A U.S. Return to Cam Ranh Bay? Maybe, but not Alone

Vietnam’s Cam Ranh Bay is one of Asia’s finest deep-water ports, a fact known well not just to the Vietnamese but to the host of nations who have at one time or another occupied this South China Sea prize.  France, Japan, Russia and the United States have all at one time or another been based here, each successive occupying power making improvements to the Bay’s facilities.

What Really Happened at Tiananmen

A leadership struggle in the Communist Party led to bloodshed.

By BAO PU

Twenty years after Chinese troops crushed demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, new light has now been shed on the incident by the forthcoming memoirs of Zhao Ziyang. The former general secretary died in 2005, after living in forced seclusion for 16 years for supporting the pro-democracy movement. In those years of seclusion, he managed to record a testimony in audiotapes. His memoirs reveal that bloodshed could have been avoided in 1989.

China's economic reforms in the 1980s led to a rift in the top Chinese leadership between those who supported the reforms and those who opposed them. The students demonstrating in Tiananmen Square were calling for the deepening of reform, including democracy. Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping, Premier Li Peng and other conservatives opposed them and were predisposed to respond harshly.

                                   The Voice of Refugees

                                       By Le Xuan Khoa

                                       Introductory Notes

Earlier this year, when I was invited to speak at the Boat People Retrospective Symposium,  my initial thought was to talk about the successful resettlement of the Vietnamese refugees in the United States, not only as productive and responsible members of American society but also as potential and important contributors to the process of change in Vietnam. Since the mid-1980’s, Vietnamese leaders have been appealing to the overseas Vietnamese to contribute their “grey matter” to the development of Vietnam and help achieve the national goals, namely “a prosperous people, a strong country, an equitable, democratic and civilized society.” Undoubtedly, the younger generation of overseas Vietnamese, particularly Vietnamese-American professionals, could play an essential role in the industrialization, modernization and democratization of Vietnam.

Vietnam scientists clash with government over bauxite project

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Hanoi - Vietnamese scientists and actvists have called on the government to cancel a massive bauxite mining plan in the country’s Central Highlands for environmental reasons, scientists confirmed Friday. The scientists said the calls came at a seminar organized by Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, its Federation of Technical and Science Associations, and the state-owned Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin).

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