NGO Resource Center Web-Site
The internet site for the NGO Resource Center (at La Thanh Hotel) is http://203.162.7.85/ngocentre. The site features the ability to be viewed either in Vietnamese or English language and is capable of searches of the NGO Resource Center library on line.
The Center has an extensive library on agriculture, credit, health, and rural development, including both Vietnamese and English language documents. In your search, you can specify subjects, language, or type of publication. You can check the bulletin boards of upcoming activities and job announcements. Anyone is welcome to visit the internet site and read the information, but to post new information on the site, including announcements about upcoming activities, you must have a password. To obtain one, telephone the Resource Center (8328570) or send them a request by e-mail to director@ngocentre.netnam.vn
Many Vietnamese institutions do not use the internet extensively because the telephone connection charges are too expensive. To help solve this problem, the Sustainable Agriculture Working Group has considered the possibility of the NGO Resource Center copying their internet site onto a compact disk.
Elementary Vietnamese
Elementary Vietnamese by Ngo Nhu Binh (Boston: Tuttle, 1999 ISBN 0-8048-3207-2) draws on the author’s experience teaching Vietnamese in Russia and in the US. Binh has been teaching at Harvard since 1992, at VASSI and is a member of GUAVA. The book’s price is $34.95. A set of audio CDs isavailable separately for $129 plus shipping and handling.
In order to purchase a set of seven audio CDs (the total time length is more that eight hours), a customer should send a money order or a check
made out in my name (Binh N. Ngo) in the amount of $129.00 plus $7.00 for shipping and handling to the address:
Binh N. Ngo
P. O. Box 380317
Cambridge, MA 02238-0317
The Center for Cuban Studies presents a special benefit
Harry Belafonte live at Carnegie Hall, with invited guests, October 31, 2000 at 8pm. Tickets from $25 to $250. Contact the Center for Cuban Studies at 124 West 23rd Street, New York, NY, 10011; (212)242-0559; www.cubaupdate.org; www.cubanartspace.net.
New Video Documentaries Bring Home Cost of War
The Viet Nam Documentary & Scientific Film Studio in Hanoi have produced two short videos which are a necessary but painful reminder that there continue to be civilian victims twenty-five years after the end of the war in Vietnam. These videos are not easy to watch, should not be shown to primary school children and ought to be accompanied by a knowledgeable speaker able to inform audiences of ways they can help. Clear narration in English.
“Deadly Debris: The Aftermath of the War in Vietnam” 26 minutes Covers both land mines and unexploded ordnance. A good resource for anti-land mine educational meetings.
“Where the War Has Passed: The legacy of Agent Orange” 20 minutes Includes sympathetic footage of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt and his son.
Available on the same NTSC VHS tape for $10, from FRD (see order form, inside back cover).
