Quê Mẹ 92

Table of Contents

• In quest of the Hundred founding people Võ Văn Ái
• Promising outcome for VCHRs’ campaign for imprisoned writer Doan Quoc Sy :
  – Swedish Premier takes new steps for Human Rights in Vietnam, supports writers Nha Ca and Tran Da Tu’s transfer to Sweden Quê Mẹ
• VCHR speaking tour of American Universities: Austin, Berkeley, Harvard, MIT Đinh Phú Xuân
• Vietnam on the threshold of 1988: a country in ruins Hoài Nhân
• Renovation, cartoon NHS
• News from Vietnam: Reshuffle in Vietnamese Cabinet :
  – Clash on the Spratly Islands
  – Drastic drop in standards of education
  – Hanoi’s slave-trade: export of Vietnamese workers to the Eastern bloc
  – Artists and writers under Communism in Vietnam
  – Pham Hung’s children flee to in China
  – 8 million Vietnamese are illiterate
  – Increase in delinquency
  – Sham goods, fake medecines flood the market in Vietnam Quê Mẹ
• Behind the scenes of the 5th Congress of Vietnamese Communists in France Lý Tường
• Cartoon NHS
• The poet Tú Xương’s abandonned grave Bảo Trâm
• More news of Hoa Mi, Vietnamese opera-singer refugee in France :
  – Imprisoned Poet Nguyen Chi Thiên is still alive Quê Mẹ
• Ho Chi Minh spied for China Quê Mẹ
• Titbits from the Communist Press: Robbers steal at night, political commissars steal in broad-daylight :
  – Yet another unjust death after childbirth
  – A new class of feudal landlords Trần Lộc Bình
• Book launch in Washington for Y Lan Penelope Faulkner’s “Quê Nha” Hà Y
• Save the children of Vietnam! Trần Ngọc Lũ
• The death of the one-eyed elephant Thái Bá Tân
• Interview with Văn Cao Xuân Vũ
• Poem: Làng ven núi Lâm Hảo Dũng
• Bloodsoaked Spring (recount of 1968 Têt offensive) Nguyễn Mạnh Côn
• A tree takes time to grow… (in French) Phương Anh
• A tree takes time to grow… (in Vietnamese) Phương Anh
• Two loves (short story) Vũ Nam
• Vietnamese around the world Quê Mẹ
• Letter box Quê Mẹ