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| | Pacific News Service > News > In Vietnam, Even the Dead Need Cell Phones |
 | | A status symbol that meshes perfectly with a family-centered culture, cell phones are even offered to dead ancestors -— and, by at least one young psychic, used to contact them. |
 | | He’s in a fl suit, driving while talking on his cell; she, in a traditional ao dai dress, holds onto his waist with one arm and chats on her cell with the other. |
 | | It’s a paradox -- in a country known for its lack of freedom of expression, where political dissidents are routinely arrested, people can’t seem to keep their mouths shut. |
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