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...spread information about social abuses and government corruption. The new generation of blogs covers everything from criticizing top ranking officials for chartering planes to monitoring labor violations. Before this month, no formal blogging or Internet restrictions were in place, but several cyber dissidents - such as Huynh Nguyen Dao, Nguyen Bac Truyen and Le Nguyen Sang - have been arrested for posting anti-government propaganda online. The government regularly shuts down politically sensitive blogs, and to avoid arrest, some bloggers have taken to writing under pseudonyms. "They have to use their nickname, and different computers so they can post the article," says...
...lack of investment in agriculture. In much of Asia, rice farming remains small-scale and inefficient. In Thailand, for example, average yields are less than half that of either Chinese or U.S. farms. At the same time, Asia's rapid urbanization has gobbled up fecund farmland. In Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Hanoi, shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build a 1,700-acre...
...better sense of the city, hit the streets. Hanoi's pulse beats hardest in the maze-like Old Quarter, a collection of 50 streets and alleys, each named for its primary goods, such as silk on Hang Gai and silver on Hang Bac. Art houses sell communist-era propaganda reproduced on posters, canvas and mugs, and galleries offer stroke-perfect replicas of famous paintings for as little...
While drinking at Harvard often verges on the “hardcore,” few students would intentionally drink themselves into a 0.4 blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and an emergency intubation. The policy, however, rides on the principal finding of the Committee on Social Clubs—a body established by Dean Gross—that declares “undergraduates view excessive drinking…as an accepted feature of college life, and do not appreciate the very real risks that this kind of behavior entails...
...Alcohol Edu’s worst offense is its selective omission of facts. When the program claims that eating food won’t lower your blood-alcohol content, they neglect to mention that it certainly will keep your BAC from rising. The same is true of throwing up. The program should tell everything, without the misleading subterfuge...