Word: pham
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...some Asian Americans, that is not such a bad thing. Hung Pham, 31, a Vietnamese refugee who attended UCLA, now works as a software engineer. He and his wife have just bought a home near Los Angeles and are talking about having a family. But he worries about the life his children will face. "Too much peer pressure. There are too many material things to distract them," he says. Then he pauses. "If you live in this country, maybe that's the way it should be. If I raised my kids the way my parents raised me, they would...
...National Assembly is likely to endorse fresh approaches when it convenes in June. One of the first orders of business: electing replacements for the calcified Old Guard, including President Truong Chinh, 80, and Pham Van Dong, 81, who has served as Prime Minister since 1976. Conceded Dong after casting his ballot last week: "I have been in this post too long...
More changes are likely. Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and President Truong Chinh, both 80, were due to retire last December but have held on to their posts. Observed Thai Quong Trung, a Vietnamese scholar: "There are new ministers, but who is in charge? Nobody knows...
...event marked the most sweeping change in the Vietnamese Communist leadership since the party's founding in 1930. At the Sixth Party Congress in Hanoi last week, three longtime stalwarts resigned because of "advanced age and bad health": General Secretary Truong Chinh, 79, Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, and veteran Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, 76. They are among the last members of the generation of leaders that defeated the French and the Americans on the battlefield. But they failed to reap the benefits of peace, leaving behind a legacy of 800% inflation, widespread unemployment and chronic shortages...
Even among Communist regimes, Viet Nam has long been known for the unchanging roll call of its top ranks. That reputation abruptly changed last week when Radio Hanoi announced that eight Cabinet ministers in the Pham Van Dong government, which has been in power since the unification of North and South Viet Nam in 1976, had been either fired or reassigned. It was the biggest government shake-up in Hanoi since the Communists came to power in North Viet...