Cục Đào tạo với nước ngoài - Bộ GD&ĐT trân trọng thông báo về việc Chính phủ Nhật Bản cấp viện trợ không hoàn lại để thực hiện Chương trình Học bổng Phát triển nguồn nhân lực cho Việt Nam (JDS) năm 2015 cho niên khóa 2016 – 2017.
Chương trình dự kiến tiếp nhận tối đa 30 học viên thạc sĩ cho niên khóa 2016-2017.
Thông tin chi tiết về chương trình học bổng JDS được đăng tải tại trang web: http://jds-scholarship.org

Some of the fellows this year are already prominent, like the puppeteer Basil Twist; others are below the radar, like Marina Rustow, a history professor at Princeton University, who is using the ancient Cairo Geniza texts to shed new light on Jewish life and on the medieval Middle East.

PGS.TS Nguyễn Văn Huy, chuyên gia về bảo tàng, đánh giá, ở Hà Nội có một số bảo tàng như Bảo tàng Mỹ thuật, Bảo tàng Lịch sử quân sự Việt Nam, chất lượng dịch vụ tốt nhưng vị trí đặt không chuẩn nên phá vỡ cảnh quan đẹp của di tích.
Ở Việt Nam, chính sự đánh giá chưa toàn diện, tư duy cũ và cả lối làm bảo tàng sáo mòn nên mới dẫn đến cuộc tranh luận gay gắt về việc nên hay không nên xây dựng một bảo tàng quốc gia nghìn tỷ. Cả nước có hơn 120 bảo tàng lớn nhỏ nhưng hoạt động èo uột. Vậy làm sao khơi dậy được tiềm năng, đánh thức một lĩnh vực đang được coi là "nàng công chúa ngủ trong rừng"?.

Dr. Mitchell L. Gaynor, a Manhattan oncologist and popular author who taught cancer patients to supplement conventional medicine with soothing music, diet and meditation — and practiced what he prescribed — was found dead on Tuesday at his country home in Hillsdale, N.Y. He was 59. The cause was suicide

MELBOURNE, Úc (NV) - Nhà báo Trần Hạnh, người Việt Nam đầu tiên làm trưởng ban Việt Ngữ BBC, vừa qua đời ở ngoại ô Melbourne, Úc, hưởng thọ 61 tuổi, theo tin của đài BBC, trích thông báo của gia đình ông.
Nhà báo Trần Hạnh, tên thật là Trần Hữu Hạnh, cũng là người "tuyển những nhân viên đầu tiên trực tiếp từ Việt Nam tới London nhằm cập nhật tin tức và liên hệ với Việt Nam hiện đại," theo BBC.
Ông làm trưởng ban Việt Ngữ đài Úc từ năm 1993, sau đó, ông làm trưởng ban Việt Ngữ BBC từ năm 1997 đến năm 2001. Sau khi trở về Úc, ông làm giám đốc đài phát thanh quốc gia này, từ năm 2007 đến năm 2010, theo BBC

Lynn Walker Huntley, a lawyer who was deeply involved in a wide spectrum of civil rights cases and causes, including capital punishment, race relations and employment discrimination, died Aug. 30 at her home in Atlanta. She was 69.
Ms. Huntley was at various times an official in the Department of Justice, general counsel to the New York City Commission on Human Rights, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, a scholar and program director for the Ford Foundation and president of a charity that works to improve education for children.

MANILA — Esmail Kiram II, the self-proclaimed sultan of Sulu who in 2013 encouraged a last-ditch, violent effort to regain part of the Malaysian island of Borneo for the Philippines, died on Saturday at a hospital in Zamboanga City in the southern Philippines. He was 75.
Though he claimed the title of sultan of Sulu, several other descendants of the original sultan, who lived in the 15th century, make the same claim. Before Spanish colonizers arrived in the 16th century, the sultanate of Sulu ruled over vast stretches of territory, including parts of what is now the southern Philippines and Borneo.

Andrew Kohut, a leading pollster who for three decades mined the public's views on subjects like sex, race and religion but who, as an impartial professional, rarely revealed his own, died on Tuesday in Baltimore. He was 73.
Mr. Kohut (pronounced KO-hut) was the founding director of the Pew Research Center and served as its president from 2004 until his retirement in 2013.
Among fellow public opinion professionals, social scientists, politicians and journalists, Mr. Kohut was widely respected for his nonpartisanship, expertise and clarity in interpreting the findings of polls and what they portended.

Ben Kuroki, a decorated Japanese-American gunner in the Army Air Forces of World War II, who was hailed on the American homeland at a time when tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans were confined to internment camps as supposed security risks, died on Tuesday in Camarillo, Calif. He was 98.
Many Americans of Japanese descent served with distinction in the Army's ground forces. But the Air Forces had not wanted Mr. Kuroki, or, for that matter, any Japanese-Americans.
He nonetheless became an airman and received three Distinguished Service Crosses, taking part in raids over Europe, North Africa, and then, after receiving special permission from the War Department, in missions over Japan.

Among Vietnamese Americans, Vo is considered one of the diaspora's towering literary minds, someone with an eye for the melancholy of the era, a writer who captured the rich detail of the culture, Vietnamese village life and the war itself.
But it was the exhaustive collection "Van Hoc Mien Nam, Tong Quan," an overview of South Vietnamese literature from 1954 to 1975, that endeared him to fellow expatriates. The book featured the work of more than 200 authors and documented the period's artistic and literary movements. Its 1999 debut was followed by six other books exploring genres such as poetry and plays.
Born Doan The Nhon on Oct. 20, 1925, Vo grew up in Binh Dinh, a province in Central Vietnam. By the time he was 20, he had joined the anti-French revolutionary movement but became disenchanted with communism and went to work in the Ministry of Information for the Republic of Vietnam.