Word: ngo
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...wonder that Yen speaks English at all, let alone as the female lead in what Hollywood calls a major motion picture. Until recently, her only ambition was to be the best ballerina in Ho Chi Minh City. But her boyfriend, Ngo Quang Hai, is an actor. And one day she accompanied him to an audition for The Quiet American. Yen's simmering stillness caught a casting director's eye?isn't this how Cinderella stories go??and she was introduced to director Phil Noyce...
...same day one siege ended, however, another began in Pakistan. Two gunmen entered the Karachi offices of a Christian NGO, tied up the workers, and summarily executed seven of them before escaping. Since Musharraf sided with the West in the war on terror, militants who were once sent to fight in Kashmir have refocused their efforts at home. According to local authorities, at least one fatwa has been issued against Musharraf and pro-American interests in the country?TIME has learned the bombing at the U.S. consulate in Karachi in June was an answer to that call to arms. "What...
...murderous attacks in Akshardham Temple in Gujarat, the offices of a Christian NGO in Karachi, and during an Anantnag election campaign in Kashmir that rocked South Asia last week, left both men reeling at home and facing similar dilemmas: give in to extremists and further destabilize the region, or hold the line domestically and face political fallout. "They are each other's best friends, these Hindu fundamentalists and the Islamic fundamentalists," said New Delhi peace activist Sheba Chhachhi. "And now these attacks will help them both...
...FRANCOIS XAVIER NGUYEN VAN CARDINAL THUAN, 74, Vietnamese clergyman who spent his 13-year imprisonment under the communist regime emulating St. Paul by smuggling out messages to his followers and evangelizing his jailers; in Vatican City. Born into a prominent Catholic family?his uncle was former South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem?Thuan became Bishop of Nha Trang in 1967. Shortly after his appointment as Archbishop of Saigon in 1975 the city fell to the communists, who arrested Thuan as a subversive and imprisoned him without trial. He was expelled from Vietnam in 1991 and spent the rest...
...Nishimura was one of 530 Japanese who sailed to North Korea last month with Peace Boat, a Tokyo-based ngo that sponsors trips to the world's trouble spots, hoping to promote grassroots exchanges. The trip offered the largest contingent of Japanese to visit North Korea in modern times a rare glimpse of the cloistered Stalinist state. It also afforded ordinary Japanese citizens an opportunity to experience what Junichiro Koizumi, their Prime Minister, will undoubtedly face when he makes his highly publicized pilgrimage to North Korea on Sept. 17: myriad and pointed reminders from North Korean officials of Japan...