Quê Mẹ 149-150

Table of Contents

• Between mountains and clouds (3) Thi Vũ
• Two perspectives of democracy Võ Văn Ái
• The world of Chóe, Vietnam’s most famous cartoonist Choé
• Tet, poetry, old friends and the new Communist mandarins Quách Tấn
• Bui Giang looks back on his lifetime of Poetry Bùi Giáng
• Bui Giang: Days gazing at the Wind – hommage to the late poet-philosopher (1925 – 1998) Vũ Hoàng Thư
• It could only happen in the SRV – quotes from the official press Biện Phúc Châu
• Origins of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Lý Tường
• Quê Me & VCHR: overview of 23 years action for democracy and human rights in Vietnam Nguyên Bạch, Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• Human Rights Defenders Summit in Paris Quốc Nhân
• The “Charter of Asian Democrats” is signed in Paris” by Wei Jing-sheng, Jose Ramos-Horta, Aung Ko, Vo Van Ai and democrats from North and South Korea, Indonesia, Burma, China, Tibet, Taiwan, Malaysia… Đỗ Kỳ
• Vietnam in 1998: an analysis of social, economic and political developments Phạm Trần
• Help us rescue literature classes – article from the official press Diệp Bá Hương
• Selection of poems Bùi Chí Vĩnh, Bùi Giáng, Hà Đình Cẩn, Hà Thượng Nhân, Quách Tấn, Thi Vũ, Xuân Quỳnh
• The city of wounded birds (poem) Nh. Tay Ngàn
• Reflexions on a poem by Hue Thu Hà Thượng Nhân
• Poem Huệ Thu
• Who is the true author of the play-in-verse “The visitor from afar” ? Bà Trần Văn An
• Poem Lê Huyền Linh
• The Chimes of the Pagoda Bell (short story from Vietnam) Xuân Sách
• Frangipani flowers – essay Đặng Thế Kiệt
• Two short stories: The night ambush and my old schoolteacher – The soldiers’ return Trần Hoài Thư
• About the national flag Hồ Văn Châm
• The situation of political prisoners in Vietnam – Quê Me interviews Pham Anh Dung, Le Hoan Son and Pham Van Thanh (continued from Quê Me No. 148) (2) Quê Mẹ
• Press Statements by VCHR et IBIB :
  – Thich Khong Tanh placed under house arrest after serving 5-year prison sentence
  – Thich Quang The of the State Buddhist Church denounces government confiscation of 17 pagodas in Da Nang
  – 29 monks from the Linh Mu Pagoda call on the UN to intervene to free Thich Tri Tuu PTTPGQT, VCHR
• Quê Me’s Letterbox Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner