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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/20...spreads-cities

People in 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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"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



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-p...ns-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/20...come-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/20...-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/...g-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)

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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/20...ot-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 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)