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Tieng Anh Vui
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"It's not having what you want/ It's wanting what you've got."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Wednesday, 31 December 2014
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Theodor Herzl
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!"Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Tuesday, 30 December 2014
Jennifer Hudson
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can�t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Rick Pitino
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"When you build bridges you can keep crossing them."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Calvin Coolidge
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Banyan: The centenary delusion
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com ANNIVERSARIES may be no more than chronological accidents, but they can be hard to ignore. That 2014 marked 100 years since the start of the first world war provoked sombre commemorations in the countries that lost millions of lives in the conflict. It also caused some to compare its causes to worrisome strategic tensions today, especially in Asia. The parallels between Europe in the early years of the 20th century and Asia a hundred years on were too many to ignore; haunting enough, indeed, to prompt worries about the possibility of another global confrontation. The turn of the year will not end this vogue for historical analogy, though attention may turn as much to the differences as to the similarities. As Joseph...
Myanmar’s Kachins: Eager mindsets
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com IN THE town of Mai Maw, near Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin state in northern Myanmar, a local Baptist minister enthuses about his plans. Most importantly, says La La Hkawng Dau, known to all simply as Jack, he wants to reopen a long-closed school. Given that most of Myanmar’s vastly overcrowded schools have fallen into utter disrepair after decades of neglect, the authorities might be expected to welcome this. In Myanmar, however, it would be, as Jack acknowledges, “illegal”, or even subversive.Myanmar’s excellent mission schools, such as Jack’s in Mai Maw, were all closed by the country’s military rulers soon after they seized power in 1962. Government-run schools opened in their stead, but their purpose was...
Indonesia’s marine policy: Fishing trips
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com WITH over 13,000 islands, Indonesia is by far the world’s biggest archipelagic state, a nation shaped as much by the seas around it as by its land. Yet the new president, Joko Widodo, believes Indonesians have “for too long turned our backs” on the water. In his inaugural speech in October the head of state, widely known as Jokowi, expressed a desire to “be as great in the oceans as our ancestors were in the past”. A few weeks later, at an Asian summit in Myanmar, he went further. Indonesia should revive its maritime culture, develop its fishing industry, improve maritime links through things like better ferries and ports, and crack down on illegal fishing and other violations of sovereignty. Indeed, he said, Indonesia...
Elections in Sri Lanka: Down to the wire
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com THE plan seemed such a simple one. Mahinda Rajapaksa called an election in November expecting to breeze past a shambolic, divided opposition and take an unprecedented third term as Sri Lanka’s president. The poll, on January 8th, would be two years earlier than necessary. It would also be the first after a constitutional amendment in 2010 that abolished a two-term limit for presidents. Everything had appeared set for Mr Rajapaksa to remain in power.Now his prospects look far less certain. The campaign has been marked by a series of defections by former allies who call him authoritarian and nepotistic (among relatives in important political jobs are a brother, Basil, who is in charge of running the economy; another...
Air safety: Pressing on
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com ON DECEMBER 30th Indonesian officials said they had discovered debris and bodies from AirAsia flight QZ8501, which had vanished two days previously, floating in shallow seas near the south-west coast of Borneo. The airliner lost contact with air-traffic controllers while passing through rough weather on a short journey between the Indonesian city of Surabaya and Changi airport in Singapore. The plane was carrying 162 people, most of them Indonesians. As The Economist went to press, no survivors had been found.The crash, most probably an accident, comes at the end of a particularly tragic year in South-East Asia’s aviation history. Search parties have not yet found the remains of Malaysia Airlines’ flight MH370, which...
Monday, 29 December 2014
David Reisman
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Ernest Hemingway
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Nora Ephron
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Martha Graham
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The body is a sacred garment."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Sunday, 28 December 2014
Wallace Stevens
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Karl von Bonstetten
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
George Colman
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Praise the bridge that carried you over."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
German Proverb
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Never give advice unless asked."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Saturday, 27 December 2014
Danah Boyd
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Anna Quindlen
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Bertha Calloway
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Dame Rose Macaulay
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Friday, 26 December 2014
Larry Page
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Thomas H. Huxley
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion... or you shall learn nothing."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Robert Browning
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?"Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Sydney Smith
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Thursday, 25 December 2014
Scott Westerfeld
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Ausonius
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"I'm a fan of laundry: the smell of fabric softener, the warm clothes in your hands. It's so good."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Albert Schweitzer
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"He who would travel happily must travel light."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Latvian Proverb
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"A smiling face is half the meal."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
Real Live Preacher
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Trieu Thi Trinh
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself..."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
John Wesley
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
George Sewell
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Monday, 22 December 2014
Jeff Bezos
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Grenville Kleiser
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
William Shakespeare
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man/ As modest stillness and humility;/ But when the blast of war blows in our ears,/ Then imitate the action of the tiger:/ Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Eric Hoffer
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Mark Roberts
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Don't waste too much time trying' to be a better man, ' cause you ain't never gonna be one without a good woman."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Hugh Macleod
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The best way to get approval is not to need it."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Carl Jung
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Sir Henry Taylor
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
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Saturday, 20 December 2014
Christopher Reeve
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Raymond Lindquist
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Saadi
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Isabelle Eberhardt
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Friday, 19 December 2014
Woodrow Wilson
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Amy Vanderbilt
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Do not speak of repulsive matters at table."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Henry Miller
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Lisa Alther
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Thursday, 18 December 2014
Oprah Winfrey
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Walt Whitman
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Hugh Elliott
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"It�s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Phyllis Theroux
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Lord Chesterfield
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Wednesday, 17 December 2014
J. K. Rowling
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Ken Rockwell
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The only gift is a portion of thyself."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Irving Berlin
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Japan’s election: The Abe habit
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.comAbe bats again THE general election on December 14th cost ¥63 billion (over $500m), and came just two years after the previous one. So many Japanese could not see the point of it that only 52.7% of voters went to the polls—a post-war low. Yet for Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, the decision to call the election seems vindicated. Even though his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost three seats in the lower house of the Diet, to finish with 291 seats, that is not bad for an incumbent party in the midst of a recession with a leader whose popularity is falling. What is more, the LDP’s junior coalition partner, Komeito, more than made up for the loss by gaining seats. As a result the ruling coalition was returned with 326...
Terrorism in Australia: A nightmare comes true
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.comA city shocked THE siege on December 15th in the Lindt Chocolate Café in Martin Place, in the heart of Sydney’s business district, was the first terrorist act in Australia based on a political message about Islam. The morning had started with regulars queuing for coffee on their way to work. Shortly before 10am the doors were locked from the inside. For the next 16 hours, a gunman held 17 staff and customers hostage, forcing them to display a black flag with an Islamic creed against the window. Some but not all managed to slip out. In the early hours of the following morning, police stormed the café, apparently responding to shots inside. In a heavy exchange of gunfire, the gunman and two hostages died.For some time...
Pakistan: From the graveyard
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com “I AM not sure if Pakistan was created in the name of religion, but it is surely being destroyed in the name of religion.” So wrote a distraught former army officer on December 16th, as a terrorist attack, awful even by Pakistan’s grim standards, unfolded in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in the north-west of the country, not far from the border with Afghanistan. Seven members of the Pakistani Taliban, speaking with the local Pushtu accent and dressed in the uniforms of the local paramilitary force, came from a graveyard and over the wall of a large, army-run school. They then moved through it, murdering children and teachers with guns and grenades. Three or four attackers are said to have blown...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Randy Pausch
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Brian Adams
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Joseph Addison
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
W. Somerset Maugham
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Monday, 15 December 2014
Lady Gaga
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Allegra Kent
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Harry S Truman
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Cyberloafing
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.comCyberloafing is spending time at work on the internet doing things that are not work-related, like checking personal emails and surfing the web.Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnh...
Sunday, 14 December 2014
John Green
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"I�m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we�re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we�ll ever have, and I am in love with you."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Kathryn L. Nelson
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Senator Dianne Feinstein
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstriped suit."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Thomas Fuller
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Saturday, 13 December 2014
Frank Herbert
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Lois McMaster Bujold
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Theodore Roethke
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"A mind too active is no mind at all."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Friday, 12 December 2014
Mikhail Bakunin
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The freedom of all is essential to my freedom."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Maya Angelou
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Norman Maclean
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Maureen Dowd
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Og Mandino
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Belle Livingstone
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
Aaron Burr
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."Đăng ký: Hoc tieng anhTiengAnhVui....
India’s Jammu and Kashmir: Modi’s northern lights
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com ONCE a separatist, now a politician, Sajjad Lone says that pragmatism is gaining in popularity in the disputed and sometimes strife-torn Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. One example is that he stands a chance, just possibly, of being the next person to run the state, made up of the Hindu-majority, lowland region of Jammu and the Muslim-majority Kashmir valley in the mountains—with Muslims predominating overall. The third of five stages in a rolling state-assembly election took place this week. The whole thing wraps up on December 20th. A change of government is all but certain. Results may also reveal a profound realignment of loyalties.From his garden in Handwara in North Kashmir, bathed in winter sunshine, Mr...
The Solomon Islands: Mark Three
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.comWHEN the Solomon Islands made Manasseh Sogavare prime minister on December 9th, it was amid a heavy security presence of local and Australian police officers. This is the third stint in office for Mr Sogavare, a black belt in karate, and the first two ended badly. He has acquired a reputation as a nationalist. He talks of forging links with China, and also says he wants to work constructively with the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI, consisting of police and troops). That would make a change. His previous term saw the ejection of both an Australian High Commissioner and an Australian police chief.The general election on November 19th was the first since RAMSI, created in 2003 at...
Afghanistan: Old problems, new hope
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com MORE than 13 years after NATO launched its invasion of Afghanistan following the attacks of September 11th, its International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) this week lowered the flag at its headquarters in Kabul, the capital. The ceremony brought to a formal end ISAF’s combat mission in Afghanistan. It was a moment for reflection on what went wrong and what went right for the West’s military intervention, and a moment also to consider what kind of future beckons for a country that has suffered nearly four decades of war and insurgency.This week’s ceremony marked no dramatic change in the security landscape. Since a peak in 2011 of 140,000 foreign troops, over two-thirds of them American, the number has fallen...
Education in Indonesia: School’s in
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com WITH roughly 55m students, 3m teachers and more than 236,000 schools in 500 districts, Indonesia has the world’s fourth-largest education system. But the system does not work nearly as well as it should. The country’s new president, Joko Widodo, generally known as Jokowi, hopes to change that with help from his new education secretary, Anies Baswedan, a former university president and creator of a programme that sends graduates to teach in remote areas.Like so much else in the sprawling archipelago, nothing is simple. Three separate ministries are involved. The education ministry oversees state primary, junior and secondary schools; the religious-affairs ministry has control of madrassas, or Islamic schools; and...
