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...Phan Thiet lies on one of Vietnam's finest stretches of sun and sand, and the French-colonial presence still lingers in the town's slow, relaxed atmosphere. Binh Thuan province, where the town is located, was part of the Cham kingdom until the late 1600s. The Cham Towers, the largest monuments built by the Cham people, still stand on a hill overlooking the town...
...supermarket. "The label said Phu Quoc, but when I looked closer, it said 'Made in Thailand' on it," recalls Tinh. "I was horrified." France recently signed an agreement giving Nuoc Mam Phu Quoc an appellation d'origine contrôlée, the same status given to Cham-pagne vintners. Which just proves what nuoc mam lovers have always believed: a good fish sauce is as precious as a fine wine...
...party that claims to champion local decision making. This week supporters of Georgia state representative Bob Irvin--a former minority leader endorsed by 71 current and former state legislators--plan to send Rove and White House political director Ken Mehlman a letter protesting Bush's support of Congressman Saxby Cham-bliss over Irvin in the Aug. 20 primary. (Bush expects to raise $1.7 million for Chambliss at a March 27 fund raiser.) "It would be a mistake for you to try to control the Senate primary here, just as it turned out to be a mistake in the California...
...years Hanoi - sensitive about any reference to Vietnam's past divisions - has quietly discouraged teaching the country's 100,000 ethnic Cham about their lost empire. "It might break down national unity," says Rosalvy, an ethnic Cham teacher in the southern Vietnamese town of Phum Soai, who like many Muslim Chams goes by only one name. Yet in September the government is holding a Cham festival at the My Son ruins - the first in hundreds of years. Why the change of heart? Desperate to bring revenue and tourists to the country's neglected central region, and boosted by UNESCO...
...southeastern Ninh Thuan province, home to half the country's Chams, the heirs of the once proud people are more concerned about preserving their current culture and teaching the precepts of their faith to their children in private religious schools. In Phum Soai, a small cluster of Islam in An Giang province, sarongs, prayer caps and head scarves mingle with the more familiar conical hats and trousers, and people make a living fishing, farming and weaving cloth in traditional Cham patterns. The area has no fewer than 12 mosques, and town elder Ismail has just returned from a cherished journey...