It wasn't in Vietnam that I learnt Vietnamese.

Vietnamese is the official language.

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3.1 The petitioners argue that the State party has violated article 2, paragraph 1, subparagraph (a), by failing to ensure that all public authorities and public institutions, national and local, shall act in conformity with this obligation to engage in no act or practice of racial discrimination .

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And there they had a detention camp where alleged Vietnamese would be tested, language tested.

Viet Nam has 54 ethnic nationalities with the majority being the Kinh (Vietnamese), representing 86.8 of the population.

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During the period 2000 2003, the Vietnamese State has accepted 12,818 cases giving up Vietnamese citizenship to attain foreign citizenship, including 73 people currently living in Viet Nam.

Vietnam Women's Union during 16 20 February 2003.

Children with both Vietnamese parents are granted Vietnamese citizenship regardless of their place of birth within or outside Vietnam.

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292. Concern is expressed over the limited educational facilities in the villages of ethnic Vietnamese, the lack of legislation authorizing the establishment of schools for them and the obstacles to their children learning the Khmer language.

On 5 December 1996, 19 persons of Vietnamese origin accused of involvement in the People apos s Action Party (PAP), a United States based Vietnamese political grouping which advocates democratic reforms in Viet Nam, were deported by the Cambodian authorities and handed over to the Vietnamese police.

Some reactionary Vietnamese overseas attempted to attack Vietnamese Embassy in foreign countries by bomb and conspired to organize armed groups in order to infiltrate into Viet Nam to carry out their plans of terrorism and sabotage.

s Viet Nam declared that interpretation of the Convention before the Vietnamese courts or competent authorities should be made in accordance with the Constitution and the law of Viet Nam.

In 2002, 1,553 people gave up Vietnamese citizenship.

Ex China Vietnamese migrants 154 58

It was also noted that 290,000 Vietnamese refugees continue to be hosted by China, and that several thousand have expressed a desire to return to Viet Nam.

We must say goodbye to the Southern Cross. Yes, sir.

Vietnamese private citizens and social organizations have been actively responding to the appeals of the Vietnamese Government and of the Red Cross Society of Viet Nam to make financial and in kind donations.

And it was at that time that my mother got word from the commune chief that the Vietnamese were actually asking for their citizens to go back to Vietnam.

Vietnam's response

Viet Nam 559 560 132

Viet Nam 565 566 116

Source General Statistics Office, Vietnam 1999 Population and Housing Census, Labour and employment Monograph in Viet Nam, Ha Noi 2002