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Thich Quang Do cannot travel to Norway to receive the 2006 Rafto Prize

PARIS, 31 October 2006 (IBIB) – Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), has sent a letter to the Rafto Foundation in Bergen, Norway, to say that he cannot travel to Norway to receive the 2006 Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize, awarded …

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Dissidents in Vietnam welcome Norway’s Rafto Prize 2006 for Thich Quang Do

PARIS, October 27, 2006 (IBIB) – The Norwegian Rafto Foundation announced on 21st September that Venerable Thich Quang Do, Deputy leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), will receive the 2006 Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize for his contribution to human rights and as a “unifying force” …

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UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang leaves hospital today

The International Buddhist Information Bureau is happy to announce that the Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Thich Huyen Quang left the French-Vietnamese hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) today. He is now under convalescence at the Giac Hoa Pagoda in Binh Thanh Ward (Saigon), …

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UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang is transferred to a private clinic in Ho Chi Minh City

PARIS, 1st October 2006 (IBIB) – The Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) was transferred from the Cho Ray State hospital to a private clinic in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) today, 1st October 2006. UBCV Deputy leader Thich Quang Do and a …

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Venerable Thich Quang Do visits UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang in Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City

PARIS, 29 September 2006 (IBIB) – Venerable Thich Quang Do, second-ranking leader of the outlawed Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV), paid a visit to UBCV Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang at the Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) this afternoon, Friday 29th September at 4.00 pm. The …

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UBCV Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang is travelling to Ho Chi Minh City today for hospital treatment

PARIS, 28 September 2006 (IBIB) – The International Buddhist information Bureau is informed that the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) Supreme Patriarch Thich Huyen Quang is being taken to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) for treatment today. The UBCV Patriarch left Binh Dinh Hospital in an …

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At the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva : Vo Van Ai calls on Vietnam to legalize Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam and allow UBCV Deputy leader Thich Quang Do to travel to Norway to receive Rafto 2006 Human Rights Award

GENEVA, 27 September 2006 (Vietnam Committee) – Speaking today at a parallel event on “Freedom and Democracy Perspectives in Southeast Asia” with speakers from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Mr. Vo Van Ai, President of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights and International Spokesman of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam …

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