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Monday
Thứ hai
11/04/2002
Vietnam Fire Death
Toll at 60
DNA testing
for Vietnamese fire
victims
Australians
arrested over heroin
in Vietnam
Teenagers
arrested in Vietnam
for heroin smuggling
Vietnam
arrests 3 Australian
sisters for drug
smuggling
Vietnam
anticipates tourism
boost in the wake of
Bali attack
Vietnam
Culture Days
beginning in Moscow
Banks
Seek to Expand
Operations in
Vietnam
Vietnam pushes
for WTO membership
Picture: Regional competition is pushing Vietnam to join
"The motorcycle rules in
Vietnam—but now
bike fatalities are
fueling a trade spat
with Japan", from
Under the Wheels
BY KAY JOHNSON HANOI
Picture: As Vietnamese hit the road on bikes, the body count rises
Goi Cuon (Summer
Rolls), Catfish In
Hanoi Thick Sauce,
Pho Bo (Hanoi Soup),
Goi Du Du (Green
Papaya Salad), Bo La
Lot (Beef Grilled In
La Lot Leaves)
Sport:Â Athletics:
Warming for Hanoi
"The Chinese currency is
being increasingly
accepted as a hard
currency by
Singapore, Viet Nam,
Russia and Malaysia.
", from RMB wins
popularity on
borders by
China Daily
"Caine plays a
British journalist
stationed in Vietnam
in the early 1950's,
who befriends the
titular Fraser, an
idealistic and
naÔve eye doctor
fresh off the boat.
", from A Look at THE
QUIET AMERICAN plus
comments from
Phillip Noyce
by Ain't It Cool
"Breakdown by
ethnicity of
households using the
San Francisco Food
Bank:
35% Chinese
22% white
18% black
9% Hispanic
7% Filipino
3% Korean
2% Vietnamese", from City
starving, say food
bank reports
BY J.K. DINEEN Of
The S.F. Examiner
Staff
"The fate of the
islands, which are
believed to be rich
in offshore oil and
gas deposits, has
for years dogged
relations between
four Asean states -
Brunei, Malaysia,
the Philippines and
Vietnam - and their
giant neighbour
China and Taiwan.",
from 'Code of
conduct' for
disputed islands
by BBC News
"VIETNAM is set to
postpone its
inaugural global
bond sale to 2003 as
investor appetite
for high-yield
credits has waned
due to turbulent
financial markets,
underwriting sources
close to the deal
said on October
17.", from Expected debt
issues-Asian
domestic and
Eurobonds by
Reuters
"But Vietnam is just
beginning to reap
economic benefits
from this and
doesn't want
anything to derail
it. ", from
ASEAN convenes in
Cambodia by
American City
Business Journals
Inc.
Vietnam vet tells
story for project
Picture: Vietnam veteran Leon Miller of New York walks past DOGNY's 'Military
Dog' sculpture in
the lobby of the
Veterans
Administration
Hospital in New York...
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Sunday
Chúa Nháºt
11/03/2002
Vietnam fire death
toll revised to 60,
seven bodies remain
unidentified
Singaporean
family loses
Croatian father in
Vietnam building
fire
Vietnam
considered safest
Asia-Pacific country
to do business
Americans and
Vietnamese Fighting
Over Catfish
Picture: The leaders are from left to right: Singapore's Prime Minister Goh
Chok Tong,
Thailand's Prime
Minister Thaksin
Shinawatra,
Vietnam's Prime
Minister Phan Van
Khai, Brunei's
Sultan Hassanal
Bolkiah, Cambodia's
Prime Minister Hun
Sen, Indonesia's
President Megawati
Sukarnoputri, Laos'
Prime Minister
Bounnyang Vorachit,
Malayisa's Prime
Minister Mahathir
Mohamad, Myanmar's
Prime Minister Than
Shwe, and the
Philippines
President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo.
Picture: Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) begin
their summit meeting
in Phnom Penh
November 4, 2002.
The leaders are
(clockwise from
bottom) Singapore
Prime Minister Goh
Chok Tong, Thai
Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra,
Vietnamese Prime
Minister Phan Van
Khai, Sultan of
Brunei Hassanal
Bolkiah, ASEAN
Secretary General
Rodolfo Severino,
Cambodian Prime
Minister Hun Sen,
Indonesian President
Megawati
Sukarnoputri,
Laotian Prime
Minister Bounhang
Vorachith, Malaysian
Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad,
Myanmar Senior
General Than Shwe
and Philippine
President Gloria
Arroyo.
Picture:
Malaysian Prime
Minister Mahathir
Mohamad meets with
Brunei's Foreign
Minister, Prince
Mohamed Bolkiah, and
Vietnamese Minister
of Foreign Affairs
Nguyen Dy Nien at
the ASEAN talks.
"In addition to
developing mobile
phones, the team is
also working on
localizing voice and
menu operation:
Chinese, Thai and
Vietnamese are being
added for the
respective
countries, with
Hindi to follow in
the beginning of
2003 for India. ",
from
"What changed Rescorla
was the battle of
the Ia Drang Valley
in 1965, in which
U.S. forces
encountered the
North Vietnamese in
a clash that showed
just how intense the
rest of the war
would be.", from
An inspiring and sad
story of love and
devotion By
The Associated Press
"The local group has
123 churches in its
fold, including 32
black, nine Hispanic
and one each for
Chinese, Korean,
Vietnamese and
American Indian).",
fromÂ
5,000-plus Texas
Baptists to descend
upon Waco for
meeting By
TERRI JO RYAN
Tribune-Herald staff
writer
"'Secrets: A Memoir
of Vietnam and the
Pentagon Papers' by
Daniel Ellsberg ",
from
Reviewed
by Michael Kazin,
The Washington Post
"The group, begun a
decade ago to
promote development,
consists of
Cambodia, Vietnam,
Laos, Thailand,
Myanmar and China's
Yunnan province. ",
from
Mekong development
puts river at risk
by Denis Gray -
Associated Press
Picture: Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai (R) and his Cambodian
counterpart Hun Sen
listen during the
opening ceremony of
the the Greater
Mekong Subregion
meeting 03 November
2002 in Phnom Penh.
...
Vietnam brought them
together, then and
now
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Saturday
Thứ Bảy
11/02/2002
Vietnam arrests two
over fatal fire in
Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnamese
actor hit for role
in US film
Vietnam
participating in 8th
ASEAN summit
Vietnamese show
reluctance to work
in Malaysia
Vietnam pilot
finally laid to rest
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Friday
Thứ sáu
11/01/2002
California
Vietnamese outraged
by actor's
punishment in
Vietnam
DAUGHTER FROM
DANANG
Picture: Son Nguyen prepares the
Vietnamese dish
Mi/Pho Xao Thap Cam
at the Bolsa
restaurant in West
Valley City....
"Madison Nguyen hopes that winning a seat on her school board will help
stomp out suspicion toward politics among Vietnamese-Americans in San
Jose.", from Asians promote political power.", from LOCAL CANDIDATES
STRESS IMPORTANCE OF VOTING By Cecilia Kang, The San Jose
Mercury News
"Westminster plans
to ease traffic and
spruce up area with
$720,00 budget.",
fromÂ
Big improvements for
Little Saigon
By KATHERINE NGUYEN,
The Orange County
Register
"Aside
from granting those
who choose to become
permanent residents,
the Social
Integration Act
would protect the
Vietnamese from
harassment, abuse,
arrest and
deportation while
their applications
pend.", from
The Vietnamese among
us by The
Manila Times
"The victim was a
Vietnamese refugee
and accomplished
soccer player who at
the time of his
death was working as
a volunteer for
Northern California
Legal Services in
Chico.", from Testimony
begins in Cohasset
killing By
TERRY VAU DELL -
Staff Writer of
Chico Enterprise
Record
"Of this number,
15,178 were employed
in factories, 3,756
in the construction
sector, 1,118 in
hotels and 239 in
plantations, he said
after receiving
Vietnam’s
Vice-Minister of
Interior Tran Thi
Kim Cuc at his
office here.", from
Vietnamese not keen
on working here
by Star
Publications
(Malaysia) Bhd
"The police were
alerted after the
gun, with four
bullets, was found
in some bushes
opposite the
Vietnamese Embassy
in Persiaran Stoner
about 6pm
yesterday.", from
Shotgun taken from
guard recovered
by Star Publications
(Malaysia) Bhd
"Thai boxing officials are relieved by the news that the
sport will be
included in next
year's SEA Games in
Vietnam.", fromÂ
Boxing will not
be dropped
by Wanchai
Rujawongsanti , The
Bangkok Post
"As well as
Australian and
Belgian singers, the
cast was to include
Vietnamese singers
and Vietnamese water
puppets, supervised
by the director of
the Vietnamese
National Water
Puppet Company,
Vuong Duy Bien.",
from
Motherland hits a
cultural barrier,
but the show goes on
By John Mangan,
The Age
"The owners of the
restaurant chose a
spot in one of two
strip malls off 3500
South where every
business except one
is run by
Vietnamese.", from Diversity is
making West Valley a
magnet for
immigrants
By Stephen Speckman,
Deseret News staff
writer
" The rescued men
included the
Taiwanese skipper of
the vessel as well
as two Taiwanese and
two Vietnamese
workers.", from Taiwan quick
take by The
Taipei Times
" One of the latest
flare-ups took place
in August, when
Vietnamese troops
based on an islet
fired warning shots
at Philippine
military planes.",
from
Southeast Asian
officials reach
preliminary accord
over disputed
Spratly islands
by Associated Press
"Planning to attend
the November meeting
are Ray Hwang,
president of
Washington Chinese
News in Rockville;
Suk Hee Yoo,
president of The
Korea Times
Washington, D.C.;
Tan Tran Viet of
Vietnamese paper Doi
Nay; and Patricia
Shao, principal at
ethnic marketing
shop dragonbridge.",
from
Ethnic newspapers:
Weakly no more
by Greg A. Lohr,
Staff Reporter of
American City
Business Journals
Inc.
"He said the
objective was for
China to have a
free-trade area with
senior ASEAN member
states Brunei,
Indonesia, Malaysia,
the Philippines,
Singapore and
Thailand by between
2010 and 2013, and
the newer members
Burma, Cambodia,
Laos and Vietnam
between 2013 and
2016.", from ASEAN leaders to
weigh
counterterrorism
agenda By P.
Parameswaran, AGENCE
FRANCE-PRESSE
Two
arrested over
Vietnam fire
Welders
arrested over
Vietnam fire
Welders blamed
for Vietnamese
office inferno
Overloaded
suspension bridge
collapses in
northern Vietnam,
killing one
Honda Vietnam to
Resume Production
Vietnam to allow
immediate import of
185,000 motorbike
kits
Vietnam eases 2002
import curbs on
motorbike parts
Macapagal to visit
Vietnam
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Thursday
Thứ năm
10/31/2002
Repercussions
from Vietnam's Highland unrest
Pho: Beautiful noodle soup graces Vietnamese mornings
"Mr Khai later gave the Cuban President 20 new computers in a symbolic
presentation of Vietnam's donation of 500 computers and 100 printers to
the Cuban government.", from Old communists
talk trade by ABC Radio Australia
News
" The three winners _ a Thai, an Indonesian and a Vietnamese _ are all
professional singers who are at the beginning of a real journey towards
a regional if not worldwide career in classical singing.", from Contest organisers
should ignore critics by The Bangkok Post
"Police said four High School of Science and Technology
students, two age 15 and two age 17, were getting off their school bus
when they were allegedly set upon by a group of four or five Hispanic
and black males making anti-Vietnamese statements.", from
Beating suspect, 14, to be tried as adult By Associated Press
""Daughter of Danang": Co-directors Gail Dolgin and Franco Vicente
document the reunion of a Vietnamese American woman adopted during the
last days of the Vietnam War with her birth mother.", from
Experience the world from a theater near you By MEGHAN WHITBECK,
Santa Cruz Sentinel Correspondent
"Another 25 percent of students speak Ukrainian, Vietnamese or
Romanian.", from
Local schools bucking loss trend by TRACY JAN, THE OREGONIAN
Vietnam steps up security as international visitor arrivals rise 11.3
percent
Death toll
climbing in Vietnam fire
Death toll tops 100 in Vietnam office blaze
Families wait
for news of missing relatives from Vietnam inferno
Police suspect
careless welders may have caused Vietnam inferno
Recovery of
victims of Ho Chi Minh City fire continues
Vietnam fire
'started by bad welding'
Vietnam to Introduce Stricter Fire Safety Measures
Two welders suspected of setting off deadly fire surrender to police
Consular staff identify UK victims of Vietnam fire
Vietnam fire takes only child of elderly couple
100 feared dead in Vietnam fire
Toll up to 61 as gas blast suspected in Vietnam fire
More bodies in
burnt Vietnamese office block
Welders' work suspected in fatal Vietnamese fire
Vietnamese
dogs recruited for ASEAN security patrol
Russo-Vietnamese department at Hanoi University
Villagers injure five forest rangers who seized illegal logs in central
Vietnam
Vietnam's PM
holds talks in Cuba
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Wednesday
Thứ tư
10/30/200
"Disaster
relief officials in Vietnam say the death toll from three months of
flooding in the southern Mekong Delta has reached 148, most of them
children.. ", from Vietnam's flood
waters start to fall by ABC Radio
Australia News
"O Mai
158 Ninth Ave.
(between 19th and 20th streets)
(212) 633-0550", from MAI
KIND OF PLACE By
CYNTHIA KILIAN, NEW YORK POST
"But like the film's subject, Heidi Bub, a "101 percent Americanized"
woman returning to Vietnam decades after Operation Babylift to meet the
mother she barely remembers, they encountered deep cultural rifts.",
from
Mother Countries by Anthony
Kaufman, The Village Voice
"Vietnamese artist Phan Barker lived through the war
there. ", from Art conveys the essence
of Hawai'i By Bob Krauss, The Honolulu Advertiser Columnist
"Rescuers are searching for dozens of people believed trapped inside a
six-storey building ravaged by fire in the Vietnamese capital Ho Chi
Minh City.", from Rescuers search for trapped victims of fire
by icHuddersfield
Two
Britons among Vietnam blaze dead
Britons die in Vietnam blaze
Dozens killed in Vietnam office inferno
Huge death toll feared in Ho Chi Minh City blaze
Vietnam Fire Probe Looks to Welders
60 die in Vietnam building fire
More deaths
expected in Vietnamese fire
Death toll reports of more than 200 from Vietnam fire
Ho Chi Minh
City fire toll at least 200
More than
100 dead in Ho Chi Minh City fire: state press
Rescuers recover 60 bodies from Vietnam office inferno
Death rate
increases in Ho Chi Minh City fire
More deaths expected in Vietnamese fire
Rescuers Search for Vietnam Victims
Inferno in Vietnam Kills at Least 59
Vietnam Fire Kills at Least 50, Injures 120
Fire in Vietnam Kills at Least 59
At least 54
dead in Vietnam office blaze
Picture:Â
Nearly 60 people were killed in a fire in a Vietnamese office block on
October 29, and officials fear the death toll will rise...
Picture:Â
Vietnamese injured from a deadly fire that destroyed an office building
in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon are cared for at an Intensive Care
Unit at a hospital...
Picture: Survivor from a fire at the International Trade Centre in Ho Chi
Minh City wander through the streets on October 29....
Picture: The scorched remains of a commercial building are seen in this
television frame grab after following fire in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City...
Picture: Ly Xau Phieng, 42, left with a broken arm who worked for the
American International Assurance Co. , lays next to Nguyen Thi Phuong
Thao, 22, center who broke her wrist after they were trapped in
Tuesday's fire at the International Trade Center...
Picture: Motorists try to catch a glimpse of the burned out International
Trade Center building...
Picture: Huynh Thi Mat, 47, rests with a broken leg in her hospital bed at a
hospital...
Picture: A man carries a victim out of a fire at the International Trade
Center
...
Picture: Security police, right, stand in front of the Saigon International
Trade Center a day after a large fire raged through the building...
Picture: Morning commuters try to catch a glimpse of the burned out Saigon
International Trade Center...
Picture: Hoang Loan, 36, left , weeps while other Vietnamese seek word of
relatives outside the Military Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City...
Picture: Tran Thi Thanh Tuyen, 34, weeps outside the Military Mortuary while
waiting word of their missing sister who was beleived to be trapped in
Tuesday's fire...
Picture: Security police force a press photographer from taking pictures and
off the street near the Saigon International Trade Center where a fire
took place...
Picture: A group of Vietnamese wait outside the Military Mortuary for word of
their relatives who were trapped in a fire...
International
Automobile Exhibition opens in Hanoi
Vietnam and Cuba cement ties with trade agreement
Vietnam Airlines signs deal for five Airbus aircraft
Vietnam Airlines orders 5 A321
Airbus jets
Vietnam
Footballers Suspected of Match-Fixing
Match-fixing scam in Vietnam
Korean builders find solid presence in Vietnam
Vietnam veteran honored for bravery in war
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Tuesday
Thứ ba
10/29/2002
"A Coast Guard
spokesman said they
were of Vietnamese
origin, and that the
county sheriff's
office had brought
in an interpreter.",
from
Search
fails to locate two
men swept into sea;
woman survives
By David L. Beck,
The San Jose Mercury
News
"ACTOR DRAWS FIRE
FOR ROLES IN WAR
MOVIES", from ANGERING VIETNAM
By Ben Stocking and
Bruce Newman, The
San Jose Mercury
News
"The California
State Library and
California League of
Women Voters are
offering the
nonpartisan Easy
Reading Voter Guide
to help voters
prepare for the Nov.
5 election. The
guide is available
in English, Spanish,
Vietnamese, Chinese,
Korean and
Russian.", from Around the
Valley by
The Fresno Bee
"In the 1970s, the
girls helped
Vietnamese refugee
children adapt to
new homes in
America, and in the
1980s, new badges on
aerospace and
business were
introduced.", from
Girl Scouts
celebrate 90 years
of service
by The Tennessean
""These suddenly visible
minorities are
popping up
everywhere:
Hispanics in
meatpacking
businesses in Iowa,
Hmong tribesmen in
Minnesota and
Vietnamese shrimp
fishermen along the
Gulf of Mexico."",
fromÂ
America's changing
face: multi-racial,
multi-ethnic
By THOMAS HARGROVE,
The Knoxville
News-Sentinel
" This experience,
plus graduate work
he pursued in
engineering and
management, led to a
seven-month
assignment in
Saigon, where he
headed a team of
experts charged with
training Vietnamese
women to run a new
water treatment
plant.", from Penney Farms celebrates its 75th birthday Nov. 9 By Marian Chapman, County Line columnist ofÂ
The Florida
Times-Union
Where to find
Vietnamese food
Vietamese
recipes
Taste of Vietnam
Viet rescuers overwhelmed as disco fire kills dozens
Scores dead in
Vietnam office blaze
Toll grows in
Vietnam office block
fire
Fire Rages Through
Vietnam Building
Vietnam Office
Building Inferno
Kills at Least 54
54 Die in Vietnam
Building Fire
At least 54 dead in Vietnam office blaze
50
killed in Vietnam
office fire
50
thought dead in
Vietnamese blaze
48 killed in Vietnam fire
VIETNAM
FIRE: 48 DEAD
Vietnam Building
Fire Kills at Least
48-Media
Fire in Vietnam
Building Kills 48
Reports: Vietnam
Building Fire Kills
at Least 48
At least 48
reported killed in
Vietnam building
fire
Fire kills 16
in Vietnam office
block
Dozens killed
in Vietnam blaze
At least eight die
in Vietnam blaze
In pictures:
Ho Chi Minh's
inferno
Picture:
Firefighters use
water hoses as they
try to put out the
fire at the Saigon
International Trade
Center in Ho Chi
Minh City, formerly
Saigon, Vietnam,
Tuesday, Oct. 29.
Picture: Fire-fighters try to contain a blaze as it engulfs the International
Trade Centre in Ho
Chi Minh City on
October 29.
Picture: Firefighters use a ladder to rescue occupants from a fire at the
Saigon International
Trade Center in Ho
Chi Minh City,
formerly Saigon,
Vietnam on Tuesday
October 29, 2002
Picture: Firefighters battle a fire at the Saigon International Trade Center
in Ho Chi Minh City,
formerly Saigon,
Vietnam on Tuesday
Oct. 29, 2002...
Picture: Reuters
Picture:
AP
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More people could be
trapped inside
Vietnam President Visits France
"With its V, Vietnam was
at the extreme edge
of the table, beyond
U for United States,
and therefore kept
Laura Bush from
being the very last
person on the
table.", from Global View:
Fox and Bush leave
APEC cold
By Ian Campbell, UPI
Chief Economics
Correspondent
" In Vietnam, which
is largely
responsible for the
glut, farmers
clearing forest land
to grow more coffee
have clashed with
local ethnic
minorities. ", from
Coffee profits
ground to a halt
By T. Christian
Miller, and Davan
Maharaj Foreign
correspondents
"VIETNAM
(22/04 trade) APR-SEPT
02 OCT-MAR 02
APR-SEPT 01
Bach Ho Mina +0.60
       +0.401
       +0.615
", from
Crude contract
prices by
Reuters
"Pamkevin
Enterprises LTD from
Vietnam reached an
agreement with a
machinery pllant
based in Tianjin,
north China, on
opening a water
meter production
facility in Hanoi,
capital of Vietnam.
", from Chinese
firms eye developing
trade prospects with
ASEAN nations
by Xinhua News
Agency
"In the chaotic
conditions that
followed the
Japanese surrender
he restored order in
Saigon with
something of the
ruthlessness he was
to show in Algiers
in 1957.", from General
Jacques Massu
by  Times Online
INSIDE INDOCHINA: In
Vietnam, Laws Are
Made To Be Broken
Soccer scandal
in Vietnam
VIETNAM ATTRACTS
US$1.1 BLN IN FDI
YR-TO-DATE, DOWN 47
PCT
Vietnamese
Premier Phan Van Khai
meets with Cuban
President Fidel
Castro
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