Quê Mẹ 140

Table of Contents

• Portrait of the former Emperor Bao Dai Thi Vũ
• Peasants’ uprising in Thai Binh Võ Văn Ái
• Bitter salt: the hardships of peasants and workers in the salt flats Phù Nam
• Peasants: from submission to revolt Quê Mẹ
• Repression in Chi Cong village in Thuan Hai Province Nguyễn Kiến Phước
• Un-democratic practices at Lac Hoa State Farm Phan Huy
• Anger in the rice-fields Hà Văn Thùy
• Confessions from the official Press: Devastating floods hit the Mekong Delta early this year Dương Thế Hùng, Phạm Oanh
• Number of the Day
• Squandering human ressources in the Mekong Delta: lack of educational opportunities Trần Thượng Tuấn
• On the coming Francophone Summit in Hanoi: Appeal for Human Rights FIDH & VCHR
• Bats in the Belfry: the “Bat Pagoda” at Soc Trang Nguyễn Linh Giang
• Press Statements by VCHR & IBIB :
  – Delegations from 20 countries at the International Network of Engaged Buddhist Congress call on Hanoi to release UBCV leaders
  – International Prison Watch’s 1997 Report denounces inhumane conditions of political prisoners in Vietnam
• Nguyen Trai and the Ca Bla On Ang Nang Cuc Sutra: study of the Buddhist Sutra’s translation into Nom script in the XVth Century (3) Lê Hữu Mục
• May you be happy for a hundred years ! Vĩnh Phúc
• The President’s secret journey: Ho Chi Minh’s incognito trip to China in 1950 to seek military aid, revealed for the first time by a North Vietnamese journalist (2) Lê Phát
• Letterbox Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner