Word: duc
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Oscars by stating that they’re probably the most consistently reliable artistic awards ceremony in existence, and for all their miscalculations, have made fewer mistakes than, say, the Nobel Peace Prize (even the headache-inducing buffoonery of Roberto Benigni was slightly less egregious than awarding Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger in the same year...
...still censor the finished films (it also decides which foreign films are allowed to be screened) but won't require preapproved scripts as it does for state-produced films. Already, some of the country's most respected directors are considering the private sector, including Dang Nhat Minh and Vuong Duc, whose soon-to-be-released Lost Treasure explores what he calls the bankrupting of Vietnamese intellectual life. "Competition will mean better films," says Duc, who sparked controversy last month when he publicly scorned Bar Girls as a pandering piece of trash...
...embassy for Ri's hand, bearing 40 yellowing letters as proof of his devotion. He was told she had married, and later that she was dead. But he was still receiving letters from her. Through contacts of his ex-diplomat father, Canh last year persuaded Vietnam's President Tran Duc Luong to plead his case. It worked. Ri was allowed to leave North Korea, and they wed last month in Hanoi. "She's still beautiful," beams Canh. He sees his bliss as a sign that North Korea is changing. Ri disagrees: "It was all (due to) the great efforts...
...that spelled the end of French colonial rule, and finally to Mai Chau, a picturesque valley of traditional White Thai tribe stilt houses and rice paddies set amid craggy limestone cliffs. Motorbiking Vietnam (www.motorbikingvietnam.com) offers tours with Vietnamese-speaking guides and mechanics. Or rent your own bike from Phuong Duc Cuong, the legendary Minsk mechanic at 40 Luong Ngoc Quyen Street in Hanoi's old quarter...
Medics rushed Pham Dang Hieu, blood seeping from his crushed skull and his panicked family trailing, into the emergency room of Hanoi's Viet Duc University Hospital at 9:30 on a Sunday evening. The 27-year-old engineer had swerved his 100cc Honda Wave motorcycle to avoid a bicycle and crashed into a concrete lane divider near his home. His bleary-eyed brother stared blankly at the widening pool of blood on the sheet beneath Hieu's head as the doctor explained the family's options: hook him up to life support, or take him home to die. Either...