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Pha Lai Power shift helps leading bourse Ho Chi Minh exchange tops $13 billion BUSINESS ASIA by Bloomberg
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International Herald Tribune
01-29-2007
Pha Lai Thermal Power Joint-Stock moved its listing to Vietnam's main stock exchange, becoming the bourse's second-largest company and pushing its market value past $13 billion for the first timePha Lai is based in the northern province of Hai Duong, where it operates two coal-fired power stations with a total capacity of 1,040 megawatts. The company is 78 percent-owned by the national utility, Electricity of Vietnam, which will r...
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Brocheux, Pierre: Ho Chi Minh: A Biography.(Book review)
History: Review of New Books
; Brocheux, Pierre Ho Chi Minh: A Biography Trans. Claire Duiker New York: Cambridge University Press 265 pp., $35.00, ISBN 978-0-5218-5062-9 Publication Date: March 2007 The man considered the Father of the Nation, hailed as its liberator, and whose name now designates the former capital of the
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HO'S DONG DEALERS; War, memories in Ho Chi Minh
The Press
; The Vietnamese city once synonymous with combat has become the place to make money not war, writes YVONNE MARTIN. Some of the world's youngest and most ruthless entrepreneurs prowl Ho Chi Minh City streets after dark. The most vivid example is barely four years old and selling poorly printed
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Local artist's Ho Chi Minh portrait sparks protests.(News)
The Boston Herald
; A Newton Centre artist's flattering quilt-like portrait of the late North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh is stirring emotions in the San Francisco Bay area, home to a large community of Vietnamese-Americans, many of whom are decidely anti-Communist. I think he's a very complex leader who we need to
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Ho Chi Minh denied will's last wish
Chicago Sun-Times
; HANOI The Vietnamese politburo has announced that it will publish the original, unexpurgated last will and testament of president Ho Chi Minh this weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of his death. The Communist Party newspaper Nhan Dan also revealed that Ho Chi Minh actually died a day earlier
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Profile: Vietnamese-Americans protest an art exhibit featuring portraits of Ho Chi Minh, whom they consider an archenemy
All Things Considered (NPR)
; ... day it' s open. (Soundbite of protest) GONZALES: Long Van Tran is the organizer of the demonstration. A former captain in ... camouflage combat fatigues and a red beret. Mr. LONG VAN TRAN: When the Communist North Vietnamese army took over South ... escape Vietnam right away. GONZALES: For the past 11 years, ...
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Ho Chi Minh, patriot and revolutionary
Chicago Sun-Times
; Ho Chi Minh By William J. Duiker. Hyperion. $35. He was one of the 20th century's great revolutionary leaders and helped transform an era. In the 1920s and '30s, he was one of the chief critics of colonialism, a lonely and ignored voice. In the 1940s and '50s, he put together the political and
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It's just as exciting in Ho Chi Minh City
The Malay Mail
; AS the Sea Games officially starts today, the focus will be on Hanoi, the main city which will host 22 events. However, before I left for Ho Chi Minh City four days ago, many Malaysian sports officials informed me that Hanoi will be the place to be, if one wants to feel the excitement of the Sea
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Ho Chi Minh Haters: Oakland art exhibit rekindles anti-Communist movement
AsianWeek
; ... calmly to each other. As an effigy of Ho blew gently in the wind, some sat solitarily on the ground, staring into space. Loan Van Tran, who has helped organize the protest, wasn't disappointed though, explaining that most people have to work. They weren't expecting ...
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Six-lane highway on the deadly Ho Chi Minh Trail
The Independent - London
; VIETNAM'S FOUNDING father Ho Chi Minh, or "Uncle Ho" as his admirers call him, never lived to see the victory of communist North Vietnam over the South, or the renaming of Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City. Now the legendary wartime trail that bore his name - the secret, ever shifting network of jungle
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Ho Chi Minh City Lures the Backpack Crowd
Chicago Sun-Times
; Prague is passe. Ho Chi Minh City is in. That's the word among young American backpackers headed for overseas hot spots. "Tay ba lo. That's the local Vietnamese name for the increasing number of Western backpackers plodding Ho Chi Minh City streets," writes Wink Dulles, author of the Fielding's
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