Word: duc
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...writers and academics at his seaside villa; he finally won one in 1971. Bob Dylan has been nominated six times, Jerry Lewis once. In 2004, the literature prize went to Austrian feminist Elfriede Jelinek, a move so controversial that one assembly member resigned in protest. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho shared a 1973 Peace Prize for negotiating the end of the Vietnam War. Tho rejected his award, saying there was no peace in his country. Kissinger's acceptance caused an uproar: apparently the former National Security Adviser's role in a secret war against Cambodia and the overthrow...
...means equating, and De Klerk is the enemy. It is these young people who are restless with the snail's pace of change, who wonder why freedom must be negotiated at all. This would not be the first time the Nobel Peace Prize was premature. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho won the award in 1973, but the fighting in Vietnam continued for two more years. Gorbachev got the prize in 1990, shortly before he was overtaken by events he could not control. In this case, perhaps, the award will be a harbinger and will prop up its recipients...
That's not to say the press is blameless. Several senior journalists have raised questions about the ethics and reporting standards of Vietnam's fledgling media. Veteran journalist Huy Duc condemned the arrest of his colleagues, but also noted in his popular blog that the careers of at least two officials in the Communist Party were damaged because of unfounded allegations raised by the press in their PMU18 coverage. "A lot of information printed in newspapers at the time had been made up," Duc claimed, adding that reporters were used by party sources to destroy their political opponents. Duc blamed...
...made even stonger by the use of a historic photograph; the children, aged 5 in 1932, would now be white-haired grandparents of 80 years. The trees, on the other hand, would have grown, but would not have changed significantly.Another powerful piece is “Vietnam, 1967, near Duc Pho.” Claerbout selected a photograph from the Vietnam War in which a plane, approximately forty feet above the ground, has been hit by friendly fire. He then traveled to Vietnam, found the spot where the photograph was taken, and filmed the sun’s movement over...
...year, the state power company, Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), needs to double its capacity to an estimated 26,000 megawatts by 2010. Vietnam's hydropower potential is nearly exhausted - the 2,400-megawatt Son La dam now under construction is the last feasible major project, EVN spokesman Nguyen Duc Long says. Prices for natural gas, another fuel source for electrical generators, are up 15-20% over last year, and domestic gas reserves are too small to meet demand. Vietnam is planning nuclear power plants, but the first won't be ready until 2020. Coal, on the other hand, is readily...