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[xmod]

Originally Posted by vanboy2

Source http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=102555

Vnnforum is a white supremacist website.

Btw, that's really old news. Happened in 2009. How about stuff that's more up to date? NEWS means recent right?

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I know this is from a state own Vietnamese website and the war dead referenced here are perhaps Northern Vietnamese (article doesn't really say) but I think its great Vietnamese are still remembering and honoring the war dead..... regardless if they were Communist or not.

http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Overs...114/125435.vov

Overseas Vietnamese in Thailand awarded

Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Thanh Son, on behalf of the Vietnamese State, has bestowed posthumously and awarded Resistance Orders, Medals and certificates of merit to overseas Vietnamese in Thailand who contributed to Vietnam’s resistance wars and national protection and construction.

A total of 80 first class Resistance Orders, 10 second class Resistance Orders, 12 third class Resistance Orders, 136 first class Resistance Medals, 308 second class Resistance Medals and 265 certificates of merit of the Prime Minister were presented at a ceremony held in Bangkok on April 4 during the Deputy FM’s visit to Thailand from March 31 to April 5.

Earlier, Son, who is also Chairman of the State Commission for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs presented Orders, Medals and certificates of merit to 17 Overseas Vietnamese individuals and families in Khon Kaen province.

The deputy FM and his entourage attended a ceremony in commemoration of 13 Vietnamese soldiers who laid down in Thailand and OV soldiers who died on Vietnam’s battlefields in the resistance wars against colonialists and imperialists for national independence and freedom.

When visiting Nakhon Phanom and Khon Kaen provinces, the diplomat had a meeting with Vietnamese associations in 15 northeastern provinces of Thailand.

He also met with the governors of the two provinces, during which they shared views and expressed their wish to expand cooperation between Thai localities and Vietnamese provinces, especially the central provinces.

The two provincial governors affirmed that the Vietnamese community in Thailand plays a positive role in boosting friendship and cooperation between the two countries, pledging favourable conditions for the community to develop further.

[vttnguyen]

Joseph Cao did a great job for Louisiana's 2nd district. Cao is/was the first Vietnamese American, the first native of Vietnam, to serve in US Congress, and the first Republican to serve in his district since 1890. I'm not sure if he got elected for the second term this year, either way that's a very, very honorable title.

[Yellow Fever]

Originally Posted by VietnamEagle2010

His speech in Germany

His German is perfect with no Vietnamese accent!

[vanboy2]

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

His German is perfect with no Vietnamese accent!

How you gonna have an accent if you had a German parents and left Vietnam at 9 months old?

[phugiay]

Originally Posted by going-higher

Banh Mi thit nguoi? What!?

What is wrong with that?

[phugiay]

Originally Posted by Yellow Fever

Cool! Especially in Germany!

Well, I can say he is totally qualified for the job after I read his background on Wiki. He is a pretty smart guy. He was raised in a good family and has a high education, look and good voice. Can he speak Vietnamese?

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I know this article is quite short and from a state owned paper but my thoughts go out to their families and loved ones.

http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Fire-...114/125539.vov

Fire in Moscow garment shop kills four Vietnamese

A fire took place in a garment workshop of Vietnamese people near the Cherkizovo market in Moscow, Russia, on the early morning of April 7, killing four Vietnamese people.

The accident also killed two Russians. The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia has sent representatives to meet representatives of Russian relevant agencies and seek ways to help overseas Vietnamese there overcome the consequences.

[phugiay]

Originally Posted by xmod

I know this article is quite short and from a state owned paper but my thoughts go out to their families and loved ones.

http://english.vovnews.vn/Home/Fire-...114/125539.vov
Fire in Moscow garment shop kills four Vietnamese

It is so sad.

[coolink]

it's a pity no one gives a damn thought about those Catholics got their church property stolen and beaten up to death by the commie and put to trials the innocence trying to fight their last breath guarding their farm land.........that's crocodile tears for ya

[vanboy2]

Originally Posted by coolink

it's a pity no one gives a damn thought about those Catholics got their church property stolen and beaten up to death by the commie and put to trials the innocence trying to fight their last breath guarding their farm land.........that's crocodile tears for ya

wowowow welcome back mr.I though you went back to Vietnam to build those churches.

[phugiay]

Happy Friday. Have a good weekend everyone. Welcome back coolink

[coolink]

Thanks
I have so much to do you wouldn't believe how busy I am
sleep, eat, then sleep eat, and eat then sleep and doing a bunch of stuff and stuff

[Siddude]

First Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, and now Syria. All over the Middle East, ordinary people have had enough of corrupt rulers and dictatorship. Viet Cong are so out of touch with the modern world. It's tragic. Viet Cong remind me of old Confucian monarchs and mandarins who are unable to change to the modern world 150 years ago. They did not industrialize, they did not reform so they lost Vietnam to French imperialists. Today, absolute monarchy does not exist in the real world because it is impractical just as Communist dictatorship was swept away. But Viet Cong are too stupid to notice to change.

What a joke the Viet Cong have done to Vietnam! They replace French colonialism and injustice and replace it with their own brand of injustice and tyranny. Poor Vietnam!

[vttnguyen]

Originally Posted by Siddude

First Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, and now Syria. All over the Middle East, ordinary people have had enough of corrupt rulers and dictatorship. Viet Cong are so out of touch with the modern world. It's tragic. Viet Cong remind me of old Confucian monarchs and mandarins who are unable to change to the modern world 150 years ago. They did not industrialize, they did not reform so they lost Vietnam to French imperialists. Today, absolute monarchy does not exist in the real world because it is impractical just as Communist dictatorship was swept away. But Viet Cong are too stupid to notice to change.

What a joke the Viet Cong have done to Vietnam! They replace French colonialism and injustice and replace it with their own brand of injustice and tyranny. Poor Vietnam!

Their time will come sooner or later.

[vanboy2]

post moved to correct thread

Originally Posted by Jeanbonnau

Vietnamese dissident lawyer gets 7 years in prison
HANOI, Vietnam — A dissident lawyer and son of a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader was sentenced to seven years in prison and another three years house arrest Monday for calling for an end to Vietnam's government and its one-party system.

Cu Huy Ha Vu was sentenced after a dramatic one-day trial in Hanoi that saw one of his defense attorneys ejected by the judge and his other three lawyers walk out in protest. Vu was left alone to defend himself and had several heated exchanges with the judge.

The court convicted him of conducting propaganda against the state for calling for a multiparty government system, demanding the abolishment of the Communist Party's leadership, defaming the state and distorting Vietnam's struggle for independence by calling the country's war against the United States a civil war.

Vietnam does not tolerate any challenge to its one-party rule.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States was "deeply concerned" about the conviction and sentencing of Vu, which "raises questions about Vietnam's commitment to rule of law and reform."

The 53-year-old Vu is the son of Cu Huy Can, a famous Vietnamese poet and revolutionary leader in the government formed by late President Ho Chi Minh when he declared independence from France in 1945.

"I did not commit the crime of spreading propaganda against the state," Vu told the court. "This criminal case was invented against me. This case is completely illegal."

Judge Nguyen Huu Chinh disagreed.

"Born and raised into a revolutionary family, he did not sustain that tradition but instead committed erroneous acts," he said.

His wife, lawyer Nguyen Thi Duong Ha, said she believed her husband was innocent.

"When you did not commit a crime, one cannot say your sentence was harsh or not," she said. "I think the sentencing was illegal."

Vu was arrested in November after he attempted to file a lawsuit against Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in 2009 after a controversial Chinese-built bauxite mining project was approved in the Central Highlands. He argued the project violated environmental protection, national security and cultural heritage laws.

Court officials dropped the suit, saying they didn't have the authority to put the country's leader on trial.

Vu attempted to sue the prime minister again a year later for prohibiting class-action lawsuits from being filed, saying it violated a constitutional guarantee of the right to "gather, form groups and protest in conformity with the law."

Security was tight around the courthouse Monday, with police stopping traffic and pushing onlookers away. Limited access was given to international media organizations, but no cameras or recorders were allowed inside. Reporters from foreign media outlets were kept in an area outside the main courtroom and watched the proceedings on closed-circuit television.

Vu's lawyers walked out of the courthouse after the judge refused to read or distribute 10 news interviews Vu was accused of conducting with foreign media, including Voice of America and Radio Free Asia. The interviews were used as key evidence against him.

State Department spokesman Toner said the U.S. was troubled by the "apparent lack of due process" in Vu's trial and the continued detention of several individuals who were peacefully seeking to observe the proceedings.

New-York based Human Rights Watch called last week for Vu's release, calling him "one of the most prominent defenders of cultural, environmental and human rights in Vietnam."

"Vietnam should amend or repeal its broad national security laws instead of using them to silence peaceful government critics," Phil Robertson, the group's deputy Asia director, said in a statement. "How can Vietnam become a country governed by the rule of law if the government continues to punish legal advocates?"

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news...ssident.Trial/


Das ist sehr traurig. Es sollte dagegen in Vietnam und in Hanoi demonstriert werden. Es ist sehr wichtig die Freiheit und die menschlichen Rechte zu verteidigen und zu fördern. Seid ihr damit nicht einverstanden ?

[phugiay]

SourcesChina Daily

Chinese General meets Vietnamese Communist Party leader
Xinhua
Updated: 2011-04-13 22:15:00


HANOI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- General Guo Boxiong, Vice-Chairman of China's Central Military Commission, met the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong here Wednesday with both sides vowing to boost bilateral ties.

During the meeting, Trong welcomed Guo's visit, saying it is the embodiment of the good relationship between the two countries. The Vietnamese Communist Party, the government and the people are committed to advancing comprehensive, strategic and cooperative partnership between the two countries, he said.

Trong said that Vietnam appreciated the social and economic achievements China has made in the past 30 years, adding that Vietnamese government hopes to join efforts with China to strengthen and deepen the friendship and cooperation between the two countries and armies.

Guo extended the Chinese President Hu Jintao's greeting to Trong, saying that the visit was aimed at a closer cooperation with Vietnam to consolidate the traditional friendship and further develop overall strategic partnership.

Guo said that the Chinese Communist Party, the government and the people are ready to join hands with Vietnam to further strengthen and deepen the friendly cooperation between the two countries.

At the invitation of Vietnamese Defense Minister and Senior General Phung Quang Thanh, General Guo Boxiong arrived in Hanoi on Tuesday for a three-day visit.

[vttnguyen]

Originally Posted by phugiay

SourcesChina Daily

So, what did Vietnam gave up this time, another piece of Spratly Islands?

[fuzzymemo]

another rim-job I presume

[xmod]

Involves Vietnam because Southern Vietnam depends a lot on the Mekong.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-0...river-dam.html

Laos will meet with neighboring Mekong River countries today in an effort to win their approval for a planned $3.8 billion hydropower dam and allay concerns it would disrupt fish catches and rice production downstream.

The Xayaburi hydropower plant is the first of about 10 dams the government plans to build on the mainstream Mekong, which runs from China’s Tibetan plateau through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Lao officials will make the final decision on plans for its biggest electricity plant to date after today’s meeting.

“The government will consider the concerns of the riparian countries and try to convince them of the advantages,” Daovong Phonekeo, deputy director general of Laos’s Department of Electricity, said by phone from Vientiene, the capital. “The project is necessary because our country is less developed. We don’t have other means to increase revenue.”

Southeast Asia’s smallest economy is aiming to use its resources to boost incomes for its 6 million citizens who comprise Asia’s youngest population. Hydropower and mining projects are set to underpin gross domestic product growth that may reach 7.7 percent this year, the Asian Development Bank said in an April 7 report.

The Mekong and its tributaries provide food, water and transportation to about 60 million people in those four countries. U.S. Senator Jim Webb said April 15 that approval of the dam could cause “irreversible” damage and threaten the stability of Southeast Asia.

Thai Builders

Thailand agreed in December to buy 95 percent of the electricity from the plant, which will have a capacity of 1,285 megawatts. Ch. Karnchang Pcl, Thailand’s third-biggest construction company by market value, owns a 57 percent stake in the 115 billion baht ($3.8 billion) project.

Ch. Karnchang shares have fallen 6.3 percent this year, compared with a 5.5 percent gain in Thailand’s benchmark SET Index. The Laos Composite Index, which opened on Jan. 11 with two stocks, has gained 34 percent since then.

PTT Pcl (PTT), Thailand’s biggest energy company, has a 25 percent stake, while Bangkok-based Electricity Generating Pcl (EGCO) owns 12.5 percent, according to company filings. The project is expected to start commercial operations in January 2019, PTT told the Thai stock exchange on March 1.

The Xayaburi plant will help “to secure and to stabilize” Thailand’s energy supply over the long term, Prasert Bunsumpun, president of state-owned PTT, said in the statement.

‘Bleak’ Future

Representatives from Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam will attend today’s meeting hosted by the Mekong River Commission, an intergovernmental body. The countries agreed in 1995 to consult each other before building hydropower plants on the Mekong or its tributaries.

International Rivers, a Berkeley, California-based nonprofit group that aims to protect rivers and human rights, expressed outrage yesterday after a report in the Bangkok Post that preliminary construction activities had begun on the dam.

“If the Lao government does not act in good faith and respect the regional processes that it has committed to, the future of the Mekong River and its people is indeed bleak,” Ame Trandem, a Mekong Campaigner with the group, said in a statement.

Vietnam officials in January recommended delaying the project and moving it to a Mekong tributary because it would affect “the safety of water sources and food security for Vietnam as well as for the whole world,” according to notes of the meetings posted on the commission’s website. Thailand and Cambodia also favored more studies on the dam, they show.

Giant Catfish

“Mekong nations need to work closely together to exploit and use the natural resource in a fair and proper manner in order to protect the environment,” Nguyen Phuong Nga, a spokeswoman at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was quoted as saying in state-run Vietnam News today.

A technical review by the commission released last month found that the dam may lead to the extinction of species like the Mekong giant catfish and “gaps in knowledge” mean the full extent of the downstream impact on fisheries is hard to estimate. The dam “will not materially affect” the quantity and timing of river flows to Cambodia and Vietnam, it said.

China has already built four hydropower dams on the Mekong, completing the first one in 1993 without consulting its downstream neighbors. It plans to build four more as part of efforts to almost double its hydropower capacity to at least 300 gigawatts by 2020.

Laos also plans to sell electricity to Vietnam, Daovong said, adding that hydropower serves as an alternative to nuclear power. Vietnam, which faced rolling electricity outages in February, last year announced plans to build as many as 13 nuclear power plants with a capacity of 16,000 megawatts over the next two decades.

“We are trying to benefit not only our country, but also develop a cheap source of electricity for our neighbors,” Daovong said. “Each riparian country has the right to use the Mekong River for its own development.”