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...Today, the mansion is replete with contrasts, its busts of Roman emperors and pennant-bearing lancers on horseback an odd sight alongside the many dignitaries of the Communist Party, which has ruled the state for the last 30 years - a fact that some joke is further evidence of Calcutta's status as a graveyard of the relics of the past...
Determined to show Vietnam's tech-savvy youth a suave and forward-looking image of the ruling Communist Party, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has shown remarkable enthusiasm for the Internet. In June, his government set up an online form through which corrupt officials could be reported. In February, the Prime Minister had reached out personally through an online chat viewed by at least 1 million people, during which he answered carefully screened questions ranging from government control of media (necessary, he said, to protect the nation) to personal career tips. To one youth who asked how he, too, could...
...attention online this month when it seemed that Dung, along with other top officials, had launched his own web logs. The official "Blog of Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung" debuted in late July, and by this week had accumulated more than 140 "friends" - including, apparently, Nong Duc Manh, the Communist Party general-secretary. The blog offered the Prime Minister's thoughts, insights and even a personal poem. Vietnamese netizens were amazed at the gesture of openness. "Can this really be the prime minister?" asked one poster...
...Clearly, the Communist Party isn't alone in using the internet to court support in Vietnamese cyberspace - in the past year, Vietnamese dissidents opposed to one-party rule have been communicating through Skype and recruiting via text message and voice-over-Internet chat rooms. And exiled Vietnamese advocacy groups have been sending bulk e-mail messages to accounts with Vietnamese-sounding names. These e-mails typically decry government corruption and urge ordinary citizens to rise up and demand multi-party elections...
...Vietnam's post-war generation is increasingly wired, as the Communist Party attempts to foster economic growth and high-tech skills while at the same time clinging to power. The country currently has an estimated 16 million Internet users - one in five of the population - compared with just 200,000 who were online seven years ago. Three million of them are bloggers, most on foreign-hosted clients including Yahoo, which is where the fake government blogs appeared. Internet access in Vietnam is growing more than 10 times faster than the rate in China...