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...Rural Development (MARD) officials were reassuring the public as late as Jan. 7 that "there has been no sign the disease will affect human health"?even though 12 patients had already turned up at the National Institute of Pediatrics with an "unusual" virus, according to hospital director Dr. Nguyen Thanh Liem. Even more worrying, it now appears that there were mass chicken die-offs in Vinh Phuc province in northern Vietnam as early as last July, six months before the government officially acknowledged the emergence of avian flu. Giapfa Comfeed Vietnam Ltd., a poultry company in Vinh Phuc...
...When Dan Thanh T. Nguyen ’06 takes the T home to her old neighborhood in Dorchester twice a week, she’s not lugging her laundry or seeking home-cooked refuge from the dining hall. Instead, she brings lesson plans and games to share with her students who meet at the Grover Cleveland Middle School, just as 12 years ago a Boston Youth Refugee Enrichment (BRYE) volunteer...
...UMass-Amherst who also went through the BRYE program, says that he remembers, “this one morning, when Anna’s mom came up to me and told me Anna was really anxious to have her drive her to BRYE because she missed her friends and Thanh...
...dispute is costing Vietnam goodwill with Japan, the country's biggest aid donor and trade partner. Officials in Hanoi last week pleaded with the corporations to be sympathetic. "This is an issue of human life," government spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh said. But to the Japanese, the quotas don't look like a rational attempt to cut down on roadkill?maybe a helmet law would be a more logical first step?they look like old-fashioned protectionism...
...later, Hien found himself with a U.S. immigrant visa-approved, he says, by the same Vietnamese staffer of the consulate who had rejected him previously. There was only one catch: Hien had to travel with his new "family," four Vietnamese whom he believes had paid the woman, Nguyen Thi Thanh Phuong, up to $20,000 to secure them visas to the U.S., piggybacking on Hien. When he wanted to delay his planned departure because of his real brother's death, he says Phuong threatened him, saying she had powerful friends and would have him maimed if he wouldn...