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- Trong thời kỳ làm hoàng đế, vua Minh Mạng và vương triều Nguyễn đã có những việc làm thiết thực để khẳng định chủ quyền đối với quần đảo Hoàng Sa. Mộc bản triều Nguyễn sách “Đại Nam thực lục chính biên đệ nhị kỷ” cho biết: Vào tháng 12/1836 thuyền buôn Anh Cát Lợi (tức nước Anh ngày nay) đi qua Hoàng Sa, mắc cạn, bị vỡ và đắm; hơn 90 người được nhà Nguyễn cứu sống đưa vào bờ biển Bình Định.

In the sixteenth century, the world had little knowledge about Southeast Asia. Western merchants and sailors of that time called the sea, which is encompassed by the present-day Southeast Asian countries, the “South China Sea” to refer to the enclosed sea basin and its location in relation to the surrounding countries lying to the north of Australia, east of India, and south of China. http://www.change.org/petitions/change-the-name-south-china-sea-to-southeast-asia-sea

The Vietnamese New Year (year of a cat) was last week, I had opportunity to work with the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations in Socal (UVSA).
It was a wonderful three days — new year, here are the photos of Miss Vietnam of Socal that I took at the festival. Congratulations to Nathalie Huynh, Queen of this 2011.

The Vietnamese alphabet, called Chữ Quốc Ngữ (script of the national language), usually shortened to Quốc Ngữ (national language), is the current writing system for the Vietnamese language. It is based on the Latin alphabet (more specifically the Portuguese version of it[1]) with some digraphs and the addition of nine accent marks or diacritics — [...]

Tan Le is the co-founder and president of Emotiv Systems, a firm that’s working on a new form of remote control that uses brainwaves to control digital devices and digital media. It’s long been a dream to bypass the mechanical (mouse, keyboard, clicker) and have our digital devices respond directly to what we think. Emotiv’s [...]