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	Vietnamese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vietnamese is generally said to be part of the Viet-Muong grouping of the Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family, a family that also includes Khmer, spoken in Cambodia, as well as various tribal and regional languages, such as the Munda languages, spoken in northeastern India, and others in southern China.
		Vietnamese in the form of chữ nôm was used for administrative purposes during the brief Tay Son Dynasty.
		Vietnamese vowels are all pronounced with an inherent tone (thanh or thanh điệu).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnamese_language (3089 words)

	Vietnamese American - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vietnamese American businesses are ubiquitous in Little Saigon, located in Westminster and Garden Grove, where they constitute 30.7% and 21.4% of the population, respectively.
		Vietnamese Americans regularly stage protests against the Vietnamese government, its human rights policy and those whom they perceive to be sympathetic to it.
		In the Downtown San Jose area, many Vietnamese are working-class and are employed in many blue-collar positions such as restaurant cooks, repairmen, and movers, while the Evergreen and Berryessa sections of the city are affluent middle-class neighborhoods with large Vietnamese American populations, many of whom work in Silicon Valley's computer, networking, and aerospace industries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnamese_American (1489 words)

	vietnamese overseas - bvom.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Vietnamese overseas community is an important part of Vietnamese nation.
		Vietnamese everywhere are always proud of their national traditions and intelligent and industrial nature.
		Many of Vietnamese overseas are scientists, doctors, lawyers, engineers, journalists, and successful businessmen, etc… They are not only the pride of Vietnam but also of the whole world.
	www.bvom.com /resource/vnoverseas (152 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Vietnam 2002
		Not surprisingly, remittances by overseas Vietnamese in 2001 were placed at a high of $2 billion, a significant increase from the previous year.
		At the same time the Vietnamese Overseas Committee is working with the Ministry of Finance and Planning and Investment to work out a proposal to woo about 300,000 professionals and other highly qualified Overseas Vietnamese to help speed up he process of industrialisation in Vietnam.
		Under the decree, overseas Vietnamese who make long-term investments in Vietnam, or those who make considerable contributions to the native country, conduct cultural and scientific activities in Vietnam, and want to have permanent residence in Vietnam, will be entitled to buy a house, an apartment or a villa.
	www.internationalreports.net /asiapacific/vietnam/2002/overseas.html (1058 words)

	[No title]
		Overseas Vietnamese are of critical importance, and are recognized as such both by the State and by foreign investors.
		It is actually worse, for many domestic Vietnamese also look upon the Vietkieu with envy, denying or refusing to consider the long suffering by the former refugees who are now looked upon only for their accumulated wealth and education.
		For many, while some speak Vietnamese, it is the language of their exile communities and not the heavy, economic-based and techno-language of Vietnam today.
	www.vietnamesecommunity.com /Forum/vietkieu.htm (2803 words)

	Asia Times: Overseas Vietnamese targeted
		HANOI - Overseas Vietnamese shall enjoy the same rate of service charges and fees as those applicable to Vietnamese citizens in the country, according to a new governmental decree issued on July 31.
		Under the decision, Vietnamese citizens residing abroad and holding Vietnamese passports, and overseas Vietnamese holding foreign passports and their certified family members, are entitled to a single price regime, covering service charges and travel fares.
		The decision also stipulates that overseas Vietnamese bearing foreign passports, who are certified to have rendered services to the national liberation and construction, are to be exempted from visa fees when entering or leaving Vietnam.
	www.atimes.com /se-asia/CH04Ae06.html (316 words)

	O.V Association - Business network, travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The Overseas Vietnamese Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City was established in the spirit of supporting, mutual affection and love between local and Overseas Vietnamese in many different fields in order to construct, contribute and share the knowledge and experience to create a healthy business community for Overseas Vietnamese doing business in Vietnam.
		The president of the Overseas Vietnamese Business Association in Ho Chi Minh City, Mr Phan Thanh together with many Overseas Vietnamese Businessmen established the association in the spirit to look forward to the fatherland to strive for the goal of wealthy people, a strong country and a fair society and for mutual benefits.
		The pride, altruism and benevolence of Vietnamese people is the foundation to dissolve all the contradictory views to bring into play the strong cooperation for the common target in the development of Vietnam.
	www.oviba.com /html/about_en.htm (192 words)

	Politburo affirms overseas VN as integral to nation
		The resolution states that efforts to strengthen ties with overseas Vietnamese communities should be systematic and be carried out through different activities appropriate to different places, based on a volunteer spirit and not counter to their adopted countries’ laws, traditions and customs.
		Overseas Vietnamese are also encouraged to establish and expand markets for Vietnamese goods in foreign countries, and to facilitate co-operation and investment relations with foreign businesses and organisations.
		Most of these overseas Vietnamese lead stable lives and have integrated with their adopted communities, with many holding high positions in these countries’ social and economic strata, the Government reported.
	vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn /2004-03/31/Stories/01.htm (644 words)

	VN-style.com - Daily News on Trade, Investment, Finance, Banking and Economy in Vietnam
		Vietnamese living abroad are an inseparable part of the Vietnamese community, the Prime Minister once again affirmed at Sunday's get-together involving expatriates to celebrate the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year.
		He also appealed to overseas Vietnamese to uphold the tradition of solidarity by supporting each other in business, and urged them to preserve the Vietnamese cultural identity and language in their residing countries.
		President of the Overseas Vietnamese Business Association in HCM City, Phan Thanh, said overseas Vietnamese, wherever they live and work and whatever citizenship they have, are people of Vietnamese origin who always look toward the homeland.
	www.vnstyle.vdc.com.vn /print.asp?PostID=20955 (697 words)

	Viet Kieu word origin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Overseas migration and its effects on the migrants and their families is a vastly complicated topic, pitifully understudied in light of its global significance at present.
		Overseas Vietnamese certainly have not temporarily settled in other countries, nor do they intend to return to Vie^.t Nam." And, on a more personal note, I certainly do not depend on the beneficence of the US government.
		It is indeed true that "Overseas migration and its effects on the migrants and their families is a vastly complicated topic, pitifully understudied," as Steve Graw suggested.
	www.lib.washington.edu /southeastasia/vsg/elist_2001/Vietkieu.html (3790 words)

	Asean Focus Group - Asian Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Because they need to cope with uncertain legal recognition of their property ownership, the majority of these overseas Vietnamese who want a house and land have had to request relatives, friends, or investment companies, to use their names on the properties; and correspondingly, there are the not infrequent stories of unhappy and embarrassing outcomes.
		As the number of overseas Vietnamese wanting to have a working relationship with the homeland, and to 'return to their roots' continues to increase, this provides a not inconsiderable engine for development and capital investment in Vietnam.
		For the intellectuals among the overseas Vietnamese, who want to maintain an association with their homeland, being able to buy a house in Vietnam is one way of keeping the children in touch with, or returning them to, their roots and culture.
	www.aseanfocus.com /asiananalysis/article.cfm?articleID=821 (941 words)

	Statement of Overseas Vietnamese Intellectuals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		On March 4, 1999, the Vietnamese communist authorities arrested Dr. Nguyen Thanh Giang on the streets of Hanoi in a brutal and uncivilized manner.
		He has spoken truthfully the conscience of a Vietnamese intellectual facing the present conditions and the grave future of his country.
		That wave of repression is meant to reinforce the totalitarian rule of the Communist Party and to protect the privileges of a small group of incompetent, corrupt, and exploitative leaders, causing Vietnam to slide further and further into a quagmire of backwardness.
	www.fva.org /0499/story05.htm (655 words)

	Nhan Dan --- Culture
		Many overseas Vietnamese people in France and the UK have expressed their warm welcome towards domestic artists when these artists came to their performances there.
		Overseas Vietnamese not only expressed their warm feelings towards their homeland but also gave their donation to Agent Orange victims.
		Last year, overseas Vietnamese in the UK have contributed to the Fund for the Poor.
	www.nhandan.com.vn /english/culture/020205/over.htm (199 words)

	Vietnamese communist destroyed Boat People Memorial Stone in Pulau Galang, June 2005
		Overseas Vietnamese communities worldwide have always acknowledged the much needed help from the Malaysian people and government.
		Overseas Vietnamese communities worldwide showed that gratitude by helping in every which way, including donating millions of US dollars to the tsunami relief efforts.
		Overseas Vietnamese communities worldwide consider Pulau Bidong a sacred place worthy of visit and the memorial the ultimate expression of freedom.
	ngothelinh.tripod.com /VC_destroyed_Boat_People_Memorial.html (995 words)

	Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Leaders meet overseas Vietnamese on Tet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		President Tran Duc Luong has called upon overseas Vietnamese to maintain their national cultural identity, particularly the use of the Vietnamese language.
		Meeting with overseas Vietnamese who had returned home for Tet, in Ha Noi on Feb. 3, Luong asked them to uphold the national tradition of solidarity and mutual assistance.
		He called upon all Vietnamese people inside and outside the country to join efforts in building an independent and unified country for the goal of "a rich people, a prosperous country, and an equitable, democratic and civilised society".
	www.mofa.gov.vn /nr040807104143/nr040807105039/ns050204083830?set_language=en&cl=en (316 words)

	Asia Times - Vietnam's overseas workers get raw deal
		HO CHI MINH CITY - The Vietnamese government's effort to fight unemployment at home by encouraging its people to work in neighboring countries seems to be backfiring amid reports of workers being jailed overseas and caned after being declared undocumented laborers.
		According to official statistics, the number of Vietnamese workers seeking employment overseas had climbed from 20,000 in 1999 to 50,000 in 2002.
		This was in sharp contrast with Malaysian immigration requirements that overseas workers should also be able to communicate in English or Malay, and possess an official certificate attesting that they did not belong to any terrorist organization.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/EG02Ae05.html (1027 words)

	Overseas Vietnamese at Risk Over Suspect Thai Rice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Vietnamese living abroad are at risk of serious health problems if consuming Thai jasmine rice found to have unusually high levels of a deadly heavy metal, expatriate press reported Feb 24.
		Overseas Vietnamese should not eat rice imported from Thailand when its quality has not been confirmed, famed Vietnamese agricultural expert Vo Tong Xuan suggested.
		After the news was released, the Thai consulate in the US sent a letter to the Vietnamese community in Orange Country in California, saying that Thailand’s rice was not contaminated.
	www.detoxamin.com /index.asp?pgid=1453 (500 words)

	VietnamTrade.org :: Business News Archive
		The new amendments allow overseas Vietnamese who are working in the fields of science, technology and culture as well as those who do business and wish to live in Vietnam for a long time and those who have made great contributions to the country to own houses here.
		Tran Si Chuong a Vietnamese American and managing director of the consulting firm James Riedel Associates said the amendments did not have a far-reaching effect because only 1-2% of overseas Vietnamese benefited from it.
		Hoang Ngoc Phan, also a Vietnamese American and director of the Viet-My (Vietnam-U.S.) English School said many overseas Vietnamese were not very happy because only a few of them invested directly in business while many others invested through sending money to their relatives in Vietnam and were not allowed to own houses.
	www.vietnamtrade.org /news_archive.cfm?pubid=28B4AF3F-FB5D-4B8D-9734-6B702FBAEC7E (327 words)

	NCM > Vietnam's Manifesto on Overseas Vietnamese Rings Hollow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		As a Vietnamese American growing up in a Vietnamese community, we are taught at a very young age what it means to be Vietnamese.
		Resolution 36 also outlines how Vietnamese refugees abroad have a "duty" to contribute to Vietnam’s growth and development by means of the educational, political, and economic successes they achieve in their host country.
		The Vietnamese refugee communities are well aware of the many disguises and underhanded methods of Vietnam’s communist regime, and the only “national unity” we share is the absolute disposal and obliteration of communism in Vietnam.
	news.ncmonline.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=e45d51e98a90ab17dd34884b4f51bfd0 (882 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Tiep said like his 11 elder brothers and sisters, he had learnt Vietnamese since a child as their parents wanted their children to know the language of their ancestors and remember their origin and motherland.
		He was among more than 40 overseas Vietnamese invited by the Vietnamese government to attend the celebrations of Vietnam's 60th anniversary of both the August Revolution and National Day.
		He said all Vietnamese in Thailand, regardless of their living conditions, always think of their homeland and want to preserve the Vietnamese language as well as family traditions to pass down to younger generations.
	feeds.vietnamnews.net /?rid=cf40e079cfedd36f&cat=fc849e836694179b&f=1 (290 words)

	VN-style.com - Daily News on Trade, Investment, Finance, Banking and Economy in Vietnam
		Overseas Vietnamese are returning to their motherland this year not only to enjoy the Lunar New Year with family, but also to take advantage of the cheap, first-rate health services offered by the country.
		The most popular local health service for overseas Vietnamese is eye surgery to fix near-sightedness, far-sightedness and astigmatism, while cosmetic surgery and dental care are not too far behind as popular health services for overseas Vietnamese.
		Besides, more than 70% of overseas Vietnamese patients usually try to hide the fact they are living abroad because they want to avoid paying possible "foreigner" prices, said Dr. Yen.
	www.vnstyle.vdc.com.vn /print.asp?PostID=21073 (598 words)

	ipedia.com: Vietnamese American Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		A Vietnamese American is a resident of the United States who is of ethnic Vietnamese descent.
		Prior to 1975, most Vietnamese residing in the United States were spouses and children of American servicemen in Vietnam.
		Membership in the Democratic Party was once considered anathema among Vietnamese-Americans because it was seen as friendly to communism, although support for the Republican Party had somewhat eroded in recent years as the Democratic Party is seen in a more favorable light.
	www.ipedia.com /vietnamese_american.html (1051 words)

	Social Affairs 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Vietnamese diplomatic representative agencies abroad, especially in the US, Canada, France, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Russia, Belgium and Germany, launched many appropriate activities to call on overseas Vietnamese community to promote co-operation with the home country, combat sabotage schemes by Vietnamese extremists, while protecting the legitimate rights of overseas Vietnamese.
		Overseas Vietnamese organisations and associations have different working methods and lack finance for their activities.
		With such measures and policies, it is hoped that overseas Vietnamese Communities will keep a close attachment to their homeland and provide a bridge to help strengthen relations between Vietnam and other countries.
	www.vov.org.vn /2005_05_13/english/xahoi1.htm (1925 words)

	Thanhnien News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Two organizations for overseas Vietnamese were debuted in the central city of Danang Tuesday in order to promote more city investments from the Vietnamese living abroad.
		Hoa and some other overseas Vietnamese partners will invest 3 million USD into a manufacturing factory of the local Electronics and Communication Equipment Company in the city’s Hoa Khanh industrial zone.
		In related news, there are between 1,300 and 1,500 overseas Vietnamese who have returned to their hometown of Danang to spend the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays, said Le Van Kien, deputy chairman of the Standing Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front of Danang.
	thanhniennews.com /print.php?catid=12&newsid=4860 (276 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Overseas Vietnamese at the conference also put out suggestions on introducing the Vietnamese traditional culture to overseas communities in various countries, teaching Vietnamese language to young overseas Vietnamese and attracting investment and expertise of Vietnamese people abroad.
		They also touched upon issues of how to create conditions for the overseas Vietnamese community to join hand in dealing with sensitive issues of politics, religions and culture, and improve capability of cadres in charge of overseas Vietnamese work.
		In recent years, the Government has paid attention to policies on overseas Vietnamese, creating conditions for their involvement in rebuilding their native land.
	www.vnagency.com.vn /NewsA.asp?LANGUAGE_ID=2&CATEGORY_ID=29&NEWS_ID=110383 (380 words)

	Vietnam Development Gateway
		Prime Minister Phan Van Khai called upon overseas Vietnamese to contribute more to promoting the friendship and cooperation between their host countries and Viet Nam, thus helping stop actions that injure the homeland's interests and its cooperation with other countries.
		PM Khai told the participants that the homeland needed wide-ranging contributions by all Vietnamese living inside and outside the country regardless of their religious beliefs, origins, past and social positions, for achieving a common goal of independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity for the people's prosperity, a strong country, and a just, democratic and civilised society.
		At the get-together, the PM told the Vietnamese sectors and agencies to work together in protecting overseas Vietnamese's legitimate interests and creating favourable conditions for them to contribute to the development of the homeland.
	www.vietnamgateway.org /hotnews/index.php?id=99&cid=050131103634 (541 words)

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