Quê Mẹ 90-91

Table of Contents

• Reading “Quê Nhà” by Y Lan Thi Vũ
• Open letter to Writers and Artists in Vietnam Võ Văn Ái
• Defections: Cambodian Cabinet Vice-President Sieng Saran, and Vietnamese opera star Hoa Mi seek political asylum in France Quê Mẹ
• Hanoi twists figures on release of political prisoners Hoàng Hạc
• Writer Duong Hung Cuong dies in prison in Vietnam Quê Mẹ
• Vietnam Committee on Human Rights gives conference in Rome Quê Mẹ
• Captured Resistance fighter’s Diary reveals details of Rear-Admiral Hoang Co Minh’s trial Trần Ngọc Lũ
• Poem: When I return Phạm Vĩnh
• News from Vietnam: Abundance of “scarcities” :
  – Communists Officials falsify reports and statistics
  – New banknotes issued
  – Death of Pham Hung
  – Time limits on exit visas
  – Impasse for Vietnamese youth
  – Overseas Vietnamese arrested for smuggling in Vietnam
  – Bogus merchandise
  – Trial of Trân Van Ba’s resistance companions continues in Ho Chi Minh City
  – Hanoi accuses China of invading Spratly Islands
  – Celebrating the New Year… on an empty stomach!
  – Hanoi Express train breaks speed record: 16.9 Km.p.h. !
  – Increase in pilfering in Vietnam
  – Victim of unjust treatment sends 159 complaints to Party: no answer!
  – Soldiers go hungry
  – Women in Vietnam today Quê Mẹ
• Resistance movement leader Lê Quôc Tuy dies in Paris Quê Mẹ
• Painful truth Lê Điền
• Hanoi opposes Vaatican’s canonisation of Vietnamese martyrs Thạch Thảo
• Poem: The Mountain Thi Vũ
• Vietnam today Phước Thành
• Vietnam on the threshold of 1988: a country in ruins Hoài Nhân
• New information on Venerable Thich Thiên Minh’s death in reeducation camp Bảo Trâm
• Cartoon NHS
• 20 years after: the 1968 Têt Mâu Thân Offensive The real story revealed by top communist Party officials Trần Phổ Minh
• Looking back at Têt Mâu Thân Hòa Khánh
• A story for lovers in the Huê holocaust Nhã Ca
• Huê during the first days of the 1968 Têt offensive (extracts from a soldier’s diary) Phan Nhật Nam
• Paving uncle Ho’s way South Lê Mỹ Hương
• Poem: Homeward bound Luân Hoán
• Writers under Communism – the structure of cultural organisms in Vietnam Nguyễn Hưng Quốc
• Parallel sentences on Darkness and Light Quảng Nam
• In the dog house: Party Secretary Nguyên Văn Linh meets with artists and writers Nguyễn Y Vân
• When writers are turned into worms… Mai Hiên
• Looking for the Lac Hông people Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• The two friends Phương Anh
• Mother’s Spring Hoa Tiên
• Quynh Giao: the ageless voice singing our souvenirs Bảo Lâm
• Don’t blame the rain (poem from Tao Dan Sông Han underground literary movement in Danang) Nguyễn Mậu Lâm
• What’s behind the campaign to scrap the Vietnamese National Anthem Trần Nhã Nguyên
• Controversy over the National Anthem Phan Thế Lạc
• Common statement by 23 Vietnamese Associations in South California in favour of maintaining the National Anthem
• Red Humour
• Comment on Mr Rupert Neudeck’s declarations on humanitarian aid to Hanoi Nguyễn Bặc
• Communiqué by the Free Vietnam Organisation refuting Mr Neudeck’s declarations
• Vietnamese around the world Quê Mẹ