Quê Mẹ 112

Table of Contents

• To live in exile or come back home? Thi Vũ
• Rallying forces for a great democratic offensive: call to Vietnamese from East and West Europe on Universal Human Rights Day Võ Văn Ái
• VCHR at UN Human Rights Sub-Commission – Hanoi delegation leader Mrs Ngo Ba Thanh fails to answer 100 questions by UN experts on human rights abuses in Vietnam Quê Mẹ
• Chronology of Vietnamese civilization (10) Thượng Đăng
• Novelist Duong Thu Huong replies to Party accusations Dương Thu Hương
• Poem: Truyện thần tiên Hà Huyền Chi
• News in brief: Duong Thu Huong expelled from Communist Party :
  – Saigon, city of the “pousse-pousse”
  – Foreign cigarettes banned
  – 18th Century tomb of Princess Ngoc Hân to be demolished
  – Tomb of poet Han Mac Tu risks same fate
  – Poet Nguyên Chi Thiên is moved to another prison camp
  – Closer ties with China
  – Road accidents (despite lack of cars!)
  – Smuggled goods, black market lorries with false military numberplates
  – Sand mixed with paddy
  – Nutritive powder is a major cause of… malnutrition! Quê Mẹ
• Proposal for Democracy in Vietnam VCHR
• The death of Lê Duc Tho Thiết Vũ
• Vietnamese workers in East Germany Phạm Kiến An
• Opposition or resistance ? Thuận Trung
• Hanoi trial for Resistance fighters Thuận Đức
• The problem of US/Vietnamese normalisation in the light of the continuing US economic embargo Lý Vũ
• Commentary on “A Citizen’s Petition” to the VCP by Bui Tin, Deputy Editor in Chief of Hanoi daily “Nhân Dân” Văn Thái
• Poem – Mưa Lưu Hy Lạc
• The struggle continues Lê Đức Thanh
• Ups and downs of the Vietnamese language Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• Y Lan’s letterbox Ỷ Lan Penelope Faulkner
• Farewell Uncle Ho! (a dream retold) Tôn Thất Thiện
• Vietnamese around the world Quê Mẹ
• The perennial best-men (short story) Hòa Thanh
• Journalist Kim Bang self-immolates in Washington to protest against Hanoi totalitarianism Quê Mẹ
• Short story of the Universe (1) Thường Long Khánh
• Medical page: cancer (1) Đặng Quốc Cơ (D.s.), Hà Ngọc Tuấn (D.s.), Nguyễn Đại Bằng (B.s.)
• Readers’ forum Phạm Văn Liễu, Vũ Hồng Lâm