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Vietnam Internet users fear Facebook blackout

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks. Facebook has more than 1 ...

From BEN STOCKING ASSOCIATED PRESS, The San Jose Mercury News,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Yahoo!

Vietnam Facebook fans fear government blackout as problems plague the site

HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks. Facebook has more than 1 ...

From BEN STOCKING, Simple Thoughts,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  White House,  FriendFeed,  Yahoo!

Unique homecoming to Vietnam for US commander

DANANG, Vietnam On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years later, he made an unlikely homecoming – as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer. ...

From BEN STOCKING, San Diego Union-Tribune,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ho Chi Minh,  Colin Montgomerie,  Jeff Davis

Vietnamese musicians learn from an American master

HANOI, Vietnam - The conductor of the New York Philharmonic wielded his baton as an instrument of diplomacy Thursday. ...

From BEN STOCKING, Access Atlanta Vendor,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Philharmonic,  Alan Gilbert,  Suzuki,  Lorin Maazel

Zen master decries Vietnam's treatment of monks

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam—A renowned Buddhist teacher has decried the eviction of his followers from a monastery in southern Vietnam, and Vietnamese intellectuals have issued a petition to support them, an unusual move in this communist country where ...

From BEN STOCKING, Boston Globe,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Nguyen Minh Triet,  Ho Chi Minh

Buddhist monks: Vietnam police still harassing us

Followers of a world-famous Buddhist teacher who were forced out of a Vietnamese monastery over the weekend have taken refuge at a nearby pagoda, but they say they have once again been surrounded by police. The monks' ongoing standoff with ...

From BEN STOCKING, Taiwan News,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Thich Nhat Hanh

Mob, police force nuns to leave Vietnam monastery

Followers of a world-famous Buddhist teacher say police and a mob of villagers have forced them out of a monastery in central Vietnam, ending their monthslong standoff with the communist authorities over religious freedom. FILE - In this ...

From BEN STOCKING, eTaiwan News,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Thich Nhat Hanh,  Ho Chi Minh

Tensions rise as police question monk's followers

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Followers of an internationally known Buddhist monk say tensions are rising at a monastery in Vietnam's Central Highlands after local officials accused them of trying to "sabotage" Vietnam's communist government. An angry crowd ...

From BEN STOCKING, Buffalo News,  22 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Nguyen Minh Triet

Baby-Formula Firms Test Law In Vietnam

HANOI, Sept. 19 -- Multinational companies in Vietnam sell baby formula so aggressively that they routinely stretch and sometimes break laws designed to promote breastfeeding, an Associated Press investigation has found. International guidelines and ...

From BEN STOCKING, The Washington Post,  20 Sep 2009

Related Topics: UNICEF

Multinationals break Vietnam law in formula sales

Multinational companies in Vietnam sell baby formula so aggressively that they routinely stretch and sometimes break laws designed to promote breastfeeding, an AP investigation has found. In this photo taken Friday, Oct. 3, 2008, a milk ...

From BEN STOCKING, Taiwan News,  19 Sep 2009

Related Topics: UNICEF,  World Health Organization

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