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...Tenor Nicholas Phan was an Evangelist brimful of such empathy as to be quite heartbreaking....
...Royal Academy cracks out an important Francis Bacon retrospective for the start of the year while the newly reopened Courtauld Institute — whose revamp has been pretty much universally lauded — exhibits Van...
...Amsterdam, in van Tongeren’s name....
...“The area where we fish is Vietnamese water,” says Duong Van Rin, who manages 20 boats . “We aren’t violating any country’s waters.”...
...But does a music festival lose something if you swap dancing all night for dithering over the relative merits of Vietnamese banh mi or gluten-free polenta cake?...
...One migrant to benefit from the dismantling of the “White Australia” policy is Hau Van Phan, who fled communism in Vietnam in a rickety boat in 1977 in search of a home for his family in Australia....
...Only the recent fad for vans and shacks selling foie gras banh mi, soft shell crab burgers and Korexican burritos pass muster with the yuppies, who sport crumbs and sauce drips in their beards like badges...
...I notice a van parked outside the bakery that reads: “Catch the cronut craze, advertise on this truck” and I start to feel very hungry....
...Mr Ha says Nguyen Van Hai was sentenced to 12 years, Ta Phong Tan received 10 and Phan Thanh Hai four years....
...“It’s like magic,” says Minh’s wife Phan Ngoc Thanh Van, speaking through a high metal security fence as hundreds of the lucrative birds fly back into the house at sunset....
...Phan Van Thien, deputy chief executive of Bibica, one of Vietnam’s biggest confectionery makers, said the cost of sugar and some other ingredients had risen by up to 80 per cent over the past year, driven...
...Verticale, 19 Ngo Van So Street, tel: +84 4 3944 6317, www.verticale-hanoi.com. For cooking classes, see www.didiercorlou.com....
...Phan Thanh Vinh, aged 44, with a hammer....
...Mr Triet, who has overseen booming growth in Ho Chi Minh, formerly known as Saigon, nominated Nguyen Tan Dung, a 55-year-old deputy prime minister, to replace outgoing premier Phan Van Khai, 72....
...The Communist party is also thought to have chosen successors for Phan Van Khai, the 72-year-old prime minister, and Tran Duc Luong, the 68-year-old president, both of whom are slated to step down....
...The Communist party has also reportedly chosen successors for Phan Van Khai, the 72-year-old prime minister, and Tran Duc Luong, the 68-year-old president, both of whom are slated to step down....
...Still, it is easy to imagine Ho shifting uneasily in his glass sarcophagus at the thought of Phan Van Khai, the current prime minister, ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange....
...Vietnam's prime minister, Phan Van Khai, with over 200 officials and businessmen in tow, today begins a groundbreaking visit to the US, intended to bury any lingering bitterness between the former enemies...
...The agency also said Prime Minister Phan Van Khai’s recent groundbreaking trip to the US had boosted prospects for Hanoi’s accession to the World Trade Organisation....
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