"Chợ Đầu Mối" về Giáo Dục tại Việt Nam
A Clearinghouse on Education in Viet Nam
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FEB. 9, 2016 | Ben Sisario | Bản tin số 41

In a coda to one of the most notable music copyright lawsuits in years, the Warner Music Group has agreed to pay $14 million to settle claims over “Happy Birthday to You,” after a judge ruled last year that the company’s long-claimed copyright to the famous song was invalid.

FEB. 9, 2016 | Uki Goni | Bản tin số 41

With only 3.3 million inhabitants, Uruguay is the smallest nation by population in Latin America. Its giant neighbor Brazil, by contrast, has a population of more than 200 million. But what it lacks in numbers, Uruguay makes up for by ranking as the least corrupt and most democratic country in Latin America — as well as only one of two, along with Chile, rated as a “high income” country by the United Nations.

FEB. 15, 2016 | LISA W. FODERARO | Bản tin số 41

They call themselves “hotelies”: students and alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, the world’s oldest undergraduate program devoted to the hospitality industry and, many say, the best.

FEB. 6, 2016 | JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ | Bản tin số 41

Worried that a shortage of male teachers has produced a generation of timid, self-centered and effeminate boys, Chinese educators are working to reinforce traditional gender roles and values in the classroom.

16/02/2016 | David E. Early | Bản tin số 41

In an interview, Chen said one of the worst parts of the ordeal was when agents marched her -- shackled -- past her co-workers. "I felt so ashamed," she said. "That was something I only saw on TV, when criminals are taken away."

FEB. 3, 2016 | Edward Wong | Bản tin số 41

BEIJING — Two photographers living in China, Kevin Frayer of Getty Images and Fred Dufour of Agence France-Presse, set up a collectiveInstagram account in June that displays photographs and short videos taken across China. They called it “Eyes on China.”

17/02/2016 | Cindy Chang | Bản tin số 41

Three high school students from China were sentenced in Pomona court Wednesday morning for their roles in the kidnapping and assault of another Chinese teenager.
The attack captured attention in China and turned a spotlight on the growing number of so-called parachute kids from the country who attend high school in Southern California while their parents remain back home.

FEB. 3, 2016 | Paul Mozur | Bản tin số 41

The letters were among 177 uncovered in the past decade that were written by victims of the political repression known as the White Terror. From 1947 to 1987, tens of thousands of Taiwanese were imprisoned and at least 1,000 were executed, most in the early 1950s, after being accused of spying for Communist China.

05/02/2016 | Kim Willsher | Bản tin số 41

Changes to around 2,400 French words to simplify them for schoolchildren, such as allowing the word for onion to be spelled ognon as well as the traditionaloignon, have brought accusations the country’s Socialist government is dumbing down the language.

FEB. 26, 2016 | Stephanie Saul | Bản tin số 41

The now-defunct Trump University, the subject of one of Marco Rubio’s attacks on Donald J. Trump at the Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, was not a real university at all but a series of seminars held in hotels across the country that promised to share Mr. Trump’s real estate investing acumen with students. It is still embroiled in lawsuits accusing it of misrepresentation.