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Until recently, the billboard alongside Highway 1 in Bac Ninh province offered only empty promises. "Applying Unity and Creativity Will Speed Up Industrialization," it stated, portraying happy factory workers staring rapturously at a hammer and sickle. But Bac Ninh, like most of northern Vietnam, had been largely left out of the country's economic growth in the past decade. When Pham Thi Nhan, 19, graduated from high school last year, she saw few work prospects other than helping her family grow rice, an occupation that earns them about $400 a year. Nhan thought of moving south like her uncle...
...apartment. "When I earn lots of money," she says, "I want to send money to my parents and maybe buy a motorbike for myself." Nhan isn't the only one with high hopes. Set to begin production this month, the Bac Ninh factory is Canon's second in northern Vietnam, and a third is planned. Operating at full capacity, the plant can churn out four million laser printers a month. "We plan to make this the largest laser-printer factory in the world," said Yasuo Mitsuhashi, Canon's worldwide chief of printer production, during the factory's recent completion ceremony...
Presidential candidate John Kerry’s weak responses to accusations about his military conduct in Vietnam are an apt example...
...their property and they can do whatever they want, but it would be nice if they let us stay.”‘ANOTHER HARVARD SQUARE?’Not everyone objects to the idea of Harvard in their neighborhood. Sengh Chea served in Vietnam as a medic for the U. S. Army from 1969 until 1975. Originally from Cambodia, he fled the country for the United States in 1981, after he and his wife were tortured in a prison by Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge regime. Six months after their arrival in the United States, Chea...
Presidential candidate John F. Kerry also failed to adequately respond to attacks on his Vietnam service record by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 campaign, Jarding said...