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...December 2007 and January 2008, 56-year-old human rights activist Nguyen Hoaong Hai - who blogged under the pseudonym "Dieu Cay" - organized demonstrations in Ho Chi Minh City against the government's permission of the Olympic torch to pass through Vietnam. The demonstrations protested Chinese occupation of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea - which Vietnam also claims. Within months, police arrested Nguyen on charges of tax evasion - a move widely seen as retaliation. "It's pretty clear that what he was really thrown in jail for was for criticizing China's claim over the Paracels," says Bob Dietz...
Either way, it was obvious at Tuesday night's clinic how desperately these communities need massive mortgage aid right now - and how big a challenge providing it can be. A large group of residents from a newer, more upscale Miami Gardens housing development called Coconut Cay showed up for loan relief. During the overpriced-housing boom of this decade, some of the houses went for more than $500,000 - but now a number of buyers are wrestling with more mortgage costs than their battered finances can handle. It's a reminder that rash borrowers are often as responsible...
...part because of the increasing number of dams reducing the flow of the river, salt water from the South China Sea has begun traveling up the Mekong. The influx of brackish water over the past few years has ravaged farms and fisheries. This spring in the delta's Mo Cay district, Nguyen Thi Hong and her husband watched helplessly as salt water infiltrated their fish farms and fields. During the worst 10-day stretch, 100 catfish died a day, while their entire aquatic-vegetable crop withered. "Our pigs and cows are still sick from drinking the salty water," says Hong...
...group of alleged conspirators who passed on or used inside information eventually numbered 14, the SEC said, including eight Wall Street professionals, two broker-dealers and three hedge funds, including Lyford Cay, a Bear Stearns limited partnership. The SEC complaint alleges that eight Wall Street professionals, including a UBS research executive and a Morgan Stanley attorney, two broker-dealers and a day-trading firm participated in the scheme. The defendants also include three hedge funds, which were the biggest beneficiaries of the alleged fraud...
...said the National Geographic Society last week. After a five-year search and computerized scrutiny of documents, including Columbus' log, the society announced it was "98% certain" Columbus landed some 65 miles southeast of San Salvador on flat Samana Cay. The tiny island has long been uninhabited, but a search party stumbled onto pieces of Palmetto ware, a unique pottery made by the regional people Columbus named Indians. Says National Geographic Senior Associate Editor Joseph Judge, who led the search: "This is the solution to the mystery after 500 years." TECHNOLOGY Politics' Unholy Writ...