Tax powers promise from Cameron

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com1 November 2013 Last updated at 02:37 ET David Cameron and Nick Clegg will meet Carwyn Jones on Friday The Welsh government will get some control over income tax, subject to a referendum, Prime Minister David Cameron will say on Friday.He and deputy PM Nick Clegg will announce new financial powers for the devolved administration.They include control of the stamp duty paid by house buyers and powers to finance upgrades on the M4 motorway.The Welsh government has accused the Westminster coalition of dragging its feet over further devolution.It follows the publication of a report last year which said the Welsh government should have new tax powers.At present Wales's devolved administration cannot vary taxes or borrow...

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Baby P mother 'released from prison'

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com1 November 2013 Last updated at 01:27 ET Tracey Connelly served more than five years in jail, including time on remand Baby Peter Connelly's mother, who was jailed over his death, has been freed from prison, it is understood.Tracey Connelly was jailed for a minimum of five years in 2009 after admitting causing or allowing her son's death. She had also spent more than a year in custody on remand.The Parole Board recently said it had recommended her release.Peter died in August 2007 with more than 50 injuries, despite being on a social services "at-risk" register.His death at home in Tottenham, north London, came a day after police told his mother she would not be prosecuted over abuse of the 17-month-old.Social...

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MPs urge EU arrest warrant reform

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 20:08 ET Mr Vaz said the warrant had resulted in a "number of miscarriages of justice" The European Arrest Warrant is "flawed" and needs to be reformed, the Home Affairs Committee of MPs has said.The EAW, introduced in 2004, allows a national judicial authority such as a court to get a suspect extradited between EU member states.Home Secretary Theresa May has vowed to change the law to prevent the warrant being used to extradite UK nationals on trivial or dubious charges.But the committee said the government's plans did not go far enough.It called for an urgent vote in the House of Commons on continued UK participation in the scheme.'Foolish'Committee chairman Keith Vaz said: "The...

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RBS set to avoid 'bad bank' split

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com1 November 2013 Last updated at 00:59 ET RBS remains 81% owned by the government Royal Bank of Scotland is not going to split into separate so-called good and bad banks, it is expected to announce alongside its financial results later.Instead it will create an internal "bad bank" ring-fencing about £40bn of bad assets - such as loans it does not expect to have repaid.It follows a Treasury-backed report into whether RBS should be broken up.The bank remains 81% owned by the government following a massive bailout at the height of the financial crisis.The BBC's business editor Robert Peston says the expected announcements by RBS and the Treasury, which will give its approval of the plan, are intended to be important...

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GCSE overhaul in England made final

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 20:07 ET By Angela Harrison Education correspondent, BBC News Many changes are planned and underway for England's exam system Exams regulator Ofqual has confirmed the changes it is making to GCSEs, in what it calls the biggest shake-up in exams in England for a generation.A new grading system will use numbers instead of letters and coursework is being scrapped for most subjects.The changes will be in stages, starting with pupils taking GCSE exams in 2017 - those who will be 13 before the end of the current school year.English and maths will be the first subjects affected.Pupils will begin studying the new courses in English language, English literature and maths from autumn 2015.And...

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NHS apology for miscarriage error

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 20:14 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Emily Wheatley said the hospital took away the enjoyment of pregnancyA Cardiff hospital has been forced to apologise for flaws in the way it diagnosed miscarriages over many years.It follows the case of a woman who was wrongly told she had miscarried nine weeks into her pregnancy after a scan at the University Hospital of Wales.Emily Wheatley, from Monmouth, went on to have a healthy baby daughter.The Public Service Ombudsman for Wales believes flaws in UHW's practices may have gone back as far as 2006. A helpline has been set up for patients.'Real shock'Ms Wheatley was told during a dating scan she had suffered...

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Israel 'conducts Syria air strike'

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 19:28 ET Israel is thought to have carried out several air strikes in Syria earlier this year Continue reading the main storyArms destruction Chemical stockpile 'Please let it be over' Assad opponents Israeli aircraft have carried out a strike near the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, a US official says.The official said the strike targeted Russian-made missiles intended for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.Latakia is a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an important port city where the Alawite community to which he belongs is concentrated.Israeli is widely reported to have carried out at least three air strikes in Syria so far this year.Reports circulated on Thursday...

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RBS traders suspended in forex probe

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 18:26 ET RBS is among several banks contacted by regulators in the foreign exchange investigations Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has suspended two traders in connection to a growing investigation into the possible manipulation of foreign exchange rates.The news follows reports that London-based executives at three other major banks have been placed on leave.Regulators in the UK, US and Switzerland are looking into whether banks colluded to set exchange rates.The global foreign exchange market is worth more than £3tn a day.London is the most important centre for the market, accounting for about 40% of all foreign exchange trading.The reports are that executives at Citigroup, JP Morgan...

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Tunnel linking US and Mexico found

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 17:16 ET More than 75 tunnels under the US-Mexico border have been found since 2008 A drug-smuggling tunnel equipped with electricity, ventilation and a rail system has been found connecting San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Mexico.Authorities seized more than eight tons of marijuana and 325lb (147kg) of cocaine in the discovery.Officials have not revealed the exact length or location of the recently finished tunnel, but Mexican media report it is near Tijuana's airport.More than 75 such secret tunnels have been discovered since 2008.US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the find on Thursday.'Just completed'It was described as "a just completed, highly sophisticated...

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Teen held over delivery man murder

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 17:53 ET A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a pizza delivery man in Sheffield.Thavisha Lakindu Peiris, 25, was found dead by colleagues in his car in Southey Crescent, Sheffield, on Sunday. He had been stabbed in the chest.He had been making his final delivery for Domino's Pizza before he was due to start a new job as an IT consultant.South Yorkshire Police said a 17-year-old male was arrested earlier and was being held in custody for questioning.Đăng ký: Tieng Anh ...

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US clears gadgets for take-off use

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 12:15 ET US regulators have cleared passengers to use mobile devices in flight-mode on planes Aviation regulators have cleared the safe use of mobile devices during take-off and landing in the US.Airlines are expected to let passengers use smartphones, tablets, and e-book readers from gate to gate in the US by the end of the year.Internet connections for email, web surfing, and downloading will be prohibited below 10,000 feet.Cellular voice calls will remain banned because of the possibility of radio interference with flight equipment.The changes to US regulations mean passengers will be able to read e-books, play games, and watch videos for the duration of a flight.Airlines will...

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Banyan: Zero-sum politics

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com WRITING about politics in Bangladesh, this newspaper has often found itself drawn to the analogy of a Punch-and-Judy show. We now know this is deeply unfair—to a wholesome if brutal form of puppetry.On October 26th the two women who for over two decades have dominated politics in the Muslim-majority country of over 150m spoke on the telephone. It was their first conversation in many years. Their country was in crisis, on the brink of a 60-hour hartal, or national strike, called by one of them, Khaleda Zia, leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). This was to protest about arrangements for a general election due in January. Knowing the hartal would bring not just disruption but violence and death,...

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India’s mission to Mars: Red planet, red rival

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com MUCH goes bang over India at this time of year, amid celebrations for Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. By one estimate, Indians spend over $800m a year on fireworks. But, in cosmic terms, they barely leave the ground. How much more exciting that a single, 4.5 billion-rupee ($74m) rocket is set to whoosh high into the sky on November 5th.This one is not intended to explode, though in December 2010 scientists had to blow up a rocket that went haywire after a launch. Instead the idea is to send a craft to Mars. If all goes well, the rocket will lift Mangalyaan (“Mars vehicle”), which looks like a big box of gold foil, into orbit round the Earth. After stretching its solar wings and fiddling with its trajectory,...

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Uzbekistan: trouble.uz?

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.comGulnara bares her soles GULNARA KARIMOVA, the glamorous elder daughter of Uzbekistan’s strongman, does little to quell speculation that she will succeed her ageing father, Islam Karimov. But a series of recent problems makes it look as if someone is trying to dampen her ambitions.In October, during Ms Karimova’s annual high-society bash in Tashkent, the capital, known as “Style.uz”, at least three television stations she controls suddenly went dark. A Belgian pop star cancelled, saying she would not help Uzbekistan whitewash its brutal human-rights record. Then rumours emerged that the tax authorities were investigating Ms Karimova’s charity network, an incubator for her personality cult. And this week the bank accounts...

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Religious violence in Myanmar: The silence of the muezzin

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.comHomeless now A SUNNI mosque looks as if it has seen better days. One of the minarets seems close to collapse. But the cool white floor-tiles are spotless, and the carpeted prayer-rooms well-kept. An elderly imam, whose features betray his Arabic ancestry, prepares for noon prayers. No muezzin calls; but the faithful in the town of Thandwe trickle in, some in prayer caps, others bareheaded but with long white shirts over their blue-checked longyis.Thandwe is in the south of Rakhine state in western Myanmar, once the kingdom of Arakan. The mosque is near its sprawling market, where Muslims, Indians and members of the ethnic-Rakhine majority sit side-by-side, trading fish and fresh vegetables, clothing, hardware and...

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The Khmer Rouge tribunal: Justice and the killing fields

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com THE long and often fraught proceedings of the court set up to try the leaders of Cambodia’s murderous Khmer Rouge at last came to a head this week on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. The two remaining survivors from the regime’s leadership, Nuon Chea, who is 87, and Khieu Samphan, 82, made their closing statements before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, to give the tribunal its full title. It was only the second trial, and probably the last. A public gallery of Buddhist monks, Islamic clergy, local schoolgirls and foreign journalists looked on.Mr Nuon Chea was the Khmer Rouge’s chief ideologist and “Brother Number Two” to Pol Pot, who died (untried) in 1998. Mr Khieu Samphan was the head of state...

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Trial reveals Brooks-Coulson affair

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 10:34 ET Former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson were having an affair for at least six years, the trial into phone hacking allegations has heard.Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told the jurors their relationship meant they trusted each other quite a lot and that was why they were being told."What Mr Coulson knew, Mrs Brooks knew too," he said.Mrs Brooks and Mr Coulson deny a range of charges relating to phone hacking.Jurors heard their affair was discovered by police through a letter saved on a computer belonging to Mrs Brooks.The letter was written by Mrs Brooks in February 2004, when Mr Coulson was trying to end the affair, Mr Edis said.Đăng ký: Tieng Anh...

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Trust did not warn of killer's risk

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 10:00 ET Brian Maddock told his psychotherapist he wanted to kill Mr Naylor A NHS trust failed to warn a man who was killed by his former partner that he was at risk, a report has revealed.Killer Brian Maddock, 44, had previously told his psychotherapist he planned to kill Michael Naylor with a knife he had under his bed.The report by NHS England said the risk posed to Mr Naylor by Maddock had not been assessed, before he died at their home in Manchester in 2010.Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust has apologised to Mr Naylor's family.Đăng ký: Tieng Anh ...

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NoW phone hacking trial resumes

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 07:29 ET Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks is among those on trial News of the World bosses must have approved the contract of a private investigator who later admitted phone hacking, the Old Bailey has heard.Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC said senior figures would have been involved in the decision to give Glenn Mulcaire a written contract in September 2001.Former NoW editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson are among eight defendants facing trial.They deny charges including conspiracy to intercept communications.Mr Edis said that, other than a few "taskings" by the News of the World in 1999, the first dated instruction to Mulcaire by the now-defunct newspaper...

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Call for Miliband to condemn Unite

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 06:51 ET The Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps has called on Labour leader Ed Miliband to condemn tactics alleged to have been used by the Unite union during the Grangemouth dispute.It follows the claims of an Ineos manager who said a "mob" was sent by Unite to his home to intimidate him.In a letter to Mr Miliband, Mr Shapps described the tactics as a "thuggish leverage strategy".Unite says leverage is a democratic right.Đăng ký: Tieng Anh ...

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Tough new train punctuality targets

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 03:56 ET Long-distance services must improve reliability Network Rail has been set tough new punctuality targets for the next five years by rail regulators.In its final draft of 2014-2019 rail funding, the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) confirmed 90% of local trains must run on time.Network Rail must also improve reliability for long-distance services, while making savings of £1.7bn.The ORR also increased funding by £32m to close around 500 level crossings and improve safety at hundreds more.By 2019, fewer than three in 100 long-distance trains on the West Coast line and around four in 100 on the East Coast line should be hit by cancellation or delays of 30 minutes, the ORR said.In...

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Syria chemical equipment 'destroyed'

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com31 October 2013 Last updated at 04:26 ET Syria's declared equipment for producing, mixing and filling chemical weapons has been entirely destroyed - OPCWMore to follow.Đăng ký: Tieng Anh ...

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Universities face strike disruption

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com30 October 2013 Last updated at 20:01 ET Universities have warned that some classes could be cancelled and facilities closed Universities across the UK face disruption from a one-day walkout by lecturers and support staff who say their pay has failed to keep up with rising living costs.The University and College Union says it will affect 149 institutions, in a joint action with Unison and Unite.The unions have rejected a pay offer of 1%, which they say represents a 13% pay cut in real terms since 2009.University employers predict the strike will cause a "low level of impact".But the unions say that universities will face the "most widespread disruption for years".'Record surpluses'Universities have been warning...

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Maurice Chevalier

Nguồn tin: tieng anh vui"Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives."Đăng ký: Tieng Anh ...

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Henny Youngman

Nguồn tin: tieng anh vui"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."Đăng ký: Tieng Anh ...

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George Orwell

Nguồn tin: tieng anh vui"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."Đăng ký: Tieng Anh ...

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William Goldman

Nguồn tin: tieng anh vui"This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it."Đăng ký: Tieng Anh ...

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Colleen Wainwright

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....

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David Assael

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....

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Helen Keller

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....

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Google outrage at 'NSA hacking'

Source BBC News@ tienganhvui.com30 October 2013 Last updated at 17:55 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. A summary of US spying allegations brought about by Edward Snowden's leak of classified documentsContinue reading the main storyHow intelligence is gathered Why has NSA failed to keep its own secrets? Spying scandal: For 'five eyes' only? US revelations The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been hacking data links connecting Yahoo and Google's data centres, according to leaks by Edward Snowden.Millions of records were gleaned daily from the internet giants' internal networks, documents published by the Washington Post indicate.The agency's director said it had not had access to the companies' computers.Gen...

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