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  • There is a character in the novel that Bình refers to as "the man on the bridge" until he finds out that his name is Nguyen Ai Quoc.

    An Interview with Monique Truong 2010

  • Yes, I had done some research on Nguyen Ai Quoc because someone told me that he had been a cook in France.

    An Interview with Monique Truong 2010

  • Actually, I think of the character in The Book of Salt as a fictionalized Nguyen Ai Quoc as opposed to a fictionalized Ho Chi Minh.

    An Interview with Monique Truong 2010

  • The man that interested me was Nguyen Ai Quoc, the young man living in Paris who read Shakespeare and Dickens in the original

    An Interview with Monique Truong 2010

  • Yes, Nguyen Ai Quoc was living and organizing in southern China by then, but he was forced to flee the region for a time in 1927.

    An Interview with Monique Truong 2010

  • The average price will be raised to 1,220 dong 6 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour from 1,058 dong/kWh, online news provider VnEconomy said, citing Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong, who said in the report that Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the price increase.

    Vietnam to Raise Electricity Prices 15.3% Vu Trong Khanh 2011

  • While some say the dispute is primarily over church land that the government wants, Catholic lawyer Le Quoc Quan says locals are taking a stand against broader religious repression.

    Vietnam Takes Calculated Approach to Public Protests 2011

  • They try to ask the people to register their religion and for the Catholic students, they cannot go to the military university or the Security University, Le Quoc Quan says.

    Vietnam Takes Calculated Approach to Public Protests 2011

  • One of those bloggers, Pham Minh Hoang (known by the pen name Phan Kien Quoc), was arrested in August for his writings against the project.

    America's Friends in Vietnam 2010

  • According to the historian Stanley Karnow, a French communist friend of his actually recalled meeting Nguyen Ai Quoc on a bridge in Paris in 1927 during the course of that pleasure trip.

    An Interview with Monique Truong 2010

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