With some nostalgia, Obama to give farewell address to America
President Barack Obama will give a farewell speech to the nation on Tuesday night, an effort to burnish his legacy, encourage demoralized supporters and express optimism about the future of…
Quốc hội Hàn Quốc điều trần phiên cuối vụ bê bối của bà Park
Rất ít trong số 20 người được triệu tập xuất hiện trong phiên điều trần cuối tại ủy ban đặc biệt của Quốc hội Hàn Quốc phụ trách điều tra…
German ministers agree tougher rules for migrants posing security risk
Germany’s interior and justice ministers, representing the two blocs in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ruling coalition, have agreed on tougher measures for asylum seekers whose documents are not in order or…
Actor Tom Hiddleston apologises to aid workers for speech at Golden Globes
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British actor Tom Hiddleston has apologised to aid workers for comments he made at the Golden Globe Awards about how viewing his TV series “The Night…
Australia bans green and raw prawn import from Vietnam
Australia has placed an indefinite ban on the import of green, raw prawns from a number of Asian countries, including Vietnam. According to the Vietnam News Agency, the ban was…
Samsung to invest $2.5 billion into Vietnamese factories
Samsung Electronics will invest $US2.5 billion in Vietnam, according to a report by South Korea’s news agency Yonhap. The report cited unnamed sources who said the company was in talks…
Smoking costs $1 trillion, soon to kill 8 million a year – WHO/NCI study
GENEVA – Smoking costs the global economy more than $US 1 trillion a year, and will kill one third more people by 2030 than it does now, according to a…
Hỏi và giải đáp 203: Vấn nạn thích sống độc thân
Lần này, TL giới thiệu lá thư rất thú vị và cũng khá… nhức đầu của nữ độc giả NB. Xin đăng nguyên văn thư: Cô Thanh Lan quý mến,…
Watchdog urges greater protection of UK transgender prisoners as deaths climb
LONDON – Transgender prisoners in Britain need more support and greater protection from bullying and harassment, a government watchdog said on Tuesday, more than a week after a transgender woman…
Norway seeks to overturn ruling it violated killer Breivik’s rights
SKIEN – Norway will appeal on Tuesday against a court ruling that it violated the human rights of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik by keeping him too isolated in jail…
