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Thứ hai 01/21/2002 "Chinese-Americans have felt the tug of their former homeland since the liberalization of China's economic system in the 1990s, as have Vietnamese-Americans since Vietnam announced economic reforms in the late 1980s. ", from Afghan-Americans hear call to return by John Ritter and Tom Squitieri USA TODAY "Top documentary props went to Daughter from Danang. The film, directed by Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco, tells the story of a girl born out of wedlock to a Vietnamese mother and an American soldier and adopted by an American woman.", from "Velocity" 'Dances on Top by E! Online, Inc. "The first Maria's Bakery in the Washington area opened in Rockville in 1989, and the newest one opened about six months ago in Eden Center, a Vietnamese shopping mall in Falls Church.", from Immigrants Find a Taste of Home By Phuong Ly, The Washington Post Staff Writer "The grand prize for best documentary went to Daughter from Danang, by Gail Dolgin and Vincente Franco, which tells the story of a Vietnamese orphan, raised as a "100% American girl," who went back to her homeland to meet her birth mother and found that the reunion was far from a simple thing.", from Quick rise to stardom by Roger Ebert, Special to National Post "Daughter From Danang about a Vietnamese refugee, took the gong for best documentary. ", from 'COLD FEET' STAR JAMES NESBITT'S NEW FILM SCORES SUNDANCE FESTIVAL PRIZE by Hello! "Daughter from Danang, about a Vietnamese refugee's search for identity, won the festival prize for top documentary. ", from Sundance closes with awards by BBC "She has worked with Vietnamese refugees, Bosnian refugees, Hispanic immigrants and a multitude of people from other cultures.", from Piper receives humanitarian award By Amanda L. Rohde, The Austin Daily Herald "One owner who welcomes the new regulations is Diane Vo, co-owner of the Vietnamese Internet Center on Brookhurst Street, which will open next month.", from Cyber Cafe Crackdown Looms By JERRY HICKS, L.A. TIMES STAFF WRITER Picture: Two Vietnamese women flank the FIFA World Cup as it is paraded through the streets of downtown Hanoi Vietnam slams US-based rights group for slanderous report Vietnam
Leader Denies Ho Chi Minh Was His Father
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| Sunday
Chúa Nháºt 01/20/2002 "`Personal Velocity,'' a drama that delves into the lives of three women, took the grand jury trophy for best feature film, and ``Daughter from Danang,'' about a Vietnamese refugee's search for identity, won the prize for top documentary at the Sundance Film Festival (news - web sites) Saturday", from ''Personal Velocity'' named top film by Sundance jury By Reuters` "The grand jury prize winner for documentaries was Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco's ``Daughter from Danang,'' about the complicated relationship between an Amerasian girl and her long-lost Vietnamese mother. ", from Digital pics ``Velocity,'' ``Tadpole'' top Sundance By Todd McCarthy, Variety "Sundance jurors gave the documentary grand jury prize to ``Daughter From Danang,'' which follows an Amerasian child of a Vietnamese woman and U.S. soldier who searches for her natural mother years after she was adopted by an American woman. ", from 'Velocity' Wins Top Sundance Honors By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer ""Daughter from Danang," about a Vietnamese refugee's search for identity, took the night's other top prize, the grand jury award for for best documentary.", from Personal Velocity Tops Sundance! by Coming Soon! "It took three years to get the OK from Chinese authorities, but only after Wang trimmed several scenes and changed the name from "A Vietnamese Girl." ", from CHINESE CHECKERS By V.A. MUSETTO, NEW YORK POST "BALCH, Arkansas: With blue herons circling overhead as fishermen pull in the day’s catch, Joey Lowery explains why he is doing battle with the Vietnamese to save his own and other Mississippi Delta catfish farms. ", from When a catfish is not a catfish By ELIZABETH BECKER Vietnamese fund unable to pay funeral expenses Extinction
stalks the monkeys of Vietnam
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| Saturday
Thứ Bảy 01/19/2002 "In 1965, the Fullers helped to form the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice, a group that began working to educate people about Vietnam and American involvement in that war.", from It's about leading a Fuller life Couple's lifelong work for peace and civil rights earns special honor By DON FABER, NEWS STAFF REPORTER, The Ann Arbor News Vietnam
sends aid to Afghanistan
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| Friday
Thứ sáu 01/18/2002 "Many Vietnamese who came to Japan as boat people in the early 1980s live in the ward and survived the quake", from Kobe marks quake anniversary By ASAKO MURAKAMI, Staff writer of The Japan Times "The firm has already shortlisted Vietnam and Philippines as destinations for the venture.", from TVS to set up overseas scooter plant BY BYAS ANAND The Times of India "Vietnam will also get its due in We Were Soldiers, a March release, with Mel Gibson fighting overwhelming odds.", from Hollywood's manning its battle stations By Malcolm Johnson, The Hartford Courant "'Braveheart' in 'Nam", from Culture Briefs by The Washington Times "Vietnamese shop owner jailed over porn films", from Briefly by The Washington Times "Another $US1.43 million ($A2.77 million) was re-allocated as prepaid contribution by Ivanhoe to the Phuoc Son joint venture it has with Olympus and Zedex Ltd.", from Ivanhoe Mines Repaid Debt by Canada Miner by Asia Pulse "Vietnam's Haiphong Paper Company, or Hapaco, which produces "paper money" and toilet tissue, is seeking to raise about 37bn dong (Dollars 2.45m) with the fledgling stock market's first rights issue in the next few weeks, despite a rocky start that prompted a plunge in share prices.", from Hapaco plans rights issue By AMY KAZMIN, Financial Times; Jan 18, 2002 "Who would have put Sir Richard Branson, the bearded ballooning wonder, alongside General Charles Krulak, Vietnam and Kosovo veteran and former head of the US Marines?", from OBSERVER: Steely-eyed OBSERVER COLUMN by Financial Times; Jan 18, 2002 UPDATE
1-Vietnam, Russia, Japan in new oil, gas deal
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| Thursday
Thứ năm 01/17/2002 "A court in southern Vietnam has jailed
a Vietnamese woman for showing pornographic videos to customers in her
coffee shop in Ho Chi Minh City,
"With blue herons circling overhead as fishermen pull in the day's catch, Joey Lowery explains why he is doing battle with the Vietnamese to save his own and other Mississippi Delta catfish farms.", from Catfish Are Catfish, Unless They're Caught in a Trade War by Elizabeth Becker, New York Times Service "The fugitive had hidden in Sia Tue's tanker in the high seas bordering Thai, Cambodian and Vietnamese waters before Sia Tue brought him to Koh Kong with the help of senior military officers in Cambodia.", from Police team sent to hunt for fugitive in Cambodia by The Bangkok Post reporters "Bilateral trade with India was equal to that of Vietnam, a mere $3billion.", from Rongji markets Chinese goods in India by The Indian Express "The first man to win the world heavyweight title three times, the person who defied the might of the American establishment by refusing to fight in Vietnam is now cruelly shackled by a degenerative disease. ", from Boxing: Hollywood leads Ali's 60th birthday celebrations by New Zealand Herald " Vietnam is seen as a potential market.", from Chuo Senko bullish on listing local unit by The Bangkok Post "And that much time in the jungle, making war on a guerrilla force, is a daunting prospect for those who remember Vietnam. ", from US Troops/Philippines -2: Combat-Zone Role Contentious by AP "Ferrets and Vietnamese potbellied pigs will be legal pets in South Whitehall Township, provided their owners meet conditions outlined in the township’s newly amended ordinance that regulates wild and exotic animals.", from Pigs and ferrets OK in South Whitehall By Wendy E. Solomon Of The Morning Call "More than half of the elementary school district's 15,800 students live in families whose first language is Spanish, Cambodian or Vietnamese.", from Alum Rock denied funds by STATE WITHHOLDS $2.2 MILLION FOR NOW BY JESSICA PORTNER of San Jose Mercury News "Tron H. Lam, a native of Vietnam and an agent with Re/Max 2000 in Philadelphia, said many Southeast Asians owned houses in their native countries, but that the process was much less complicated than a typical home sale in America, which can often involve 16 different people and pages of paperwork. ", from New Immigrants Turn To Homebuying by Al Heavens of Realty Times. "The ten Asian countries represented at the summit were Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.", from Europe and Asia discuss environmental cooperation for first time by CORDIS RTD-NEWS "The Philippines reiterated on Thursday that U.S. troops deployed in a Muslim rebel stronghold would only provide training and advice, countering criticism the move could turn the country into another Afghanistan (news - web sites) or Vietnam.", from Manila Defends U.S. Troop Action Against Rebels by Reuters "Among the major factors that led to America’s withdrawal from Vietnam in 1972 were: The Americans were not resolved to win the war; many, if not a majority of Americans did not agree with their government that the US needed to be in Vietnam in order to stop communism from spreading in Southeast Asia. The South Vietnamese (RVN) did not really believe in their cause as much as did the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. They believed in the US even less. Corruption in the RVN was rampant and loyalties were superficial to say the least. ", from What ‘military advisers’ in Basilan? By Dorian Zumel Sicat, The Manila Times Vietnam
jails coffee shop owner over steamy videos
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| Wednesday
Thứ tư 01/16/2002 "Soccer gave Corona Centennial coach Vinh Tran the means to acclimate himself to life in the United States after spending his childhood in Southeast Asia. ", from Coach gives back to Huskies soccer By JERRY SOIFER, THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE "When help is available in languages they understand, Vietnamese will use it, said Lan Truong, a Garden Grove resident and caregiver for her mother, Dien Le, 88, and a teen-age daughter.", from Language matters in elder care By JANE GLENN HAAS, The Orange County Register "Crime is considered the most serious problem to Spanish-speaking seniors (76.8 percent) and English-speaking seniors (37.7 percent); health care is of greatest concern to Vietnamese-speaking elders (58 percent).", from Survey will help agencies tailor care to O.C. elders By JANE GLENN HAAS, The Orange County Register "The State Logistics Agency (Bulog) distributed low-cost Vietnamese rice to more than 550,000 poor families in Indramayu, West Java, and Banyumas in Central Java, on Tuesday to allay the burden of skyrocketing prices of rice in the two provinces.", from Bulog distributes cheap rice to poor in West, Central Java by Nana Rukmana and Agus Maryono, The Jakarta Post, Indramayu/Banyumas "A group of heartbroken adoptive American parents, including a couple from Long Island and an upstate minister, have been stranded in Vietnam with their new children because the U.S. government will not allow the tots into the country.", from RED TAPE SNARLS L.I. ADOPT COUPLE By KIERAN CROWLEY, NEW YORK POST "The thrust of Rather’s report was that hordes of Vietnam veterans were dysfunctional, mentally disturbed or harbored guilt because their superiors had forced them to kill Vietnamese civilians.", from Expert: Dan Rather Exaggerates Military Record by Wes Vernon, NewsMax.com "A number of Thai fans interviewed yesterday were disappointed by Kiatisak's decision to join a Vietnamese club.", from Fans disappointed by Zico's latest move by Wanchai Rujawongsanti, The Bangkok Post "Under the deal, Kiatisak will play for the club, based in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai, for two phases _ from next month to May, when the Vietnamese soccer season ends, and from November to May 2003 in the new season.", from The money's good, but Zico is taking a gamble by Wanchai Rujawongsanti, The Bangkok Post "Because the area has such a large population of Vietnamese- and Spanish-speaking residents, interpreters will attend the meeting.", from Violent crime in Planeview area prompts neighborhood meeting By Joe Rodriguez, The Wichita Eagle "The service began with a smoke blessing by Ramona Casillas, a member of the Tohono O'odham Nation, and included readings in several languages, among them Spanish, French, German, Tagalog, Vietnamese and Yaqui. ", from Kicanas moves in By Stephanie Innes, Arizona Daily Star "The Fresh Garlic Producers Association complained to the U.S. Customs Service last week that Chinese garlic -- which is supposed to be subject to a 376 percent tariff -- is illegally entering U.S. ports in containers from Thailand and Vietnam.", from Fresh Garlic Industry Threatened By MARTHA MENDOZA, AP National Writer "T9 Text Input is available in 31 languages, including Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean (Hangul), Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.", from PRESS RELEASE:AOL's Tegic In Pact With China Kejian>Q.CKJ by BUSINESS WIRE "Carey said the city also hires firms to translate the city's ballots into Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese and Tagalog and is looking at expanding that to include Russian and Armenian.", from Panel mulls adding translator services By Rick Orlov, Staff Writer of dailynews.com "The Fresh Garlic Producers Association complained to the U.S. Customs Service last week that Chinese garlic - which is supposed to be subject to a 376 percent tariff - is illegally entering U.S. ports in containers from Thailand and Vietnam. ", from Fresh Garlic Industry Threatened by AP Online via COMTEX Vietnam
fisheries sector steps up efforts to improve quality
Picture: Vietnamese
women light incense and pray at a pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City
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| Tuesday
Thứ ba 01/15/2002 "Weighing offers from Vietnam, Singapore", from Zico still undecided on his future by Wanchai Rujawongsanti of The Bangkok Post "A spokesman at the Vietnamese Consulate, Phong Nguyen, said yesterday that his consul had heard about the woman, who he said was a Ms Hanh, only after being contacted by Liverpool Hospital "two days ago".", from Overstayer's fatal balcony fall believed to be suicide By Andrew Clennell of smh.com.au "THE NSW Coroner will investigate the death of a 33-year-old Vietnamese woman who died after falling from a balcony at the Villawood detention centre in Sydney.", from Death in detention centre By Megan Saunders, news.com.au "Thailand has shipped about 10,000 tuk-tuks to countries including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.", from Thai Chaiyo exports set for mid-year BY YUTHANA PRAIWAN, The Bangkok Post "Bao Ky Vu, a Vietnamese American leader and a member of President Bush's advisory commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, will be in Seattle on Saturday to address a gathering of Vietnamese professionals. ", from THE AREA IN BRIEF - Seattle: Vietnamese American leader to address Saturday event by Rob Carson; The News Tribune "Interpreters also will be available to assist people who speak Spanish or Vietnamese.", from Court sets up question center BY DANIEL VASQUEZ, S.J. Mercury News Vietnam
to destroy dissidents' books
Thailand's
most famous soccer player to join Vietnam club team
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