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Last Saturday night brought His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Dynasty and President of the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League, to Cornell. The Prince, a member of the Vietnamese imperial family gave a lecture, entitled "Revival of Vietnamese Culture: The Nguyen Dynasty," before a crowd of about 50 people. Maria Nguyen '05, vice president of the Cornell Vietnamese Association sang the American national anthem and then played the national anthem of South Vietnam. Aided by PowerPoint slides, Prince Buu Chanh then began his lecture speaking from a podium draped with the American flag...

The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam is politically pressuring the government of Vietnam to protect the liberty, religious rights of the Vietnamese people as well as the culture, traditions, languages of the Montagnards and Khmer Krom in Vietnam. (PRWEB) October 23, 2004 -- Today, Vietnam is experiencing a minor period of outward growth. Even the most dedicated Communists are abandoning old communist economic policies, which have proven to be ineffective and sometimes harmful. Capitalism is being introduced, with the Communist Party maintained only as a vehicle to exercise absolute control of the elite Party leaders over the common people. The...

PHNOM PENH - Politically fractious and still traumatised by Pol Pot's brutal 1970s rule, Cambodia moved smoothly into a new royal era yesterday by choosing one of Norodom Sihanouk's sons to take the throne following the king's shock abdication last week. Prague-educated prince is a unanimous choice. -- AFP The nine-member Royal Throne Council announced after meeting in the royal palace that it had approved 51-year-old Prince Norodom Sihamoni, a Prague-educated dance teacher who until recently was Cambodia's ambassador to Unesco, the United Nations cultural organisation, in Paris. The statement did not say how many council members - who included...

King Norodom Sihanouk is abdicating and wants the people of Cambodia - which does not have a hereditary monarchy - to begin a search for a successor, the head of the National Assembly said today. The king, who is in Beijing, made the announcement in a letter read to the National Assembly early today by his son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, who is also head of the assembly. The news was "shocking and very regretful," the prince said. The king asked the country to form a nine-member throne council to consider the next monarch, the statement said. Although Cambodia's monarch...

Aurora,IL (PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS - From the Office of the Leadership of the The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam & Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League: His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Nguyen Dynasty and President of The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League denounces the Communist Government on the return of United States Servicemen MIA or possible POWs’ and Human Rights Record. It has been stated by American Marines and Army Soldiers who are in Vietnam searching for MIA's, that there is corruption within the government of Vietnam. They stated that...

The explanation for Senator John Kerry that he was in “Cambodia on Christmas 1968” is by now a famous if not humorous footnote to his overall portrayal of hi own Vietnam War experiences. It is seared in his own, and now our own, memories. However the statement by John Kerry of his whereabouts at that time begs a very important question. Did Kerry in fact violate a secret oath, made official by his signature, under penalty of severe punishment?William Shawcross, in his 1979 book Sideshow, detailing covert U.S. operations in Cambodia during the period of the Royal Cambodian government...