Young Vietnamese would rather communicate with their friends through chat apps or text rather than in the physical world, a study by market research firm Epinion and media agency OMD has found.
Half of respondents, who were aged between 13 and 21, said that text was the medium they felt most comfortable with communicating with their friends. Only 30 per cent of this group, which the authors call "Genzilla", said face to face.

A year after eliminating polio, India has scored another public health victory. Following a 15-year campaign, the country has virtually eliminatedtetanus as a killer of newborns and mothers.
The disease — also known as lockjaw, after its muscle spasms — usually sets in about a week after a birth and is invariably fatal if not promptly treated. Fifteen years ago, the World Health Organization estimated that almost 800,000 newborns died of tetanus each year; now fewer than 50,000 do.

Seventy years after the United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, its place in history remains secure. As The Post has written: "It's seared into the collective global memory — no other time in history has a nuclear weapon been used in war." But how do the United States and Japan, and the rest of the world for that matter, teach this seminal event so many decades after the world witnessed this incredible display of force.

Thanh niên Mỹ ngày nay không giàu có bằng ba mẹ họ lúc trẻ. Thị trường việc làm và tính chất công việc đòi hỏi sự cạnh tranh lớn hơn, các công ty chuyển ra quốc tế ngày càng nhiều, vật giá ngày một cao, giới trẻ Mỹ học cao hơn ba mẹ họ nhưng đời sống lại chật vật hơn.

The past several years have been bruising ones for the credibility of the social sciences. A star social psychologist was caught fabricating data, leading to more than 50 retracted papers. A top journal published a studysupporting the existence of ESP that was widely criticized. The journal Science pulled a political science paper on the effect of gay canvassers on voters' behavior because of concerns about faked data.
Now, a painstaking yearslong effort to reproduce 100 studies published in three leading psychology journals has found that more than half of the findings did not hold up when retested. The analysis was done by research psychologists, many of whom volunteered their time to double-check what they considered important work. Their conclusions, reported Thursday in the journal Science, have confirmed the worst fears of scientists who have long worried that the field needed a strong correction.

WASHINGTON — The humble school lunch, that staple of most every American child's diet, has become healthier.
Nearly 80 percent of schools offered two or more vegetables per meal in 2014, the data showed, up from 62 percent in 2000. Two or more fruits were offered in about 78 percent of schools, up from 68 percent in 2000. About a third of schools now have salad bars.

Việc Trung tâm Bảo vệ Quyền tác giả Âm nhạc Việt Nam yêu cầu thu phí tiền tác quyền ca khúc 'Tiến quân ca' gây những tranh cãi.

Nhận xét ấy là của bà Thân Thị Thư, trưởng Ban tuyên giáo Thành ủy TP.HCM, tại buổi họp mặt kỷ niệm 40 năm thành lập báo Tuổi Trẻchiều 30-8.

"Capital" is a powerful, beautifully written book (wonderfully translated by Arthur Goldhammer). It is also very big and quite dense, and there's reason to believe that many people who bought it didn't get very far in their reading. So it would be really helpful to have a short-form exposition of the essentials of that masterwork.
Unfortunately, that's not what "The Economics of Inequality" offers.
Let me be blunt: I don't know how the decision was made to release this "new" Piketty book in its current form, but it's not at all the book one might have expected. It is, instead, a slightly revised version of a volume first published in 1997, when Mr. Piketty was in his mid-20s.

The great achievement of "The Sympathizer" is that it gives the Vietnamese a voice and demands that we pay attention. Until now, it's been largely a one-sided conversation — or at least that's how it seems in American popular culture. As the narrator explains, "this was the first war where the losers would write history instead of the victors," and so it is that we've heard about the Vietnam War mostly from the point of view of American soldiers, American politicians and American journalists. We've never had a story quite like this one before.