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Vietnamese artist Nguyen Trong Niet, an 85-year-old painter who has lived most of his life in a rundown flat in Hanoi's Old Quarter, proudly says he painted Muong Kuong Market years ago in his living room, which is also his bedroom and kitchen. The vibrant lacquer brushwork of the piece exquisitely captures the bustle of market day in a Vietnamese village. The Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, the country's national art museum, thought so too. Officials there snapped up the painting for their collection, and for the past 40 years, Niet's work has been hanging...
...their manufacturing base. The country boasts one of the world's highest literacy rates, a young labor force that adds a million new workers each year and a growing internal market. "Vietnam is trying to position itself as 'If not China, then Vietnam,'" says Intel Vietnam's director Than Trong Phuc. "It's a pretty good strategy...
...Authorities hailed it as Vietnam's biggest-ever tax-fraud bust?proof, they claim, that the country is serious about tackling fraud and corruption. But another factor has tongues wagging both in Vietnam's boardrooms and at its noodle-soup stands. Thieu and his older brother Nguyen Trong Thang were known not just for their wealth?their private company boasted estimated revenue of $60 million in 2002?but for who they are. Born in Vietnam but raised in France, the brothers are Viet Kieu, as people who fled the country following the fall of Saigon in 1975 are known. Once...
...base where some 7,000 gallons of Agent Orange may have been spread and spilled. Vietnamese officials say Schechter's study adds to the proof that the U.S. caused a massive environmental disaster and owes compensation to victims. "I think the figure should be very, very big," says Nguyen Trong Nhan, president of the Vietnam Red Cross. "We have more than a million victims, so there should be many billions of dollars...
VIETNAM Agent Orange Plea The head of Vietnam's Red Cross said it was time to end the silence over Agent Orange - the chemical containing dioxin used during the Vietnam War - and start helping its victims. Nguyen Trong Nhan told a scientific conference in Hanoi that immediate steps should be taken to help those affected, rather than waiting for more research. The U.S. questions Vietnamese findings still linking the chemical with birth defects some 30 years after the spraying stopped...