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...Given that he stood accused of "abusing democratic freedoms," the 10-month prison sentence handed down to Tran Dung Tien in Hanoi last Wednesday was light. Tien, 78, had openly criticized corruption in Vietnam's Communist Party, but he's no garden-variety dissident. Tien joined the revolt against the French in the 1940s, was a longtime Party member?and for a few years served as the personal bodyguard of Ho Chi Minh...
...SIGNED. APPROVAL FOR DIRECT COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS BETWEEN VIETNAM AND THE U.S., for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War; in Hanoi. The agreement, which is still being finalized, will permit passenger and cargo flights. More than 1 million ethnic Vietnamese now live in the U.S., and Americans account for the second-highest number of visitors to Vietnam, after Chinese...
...SENTENCE REDUCED. Pham Hong Son, 35, Vietnamese physician convicted of spying and using the Internet to slander the government, after a campaign by international human rights groups; in Hanoi. Son translated an article from the U.S. State Department website titled What is Democracy? and distributed it to Vietnamese language websites. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison in June, now lessened to five years...
...SENTENCED. PHAM HONG SON, 34, Vietnamese doctor and cyberdissident; to 13 years in jail on espionage charges; in Hanoi. Son was convicted of spying for e-mailing other dissidents and Vietnamese in exile, as well as for posting an essay titled "What Is Democracy" translated from a U.S. State Department website. He is one of at least five cyberdissidents imprisoned in Vietnam in the past two years...
Nguyen, who is waiting to hear whether or not she was accepted as a United Nations intern in Hanoi, said she was not too concerned about SARS even before the ban was lifted...