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South China Seizure

February 6, 2008 Wall Street Journal Asia When China created a new administrative unit covering three archipelagos in the South China Sea in December 2007

VIETNAM: Award-winning journalist released

New York, February 4, 2008—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the recent release from prison of Tran Khai Thanh Thuy, an award-winning writer and journalist.

Vietnam frees dissident writer with TB

Friday, February 1, 2008 HANOI — A court in communist Vietnam freed a writer and pro-democracy activist from prison Thursday, partially on medical grounds due

Vietnam Events of 2007

2007 was characterized by the harshest crackdown on peaceful dissent in 20 years. The government, emboldened by international recognition after joining the World Trade Organization

Letter of Support from 55 CA Assembly members

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE STATE CAPITOL SACREMENTO, CALIFORNIA January 7, 2008 President Nguyen Minh Triet c/o Embassy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1233 20th Street, NW,