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...blog. Her last posting was in May, where she discussed the controversial bauxite mining plan that was being debated by the National Assembly. Her single entry that month contained fairly innocuous remarks, mentioning only that the government had hastily prepared their report on the bauxite project. Nguyen Anh Tuan, the editor of VietnamNet has said that all he knew was that his reporter was arrested for violating national security, insisting that these alleged crimes were not related to her VietnamNet stories. Tuan has heard nothing from Trang since her arrest, nor does he know where she is being held...
...Still, public perception of how well the government is handling the crisis is crucially important. Vu Thanh Tu Anh, director of research at the Fulbright Economics Teaching Program in Ho Chi Minh City, says the cash payments were clearly made for political, not just economic, reasons. "It's very important for the government to be seen as doing something," he says. "The political pressure is huge...
...Hanoi appears to be falling short in its efforts to inspire public confidence. The Ministry of Finance announced the stimulus package months ago but the measures have only just been implemented in the last few weeks, says Tu Anh. Now the government's image has been further tarnished because local officials have been stealing from the very people Hanoi was trying to help...
Looks like America's celebrity-sex-tape phenomenon has arrived in conservative Vietnam. A racy clip starring the 19-year-old female star of Vang Anh's Diaries--a hit show among younger viewers--was posted anonymously on YouTube...
...Nguyen Anh Tuan, Robin Sproul, Geoffrey Cowan ’64, and Tom Fiedler are the newest recipients of the Shorenstein fellowship, a program dedicated to exploring the influence of the press on politics and public policy that began in 1986 with just one fellow, Clark Hoyt, now the public editor at The New York Times...