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...even in Saigon you can go too far. In December 2001, the government sent police from Hanoi to arrest Cam at his mistress's house, and then widened the net, trumpeting the nation's biggest organized-crime bust. Since Cam's tentacles reached far into the government, the case simultaneously became Vietnam's biggest corruption crackdown. Two of the 18 government officials on trial with him this month were members of the ?lite Central Committee, the Communist Party's 150-member main decision-making body. One of the accused, Bui Quoc Huy, was Ho Chi Minh City's police chief...
...when Cam's trial finally began two weeks ago, the government faced a quandary. Should it maximize coverage to prove its seriousness in cracking down on gangsters and their dirty friends in high places? Or would that merely publicize the scale of official corruption? Hanoi chose a middle course. The opening hours of the trial were broadcast live on national television, with Nam Cam shown handcuffed and in striped prison pajamas. (Reporters weren't allowed in the courtroom; they viewed the proceedings on a closed-circuit-television monitor. "That's so they can cut the feed if they need...
...raised in France, the brothers are Viet Kieu, as people who fled the country following the fall of Saigon in 1975 are known. Once reviled as traitors, Viet Kieu are now seen as resources, even patriots, for their access to foreign capital and Western business and technical expertise. The Hanoi government courts them with preferential tax rates, relaxed visa requirements, even low-interest loans. "It's the best of both worlds," says David Thai, 30, who returned in 1995 and now runs Viet Thai International, a coffee business in Ho Chi Minh City. "In business terms, it's pretty much...
...most common seasoning in the Roman Empire. Southeast Asians still have the taste. Thais produce nam pla, Filipinos patis. In Vietnam, though, nuoc mam is more than just an important ingredient. "I can't cook without it," says Tran Cong, 33, chef of Le Tonkin restaurant in Hanoi. "Vietnamese food would turn into nothing without nuoc...
...later that she was dead. But he was still receiving letters from her. Through contacts of his ex-diplomat father, Canh last year persuaded Vietnam's President Tran Duc Luong to plead his case. It worked. Ri was allowed to leave North Korea, and they wed last month in Hanoi. "She's still beautiful," beams Canh. He sees his bliss as a sign that North Korea is changing. Ri disagrees: "It was all (due to) the great efforts of my lover." True love, like diplomacy, can require heroic persistence...