maria maotta, nhk world, hanoi. >>> now to the philippines. white beach on the iand of borakai is sometimes called one of the best beaches in the world but the scenic shore has turned into a sandy watt battlefield between the poor and the powerful. char main deogracias filed this report. >> reporter: this beach is one of the attractions on the island in the central philippines. tourists are drawn to the sand art. animals and wards carved out of fine sand. the artists are local children. they earn pocket money from tourists who take snapshots of them with their work. rafi fernandez is 13 years old. he started making sand art when he was 4. on a busy day he earns 200 pesos, or about $5. >> translator: i learned the design and technique of sand art from the work of other artists. i've even won first prize in a contest. >> reporter: raffy's home is in a poor village near the beach. living with his sister, he does all the chores from cooking to laundry. his sister works at a hotel, earning about $120 a month. that's barely enough to put food on the

about 30 kilometers from hanoi is one of those places. people feel the threats of rising inflation more than most. for the poorest in stote, it can be nearly impossible. what can they do to borrow money to make a living? one idea being tried is mike crow credit. -- micro credit. >> i recently borrow money from them because it is easier to get money this way than go to a bank. with a bank loan there are all sorts of paperwork. so i'm not keen on borrowing money from the bank. >> in are three million house holds living in poverty in vietnam. the number is expected to rise. >> micro finance is probably the best development scheme for vietnam because it has dropped not only money but also knowledge of the poor. it is this knowledge that serves as a tool to help them to do their own business, build their lives. micro credit here in vietnam, its merits are still up for debate. but for people like single mothers, having an opportunity to borrow even small amounts of money to run a business, is a help for their lives. >> michelle obama has made a

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america seem to believe which is that this conflict is not necessarily worth it why are you the pseudo hanoi jane i mean you're right rather than oh absolutely well they don't want this information out and it's funny i had more of an opportunity on libyan state t.v. to give the you know what we're talking about here without any sensors present night the next day people total strangers coming up to me on the street in tripoli thank you for coming here to tell the truth for once look at n.b.c. still a lot of the ownership is general electric one of the big military contractors fox is murdoch who has his own interest in keeping these were. it's going to be a look you're not going to get on any and c.n.n. which is more into infotainment like the latest murder trial in the south and on that i think we have a photograph we had to more meeting this morning where we noticed that all three channels that we had on the mainstream channels that we have a photo control room was was covering something very important it was a breaking news story let me say what you're seeing right now and this n.p.c. all t

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they were ordered by their own government to rob the bank of hanoi.hat was going to solve the vietnam war and somehow robbing the bank of hanoi was going to end the vietnam war. when their commanding officers killed -- is killed they don't have any proof they were ordered to rob the bank of hanoi so they are sent to prison by their government. the government is very evil. the government is ordering them to do ridiculous evil things and they are incarcerated improperly. here is the next line. >> these men promptly escaped from a massive -- maximum-security stockade. >> so the government is so inept they can't keep these people in prison. what other way would to escape a maximum-security prison then promptly and you escape to a thriving los angeles underground, the government knows your rough geographic location and they can't find you. >> today still wanted by the government they survive the cultures of fortune. >> so again they are still wanted by the government, government of that can maintain a maximum-security prison are shut down a geographically

. >> reporter: in the vietnamese capital hanoi, demonstrators took to the street for the fourth straight week. >> translator: we'll continue our protests as long as china's provocation continues. >> reporter: against this backdrop, u.s. assistant secretary of state curt campbell arrived in hawaii. so did his chinese counterpart vice foreign minister cui tiankai. china recently stepped up military exercises and disrupted vietnamese army operations in waters off the spratly islands. three have previously expressed caution of the american involvement in the issue. as the u.s. lays no claim to the territories. speaking to reporters after talks campbell said he has called on china to exercise restraint. >> we had a -- i think, a candid and clear discussion. we want tensions to subside. >> reporter: campbell also said china's overall tone was constructive, but he did not give any further details. meanwhile, china's state-run xinhua news agency said state counselor dai bingguo met the vietnamese vice foreign minister in beijing on saturday. the agency reported that the two sides agreed to addre

the vietnamese people staged protests against china on june 5th and 12th in the capital hanoi and ho chi minh indicating increases objections to the country. the u.s. state department expressed temps that the display of military power would only heighten tension in the region but vietnam said it was just a routine exercise. >>> china is scheduled to begin operating a high-speed railway between beijing and shanghai late this month. the trains will run at two speeds, 300 kilometers per hour and 250 kilometers per hour. the faster one will cover the 1,300 kilometers between beijing and shanghai in four hours and 48 minutes. the railway will have seismic sensors installed at 31 points along the route so trains can slow down in the event of an earthquake. the train and railway operation system were developed with technological support from other countries, including japan and germany. but the vice minister of railways stressed chinese technology at a news conference in beijing on monday. >> translator: the railway is a compilation of chinese railway technologies. our technology in this fi

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of course, they meant china and their words were bolstered by rare anti-china demonstrations in hanoi ho chi minh city. u.s. defense secretary robert gates also attended the shangri-la dialogue. the american speech was one of reassurance to china's neighbors. look at gates' word cloud. it shows a focus on commitment, relationships and talk of a presence in the region. so china pushed too hard, and then drew back. the united states signaled to other asian countries it was not going anywhere. the great game of asian geopolitics has just begun. i have a feeling we're all going to be watching these moves and counter moves for years to come. and we will be right back. >> it's been the case that most cia officers sought what was called official covers and the cia representatives, other official international organizations, that was acceptable when the target you were chasing was soviet diplomats, meet them at cocktail parties, spot them, try to develop them but the targets are so different now. can be taught. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a

general dung sitting out there 18 miles away, he was going to use the russians to put pressure on hanoi, and it was delusional. so his counterfoil, so to speak, was major jim keane, a marine major. he was in charge of the msg battalions from new delhi to tokyo. but, of course, saigon where the biggest msg post at the time, it had the most marines. it had -- even more than moscow. and it was considered a combat zone even though 1973 paris peace accords, we're no longer at war, it was still considered a combat posting. so jim keane and his top, tom valdez, his master sergeant, his noncommissioned officer in charge of these msgs, they triedering they could to dissuade -- tries everything they could to dissuade ambassador martin from trying to continue to think he'd negotiate. we've got to get the evacuation going. i mean, the evacuation that finally happened was like plan z. plan a was fixed wing from every airfield in south vietnam. well, that -- they were counting on way city, they were counting on ben ho, boom, those airfields are gone. there was one airfield left in our hands in saigon

we have been very clear with our friends in hanoi of our desire to take the next step in his relationship. we have to see further progress on domestic environment as a whole. strategic interaction with our friends in vietnam are extraordinarily impressive. one of the things we want to do is make clear to vietnam our desire and intention to improve this relationship going forward based on their acknowledgment of the situation they are facing domestically. in malaysia we have seen unprecedented progress on a variety of issues began with non-proliferation but not ending there. we have worked on a whole host of bilateral initiatives. the president had an excellent meeting with the prime minister during the nuclear summit last year and this is a relationship that has traditionally underperformed and there's a recognition that working with the united states and malaysia can't go forward as a whole. i will turn to the last couple countries as we conclude here but i do want to say a few things about global posture. secretary gates and his team involved in a very intense process. the mantra of div

limiting factor in the current context is the domestic situation in vietnam earlier with our friends in hanoi and our desire to take the next step in the relationship we will have to see further progress on the domestic environment as a whole. i find that the strategic intersections with our friends a copy of mom are extraordinarily impressive and i think one of the things we want to do is make clear to vietnam with our desire and intention to improve the relationship going forward based on their acknowledgement of some of the situations they are facing domestically. in malaysia we've seen unprecedented progress on a variety of issues beginning with non-proliferation but not ending there. we worked closely on a whole host of bilateral initiatives. the president had an excellent meeting with the press minister during the nuclear summit last year, and i think this is the relationship that has traditionally underperforms and there is a recognition that working together with the united states and malaysia can do going forward as a whole. i would turn to the last couple of countries as we conclude

limiting factor in the current context is the domestic situation in vietnam earlier with our friends in hanoi and our desire to take the next step in the relationship we will have to see further progress on the domestic environment as a whole. i find that the strategic intersections with our friends a copy of mom are extraordinarily impressive and i think one of the things we want to do is make clear to vietnam with our desire and intention to improve the relationship going forward based on their acknowledgement of some of the situations they are facing domestically. in malaysia we've seen unprecedented progress on a variety of issues beginning with non-proliferation but not ending there. we worked closely on a whole host of bilateral initiatives. the president had an excellent meeting with the press minister during the nuclear summit last year, and i think this is the relationship that has traditionally underperforms and there is a recognition that working together with the united states and malaysia can do going forward as a whole. i would turn to the last couple of countries as we conclude