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...will continue to fight for democracy," said the Progression Party co-founder Nguyen Phong, 32. Soon after that, the audio feed from the courtroom was abruptly cut off. Phong was later handed a six-year sentence. (Two other defendants were given probation and Father Ly's assistant, Nguyen Binh Thanh, was sentenced to five years...
...main caretaker at the orphanage, Ms. Bui Thi Thanh Tuyen, said there was a reason that Pax - usually known as an exceptionally cheerful child - was caught off guard Thursday: wasn't actually told by the staff that he was being adopted that day. "We did not say anything to him, afraid we might put pressure on him and more frightened," Tuyen said. "We just told him that we are taking him out. You are going to play outside - play with a mother and father...
...VoIP providers, including Skype, declined to comment for this story. But the technology's spread has clearly revitalized a dying democracy movement. Five years ago, the number of Vietnamese dissidents had dwindled to a few dozen aging stalwarts, says Hanoi-based human-rights essayist Nguyen Thanh Giang, and they found it hard to organize or gather more than a dozen signatures for petitions. But when activists created a new umbrella organization?dubbed "8406 Group" because it was formed on April 8, 2006?they trumpeted it on VoIP forums and quickly got 2,000 members, many under...
According to Thanh Nguyen, one of the VACM organizers who left Vietnam in 1988 to escape the communist government, the Boston protest itself drew demonstrators from all over the country...
...Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, says he's shocked by the virulence of avian flu in the patients he has helped treat: "I've never experienced anything like it in terms of its destructive power. It is staggering in terms of how much lung tissue is destroyed." Nguyen Thanh Hung, one of the few to survive avian flu, says the disease is pure misery. "I felt like my head was about to explode. My heart was pounding like it would come out of my chest, and I couldn't control my muscles...