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Bajin and freshman Lyly Cao Minh were named the team’s most improved players. Bajin went undefeated this year after missing almost all of last season due to injury. Minh has worked herself into the starting lineup for NCAAs...
...Melissa Anderson, No. 5 Sanja Bajin and No. 4 Eva Wang will all have to move up a spot in the singles lineup. The freshmen Wang and Anderson will also move up to No. 2 doubles. The captain Bajin will play at No. 3 doubles with freshman Lyly Cao Minh, who is also playing No. 6 singles...
...Girls, produced by Ho Chi Minh City's Liberation Films, is part of a new wave of Vietnamese state-sanctioned cinema that mixes sensational story lines with the Communist Party's campaign against "social evils." Set in the nightclubs and slums of Ho Chi Minh City, the film follows doomed prostitutes Hoa (My Duyen), a heroin-addicted rich girl who works nightclubs for kicks, and Hanh (Minh Thu), a gentle soul who dreams of a better life. Needless to say, neither sees a happy ending...
...Vietnam will probably be seeing a lot more propatainment. The government's Cinematography Department, first founded by Ho Chi Minh 50 years ago, announced in February that it would only release films with "popular appeal." It has already rejected eight scripts deemed boring. Not all Vietnamese-made films are political. Dang Nhat Minh's Guava Season, for example, is relatively apolitical and has received international praise. But the vast majority of scripts carry the Party message, which is perhaps why so few people pay to see them. The challenge, says Cinematography Department deputy director Nguyen Thi Hong Ngat, is finding...
...government will 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...