2 Officials in Vietnam Are Killed in Rare Shooting

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Upe1BU65YJgb4fQL6LAXUsK_vBhJoMAjcS6dS9QUsJ8i1g650Oz4MYA6CSwPA8rSATIGv1DIMxOdgc5guxpWHdI7LhxNPxIGPJmbkgU5NLuS2myRjq3yuf2u8XI_zCdUAR1JNzOL54s/s1600/19VIETNAM-web1-master768.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Upe1BU65YJgb4fQL6LAXUsK_vBhJoMAjcS6dS9QUsJ8i1g650Oz4MYA6CSwPA8rSATIGv1DIMxOdgc5guxpWHdI7LhxNPxIGPJmbkgU5NLuS2myRjq3yuf2u8XI_zCdUAR1JNzOL54s/s200/19VIETNAM-web1-master768.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="228" data-total-count="228" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">— Two provincial officials in <a class="meta-loc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/vietnam/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;" title="More news and information about Vietnam.">Vietnam</a>’s governing Communist Party died on Thursday after being shot in their offices by a forest ranger, who later shot himself, the country’s state-controlled news media reported.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="228" data-total-count="228" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;"></div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;"></a><br /><a name="more"></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;" /><br /><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="291" data-total-count="519" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The shootings, a rarity in Vietnam, occurred early Thursday in the northern province of Yen Bai, just before a meeting of the People’s Council, a lawmaking body, the official Vietnam News Agency said. It identified the gunman as Do Cuong Minh, the leader of Yen Bai’s forest ranger unit.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="209" data-total-count="728" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The victims were Pham Duy Cuong, the province’s Communist Party secretary and top official, and Ngo Ngoc Tuan, the chairman of the People’s Council, the news agency said. Both men were shot multiple times.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="132" data-total-count="860" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">All three men were pronounced dead at Yen Bai General Hospital, according to <a href="http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/two-provincial-leaders-shot-dead-in-northern-vietnam-65346.html" style="color: #326891; text-decoration: none;">an online report by the state-run newspaper Thanh Nien</a>.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="175" data-total-count="1035" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">It gave no indication of a motive. Pham Hong Luong, a senior forestry official at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Hanoi, the capital, declined to comment.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="219" data-total-count="1254" id="story-continues-1" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Although petty theft is increasingly common in some Vietnamese cities, and protests by villagers over various issues occasionally turn violent, deadly shootings — especially ones that target officials — are unusual.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="123" data-total-count="1377" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">The one-party government prohibits citizens from owning guns, and most street-level police officers are only lightly armed.</div><div class="story-body-text story-content" data-node-uid="1" data-para-count="331" data-total-count="1708" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; line-height: 1.625rem; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 75px; max-width: none; width: 570px;">Vietnam reported 1.51 intentional homicides per 100,000 people in 2011, up from 1.25 in 2008, according to a World Bank database that cites figures from the United Nations. But that was still below the average of two per 100,000 people reported across the Asia-Pacific region in 2012, the closest year for which data was available.</div>

2 Officials in Vietnam Are Killed in Rare Shooting

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Học đại học có đáng không? (The Economist)

<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBPM7IELRXO5i0daVDkSnyRLFOwTzUSD85d7k6XaaMQcOnmb-fdWqXbeSw8J7Dqmw_-h6XQQ0QviHlhmLzJlqH9xXn6uYfPxBcbUNzZuj3Siru7n-OYLoGdMVQShWTpWIOQsUdHTJudEA/s1600/728086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBPM7IELRXO5i0daVDkSnyRLFOwTzUSD85d7k6XaaMQcOnmb-fdWqXbeSw8J7Dqmw_-h6XQQ0QviHlhmLzJlqH9xXn6uYfPxBcbUNzZuj3Siru7n-OYLoGdMVQShWTpWIOQsUdHTJudEA/s1600/728086.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Is college worth it?</strong></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Too many degrees are a waste of money. The return on higher education would be much better if college were cheaper</strong></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Apr 5th 2014 | CHICAGO | From the print edition </div></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">  <a name="more"></a></div></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">WHEN LaTisha Styles graduated from Kennesaw State University in Georgia in 2006 she had $35,000 of student debt. This obligation would have been easy to discharge if her Spanish degree had helped her land a well-paid job. But there is no shortage of Spanish-speakers in a nation that borders Latin America. So Ms Styles found herself working in a clothes shop and a fast-food restaurant for no more than $11 an hour.</div></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Frustrated, she took the gutsy decision to go back to the same college and study something more pragmatic. She majored in finance, and now has a good job at an investment consulting firm. Her debt has swollen to $65,000, but she will have little trouble paying it off.</div></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">In this section</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">As Ms Styles’s story shows, there is no simple answer to the question “Is college worth it?” Some degrees pay for themselves; others don’t. American schoolkids pondering whether to take on huge student loans are constantly told that college is the gateway to the middle class. The truth is more nuanced, as Barack Obama hinted when he said in January that “folks can make a lot more” by learning a trade “than they might with an art history degree”. An angry art history professor forced him to apologise, but he was right.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">College graduates aged 25 to 32 who are working full time earn about $17,500 more annually than their peers who have only a high school diploma, according to the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank. But not all degrees are equally useful. And given how much they cost—a residential four-year degree can set you back as much as $60,000 a year—many students end up worse off than if they had started working at 18.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">PayScale, a research firm, has gathered data on the graduates of more than 900 universities and colleges, asking them what they studied and how much they now earn. The company then factors in the cost of a degree, after financial aid (discounts for the clever or impecunious that greatly reduce the sticker price at many universities). From this, PayScale estimates the financial returns of many different types of degree (see chart).</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: blue;">Hard subjects pay off</strong></div></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Unsurprisingly, engineering is a good bet wherever you study it. An engineering graduate from the University of California, Berkeley can expect to be nearly $1.1m better off after 20 years than someone who never went to college. Even the least lucrative engineering courses generated a 20-year return of almost $500,000.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">Arts and humanities courses are much more varied. All doubtless nourish the soul, but not all fatten the wallet. An arts degree from a rigorous school such as Columbia or the University of California, San Diego pays off handsomely. But an arts graduate from Murray State University in Kentucky can expect to make $147,000 less over 20 years than a high school graduate, after paying for his education. Of the 153 arts degrees in the study, 46 generated a return on investment worse than plonking the money in 20-year treasury bills. Of those, 18 offered returns worse than zero.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">Colleges that score badly will no doubt grumble that PayScale’s rankings are based on relatively small numbers of graduates from each institution. Some schools are unfairly affected by the local job market—Murray State might look better if Kentucky’s economy were thriving. Universities that set out to serve everyone will struggle to compete with selective institutions. And poor colleges will look worse than rich ones that offer lots of financial aid, since reducing the cost of a degree raises its return.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">All these caveats are true. But overall, the PayScale study surely overstates the financial value of a college education. It does not compare graduates’ earnings to what they would have earned, had they skipped college. (That number is unknowable.) It compares their earnings to those of people who did not go to college—many of whom did not go because they were not clever enough to get in. Thus, some of the premium that graduates earn simply reflects the fact that they are, on average, more intelligent than non-graduates.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">What is not in doubt is that the cost of university per student has risen by almost five times the rate of inflation since 1983, and graduate salaries have been flat for much of the past decade. Student debt has grown so large that it stops many young people from buying houses, starting businesses or having children. Those who borrowed for a bachelor’s degree granted in 2012 owe an average of $29,400. The Project on Student Debt, a non-profit, says that 15% of borrowers default within three years of entering repayment. At for-profit colleges the rate is 22%. Glenn Reynolds, a law professor and author of “The Higher Education Bubble”, writes of graduates who “may wind up living in their parents’ basements until they are old enough to collect Social Security.”</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">That is an exaggeration: students enrolling this year who service their debts will see them forgiven after 20 years. But the burden is still heavy for many. It does not help that nearly a third of those who take out such loans eventually drop out of college; they must still repay their debts. A third transfer to different schools. Many four-year degrees drag on longer, and so cost more. Overall, the six-year graduation rate for four-year institutions is only 59%.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">The lousy national job market does not help, either. A report by McKinsey, a consultancy, found that 42% of recent graduates are in jobs that require less than a four-year college education. Some 41% of graduates from the nation’s top colleges could not find jobs in their chosen field; and half of all graduates said they would choose a different major or school.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">Chegg, a company that provides online help to students, collaborated the study. Dan Rosensweig, its boss, says that only half of graduates feel prepared for a job in their field, and only 39% of managers feel that students are ready for the workforce. Students often cannot write clearly or organise their time sensibly. Four million jobs are unfilled because jobseekers lack the skills employers need.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="color: blue;">Grading the graders</strong></div></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">For all their flaws, studies like PayScale’s help would-be students (and their parents) make more informed choices. As Americans start to realise how much a bad choice can hurt them, they will demand more transparency. Some colleges are providing it, prodded by the federal government. For example, the University of Texas recently launched a website showing how much its graduates earn and owe after five years.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">“Opportunity”, said Mr Obama on April 2nd, “means making college more affordable.” In time, transparency and technology will force many colleges to cut costs and raise quality. Online education will accelerate the trend. In 2012, 6.7m students were taking at least one online course. Such courses allow students to listen to fine lecturers without having to pay for luxurious dormitories or armies of college bureaucrats. They will not replace traditional colleges—face-to-face classes are still valuable—but they will force them to adapt. Those that offer poor value for money will have to shape up, or disappear.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><div style="text-align: justify;">From the print edition: United States</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600131-too-many-degrees-are-waste-money-return-higher-education-would-be-much-better?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fpe%2Fiscollegeworthit" style="color: #666699;" target="_blank">http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600131-too-many-degrees-are-waste-money-return-higher-education-would-be-much-better?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fpe%2Fiscollegeworthit </a></div></span></span>

Học đại học có đáng không? (The Economist)

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EXCLUSIVE - 'I watched in horror as vile dog meat trader butchered two frightened pets at my feet then boiled them alive': Horrifying defiance of dealers who murder man's best friend

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguu1po4LrZ8XjyOj1xWs1ZGJ44mRxUQR2Ev1Aw2sZMErch1DLkj1s9Rl4KaESY2D_MaragXREAM7Qc7v9cfdGWdTdcaRpMOdPUvs-OAC5ScCcuayWAOMedhjGsjPoLZUn2ANZ5e3Lw_jY/s1600/1414593556988_wps_13_dogs_rescued_from_the_jun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguu1po4LrZ8XjyOj1xWs1ZGJ44mRxUQR2Ev1Aw2sZMErch1DLkj1s9Rl4KaESY2D_MaragXREAM7Qc7v9cfdGWdTdcaRpMOdPUvs-OAC5ScCcuayWAOMedhjGsjPoLZUn2ANZ5e3Lw_jY/s1600/1414593556988_wps_13_dogs_rescued_from_the_jun.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I confronted a dog meat trader in Vietnam today over the theft and slaughter of family pets for food – then watched in horror as he had two terrified dogs butchered in front of me and thrown alive into a vat of boiling water.</span></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">The bloody show of defiance took place beside a row of dog meat restaurants just two miles from the centre of the capital Hanoi as Mail Online investigated the country's brutal and lucrative trade in dogs for food.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"></div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">More than 500,000 people have backed a <a class="" href="https://savedogs.soidog.org/petition" rel="nofollow" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">campaign</a> fronted by Ricky Gervais and Judi Dench to halt the trade in dogs in neighbouring Thailand which leads to pets being snatched off the streets to be slaughtered and served up in dog meat restaurants in Vietnam.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">But the callous and stomach-turning reaction of the trader in Hanoi shows how ruthlessly determined dog meat traders are to carry on with their illicit and unregulated trade, whatever the outside world may think of them.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">I confronted the trader at his grubby tin-roofed shop in the capital's Linh Nam Road, a popular area for dog meat restaruants, on Wednesday morning with experienced Vietnamese animal rights campaigner Le Duc Chinh,</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">We approached the filthy open air meat shop with two cages of traumatised live dogs trucked in from provinces across Vietnam at the front, and the carcasses of slaughtered dogs hanging up above its entrance.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">As we began asking an employee about the business and the source of the dogs, the owner got up from a bamboo reclining chair at the back of the café and began shouting at us to leave.</div><div class="mol-article-quote floatRHS news" style="background-image: url(http://i.mol.im/i/furniture/articles/opening_double_quotes.png); background-position: 0px 6px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: right; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 16px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; width: 308px;"><div class="mol-article-quote-wrapper" style="background-image: url(http://i.mol.im/i/furniture/articles/closing_double_quotes.png); background-position: 100% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 10px 23px 6px;"><div class="ccow" style="background-color: white; color: #00aad2; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> As we began asking about the source of the dogs, the owner shouts 'this has nothing to do with you' and gestures for a yelping dog to be removed from the cage</div></div></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'This is nothing to do with you. Stop asking questions because I won't speak to you,' he yelled at us. 'Go away and stop taking photographs. You're hurting our business.'</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Then, glaring angrily at me, gestured to his employees to prepare for what appeared to be a brazen display of defiance against someone he saw as an interfering foreigner.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">As I stood beside him, he picked up a pair of long metal tongs and lifted the hatch on one of the cages where around seven dogs were being held. He used the tongs to pull a yelping dog up by its neck and, when it reached the hatch, clubbed it on the head with a heavy iron bar.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen43" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">He hauled the dazed dog out and flung it onto the ground where one of his employees cut its throat with a butcher's knife over a plastic tug. As the dog kicked and struggled, blood sprayed out across the ground in front of my feet.</div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">The employee then carried the dog, still kicking its legs, twisting and clearly alive, to a vat of boiling water 10 feet away and dropped it in. The animal was removed seconds later and put into a revolving drum which stripped off its loosened fur.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">As we watched in stunned silence, the meat trader hauled a second dog howling and squealing in fear and pain out of the cage by the neck and repeated the process, delivering a single club to the head before throwing it to ground to have its throat cut.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDaJAvl4C0ycNkC2t0dN8hVHnOaAhug-Ndg00FTjd0dSMLollovzapaMKiC9NqOGlws6pMLIcvJp7eIQIwgfWtFCO4xw2qdCmmAHDTZTrOOj1elkVHeBi35jiPISMmPaW1a5M6av8aXo/s1600/1414606479328_wps_1_IMG_3985_jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFDaJAvl4C0ycNkC2t0dN8hVHnOaAhug-Ndg00FTjd0dSMLollovzapaMKiC9NqOGlws6pMLIcvJp7eIQIwgfWtFCO4xw2qdCmmAHDTZTrOOj1elkVHeBi35jiPISMmPaW1a5M6av8aXo/s1600/1414606479328_wps_1_IMG_3985_jpg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'Why did you do that in front of us?' I tried to ask as he strode past us. He made no reply and gestured at us to leave as his employees washed the skinless corpses of the two slaughtered dogs in front of the cage while the other terrified dogs looked on.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Appalled and numb with shock, we walked away. Chinh, Vietnam coordinator of the Asia Canine Protection Alliance, told me later he was still shaking 15 minutes after leaving the scene.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">The dogs had been killed early as a macabre show, it seemed. Dogs are never normally killed in mid-morning and are usually slaughtered in the early morning or just before the evening when restaurant trade began, said Chinh who has campaigned for years against the trade.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'I have never seen dogs killed so close to me before. It was terrible, and desperately sad,' he said.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'The other dogs in the cage were aware of what was happening and were obviously very frightened. There was no humanity or emotion on the part of the men as they killed these dogs in such a needlessly cruel way.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'Most Vietnamese people never see this and have no idea of the cruelty involved in the dog meat trade. They just go to restaurants where the meat is already prepared. If people saw this, I believe many of them would stop eating dog.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'We always try to tell people about the terrible cruelty of the process and what happened here proves it.'</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">An estimated five million dogs a year – many of them stolen family pets – are eaten in Vietnam with the dog restaurants of Hanoi the top location for illicitly smuggled animals.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Most dogs are trucked into Hanoi from Son Dong, a village 100 miles south of the capital that is the epicentre of the country's massive dog meat industry.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen44" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Here, the terrified dogs are kept for days and have food forcibly pumped into their stomachs – some suffocating in the process – to increase their weight before they are stuffed back in cages and trucked to restaurants and slaughterhouses for around two pounds a kilogram.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">We visited the village a day before travelling to Hanoi and met trader Nguyen Trong Minh who boasted how had just sent nearly 400 dogs to their deaths in a single day. 'Yesterday was a good day,' he grinned.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">The dog meat trade has made Son Dong stinking rich – literally. Most dog traders have two homes – one for business amid the squalor of the caged dogs and a second, opulent three-storey on the quiet side of the village where they relax with their families at night.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Ironically, the halting of cross-border trade in dogs has made the ordeal of Vietnam's dogs crueller still with animals travelling for days over huge distances over periods of days cramped into tiny cages on the backs of trucks before being slaughtered and eaten.</div><div class="mol-article-quote floatRHS news" style="background-image: url(http://i.mol.im/i/furniture/articles/opening_double_quotes.png); background-position: 0px 6px; background-repeat: no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(227, 227, 227); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: right; float: right; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 16px 0px 10px 20px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; width: 308px;"><div class="mol-article-quote-wrapper" style="background-image: url(http://i.mol.im/i/furniture/articles/closing_double_quotes.png); background-position: 100% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 10px 23px 6px;"><div class="ccow" style="background-color: white; color: #00aad2; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"> Trader Nguyen Trong Minh boasted how had just sent nearly 400 dogs to their deaths in a single day. He said: 'Yesterday was a good day'</div></div></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Pet dogs are snatched and sold for a few pounds and then smuggled over provincial borders from as far south as Ho Chi Minh City to the capital Hanoi 1,000 miles away where dog meat is most popular and the prices highest.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Five to 10 dogs are crammed into tiny pages too small for a single person to fit inside and travel for days with no food or water. Many die on the way.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen45" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">The shortage of animals has made dog snatching a major problem across Vietnam and although traders in Son Dong insist they do not handle stolen dogs, campaigners say there is no way of telling if a dog is stolen or bred for meat when it arrives.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Paradoxically, while the number of dog restaurants continues to rise in Vietnam's capital, pet ownership is also on the rise. Dogs can be pampered and spoilt or eaten within a few feet of each other.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">At the popular Nha Hang dog restaurant in Tam Trinh, up to 50 dogs a day are butchered at the front of the restaurant in front of diners for dishes of boiled stir fried dog meat sold at three to six pounds each.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Bizarrely, 20 metres along on the same side of the street, is a dog grooming and accessories centre with expensive leather collars and leads hanging outside, catering to the city's growing ranks of pet owners.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguu1po4LrZ8XjyOj1xWs1ZGJ44mRxUQR2Ev1Aw2sZMErch1DLkj1s9Rl4KaESY2D_MaragXREAM7Qc7v9cfdGWdTdcaRpMOdPUvs-OAC5ScCcuayWAOMedhjGsjPoLZUn2ANZ5e3Lw_jY/s1600/1414593556988_wps_13_dogs_rescued_from_the_jun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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'They have their business and I have mine.'</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Inside one dog meat restaurant, Duc – a 43 year-old businessman with his own public relations company – said he kept a pet dog at home but still liked to eat dog meat. 'I eat it once a month with my male friends,' he said.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'It's traditional and brings you strength and good fortune. I have a pet at home but these are a different kind of dog. They are bred to be eaten.'</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Attitudes were changing in some unexpected quarters, however, he said. 'There used to be many big dog restaurants in the West Lake area but many of them have closed down because the owners do not want to run dog meat restaurants anymore,' said Duc.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'They made their fortune from selling dog meat. They bought their big houses and they got rich and then they decided it was time to get out of the business. I hear it was because they felt guilty for killing so many dogs.'</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">John Dalley, founder of the Soi Dog Foundation which is leading the campaign to stop dog eating, said: 'Many Vietnamese people are Buddhists and eating dog is bad karma for them so a lot of them do want to get out of the industry apparently.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">'People say it is a long tradition but it isn't. It was only introduced during the war years in the last century at times of famine. Chinese military advisors suggested it and it stuck. There is no long tradition of eating dogs in Vietnam except among one or two hill tribes.'</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">Dogs have traditionally been snatched from the street in their tens of thousands Thailand - despite the government attempting to crack down on the trade - and smuggled to Vietnam under cover. In Vietnam there is no sign of a slowdown as dogs are stolen from villages all over the country, despite a campaign by charities to bring in laws against it. They are working to improve the plight of the animals.</div><div class="mol-para-with-font" id="ext-gen46" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;">To sign the campaign supported by Ricky Gervais and Judi Dench to end the dog meat trade in South East Asia visit<a class="" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"></a><a class="" href="https://savedogs.soidog.org/petition" rel="nofollow" style="color: #003580; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://savedogs.soidog.org/petition</a></div><div class="mol-para-with-font" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: 10px;"></span></span></div>

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Vietnam Prepares Suit Against China in Spat Over Oil Rig

<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcNRsdTq9n_QZsefLyPyt04g-PiHsrHz7PaO-XSqNGAdQSBmhhQdBj3lfETemagQqhghPvtLlqQW-kt6MHTufM2r-dHSEVbnpFs4lBM3q57f6fCle6-ZL-SQErBe4yhFPyipLcqpQVtQ/s1600/thu-tuong.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcNRsdTq9n_QZsefLyPyt04g-PiHsrHz7PaO-XSqNGAdQSBmhhQdBj3lfETemagQqhghPvtLlqQW-kt6MHTufM2r-dHSEVbnpFs4lBM3q57f6fCle6-ZL-SQErBe4yhFPyipLcqpQVtQ/s1600/thu-tuong.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6e6c6c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 17.32499885559082px; text-align: start;">Nguyen Tan Dung, Vietnam's prime minister</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">Vietnam</span></span> has prepared evidence for a legal suit challenging <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">China</span></span>’s claim to waters off the Vietnamese coast and is considering the best time to file it, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said yesterday in an interview.<br /><a name="more"></a></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">“We are prepared and ready for legal action,” Dung said, sitting in the prime minister’s compound in Hanoi in front of a bronze bust of Ho Chi Minh, the founder of communist Vietnam. “We are considering the most appropriate timing to take this measure.”</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Dung, 64, spoke four days after a Vietnamese fishing boat sank in a collision with a Chinese ship in an area near the disputed <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">Paracel Islands</span></span> where China has placed an oil rig. A legal filing would follow a case against China submitted by the Philippines to a <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">United Nations</span></span>’ court over contested shoals off its coast.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Dung, who faces pressure from citizens calling for a strong response to China’s oil rig maneuver, risks damaging economic ties with his bigger communist neighbor if he chooses to go down the legal route. A suit by Vietnam, though, would add to pressure on China to submit to arbitration in the South China Sea where it is asserting control in a push to gain greater access to the area’s oil, gas and fish.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">If open conflict were to erupt in the <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">South China Sea</span></span>, “there will be no victor,” Dung warned, saying that two-thirds of global maritime trade passes through shipping lanes in the area. “Everyone will lose,” he said. “The whole world economy will be hurt and damaged immeasurably.”</div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 1.875em; letter-spacing: -0.03em; margin: 29px 0px;">Trade vs Sovereignty</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Dung faces a difficult choice, having to weigh the economic cost of antagonizing Vietnam’s largest trading partner against stepping up pressure for China to defend its claims before an international court. Trade with China rose to $50.2 billion last year and accounts for about 15 percent of Vietnam’s global trade, according to Vietnam’s General Statistics Office. The two countries aim to boost that flow to $60 billion in 2015, according to an April 14 statement from Vietnam’s government.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">The sea dispute with China “has caused some impact in a few sectors of the Vietnamese economy,” Dung said. “However, we have taken suitable measures to respond.”</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Dung reiterated the government’s forecast that the economy will expand 5.8 percent this year, quickening from 5.42 percent in 2013. The benchmark <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">VN Index (VNINDEX)</span></span> has advanced 11 percent this year, having trimmed gains from its March 24 peak amid the rising tensions with China.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">In a meeting this past week in Hanoi with U.S. Senator <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">Ben Cardin</span></span>, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Dung called for a “stronger voice” from the U.S. against China.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 1.875em; letter-spacing: -0.03em; margin: 29px 0px;">‘Fine Line’</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">“We expect the U.S. to make more concrete, more effective contributions to regional peace and stability,” Dung said without elaborating. “The U.S. is a global power and a power in the Asia-Pacific region.”</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today said recent Chinese actions in parts of the South China Sea were destabilizing the region, citing the oil rig in disputed waters near the Paracel Islands off the coast of Vietnam as one example.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">While China has said it wants a “sea of peace, friendship and cooperation,” in recent months it “has undertaken destabilizing, unilateral actions asserting its claims in the South China Sea,” Hagel said in prepared remarks at an annual security conference in<span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">Singapore</span></span>.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Vietnam demands China withdraw the oil rig and the armies of both countries must show restraint in the dispute, Vietnam Defense Minister General Phung Quang Thanh said in a speech today at the conference.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday pledged support for Vietnam and the <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">Philippines</span></span> in their maritime disputes with China. Speaking in Singapore, Abe said his country would help to “thoroughly maintain freedom of navigation and freedom of overflight.”</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Vietnam, which fought a border war with China in 1979, has to “walk a very fine line,” Alexander Vuving, a security analyst at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">Hawaii</span></span>, said by phone. “In Eastern culture, Vietnam and China are neighbors, and using legal measures has the symbolic meaning of, ‘We are no longer good neighbors.’”</div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 1.875em; letter-spacing: -0.03em; margin: 29px 0px;">China’s Map</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">China’s “nine-dash line”, first published in the 1940s, extends hundreds of miles south to the equatorial waters off the coast of Borneo. It claims sovereignty over more than 100 islets, atolls and reefs that form the Paracel and Spratly Islands, and jurisdiction over the seabed and subsoil.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">The Philippines and Vietnam have led opposition to the map. Under the 1982 Law of the Sea, which China ratified in 1996, a country can exploit oil, gas and other “non-living resources” on its continental shelf or an area stretching 200 nautical miles from land known as an exclusive economic zone.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">China’s President Xi Jinping is using his nation’s expanding naval reach to back its claims in the South China Sea, which Vietnam refers to as the East Sea. China’s success in assuming control of the Scarborough Shoal in 2012, an area previously overseen by the Philippines, highlighted the potential consequences for nations from Vietnam to <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">Japan</span></span> of China asserting its territorial claims.</div><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: proxima-nova; font-size: 1.875em; letter-spacing: -0.03em; margin: 29px 0px;">‘Defend Ourselves’</h2><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Chinese aircraft flew close to Japanese planes in disputed airspace in the <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">East China Sea</span></span>, just days before the Vietnamese boat sinking. In mid-May, violent anti-China protests erupted in Vietnam, targeting businesses thought to be Chinese. Vietnam said three Chinese nationals were killed in the rioting.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Vietnam and China blamed each other for the boat collision. Qin Gang, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, said May 27 that Vietnam’s attempts to disrupt its oil rig operations were “in in vain and it will in the very end hurt the interests of the Vietnamese side itself.”</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">Dung said Vietnam would use “all possible peaceful measures” to defend its sovereignty. “Vietnam will only take military actions when we are forced to defend ourselves,” he said.</div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: John Boudreau in Hanoi at <span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">jboudreau3@bloomberg.net</span></span>; K. Oanh Ha in Hanoi at<span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">oha3@bloomberg.net</span></span>; Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen in Hanoi at<span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">uyen1@bloomberg.net</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d2b2c; font-family: akzidenz-grotesk-std-bloom; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3125em; margin-bottom: 28px;">To contact the editors responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg at<span style="color: #003399;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700;">phirschberg@bloomberg.net</span></span> Dick Schumacher<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-30/vietnam-has-prepared-evidence-against-china-in-sea-spat.html" target="_blank">Bloomberg - USA</a></div>

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TOEFL và TOEIC không còn được chấp nhận ở Anh !

<div class="bodydetail" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 480px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTPRIZdzxMHL-OE70TZyw9FDXhl8mzVPwGrP_KbTNN4cM09ueFR28H86zQJqdlQO50atXJPux3G0dlf8D6TYW3nBK1QtfCBuwIZf788TWMhrU34BElr_cmr_5jGSpcDuYaO4W_XNq9bM/s1600/c30faf87_toeic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOTPRIZdzxMHL-OE70TZyw9FDXhl8mzVPwGrP_KbTNN4cM09ueFR28H86zQJqdlQO50atXJPux3G0dlf8D6TYW3nBK1QtfCBuwIZf788TWMhrU34BElr_cmr_5jGSpcDuYaO4W_XNq9bM/s1600/c30faf87_toeic.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><h2 class="sapo" itemprop="description" style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px;">Chính phủ Anh đã quyết định không gia hạn thỏa thuận cho phép ETS – Educational Testing Service - cung cấp kết quả kiểm tra tiếng Anh mà sinh viên cần có khi xin visa du học nước Anh. Các bảng điểm tiếng Anh TOEFL và TOEIC sẽ không còn được chấp nhận ở Anh nữa.</h2><div class="bodydetail" itemprop="articleBody" style="float: left; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 480px;"><a name="more"></a><br /></div><div class="bodydetail" itemprop="articleBody" style="float: left; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 480px;">Từ tháng 4 năm nay, sinh viên du học Anh quốc sẽ không thể thi lấy bảng điểm TOEFL hoặc TOEIC để làm căn cứ xin thị thực (visa) du học; mà thay vào đó phải kiểm tra trình độ tiếng Anh với một nhà cung cấp dịch vụ khác trong danh sách được công bố trên trang web của Cơ quan Visa và Di trú Anh, UKVI.<br style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Theo tin trên tờ The Pie News ngày 18.4, Chính phủ Anh đã quyết định không gia hạn thỏa thuận cho phép ETS – Educational Testing Service - cung cấp kết quả kiểm tra tiếng Anh mà sinh viên cần có khi xin visa du học nước Anh. Như vậy, các bảng điểm tiếng Anh TOEFL và TOEIC sẽ không còn được chấp nhận ở Anh nữa. Quyết định trên được đưa ra sau khi một số vụ gian lận trong kỳ thi TOEIC ở Anh bị đài BBC phát hiện và đưa lên sóng truyền hình hồi tháng 2.2014.</div></div><div class="bodydetail" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 480px;"><br /></div><div class="bodydetail" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 480px;"><br /></div><div class="bodydetail" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; float: left; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 480px;">ETS là một tập đoàn giáo dục quốc tế lớn có trụ sở tại Mỹ chuyên tổ chức trên toàn cầu các cuộc kiểm tra, đánh giá trình độ ngôn ngữ và kiến thức của sinh viên; trong đó có các kỳ thi thi tiếng Anh nổi tiếng như TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language – Tiếng Anh như là ngoại ngữ) và TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication – Tiếng Anh giao tiếp quốc tế). Điểm kiểm tra TOEFL hoặc TOEIC được coi là phản ánh chính xác trình độ nghe-nói-đọc-hiểu tiếng Anh của người được kiểm tra, thường được sử dụng làm căn cứ để sinh viên nước ngoài xin đi học, đi làm ở Mỹ, Anh và nhiều quốc gia nói tiếng Anh khác. Trong những năm gần đây, thi TOEFL hoặc TOEIC đã khá quen thuộc với sinh viên, học sinh Việt Nam có ý hướng du học nước ngoài.<br style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Theo thỏa thuận giữa Cơ quan xét duyệt visa và di trú Anh (UKVI) và ETS, sinh viên nước ngoài xin visa tới Anh du học nhất thiết phải có bảng điểm kiểm tra TOEFL hoặc TOEIC do ETS cấp. Thỏa thuận này hết hiệu lực vào ngày 5.4.2014 vừa qua và sẽ không được gia hạn.<br style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Người phát ngôn của ETS cũng xác nhận rằng công ty đã quyết định chấm dứt thỏa thuận hợp tác với UKVI sau khi hai “đại lý” của ETS – chuyên tổ chức thi TOEIC theo ủy quyền của ETS – tại Ireland bị phát hiện gian lận. “Chúng tôi công nhận rằng, chúng tôi không hoàn tất tiêu chuẩn cao của chính mình và thành thật xin lỗi về những hành vi không trung thực của các đại lý bên thứ ba ở Anh”, phát ngôn viên của ETS nói với báo The Pie News.<br style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Theo người phát ngôn này, vụ gian lận đang được điều tra, các bảng điểm TOEFL và TOEIC sẽ không còn được dùng để xin cấp visa du học ở Anh cho dù ở Mỹ, TOEFL vẫn còn được dùng làm căn cứ để xét tuyển sinh viên nước ngoài vào các trường đại học và cao đẳng.</div><div class="e_articleAuthor" itemprop="author" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12px !important; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px !important; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>

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The Flight of the Birdman: Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin02mAA2SUtbcD_x-X2IW1RgHfVGUGCacOZUmpR-Jv_9rl3ZE6St8vdym_7704QghcsXCpZL9l12pK52XeoOPi89yMh4uzaADbpXPPqBvCyjPkpzJGCVIUPT1hdNnfodsHgy1cFCZMj3Ze/s1600/20140310-flappybird-x600-1394473781+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin02mAA2SUtbcD_x-X2IW1RgHfVGUGCacOZUmpR-Jv_9rl3ZE6St8vdym_7704QghcsXCpZL9l12pK52XeoOPi89yMh4uzaADbpXPPqBvCyjPkpzJGCVIUPT1hdNnfodsHgy1cFCZMj3Ze/s1600/20140310-flappybird-x600-1394473781+(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">How did a chain-smoking geek from Hanoi design the viral hit Flappy Bird - and why did he walk away?</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="floatLt" style="background-color: white; display: block; float: left; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20.549999237060547px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-transform: capitalize;">By</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20.549999237060547px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/contributor/david-kushner" rel="author" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 20.549999237060547px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">DAVID KUSHNER</a></span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Last April, Dong Nguyen, a quiet 28-year-old who lived with his parents in Hanoi, Vietnam, and had a day job programming location devices for taxis, spent a holiday weekend making a mobile game. He wanted it to be simple but challenging, in the spirit of the Nintendo games he grew up playing. The object was to fly a bug-eyed, big-lipped, bloated bird between a series of green vertical pipes. The quicker a player tapped the screen, the higher the bird would flap. He called it Flappy Bird.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span><br /><a name="more"></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The game went live on the iOS App Store on May 24th. Instead of charging for Flappy Bird, Nguyen made it available for free, and hoped to get a few hundred dollars a month from in-game ads.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But with about 25,000 new apps going online every month, Flappy Bird was lost in the mix and seemed like a bust – until, eight months later, something crazy happened. The game went viral. By February, it was topping the charts in more than 100 countries and had been downloaded more than 50 million times. Nguyen was earning an estimated $50,000 a day. Not even Mark Zuckerberg became rich so fast.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet as Flappymania peaked, Nguyen remained a mystery. Aside from the occasional tweet, he had little to say about his incredible story. He ducked the press and refused to be photographed. He was called a fraud, a con man and a thief. Bloggers accused him of stealing art from Nintendo. The popular gaming site Kotaku wrote in a widely clicked headline, FLAPPY BIRD IS MAKING $50,000 A DAY OFF RIPPED ART.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin02mAA2SUtbcD_x-X2IW1RgHfVGUGCacOZUmpR-Jv_9rl3ZE6St8vdym_7704QghcsXCpZL9l12pK52XeoOPi89yMh4uzaADbpXPPqBvCyjPkpzJGCVIUPT1hdNnfodsHgy1cFCZMj3Ze/s1600/20140310-flappybird-x600-1394473781+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin02mAA2SUtbcD_x-X2IW1RgHfVGUGCacOZUmpR-Jv_9rl3ZE6St8vdym_7704QghcsXCpZL9l12pK52XeoOPi89yMh4uzaADbpXPPqBvCyjPkpzJGCVIUPT1hdNnfodsHgy1cFCZMj3Ze/s1600/20140310-flappybird-x600-1394473781+(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On February 9th, at 2:02 a.m. Hanoi time, a message appeared on Nguyen's Twitter account. "I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users," it read. "22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore." The message was retweeted more than 145,000 times by the disbelieving masses. How could someone who hit the online jackpot suddenly pull the plug? But when the clock struck midnight the next evening, the story came to an end. Nguyen, as promised, took Flappy Bird offline. In his wake, he left millions of jilted gamers, and one big question: Who was this dude, and WTF had he done?</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two weeks after the demise of Flappy, I'm taxiing past pagodas and motorbikes to the outskirts of Hanoi, a crowded, rundown metropolis filled with street vendors selling pirated goods, to meet with Nguyen, who has agreed to share with <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rolling Stone</em> his whole story for the first time. With the international press and local paparazzi searching for him, Nguyen has been in hiding – fleeing his parents' house to stay at a friend's apartment, where he now remains. Although dot-com millionaires have become familiar in the U.S., in Vietnam's fledgling tech community they're all but unheard of. When the country's first celebrity geek, a boyish, slight guy in jeans and a gray sweater, walks hesitantly up and introduces himself, he measures his words and thoughts carefully, like placing pixels on a screen. "I was just making something fun to share with other people," he says with the help of a translator. "I couldn't predict the success of Flappy Bird."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Growing up in Van Phuc, a village outside Hanoi famous for silk-making, Nguyen (pronounced <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">nwin</em>) never imagined being a world-famous game designer. Though his father owned a hardware store and his mother worked for the government, his family couldn't afford Game Boys for him or his younger brother. But eventually, they were able to purchase a Nintendo, which, like most electronics in Vietnam, was available only in cloned form. Marveling at the power of controlling a character onscreen, Nguyen spent his free time obsessively playing Super Mario Bros.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By 16, Nguyen had learned to code his own computer chess game. Three years later, while studying computer science at a university in Hanoi, he placed in the top 20 of a programming competition and got an internship with one of Hanoi's only game companies at the time, Punch Entertainment, which made cellphone games. Son Bui Truong, Nguyen's former boss, says the young programmer stood out for his speed, skills and fierce independent streak. "Dong didn't need a supervisor," Truong says. "He wasn't comfortable with it. So we said he did not have to report to anyone."</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nguyen soon tired of churning out the company's sports games. When he later got his hands on an iPhone, he became fascinated by the possibilities of the touch screen. Few games, however, captured the simple power of the Nintendo games of his youth. Angry Birds was too busy, he thought. "I don't like the graphics," he says. "It looked too crowded." Nguyen wanted to make games for people like himself: busy, harried, always on the move. "I pictured how people play," he says, as he taps his iPhone and reaches his other hand in the air. "One hand holding the train strap." He'd make a game for them.</span></div><br />-*-<br /><br />*-*<br />Câu chuyện giáo dục: Những câu chuyện có thật về giáo dục đương đại. 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Vietnam deploys dancers to foil protests

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="article_body entry-content classic" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCMGs9nD6_jFz_gzoORrTe27SfdARFHTXE9naaKGkvU2EOx00vImSi69kMtH2h_M9ZN_M4Ul8eik-esPUgere0Syg9MNJv7vjLlCjvwxsmOHNeWvQ5jGRONb-Wniw1pUHByI6iKTwMgw/s1600/1012042_448199871976298_627401992_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCMGs9nD6_jFz_gzoORrTe27SfdARFHTXE9naaKGkvU2EOx00vImSi69kMtH2h_M9ZN_M4Ul8eik-esPUgere0Syg9MNJv7vjLlCjvwxsmOHNeWvQ5jGRONb-Wniw1pUHByI6iKTwMgw/s1600/1012042_448199871976298_627401992_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><article style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">HANOI, Vietnam — Anti-China protesters hoping to lay wreaths at a famous statue in the Vietnamese capital on Sunday were obstructed by an unusual sight of ballroom dancers and an energetic aerobics class held to a thumping sound system.</span></span></article><article><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;">The demonstrators suspect the government deployed the dancers as a way to stop them from getting close to the statue and make their speeches inaudible. The few who tried to get close to the statue of Ly Thai To, the founder of Hanoi and a nationalist icon, were shooed away.</span></span></article><article><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a name="more"></a><br /></span></span></article><span style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;"></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;"></span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /></span><div class="module article-side-rail left clearfix padding-right margin-top-7 margin-right-15" id="article-side-rail" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><div class="article-video border-top padding-top padding-bottom margin-bottom flipboard-remove"><div class="package oxfordline"><div class="module s1 img-border " style="background-image: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px;"><div class="margin-left-100"></div></div></div></div><div id="slug_inline_bb"><div class="left margin-right margin-bottom padding-top slug" id="wpni_adi_inline_bb"></div></div></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;">The protesters were marking the 35th anniversary of a bloody border war between China and Vietnam, where anger over Beijing’s increasingly assertive territorial claims on islands in the South China Sea that Hanoi insists belong to it is already running high.</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;">Relations with China, Vietnam’s ideological ally and major trading partner, are a highly sensitive domestic political issue for Hanoi’s rulers. They don’t want anger on the street against China to spread to other areas of its repressive rule.</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;">Nguyen Quang A, a well-known dissident, and others attending the rally in Hanoi on Sunday said the government deployed the dancers at the statue of Ly Thai To, and at another statue nearby, to prevent them gathering there. The tactic appeared to be part of a low-key approach to policing the event to avoid confrontation. There were scores of plainclothes security officers at the rally, but very few wearing uniform.</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;">Quang said he asked the dancers to stop for a few minutes but that they refused.</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;">Last year the government organized old women to hold a street protest to prevent a visiting U.S. government official from reaching a dissident’s house, where he was due to talk to him about Hanoi’s human rights record.</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;">Around 70 people took part in Sunday’s rally close to Hoan Kiem Lake in downtown Hanoi.</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;">They shouted anti-China slogans, and took video and photos of each other to be posted on dissident blogs and Facebook pages. After around 90 minutes, they managed to lay their wreaths commemorating the Vietnamese dead in the war at a pagoda before dispersing.</span><br style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium;">Earlier anti-China protests in the capital have resulted in demonstrators being dragged into buses or scuffles. The government is keen to avoid such images spreading on social media because they make it seem it is defending China against nationalist anger, which is widespread among many Vietnamese.</span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/vietnam-deploys-dancers-to-foil-protests/2014/02/16/83ba3620-96c7-11e3-ae45-458927ccedb6_story.html</span></b></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a222a; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span>-*-<br /><br />*-*<br />Câu chuyện giáo dục: Những câu chuyện có thật về giáo dục đương đại. Bạn có câu chuyện về giáo dục, hãy gửi tới: schoolnetviet2@gmail.com Nếu copy sang trang khác, vui lòng ghi rõ nguồn bài viết hoặc gắn link bài viết.</div>

Vietnam deploys dancers to foil protests

HANOI, Vietnam — Anti-China protesters hoping to lay wreaths at a famous statue in the Vietnamese capital on Sunday were obstructed by an un...

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Vietnam Deploys Dancers to Foil Protests (Triển khai các vũ công để chặn đứng cuộc biểu tình)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj16cZu6X_eysuw9OOAcgsP-A8bMoRW-ucL2yo7AQaKvYepyyZ3ArXZa5SmKRrjjBiDdOXGjC0wmVrp4aMdoZYY4frDxepwatm2d4sLJwVT85uurvEW9_3aMwR9Altg_tN7NnQ7rehTeco/s1600/pb1c4229_wmkx.jpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj16cZu6X_eysuw9OOAcgsP-A8bMoRW-ucL2yo7AQaKvYepyyZ3ArXZa5SmKRrjjBiDdOXGjC0wmVrp4aMdoZYY4frDxepwatm2d4sLJwVT85uurvEW9_3aMwR9Altg_tN7NnQ7rehTeco/s1600/pb1c4229_wmkx.jpg.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Anti-China protesters hoping to lay wreaths at a famous statue in the Vietnamese capital on Sunday were obstructed by an unusual sight of ballroom dancers and an energetic aerobics class held to a thumping sound system.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The demonstrators suspect the government deployed the dancers as a way to stop them from getting close to the statue and make their speeches inaudible. The few who tried to get close to the statue of Ly Thai To, the founder of Hanoi and a nationalist icon, were shooed away.</div><a name="more"></a><br /><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">The protesters were marking the 35th anniversary of a bloody border war between China and Vietnam, where anger over Beijing's increasingly assertive territorial claims on islands in the South China Sea that Hanoi insists belong to it is already running high.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Relations with China, Vietnam's ideological ally and major trading partner, are a highly sensitive domestic political issue for Hanoi's rulers. They don't want anger on the street against China to spread to other areas of its repressive rule.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKrIl-2IihDpJEY-iozeX-pET94cgkSGQ5gXHUDtpCsGkuXkagTb8BbBfpRm9VBlRAQUe11xnekiFGup9MrOUPhWqoM45ByXAjy1K1wrUMIz8OVVM78cwSVvR-IHhiuBo7In-t0b9-EUI/s1600/140216112339_nhay_mua_tuong_dai_ly_thai_to_2014_304x171_bbc_nocredit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKrIl-2IihDpJEY-iozeX-pET94cgkSGQ5gXHUDtpCsGkuXkagTb8BbBfpRm9VBlRAQUe11xnekiFGup9MrOUPhWqoM45ByXAjy1K1wrUMIz8OVVM78cwSVvR-IHhiuBo7In-t0b9-EUI/s1600/140216112339_nhay_mua_tuong_dai_ly_thai_to_2014_304x171_bbc_nocredit.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Nguyen Quang A, a well-known dissident, and others attending the rally in Hanoi on Sunday said the government deployed the dancers at the statue of Ly Thai To, and at another statue nearby, to prevent them gathering there. The tactic appeared to be part of a low-key approach to policing the event to avoid confrontation. There were scores of plainclothes security officers at the rally, but very few wearing uniform.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Quang said he asked the dancers to stop for a few minutes but that they refused.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Last year the government organized old women to hold a street protest to prevent a visiting U.S. government official from reaching a dissident's house, where he was due to talk to him about Hanoi's human rights record.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">Around 70 people took part in Sunday's rally close to Hoan Kiem Lake in downtown Hanoi.</div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 22px; padding: 0px;">They shouted anti-China slogans, and took video and photos of each other to be posted on dissident blogs and Facebook pages. After around 90 minutes, they managed to lay their wreaths commemorating the Vietnamese dead in the war at a pagoda before dispersing.</div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-nova, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 17px;">Earlier anti-China protests in the capital have resulted in demonstrators being dragged into buses or scuffles. The government is keen to avoid such images spreading on social media because they make it seem it is defending China against nationalist anger, which is widespread among many Vietnamese.</span><br /><br />-*-<br /><br />*-*<br />Câu chuyện giáo dục: Những câu chuyện có thật về giáo dục đương đại. Bạn có câu chuyện về giáo dục, hãy gửi tới: schoolnetviet2@gmail.com Nếu copy sang trang khác, vui lòng ghi rõ nguồn bài viết hoặc gắn link bài viết.</div>

Vietnam Deploys Dancers to Foil Protests (Triển khai các vũ công để chặn đứng cuộc biểu tình)

Anti-China protesters hoping to lay wreaths at a famous statue in the Vietnamese capital on Sunday were obstructed by an unusual sight of ba...

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75 Students from 62 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Named 2014 HBCU All-Stars

<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em;">The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (WHIHBCU) today announced its first class of HBCU All-Stars, recognizing 75 undergraduate, graduate and professional students for their accomplishments in academics, leadership and civic engagement. Currently enrolled at 62 HBCUs, the All-Stars were selected from 445 students who submitted completed applications that included a transcript, resume, essay and recommendation. The HBCU All-Stars will serve as ambassadors of the White House Initiative by providing outreach and communication with their fellow students about the value of education and the Initiative as a networking resource.</span></div><a name="more"></a><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">"Engaging with the next generation of leaders who will graduate from HBCUs and go on to make meaningful contributions to society is crucial to the success of our community, our country and our global competitiveness," said George Cooper, executive director of the WHIHBCUs. "It is a privilege to announce these 75 students who have demonstrated a commitment to both their own academic achievement and making a difference in their communities, and we look forward to working with them as partners in advancing President Obama’s college completion goal."</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Over the course of the next year -- through social media and their relationships with community-based organizations -- the All-Stars will share promising and proven practices that support opportunities for all young people to achieve their educational and career potential. In addition, the 45 female and 30 male All-Stars will participate in regional events and web chats with Ivory Toldson, deputy director of the WHIHBCUs, other Initiative staff and professionals from a wide range of disciplines. They will also have opportunities to engage with other scholars to showcase individual and collective talent across the HBCU community.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">More information about the activities of the 75 HBCU All-Stars will be provided in the coming months as they carry out their role as ambassadors of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.</div><div class="note" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5b638a; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">NOTE TO EDITORS: Attached is a list of the 2014 HBCU All-Stars in alphabetical order by the state and city they are from, the school they attend and the school's location.</div><h2 align="center" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.667em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">2014 HBCU All Stars</h2><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">ALABAMA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Aliceville--Keiwan Harris --attends Concordia College Alabama, Selma, AL<br />Huntsville--Sharesse Mason --attends Alabama A&M University, Normal<br />Mobile--Justin Wells --attends Bishop State Community College, Mobile, AL<br />Tuscaloosa--Morgan Curry --attends Shelton State Community College, Tuscaloosa, AL<br />Tuscaloosa--Jeraun Pouge --attends Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, AL<br />Talladega--Chuck Stewart --attends Talladega College, Talladega, AL<br />Tuskegee—Kalauna Carter --attends Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">ARKANSAS</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Little Rock--Chelsea Fox --attends Philander Smith, Little Rock, AR</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">CALIFORNIA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Los Angeles--Nicole Tinson --attends Dillard University, New Orleans, LA<br />Fresno--Arogeanae Brown --attends Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Tyrone Hankerson --attends Howard University, District of Columbia<br />-Jocelyn Cole --attends Howard University, District of Columbia<br />-LaTrice Clayburn --attends Livingstone College, Salisbury, NC<br />Abdul Nurriddin --attends University of the District of Columbia Community College, District of Columbia</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">FLORIDA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Daytona--Shantel Braynen --attends Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, FL<br />Tallahassee--Jamil McGinnis --attends Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL<br />Tallahassee--Jazmyne Simmons --attends Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL<br />Miami--Jonte Myers --attends Florida Memorial University, Miami Gardens, FL<br />Orlando--Vivian Nweze --attends Howard University, District of Columbia</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">GEORGIA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Riverdale--Kelcey Wright --attends Albany State University, Albany, GA<br />Atlanta--Lillian Harris --attends Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA<br />Rex--Elijah Porter --attends Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA<br />Atlanta--Cameron Weathers --attends Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA<br />Atlanta--David Johnny --attends Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA<br />Atlanta--Sarah Dillard --attends Savannah State University, Savannah, GA<br />Albany--Bria Carrithers --attends Spelman College, Atlanta, GA</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">KENTUCKY</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Frankfort--Chaundra Bush --attends Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">LOUISIANA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Grambling--Breonna Ward --attends Grambling State University, Grambling, LA<br />Ruston--Brooke Battiste --attends Grambling State University, Grambling, LA<br />Zachary--Robert Chambers --attends Southern University A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">MARYLAND</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Accokeek--Symone Jordan --attends Bowie State University, Bowie, MD<br />Fort Washington--Kayla Reynolds --attends Delaware State University, Dover, DE<br />Baltimore--Triston Bing-Young --attends Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD<br />Fort Washington--Trevor McKie --attends Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD<br />Silver Spring--Chanel Banks --attends University Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD<br />Salisbury--So Jin Park --attends University Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne, MD</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">MISSISSIPPI</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Brookhaven--Lawrence Warren --attends Alcorn State University, Alcorn, MS<br />Jackson--Candace Chambers --attends Jackson State University, Jackson, MS<br />Itta Bena--Rodney Rice --attends Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, MS<br />Holly Springs--Larrance Carter --attends Rust College, Holly Springs, MS<br />Bolton--Kisa Harris --attends Tougaloo College, Jackson, MS</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">NORTH CAROLINA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Greensboro--Jasmine Everett --attends Bennett College, Greensboro, NC<br />Raleigh--Victoria Jones --attends North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC<br />Whiteville--Valerie Edwards --attends Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC<br />Gates--Amanda Eure --attends Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC<br />Charlotte--Jheanelle Linton --attends Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC<br />Greensboro--Shakera Fudge --attends North Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University, Greensboro<br />Greensboro--Leon White --attends North Carolina Agricultural &Technical State University, Greensboro<br />Knightdale--Joseph Wyatt --attends St. Augustine's University, Raleigh, NC<br />Winston-Salem--Georges Guillame --attends Winston Salem State University, Winston Salem, NC</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">NEW JERSEY</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Newark--Akirah Crawford --attends Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">OKLAHOMA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Ardmore--Beautiful- Joy Fields --attends Langston University, Langston, OK</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">PENNSYLVANIA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Chester--Ahn-yea Graham --attends Cheyney University of PA, Cheyney, PA</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">SOUTH CAROLINA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Leesville--Rodrea Zeigler --attends Allen University, Columbia, SC<br />Orangeburg--Jessica Mong --attends Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC<br />Lynchburg--Refugio Banuelos --attends Morris College, Sumter, SC<br />Orangeburg--Harold Rickenbacker --attends South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC<br />Orangeburg--Jasmine Harris --attends South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, SC</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">TENNESSEE</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Nashville--Ciera Carter --attends Fisk University, Nashville, TN<br />Jackson--Stephanie Phillips --attends Lane College, Jackson, TN<br />Memphis--Gilbert Carter --attends LeMoyne- Owen College, Memphis, TN<br />Nashville--Ciera Scales --attends Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN<br />Nashville--Jeremiah Cooper --attends Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN<br />Jackson--Aneesa Sood --attends Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">TEXAS</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Houston--Antoine Southern --attends Oakwood University, Huntsville, AL<br />Dallas--Priscilla Barbour --attends Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX<br />Cedar Hill--Glenn Johnson --attends Texas College, Tyler, TX<br />Houston--Jarrauri Curry --attends Texas Southern University, Houston, TX<br />Houston--Candace Jones --attends Texas Southern University, Houston, TX<br />Garland--Jade Crutch --attends Xavier University, New Orleans, LA</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">VIRGINIA</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; padding: 0px;">Suffolk--Chanae LeGrier --attends Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, NC<br />Dendron--Whitney Johnson --attends Hampton University, Hampton, VA<br />Richmond--Caprichia Moses --attends Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA</div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; color: #232f63; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; margin: 0.769em 0px; padding: 0px;">VIRGIN ISLANDS</h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-top: 14px; 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