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SENTENCED. TRUONG VAN CAM, a.k.a. Nam Cam, 56, Vietnam's most notorious crime lord; to death for charges ranging from bribery to murder; in Ho Chi Minh City. Cam's gambling, prostitution and racketeering empire was reportedly pulling in about $2 million a month when he was arrested in December 2001. The case exposed the link between organized crime and the ruling Communist Party. At the trial the 155 defendants included 18 officials, most on Cam's payroll. Three were senior Party cadres who have been sentenced to four to 10 years in jail...
...Nhut airport to avoid sniper fire; the U.S. military's "Five O'Clock Follies" briefings; as well as the discovery that TIME's chief Vietnamese reporter was a spy for the North. I read it with the nagging sense that once you've read all journalistic memoirs from 'Nam, you've still only read one (and it's called Dispatches...
...says hockey is growing fast in South Korea, and the nation is making some inroads into American hockey as well. Richard Park—the only Korean-born player in the NHL—is a highly-regarded role player for the Minnesota Wild. Yale forward Denis Nam played with Kim at the youth level, and Kim’s brother Dennis is currently a freshman at Division III Williams College—one of several D-III players from Korea...
...Saigon?only bureaucrats and tourists call it Ho Chi Minh City?is a notoriously freewheeling place where everyone seems to be hustling for a buck. But no one has worked the angles like Truong Van Cam, a.k.a. Nam Cam (Fifth Orange), who reigned for 15 years as the Godfather of Saigon. The 56-year-old former dockworker and soldier ran card games and cockfights, restaurants and brothels, collected protection money and loan sharked. He raked in an estimated $2 million a month?small potatoes for other Asian dons, perhaps, but unheard-of wealth in Vietnam. Cam needed money...
...quandary. Should it maximize coverage to prove its seriousness in cracking down on gangsters and their dirty friends in high places? Or would that merely publicize the scale of official corruption? Hanoi chose a middle course. The opening hours of the trial were broadcast live on national television, with Nam Cam shown handcuffed and in striped prison pajamas. (Reporters weren't allowed in the courtroom; they viewed the proceedings on a closed-circuit-television monitor. "That's so they can cut the feed if they need to," one reporter speculated.) The trial itself will not be open to the press...