Word: pham
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...PHAM THI HUE has become a celebrity in Vietnam. The demure former tailor has appeared on television and on magazine covers, traveled abroad, and started working with the U.N. to help HIV-positive people. "I could never have imagined the things I'm doing now in my life," says Hue, 26. "Just a few years ago, I wanted to die as soon as possible." In Vietnam, those infected are usually silent and shunned. Hue became a defiant exception. After her drug-addict husband infected her, she went public, and set up a support group in her native town...
There's much more to this richly detailed, sometimes humorous film: Tom undertakes an affair with his best friend's wife (Aure Atika); he and his Chinese piano coach (Linh Dan Pham) fall in love despite the fact that they don't share a language; he manages to profoundly imperil his father when he screws up an attempt to collect a debt from a Russian crime lord...
...interview with TIME, Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong [WORLD, Nov. 11] blames the U.S. for all the problems created by the Communists. Ten years after the North conquered South Viet Nam, its economy is bankrupt, and its people are deprived of human rights. South Viet Nam did need the U.S. to help in its fight against the Communists, and Viet Nam still needs the U.S. As a condition for normalizing relations, which Pham Van Dong seeks, the U.S. should insist that the Communists return human rights to the Vietnamese people. Nuong Van Trinh Martinez, Ga. Flag Waving...
...withdrew from Viet Nam in 1973, relations between the two countries have been frozen, in part over Hanoi's failure to cooperate with the U.S. in accounting for 1,787 American G.I.s listed as missing in action. In a bid to break the diplomatic impasse, the government of Premier Pham Van Dong last summer promised to resolve the MIA dispute within two years. Hanoi offered to identify and turn over to the U.S. the remains of any American soldiers it found. Washington insisted on direct participation in any Vietnamese search...
...JAILED. PHAM QUE DUONG, 73, former colonel in Vietnam's army; for sending e-mail messages in which he criticized government corruption and advocated democratic reforms; in Hanoi. Duong was sentenced to 19 months in prison but will be released at the end of July in consideration of time served since his arrest in December 2002. The verdict came a week after courts handed an identical sentence to fellow Internet dissident, literature Professor Tran Khue...