September 3rd, 2009 by tom | No Comments
Thanh Nien News | Health | Plastic surgeon�s 40-year legacy lives on
The present-day National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology in HCMC was formerly known as the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Emily Barksy saw tears in the eyes of one of the nurses who met her and her father when they visited Ho Chi Minh City-based National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology (NHO) [...]
July 25th, 2009 by tom | No Comments
July 25, 2009 at 11:37 a.m. SEATTLE TIMES
Travel to Cuba
Posted by Bruce Ramsey
A reader writes:
I’ve read with interest your July 21 column on your visit to Cuba. There are, as you noted, drab state stores where Cubans can use their currency to obtain basic necessities, like beans and rice, but the real retail market [...]
January 27th, 2005 by tom | No Comments
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By Betsy Cummings
Published: Thursday, January 27, 2005
It used to be that a $50 microloan to start an embroidery kiosk or other modest enterprise was a gateway out of poverty for women in poor countries. Now, some of them are telling aid groups that that is no longer enough. Rather, they want hundreds [...]
January 27th, 2005 by tom | No Comments
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By BETSY CUMMINGS
Published: January 27, 2005
Correction Appended
Photo: Bangladeshi women gathered at a home in Dhaka recently to pay installments on microloans they received from Grameen Bank, which was founded to help the poor become small-business owners. (Photo by Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters)
It used to be that a $50 microloan to start an embroidery kiosk [...]
March 21st, 2004 by tom | No Comments
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Published: Sunday, March 21, 2004
The Taliban may be out of power, but the plight of Afghanistan’s women goes on. There are trappings of new freedoms — foremost among them a constitution that recognizes women’s rights — but in much of the countryside women and girls are still treated like chattel. As Carlotta [...]
December 5th, 1994 by nhu | No Comments
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By SETH MYDANS,
Published: Monday, December 5, 1994
She couldn’t stop sampling the tropical fruits, the steamed snails, the candied plums. She was enthralled by the children, with their red scarves, trooping along the dirt paths to school. Almost every conversation seemed to end in laughter; she was home, and she was happy. “This [...]