểu nhiều về cuộc chiến tại Ukraine, có thể coi quan điểm được truyền thông chính thống ở Việt Nam đăng tải phần nào phản ánh cách nhìn, và mong muốn của một bộ phận quan trọng các quan chức - quân sự nước này trong chiến sự tại Ukraine.

Đại tá Mẫu không chỉ được coi như chiến lược gia quân sự mà còn được báo chí VN giới thiệu như một chuyên gia phân tích chính trị quốc tế.

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Biểu tình ở Scotland chống chiến tranh do Nga tiến hành ở Ukraine. Đại tá Lê Thế Mẫu ở Việt Nam gọi thanh niên người Scotland tình nguyện giúp Ukraine "là khủng bố Hồi giáo"

Hôm 11/03/2022, đại tá Mẫu nêu ra một số nhận định về hướng đi của cuộc chiến tại Ukraine.

Theo ông, nói trên trang Viet Times thì:

"Diễn biến chiến sự đang hướng đến kịch bản: chính quyền Ukraine phải chấp nhận thất bại, chấm dứt chiến sự và đáp ứng các yêu cầu của Nga. Đó là, chính quyền Kiev phải công nhận vị thế trung lập, không gia nhập Nato; công nhận chủ quyền của DPR và LPR; công nhận Crimea thuộc chủ quyền của Nga."

Hôm 22/02, hai ngày trước khi Nga tấn công Ukraine, đại tá Lê Thế Mẫu nói với VTC News rằng việc Nga công nhận hai cộng hòa Donetsk và Luhansk là nhằm "ngăn chặn hành động phiêu lưu quân sự của chính quyền Kiev".

Cùng lúc, ông nêu ra cáo buộc nghiêm trọng với Ukraine, nước đang có tổng thống là người gốc Do Thái, có thân nhân bị phát-xít Đức hủy diệt trong Thế Chiến II rằng đây là xã hội đã phát-xít hóa:

"Tuy nhiên, dù theo kịch bản nào thì tình hình Ukraine sẽ còn lâu mới có thể ổn định được vì tư tưởng phát xít mới và quốc xã mới đã ăn sâu vào nhận thức của cả một thế hệ người Ukraine kể từ sau khi giành được độc lập từ Liên Xô năm 1991."

Theo ông Mẫu, quân tình nguyện từ châu Âu, Mỹ, Canada sang giúp Ukraine chống Nga "chính là khủng bố Al Qaeda mới".

Tuy thế, vị đại tá ở Việt Nam không nêu bằng chứng vì sao các thanh niên Scotland, Anh, Đức, Ba Lan... gia nhập binh đoàn tình nguyện Ukraine lại phải trở thành "chiến binh Hồi giáo, khủng bố" chống lại các nước sinh ra họ, nơi đa số dân theo Ki Tô giáo.

Mặt khác, lời của ông Mẫu về người Ukraine khá gần với nhận định của Tổng thống Nga Putin rằng "người dân Ukraine đã bị tẩy não" (brainwashed), sau khi chiến sự không diễn ra theo ý của quân Nga và không có cảnh dân Ukraine "đổ ra đường cầm hoa đón chào quân Nga", mà trái lại, họ phản đối Nga kịch liệt.

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Bài của Mariko Oi trên BBC News hôm 10/03 đánh giá vì sao Việt Nam, Ấn Độ và Trung Quốc không lên án cuộc xâm lăng của Nga tại Ukraine như đa số các thành viên LHQ

Đánh giá của chiến lược gia Việt Nam cho rằng "quân Nga làm nhiệm vụ khó khăn là vừa đánh địch, vừa bảo vệ thường dân" và không nói gì về chuyện hàng triệu dân Ukraine, gồm nhiều người Việt Nam ở Ukraine bỏ chạy sang EU trước bom đạn Nga.

Trong các phát biểu của mình, đại tá Mẫu tỏ ra kiên định ủng hộ Tổng thống Putin, ngay cả sau khi ông Putin lên án kịch liệt cố lãnh tụ Liên Xô là Lenin.

Về cơ bản, luận điểm của ông Putin nói chính quyền Xô Viết thời kỳ đầu của Lenin đã "sai lầm tai hại" khi công nhận quyền tự quyết của các dân tộc bị trị trong Đế chế Nga.

Chính sách này sau được phát triển thành chiến lược của Đảng CS Nga ủng hộ các dân tộc bị trị, thuộc địa ở châu Á đấu tranh chống đế quốc.

Đây cũng là điều khiến Nguyễn Ái Quốc từ Pháp sang Nga tìm đến "chủ nghĩa Lenin" để có sự hỗ trợ giành độc lập cho Việt Nam khỏi chế độ thực dân Pháp trong thập niên 1920s.

Đại tá Lê Thế Mẫu nay đề xuất giải pháp "tốt nhất" cho Ukraine như sau:

"Giải pháp khả dĩ nhất có lợi cho cả hai bên là chính quyền Kiev chấp nhận ngừng chiến sự; công nhận Crimea thuộc chủ quyền của Nga; thành lập Cộng hòa liên bang Ukraine bao gồm cả DPR và LPR, có vị thế trung lập, không gia nhập Nato."

Điều ông không nói là hàng trăm nghìn dân tại DPR và LPR đã được Nga cấp hộ chiếu Liên bang Nga, vậy nếu họ "trở thành công dân CH Liên bang Ukraine" thì quy chế quốc tịch sẽ ra sao.

Và có vẻ như Đại tá Mẫu không đồng ý với quan điểm chính thức của nhà nước ở Việt Nam, và cả Trung Quốc là ủng hộ "sự toàn vẹn lãnh thổ" cho Ukraine.

Ông cũng nói, không trích nguồn, rằng "hiện nay, chính quyền Kharkiv và một số tỉnh khác đang thảo luận dự thảo Bản Tuyên ngôn của Cộng hòa Liên bang Ukraine".

Điều này khác với những gì BBC tìm hiểu được, như chuyện người dân ở Kharkiv vẫn tiếp tục chống lại nỗ lực tiến chiếm của Nga và dân ở Kherson bị Nga chiếm đóng đã biểu tình phản đối việc lập ra thêm một "Cộng hòa Nhân dân Kherson" do Nga chỉ đạo.

Thái độ hào hứng với cuộc chiến "diệt phát-xít" của Nga tại Ukraine của Đại tá Mẫu ở Việt Nam xem ra còn đi xa hơn cả quan điểm của lãnh đạo Trung Quốc.

Chủ tịch Tập Cận Bình gần đây nhất có trao đổi với lãnh đạo Pháp và Đức, bày tỏ "sự đáng tiếc là chiến tranh quay trở lại châu Âu". Trung Quốc cũng đã gửi trên 700 nghìn USD viện trợ nhân đạo cho Ukraine.

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Lúc Tàu cộng oánh Việt cộng năm 1979 thì đám dư luận viên báo Nhân dân cứ bù lu bù loa kêu ca chửi rủa "chủ nghĩa bá quyền" hay "chủ nghĩa bành trướng" của Bắc kinh.

Lúc đó sao Tàu cũng ngu không biết tuyên bố là Việt cộng theo chủ nghĩa phát xít mới, đuổi dân Tàu phải rời khỏi Việt nam.

Còn bi giờ Tàu chiếm lấy Hoàng sa Trường sa là nhằm "ngăn chặn hành động phiêu lưu quân sự của chính quyền Hà lội".

"Tư tưởng phát xít mới và quốc xã mới đã ăn sâu vào nhận thức của cả một thế hệ cán cuốc Việt cộng kể từ sau khi giành được miền Nam."

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Một giọt máu Âu hơn ao nước Á:

The response to Ukraine is laudable. But as a British Afghan, I’m a little jealous
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/19/response-ukraine-laudable-british-afghan-jealous-kabul-crisis


Ukrainians seem to be being treated with more sympathy than Afghans – and some people believe this has been underpinned by racism or Islamophobia – but I think it is fine for Europeans to feel a heightened sense of sympathy for Ukrainian people.

On the other hand, the British public has a myopic view of Afghanistan that barely goes beyond the image of burqa-clad women and scruffy children. Many in the global north know or care little about people who live so differently to us.

This doesn’t excuse the blatant xenophobia that was on display in the initial stages of the Ukraine conflict, with exclamations of how tough the war is because its victims had “blue eyes and blond hair” and “are not obviously refugees getting away from the Middle East”.

I want us to care about Afghans in the same way we do the devastating war in Ukraine; but I’m now facing the reality that we don’t. That we can’t.

It’s not only that British people see much of themselves in the blue of the Ukrainians’ eyes and the blond of their hair. It’s that, to our western sensibilities, Vladimir Putin represents a classic evil villain who triggers a desire in us to be the hero who brings him down.

Một điều nên so sánh là tổng thống Ukraine không bỏ chạy trước cả người dân như tổng thống Afghan đã làm. Được làm vua, thua đi Mỹ.

Thế giới càng muốn giúp vì lính Ukraine vẫn còn cầm súng ống, thành phố Ukraine vẫn còn hứng bom đạn, dân chúng vẫn còn làm bom xăng.

Giúp người tự giúp mình, bỏ cuộc khi người đã bỏ cuộc.

Bỏ đồ đao thành ráng chịu.

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Một giọt máu Âu hơn ao nước Á:



Ngàn hột lúa mì thành ba cái bánh


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDY6aEGEpV4

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Được làm vua thua làm tài xế:

Afghanistan’s former finance minister is now Uber driver in Washington DC
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/afghanistans-former-finance-minister-is-now-uber-driver-in-washington-dc


Days before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last August, Ashraf Ghani, the Afghan president, was “welcomed (https://theweek.com/afghanistan/1003879/afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-reportedly-fled-kabul-with-169-million-in-cash)” to the United Arab Emirates. He was alleged (https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/18/former-afghan-president-ghani-fled-with-169m-in-helicopter-to-dubai-15113307/) to have taken with him $169m, from his country’s treasury.

Six months on, Khalid Payenda, once Ghani’s finance minister, is driving an Uber in Washington DC.

He also said he was grateful for the opportunity to be able to support his family but, “Right now, I don’t have any place. I don’t belong here and I don’t belong there. It’s a very empty feeling.”

Payenda told the Post he believed Afghans “didn’t have the collective will to reform, to be serious”. But he also said the US betrayed its commitment to democracy and human rights after making Afghanistan a centerpiece of post-9/11 policy.

Payenda resigned as finance minister a week before the Taliban seized Kabul, as his relationship with Ghani deteriorated. Fearing the president would have him arrested, he left for the US, where he joined his family.

Bó thân về với Hoa kỳ
Làm nghề lái xế công ty Uber
(Hoạn trường tân thanh)

[ốc]

Phơi thây trăm họ:

Ukraine invasion takes toll on Russia’s remote regions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/coffins-in-buryatia-ukraine-invasion-takes-toll-on-russias-remote-regions


Holding smoking incense sticks and singing hymns, a group of Buddhist monks sat in front of the open coffins of four Russian soldiers killed fighting in Ukraine as hundreds of mourners gathered on Monday at a local sports centre in Ulan-Ude, the capital of the remote Buryatia region in Russia’s far east.

Ludi Baikala, a small independent media outlet that covers the region, has so far identified and named 45 soldiers from Buryatia who have died in Ukraine, but it believes the real number is much higher.

Buryatia, lying between Lake Baikal and Mongolia at the eastern end of Siberia, is one of the most impoverished of Russia’s regions, with an average monthly salary of just 44,000 rubles (£390), despite holding some of the country’s largest deposits of natural resources. Between 30% and 40% of its 1 million population are ethnic Buryats who traditionally practise a mixture of Buddhism and shamanism.

“It is becoming clear that a lot of the soldiers who are dying are from the poorer ‘ethnic minority’ republics like Buryatia, Kalmykia and Dagestan,” said Pavel Luzin, a Russian military expert.

“Unfortunately, the average Russian will care less about the death of a Buryat or Dagestani than about the death of blue-eyed soldiers from Moscow and St Petersburg,” Luzin said.

“That also goes into the minds of those planning military operations. Buryat soldiers get sent on missions on which commanders wouldn’t send other troops.”

Cũng có kẻ mắc vào khoá lính
Bỏ cửa nhà đi gánh việc quan
Nước khe cơm ống gian nan
Dãi dầu nghìn dặm lầm than một đời
Buổi chiến trận mạng người như rác
Phận đã đành đạn lạc tên rơi
Lập loè ngọn lửa ma trơi
Tiếng oan văng vẳng tối trời càng thương
(Văn tế thập loại chúng sinh)

[Triển]

Phơi thây trăm họ:

Ukraine invasion takes toll on Russia’s remote regions
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/coffins-in-buryatia-ukraine-invasion-takes-toll-on-russias-remote-regions


“Unfortunately, the average Russian will care less about the death of a Buryat or Dagestani than about the death of blue-eyed soldiers from Moscow and St Petersburg,” Luzin said.




Lính sống Lính chết cũng có mạng hèn, mạng sang.

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New Hempsterdam:

Thailand dreams of high-end cannabis tourism after marijuana is legalised
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/thailand-dreams-of-high-end-cannabis-tourism-after-marijuana-is-legalised


Thailand’s narcotics board announced in January it would delist cannabis that has a tetrahydrocannabinol level of below 0.2%, making it the first Asian country to do so. Thailand was also the first in south-east Asia to sanction medical use of marijuana in 2018.

Authorities are also exploring the idea of a “cannabis sandbox” that would allow tourists to visit the country while recreationally using cannabis in select areas, to help create destinations synonymous with the drug, according to local media.

The country’s recreational cannabis market has the potential to be worth $424m by 2024, according to cannabis research firm Prohibition Partners.

Trời sinh dân trời sinh cỏ.
(Tục ngữ)

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Error $0$: money not found

Sri Lankans pushed to the brink by financial crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/sri-lanka-financial-crisis-protesters-call-for-gotabaya-rajapaksa-resignation-please


The impacts of Sri Lanka’s financial meltdown have barely left a corner of the country unscathed. There are the power cuts darkening homes and shop fronts for up to eight hours daily and forcing people to cook on scavenged wood while miles-long queues form outside petrol stations.

School exams and newspapers have had to be cancelled because the government and media houses can’t afford the paper to print them on. Doctors have declared a medical crisis as pharmacies and hospitals are empty of crucial drugs, and warnings have been issued that starvation could be imminent for the country’s 22 million residents as food supplies are dwindling.

In Colombo, police stand at road junctions because the traffic lights have been turned off.

But nowhere can the seismic shift in the country be felt more than out on the streets.

In recent weeks, protests unlike anything seen in Sri Lanka’s historyhave taken place across the country, driven not by an organised movement but fuelled instead by a collective rage at the politicians they blame for driving their country into the ground, leading to many describing it as “Sri Lanka’s Arab spring”.

The wrath of the protesters across the country has mainly been targeted at Rajapaksa, the country’s strongman president who was elected in 2019 on the back of a fierce nationalist agenda. Part of Sri Lanka’s most powerful family dynasty, and in charge of the military during the final years of the civil war, in which he stands accused of committing war crimes, he was long the most feared man in national politics.

In the past two years, he amended the constitution to strengthen his own executive powers and five of his family members took up senior government posts, including his brother Mahinda, who is prime minister.

If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.
(Trâm ngôn)

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Hồn thi sĩ gió ù ù thổi…

the poets challenging Myanmar’s military
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/23/is-the-world-listening-the-poets-challenging-myanmars-military


Today, more Rohingya live outside Myanmar than in their own country. Those who remain are denied basic rights to healthcare, education and freedom of movement, and are at risk of further acts of genocide by the military. Since the coup, the sense of fear and uncertainty has grown.

There are more than a million Rohingya now living in the world’s largest refugee camp complex in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. They also face a desperate situation; living in overcrowded conditions and lacking freedom of movement or access to formal education. Deadly fires are frequent, and in early January a blaze left thousands homeless.

Over the past two years, the Bangladeshi government has also relocated more than 20,000 Rohingya refugees to the flood-prone Bhasan Char island, in many cases without gaining their informed consent.

To cope with this situation and tell our stories to the world in the colour of our own words, some of us are taking up our pens to write poetry.


Hope

We choose hope, that’s our virtue
We believe in peace, that’s our mantra
See the stars through this darkness
We’ll rise and rise, and smile again in colours
By Thida Shania, on her wishes for a future Myanmar.

Freedom
If the pearl of freedom lies
at the depth of the ocean
I’m always prepared to jump into the water
and hold it in my fist
By Shahera Bibi, on her hopes for her country and Rohingya people.

Counterfeiting Soldiers
They’re soldiers in my country;
corrupted and notorious
the hunters of people’s lives, not protectors
killing and looting is their motto
they are ghosts in uniforms
By M Lin Aung, on the nature of Myanmar’s military.



Mượn thơ mượn chữ giải bày
Sầu làm chữ hiện muộn làm thơ hay
(Rohingya ngâm khúc)

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Nhân dân tự vệ:

Taiwan civilians practise for war
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/11/it-feels-like-the-end-of-the-world-taiwan-civilians-practise-for-war-as-ukraine-revives-china-fears


Those gathered on this night – a mix of men and women of various ages and occupations including market researchers, tour guides, landlords and digital designers – joined the group months ago, but membership has tripled since the Ukraine invasion.They are learning first aid, self-defence and military fitness, but others practise firearms drills with airguns.

The invasion of Ukraine has provided a powerful lesson for people in Taiwan: that a smaller party can resist, and even fight back against a mightier invading force.

Nhớ linh xưa côi cút làm ăn toan lo nghèo khó
Chưa quen cung ngựa, đâu tới trường nhung
Chỉ biết ruộng trâu ở trong làng bộ
Việc cuốc việc cày việc bừa việc cấy tay vốn quen làm
Tập khiên tập súng tập mác tập cờ mắt chưa từng ngó
(Nguyễn đình Chiểu)

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Chinese warship, go fake yourself!

Taiwan news channel accidentally airs false report of Chinese invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/taiwan-news-channel-accidently-airs-false-report-of-chinese-invasion


Several news captions declaring a violent attack by China’s People’s Liberation Army had been mocked up for forthcoming security drills, but were broadcast accidentally to Taiwanese viewers at 7am on Wednesday.

“New Taipei City was hit by communist missiles, the Taipei port has exploded, facilities and ships were damaged and destroyed,” the Chinese Television Systems (CTS) news ticker read.

“On the brink of war … The Chinese Communist party prepares for war … The president has issued an emergency order.”

An cư tư nguy.

Tiên phòng thủ vi cường.

[ốc]

Lít dầu là đầu câu chuyện

Indonesia’s palm oil export ban sparks concern over global food prices
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/indonesias-palm-oil-export-ban-sparks-concern-over-global-food-prices


The price of edible oils such as soyoil, sunflower oil and rapeseed oil is expected to rise after Indonesia announced a surprise export palm oil ban, experts have warned. It announced the export ban on 22 April, until further notice, in a move to tackle rising domestic prices.

Vegetable oil prices have already risen more than 50% in the past six months as factors from labour shortages in Malaysia to droughts in Argentina and Canada – the biggest exporters of soyoil and canola oil respectively – curtailed supplies.


Ba đồng một lít dầu ăn
Sao anh chẳng hỏi những ngày em tặng không…
​(Ca dao)

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Trở về mái nhà xưa:

Myanmar junta sentences Aung San Suu Kyi to five years for corruption
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/myanmar-junta-sentences-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-five-years-for-corruption


Myanmar’s former leader, 76, has been detained since a military coup in February last year plunged the country into a political crisis and escalating conflict. Since then, she has been charged with at least 18 offences, ranging from election fraud to violating the Official Secrets Act. The various charges carry maximum sentences that could lead to Aung San Suu Kyi spending the rest of her life in detention.

In the latest case, she was accused of accepting 11.4kg (402 oz) of gold bars and cash payments totalling US$600,000 from the former Yangon chief minister Phyo Min Thein.

It is not known where Aung San Suu Kyi is being held. She has not been seen in public since the coup, and trials have taken place in a closed court, with her legal representatives banned from talking to the media.

Đáng lẽ nên về hưu từ mấy năm trước rồi.

Nhân sinh thất thập cố vị chi?

[ốc]

Trở về tấm mềm xưa:

Taliban order all Afghan women to cover their faces in public
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/07/taliban-order-all-afghan-women-to-wear-burqa


The Taliban have ordered all women to cover their faces in public in Afghanistan, the latest sweeping restriction by a government that has taken away women’s right to travel long distances alone, work outside healthcare or education, and receive a secondary education.

In a cruel twist, the decree makes women’s relatives and employers the enforcers. If their faces are seen in public, their male “guardian” will be fined, then jailed. If the woman who goes out uncovered or her relative work for the government, they must be fired.

It suggested women should not leave their homes at all if possible, saying that was “the best option to observe the sharia hijab”, essentially imposing the extreme traditions of conservative parts of rural areas on all women.

The all-enveloping burqa, traditional in Afghanistan, allows women to see only through a small grille. The alternative would be the niqab, which covers the face but not the eyes. While almost all adult women in Afghanistan wear some form of hijab, many in cities cover only their hair.

Hồi: nghĩa là quay về (thời tiền sử)

(còn tiếp)

Tóc người mai mốt không che nữa
Burqa quăng đi mặt hở rồi…
(Xuân diện)

[ốc]

Đời cha ăn chặn, đời con đắc cử:

Ferdinand Marcos triumphs in Philippines presidential election
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/09/ferdinand-marcos-jr-triumph-philippines-presidential-election


Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the son and namesake of the late dictator, has won a landslide presidential election victory, signalling an extraordinary rehabilitation for one of the country’s most notorious political families.

Marcos Sr was ousted in the People Power revolution in 1986, when the family was humiliatingly airlifted from the presidential palace by helicopter, and fled into exile.

Thousands of political opponents were tortured, arrested and disappeared under his rule, while as much as $10bn (£8bn) was plundered (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/07/10bn-dollar-question-marcos-millions-nick-davies).

The idea that Marcos Sr’s rule was a prosperous and peaceful era appeals to a generation of voters who did not live through Marcos Sr’s martial law regime, including those who “may harbour deep dissatisfaction with the non-inclusive development of the past 30 or so years,” said Ronald Mendoza, dean of Manila’s Ateneo school of government.

Phi luật bất phú.

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Thiên bất dung gian:

Thieves return temple treasures in India
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/17/were-fed-up-with-scary-dreams-thieves-return-temple-treasures


A gang of thieves have returned more than a dozen idols they stole from an ancient Hindu temple in India, saying they had been haunted by nightmares since the crime, according to police.

In their Hindi-language confession letter, they said: “We have not been able to sleep, eat and live peacefully. We are fed up with the scary dreams and are returning your valuables.”

Một đêm ăn trộm bằng ba năm ác mộng.
(Ca dao)

[Triển]

Ba đồng một lít dầu ăn
Sao anh chẳng hỏi những ngày em tặng không…
[/I]​(Ca dao)


Dầu bông hướng duơng ở Đức đã "có hàng" lại rồi, giá không còn hơn gấp 3 như 2 tháng trước nữa (7 € một chai) mà so với giá trước tháng Hai chỉ lên 50 xu: 1,79 € một chai.

[ốc]

Dầu cải chắc cũng có để xài rồi vì đã mùa này bắt đầu thu hoạch hạt cải. Nhưng mới hôm qua lại có tin mù tạt bị thiếu hàng. Có thể xài đở wasabi.

French dijon mustard supply hit by climate and rising costs
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/may/19/french-dijon-mustard-supply-hit-by-climate-and-rising-costs-say-producers


French mustard producers said seed production in 2021 was down 50% after poor harvests, which they said had been brought on by the changing climate in France’s Burgundy region and Canada, the second largest mustard seed producer in the world.

It has caused French supermarket shelves to run empty of the condiment, including in several stores visited by the Guardian.

One of France’s largest mustard producers, Reine de Dijon, said the shortages were being driven by climate breakdown. The group’s general manager, Luc Vandermaesen, said a “heat dome” in Canada at the beginning of July in 2021 had “really dried up the crops”.

Giá đưa hạt cải lên trời
Dijon ở lại chịu lời đắng cay
(Ca dao)

[Triển]

Dầu cải còn tốt hơn dầu hướng dương. Để lát nữa mình đi thị sát thị trường coi.:)

Tình hình bột mì vẫn còn căng thẳng. Dân tóc vàng họ trữ bột mì như dân Á Châu góp gạo.
Tuần rồi mua bịch đường hàng bán đường, gần hàng bột, thấy ghi bên hàng bột mỗi người
chỉ được lấy tối đa một kí-lô bột. Thôi rồi các công tử bột, không có bột mà ăn.

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Thôi rồi các công tử bột, không có bột mà ăn.

Mỹ thì sữa em bé lại hiếm hơn sữa ông thọ:

Baby formula shipment arrives from Europe for US families
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/22/us-baby-formula-shortage-europe-shipment


A top White House economic adviser on Sunday said he was hopeful there would be more baby formula on American store shelves this upcoming week, especially after a plane full of the product arrived from an airbase in Germany.

Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, told CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash that the plane carrying 70,000lb of baby formula – enough for half a million bottles – from Ramstein airbase in Germany which landed in Indianapolis on Sunday morning should cover about 15% of the product’s nationwide shortage. About 45% of baby formula products were out of stock across the US last week, according to figures that Bash cited during her interview of Deese, who didn’t dispute them.

The country’s stock of baby formula was significantly curtailed after a February recall by Abbott worsened coronavirus pandemic-related supply chain issues among the product’s manufacturers, leaving parents with fewer options on store shelves to nourish their children.

The recall resulted from illnesses and deaths among infants, and it hit poorer families hardest, because Abbott provides formula to about half the infants who receive benefits from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or Wic, which primarily aims to help low-income women and their children.

About half the infants who receive Wic benefits get their formula from Abbott, one of just four companies that produces 90% or so of US baby formula.

Lòng mẫu thân buồn khi mua sữa
Miệng hài nhi chờ bữa bú tay
(Sản phụ ngâm)

[Triển]

Mỹ thì sữa em bé lại hiếm hơn sữa ông thọ:



Thế ông thọ bằng cô gái chắc ăn hơn.

https://www.epicicons.com/imager/projects/314/187_4ae6118128962af1996a94e5370e1193.jpg

[Triển]

Bế quan tỏa đỗ: Ukraine bị đau, Mã gà bị nhốt



'Food nationalism'

The conflict continues to have far-reaching consequences.

The world faces the worst food crisis in decades following the invasion, the UN has warned. In Asia, an agriculture expert highlighted concerns about the potential rise of "food nationalism".

India has banned wheat exports, Indonesia has blocked overseas sales of palm oil and now Malaysia says it will cut the export of chickens from the start of June because of shortages locally.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/03FB/production/_124891010_gettyimages-1232431267.jpg
Slaughtered chicken at a wet market in Kuala Lumpur

"The government's priority is our own people," Malaysia's Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said.

Sonia Akter, an assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, said "food nationalism" was the result of governments feeling that they have to "protect their citizens first and foremost".

"From the previous experience of the 2007-2008 food crisis, it is expected that more and more countries will follow suit, which will exacerbate the crisis as well as the food price inflation," she added.

The war is also affecting the costs of goods in the UK - read our special report on why the cost of chicken is rising.

/* src.: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61569867

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Chừng nào Việt nam cấm xuất khẩu nước mắm thì Việt kiều mệt.

Miếng ăn là miếng tồi tàn
Thiếu ăn một cái là ban export.

[Triển]

Miếng ăn là miếng tồi tàn.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APxYaBTkmuA

[ốc]

Giống Việt cộng, làm sai thì giấu nhẹm, lúc sự thật lòi ra thì tự kiểm rồi tự tha.

Bữa nay Boricchio còn tự sửa môn quy để khỏi phải từ chức vì hạnh kiểm xấu.

Boris Johnson accused of changing ministerial code to ‘save his skin’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/may/27/boris-johnson-changes-ministerial-code-to-remove-need-to-resign-over-breaches?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter


The prime minister faced a barrage of criticism after he amended the rules on Friday to make clear that ministers will not always be expected to resign for breaching the code of conduct. Under new sanctions, they could apologise or temporarily lose their pay instead.

Johnson also blocked his independent ethics chief, Christopher Geidt, from gaining the power to launch his own investigations, and rewrote the foreword to the ministerial code, removing all references to honesty, integrity, transparency and accountability.

It comes as the PM faces an inquiry by the privileges committee into whether he misled parliament over lockdown parties in Downing Street – which could itself be a breach of the ministerial code.



Miếng ăn là miếng tồi tàn
Ăn vụng một miếng dối gian đủ trò.
(Ca dao)

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Nữ tướng Nhật:

Japanese Red Army founder released from prison
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/28/empress-of-terror-japanese-red-army-founder-released-from-prison


Once described as “the empress of terror”, Fusako Shigenobu founded the Japanese Red Army, a radical leftist group that carried out armed attacks worldwide in support of the Palestinian cause.

She is believed to have masterminded the 1972 machine gun and grenade attack on Tel Aviv’s Lod airport, which left 26 people dead and injured about 80.

Shigenobu had lived as a fugitive in the Middle East for around 30 years but was arrested in Osaka in November 2000 after secretly returning to Japan using a false passport and checking into a hotel disguised as a man.

Đàn bà dễ có mấy ai
Đời xưa mấy mặt đời này mấy gan?
(Phi trường tân thann)

[ốc]

Mã gà bị nhốt

Ăn con nào rào con nấy:

Singapore faces chicken shortage as Malaysia bans export
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/01/like-mcdonalds-with-no-burgers-singapore-faces-chicken-shortage-as-malaysia-bans-export


On Tuesday, queues formed outside popular food stalls as the public rushed to buy dishes before the ban was imposed, while local media reported that some supermarkets and wet markets had sold out of chicken.

Daniel Tan, the owner of a chain of seven stalls called OK Chicken Rice, told Reuters that Malaysia’s ban would be “catastrophic” for vendors.

“The ban would mean we are no longer able to sell. It’s like McDonald’s with no burgers,” he said.

His stalls rely on supplies from Malaysia, which mostly exports chickens live to Singapore, where they are slaughtered. Tan said he would have to switch to using frozen chicken within the week and feared a “strong hit to sales” as a result.

Some vendors have said they will stop selling chicken altogether and instead find alternative dishes – bad news for fans of Singapore’s much-loved dish of poached chicken, served with rice cooked in stock, and chilli dip.

The owner of the popular eatery Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice told the Singaporean outlet The Straits Times that it would stop serving chicken dishes if it could not get fresh supplies. Its founder, Foo Kui Lian, said they would instead “bring back dishes like fried tofu, fried pork chop and prawn salad, but we will not use frozen chicken”.

Miếng ăn là miếng tồi tàn
Hiếm hoi một tí xếp hàng lê thê
(Ca dao)

[Triển]

Hôm nay 33 năm về trước: "Thảm sát Thiên An Môn"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYAsBJueO2A

[ốc]

Ngàn năm bia miệng vẫn còn Thiên an môn:

Hundreds gather in Taiwan to mark Tiananmen Square anniversary
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/04/hundreds-gather-in-taiwan-to-mark-tiananmen-square-anniversary


Hundreds of people have gathered in Taipei to commemorate China’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 33 years ago.A heavy security presence in Hong Kong prevents any sign of protest in the territory.

Saturday is the anniversary of Chinese troops opening fire to end student-led unrest in and around the square in central Beijing. China has never provided a full death toll from the events of 4 June 1989, but rights groups and witnesses say the figure could run into thousands.

China bans any public commemoration of the event on the mainland, making Taiwan the only part of the Chinese-speaking world where it can be remembered openly.

“It’s a symbol of how democracy is precious and fragile at the same time, and how people who care about democracy need to stand up for it or else authoritarians everywhere will think people don’t care,” said the author Jeremy Chiang, 27, who attend the event in Taipei’s Liberty Square.

Activists assembled a new version of the Pillar of Shame, a statue commemorating Tiananmen protesters that a leading Hong Kong university removed from its campus, where it had stood for more than two decades, in December.

Hỡi ơi!
Súng Cộng đất rền!
Lòng dân trời tỏ!
(Văn tế nghĩa sĩ cần tự do)

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Go mad about Mu ham mad:

India in row with Gulf states
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/prophet-muhammad-remarks-embroil-india-in-row-with-gulf-states


In a television debate 10 days ago on India’s rightwing news channel Times Now 1, Sharma made derogatory comments about Muslim worship and the prophet Muhammad and mocked her Muslim debate opponent. Following an outcry over the comments, Jindal posted a tweet about the prophet – that he has since deleted – which also caused anger.

On India’s rightwing news television channels, anti-Muslim rhetoric is expounded nightly by supporters of the BJP but is rarely, if ever, met with apologies or retractions.

A video is circulating online showing the militant Hindutva leader Yati Narsinghanand doubling down on their comments about the prophet Muhammad and calling all Muslims “criminals”.

Đạo giả đạo hay thường xạo.
(Kinh Dị)

[Triển]

Hết cơn bĩ cực tới hồi Thái Lan


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnLZYO1FaYA

[ốc]

Tàu nhân quen thói má hồng đánh ghen:

Chinese police arrest nine after women attacked at restaurant
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/11/china-group-of-women-attacked-at-restaurant


CCTV footage of the incident widely circulated online shows a man placing his hand on a woman’s back as she shares a meal with two companions at a barbecue restaurant in the city of Tangshan in Hebei province in the early hours of Friday.

After the woman pushes him away, the man strikes her before others drag her outside and deal a barrage of blows as she lies on the ground. Another woman is also knocked to the floor.

Tangshan police said on Saturday that all nine of the men involved in the latest violent incident had been arrested. Responding to the national outrage, the Communist party chief in the city, Wu Weidong, was quoted by local media as saying the men would be punished according to the law and that the authorities should launch a campaign to eradicate “gangsters and evil forces”.

Internet censors blocked keywords linked to the #MeToo movement after a wave of women accused university professors of sexual harassment in 2018. Campaigners also say domestic abuse remains pervasive and under-reported.

Hung hăng chẳng nể chẳng tha
Phang ngay vùi liễu dập hoa tơi bời
(Đoạn trường tân Thanh)

[ốc]

Khói nhuộm bãi Thượng hải:

Smoke clouds Shanghai as chemical plant on fire
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/18/smoke-clouds-shanghai-as-chemical-plant-fire-leaves-at-least-one-dead


The fire at a Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co plant in outlying Jinshan district broke out around 4am but was brought under control later that morning, according to state news agency Xinhua.

At the petrochemical plant, an early morning explosion was heard by residents as far as 6km (four miles) away, according to local media.

Videos on social media showed a large cloud of fire and ash billowing upwards.

In one aerial video, three fires could be seen in separate buildings.

Cúm mới trùng lai, hoạ vô thêm cháy.

[Triển]

Khói nhuộm bãi Thượng hải



Tóc nhuộm bãi Thượng Hải: Từ phòng vệ sang canh chừng...

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[ốc]

Thời covid bên Mỹ cũng khó kiếm chỗ hớt tóc cho nên nhiều người để tóc dài như đạo Dừa luôn.

Ôi mái tóc mây bay giờ còn không?
(Vũ thành An)

[ốc]

Không ai dầu ba lọ:

Sri Lanka almost out of fuel with no supplies
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/26/sri-lanka-almost-out-of-fuel-with-no-fresh-supplies-in-sight


Sri Lanka has increased the price of fuel by up to 22% after the energy minister warned it had virtually run out of petrol and diesel after several expected shipments were delayed.

Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said on Sunday it had raised the price of diesel, used widely in public transport, by 15% to 460 rupees ($1.27) a litre while upping petrol 22% to 550 rupees ($1.52).

The embassy said it had committed $158.75m in new financing in the past two weeks to help Sri Lankans.

The UN has already issued an emergency appeal to raise $47m to feed the most vulnerable segments of the island’s 22 million people.

About 1.7 million need “life-saving assistance”, according to the UN, with four out of five people reducing their food intake due to severe shortages and galloping prices.

The government has shut non-essential state institutions along with schools for two weeks to reduce commuting because of the energy crisis, as well as giving public servants time off to grow food (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/15/sri-lanka-government-workers-get-fridays-off-to-grow-food-as-shortages-loom).

Nhất sĩ nhì nông
Hết xăng chạy rông
Nhất nông nhì sĩ
(Tục ngữ)

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Tokyo: tắt đèn rực rỡ

Japanese told to turn off lights to save energy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/27/japanese-told-to-turn-off-lights-to-save-energy-amid-tokyo-heatwave


Japan’s government has warned millions of people in the Tokyo region to save energy or face power cuts, as the capital battles record June temperatures after a premature end to the rainy season.

Temperatures of 35C (95F) were forecast in the city throughout the day, with similarly extreme weather expected for the rest of the week, according to the Japanese meteorological agency.

The heat has hit other parts of the country in recent days. On Sunday, Isesaki city in Gunma prefecture, north of Tokyo, recorded the country’s highest temperature in June, at 40.2C.

Đèn Sài Gòn ngọn xanh ngọn đỏ
Đèn bên Nhật ngọn tỏ ngọn lu
(Ca dao)

[Triển]

Tokyo: tắt đèn rực rỡ

Japanese told to turn off lights to save energy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/27/japanese-told-to-turn-off-lights-to-save-energy-amid-tokyo-heatwave



Đèn Sài Gòn ngọn xanh ngọn đỏ
Đèn bên Nhật ngọn tỏ ngọn lu
(Ca dao)




Thắt ống dẫn năng.

Điện quế, gaz châu: Gas emergency plan: Federal Government declares alert level (https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-en/news/alert-level-gas-2055646)

[ốc]

Gia đình trị: toàn gia trị quốc đè thiên hạ

How aruling dynasty drove Sri Lanka to ruin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/07/the-family-took-over-how-a-feuding-ruling-dynasty-drove-sri-lanka-to-ruin


According to those who witnessed it from the inside, the story of Sri Lanka’s crisis is rooted in this family, who concentrated power to the point that the country came to resemble an autocratic family business, accountable to no one until it pushed the nation to bankruptcy.

As Sri Lanka began to unravel, the family became riddled with infighting and the once cordial relationship between the two brothers Gotabaya and Mahinda descended into bitterness as they both clung to power.

On 9 May, the family divisions spilled out on to the streets as the country’s worst violence in more than three decades took place.

It has prompted an unprecedented political reckoning in Sri Lanka, focused largely on the Rajapaksa family dynasty, which has held power over Sri Lankan politics for two decades.

Một nhà sinh đặng ba vua
Vua còn vua mất dân thua dài dài…
(Sri Lanca dao)

[Triển]

Sự dữ ghé Nhựt Bổn. Cầu chúc an lành.


Shinzo Abe: Japan ex-PM injured after reported gunshot attack

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Shinzo Abe is Japan's longest-serving prime minister

Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has collapsed after he was shot at an event in the city of Nara.

Mr Abe was shot twice, with the second shot hitting him in the back, causing him to fall to the ground. Reports say his attacker has since been arrested.

Ex-Tokyo governor Yoichi Masuzoe said in a tweet that Mr Abe was in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest.

The term is often used before a death is officially confirmed in Japan.

Videos circulating on social media, which could not be verified, appear to show paramedics huddled around Mr Abe in the middle of a street. He has now reportedly been rushed to hospital.

Mr Abe was giving a stump speech for a candidate in Nara when the attacked happened - eye-witnesses say they saw a man with what they described as a large gun fire from behind, according to the BBC's Japan correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes.

The first shot appears to have missed but the second shot hit Mr Abe in the back. He immediately fell to the ground bleeding.

Security then detained the attacker who made no attempt to run.

Local news broadcaster NHK reports that police have seized his gun and identified him.

Mr Abe, who was Japan's longest-serving prime minister, stepped down in 2020 citing health reasons. He later revealed that he had suffered a relapse of ulcerative colitis, an intestinal disease.

He was succeeded by his close party ally Yoshihide Suga, who was later replaced by Fumio Kishida.

Incidents of gun violence are rare in Japan, where handguns are banned - and incidents of political violence are almost unheard of.

In 2014, there were just six incidents of gun deaths in Japan, as compared to 33,599 in the US. People have to undergo a strict exam and mental health tests in order to buy a gun - and even then, only shotguns and air rifles are allowed.

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Sự dữ ghé Nhựt Bổn.

Ừ, trước giờ cứ nghĩ là ở Nhật thì an toàn, chỉ sợ động đất và trúng độc cá fugu thôi.

Man arrested for murder after fatal shooting of Shinzo Abe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/man-arrested-for-after-fatal-shooting-of-shinzo-abe


Abe was only a minute into his speech, delivered to the public at a traffic island in the western city of Nara, when Yamagami, dressed in brown trousers and a grey shirt, approached from behind. He pulled a weapon from bag and began firing.

Yamagami was immediately tackled by men in suits, who appeared to be security officials. He did not try to run, or say anything, witnesses told local media.

Yamagami used a handmade weapon in the attack on Friday morning: a double-barrelled device, wrapped in black tape, had been found on the ground near where Abe was shot. Japan has some of the world’s strictest rules on gun ownership, and extremely low rates of gun crime.

Đúng là dân Nhật sáng tạo, tối tạo. Không mua súng mà tự chế súng. Cái khùng nó ló cái khôn.

[Triển]

Ừ, trước giờ cứ nghĩ là ở Nhật thì an toàn, chỉ sợ động đất và trúng độc cá fugu thôi.

Man arrested for murder after fatal shooting of Shinzo Abe
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/08/man-arrested-for-after-fatal-shooting-of-shinzo-abe



Đúng là dân Nhật sáng tạo, tối tạo. Không mua súng mà tự chế súng. Cái khùng nó ló cái khôn.


Tin mới cho hay, kẻ sát nhân thật ra không muốn mưu sát cựu thủ tướng Nhật. Chỉ là gián tiếp thôi. Anh ta khai rằng mẹ anh ta cuồng cái đạo nào đó, mang hết tiền của cho cái đạo đó, gia đình bất ổn. Mà cái đạo đó thì sùng bái các chính trị gia, trong đó có chính trị gia bảo thủ là Shinzo. Cho nên ảnh bắn Shinzo.

Các bạn nhớ nhé. Mỹ sắp tranh cử tập hai. Nếu quá cuồng tổng thống tương lai, coi chừng là hại ông ta đấy. Ta nói trị bệnh phải trị từ gốc mà. Biết đâu lại có thằng con bực quá xách súng bắn cựu tổng thống đang còn trong vòng tranh cử.

Cái tức nó ló cái dứt ... (điểm).

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Anh ta khai rằng mẹ anh ta cuồng cái đạo nào đó, mang hết tiền của cho cái đạo đó, gia đình bất ổn.

Ừa, đời mẹ ăn mặn đời con khát nước. (Tục ngữ)

Thiệt ra tại sao phải đóng góp tiền bạc cho chính trị gia, nếu không phải là có ý hối lộ để trục lợi?

[Triển]

"Asian Maidan"



Phong trào biểu tình ở Sri Lanka bước sang ngày thứ 100

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Cựu Tổng thống Sri Lanka Gotabaya Rajapaksa.


Phong trào biểu tình ở Sri Lanka hôm Chủ nhật đã bước sang ngày thứ 100. Các cuộc phản đối đã buộc tổng thống phải rời nhiệm sở và hiện chuyển hướng sang người kế nhiệm ông trong khi cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế của đất nước tiếp diễn.

Ông Gotabaya Rajapaksa đã bỏ chạy khỏi dinh thự của mình ngay trước khi những người biểu tình xâm chiếm nó vào cuối tuần trước và hôm thứ Năm đã từ chức tổng thống.

Sự quản lý yếu kém của ông được cho là nguyên nhân dẫn đến tình trạng hỗn loạn tài chính của Sri Lanka, khiến 22 triệu người của nước này phải chịu đựng tình trạng thiếu lương thực, nhiên liệu và thuốc men kể từ cuối năm ngoái.

Chiến dịch nhằm lật đổ ông Rajapaksa, vốn được tổ chức chủ yếu thông qua các bài đăng trên Facebook, Twitter và TikTok, đã thu hút mọi người từ khắp Sri Lanka, kể cả các vùng thường chia rẽ về sắc tộc.

Phong trào bắt đầu từ một cuộc biểu tình kéo dài hai ngày vào ngày 9 tháng 4, khi hàng chục nghìn người dựng trại trước văn phòng của ông Rajapaksa.

Đám đông lớn hơn nhiều so với dự kiến của ban tổ chức nên họ quyết định ở lại.

Theo hiến pháp Sri Lanka, Thủ tướng Ranil Wickremesinghe tự động được bổ nhiệm làm quyền tổng thống sau khi ông Rajapaksa từ chức và hiện là ứng cử viên hàng đầu kế nhiệm ông vĩnh viễn trong cuộc bỏ phiếu tại quốc hội vào tuần tới.

Nhưng chính trị gia kỳ cựu bị những người biểu tình coi là đồng minh của gia tộc Rajapaksa, gồm bốn anh em đã thống trị chính trường hòn đảo trong nhiều năm.

Nhà hoạt động truyền thông xã hội và người ủng hộ chiến dịch biểu tình Prasad Welikumbura nói rằng ông Wickremesinghe cũng nên phải ra đi.

/* nguồn: https://www.voatiengviet.com/a/6662188.html

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Tàu hoảng nhập ma

nationalistic fervour washes over China amid Pelosi visit to Taiwan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/05/wave-of-nationalistic-fervour-washes-over-china-amid-pelosi-visit-to-taiwan


News outlets condemned the US, suggesting it was a breach of the “one-China principle” and that Joe Biden was “hypocritical” in saying he was unable to rein in the House speaker. For a few days, this message echoed across the country’s news outlets.

The fury resonated online through the writings of pundits and military bloggers. “The old witch,” some called Pelosi. “The old American woman,” others referred to her. Hu Xijin, a nationalist firebrand and former editor of the Global Times, even advised Chinese jets to obstruct Pelosi’s plane. And “if those are still ineffective, I think it is OK too to shoot down Pelosi’s plane”, he wrote, to much fanfare.

It was also a huge event for China’s media operators, despite their hostility towards Pelosi. One state-owned website even set up a livestream on its official Weibo channel. At one point, 70 million viewers tuned in at the same time to watch Pelosi arriving in Taiwan, with many viewers commenting “national unification!”.

Ma gì làm cho Tàu ức bụng? Madam Speaker.

[Triển]

Ma gì làm cho Tàu ức bụng? Madam Speaker.

jey jey.

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​Ma gì làm cho Tàu ức bụng? Ma dê in Taiwan.

Apple asks suppliers in Taiwan to label products as made in China
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/07/apple-asks-suppliers-in-taiwan-to-label-products-as-made-in-china-report


According to Nikkei (https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supply-Chain/Apple-warns-suppliers-to-follow-China-rules-on-Taiwan-labeling), the company has asked manufacturers on the island to label components bound for mainland China as made in “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan, China”. The labels are required in order to comply with a longstanding but previously unenforced rule that requires imported goods to suggest the island is part of the People’s Republic of China.

The phrase “Made in Taiwan” can lead to delays, fines, and even the rejection of an entire shipment under the rule. But Taiwan itself requires exports to be labelled with the point of origin: either the name “Taiwan” or the country’s official name, “Republic of China”.

The move was an escalation from a previous slight by Apple, which removed the Taiwan flag from emoji keyboards for users in China and Hong Kong.

Pelosi chắc phải ghé thăm Apple.

Ma gì làm cho Apple phải nịnh Tàu? - Ma nì. Hay là ma monnaie.

[Triển]

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Ma gì làm cho Apple phải nịnh Tàu? - Ma nì. Hay là ma monnaie.


Ma gì có lúc nịnh tàu: ma ní Duterte.

("Chà và ma ní lấy le"; Chà-và chắc từ Java, Ma ní chắc từ Manila)

[Ngoc Han]

Còn câu hát mà mấy em nhỏ hay hát "cha cha cha, ma ní lấy chồng chà - và ...cha cha cha ông táo sức dầu cù là " chắc là bài vè quảng cáo cho dầu cù là Mac- su? (Mac Phsu) :)

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Dân Sài gòong phát âm là Chà dà, ví dụ như cầu Chà dà, chắc là khu vực nhiều người Ấn độ (nhưng bảo đảm không có người Chà).

Hồi xưa dân mình chê người Chà tại khác văn hoá, dòm thấy da bánh mật, da bánh gai nên chê xấu. Thời nay ai cũng khoái Chà.

Cha cha cha ma Mít xách đồ Chà nèo…

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Của Miên trả địa:

US returns to Cambodia dozens of antiquities looted from historic sites
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/09/us-returns-to-cambodia-dozens-of-antiquities-looted-from-historic-sites


The south-east Asian country’s archaeological sites – including Koh Ker, a capital of the ancient Khmer empire – suffered widespread looting in civil conflicts between the 1960s and 1990s.

The antiquities, including a 10th-century sandstone statue depicting the Hindu god of war Skanda riding on a peacock and a sculpture of Ganesha, were voluntarily relinquished by US museums and private collectors after his office filed civil forfeiture claims. Both sculptures were looted from Koh Ker, the US attorney’s office southern district of New York said.

In 2014, federal prosecutors returned the Duryodhana, a looted 10th-century sandstone sculpture, to Cambodia after settling with auction house Sotheby’s, which had acquired it.

Last year, the Manhattan district attorney’s office returned 27 looted antiquities to Cambodia.


Cha cha cha ma Mỹ lấy tượng Chà và….

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Rót cho đầy hồn nhau, uống cho đầy đời nhau, những men nồng tiền thâu thuế rượu:

Japan’s government to get people drinking
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/japan-government-launches-competition-to-get-people-drinking-alcohol-drinks-tax-revenue


The Sake Viva! campaign, which is being run by the National Tax Agency (NTA), asks 20- to 39-year-olds to come up with proposals to help revitalise the popularity of alcoholic drinks, which have fallen out of favour because of lifestyle changes during the coronavirus pandemic and among young people.

The ​NTA said alcohol consumption in Japan had fallen from an average of 100 litres a person a year in 1995 to 75 litres in 2020. The decrease in alcohol sales has hit Japan’s budget, which is already running a deficit of more than ¥48tn (£290bn).

Taxes on alcohol accounted for 1.7% of Japan’s tax revenue in 2020, down from 3% in 2011 and 5% in 1980. Total revenue from tax on alcohol in the 2020 financial year fell by more than ¥110bn to ¥1.1tn, compared with the previous year, the NTA said earlier this month. It was the biggest fall in alcohol tax income in 31 years, according to the Japan Times.

Vì lợi ích một năm nhậu say!


Buồn như kho cạn tiền không có ai chịu nhậu
Buồn như kho tiền cạn không còn tiền để thâu…

[ốc]

Nghe giống bài bản của Tô lâm:

Billionaire Xiao Jianhua jailed for 13 years in China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/billionaire-xiao-jianhua-jailed-china


Xiao was known to have links to the country’s Communist party elite. But he has not been seen in public since 2017 after he was investigated amid a state-led conglomerate crackdown.

From 2001 to 2021, Xiao gave shares, real estate, cash and other assets to government officials totalling more than 680m yuan, to evade financial supervision and seek illegitimate interests, the court said.

In January 2017 when he was whisked out of Hong Kong’s Four Seasons hotel in a wheelchair (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/13/the-darkest-time-hong-kong-reels-over-disappearance-of-xiao-jianhua-chinese-billionaire) allegedly by plainclothes Chinese security agents, who at the time were not permitted to operate in Hong Kong.

He was taken across the border into China, possibly by boat to avoid immigration checks, according to a report in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/world/asia/xiao-jianhua-hong-kong-disappearance.html?_r=0).


Ma chỉ lối quỷ đưa tiền
Cứ tìm những chỗ bạo quyền nhào vô
(Khám đường tân thanh)

[Triển]

Nghe giống bài bản của Tô lâm:


Tô Lâm còn né Mỹ. Nghe đâu có bà gì chạy tuốt qua Mỹ thay tên đổi họ ngồi khuynh đảo chỉ tay năm ngón đàn em công ty gì đó ở VN chuyển hàng tỉ đô sang Mỹ tỉnh bơ.

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Có thể còn chừa một chỗ để sau này nương thân. Tục ngữ dân gian có câu “đánh đĩ chín phương cũng còn để một phương lấy chồng” là vậy. Vuốt mặt nể Mỹ.

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Trường giang sóng sau thua sóng trước:

drought causes Yangtze to dry up
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower


The Yangtze is the world’s third largest river, providing drinking water to more than 400 million Chinese people, and is the most vital waterway to China’s economy.

It is also crucial to the global supply chain, but this summer it has reached record-low water levels, with entire sections and dozens of tributaries drying up.

Water flow on the Yangtze’s main trunk is more than 50% below the average of the last five years. Shipping routes in the middle and lower sections have also closed, the SCMP reported.

In the city of Chongqing the water level dropped to reveal previously submerged Buddhist statues (https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/yangtze-river-reveals-buddhist-statues/index.html) thought to be about 600 years old.

Nhập giang tuỳ lụt, đáo giang tuỳ lúc.
(Tục ngữ)

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Tháng tám có chiếu ban ra
Cấm đầu có tóc người ta phải trùm
(Ca dao)

Iran cracks down on women’s ‘improper’ clothing
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/23/arrests-and-tv-confessions-as-iran-cracks-down-on-women-improper-clothing-hijab


Iranian women have been required to wear the hijab in public since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but president Ebrahim Raisi signed an order on 15 August to enforce the country’s dress code law with a new list of restrictions.

According to Hrana, which says forced confessions are on the rise in Iran, five women were arrested for not observing the dress code, and four were forced to confess, in the days before and after national “Hijab and Chastity Day”12 July.

They also reported that three women were arrested for dancing in public, 33 hairdressing salons were shut down and 1,700 people were summoned to law enforcement centres for reasons related to the hijab.

Tóc người mai mốt không che nữa
Tuổi trẻ khoe đi mặt hở rồi
(Xuân điệu)

[Triển]

Tháng tám có chiếu ban ra
Cấm đầu có tóc người ta phải trùm
(Ca dao)



Giả sử chị này đạo Hồi thì có cần trùm hâm?

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[ốc]

Dù cho cạo sạch láng thì cũng vẫn thấy chân tóc cho nên phải che chớ.

Cái gì mà có trên đầu
Đạo Phật thì cắt đạo Hồi thì che?

[Triển]

Dù cho cạo sạch láng thì cũng vẫn thấy chân tóc cho nên phải che chớ.

Cái gì mà có trên đầu
Đạo Phật thì cắt đạo Hồi thì che?


Ô kê, kỳ sau biên email nói bả theo sách Việt Nam, tha mỡ trăn lên là láng luôn.

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Bán anh em gần mua láng giềng xa:

foreign delegations queue up to visit Taiwan in defiance of China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/27/the-pelosi-effect-foreign-delegations-queue-up-to-visit-taiwan-in-defiance-of-china


Traveling solo, senator Marsha Blackburn stepped onto the dark tarmac where she was met by a foreign ministry official, and they quickly moved inside the terminal.“I just landed in Taiwan to send a message to Beijing – we will not be bullied,” Blackburn tweeted.

Shortly before his arrival, Keiji Furuya, a member of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic party, tweeted: “China’s military provocations and other erratic behaviour pose a risk to the peace and safety of not only Taiwan, but east Asia as a whole.”

The run of foreign dignitaries visiting Taiwan has kept attention on the island in the wake of Pelosi’s trip and continued to draw vituperation from Beijing.

Taiwan’s government has welcomed them all, grateful for the international support and solidarity against the Chinese government’s threats to annex it by force.

Analysts have debated whether the visits are needlessly exacerbating tensions. But they continue; parliamentarians from the UK, Germany, Denmark, Canada and Australia are reportedly planning trips to Taipei.

Chưa đi chưa biết Đài loan
Đi rồi mới biết cũng toàn hù thôi.

[Triển]

Thật ra Tập Cận Bình phản động. Tự vì nghe đồn Mao chủ tịt ngày xưa công nhận Đài Loan độc lập.

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Xi muốn lặng mà Mỹ chẳng dừng:

US warships sail through Taiwan Strait for first time since Pelosi visit
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/28/us-warships-sail-through-taiwan-strait-for-first-time-since-pelosi-visit-report


The US Navy said two warships were sailing through international waters in the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such operation since heightened tensions with China over the Taiwan visit of the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi.

“The ships’ transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the United States’ commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,” it said. “The United States military flies, sails and operates anywhere international law allows.”

US warships, and on occasion those from allied nations such as Britain and Canada, have routinely sailed through the strait in recent years, drawing Beijing’s anger.

US Navy operations in the Taiwan Strait usually take between eight and 12 hours to complete and are closely monitored by the Chinese military.

Tập khôn bằng miệng, Mỹ khôn bằng thuyền.
(Chinh phạt ngâm)

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Ăn cơm Đài loan, thờ ma cộng sản:

Meet the Taiwanese who embrace Beijing rule
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/28/we-are-chinese-meet-the-taiwanese-who-want-to-embrace-beijing-rule


But this month a poll in Taiwan found almost 12% of respondents still support unification. Other surveys have shown that figure to be about 5%-10%.

Pro-unification people are generally thought to be concentrated among older generations, are probably KMT voters and are typically men. Huang said there are still some young proponents, including a Chinese nationalist minority, but they are often just “defeatist” and believe Taiwan would lose a conflict and should cut its losses now.

Some supporters are driven by cynicism about divisive Taiwanese party politics and are nostalgic for the strong leadership of the CCP or martial law.

There are those who have benefited economically from closer ties with China, and who “are just trying to stay out of politics … and find that kind of PRC nationalism quite annoying”, while some have spent decades in China, the US and Taiwan, and have decided they support and trust the CCP.

Cũng là đám già chỉ lo sống cho yên tuổi già của mình, sau đó ai khổ kệ nó. Après moi, le déluge.


Yêu tin tức thời sự chắc gọi là “tình hình.”

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Iran ran…

Iran seizes American sea drone
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/us-navy-drone-iran-persian-gulf


The Guard’s Shahid Baziar warship attached a line to the Saildrone Explorer in the central part of the Persian Gulf in international waters late on Monday night, said Cmdr Timothy Hawkins, a fifth fleet spokesman.

The vessel then began towing the Saildrone Explorer, which carries cameras, radars and sensors for remotely monitoring the sea, Hawkins said.

The USS Thunderbolt, a navy coastal patrol boat, as well as an MH-60 Seahawk helicopter, moved to shadow the Guard’s ship. The navy called the Shahid Baziar by radio to identify the drone as American, Hawkins said.

Hawkins said the incident ended peacefully after some four hours as the Iranians unhooked the tow line to the drone and left the area as the American forces were nearby.

Thuyền ai đậu bến Y răng đó
Có chở drone về kịp tối nay?
(Đây drone Mỹ dạ)

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Taiwan want…

US announces $1.1bn arms sale to Taiwan, angering China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/03/us-announces-11bn-arms-sale-to-taiwan-angering-china


The Biden administration has announced a $1.1bn arms sale to Taiwan as US-China tensions escalate over its status.

The sale included $355m for Harpoon air-to-sea missiles and $85m for Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, the state department said.

The largest portion of the sale is a $655m logistics support package for Taiwan’s surveillance radar programme, which provides air defence warnings. Early warning air defence systems have become more important as China has stepped up military drills near Taiwan, which it regards as a renegade province.

Trong năm trong cõi người ta
Chữ Tàu chữ Mỹ khéo là ghét nhau
(Miên trường tân thanh)

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Thà làm lính Đài loan còn hơn làm quan đất Bắc (kinh):

Taiwan tycoon to fund 3.3 million-strong army of ‘civilian warriors’ to defend against invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/taiwan-tycoon-to-fund-33m-strong-army-of-civilian-warriors-to-defend-against-invasion


The announcement by Robert Tsao, a well-known Taiwanese businessman and founder of United Microelectronics Corp, a major microchip producer, comes amid increasing military activity between Taiwan and China

At a press conference on Thursday, Tsao, 75, said the Chinese Communist party (CCP) threat to Taiwan was growing. Wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet, he pledged funds to train “three million people in three years”.

Working with the island’s civilian defence organisation, the Kuma Academy, 60% of the funds would go towards building an army of “warriors”, and 40% to training another 300,000 in how to shoot.

Tsao was formerly an active supporter of unifying Taiwan with China, and had renounced his Taiwanese citizenship in protest against a government investigation of his company. However, he told Radio Free Asia that he had a change of heart after witnessing the crackdown on Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, particularly the Yuen Long MTR attack (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/22/where-were-the-police-hong-kong-outcry-after-masked-thugs-launch-attack).

On Thursday he also announced he had renounced his Singaporean citizenship and that his Taiwanese citizenship had been restored and he planned to “die in Taiwan and stand with its people”.

Nước thanh bình thêm bao năm nữa?
Bảo nhau lo binh lửa từ đây
(Chinh phu ngâm)

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Đồng gian tương ứng, đồng ác tương cầu:

south-east Asian countries open to Putin
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/russia-south-east-asian-countries-open-to-putin-pivot


The head of Myanmar’s military junta beamed with joy as he shook hands with Vladimir Putin this week.

“We would call you not just the leader of Russia but a leader of the world because you control and organise stability around the whole world,” Min Aung Hlaing said.

A match made in hell.
(Thành ngữ)

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Cây khô không lộc người Nhật không con:

Record number of young people in Japan rejecting marriage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/14/record-number-of-young-people-in-japan-rejecting-marriage-survey-shows


According to the survey, 17.3% of men and 14.6% of women aged between 18 and 34 said they had no intention of ever tying the knot – the highest figure since the questionnaire was first conducted in 1982.

Experts have attributed the trend to several factors, including a growing desire among young working women to enjoy the freedoms that come with being single and having a career.

Men say they also enjoy being single, but also voice concern over job security and their ability to provide for a family. Experts have called on the government to make it easier for women to return to work after having children and to address Japan’s notoriously long working hours.

Không có gì quý hơn độc thân tự do.

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Bảo hoàng hơn Anh:

Hong Kong residents queue for hours to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/13/hong-kong-residents-queue-for-hours-to-pay-tribute-to-queen-elizabeth


It was the hottest day on record for September, yet under a sweltering sun, thousands of Hongkongers flocked to the British consulate, waiting up to four hours in a long queue that stretched more than 500 metres into a public park to sign the book of condolence for Queen Elizabeth II.

The next day, thousands turned up again, prompting the consulate to extend opening hours to 7pm for the whole week.

Many came to eulogise the ‘boss lady’ – an affectionate nickname for the Queen who was Hong Kong’s colonial head of state for 45 years – while also cherishing the opportunity to meet like-minded Hongkongers and share their memories of the city under British rule during the long wait.

Cọp chết để da, Ê li za bét để tiếng.
(Tục ngữ)

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Hữu giáo vô lại:

Iranian woman dies ‘after being beaten’ over hijab law
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/16/iranian-woman-dies-after-being-beaten-by-morality-police-over-hijab-law


Mahsa Amini was travelling with her family from Iran’s western province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, to visit relatives when she was reportedly arrested for failing to meet the country’s strict rules on women’s dress.

Witnesses reported that Amini was beaten in the police van, an allegation the police deny.

Amini’s family were notified that she had been taken to hospital hours after her arrest. She was transferred to an intensive-care unit at Kasra hospital.

According to Hrana, an Iranian human rights organisation, Amini’s family were told during her arrest that she would be released after a “re-education session”.

Women have been arrested across the country after the national “hijab and chastity day” declared on 12 July. One of the women was Sepideh ​Rashno, a writer and artist who was reportedly beaten and tortured in custody before making a forced apology on television.

Đi đạo lấy bạo mà răn.
(Tục ngữ)

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Giả thuyết âm mưu:

Swiftly debunked rumours of coups swirl
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/china-becomes-hothouse-of-intrigue-ahead-of-crucial-communist-party-congress


Last week, a Chinese court jailed the former vice-minister of public security Sun Lijun, the former justice minister Fu Zhenghua, and former police chiefs of Shanghai, Chongqing and Shanxi on corruption charges. Fu and the police chiefs had been accused of being part of a political clique surrounding Sun, and being disloyal to Xi.

There was no specific mention of the coup rumours on China’s social media, but a Weibo hashtag related to “airports across the country cancel flights” was viewed by more than 200,000 people over the weekend.

Drew Thompson, a scholar with the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy,said a coup in China wasn’t entirely implausible, and Xi had reportedly shown concern about the prospect in the past, but the weekend’s rumours looked more like “wishful thinking”. They appeared to originate in accounts associated with the Falun Gong movement, which Thompson said was “essentially not credible”.

Một lão Tập đau cả Tàu hồi hộp.
(Tục ngữ)

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Tận nhân lực tri liên mạng:

digital twin of Tuvalu
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/29/could-a-digital-twin-of-tuvalu-preserve-the-island-nation-before-its-lost-to-the-collapsing-climate


Global heating is threatening to submerge Tuvalu by the end of the century, and its 12,000 inhabitants are considering the future.

Dr Eselealofa Apinelu, Tuvalu’s former attorney general and current high commissioner to Fiji, told the State of the Pacific conference on Thursday that Tuvaluans needed “something they can hold on to”.

Tuvalu’s culture and values could be enshrined in a “digital twin”, housed somewhere like the metaverse.

Apinelu said “it needs to be stored somewhere that there was a country called Tuvalu”.

Tuvalu’s foreign minister, Simon Kofe, said last year that his country was looking at legal ways to remain a state even if it disappears.
Apinelu said Tuvaluans were worried about the future, and about future generations, who would have to find somewhere to live

Nước non còn đó một tấm lòng không mờ xoá cùng trang web…

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Rocket man:

North Korea fires missile over Japan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/north-korea-fires-missile-over-japan-prompting-warnings-for-residents-to-shelter


Japan’s Kyodo news agency said the government issued the alert on Tuesday morning to residents in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido and the country’s north-eastern Aomori prefecture shortly before 8am.

Tuesday’s test also comes a few days after the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, made a high-profile visit to the heavily armed border separating the two Koreas.

In September 2017, millions of residents in a dozen Japanese prefectures were warned to take cover inside buildings or underground in chilling reminders that Japan is within easy striking distance of North Korean missiles.

Có Kim mài sắt có ngày nên bom.
(Tục ngữ)

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Quýt làm Campuchia chịu:

Cambodia’s cybercrime crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/10/sold-to-gangs-forced-to-run-online-scams-inside-cambodias-cybercrime-crisis


When the advert popped up on Ly Thi Lan’s* Facebook feed, it seemed like the perfect opportunity. An employer in Cambodia was looking for new staff, the only requirement was computer skills, and the salary was generous, especially compared with her factory job in her home country, Vietnam. She would be able to save money, and pay for health treatment she needed. Her husband decided to go as well.

“I just wanted to go there to have a better job, earn money to pay for a better life,” she says.

But when she arrived, she found it wasn’t a typical admin job. Her role was to scour the internet for victims she could trick into investing in an online scam. If she refused to do the work, she was told that she would be taken to the eighth floor of the building compound, beaten or electrocuted, she says.

Lan was later told by other workers she had been sold to a criminal gang, and that they were now owned by their company. She had no idea how or when this happened, only that she couldn’t return home without paying a huge ransom.

….

Người gì mà thấy Facebook nói gì cũng tin.

Ma Facebook Q(uỷ) Anon.
Cứ lựa những thứ tin đồn mà tin
(Mạng trường tân thanh)

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Xấu hổ cả nước:

protester attacked at Chinese consulate
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/17/hong-kong-protester-attacked-at-chinese-consulate-in-manchester


The alleged victim, known as Bob, said he had hair pulled from his scalp during the attack. Police said he spent the night in hospital. A photograph published by VOA Cantonese showed some of his injuries (https://www.voacantonese.com/a/kc-chinese-official-in-manchester-crash-with-protesters-upd-20221016-ry/6792281.html), just below his eyes, which left him bleeding and bruised.

Greater Manchester police confirmed its officers had witnessed an assault out of the consulate building in the Rusholme area and had then intervened.

“Shortly before 4pm a small group of men came out of the building and a man was dragged into the consulate grounds and assaulted,” GMP said. “Due to our fears for the safety of the man, officers intervened and removed the victim from the consulate grounds.”

Images from the attack circulating on social media show a grey-haired man in a blue scarf holding Bob by his hair just inside the consulate gates, as other men attack him and a British police officer tries to pull him away.

Ở đâu có đấu tranh là ở đó có áp bức.
(Khẩu hiệu cộng sản)

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Hết thuốc chữa:

Indonesia bans sale of syrup medicines after at least 99 children die
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/indonesia-bans-sale-of-syrup-medicines-after-at-least-99-children-die


The move comes just weeks after the World Health Organization issued an alert over four Indian-made cough syrups that it said were potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and the deaths of 70 children in the Gambia.

Indonesia has said it is investigating 206 cases of acute kidney injury (AKI), mostly in children under the age of five, and 99 deaths, although it has said the real number of cases could be higher.

In the WHO’s laboratory analysis of the contaminated products under investigation in the Gambia, ethylene glycol and diethylene glycol were found in “unacceptable amounts” in the samples.

Thương lòng con trẻ thơ ngây
Gặp cơn vạ gió tai bay bất kỳ
(Đoạn trường tân thanh)

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Công an chìm:

secret Chinese police stations in Canada
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/27/canada-secret-chinese-police-stations-investigation


The Royal Canada Mounted Police said it was investigating “reports of criminal activity in relation to the so-called ‘police’ stations” but did not specify the location of the sites.

The police also warned that “foreign states may seek to intimidate or harm communities or individuals within Canada”.
The revelations come days after the Dutch government said it was investigating two suspected stations (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/26/china-using-police-bases-in-netherlands-to-target-dissidents-say-reports).

The stations were first identified by Safeguard Defenders (https://safeguarddefenders.com/sites/default/files/pdf/110%20Overseas%20(3).pdf), a Spanish civil rights group which alleged the Fuzhou and Qingtian police agencies had between them opened 54 “overseas service centres” in 25 cities across 21 countries, including Canada.

Thôi đà mắc hoạ rồi ai
Đi đâu chẳng biết cái loài công an
Độc địa nổi tiếng trần gian
Một tay hại biết mấy ngàn di dân
(Đoạn trường dân thanh)

[Triển]

Công an chìm:

secret Chinese police stations in Canada
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/27/canada-secret-chinese-police-stations-investigation



Thôi đà mắc hoạ rồi ai
Đi đâu chẳng biết cái loài công an
Độc địa nổi tiếng trần gian
Một tay hại biết mấy ngàn di dân
(Đoạn trường dân thanh)


"Ngụy (tr)an(g)": Một bầy Tô Lâm.

Netherlands probes 'illegal' Chinese police stations
10/26/2022October 26, 2022

Dutch media reports that overseas Chinese police centers are putting "pressure on dissident Chinese." An NGO report says that Bejing has such centers in "dozens of countries across five continents."

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Family values: con hay là nợ?

Young girls being sold in India to repay loans
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/28/young-girls-sold-india-repay-loans-human-rights


The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the state government demanding a police inquiry and answers within a month to what it called an “abominable” practice.

People living in many rural areas in India often have to borrow money from fellow villagers when a family member falls seriously ill and needs medical treatment.

Local media reports say that in half a dozen districts around Bhilwara, if a family cannot repay a loan, the aggrieved creditor has complained to the “caste panchayats” or caste councils.

By way of “settlement”, the councils have ordered the family to hand over their daughter – sometimes more than one depending on the size of the loan – so that the creditor can sell her to a trafficker to recoup his money.

Cha mẹ nợ bán đàn con
Bên tiền bên gái bên nào lời hơn?
(Đoạn tình tân thanh)

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Cầu treo lắc lẽo gập ghình khỏi đi…

Gujarat bridge collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/01/gujarat-bridge-collapse-anger-grows-in-india-over-cover-up-claims


The bridge snapped in two on Sunday evening when families were out enjoying the evening air over the river. Many of those standing in the middle of the bridge when it collapsed plunged into the river and drowned, while others at both ends of the bridge, closer to the banks, died from the impact of falling on to the stones and boulders below.

Indians have been dismayed to discover that the Gujarat government, ruled by the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), gave the contract for repairing the 100-year-old suspension bridge to a local company called Oreva.

Oreva makes watches, clocks and lighting. There is no evidence of it having any experience of bridge repairs or infrastructure. Nor is any mentioned on its website.

The opposition politician Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi party, alleged that “massive corruption” was responsible for the bridge collapsing only four days after it had been renovated.

Troubled bridge over water:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JAc8zxL73M

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Ma gì làm tương ớt?

Lao Gan Ma
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/05/chinas-hottest-woman-the-driving-force-behind-crunchy-chilli-sensation-lao-gan-ma


Tao Huabi is the woman behind Lao Gan Ma Spicy Chilli Crisp, a hot, crunchy sauce of chopped chillies that are fried to a red so dark it is almost black. The name means “old godmother” and everyone who picks a jar up must face the stern look of a short-haired woman.

Forbes China estimates her fortune at $1.05bn.

Today, according to its website, the company produces 1.3 million bottles daily. Heinz Ketchup produces 1.8 million, and Huy Fong Sriracha – also known as “Rooster Sauce” – 55,000.

In 2021, as people looked for a way to make their home-cooked meals more exciting during pandemic lockdowns in the UK, online retailer Sous Chef said Lao Gan Ma sales were up 1,900%.

Tao drives a limited edition Rolls-Royce with red rear view mirrors and a lucky number licence plate: “Gui A8888”.

Có ớt đổ vạ cho cơm.
(Tục ngữ)

Hãng Nhật này làm ngon hơn.
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0557/4269/3571/products/BG11397_SeasonedOilwRedPepperandGarlic_10987_2048x .jpg?v=1661458043

[Triển]

Môn "Đức dục"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z2i8_BdIIk

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Vùng lên hỡi các nô lệ ở Foxconn:

Police beat protesting iPhone workers in China
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/24/workers-in-running-battles-with-police-at-foxconns-iphone-factory-in-china


Protests started on Tuesday after employees who had travelled long distances to take jobs at the factory complained that the company changed the terms of their pay, according to an employee, Li Sanshan.

Li said he quit a catering job when he saw an advertisement promising 25,000 yuan ($3,500) for two months of work. That would be significantly above the average pay for this type of work in the area.

After employees arrived, the company said they had to work two additional months at lower pay to receive the 25,000 yuan, according to Li.

Foxconn said on Thursday that a “technical error” was responsible for the confusion over pay and offered an apology.

Sorry seems to be the cheapest word…
(Elton Chon)

[Triển]

Chuyện lạ:

China Covid: Protesters openly urge Xi to resign over China Covid curbs

Protests in China against government's strict Covid measures have intensified, with some people publicly venting their anger at the Communist Party leaders.

Thousands of protesters have turned out in Shanghai, where the BBC has seen people bundled into police cars.

Students have also demonstrated at universities in Beijing and Nanjing.

The latest unrest follows a protest in the remote north-west city of Urumqi, where lockdown rules were blamed after 10 people died in a tower block fire.

While Chinese authorities deny that Covid restrictions caused the deaths, officials in Urumqi did issue an unusual apology late on Friday, and pledged to "restore order" by phasing out restrictions.

'Xi Jinping, step down'

During Saturday night's protest in Shanghai - China's biggest city and a global financial hub in the east of the country - people were heard openly shouting slogans such as "Xi Jinping, step down" and "Communist party, step down".

Some held blank white banners, while other lit candles and laid flowers for the victims in Urumqi.

Such demands are an unusual sight within China, where any direct criticism of the government and the president can result in harsh penalties.

But analysts say the government appears to have drastically underestimated growing discontent towards the zero-Covid approach, a policy inextricably linked to Xi Jinping who recently pledged there would be no swerving from it.

One protester in Shanghai told the BBC that he felt "shocked and a bit excited" to see people out on the streets, calling it the first time he'd seen such large-scale dissent in China.

He said lockdowns made him feel "sad, angry and hopeless", and had left him unable to see his unwell mother, who was undergoing cancer treatment.

A female demonstrator told the BBC police officers were asked how they felt about the protests, and the answer was "the same as you". But, she said, "they wear their uniforms so they're doing their job."

Others gave accounts of violence, with one protester telling the Associated Press news agency one of his friends had been beaten by police at the scene, while two others had been pepper sprayed.

People gathered again Sunday, laying flowers for the Urumqi fire victims in the area of Shanghai's Wulumuqi Road.

However, these tributes were gathered up by police, who also attended the protest site en masse.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/39A7/production/_127795741_gettyimages-1245138596.jpg.webp
Police confronted protesters who gathered for a second day in Shanghai on Sunday

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AED7/production/_127795744_gettyimages-1245138641.jpg.webp
There has been a large security presence around Urumqi Road, where people attempted to lay floral tributes for fire victims in Urumqi

The BBC saw police officers, private security guards and plain-clothed police officers on the streets, confronting protesters who assembled for a second day.

Demonstrators who led anti-government chants were taken away, and punched or pushed up against a police car in some cases.

Photos and videos have also emerged online that showed students launching their own protests at universities in Beijing and Nanjing on Saturday.

Hundreds of people took part in one such demonstration in Tsinghua University in the capital, one student told the AFP news agency.

The group held up blank sheets of paper - an act which has become a symbol of defiance against Chinese censorship - and were filmed chanting songs in support of freedom and democracy.

Videos of the protests are difficult to independently verify, but many of them show an unusually explicit and outspoken criticism of the government and its leader.

On Sunday, hundreds of residents took to the streets of the central city of Wuhan - where the Covid pandemic began, according to other videos posted on social media. Some of the protesters are pictured knocking down barricades.

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Sảy một ly đi một Xị?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygHl09oRgnQ

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Thà làm Ma nước Nhật chứ không thèm là vương đất Bắc:

Alibaba founder Jack Ma hiding out in Tokyo
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/29/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-hiding-out-in-tokyo-reports-say


On Tuesday the Financial Times, which is owned by the Japanese media company Nikkei, revealed Ma has most recently been living in Japan.

Citing anonymous sources, the paper said that for almost six months the former English teacher turned tech superstar has been living in Tokyo with his family. His time has been spent mixing business and pleasure with visits to onsen (hot springs) and ski resorts in the Japanese countryside as well as regular trips to the US and Israel.

Ăn cơm China làm Ma Nhật bản.

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Thà làm Ma nước Nhật chứ không thèm là vương đất Bắc:

Alibaba founder Jack Ma hiding out in Tokyo
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/29/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-hiding-out-in-tokyo-reports-say



Ăn cơm China làm Ma Nhật bản.

Anh Ma này cầu có làm quỷ mới né được ma vương họ Xi. Gần đây mấy nước phương Tây đồn rùm là đồn công an có mặt khắp nơi ở hải ngoại. Anh Ma chạy đi đâu bi rờ. Chạy sang Việt Nam, theo Tô Lâm?

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Anh này mà đi coi tướng chắc thày tướng chê hết, để coi kết cuộc ra sao.

Đi với Nhật mặc yukata, đi với Ma mặc áo giáp.
(Tục ngữ)

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Rất nhiều quốc gia tẩy chay Iran vì độc tài, thật ra độc tài là nhỏ, sợ họ có vũ khí nguyên tử mới là lý do chính. Nếu so với Việt Nam, chuyện một người bị nhà chức trách đánh chết là chuyện thường, riết rồi người ta sợ côn an như sợ cọp, cả biểu tình cũng không dám. Nhưng vẫn có các nước lớn phương Tây thường xuyên đến bắt tay Việt Nam buôn bán làm ăn. Chẳng hề thấy tẩy chay gì sất.


Người Iran kêu gọi biểu tình ba ngày từ thứ Hai

https://gdb.voanews.com/099c0000-0a00-0242-4205-08dac84fb402_cx0_cy16_cw0_w1023_r1_s.jpg
Một cuộc biểu tình ở Iran.

Những người biểu tình ở Iran hôm Chủ nhật đã kêu gọi tiến hành một cuộc biểu tình ba ngày trong tuần này nhằm duy trì áp lực lên chính quyền về cái chết của cô Mahsa Amini khi bị giam giữ.

Các cuộc biểu tình được lên kế hoạch vào đúng ngày Tổng thống Ebrahim Raisi phát biểu trước các sinh viên ở Tehran.

Ông Raisi dự kiến sẽ đến thăm Đại học Tehran vào thứ Tư, nhân Ngày sinh viên ở Iran.

Nhân dịp này, những người biểu tình đang kêu gọi các thương gia xuống đường và tập hợp về phía Quảng trường Azadi (Tự do) của Tehran, theo các bài đăng cá nhân được chia sẻ trên Twitter bởi các tài khoản chưa được xác minh bởi Reuters.

Họ cũng đã kêu gọi ba ngày tẩy chay bất kỳ hoạt động kinh tế nào bắt đầu từ thứ Hai.

Những lời kêu gọi tương tự về biểu tình và huy động quần chúng trong những tuần qua đã dẫn đến tình trạng bất ổn leo thang khắp đất nước, trong đó có một số cuộc biểu tình chống chính phủ lớn nhất kể từ cuộc Cách mạng Hồi giáo năm 1979 ở Iran.

Hãng thông tấn HRANA của các nhà hoạt động cho biết rằng 470 người biểu tình đã bị giết tính đến thứ Bảy, trong đó có 64 trẻ nhỏ. Hãng này cho biết 18.210 người biểu tình đã bị bắt và 61 thành viên của lực lượng an ninh đã thiệt mạng.

Hội đồng an ninh nhà nước của Bộ Nội vụ Iran cho biết hôm thứ Bảy rằng số người chết là 200, theo hãng tin Mizan của cơ quan tư pháp.


/* nguồn: https://www.voatiengviet.com/a/uncef-len-an-bao-luc-lam-dung-tre-em-trong-cac-cuoc-bieu-tinh-o-iran/6861643.html

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No more free phở:

Indonesia passes legislation banning sex outside marriage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/06/indonesia-passes-legislation-banning-sex-outside-marriage


Indonesia’s parliament has overhauled the country’s criminal code to outlaw sex outside marriage (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/02/indonesia-set-to-make-sex-outside-marriage-punishable-by-jail) and curtail free speech, in a dramatic setback to freedoms in the world’s third-largest democracy.

Passed with support from all political parties, the draconian legislation has shocked not only rights activists but also the country’s booming tourism sector, which relies on a stream of visitors to its tropical islands.

Newspapers in Australia have labelled the legislation the “Bali bonk ban” as the law will apply to Indonesians and visiting foreigners. More than 1 million Australians visit Indonesia each year, with many heading to Bali for its yoga retreats, surfing and all-night beach parties.

Maulana Yusran, the deputy chief of Indonesia’s tourism industry board, said the code was “totally counterproductive” and introduced just as the country was trying to recover from the pandemic. “We deeply regret the government have closed their eyes,” he said.


Ba tư thì bắt trùm, Nam dương thì cấm cởi.

Ngày mai trong đám Nam dương đó
Có kẻ vô tù bỏ cuộc… chơi
(Hàn ngục tử)

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Khai bớt tuổi: Yu Soo Young

South Koreans to become younger as traditional age system scrapped
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/09/all-south-koreans-to-become-younger-as-traditional-age-system-scrapped


South Koreans are deemed to be a year old when they are born, and a year is added every 1 January. The unusual – and increasingly unpopular – custom means a baby born on New Year’s Eve becomes two years old as soon as the clock strikes midnight.

The complications do not end there: a separate system exists for calculating the age of men entering national service and the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke. In those cases, a person’s age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is added on New Year’s Day.

The system’s origins are unclear. One theory is that turning one year old at birth takes into account time spent in the womb – with nine months rounded up to 12. Others link it to an ancient Asian numerical system that did not have the concept of zero.

Explanations for the extra year added on 1 January are more complicated. Some experts point to the theory that ancient Koreans placed their year of birth within the Chinese 60-year calendar cycle, but, at a time when there were no regular calendars, tended to ignore the day of their birth and simply added on a whole year on the first day of the lunar calendar. The extra year on 1 January became commonplace as more South Koreans began observing the western calendar.

Ngày mai trong đám Ko ria đó
Có kẻ theo thời bỏ một năm
(Hàn quốc tử)

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Tử vì đạo:

Iran carries out second execution linked to nationwide protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/12/iran-carries-out-second-execution-linked-to-nationwide-protests


Rahnavard, a 23-year-old wrestler, had been sentenced to death by a court in the city of Mashhad for allegedly killing two members of the Basij volunteer force and wounding four others. The Basij force, affiliated with the country’s Revolutionary Guards, has been at the forefront of the state crackdown on protests.

Iranian media has printed the names of 25 other people who faced the death sentence in relation to the protests, which were sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.

On Thursday, Iran hanged Mohsen Shekari, who had been convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the first such execution after thousands of arrests over the unrest, drawing western condemnation. During his trial, Shekari showed signs of torture visible on his face, his uncle Mahmoud Shekari told the Guardian.

Một ngàn năm nô lệ giặc Hồi
Một trăm năm nô lệ giặc Mông
Bốn ba năm dưới ách độc tài
(Gia tài của con)

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Không say không về:

‘Road sleeping’ deaths soar in Tokyo
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/14/road-sleeping-deaths-soar-in-tokyo-as-socialising-returns-to-pre-covid-levels


Concern is rising that the death toll will rise again over the coming fortnight, as office workers get together to mark the end of the year at alcohol-fuelled bonenkai parties – a custom many shunned during the pandemic.

According to police, 10 of the people killed in Tokyo so far this year had been drinking before they were struck while sitting or lying in the road.

Bonenkai (“forget the year”) parties are supposed to be an opportunity for colleagues who spend hours together in the workplace to get together for an evening of nomunication, a portmanteau of the Japanese verb to drink, nomu, and communication.

In 2020, police in Okinawa reported more than 7,000 cases of rojo-ne – literally sleeping on the road – the previous year, a phenomenon some attribute to the southern island’s balmy weather and enthusiastic consumption of awamori, a strong local spirit.

Say sưa nghĩ cũng uổng đời
Uổng thì uổng vậy say thì cứ say
Đất say đất cũng lăn quay
Người say người cũng ngủ ngay ngoài đường
(Thản dà)

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Công nhân như nước Thái lan
Lãnh việc như núi trong ngàn hãng may…

Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/18/workers-in-thailand-who-made-ff-jeans-for-tesco-trapped-in-effective-forced-labour


The factory is in Mae Sot, a city at the Myanmar border that relies on Burmese migrant labour, and which has developed a reputation over the last decade as a “wild west” for workers’ rights. The lawsuit argues that Tesco should have known the area was notorious for exploitation.

Tesco made £2.2bn profits in 2020, the last year that its Thai business used VKG.

Labour experts say large clothing brands such as F&F deliberately outsource the production of clothes and the auditing of factories to avoid liability and reputational damage while keeping prices cheap and protecting profits.

Công ty nhớ lấy câu này
Cướp công lao động cướp ngày và đêm
(Ca dao)

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Con rắn cháu quỷ:

Nepal to release ‘The Serpent’ serial killer Charles Sobhraj
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/21/nepal-court-orders-release-the-serpent-serial-killer-charles-sobhraj


Sobhraj, who has French citizenship and is of Indian and Vietnamese descent, has been linked to the killings of 20 foreign tourists across Thailand, Nepal and India. He is said to have lured them in before drugging, robbing and murdering them.

His life has been subject to several dramatisations, including the BBC/Netflix series The Serpent, which depicted his targeting of western backpackers in India and Thailand.

Chằng tinh nổi tiếng rừng xanh
Một tay chôn biết mấy cành phù dung
(Pháp trường tân thanh)

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Hết thuốc chữa:

Taiwan may restrict Panadol bulk-buying for China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/23/taiwan-may-restrict-panadol-sales-to-thwart-bulk-buying-for-china


Some drug buyers in Taiwan are looking to ship or bring the painkiller to the Chinese mainland, where Covid-19 cases and deaths have risen after China relaxed its zero-Covid restrictions.

China is scrambling to ensure stable drug supplies after ending its nationwide zero-Covid policy. Authorities have introduced measures to properly allocate medical resources, including requisitioning the production of medical supplies.

To address nationwide shortages, more than a dozen Chinese pharmaceutical firms have been tapped by officials to help “secure supplies” of key drugs – a euphemism for requisitioning.

At least 11 of 42 test kit makers whose products are licensed by China’s medical regulators have had part of their production seized by the government or received orders from the state, according to Agence France-Presseand local media reports.

Ba Tàu lặn lội Đài loan
Lùng cả thị trường lượm đủ thuốc thang
Ông ơi ông bán cho tôi
Tôi có đồng nào ông hãy lấy đi
Có uống thì uống thuốc Tây
Đừng uống thuốc Tàu đau nằm nhà thương
(Ca dao)

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Nhật cũng có thương - vong. :z51:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jABC7wFNuAQ

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Đi kinh tế mới: An yên lạc nghiệp.

Japanese government offers families 1m yen a child to leave Tokyo
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/million-yen-per-child-to-leave-tokyo-japans-offer-to-families


The payment – which comes on top of up to ¥3m already available in financial support – will be offered to families living in the 23 “core” wards of Tokyo and the neighbouring commuter-belt prefectures of Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa.

To receive the benefits, families must move outside the greater Tokyo area, although some could receive the cash if they relocate to mountainous areas that lie within the city’s boundaries, the Kyodo news agency said, quoting officials.

They must live in their new homes for at least five years and one member of the household must be in work or plan to open a new business. Those who move out before five years have passed will have to return the cash.

Lìa xa thành Tô yêu dấu một sớm khi heo may về
Lòng khách tha hương vương sầu thương
Nhìn em mờ trong mây khói bước đi nhưng chưa nỡ rời
Lệ sầu tràn mi đượm men cay đắng biệt ly
Rồi đây dù lạc ngàn nơi ta hướng về chốn xa vời
Tìm mộng xưa lãng quên tháng ngày tàn phai
Nghẹn ngào thương nhớ em Tô-kỳ-ô
(Giấc mơ đồi nương)

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Đi kinh tế mới: An yên lạc nghiệp.


Đi kinh tế mới là trôi chồng lạc vợ, ủa lộn, trôi sông lạc chợ.

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Xuân này con không về:

People urged ‘don’t go home’ during lunar new year holiday
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/12/chinese-warned-not-visit-elderly-relatives-covid-spreads-cities


People in China (https://www.theguardian.com/world/china) have been warned against travelling to visit their elderly relatives during the lunar new year holiday, as Covid spreads rapidly through cities and into regional and poorer areas.

Prof Guo Jianwen, a member of the state council’s pandemic prevention team, urged people “don’t go home to visit them” if elderly relatives had not yet been infected.

“You have all kinds of ways to show you care for them, you don’t necessarily have to bring the virus to their home,” Guo said on Thursday.

Dời Tết lại một hai tháng nữa cũng đâu có mất mát gì.

Đầu năm Quý Mão hăm ba
Có về thăm mẹ thăm cha cũng đừng
(Ca dao)

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Xuân này con không về:

Dời Tết lại một hai tháng nữa cũng đâu có mất mát gì.


Xưn này con chưa dề.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxsS2MhAnEo

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"Cột điện ở Mỹ mà biết đi nó cũng chạy về Việt Nam".

Phấc đã đi rồi:

Vietnam president quits as Communist Party intensifies graft crackdown

https://www.reuters.com/resizer/GvC9mUiu5FGrwpgMjQWRRmXxR1o=/1200x0/filters:quality(80)/cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/6ZPDVELKDRMZJPOBRJL7IO2GAY.jpg

HANOI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned after the ruling Communist Party blamed him for "violations and wrongdoing" by officials under his control, the government said on Tuesday, in a major escalation of the country's anti-graft campaign.

Phuc, a former prime minister widely credited with accelerating pro-business reforms, held the largely ceremonial post of president since 2021 and is the highest-ranking official targeted by the party's sweeping corruption crackdown.

Vietnam has no paramount ruler and is officially led by four "pillars": the party's secretary, the president, prime minister and speaker of the house.

Phuc, 68, was ultimately responsible for offences committed by many officials, including two deputy prime ministers and three ministers, the government said.

"Fully being aware of his responsibilities before the party and people, he submitted an application to resign from his assigned positions, quit his job and retire," it said in statement.

Phuc's office could not immediately be reached for comment and it was not clear if a replacement has been chosen.

Vietnam has been rife with speculation he would be removed following January's dismissal of two deputy prime ministers who served under him, as the party doubles down on a "blazing furnace" anti-corruption drive led by its powerful long-serving chief, Nguyen Phu Trong.

Last year, 539 party members were prosecuted or "disciplined" for corruption and "deliberate wrongdoings", including ministers, top officials and diplomats, according to the party, while police investigated 453 corruption cases, up 50% from 2021.

Trong earlier this month said the party was "more determined" and "more effective and methodical" in its approach, and vowed to deliver results.

IMPACT UNCERTAIN

Opinions vary on the impact of the anti-graft drive on investment and policy.

Le Hong Hiep of the Vietnam Studies Programme at the Singapore's ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute said the purge could pave the way for cleaner more capable leaders to rise.

"As long as the leadership reshuffles do not lead to radical policy changes, their impact on the economy will also be limited," Hiep posted on his Facebook account.

However, Ha Hoang Hop, a senior visiting fellow at the same institute, said Phuc's demise and uncertainty over the impact of the crackdown could unnerve investors.

"This could lead Vietnam to a time of instability that would worry foreign friends and investors," he said.

Phuc's resignation requires approval from the legislature, which sources on Monday said would hold a rare extraordinary meeting this week, adding to expectation that Phuc's fate had been sealed.

Phuc, who was known in Vietnam for his friendly approach and love for the national soccer team, was once tipped as a future party General Secretary, the state's most prestigious job.

As prime minister from 2016 to 2021, he oversaw an average 6% annual economic growth for Asia's burgeoning manufacturing powerhouse and helped further a liberalisation drive that included trade deals with the European Union and Pacific powers.

Despite his downfall, the government on Tuesday praised his achievements, particularly his pandemic response.

"He has made great efforts in leading, directing and administering the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control, achieving important results," it said.

/*src.: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/vietnams-president-phuc-quits-blamed-ministers-violations-2023-01-17/

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Phúc bất ngờ đi, hoạ vô đồng chí. (Tục ngữ)

Đang được ăn ngon mà bị đánh.

Đảng đánh không tránh bữa ăn. (Tục ngữ)

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Gia tài không đợi tuổi:

Indian diamond heiress gives up fortune to become nun
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/18/indian-diamond-heiress-gives-up-fortune-to-become-child-nun


An eight-year-old girl in India who was due to inherit a multimillion-dollar diamond fortune has instead been admitted as a nun to a strict religious order after renouncing worldly pleasures.

Her family’s business, founded in 1981, has a net worth of 5bn rupees ($61m) according to ICRA, an Indian credit rating agency.

On Wednesday, she arrived at a temple to trade her elaborate garments for a simple white cotton outfit, after having all her hair removed.

Tu là cõi phúc tiền là dây oan
(Đạo trường tân thanh)

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No kidding:

‘The last generation’: young Chinese people vowing not to have children
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/20/the-last-generation-young-chinese-people-vow-not-to-have-children


Since the 1990s, China’s total fertility rate – the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime – has declined to below the replacement level of 2.1. The figure was 1.30 in 2020 and fell to 1.15 in 2021.

Last year, a video went viral in China showing a young man who refused to be taken into a quarantine camp being warned by police that his punishment would affect his family for three generations. He coolly retorted: “We are the last generation, thank you.”

The phrase became a popular online meme and the hashtag #thelastgeneration generated millions of comments before it was censored. Many said the abuse of rights under draconian Covid policies had put them off having children.

“In this country, to love your child is to never let him be born in the first place,” read one comment.

Amen and women.

Tuyệt tự vô ưu.
(Đạo đức kinh)

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Việt kiêu: 72 chưa gọi là lành…

Monterey Park shooting suspect, 72, found dead
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/22/monterey-park-shooting-suspect-dead


Officials have identified the shooter as as Huu Can Tran, a 72-year-old Asian man.

The shooting took place outside Los Angeles in Monterey Park, California. Authorities said that after opening fire at one dance studio, the shooter appeared to have targeted a second dance venue in nearby Alhambra, California, another majority-Asian American town, where he fled after two people were able to take his gun away from him.

Dance instructors who taught classes at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park told news outlets that the ballroom studio served a predominantly older, Asian American clientele.

Lắm thầy nhiều ma, lắm người ta nhiều súng.
(Tục ngữ)

[Triển]

Việt kiêu: 72 chưa gọi là lành…


Hoa kiêu chứ không phải Việt kiêu.

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McSushi: fresh food

Japan’s robot sushi chefs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/22/japans-hi-tech-restaurants-secret-world-robot-sushi-chefs


“In the past, diners used to take what they fancied from a free-for-all conveyer belt, but these days most people want to order their favourite sushi,” said Masato Sugihara, deputy manager in the IT department at Sushiro’s parent company, Food (https://www.theguardian.com/food) and Life.

At the back of the kitchen, a robot churns out tiny blocks of rice at the rate of about 3,600 an hour. “It’s impossible for a chef to do it that quickly,” said Yurika Murai, from Sushiro’s public relations department. Each block is identical and served up, as tradition demands, at skin temperature.

But there are certain tasks that are still the preserve of humans, such as slicing the fish and placing it on rice.

The rule is that sushi should be in front of the customer no more than three minutes after the order has come in.

Cá không ăn sớm cá ươn
Dân ở bên Nhật ăn thường su shi
(Cá dao)

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Hành Phi: a lô a lô hành khô lên giá!!!

Onion becomes a luxury in Philippines
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/26/onion-smuggling-rackets-thrive-as-staple-becomes-a-luxury-in-philippines


One viral image sums up just how precious they have become: a bride clutches a bouquet of onions (https://www.facebook.com/PhilippineSTAR/posts/pfbid02nLedkifzVEPeFGnw1CmXQF6hKBW3JtZEh57MCqDLqv7 qKc3dexjZWpDtAR7AUx1gl) on her wedding day. Guests would be able to take home one of the expensive vegetables, she told local media.

The rise in onion prices has been unprecedented, says Prof Leonardo Lanzona, of Ateneo de Manila University. The cost per kilogram reached up to 720 peso (US$13) in Metro Manila in late December – more than the daily minimum wage in the national capital region (533-570 peso). Prices have since fallen, but a kilogram of onions still costs more than a whole chicken.

It is not only onions that have soared in cost. The price of eggs has also risen, while the country has also faced a shortage of sugar.

Between 500m and 600m pesos ($9m – $11m) worth of onions were impounded by officials last year, according to local media. The vegetable accounted for 30% of smuggled farm products.

Thế nhân mắt trắng như ngân nhũ
Ta với nhà ngươi cả củ hành
(Hành phương Tây)

[Triển]

Nỗi đau câm nín.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EKqpJjpH2k

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Đàn bà đi đẻ mồ côi một mình:

Chinese province ends ban on unmarried people having children
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/30/sichuan-province-in-china-removes-all-birth-restrictions


Sichuan’s health commission announced on Monday it would allow all people to register births with the provincial government from 15 February.

Until now, the commission had allowed only married couples who wanted to have up to two children to register with local authorities. In a government notice,

National reproduction policies do not explicitly ban unmarried women from having children but proof of marriage is often required for parents to access free services including prenatal healthcare, a mother’s salary during maternity leave, and job protection.

Those who seek to register a birth outside of marriage often face heavy fines in order to get the child a hukou – China’s crucial household registration that gives the child access to education and social services.

- “hukou” chắc là cái hậu khu


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[Triển]

- “hukou” chắc là cái hậu khu



Không có cái hậu khu này là tiêu à. Không thể ra phường lãnh khoai mì.

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Ăn trông mồi ngồi trông chừng:

Wave of ‘sushi terrorism’ grips Japan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/03/wave-of-sushi-terrorism-grips-japans-restaurant-world


Several acts of what is being called “sushi terrorism” have emerged on Twitter and other social media in recent days, although some apparently date back weeks, and even years.

A clip of the most egregious culinary crime shows what appears to be a teenager licking the open top of a communal soy sauce bottle and the entire rim of a teacup, which he then places back on a shelf.

If that wasn’t bad enough, the 48-second clip (https://twitter.com/takigare3/status/1619658064898166784) shows him licking his finger and using it to touch two pieces of sushi, presumably ordered by another customer, as they travel past on the conveyer belt.

Other videos show people at other chains putting wasabi on passing pieces of sushi and licking the spoon from a container of green-tea powder that is used by multiple diners.

Vô phúc đẻ con biết lội, có tội đẻ con biết Twitter.
(Tục ngữ)

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Kim young one:

Kim Jong-un’s daughter centre stage
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/09/north-korea-puts-on-biggest-icbm-display-yet-with-kim-jong-uns-daughter-centre-stage


Photos released by KCNA showed Ju-ae seated between her father and her mother, Ri Sol-ju, and surrounded by military officers at the banquet, thought to have taken place at a hotel in Pyongyang.

The presence of Kim’s second child, who is believed to be aged nine or 10, at public events has fuelled speculation that she is being primed for a future role in the regime, and possibly the leadership.

Đời cha ăn mập đời con khá mỡ.
(Tục ngữ)

[ốc]

Phúc bất trùng lai, dịch vô đơn chí:

Bird flu in Cambodia
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/bird-flu-11-year-old-girl-in-cambodia-dies-after-being-infected


The girl from Prey Veng province, east of the capital, Phnom Penh, was diagnosed with bird flu after falling sick with a high fever and cough on 16 February, the statement said.

When her condition deteriorated, she was transferred to the national children’s hospital in Phnom Penh for treatment, but died on Wednesday, the health ministry said.

It was the first known human infection with the H5N1 strain in the country since 2014, the health minister, Mam Bunheng, said in a statement on Thursday.

Bệnh từ vật mà truyền
Dịch từ vật mà lây
(Tục ngữ)

[Triển]

Tài liệu đàm phán Trung – Nga về vũ khí sát thương ‘‘bị lộ’’, Bắc Kinh tức giận

Một lần nữa chính quyền Mỹ gia tăng áp lực lên Trung Quốc trong hồ sơ Bắc Kinh bị cáo buộc có kế hoạch cấp vũ khí sát thương cho quân đội Nga tại Ukraina. Viện Nghiên cứu Chiến tranh ISW hôm qua, 04/03/2023 loan tin, Bắc Kinh đã ‘‘tức giận’’ về việc Matxcơva để lọt tài liệu về các thảo luận liên quan đến việc mua bán vũ khí.

Viện Nghiên cứu Chiến tranh, có trụ sở tại Washington, trong bản tin hàng ngày về tình hình chiến tranh Ukraina, đã dẫn lại thông tin từ báo Anh The Economist hôm 02/03, theo đó: ‘Trung Quốc giận giữ với điện Kremlin về việc nội dung các thảo luận song phương đang diễn ra về việc bán vũ khí đã bị lọt vào tay Hoa Kỳ’’. Một giới chức châu Âu gần gũi với hồ sơ này tiết lộ như trên. Cùng lúc đó, hôm 03/03/2023, báo Mỹ NBC News đưa tin hai quan chức Hoa Kỳ gần gũi với giới tình báo, xin ẩn danh, cũng đã khẳng định Bắc Kinh đang xem xét cấp vũ khí cho Nga.

Áp lực của Mỹ ‘‘dường như đã có hiệu quả’’

Theo NBC News, đã có một số thảo luận trong nội bộ chính quyền Mỹ về việc giải mật một số tin tức tình báo liên quan đến dự định của Trung Quốc cấp vũ khí sát thương cho Nga, nhưng giới lãnh đạo Mỹ đã quyết định tạm thời chưa làm, vì ‘‘tính nhạy cảm’’ của các nguồn cung cấp thông tin tình báo, và mục tiêu khi gửi tín hiệu đến Trung Quốc ‘‘dường như đã đạt kết quả’’, với việc Bắc Kinh chưa quyết định cấp vũ khí Nga.

Vẫn theo NBC News, hôm thứ Năm, 02/03, phát ngôn viên của Hội đồng An ninh Quốc gia, ông John Kirby, khẳng định tuy Trung Quốc không chính thức từ bỏ ý định bán vũ khí cho Nga, nhưng cũng không thấy bất kỳ bằng chứng nào cho thấy Bắc Kinh đang chuẩn bị gửi vũ khí sát thương cho Matxcơva.

Các quan chức hàng đầu của Mỹ, bao gồm ngoại trưởng Antony Blinken và giám đốc CIA Williams Burns, ‘‘đã công khai bày tỏ tin tưởng vào các tin tức tình báo và cảnh báo’’ Trung Quốc không được cung cấp viện trợ quân sự sát thương cho Nga. Bắc Kinh đã bác bỏ, gọi cáo buộc của Hoa Kỳ là “thông tin sai lệch”. Theo một giới chức Hoa Kỳ, mục tiêu gây áp lực của chính quyền Biden là để Trung Quốc hiểu rằng không thể ‘‘tiếp tay’’ cho Nga ‘‘giết hại những người Ukraina vô tội’’.

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Yêu trai chí dị: Fifty shades of gay?

China’s erotic fiction about gay men
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/13/chinas-rotten-girls-are-escaping-into-erotic-fiction-about-gay-men


Danmei is romantic fiction about men or male beings – ghosts, foxes, even a mushroom – falling in love, written almost exclusively by and for straight women and is the most popular genre of fiction in China

Experts believe they’re popular because they offer escape from daily life, and an outlet to explore taboo desires.

Talking about them with friends is also a more demure way to raise the topic of sex and they can join lively online chat forums, anonymously.

They also allow readers to indulge in their desire for a male body in a “liberal way”, Wang says – something not encouraged in wider society.

But the Chinese Communist party (CCP) sees homosexuality as a challenge to traditional family structures, says Wang. The Jinjiang website, in response to government pressure, has strict policies on erotic scenes: nothing below the neck. So danmei writers use a website called Ao3 to publish missing sex scenes.

Danmei lần giở trước đèn
Phong tình đực rựa còn ghiền nữ nhi
(Độc truyện tân thanh)

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Đầu tắt mặt tối:

South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/15/south-korea-u-turns-on-69-hour-working-week-after-youth-backlash


The government had intended to raise the maximum weekly working time to 69 hours after business groups complained that the current cap of 52 hours was making it difficult to meet deadlines.

But protests from the country’s millennials and generation z prompted the president, Yoon Suk-yeol, to order government agencies to reconsider the measure and “communicate better with the public.

The original plan announced earlier this month would have overturned legislation introduced in 2018 by the liberal Democratic party that limits the working week to 52 hours: 40 of regular work plus 12 of overtime. The party has said it will use its majority in the national assembly to block the bill.

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