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Tuesday
Thứ ba
3/25/2003

Vietnam moves to counter internet cyber-dissidents

"Anyone who has recently traveled to one of the affected regions and has symptoms of a respiratory condition should contact his or her doctor immediately, said Caroline Calderone Baisley, director of the Greenwich Department of Health.", from
Mystery sickness surfaces in state By Vesna Jaksic, Staff Writer of Southern Connecticut Newspapers

"Elsewhere, four people in Vietnam and three people in Canada have died, while France says it has a suspected case after a male health worker fell sick upon his return from Asia. ", from Virus outbreak: Air travel fears by CNN

"Viet Nam also set tariffs - US$400-1,100 per vehicle, which will further cut Chinese manufacturers' competitive edge in the Viet Nam market. ", from Bumpy road ahead By China Daily Hong Kong Edition

"Last week, Banh and her husband inked a deal to open another Pho Tau Bay -- their second -- in the Mid-City space recently vacated by Café Indo.", from Sweet news by THE TIMES-PICAYUNE

Vietnam Reports More Deaths From Mystery Illness
Hanoi man spreads mystery virus to France
3rd person dies in Hanoi from mystery pneumonia
Vietnam reports 2 more SARS deaths
Doctor, nurse die in Vietnam
Doctor and nurse latest casualties of mystery illness in Vietnam

Three Seasons' Vietnamese cuisine livens up Bryant Street


Vietnam Ready to Buy up to One Million Tons of Altai Cereals
Oil spill largely cleaned up in southern Vietnam
Vietnam uncovers live turtle trade
Shrimp boom for Vietnam
Kingdee has eye on Vietnam, Thailand
Dunedin College of Education to train Vietnamese teachers
Netherlands Grants US$1.3 MLN for Vietnam Waste Plant
Vietnam's Software Exporters Expect 30 PCT Rise This Year
Vietnamese Newspaper Highlights - March 25, 2003

Echoes of Vietnam in tent grenade attack
Is the United States stumbling into another Vietnam?
The US cannot avoid political failure in Iraq: Vietnam
USWAR/Vietnam News agency warns US risks political failure on Iraq
Vietnam vet wheels around to help tornado victims
Syria warns US of a new Vietnam
Monday
Thứ hai
3/24/2002

US health warning for Vietnam

"Tourism last year contributed US$16.4 million to Vietnam's rapidly growing economy. ", from Asian tourism takes double hit from pneumonia, war by Reuters

"Immigrants from eight countries, including Vietnam, Peru and Mexico, account for more than two-thirds of the TB cases in this country.", from Tuberculosis On The Rise In Virginia by AP

"Operating from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays, when most other local clinics are closed, Pacific Free Clinic will be located on the Overfelt High School campus at 1835 Cunningham Ave., an area with high concentrations of underinsured Vietnamese, Chinese and Latino populations. ", from New San Jose clinic targets uninsured and non-English speaking by American City Business Journals

"Ms. Cottingham said that a good example of a successful transition from tech to police work is Dallas Officer Minh Quang Tran.", from Some tech workers turning to careers in civil service By NANCY SCHAADT / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News


Pneumonia claims another victim in Vietnam

"A nurse and a doctor died in Vietnam and at least two people succumbed in Hong Kong as Singapore said it would quarantine over 700 people in a bid to contain the illness in the city-state. ", from Four More Die from Mystery Pneumonia in Asia by Reuters

"The French embassy in the Vietnamese capital said a Vietnamese nurse working at the French Hospital there died Monday after falling ill with SARS, bringing the death toll in Hanoi since the epidemic began this month to three. ", from Mystery respiratory virus claims three new victims in Asia by AFP

"Downtown in Cesar Chavez Plaza, the mood was more somber, but equally supportive, at a rally attended by about 200 people, most of them Vietnamese Americans, many who came to the United States as refugees. ", from Troops, war policy supported at local rallies Hundreds show up in San Jose by Michael Cabanatuan, Kevin Fagan, Erin Hallissy, Chronicle Staff Writers
Picture: Dang Hai, a former airborne ranger in the South Vietnamese army, yells in support of President Bush's policy at a San Jose rally
Picture: Parishioners pray during Mass at Our Lady of Vietnam, which was started by refugees who came to the United States after the Vietnam
"At Cafe Tinh Nho, on East Amarillo Boulevard, young people drop in for Vietnamese coffee, pool and karaoke.", from Southeast Asians own various local businesses By KRIS ABBEY/kabbey@amarillonet.com in Amarillo Globe-News
Picture: Steven Hoang, a native of Vietnam, is one of many Southeast Asian entrepreneurs in Amarillo. He and his wife, Tina, own Cafe Tinh Nho, a pool hall-karaoke hangout, and Nails of Eden, a manicure shop.
Dunedin college wins Vietnamese contract
Tariffs May Be Too Late for Catfish Producers
"If all goes as planned, Huy Pham will fly to Iran this week to begin setting up a refugee relief project for Iraqi war victims.", from Minneapolis-based agency ready to help refugees by Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune
""May peace prevail on Earth" was written in Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic and Tibetan on the four sides of the cedar pole.", from Area churchgoers find comfort in faith, prayers By Doris Bloodsworth, Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
"Asia Society Houston will hold tours of the Vietnamese Buddhist Temple and the Wat Buddha Ras of Houston as part of a program aimed at familiarizing Houstonians with religions of Asia. ", from Houston's International Scene By MAE GHALWASH, The Houston Chronicle

"Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in May will open its first property in Vietnam, the 382-room Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers in Ho Chi Minh City. ", from Starwood, Marriott, Hilton Enter Or Expand In Asia By Bruce Serlen, Business Travel News

"Inside the complex, Laotian and Vietnamese workers wear hard hats and blood-stained white coats as they cut, sort and package beef beside Mexicans, Africans, Middle Easterners and people born and raised in Amarillo.", from Refugees important part of work force By KRIS ABBEY, Amarillo Globe-News


The new casualties of Agent Orange Shadows of Agent Orange Third generation of Vietnam victims
Picture: Nguyen Thi Van (left) and Li Thi Suong served in the "long-hair army" -- women who did battlefield work and, sometimes, fighting


JAPAN PRESS: Matsushita To Build Large Plant In Vietnam
Matsushita Mulling Vietnam Plant For Home Electronics
Vietnam's seafood exports on rise in first quarter
Seven killed in Vietnam bus crash
Seven people burned to death after van crashes in Vietnam
Soco International Abandons Test Well At Vietnam Prospect
Foreign investment in Vietnam drops
Vietnam Savimex Targets Full-Yr Div VND1,600/Shr
SOCO shares plunge on Vietnam well woes
Korea, Vietnam Discuss Cooperation in Atomic Power Technology
Vietnam Delays Raising Foreign Investor Shareholding Cap
Vietnam Shares End Down On Continued Earnings Concerns
Vietnam Footwear Sector Fails to Meet Expectations
Vietnamese Newspaper Highlights - March 24, 2003

Vietnam's master printmakers

Don't relive Vietnam for vets: Beattie
From A Vietnam-era Dad To His Son
Midlands man recalls Vietnam POW experience
Vietnam POW's brother recalls the ordeal
Like the glory days in Vietnam and Somalia
Former Vietnam War POW Talks About Being a Prisoner
Sunday
Chúa Nhật
3/23/2003

Respiratory Illness Spreads to Singapore and Vietnam
Vietnam: Mystery illness prompts U.S. travel alert

"Duong Thu Huong is something of an underground literary star in Vietnam, and this first translation of her work into English is a good indication why", from Seeking moral purity within a corrupt and manipulative system By Max Woodworth
CONTRIBUTING REPORTER, The Taipei Times

"The school holds a multicultural week in the fall, and celebrates Chinese and Vietnamese New Year in the spring.", from
Hayesville Elementary School: Bilingual program makes school a hub of diversity by Statesman Journal

"The most subversive film on the long list of honourees is The Quiet American, acclaimed by association with Michael Caine, nominated in the best actor category.", from Academy Awards: The glitter, the glamour, the war by Todd Babiak, The Edmonton Journal


Judge lost many friends in Vietnam
Ending The Vietnam War by Henry Kissinger
Fragging attack an echo of Vietnam
Vietnam vets saddened by war, protests
Saturday
Thứ Bảy
3/22/2003

Vietnam moves to counter 'cyber-dissidents' on the Web

"Christopher Doan Thanh, 27, also a Vietnamese-born British citizen, was arrested Jan. 25 in Hue, 405 miles south of Hanoi, on charges he fatally stabbed Peter Dao Duc Diem, 63, a Roman Catholic priest from London, the official Vietnam News Agency said.", from Report: Man Confesses to Killing Priest by AP

"In Vietnam, six more people were suspected of being infected, bringing the total number of patients to 58, all in the capital, Hanoi. ", from Pneumonia ID Closer, One More Patient Dies by Reuters
Picture: Residents of a Vietnamese village don face masks to protect against atypical pneumonia

Respiratory Illness Triggers U.S. Warning on Travel to Vietnam
U.S. warns against travel to Vietnam because of mysterious respiratory illness
US Restricts Official Travel to Vietnam Over Virus
Illness Prompts Vietnam Travel Warning
U.S. restricts travel to Vietnam over SARS
US suspends all official travel to Vietnam over mystery pneumonia

Vietnamese volunteers walk the wok
Picture: "There needs to be center where the young can help the old." Gina Diep  
VIETNAMESE COUPLE VANISH ON L.I.
Adoption saga ends happily; mom, Vietnamese tots home
Picture: Robin Godby, right, and adopted daughters Sarah Rose, left, and Melanie Kim are met at Fort Lauderdale airport by her husband Steve after she spent 17 months in Vietnam because of adoption difficulties
Vietnam show packs the hustle in New York
"Vien Doan is a doctor in Riverside now, but 28 years ago he was a scared Vietnamese boy on the road leading away from his hometown of Kontum", from Refugees remember the price of freedom by Riverside Press Enterprise

Oil spill threatens thousands acres of aquaculture in Vietnam

Friday
Thứ sáu
3/21/2003

Vietnam detains prominent democracy dissident
Vietnam: It's not just that place where we went to war
Vietnam Rice Exports To Fall 15%-20% Because Of War-Assoc

Vietnam's Overseas Investment Reaches US$188 Million
Vietnamese, U.S. Companies Sign Mou on Internet Cooperation
German-Vietnam Sci-Tech Cooperation Continues to Develop
Small Rise in No. of Vietnamese With Access to Telephones
Vital Is First Vietnamese Company Sponsor of 22ND Sea Games
Vietnam's Quang Trung Software City Attracts Investment
Vietnam's TS4 Sets Full-Year Div Target Of VND1,600/Shr
Vietnam Shares End Down On Continued Earnings Concerns
Vietnamese Newspaper Highlights - March 21, 2003
Thursday
Thứ nƒm
3/20/2003

"The presentation is available for community groups of 10 or more and can be presented in English, Spanish or Vietnamese. ", from San Jose police update Web site safety tips By the Mercury News

"A French doctor who treated the first case of SARS diagnosed in Vietnam died Wednesday in Hanoi, the French embassy said.", from Severe acute respiratory syndrome by AFP

Army commander Gen Somdhat Attanand has postponed a trip to Vietnam after the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome there.", from VN trip put off by The Bangkok Post

"A total of 134 suspected cases have now been registered in Hong Kong, and at least 54 cases in Vietnam", from Killer flu traced to hotel by SA

"Most of those cases are in Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.", from Fatal mystery virus is found in U.S. By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press

"According to census figures from 2002, Taiwan is now home to over 70,000 women from Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, The Philippines, Cambodia and other countries who have married local men. ", from Taiwan's Foreign Brides Call For New Designation by Worldwide Faith News

"Major U.S. firms Unocal Corp (nyse: UCL - news - people) and ChevronTexaco (nyse: UCL - news - people), as well as British-Dutch giant Royal Dutch-Shell group <SHELL.L><RD.AS>, operate in the Gulf of Thailand, which covers overlapping Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Malaysian waters.", from Thailand beefs up security for oil and gas rigs by
Reuters

U.S. boy in Vietnam contracts mystery pnuemonia
Vietnam Airlines flight attendant, passenger suspected of being infected by mystery illness
Two Attendants On Vietnam Air Flight From HK In Hospital

Hanoi Sharply Denounces Military Operations of US, UK in Iraq
US has forgotten the Vietnam War, says Vietnamese press

Vietnamese officials hold talks with Protestant church leaders
Life sentence in Vietnamese jail for drug-smuggler mother

Vietnam arrests dissident editor
Viet Nam: Prisoner of conscience must be released
Vietnam arrests dissident again
Vietnam Detains Prominent Democracy Dissident

Bank finances Viet Nam projects
Golden Frontier Vietnam facility ready soon
Vietnam, China boost joint drug control efforts
Germany's Siemens Group Eyes Bigger Role in Vietnam
Vietnam, South Korean Fish Exports to be Tested
Negotiations Begin on US-Vietnam Bilateral Aviation Pact

Wall replica to honor Vietnam veterans
 
Iraq set to play Vietnam in Damascus
New venue for Vietnam's soccer match with iraq

US has forgotten the Vietnam War, says Vietnamese press
U.S. led war on Iraq creates 'dangerous precedent': Vietnam

Vietnamese Newspaper Highlights - March 20, 2003
Wednesday
Thứ tư
3/19/2003

Vietnam pressured to release religious leaders

Vietnamese storyteller in Mt. Lake tomorrow
For a Vietnamese American, Prayers on the Brink of War
Vietnamese court jails Sydney woman for life

One more person in Vietnam dies of atypical pneumonia

"The latest victim was a French doctor in Vietnam.", from Hong Kong hotel focus of mystery illness investigation By NAOMI KOPPEL, Associated Press

"The doctor who died Wednesday had treated an American businessman for the illness at the Hanoi French Hospital in Vietnam, hospital director Yves Nicolai said. " ,from Doctors study possible cause of mystery illness By Naomi Koppel,  Associated Press

"The worldwide number of cases now totals 264, most of them in Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.", from Mystery Illness Death Toll Reaches 14 By NAOMI KOPPEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

"Doctors focused their search for the cause of a mysterious flu-like illness Wednesday on a virus family responsible for some common respiratory illnesses as the fast-moving infection killed another victim, a French doctor at a hospital in Vietnam. ", from Mystery Illness Kills Another Victim By NAOMI KOPPEL, ASSOCIATED PRESS

"The announcement by scientists at the Institute for Medical Virology at Frankfurt University came as the disease killed another victim on Wednesday, a French doctor at a hospital in Vietnam.", from Researchers Find Clue to Mystery Illness
By EMMA ROSS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

"Language assistance is available in Vietnamese, Spanish and Russian.", from Accounting students offer free income tax help in Local Briefs by Lois Bell, The News Tribune

"For the first time since the outbreak of a mysterious pneumonia which has been sweeping the globe, Health Canada is suggesting people who don't need to go to Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi in Vietnam consider postponing their trips.", from Health Canada warns against non-essential travel to parts of Southeast Asia by HELEN BRANSWELL, CP

"Vietnamese-Australian Nguyen Thi Kim Hieu, 35, was also fined $11,000 at yesterday's one-day trial, a court official said today. ", from Australian jailed for life by News Interactive

Australian jailed for life in Vietnam for trafficking heroin

Curing the Vietnam Syndrome
US has forgotten the Vietnam War, says Vietnamese press
Dogs Enlist in Hunt for Elusive Vietnam War Dead
 

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