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...sight of communist officials slapping their hands over the mouth of a 60-year-old man - a Catholic priest, no less - and wrestling him out of the courtroom. But that is exactly what happened foreign journalists and diplomats saw in the trial of dissident priest Father Nguyen Van Ly and four other activists...
...Vietnam's government routinely denies that it has any political prisoners, but only punishes "criminals." Technically, at least, that's true. Under the country's criminal law, Article 88 - under which Father Ly and his colleagues were charged - forbids "conducting propaganda" against the state, with penalties from three to 12 years in prison. Articles 87 and 89, respectively, lay out punishments of up to 15 years for "undermining national unity" and "disrupting security." Recently, Vietnam has been cracking down against a small but determined group of dissidents - collectively calling themselves Bloc 8406 - that have recently been using the Internet...
...government's evidence against Father Ly was clear enough. Prosecutors said when police raided Father Ly's diocese office and several homes in Hue over the lunar new year in February, they seized eight computers, nine cellphones and 147 SIM cards as well as 200 kilograms of documents denouncing one-party rule. "Their crime is damaging national security and serving as a tool of overseas reactionary and hostile forces against the government of Vietnam," the prosecutor told the court. The defendants had no lawyers present, but at least one didn't deny the charges. "For the country and the people...
...Vietnam will likely create as many or more jobs than they'll destroy, Pincus says, and the influx of new banks will free up credit?now available chiefly to state-owned companies?for capital-starved private businesses. Some Vietnamese businesses even welcome the competition. "I'm not worried," says Ly Qui Trung, founder of Ph? 24, a chain of noodle shops. "We've already got a head start and a strong brand. I think we can compete even against McDonald's." (Trung will have to wait for that matchup; McDonald's says it has no plan to enter Vietnam...
Channel Chewbacca at the reunion concert of this Harvard band/gimmick gone wild(ly popular). Every song is about Star Wars. Seriously...