41.   Vietnamese authorities are holding a dissident Buddhist leader at an isolated temple guarded by police officers, a human rights group said Wednesday.

42.   Vietnamese authorities are not recognizing her Canadian citizenship.

43.   Vietnamese authorities are targeting Communist Party critics and Buddhists in a new crackdown, religious and human rights groups charged Monday.

44.   Vietnamese authorities estimate several thousand women have been sold across the border.

45.   Vietnamese authorities have begun confiscating and destroying books written by several prominent dissidents, an official said Tuesday.

46.   Vietnamese authorities have raided nightclubs and karaoke parlors in recent months in a crackdown on prostitution and drugs such as ecstasy and methamphetamine.

47.   Vietnamese authorities have released a prominent political prisoner from jail and will allow him to go to the United States, a U.S. Embassy official in Vietnam said Friday.

48.   Vietnamese authorities themselves acknowledge that local officials have obstructed and harassed foreign investors.

49.   Vietnamese authorities, concerned about rising levels of addiction, have meted out stiff punishment for smugglers.

50.   Vietnamese authorities, who are anxious to improve relations with the United States, gave Liscio permission to run.