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...DIED. VU KY, 84, former personal secretary and confidante of 24 years to Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh; in Hanoi. Born to civil servant parents, Ky joined anti-French revolutionary movements as a student in Hanoi, and joined Ho after the August Revolution of 1945, in which Ho declared Vietnam's independence from France. Ky was said to have witnessed Ho writing his will and testament and was trusted to keep the documents from 1965 until the leader's death four years later...
...returning to Vietnam is a lively, exhilarating experience with moments of giddiness. Wandering through Ho Chi Minh City earlier this month, I was charmed to see that painters were touching up the already-glistening white and gold trim on the old Saigon City Hall. Nga and I were married in that wonderful confection of a building. Could it be that the good comrade city fathers were refurbishing it in honor of our visit? A silly thought. No, they wanted it to look beautiful for the celebrations taking place this week to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon...
...from bird flu, intensifying concerns that it will continue to spread. "The world is now in the gravest possible danger of a pandemic," warned Dr. Shigeru Omi, the Western Pacific regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO), during an international bird-flu conference last week in Ho Chi Minh City. "The longer the virus is circulating in animals, the greater the risk of more human cases?and consequently, the higher the risk of a pandemic emerging through genetic changes in the virus...
...keeping birds in pens and properly vaccinating flocks. The trouble is, such measures would require hundreds of millions of dollars to educate and equip poor farmers?money that developing countries clearly can ill afford. Officials at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which co-sponsored the Ho Chi Minh City conference, have appealed for international help with little success; wealthy donor nations contributed only $18 million of the $100 million needed last year to combat avian flu in Asia. "Given the size of the problem, that's just glaringly insufficient," says Dr. Samuel Jutzi, director...
FREED. Catholic priest NGUYEN VAN LY, 59, democracy activist NGUYEN DAN QUE, 63, and THICH THIEN MINH, 51, a member of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam; as part of a mass amnesty for 8,325 prisoners by Vietnam's communist government to mark the Lunar New Year; in Hanoi. Amnesty International applauded the release of the human-rights figures, some of whom have been jailed for as long as 25 years...