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...public education campaigns and training programs for local officials. Last year, it supported the decision to allow some of the orphans from the Mai Hoa AIDS Center to attend the school's weekly flag ceremony and occasionally sit at the end of the table in some classes, says Le Truong Giang, deputy chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Provincial AIDS Committee. Giang concedes that after last week's unfortunate episode, those efforts were clearly not enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIV-Positive Kids Shunned From Vietnam School | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

...Making matters worse, in the 1980s, the government-funded museum set up a department to make high-quality reproductions to sell, says Nguyen Truong, an art collector whose home in Hanoi has served as a salon for struggling artists for the past 30 years. The practice ended in the 1990s, but Truong says he was approached just last year by a museum employee who "offered a copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copied Paintings Plague Vietnam's Museum | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...Asked whether reproductions were indeed on display today, Truong Quoc Binh, director of the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts, acknowledges that "it is possible," adding that the issue of copying "is a very difficult problem." But he declined to answer other questions. Ministry of Culture officials declined to respond to written questions about reproductions, although they said the issue was under discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Copied Paintings Plague Vietnam's Museum | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...people were willing to share,” said Marine. “This is a complex subject, and it’s difficult to talk about sometimes. [It’s] fraught with a lot of silence, hesitation, and ambivalence, especially by white people.” Loc Truong, assistant director of the Harvard Foundation, said that he felt that a major take-home point from yesterday’s discussion was that people should be more forthright in discussing white privilege and racism, especially on campus. “My advice to students is to really be open...

Author: By Sami M. Khan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Confronts White Privilege | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...continuation of the conversations that took place in the fall. One issue addressed during the discussion was the ability of students of different races to identify with texts that only dealt with black and white racial issues. According to Assistant Director of the Harvard Foundation Loc Truong, this was also an issue brought up after the freshman discussions. “I think there were unfinished conversations during freshman week and I wanted to see where else they could lead,” said audience member Alyssa T. Yamamoto ’12. “I wanted...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tatum Debates Ideas of Race | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

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