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...latest arrest took place early morning on Sept. 3 when police detained blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, 30, at her home in the coastal city of Nha Trang. Quynh's mother said that plainclothes police had been watching the house for several months, ever since her daughter had started criticizing Vietnam for giving China the green light to mine its vast stores of bauxite, a mineral needed to process aluminum, on her blog. "The warrant said my daughter was arrested under Article 258 of the Criminal Code for abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the state's interests," said...
...said. During the two-day event, the summit featured speakers and smaller presentations about premodern and modern Vietnamese history, the current economic and political state of the country, and humanitarian efforts in Vietnam. One favorite of many attendees was a presentation about Vietnamese poetry and music by Nguyen Ngoc Bich, a translator and lecturer specializing in Vietnamese literature. Many students said this was their first time being exposed to Vietnamese poetry and music. “It was just amazing to be able to hear poetry from a thousand years ago,” said Jeremy N. Tran...
...rhythms of her tongue every two or three years on family visits. When I decided that I, too, wanted in, I was long past the age to master the delicate accents, and I deserted the whim. It was simpler to skip over my middle name—Hoang-Ngoc, an unpronounceable compound word that means “yellow jade”—and abbreviate...
...image that summed up the moral chaos of the Vietnam War: Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan abruptly executing a captured Viet Cong. Although Adams said later that he believed Loan's claim that the man he killed had just murdered one of Loan's closest aides and his family, the picture became a turning point in American attitudes toward a brutal, perplexing...
Thieu gets the 'friendship' of your government; the Communists get the 'friendship' of those of you who don't like what your government does. Where do the Vietnamese people come in? Who is our friend? Yours sincerely, Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Law '73 Hoang T. Ly, Harvard '76 Nguyen Thi Suong Hong, Harvard '75 Ho Hue Tam, GSAS 3 Pham Thi Hoa, East Asian Research Center