Ao Phang-Nga lies just to the north of Ko Yao Noi, and is easily reachable by longtail boat or speedboat.
Thi Thanh Nga is the daughter of a South Vietnamese official who moved his family from Saigon to Washington, D.
The sentences are among the harshest given to any political dissident in Vietnam in recent years, says Nga Pham of the BBC's Vietnamese service.
The toll-free number -- 1-877-KIDS-NOW or 1-877-543-7669 -- has been developed by the National Governors' Association (NGA) and Bell Atlantic to provide state by state information.
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Thailand's Phang Nga Bay resembles an alien seascape, where towering limestone cliffs in improbable shapes carve the view into unfamiliar patterns of land, sea and air.
The company books half its revenues from the U.S. government, namely the NextView satellite imagery program, run by the Department of Defense's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
"The Vietnamese navy will do everything necessary to firmly protect peace and the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Vietnam, " foreign ministry spokeswoman Nguyen Phuong Nga said.
But NGA believes that companies have found a loophole in the law by bundling together their services and then offering them over the Net in order to avoid taxes.
This gives urgency to an effort already under way: the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) are in the midst of drafting common standards.
Although he is not a political figure, Mr Sombath was a prominent campaigner who promoted fair land rights for small farmers, which is a sensitive issue in Laos, the BBC's Nga Pham reports from Bangkok.
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Security Agency (NSA), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and all the military intelligence components agreed with this assessment.
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But organizations such as the National Governors Association (NGA) and the U.S. Conference of Mayors are worried that the changing nature of the Internet prevents states and municipalities from collecting revenue that's due to them.
To the men and women in the intelligence community who contributed directly -- notably, from CIA, NSA, NGA, NRO, and NCTC -- and many others from intelligence organizations who contributed indirectly, taken together a magnificent example of teamwork and intelligence integration.
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If you're a novice looking to get your paddle wet for the first time, consider heading to Thailand for what National Geographic Traveler magazine has called one of the world's top 25 adventures: paddling with Sea Canoe (www.seacanoe.com) in Phang Nga bay, near Phuket.
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