Word: quang
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...High-profile scandals haven't helped. Last April, returnee Huynh Quoc Quang was sentenced to life in prison for bilking people out of at least $10,000 with false promises of American work visas. The following month, police began chasing Ho Tran Lap, a Viet Kieu businessman accused of running an illegal long-distance calling service; he's still on the lam. And on Jan. 16, a Vietnamese-American who runs a company in Ho Chi Minh City that makes brushes and combs was stabbed in the forehead?the result, police suspect, of a business dispute...
...SENTENCED. LE CHI QUANG, 32, to four years in prison after being convicted of "circulating information opposing the government" via the Internet; in Hanoi. Quang is one of three "Internet dissidents" jailed this year...
...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...
...Self-immolation is a shocking act. The motivation is often complex, not subject to simplistic generalization. Take the case of Thich Quang Duc. In Saigon, on June 11, 1963, the venerable 73-year-old Buddhist monk sat down in a busy intersection and had two monks pour gasoline over him. Thich lit a match, clasped his hands in prayer and burned himself to death. The horrifying dignity of his protest against government persecution stunned the world. Other monks followed in subsequent self-immolations, protesting against persistent religious suppression by the minority Catholic government in a nation with a long Buddhist...
...wanted to be perfect at my new school," said Uyen Khanh Quang-Dang '02 of her first year at Harvard...