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    School authorities in Vietnam have suspended an eighth-grade student for one year after she posted a parody of a speech by revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on Facebook.

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    Armed tribesmen freed a boy after getting food and water Monday but kept at least 12 other hostages in jungle captivity to demand the release of jailed relatives and friends in the southern Philippines, a police official said.

  • In this Jan. 14, 2011 photo, world renowned pianist Dang Thai Son, son of Madame Thai Thi Lien, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his mother's house in Hanoi, Vietnam. Son is Vietnam's only international artist, performing concerts globally with world-renowned artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, and is now recognized as one of the world's great Chopin interpreters. (AP Photo/Na Son Nguyen)

    Vietnam matriarch, now 92, spread piano culture

    Time was running out, and it wasn't safe to stay. Sixty upright pianos had to be moved from Hanoi's music conservatory to a village in the countryside where students could practice without the constant threat of American bombers.

  • Vietnam matriarch, now 92, spread piano culture

    Time was running out, and it wasn't safe to stay. Sixty upright pianos had to be moved from Hanoi's music conservatory to a village in the countryside where students could practice without the constant threat of American bombers.

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  • "My journey from Prague back to Vietnam was long and a very hard journey," she said, remembering how blisters bubbled all over her feet as she carried her 22-month-old daughter in 1951. "We had to walk with my baby 110 kilometers (68 miles) at night to the North Vietnamese government in the jungle where they were based. It took about three weeks."

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