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Incheon International Airport ranked third globally for international passenger traffic in 2024, handling 70.66 million travelers — up 27% from 2023 and rising from seventh place. Boosted by terminal upgrades, Incheon is now Asia’s top airport, trailing only Dubai (92.33 million) and London Heathrow (79.19 million).

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U.S’s deficits with Vietnam ($14.7 billion in May), and Taiwan ($12.6 billion in June), and other Asian partners surpassed that with China for the first time since records began in 2002. In June, U.S. trade deficit with China fell to $9.5 billion — its lowest in about 21 years — as imports from China dropped to just 7% of total U.S. imports, down from nearly 15% in January.

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Việt vừa chuyển đổi trang web này từ Ghost sang Astro. ấn tượng đầu tiên là tốc độ. Astro nhanh hơn hẳn.

Việt sử dụng template astro-erudite và tuỳ chỉnh lại 1 số page như Now & Reading cho phù hợp nhu cầu. Toàn bộ quá trình từ tạo các trang tùy chỉnh đến deploy lên Vercel đều được thực hiện 100% dựa trên hướng dẫn của ChatGPT.

Lately, I’ve been struggling to stay focused on my reading. I started “The Hard Thing About Hard Things,” but it’s proving to be a bit “hard” to get through somehow. 😅 So, when I mentioned to ChatGPT how much I enjoyed Ishiguro’s writing, especially after finishing his two books “The Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go,” it recommended I give “Klara and the Sun” a try instead.

Quote of the day.

“With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends—books—it’s because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: ‘What did they think of us?’—‘Did we make a mistake and say something tactless?’—‘Did they like us?’—nor is there the anxiety of being forgotten because of displacement by someone else.” Marcel Proust, On Reading

Quote of the day.

“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes…” - Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream