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2001 NEWS
Please check out news on the latest festivals, conferences and art shows on our special VWF Events, Jobs, Festivals and Scholarships Pages. Updates on US war on terrorism crisis overseas and within the US here
DECEMBER 24th 2001 - Wishing peace can be achieved for everyone during the Christmas break.
December 22nd 2001 - International study on Vietnamese children launched
A ceremony to launch the ‘International Study on Child Poverty’ was held on December 12 in Hanoi by the Vietnam Union of Scientific and Technological Associations (VUSTA), the General Department of Statistics and the United Kingdom’s Save the Children.
Vietnam has been chosen to be one of the four countries to take part in the project for children which lasts till 2015.
Delegates to the ceremony spoke of the importance of study on child poverty and reviewed the poverty reduction work among children in Vietnam in the past ten years.
They also discussed measures to fight HIV/AIDS, labour and sex abuse and malnutrition for children. They agreed to seek for methods and tools to study poverty in children and would apply in many developing countries.
December 22nd 2001 - President Tran Duc Luong praised war veterans and invalids of the Hanoi Invalids' Music Club
President Luong also expressed the deep gratitude of the Party, State and people to families of war martyrs, invalids and those having rendered great services to the struggle for national independence.On the occasion, President Luong urged the authorities at all levels of Hanoi and other localities to pay more care to families of war martyrs and wounded and sick soldiers, Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and families with great contributions to the country's revolutionary cause.
Racial profiling not 'wired' into brain/Study finds recognizing people by race a reversible way of detecting social groups
Carl T. Hall, Chronicle Science Writer
Tuesday, December 11, 2001 (SF Chronicle)
Racial stereotyping may seem to be such a prevalent habit of the human species as to suggest that the disease of discrimination is incurable. But a new study released today finds reason to be more optimistic... The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/12/11/MNRACE.TMP
AirCares Partners - Dec 2001
Make a difference when you travel this holiday season - In this season of giving, Northwest Airlines is pleased to offer you an opportunity to earn a special bonus that will be donated to the AirCares partner of your choice - http://www.nwa.com/offers/aircares/
AirCare partners include:
Habitat for Humanity Int'l United Negro College Fund Junior Achievement Inc. March of Dimes Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International SightFirst Make-A-Wish Foundation Big Brothers / Big Sisters of America National SAFE KIDS Campaign Children's Diabetes Foundation UNICEF American Red Cross Nature Conservancy Boys & Girls Clubs of America Operation Smile Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation America's Second Harvest Oxfam America Toys For Tots Foundation Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Guide Dogs of America Literacy Partners National Marrow Donor Program Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital The Dream Foundation Share Our Strength Epilepsy Foundation of America The Salvation Army American Cancer Society AmeriCares Children's Cancer Research Fund Special Olympics International STARBRIGHT Foundation
December Holiday Shopping?
Why not consider some VWF gifts - mini-tees and bags.
http://www.oocities.org/vnwomensforum/vwfshop.html
VIETNAM: RIGHTS PROTECTIONS SHOULD BE ON DONORS' AGENDA
(New York, December 3, 2001) - Human Rights Watch today urged Vietnam's international donors to press for significant progress in human rights and rule of law when they meet in Hanoi on December 7 and 8. The annual meeting, convened by the World Bank, is attended by forty-five countries and financial
VIETNAM: RIGHTS PROTECTIONS SHOULD BE ON DONORS' AGENDA
(New York, December 3, 2001) - Human Rights Watch today urged Vietnam's international donors to press for significant progress in human rights and rule of law when they meet in Hanoi on December 7 and 8. The annual meeting, convened by the World Bank, is attended by forty-five countries and financial institutions making up the Consultative Group on Vietnam...
For More Information: In NY, Sidney Jones: +1 212 216 1228 In Washington DC, Mike Jendrzejczyk: +1 202 612 4341
NOVEMBER NEWS (don't forget to check out news on the latest festivals, conferences and art shows on our VWF Events pages and for job announcements and scholarships check out the VWF Jobs pages)
New Vietnam Girls Forum
12 Nov 2001 The magazine is written by, produced by and targeted to young girls , so if someone out there knows a Vietnamese girl (ages 8-14) who would like to submit an article about the Girl's Forum I'll get them to publish it!
Caroline Ticarro-Parker & Scott Parker
Catalyst Foundation
positive change for children of Vietnam
www.catalystfoundation.org
cntpar@catalystfoundation.org
phone: 952-707-9437
fax: 952-882-8837
"More than 41,000 People Infected with HIV in Vietnam"
Associated Press (11.04.01) Vietnam has 41,030 people who have tested positive for HIV, a health ministry official said Monday. As of the end of September, 6,138 people were known to have AIDS while another 3,372 had died from the disease since the first HIV case was detected in 1990. The official said 7,047 people were found to be HIV-positive in the first nine months of this year, while there were 941new AIDS patients and 521 deaths from the disease during the period. About 60 percent of the confirmed HIV patients are drug users. The government spends about $4 million a year to fight AIDS. The money is being used to buy test kits, ensure safe blood transfusions and raise public awareness.
188 Vietnamese drug addicts break out of rehabilitation center
Tuesday, November 20, 2001 (AP) The original article can be found on SFGate.com here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2001/11/20/state0001EST0202.DTL
Seven people in Vietnam charged with involvement in baby trafficking ring
By Associated Press, 11/23/2001 05:59
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Vietnamese prosecutors have charged seven people with helping a baby trafficking ring that sold 39 infants to foreigners for adoption, an official said Friday. Six of the people were charged with baby trafficking, while a former police officer was accused of taking bribes to tamper with evidence, the official in Ho Chi Minh City's prosecutor's office said. Police also issued an arrest warrant for one defendant who is still at large, the official said. The Nguoi Lao Dong (Laborer) newspaper said the ring bought the 39 babies from impoverished families for about $400 to $650 each and sold them for adoption to foreigners for several thousand dollars each in 1996-98. The trial should have begun in 1998, but was put on hold when one defendant accused a police officer of accepting a bribe of $1,060 and a mobile phone worth $430 to alter evidence.
Police initially investigated 16 people in the case, but later dropped their probe of eight because their offenses did not constitute crimes.
Last year, courts in the southern province of An Giang and northern province of Ninh Binh sentenced 21 people, including local government officials, to jail terms of up to 20 years for involvement in separate cases of child trading for foreign adoption.
Over the last decade, more than 10,000 Vietnamese children have been adopted by foreigners.
The government banned all foreign private organizations from acting as mediators for foreign adoptions in August. It is working on a decree that would allow only foreigners from countries which have special adoption agreements with Vietnam to adopt Vietnamese children.
http://boston.com/dailynews/327/world/Seven_people_in_Vietnam_charge:.shtml
10 November, 2001
The 25 Most Notable Asians in America of 2001
According to the aMagazine e-mail newsletter, they're working on the Dec./Jan. issue on the 25 Most Notable Asians in America. The last time they did this I think the only Vietnamese-American was Dustin Nguyen. As usualy, Southeast Asian Americans were ignored... Let's e-mail the editors and let them know that there are tons of Southeast Asian American leaders out there and in our very own forum.
The Editors of aMagazine (editor@amediainc.com) Dina Gan, Editor in Chief Vincent Law, Associate Editor Jennifer Abbasi, Assistant Editor
10 November, 2001
Noncitizens Must Have Documents Verifying Their Status At All Times by Cyrus D. Mehta and Parastou Hassouri
For more information contact: Asian Pacific American Legal Center 1145 Wilshire Boulevard, 2nd Floor Los Angeles, CA 90017 tel: 213-977-7500 ext. 268 fax: 213-977-7595 APALC Website: www.apalc.org
10 November, 2001
Precious Cargo Website
We have recently launched the PBS Web site for PRECIOUS CARGO (http://www.pbs.org/preciouscargo) and have included the Adopted Vietnamese Website in our resources section. Please take time to look over the site, and feel free to add us as a link, resource or story where appropriate. Please come check out our site and make sure to watch the documentary airing this November for National Adoption Month (check local listings at www.itvs.org). We look forward to hearing your feedback!
10 November, 2001
New Websites
Check out a new website by a Vietnamese-American man, C.N. Le: The purpose of the site is to provide Asian American and non-Asian communities with fun, provocative, and useful information about the Asian American community, concisely but comprehensively. Using my personal, professional, and academic experiences, I feel Asian-Nation combines in-depth research, a few statistics, and a casual, personal style to produce something akin to an online version of 'Asian Americans 101' -- something that everyone can learn from and use. www.asian-nation.org
10 November, 2001
Anthrax discovered in Vietnam
HANOI (Reuters) - A Vietnamese government scientist says a sample of white power discovered in the office of a BP joint venture in Ho Chi Minh City had tested positive for anthrax.
The powder was found in a meeting room at the offices of British Petroleum Petco Ltd on October 31 and sent for tests at the Ho Chi Minh City's Pasteur Institute.
Asked to confirm if the sample had tested positive for anthrax, the government scientist, who did not want to be identified, replied: "Yes".
OCTOBER NEWS
28 October
shut up white boy
dbar and pek2 productions presents
VIDEOKE girlPARTY
SATURDAY november 17th : the fun starts at seven (7) o'clock pm at tango tango 1550 california street @ polk or 415 775 0442 a benefit for the all queer, all API collaborative film: "shut up white boy" 16mm, black and white directed by VWF Member, vu t. thu ha
28 October
invAsian- a new Asian maganize is born
A new and exciting magazine will be released soon and we would like to ask your support and participation. In this magazine, you have the opportunities to voice your thoughts and experiences as Asian-Americans or Americans in New York, in the USA or in a larger scale - in the world.
In this letter, you should find a questionnaire that we would like to ask you to fill out. At this 'race' senestive moment, it is important that we learn more about each other's culture and stay communicated.
Please visit www.invAsianjournal.comto learn more.
Thanks!!
Best Regards, C.H.Gao
invAsian is a free, quarterly, socio-cultural journal set to launch it's first publication in winter 2001. We are founded and developed by Izumi Tezuka, who is Japanese American and Edward Crutcher who is Hawaiinan-Chinese-Irish.
Incite’s Organizing Packet Against the War Now On Our Web site.
Incite’s Organizing Packet Against the War Now On Our Web site
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Thursday, October 18, 2001 (SF Chronicle)
Poll of S.F. voters finds discomfort with immigrants
Ryan Kim, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco -- Many San Francisco voters harbor doubts about electing
immigrants to office and feel one Asian on the 11-member Board of
Supervisors is enough, according to a new citywide poll...
The original article can be found on SFGate.com here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/10/19/MNPOLL.TMP
Books For
Understanding
The Association of American University Presses has created a resource for
reporters, teachers, librarians and general readers, "Books For
Understanding," on its website. It lists books recently published by its
members that supply information on some of the issues behind the September
11 bombings. The authors are leading experts in their fields, and the
subjects covered include the World Trade Center, Terrorism, Catastrophe
and Disaster Management, War, Peace and Global Issues, Islamic Thought and
Culture, Islamic Fundamentalism and Islamic States, and Aviation/Airport
Security.
http://www.aaupnet.org/news/spotlight.html
Peter Givler, Executive Director
Association of American University Presses
71 W. 23rd Street, Room 901
New York, New York 10010
E-mail: pgivler@aaupnet.org
Biogas and clean water for women in Viet Nam(Posted 9 Oct 2001)
A team of scientists and development specialists is helping women in rural
and mountainous areas in Viet Nam take advantage of science and technology
to improve their lives, promote equality and reduce poverty.
http://www.oneworld.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi?root=129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fns%2Eist%2Ecmu%2Eac%2Eth%2Friseat%2Farchives%2FOct%5F01%2FNews%2F08100101%2Ehtml
Two projects, one promoting biogas as an alternative energy source and the
other providing access to clean water, are examples of how technology can
be used by and for women.
IMPORTANT IMMIGRATION INFORMATION!(Posted 9 Oct 2001)
CONGRESS POSED TO ACT ON BILLS WITH SWEEPING CONSEQUENCES FOR
IMMIGRANTS: WEIGH IN NOW ON THIS FAST TRACK LEGISLATION:
ACTION NEEDED - We need you to contact the Senate Leadership's Offices as
soon as possible to:
1) Affirm that as a fellow American you stand by principles of freedom
and basic liberty that must not be abandoned in undue haste to adopt an
antiterrorism bill.
2) Convey that you understand that at the end of the day, a bill may pass
but that you firmly believe that we must be sure that we have had a fair
opportunity to examine and acknowledge the serious civil liberties issues
that are implicated by this legislation. Problems with this bill must be
given a chance to be fixed.
3) MOST IMPORTANTLY therefore urge that this bill not be rushed for a
vote on unanimous consent.
Contact: Sharon Scanlon 202-296-2300,sscanlon@napalc.org
Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American households Survey (Posted 9 Oct 2001)
My name is Elizabeth Nguyen and I am a senior at Stanford University
majoring in Human Biology. I am writing to ask for your help in my
research study. I am currently working on my honors thesis which is
comparing gender roles in Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American households.
I was in Vietnam this summer and collected data for my project there, but
now am trying to collect data from a similar group of Vietnamese
Americans. I have devised a survey questionnaire that takes about half an
hour to fill out and was wondering if any of you could take the
time to fill it out for me? I was only able to get young adults in
Vietnam to fill out the survey for me, so I unfortunately have to get a
matching sample of only young adults here in the States. So what that
means is, can you help me with my survey if you're under 35? Or if you
have any young adult friends or relatives, could you ask them to help me
too? The more data I get, the more accurate a representation this study
will be.
You can access the survey at the following link:
http://www.stanford.edu/~eknguyen/Vietnam%20Survey/
Just click on the Vietnam Research Survey Link, and you can just email me
back the answers when you're done. Thanks! I really appreciate all your
help, and would be more than happy to answer any
questions you might have about my study. Thank you so much for helping to
further research on the Vietnamese community.
1st October - Terrorism Fears to affect overseas students
Senator
Dianne Feinstein (D-California) to overhaul the student visa system. Higher Ed board also require regular
reporting on foreign students who have fallen out of compliance with
their
visas.
More on proposal http://www.senate.gov/~feinstein/releases01/stvisas1.htm
VN Adoptee Calendar and Book Release
Therese Bartlett is an adoptive mother of 2 Vietnamese children and quite
active in the community. She's put together a fantastic calendar and book
(with her photographer husband) so I hope everyone will take a look at
their work. The artwork is produced by Vietnamese children who also
qualify for scholarships. Check it out!
http://www.littleredfairy.com/index.htm
30 Sept. Former South VN Leader dies in the US
Former South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who
led his nation in the war that shattered Vietnam and severely divided
the United States, has died. He was 78.
Full article :-http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1207348,00.html
11 Sept. US Attacked
At present the Members of the VN Womens Forum are shocked by the recent violent terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Members of the Forum have been expressing their various reactions to this tragedy and have democratically posted a range of response options that can be followed, from petition signings for peaceful resolution to donating medical needs to rescue services.
16 September, 2001 - Distaster Relief Needed for Vietnam
Thanh Nien Newspaper, Vietnam has reported a massive effort to evacuate
civillians from flooding areas. Reports from the Red Cross say that over 85
lives have been lost, 76 of them children in floods from the Mekong in Vietnam.
Hundreds have lost their homes.
Information about donations to their relief fund can be found at:-
http://www.vnrc.org.vn/english/disaster.html