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News of Vietnam
George McGovern, Richard Nixon Challenger, Dies
Former US Senator George McGovern, who stood as the Democratic presidential candidate against Richard Nixon in 1972, has died, aged 90. He was in a hospice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and slipped out of consciousness three days ago. A liberal standard-bearer, Mr McGovern was a vocal opponent of (...)

21 - 10 - 2012
Concerns over harsh sentences against bloggers in Vietnam
BANGKOK: The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday voiced deep concern about the conviction and harsh sentencing of journalists and bloggers in Vietnam, stressing that this reflects a trend of increasing restrictions on freedom of expression in the country, especially against those who use (...)

26 - 09 - 2012
Vietnam: Release bloggers, stop harassing family and friends
Three Vietnamese bloggers who face up to 20 years in jail simply for exercising their right to freedom of expression should be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said, ahead of their trial at Ho Chi Minh City's People's Court on Monday 24 September 2012. Their trial (...)

22 - 09 - 2012
Vietnam to restore some 1,500 national relics
BANGKOK: The Vietnam government announced that it planned to restore around 1,500 national relics and sites over the next three years. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said last week that the national target program was approved by his office and would initially focus on 300 significant cultural (...)

09 - 09 - 2012
Thailand says mutated bird flu unlikely to spread
BANGKOK: Thailand's ministry of public health's department of disease control has reported that it does believe there is a risk of a deadly mutated strain of the bird flu virus seen in Vietnam spreading to the country. According to the department, no poultry has been imported from neighboring (...)

09 - 09 - 2012
Vietnam women say bikini contest part of perception problem
HO CHI MINH CITY: She is angry. The video of scantily clad young women on a airplane earlier this month plays on her computer. They are seen taking off their shirts in what was part of new low-cost carrier VietJet Air's “bikini contest” in-flight. “It is disgusting,” Thi Vang, a Vietnamese women's (...)

14 - 08 - 2012
Impact of war on language (157)
Vietnam War & Health and Medicine (IX). Medical Research. Family Study. On 16 September 2006, the Centre for Military and Veterans' Health (CMVH) had been established in the US to develop a 'sound and workable' research protocol for a health study of the sons and daughters of Vietnam veterans. CMVH (...)

20 - 02 - 2012
Culture: Impact of war on language (156)
Vietnam War & Health and Medicine (VIII). Physical Deformities. The Vietnam War had a major impact on both South and North Vietnam. The combination of America's massive military might and the tactics employed by the National Liberation Front (NLF) all but ensured that the civilian population (...)

13 - 02 - 2012
Culture: Impact of war on language (153)
Vietnam War & Health and Medicine (V). Cancers.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has conducted a population-based Selected Cancers Study (SCS) to determine whether Vietnam veterans are at an increased risk of developing particular types of cancer that have been suggested as being (...)

24 - 01 - 2012
Teenager dies of bird flu in Vietnam
For more than one-year, bird flu had seemingly gone away, disappeared. However, on Thursday, health officials in Vietnam confirmed to Bikyamasr.com that an 18-year-old had died of the deadly virus. The young man from Vietnam's Mekong Delta officially became the first person to die of the virus (...)

19 - 01 - 2012
Opinion: Impact of war on language (151)
Vietnam War & Health and Medicine (III). Agent Orange. About 3 million Americans served in the armed forces in Vietnam during the 1960s and early 1970s, the time of the Vietnam War. During that time, the military used large amounts of mixtures known as defoliants, which were chemicals that caused (...)

09 - 01 - 2012
Ellsberg: US wants deal for Manning to implicate Assange
Fort Meade, Maryland (dpa) – Activist Dan Ellsberg, who leaked thousands of secret documents on the Vietnam War in the 1970s, on Thursday denounced that the case against US Army soldier Bradley Manning. Ellsberg alleged that the prosecution is seeking to force Manning to implicate Julian (...)

22 - 12 - 2011
Culture: Impact of war on language (148)
Vietnam War in the Academia (X). Vietnam War Oral History. In 1999 the Vietnam Centre and Archive initiated the Oral History Project (OHP). The history of the wars in Southeast Asia is not complete without the inclusion of the voices of those who were in some way involved. To that end, the mission (...)

14 - 12 - 2011
Impact of war on language (142)
Vietnam War in the Academia (IV), Research & Studies, cont., As late as August 29, 2010, BEST ResearchPaper, a firm specialising in assisting students in writing ‘best research', published the following guidelines for writing research papers on the Vietnam War. The date itself signifies that (...)

25 - 10 - 2011
Impact of war on language (139)
Vietnam War in the Academia (I). Introduction. “The US lost the shooting war, but, so far, it is winning the meta-war.” Renny Christopher, Professor of English, Carolina State University Gone are the days when canons spoke and muses fell silent. Correspondents and writers, film makers and (...)

03 - 10 - 2011
Impact of war on language (133)
Vietnam War films, War Film defined (i). A war film is any film dealing with war, usually focusing on naval, air, or land battle, but sometimes focusing instead on prisoners of war, covert operations, training, or other related subjects. Therefore, coming up with a generic definition of the war (...)

17 - 08 - 2011
Vietnam to raise $10 bln to build its largest airport
The Vietnamese government plans to issue bonds, tap official development assistance funding and seek private funds to raise $10 billion (S$12.1 billion) to build the country's biggest airport over the next decade, a state-run newspaper reported on Saturday. The infrastructure of the Long Thanh (...)

13 - 08 - 2011
Impact of war on language (127)
Vietnam War poetry, ‘Confessional Poetics' (IV). Elizabeth Bishop, poet Laureate of the US from 1949 to 1950, wrote that she disliked the poetic trend of, “more and more anguish and less and less poetry. M.L. Rosenthal wrote in a review, “It is hard not to think of Robert Lowell's Life Studies as a (...)

30 - 05 - 2011
Impact of war on language (125)
Vietnam War poetry Confessional poetics (II). Confessional poetry is most often written in free verse, first person point of view, though it does not have to be. The shared contract between reader and writer assumes that the poem is the authentic and truthful expression of the poet, and not, say, a (...)

16 - 05 - 2011
اجتماع بالخارجية بحث تفعيل التعاون الاقتصادي مع فيتنام ولاوس
عقد السفير د. محمد حجازي مساعد وزير الخارجية للشئون الآسيوية اجتماعاً بالوزارة ضم ممثلي الوزارات المختلفة، حيث تم عرض نتائج المشاورات السياسية في الجولة التي قام بها إلى كل من فيتنام ولاوس. شارك بالاجتماع ممثلون عن كل من : وزارات الزراعة واستصلاح الأراضي والبترول والثروة المعدنية والتجارة والصناعة، (...)

14 - 05 - 2011
الخارجية تنسق مع "الزراعة والصناعة والبترول" لتفعيل الحوار الاستراتجى مع فيتنام
عقدت وزارة الخارجية أمس اجتماعا تنسيقا حضره ممثلين لعدد من الوزارات تناول عرضا لنتائج جولة المشاورات السياسية بين مصر وفيتنام ولاوس. وقال السفير محمد حجازى، مساعد وزير الخارجية للشئون الآسيوية، إن الاجتماع حضره المهندس مصطفى عبد العليم، مدير عام التعاون الدولى مع آسيا واستراليا بوزارة الزراعة، و (...)

12 - 05 - 2011
Impact of war on language (124)
Vietnam War poetry. Confessional Poetics (I). Every poem ever written has somehow been affected by the writer's life, but this is even more so with confessional poetry. The whole idea behind the movement is for the poet to honestly express his or her life stories as poetry, with little or no (...)

11 - 05 - 2011
Impact of war on language (122)
“Did the people of Viet Nam use lanterns of stone? Did they hold ceremoniesto reverence the opening of buds? Were they inclined to quiet laughter? Did they use bone and ivory, jade and silver, for ornament? Had they an epic poem? Did they distinguish between speech and singing? Sir, their (...)

18 - 04 - 2011
Impact of war on language (121)
Vietnam War poetry. ‘The Sound of Guns' (VII). Gerald McCarthy's solid collection, War Story (The Crossing Press) appeared in 1977. The first section is a sequence of 22 untitled poems set mostly in the war zone, but as the book progresses, the poems become richer and more haunting as the full (...)

11 - 04 - 2011
Impact of war on language (120)
Vietnam War poetry ‘Death of a Friend' (VI). In Death of a Friend, ex-artilleryman Doug Rawlings writes, "his death/begs me to follow/pulls me toward him/my hands grow weak/and/cannot break/the string. There are also excellent poems by Gerald McCarthy and Bruce Weigl, both of whom would later (...)

04 - 04 - 2011
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