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...DEAL, RIGHT? Actually, Vietnam Television was so incensed that it dropped the entire series within days, and star Hoang Thuy Linh tearfully apologized to her fans. Naturally, the Web clip continues to circulate...
...accounts on the two official bourses), aided by more than a dozen private websites and online forums with names like mua re (street trading) and Sanotc.com. The latter, founded in July in Hanoi, has 18,000 registered users and is currently adding 300 more each day, says co-founder Hoang Minh Son. "Before the websites, people had to go to the official market," says Son, 25. "But people find our process quick and easy...
...members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently reduced tariffs on electronic goods, previously as high as 30%, to zero. That gave Vietnam's electronics manufacturers greater access to a trading bloc of half a billion people. "We can be the gateway for export to China," boasts Hoang Van Dung, vice president of Vietnam's Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Hanoi, "And we can export to ASEAN and the West at the same time...
...waited 16 years for this moment. It's hard for me to express my emotions right now. It's beyond happiness." HOANG TRAN, one of 229 refugees from the Vietnam War who arrived in the U.S. last week as part of a plan to resettle the nearly 1,600 stateless Vietnamese who have been living in camps in the Philippines since...
...practiced the rhythms of her tongue every two or three years on family visits. When I decided that I, too, wanted in, I was long past the age to master the delicate accents, and I deserted the whim. It was simpler to skip over my middle name—Hoang-Ngoc, an unpronounceable compound word that means “yellow jade”—and abbreviate...