Word: trang
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...Nguyen Sang - have been arrested for posting anti-government propaganda online. The government regularly shuts down politically sensitive blogs, and to avoid arrest, some bloggers have taken to writing under pseudonyms. "They have to use their nickname, and different computers so they can post the article," says Nguyen Thanh Trang, president of the California-based Vietnam Human Rights Network. And even so, he adds, "They disappear...
...whom the coup was supposed to remove from the political scene. (Last month, Thaksin fled to England, claiming he will not receive a fair trial back home.) "If democracy brings Samak, then I don't want it," says Wijeau Noinoo, a finance executive from the southern city of Trang who was relaxing on the terrace of Government House. "We have to figure out another...
...discredits any poll results. (Indeed, Samak's People Power Party is facing possible dissolution by the courts because of an electoral-fraud conviction of its former deputy leader.) "If democracy brings Samak, then I don?t want it," says Wijeau Noinoo, a finance executive from the southern city of Trang who was relaxing on the terrace of Government House. "We have to figure out another...
...bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build a 1,700-acre (700 hectare) industrial park and township, turning this rural area into a satellite city. Trang Hieu Dung, director of planning at Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, says that the country is losing about 99,000 acres (40,000 hectares) of rice paddies every year to construction of cities, highways and industrial zones. In Thailand, the amount of land under cultivation dropped...
...CEB’s major events—Yardfest will be organized by James A. McFadden ’10, next fall’s ‘Welcome Back’ event by Tracy M. Spetka ’10, and the Harvard-Yale pep rally by Trang T. Pham...