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Shanghai highrises could worsen threat of rising seas By Rujun Shen Sun Oct 5, 9:26 PM ET Shanghai, China's most populous city and an aspiring global financial center, is also among the world's most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels as global warming melts polar ice. Its location on a low-lying alluvial plain near the mouth of Asia's longest river, the Yangtze, had already left it prone, but researchers warn that forests of skyscrapers sprouting across the ambitious metropolis could compound the threat by causing its marshy ground to sink. "Shanghai came from the ocean, and has...

Uighur group claims China bus attacks, threatens Olympics Sat Jul 26, 3:14 AM ET A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring threats by extremists on the Internet said. In a video statement, Commander Seyfullah of the Turkestan Islamic Party claimed credit for several attacks, including the May 5 Shanghai bus bombing which killed three; another Shanghai attack; an attack on police in Wenzhou on July 17 using an explosive-laden tractor; a bombing of a Guangzhou plastic factory on...

Five policemen were stabbed to death in Shanghai today after a man set fire to their station before charging in with a knife in a frenzied attack. Government officials said the man, a 28-year-old from Beijing named only as Yang, was "quickly overpowered" and arrested. Police said the attacker confessed he had wanted revenge after police arrested him last year on suspicion of stealing bicycles. "He was unhappy ... In order to take revenge, he decided to commit criminal actions," a statement said. "He broke into the building, attacking policemen who were at work."According to the statement, the man set...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will open the world's longest cross-sea bridge on Thursday, linking the financial and commercial hub of Shanghai with the booming port and industrial city of Ningbo, the official Xinhua news agency said. The 11.8 billion yuan ($1.7 billion) cable-stayed structure, spanning Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang Province south of Shanghai, will be open to traffic on a trial basis at midnight following an inauguration ceremony on Thursday afternoon, Xinhua said. The 36 km span will shorten travel time between Shanghai and Ningbo, two key port cities in China's prosperous Yangtze River Delta, to two-and-a-half hours from...

So a few of us FReepers will be in Shanghai in late March - are there any other FReepers in the Shanghai area? Perhaps we can host the first annual Shanghai FReeper Gathering? Any interest?

Investors despair as Asian markets tumble By Denny Thomas Reuters - 22 minutes agoSYDNEY (Reuters) - Investors across Asia stared in disbelief and counted the cost to their pensions and savings as stock tickers showed markets tumbling on Tuesday on fears that a recession in the United States would rock the rest of the world. (Advertisement) "I just feel sick, very sick," said retired IT manager Peter Hurst, 61, from Melbourne, who relies on investment income as well as his pension. The market meltdown across Asia, following big losses in Europe on Monday and signals in the futures market that...

The newly floated oil giant PetroChina has lost a third of a trillion dollars in nominal value in just three weeks, plummeting to a fresh low yesterday as angst gripped the Shanghai stock market. The benchmark CSI 300 index of Chinese stocks has dropped 18pc in November, the worst one-month fall in more than a decade. The bourse has tumbled 22pc since peaking in mid-October after a wild speculative boom that saw prices triple in a year - much like the final phase of Japan's Nikkei frenzy in 1989. It now qualifies as an official "bear market". What began as...

Shanghai's stock exchange says it is considering allowing big multinational companies to list shares. China's largest exchange may permit companies such as HSBC, Coca-Cola and Siemens - which have large business operations in the country - to trade. Que Bo, assistant general manager of Shanghai's exchange said it was doing market research on the plan and expected to "get some results soon". He said the plan would make Shanghai's market more competitive. Analysts said such a move would accelerate government efforts to ease restrictions on investment in and out of China. HSBC has invested more than $5bn in China, buying...

Germany has come up with the funds to launch its first magnetic levitation - or maglev - rail service. The state of Bavaria is to build the high-speed railway line from Munich city centre to its airport, making it Europe's first commercial track.

Some 200,000 people are being evacuated from China's financial hub, Shanghai, as a powerful typhoon barrels towards the country's east coast. Residents from the city's exposed areas were being moved to temporary shelters ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Wipha. Forecasters said the storm, expected to make landfall by early Wednesday, could be the worst to hit in a decade.

Dream of high-speed rail may prove Shanghai politician's final nightmare By Howard W. French Published: August 8, 2007 SHANGHAI: "I have a dream," Chen Liangyu, Shanghai's Communist Party secretary - since disgraced and removed from office - was fond of intoning before his aides, consciously echoing the words of Martin Luther King Jr. And as the leader of China's richest city, Chen had the power to make most of those dreams come true. The "hai" in the word Shanghai means ocean, but the city had no beach, he would lament. So city officials built a 6-mile, or 10-kilometer, beach in...

Urgent: Former Shanghai party chief expelled from Party, government www.chinaview.cn 2007-07-26 19:19:28       BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Former Shanghai party chief Chen Liangyu was expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from all government posts, said the CPC Central Committee on Thursday. Senior Shanghai official  on trial for role in pension fund scandal     BEIJING, June 29 -- Ling Baoheng, Shanghai's former chief watchdog of state-owned assets, became the second official to stand trial for alleged involvement in the city's pension fund scandal, as hearing of his case began yesterday. Full storyChinese auditors reveal billions of...

THREE GORGES CONSTRUCTION SITE, Hubei Province, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Electricity generation now spans the two banks of China's largest hydropower project, the Three Gorges Project, with the first turbine generator on the right bank of the river going into operation on Monday after a 72-hour trial. The 700,000-kilowatt No. 22 turbine began producing electricity at 9:12 a.m. The electricity is transmitted through the state power grid to energy-strained eastern cities such as Shanghai. An electronic monitoring screen showed the turbine was operating normally with output of 650,000 kwh. The 14 turbines on the left bank of the Gorges...

Clean Sweep In Shanghai Paul Maidment and Shu-Ching Jean Chen 09.25.06, 2:00 PM ET China's President Hu Jintao has been eradicating the influence of his predecessor Jiang Zemin since the day he took over the more powerful post of party leader in 2002. The sacking and arrest of Chen Lianggyu, the most senior Chinese Communist party in Shanghai, on corruption charges, and his suspension from the party's top leadership council, the Politburo, plunges the knife as deep as Hu has yet dared into the so-called Shanghai faction, the associates of Jiang, whose political patronage has cast a long shadow over...

If you are trying to track down someone named Chen Jie in Shanghai, you may need a little extra help. According to official statistics, it is the city's most popular name and is currently shared by 3,937 people. It combines a common surname - Chen - with a popular character - Jie - which means clean or pure. According to residents, the prevalence of the name is leading to confusion with school registrations and bank accounts. One Chen Jie told the Shanghai Daily that she kept getting another woman's letters. "Every time I have to pass the letters to...

China tightened its control over the distribution of news by foreign agencies Sunday, further restricting international access to the already tightly regulated Chinese media market. The new measures took effect immediately upon being issued by the state Xinhua News Agency. The regulations give Xinhua broad authority over foreign news agencies, requiring them to distribute stories, photos and other services solely through Xinhua or entities authorized by Xinhua. The rules would affect The Associated Press, Reuters and other foreign news agencies seeking wider access to the rapidly expanding Chinese market. It was unclear how other news organizations would be affected. Under...

local6.com Shanghai Constructs Underground Bunker Capable Of Sheltering 200,000 People POSTED: 2:20 pm EDT July 31, 2006 UPDATED: 2:24 pm EDT July 31, 2006 SHANGHAI, China -- Shanghai has constructed a massive underground bunker complex capable of sheltering 200,000 people from a nuclear attack, a local newspaper reported. The million-square-foot complex connects to shopping centers, office buildings, apartment buildings and the subway system via miles of tunnels, the Shanghai Morning Post said in an exclusive report. The newspaper said the complex has water, electricity, lighting, ventilation and protective doors, and can support life for as long as two weeks. The...

Shanghai builds vast bunker to shield against terrorism attack (Filed: 31/07/2006) The authorities in Shanghai, which is the Chinese financial hub, have built a huge underground shelter against the eventuality of terrorism or industrial accidents. The vast 968,400sq ft subterranean complex could accommodate 200,000 people for up to 15 days.It is linked to government offices, commercial and residential areas and the transport system by a labyrinth of tunnels. The bunker can protect occupants from "nuclear radiation, poisonous gases, explosions and other disasters," the state's news agency Xinhua reported yesterday. "In peacetime, parts of the bunker could be used as garages,...

Oracle Commentaries 7/22/2006 Urgent Intelligence Update UNCOVERED: RUSSIAN-SYRIAN-IRANIAN AXIS For students of Bible prophecy, even the title of this communiqué should set off alarm sirens. I just received some electrifying intelligence data. First, from the Debka-Net-Weekly’s briefing. And second, from some personal intelligence sources (I carefully guard) that confirm Debka’s report. Russia, Iran and Syria have entered a defense pact that is in the process of altered the balance of power in the entire Middle East. Russia’s part in the pact has been kept relatively secret for a long time. But the facts reveal a long steady Russian commitment...

Illusions on Sale in Shanghai Just like the city, 'ghost malls' aren't what they appear to be. High-end stores attract few shoppers, but image trumps commerce. By Don Lee Times Staff Writer July 13, 2006 SHANGHAI — Amid the towering glass-and-steel splendor of the Plaza 66 mall — packed with boutiques offering Dior, Prada, Cartier and other luxury brands — shop clerk Xu Junyuan idly scratched his bald head as a lone shopper browsed the deserted aisles. "I'm just bored," said Xu, who works at the jeans boutique Diesel. At Fendi, black-suited clerks yawned as they propped themselves against counters....

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday for the summit of a regional security group, a visit that could indicate whether the forum will evolve into an anti-U.S. bloc. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization says it isn't aimed at any third parties. Yet its dominant members, China and Russia, are frequently at odds with Washington and have resisted U.S. efforts to seek tougher U.N. action in the standoff over Iran's nuclear program. Although host China has said the Iranian nuclear issue won't be on the agenda when the summit begins Thursday, the issue is expected to arise in separate...

SHANGHAI (AP) - Tropical Storm Chanchu swept into the East China Sea Friday leaving behind a path of destruction in southern China, where it killed at least 11 people and left 27 Vietnamese fishermen missing after their boats sank in Chinese waters. Chanchu, downgraded early Thursday from a typhoon, has killed at least 50 people in Asia, including 37 last weekend in the Philippines, where it destroyed thousands of homes. There were fears the death toll could rise dramatically. Chanchu hit China Thursday, flooding scores of homes and forcing the evacuation of more than 1 million people before weakening to...

Chinese company refuses comment on claims it spread AIDS to hemophiliacs SHANGHAI, China -- A Chinese pharmaceutical company's spokesman refused to comment Wednesday on accusations the company's hemophilia drugs spread HIV to scores of users. Li Wanhua, spokesman for The Shanghai Institute of Biological Products, refused to address the claims in a brief telephone interview. "I have no comment on this at the moment," Li said. Hemophiliacs and the parents of children with HIV say the institute made a hemophilia drug using HIV-infected blood and continued to sell it after the Ministry of Health banned it in 1995. Family members...

BEIJING. April 13 (Interfax-China) - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's summit, due to be held on June 15 2006, will discuss the issue of renaming and reforming the organization's secretariat, said the SCO's Executive Secretary Zhang Deguang. "The Secretariat was set up at the organization's onset. The SCO has gone through significant change and development, which requires that the Secretariat be reorganized and renamed," Zhang said. The upcoming summit will also address the issue of granting the status of permanent members to individual observer states, at their request, he said. Regarding talks between the SCO defense ministers, set for the...

SHANGHAI (AP) - SAIC Motor Corp., a partner of both Volkswagen and General Motors in China, is gearing up to begin making its own brand of cars, aiming to begin exports to major markets including Europe by 2007. The company recently invested 3.68 billion yuan (US$460 million; euro377 million) in a new unit, SAIC Motor Manufacturing Co., to handle its own-brand production. It aims for an annual capacity of 600,000 SAIC-brand vehicles, including both cars and commercial vehicles, by 2010, said Zhu Xiangjun, a SAIC spokeswoman. Most of the cars now made by SAIC are produced in its joint...

Shanghai -- When the Rolling Stones take to their first mainland China stage Saturday, their audience isn't likely to look much different than one in San Francisco. Rather than to a sea of Chinese faces, the band will play to an international crowd. A unique mix of censorship, daunting bureaucracy and an immature commercial market make China -- a potentially lucrative place to tap a new, hip audience -- into something of a wasteland when it comes to the type of big concerts that generate viewers on pay-per-view in the United States. The Western rock and pop acts popular among...

WASHINGTON Feb 27, 2006 (AP)-- Eleven cities have shown interest in playing host to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, twice the number of cities that applied to get the 2004 gathering. The DNC initially sent out letters to more than 30 cities, giving them an overview and finding out their level of interest. The 11 cities that said they were interested: Anaheim, Calif.; Dallas; Denver; Detroit; Las Vegas; Minneapolis; New Orleans; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Phoenix and San Antonio. Some of the cities are in critical swing states like Florida and Arizona, while others are in population centers like New...

January 20, 2006: Three years ago, the United States withdrew U.S. Army Special Forces instructors, who had been training Venezuelan special operations soldiers. Venezuela has resumed that training, using several hundred instructors from the Chinese special forces (Quantou Budui). The Chinese have been in Venezuela for about six months, and are training Venezuelan troops in recon techniques, and counter-terrorism tactics. The Chinese speak good Spanish, and are apparently enjoying their assignment. Over a hundred other Chinese troops are also providing personal security for Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. China has also sent some intelligence specialists, who are helping Venezuela to upgrade...

Main dividends from the bankruptcy of the West’s Central Asian policy are being shared by the Russians and the Chinese. Contrary to other parties of "anti-Western front", Beijing and Moscow were tenaciously striving to push the Americans out of the region. For this purpose they, among other means, used their influence over Tashkent and Bishkek, in the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Both Russia and China to the same extent benefited from the change of external powers in the region in 2005. However, in a long-term prospective, Beijing has a real chance of monopolizing economic and political influence in Central...

Russia has struck a deal to provide Iran with short-range, surface-to-air missiles, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Monday. He defended the deal, saying that the weapons system was purely defensive. Russian media reported Friday that Russian and Iranian officials had signed various weapons contracts in November worth a billion dollars (?850 million) that would send up to 30 Tor-M1 missile systems to Iran over the next two years. ''A contract for the delivery of air defense Tor missile systems to Iran has indeed been signed,'' Ivanov said in comments broadcast by the state channel Rossiya, without giving further details.

Selections from a series of interior pictures of 500 Shanghai homes occupied by individuals and families living lives ranging from paupers to billionaires, accompanied by brief biographical sketches depicting the lives of their occupants. "I've been in Shanghai for more than 10 years. Working makes my day and night. Life pace is too fast and I don't have any social security. I dare not say I contributed a lot to Shanghai's development, but I am working for this city. Life is unfair. I don't have a legal identity for me to find a decent job. I don't have time to...

CHINESE Communist party officials have been ordered to “declare” their mistresses after a public row between a former Shanghai beauty queen and her ex-lover highlighted a revival of the pre-revolutionary practice of keeping concubines. Da Beini has been described in China’s crowded internet chatrooms as as “the richest mistress in Shanghai” after she tried to sell many of the gifts she received — said to include a car and apartments — on an auction website. For his part, Li Shouzhong, the former lover, is suing her for alleged non-repayment of a loan. The Taiwanese businessman claims Da has not paid...

BEIJING, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Shanghai Airlines Co. Ltd , a regional carrier based in commercial hub of Shanghai, has signed to buy two Boeing 767-300 ER jets with a catalogue price of about $256 million, local media reported on Tuesday. Shanghai Air would take delivery of the two aircraft in July and November 2006, said the China Securities Journal. The airline earlier this month signed a contract to buy 9 Boeing 787s, part of a $5 billion deal for 42 aircraft by four Chinese carriers. Boeing says China will become the world's second largest commercial aviation market, behind the...

Drafted By: Dr. Michael A. Weinstein Overshadowed in the Western press by the G8 summit of leading industrialized nations and the complications to it caused by the London transit bombings, another summit -- the July 5 meetings in Astana, Kazakhstan of the heads of government of the six members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (S.C.O.) -- promised to have greater geostrategic significance than the more widely reported events. Created with its present membership of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in 2001, the origins of the S.C.O. date back to 1996 when Beijing initiated the Shanghai Five, which included...

Shanghai on blackouts brinkJuly 6, 2005 Shanghai is on the verge of citywide blackouts with the 10th day of a heat wave sending electricity usage soaring to fresh peak records. Loads reached a record 16.4 million kilowatts this week compared with a high of 15 million kilowatts last year, the Shanghai Morning Post reported Tuesday. Although two new generators have come online since last year, raising capacity by 1.32 million kilowatts, there is not enough supply with temperatures hovering around 39 degrees Celsius. With all city generating units running at full tilt and grids outside supplying an extra 4.83 million...

Tuesday July 5, 8:18 PM 100 people in Shanghai injured after truck carrying liquid ammonia explodesOne hundred people were injured in Shanghai after a truck carrying liquid ammonia exploded, local media reported Tuesday. The accident occurred at midday Monday in the city's Nanhui district when the steel container on the back of a truck exploded _ apparently due to high heat _ spilling fumes into the air, the Beijing Times newspaper reported. A news photo in the paper showed dozens of people crowded into a large hospital room, some resting in reclining chairs while others lay on mats on the...

HONG KONG: Shui On Land Ltd, the China property unit of Hong Kong’s Shui On Construction & Materials Ltd, plans to invest 10 billion yuan (US$1.2bil) to develop a community in Shanghai modelled on America's Silicon Valley. The Chuangzi Tiandi project would include about one million sq m of floor area – 40% residential and 60% commercial – on an 84ha site, Shui On Group spokeswoman Stephanie Lin wrote in an e-mail. ''The project aims to generate technological innovation and entrepreneurship similar to that of Silicon Valley in the US,'' Lin wrote. ''It is also designed to provide `live-work’ accommodations...

Well-to-do Shanghai Kids Act Out Their Fantasy A group of Shanghai children rehearse before their turn to perform on stage at a 'COSPLAY' (costume play-acting) event in Shanghai, China May 15, 2005. The children dress as their favourite cartoon or comic character and perform segments of the show for an audience. Picture taken on May 15, 2005. HONG KONG OUT REUTERS/Mark Ralston Reuters - May 15 9:03 PM

SHANGHAI, China - Thousands of Chinese Catholics attended services for Pope John Paul II in Shanghai on Saturday, despite the Chinese government's refusal to forge ties with the Vatican. "Our pope loved China and loved the Chinese church," Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian said at a memorial mass at Shanghai's St. Ignatius Cathedral, the city's main Catholic Church. "He hoped the Chinese church would be united and not divided," Jin said, a reference to the split between the state-sanctioned church and unofficial groups that still revere the pope as their leader. A symbolic funeral bier was laid at the base of...

LONDON (AP) - Cash-strapped car manufacturer MG Rover Group is going into financial administration after a proposed takeover deal with a Chinese firm fell through, the British government said Thursday night.  "MG Rover has announced that their board has decided to call in the receivers,'' Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt said.  Rover said it had asked PriceWaterhouseCoopers to "accept engagement to advise the board of directors on the current position at the company.''  Earlier Thursday, Rover - the last major British-owned carmaker - suspended production at its British factory and called on the government to firm up its...

SIAMESE twins from Anhui Province were sent to Shanghai East Hospital on March 1 for separation surgery, the Shanghai Youth Daily reported. Shanghai East Hospital is our last opportunity, I hope Shanghai doctors can successfully separate my babies,?said the mother of the twins. The twins are staying in the special ward for newborn babies. The twins share a heart, their livers and intestines are connected together and their bodies are connected for 15 centimetres from chest to navel. Liu Zhongmin, president of the hospital, said the incidence of Siamese twins is only one out of 200,000 births. He said this...

Randolph Hobson Guthrie III, the black-sheep scion of one of the city's oldest, wealthiest and most socially prominent families, is behind bars in Shanghai, waiting to find out if he'll be spending the next 15 years in a Chinese labor camp. The 38-year-old heir — who can trace his family roots back to Founding Father Robert Livingston and his family fortune back to Andrew Carnegie's partner, Henry Phipps — has just been tried for video piracy and will soon learn the court's verdict. He was arrested last July in what U.S. Customs officials called their "first-ever joint law-enforcement investigation" with...

CHINA'S PIRACY DILEMMA – U.S. ACTION VIA WTO?Feb 15, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.comby Tim BrownChina’s protection of intellectual property rights is forefront in the news again. In January Vice-premier Wu Yi had told US officials and business people that China would need time to correct the problem of piracy. He provided huge numbers such as the confiscation of 10 billion pieces of fake goods as evidence that China is trying to solve the problem. According to a Newsweek article for the February 21 issue Beijing has been successful in eliminating pirated copies of its 2008 Olympics logo. Now music, film and...

BEIJING: Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp's (SAIC) planned purchase of troubled British car firm MG Rover has run into difficulties with Chinese regulators stalling on a decision, the Financial Times reported. It said state regulators are resisting British pressure to fast track approval, angered by Rover's decision to reveal it was in negotiations with SAIC, China's largest state-run automaker. For the deal to proceed, SAIC needs approval from the Shanghai city government, its owner, and from the National Development and Reform Commission, which is responsible for foreign investments by state-owned companies. However, Rover's decision to reveal it was in talks...

A local blood bank filed its second lawsuit against the Shanghai Public Health Bureau, after the latter banned its business of storing umbilical blood stem cells in January. Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court held the first hearing Thursday. "The company conducted blood collecting without any authorization and has broken the Blood Donation Law of the People's Republic of China and the Practices of Blood Centres," said the bureau's Liu Xuefeng. Shanghai Zaishengyuan Life Co-operation Ltd, the city's first private umbilical blood bank lost the first trial in Shanghai Huangpu District People's Court in July. But the company disagreed. "Zaishangyuan...

China's central bank may consider establishing a "super branch" in Shanghai to bring it closer to the marketplace. The move, reported in yesterday's edition of the Beijing Times newspaper, got its first confirmation on January 20 from People's Bank of China Shanghai Branch head Hu Pingxi. Hu was quoted as saying that the central bank aimed to "consolidate its resources and improve its operational efficiency" by setting up such a body in Shanghai. The Shanghai "super branch" will assist the central bank's decision-making processes by being in a position to obtain more relevant market information. But the Beijing headquarters of...

On New Year's Eve 2005, Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian officially opened the world's tallest building, Taipei 101. The bottle-green, 1,667-foot, $1.8 billion structure was designed by native architect C.Y. Lee to reflect a distinctly Chinese aesthetic, calling to mind stacked pagodas or, according to some, a stick of bamboo. "Chinese people love bamboo because it's very strong and very flexible," says Cathy Yang, vice president of Taipei Financial Center Corporation, the company that owns the building. "Bamboo is hollow inside. Chinese philosophy teaches us that the hollow bamboo reminds us to be modest and humble inside." Well, perhaps it's a...

The first Hooters outlet in China opened last month, offering customers its signature combination of cold beer, chicken wings and waitress with clingy shirts and orange high-cut shorts. The atmosphere also includes jukebox music from the 1950s and 1960s, sports on the television screens, and waitresses who speak fluent English.

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...