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- McCain rejects Carter claim he is 'milking' Vietnam service
- ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP — Republican White House candidate John McCain on Sunday rejected a comment by former president Jimmy Carter that he was "milking" his Vietnam war heroism for political gain. Carter said in a USA Today interview on the sidelines of the Democratic convention in Denver last...
- Research articles 2008-08-31
- Paedophile Glitter faces the music back in Britain
- LONDON AFP — Paedophile 1970s glam rocker Gary Glitter arrived back in Britain on Friday after a farcical merry-go-round of Asian airports and was immediately ordered to register as a top level sex offender. Despite the fact he may never leave the country again, Glitter, 64, claimed he was...
- Research articles 2008-08-22
- Thailand to deport Glitter to Asian country
- BANGKOK AFP — Thailand Wednesday moved to deport former British glam rocker Gary Glitter, one day after he finished jail time in Vietnam for child sex offences, and indicated that he could be bound for another Asian country. The order was set to end Glitter's state of limbo since...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Thailand deports Glitter to Hong Kong
- HONG KONG AFP — Thailand Wednesday deported former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter to Hong Kong after he refused to board a plane to his native Britain, a Thai immigration official said. "He left Thailand for Hong Kong this evening," Colonel Voravat Amornvivat, a spokesman for the...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Glitter refused entry to Hong Kong: British foreign office
- HONG KONG AFP — Former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter was refused entry to Hong Kong Wednesday after being thrown out of Thailand, the British foreign ministry said. Chinese authorities told London that they denied the 64-year-old entry at 11:00 pm local time (1500 GMT). He was...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Glitter leaves Vietnam after child abuse prison term
- BANGKOK AFP — Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter was heading for London Tuesday after serving a child molestation sentence in a Vietnamese prison, and may not be allowed to leave his home country again. Glitter left the communist country late Tuesday, travelling to London via Bangkok, an airline...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
- Glitter fit to travel, still at Bangkok airport: Thai clinic
- BANGKOK AFP — Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter fell ill during the night, missing his flight to London from Bangkok after he left Vietnam on his release from prison, a medical official told AFP Wednesday. He was diagnosed with costochondritis, an inflammation of the ribs that causes chest...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
- Thailand declares Glitter 'persona non grata'
- BANGKOK AFP — Thailand declared British former glam rocker Gary Glitter "persona non grata" Wednesday and threatened to deport him back to Vietnam, where he has just finished prison time for child sex offences. The 64-year-old was due to have boarded an overnight flight to London from Bangkok but...
- Research articles 2008-08-19
- Glitter to be deported from Vietnam next week: lawyer
- HANOI, AFP — Onetime British pop star Gary Glitter will be deported to Britain next week upon his release from a Vietnamese prison after serving a three-year term for child molestation, his lawyer said Thursday. "I paid for the ticket for him," Glitter's lawyer Le Thanh Kinh told AFP....
- Research articles 2008-08-14
- Former enemies join forces in Vietnam drug war
- HANOI AFP — Wearing black helmets and police T-shirts, their handguns levelled, a drug raid team inches along the outside of a compound, throws open the door, spots a man with a gun and opens fire. With the pop-pop-pop of a Glock 9mm an armed suspect is shot and...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- Gary Glitter to be freed from Vietnam jail this month
- HANOI AFP — British pop singer Gary Glitter will be freed from a Vietnam prison on August 19 after serving a three-year term for child molestation, an official said Friday. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was arrested in Vietnam on November 19, 2005 for charges of...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- An African exploration of the East Asia's education experience
- An African exploration of the East Asia's education experience. (CD-ROM included) Ed. by Birger Fredriksen and Tan Jee Peng. The World Bank 2008 374 pages $60.00 Paperback LA1141 Ten education and development specialists from the World Bank and the countries of Singapore,...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Honda Vietnam's Cumulative Production Achieved 5 Million-unit Milestone
- Hanoi, July 28, 2008 - ACN Newswire - Honda Vietnam Company HVN celebrates the 5th million motorcycle to be produced in the first Motorcycle plant. To be at the ceremony are Koji Onishi, General Director of HVN, many journalists, suppliers and whole staffs of the company. The 5th million...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Vietnam to freeze new golf courses to protect rice farms
- HANOI AFP — Communist Vietnam plans to restrict the growth of new golf courses encroaching on rice farms to ensure national food security and protect thousands of poor farmers, state media reported Monday. More than 140 golf courses, either operating or in the planning stages, would take up almost...
- Research articles 2008-07-27
- Why Vietnam Loves Mccain
- They jailed him for five years. Now they want him in the White House. John McCain might not recognize Nguyen van Sy, but they used to be neighbors. Back in the 1960s, Sy was left behind as caretaker at the North Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Film Institute after its...
- Research articles 2008-07-21
- Vietnam's top dissident Buddhist monk Thich Huyen Quang dies
- HANOI AFP — Thich Huyen Quang, the head of the Vietnamese Buddhist movement that has refused to come under communist government control, died on Saturday aged 87, his supporters said in a statement from Paris. "Most Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, 4th Supreme Patriarch of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- In Vietnam, war veterans follow McCain's White House bid
- HANOI AFP — Four decades ago a young Vietnamese army sergeant, Nguyen Van Dai, launched the surface-to-air missile that downed John McCain's bomber jet from the skies above Hanoi. The SAM blew off the right wing of the A-4 Skyhawk and sent the wounded McCain parachuting into a lake,...
- Research articles 2008-07-05
- Persuasion and coercion in counterinsurgency warfare
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT IS EVIDENT," remarked Secretary of War Elihu Root at the end of the Philippine War, "that the insurrection has been brought to an end both by making a war distressing and hopeless on the one hand and by making peace attractive." (1) Root's appraisal holds true...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Retired US general criticizes McCain's military experience
- WASHINGTON AFP — Retired US General Wesley Clark on Sunday said Republican White House hopeful John McCain lacked executive experience to be president, in rare criticism of the Vietnam veteran's military service. Clark told CBS television that McCain was a hero for enduring years as a prisoner of war...
- Research articles 2008-06-29
- Former jailer at 'Hanoi Hilton' says he would vote for McCain
- HAIPHONG, Vietnam -- John McCain has an unusual endorsement -- from the Vietnamese jailer who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend. "If I were an American voter, I would vote for Mr. John McCain," Tran Trong...
- Research articles 2008-06-28
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