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...JAILED. PHAM QUE DUONG, 73, former colonel in Vietnam's army; for sending e-mail messages in which he criticized government corruption and advocated democratic reforms; in Hanoi. Duong was sentenced to 19 months in prison but will be released at the end of July in consideration of time served since his arrest in December 2002. The verdict came a week after courts handed an identical sentence to fellow Internet dissident, literature Professor Tran Khue...
...Even more worrying, it now appears that there were mass chicken die-offs in Vinh Phuc province in northern Vietnam as early as last July, six months before the government officially acknowledged the emergence of avian flu. Giapfa Comfeed Vietnam Ltd., a poultry company in Vinh Phuc's Tam Duong district, told TIME that 20,000 of its chickens died with symptoms correlating with avian flu. The company says it sent blood samples to the MARD's Veterinary Department, whose tests revealed that the chickens had been killed by an unknown agent. Van Dang Ky, a veterinarian from the department...
Working opposite Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson was a dream job for Vietnamese actor Don Duong. Too bad it might be his last. Duong's role as a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) commander in the blockbuster war film We Were Soldiers has perturbed Vietnam's censors. Authorities may bar Duong from acting for five years for taking part in the movie, which is banned in the communist country because it paints the North Vietnamese as merciless killers. Duong is guilty of "distorting the history of Vietnam," according to Ho Chi Minh City Culture and Information Department officials, who dislike the movie...
...Vietnam's most popular celebrities, Duong, 45, says he was drawn to the role of Commander Nguyen Huu An, who weathers relentless American firepower and is portrayed, if briefly, as an honorable soldier. Duong has protested that he had no control over the director's final cut and that he doesn't plan to do any more war movies, but that may not be enough to prevent his blacklisting. Vietnam's Ministry of Culture?kind of a Supreme Court of censorship?is now reviewing the film and will decide Duong's fate soon. Meanwhile, he can be seen...
...Falls Church, Virginia. He was recalled in 1982 after a massacre of several hundred Palestinian refugees in Israeli-occupied West Beirut. DIED. NGUYEN TON HOAN, 84, founding member of the Dai Viet party, which opposed French and later communist rule in Vietnam; in Mountain View, California. After General Duong Van Minh was deposed as head of South Vietnam's government in 1964, Nguyen returned from exile in France and served as Vice Premier, but his reformist views clashed with those of the U.S.-backed military leaders and he resigned after eight months. DIED. GORDON REECE, 71, dapper television producer...