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...SENTENCE REDUCED. Pham Hong Son, 35, Vietnamese physician convicted of spying and using the Internet to slander the government, after a campaign by international human rights groups; in Hanoi. Son translated an article from the U.S. State Department website titled What is Democracy? and distributed it to Vietnamese language websites. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison in June, now lessened to five years...
...since 2001 for agitating for religious freedom and human rights. A Communist Party newspaper said Do was released because of the government's "humanitarian policies." But some observers speculated the authorities might be trying to blunt the strong international condemnation over the recent 13-year jailing of another dissident, Pham Hong...
...SENTENCED. PHAM HONG SON, 34, Vietnamese doctor and cyberdissident; to 13 years in jail on espionage charges; in Hanoi. Son was convicted of spying for e-mailing other dissidents and Vietnamese in exile, as well as for posting an essay titled "What Is Democracy" translated from a U.S. State Department website. He is one of at least five cyberdissidents imprisoned in Vietnam in the past two years...
...Pham Ngoc Canh was a 23-year-old Vietnamese exchange student in Pyongyang. There he fell in love with Ri Yong-hui, 24, a North Korean factory worker. Their governments were communist soul mates, but relationships with foreigners were taboo in both countries. "I saw no chance," says Canh. Both were devastated when he left in 1973. A year later, Ri asked a Vietnamese student to smuggle a letter to Canh. Thus began three decades of furtive exchanges...
Medics rushed Pham Dang Hieu, blood seeping from his crushed skull and his panicked family trailing, into the emergency room of Hanoi's Viet Duc University Hospital at 9:30 on a Sunday evening. The 27-year-old engineer had swerved his 100cc Honda Wave motorcycle to avoid a bicycle and crashed into a concrete lane divider near his home. His bleary-eyed brother stared blankly at the widening pool of blood on the sheet beneath Hieu's head as the doctor explained the family's options: hook him up to life support, or take him home to die. Either...