PALO ALTO, Calif. — He was the recently widowed dean of the nation’s top business school. She was a star professor who was estranged from her husband. They went for a walk. She invited him to a yoga class. A middle-age romance bloomed.

For centuries, the confinement practice was done strictly at home under the stern glare of grandmothers and aunts who banned bathing, fresh air and certain foods. These days, confinement has been rebranded, remodeled and outsourced into a huge state-certified industry of specially trained nannies and maternity-care centers that combine tradition with pampered medical expertise.

Cụ thể, ngân sách đã bố trí được nguồn để tăng 8% lương cho người về hưu trong năm 2016. Theo tính toán của Bộ Tài chính, số tiền dành tăng lương trong năm 2016 là khoảng 1.500 tỉ đồng.

Under the final rule, he said, “patients and families can have the discussions when and where they want” — before patients become ill, after they receive a diagnosis of cancer or other serious illness, or while they are receiving hospice or palliative care.
Medicare would pay $86 for the first 30 minutes of “advance care planning” in a doctor’s office and $80 for the service in a hospital. In both settings, they said, Medicare will pay up to $75 for 30 additional minutes of consultation.

LOS ANGELES — California will become the fifth state to allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, after Gov.Jerry Brown signed the measure into law on Monday, ending his months of silence on one of the most emotional issues in the state this year.

Generations in Hong Kong have followed a familiar routine to honor the dead, jostling for prime burial spots in the mountains and by the sea, or spending small fortunes on jade urns and elaborate ceremonies.
But now the government is seeking to upend those customs. Concerned by a scarcity of space and a rise in deaths, it has embarked on an effort to promote “green burials,” urging the public to forgo traditional burials and the storage of funeral urns in special buildings after cremation. Instead, it wants people to scatter the ashes of loved ones in gardens and at sea.

A recent study by the for-profit website GOBankingRates.com found that just under 50 percent of Americans have no savings socked away. Worse yet, another 13 percent in the US have savings that total under $1000, and 9 percent have just a "minimum [savings] account" balance requirement. Minimum balance requirements vary, but GOBankingRates cites ranges of $500 - $1500.

BEIJING — They roam the streets of Beijing, looking for illegal vendors, fire hazards and trash. They step into quarrels between neighbors, tell dog owners to clean up after their pets and try to untangle traffic jams. Sometimes, they help to catch criminals.
For the Yongshan Persuaders, a group of older Chinese volunteers who patrol their neighborhood of Fengtai in southwest Beijing, no infraction is too small in the service of public order.

UNIS Hà Nội là một ngôi trường phi lợi nhuận dành cho cả những gia đình nước ngoài và gia đình Việt Nam hiện đang sống ở Hà Nội.
Hiện nay trường có 1,088 học sinh từ 3 đến 18 tuổi đến từ hơn 60 quốc gia, đại diện của 40 ngôn ngữ trên thế giới; số lượng học sinh người Việt chiếm khoảng 15%.
Học phí học tại UNIS Hà Nội tăng dần theo từng năm học từ lớp Mẫu giáo bé (3 tuổi) đến cao nhất là Lớp 12. Trong năm học 2014 - 2015, học phí các lớp 9 - 10 là 22.325 USD, lớp 11 - 12 là 23.850 USD (khoảng 470 - 500 triệu đồng).

Koch funding to higher education institutes part of broader campaign to push free-market principles
Political success begins with reaching young minds in college lecture halls, thereby preparing bright, libertarian-leaning students to one day occupy the halls of political power.
Detractors argue the Koch brothers’ college-focused money, by helping advance a philosophy of economic liberty, is eroding a fundamental aspect of higher education: academic freedom.