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...huge bronze bas relief of Ho. And that straight answer says a lot about Manh and what he wants to bring to his struggling land. For more than a decade, Vietnam has had the potential to break with its war-torn, poverty-ridden past and become Asia's newest tiger economy. Transparency, or the lack of it, has held Vietnam back. The country is ruled by a secretive group of former revolutionaries who have trouble understanding the notions of law and order so integral to germinating a market economy. Manh, though a dyed-in-the-wool apparatchik, could change that...
...LANKA Peace Moves Journalists had their first glimpse of life behind rebel-held lines as the Tamil Tiger leadership allowed a visit to the Vanni region and the government lifted a seven-year economic blockade on the northern territory. The arrival of trucks carrying food, medicines and other goods was seen as a key step in the revival of Norwegian-led truce talks between the government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels...
...home. The arrest of more than 1,500 Islamist militants since Saturday and the outlawing of five of their key organizations underlines the seriousness of Musharraf's pledge to rein in what he called an extremist "state-within-a-state." But to really do this requires riding a tiger twenty years in the making...
...year conflict that has claimed more than 64,000 lives are observing cease-fires. Hopes that the mutual truces, which began on Dec. 24, could lead to peace talks were bolstered when the new government of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made a conciliatory gesture to Tamil Tiger rebels: it announced that economic sanctions would be eased in areas held by the insurgents...
Despite forcing the Tiger ball-control offense to commit an uncharacteristically-high 12 turnovers in the first half, the Crimson trailed 24-19 at the break, due largely to a poor 27-percent shooting effort...