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Vietnam Clings to Single-Party Rule as Dissent Rises Sharply
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 1 month ago
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Vietnam His bookshelves are filled with the collected works of Marx, Engels and Ho Chi Minh, the hallmarks of a loyal career in the Communist Party, but Nguyen Phuoc Tuong, 77, says he is no longer a believer. A former adviser to two prime ministers,
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Ride 4 peace: i¿½We still want to travel more!i¿½
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 6 months ago
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We landed home on Diwali night with 13 bags and lots of love. One of my Facebook friends wrote, Welcome back on the same day when Lord Ram came back...Before we reached Vietnam, I heard about a book which was written by a friend I had met two years
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Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnamese Dissident Poet, Dies at 73
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 8 months ago
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October 7, 2012 It was not the isolation that was hardest to endure, though it lasted nearly three decades. Nor was it the cold of his cell, where he was often chained naked, nor summer's blistering heat, nor the rusty shackles that infected his legs,
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Vietnam dissident poet Thien dies
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 8 months ago
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Vietnam dissident poet Nguyen Chi Thien dies in US Thien's book Flowers of Hell was published after he smuggled it into the British Embassy in Hanoi Nguyen Chi Thien, a dissident poet who spent 27 years in Vietnamese prisons, has died in California
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Leaders' Message of Equality Is Challenged by Vietnam's Growing Gap
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 9 months ago
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Getty Images Much of the Vietnamese anger about nepotism and poor economic management has been directed at Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, who was re-elected to a five-year term last year. The daughter of a member of the Vietnamese Communist Party's
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IHT Rendezvous: A Coming-Out Party in Hanoi
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 10 months ago
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But the gathering of about 100 gay Vietnamese in Hanoi on Sunday was still a proud declaration of sorts, a kind of political coming-out in the socially conservative country. Gay rights advocates in Vietnam have been encouraged in recent weeks by the
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Vietnam jails pastor of banned Mennonite church
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 1 year ago
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Vietnam (AP) — State media in Vietnam say a court has sentenced the pastor of an outlawed Mennonite church to 11 years in prison for sowing division between the government and citizens of this communist nation. The People's Army
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War-era mass grave of North Vietnam soldiers found
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | almost 2 years ago
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The Associated Press Authorities have found a mass grave of 17 North Vietnamese soldiers killed during the Vietnam War more than 40 years ago. Nguyen Thanh Minh, a village chief in central Thua Thien Hue province, says the soldiers are believed to
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The Education of a Vietnamese-American Writer
Hanoi :: Vietnam | over 2 years ago
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An author reflects on a decision years ago to choose a creative writing program on his path to becoming a writer, defying deeply-held cultural values of filial piety. One summer afternoon many years ago, I stole home and robbed my parents of their
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Vietnam celebrates 35th anniversary of war's end
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 3 years ago
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Vietnam (AP) — Communist Vietnam marked the 35th anniversary of the end of its war Friday with a dramatic re-enactment of the day North Vietnamese tanks smashed through the gates of the former Presidential Palace and ousted the U.S.-backed South
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