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The OC Register’s Deepa Bharath just had this in-depth look at Trong Doan, (pictured, by the Reg’s Eugene Garcia) one of the lead protesters against Nguoi Viet Daily News, here.

Deepa was trying to find out more about Doan, who was nowhere in the community before the visit to the U.S. by Vietnam’s President Nguyen Minh Triet, and is now everywhere.

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Chris Prevatt at TheLiberalOC.com over here caught this one: OC Supervisor candidate Hoa Van Tran’s mailer to Vietnamese voters in the First District (read its contents and get PDF images here) contains a misspell on his web site address.

See the extra “w”?

And if you follow that misspelled address?

Yep, just like fellow candidate Dina Nguyen’s misspelled URL, this one too rolls over to a gay porn site.

Except that Dina’s porn site is Asian.

Whereas Hoa’s is a Cholo gay site.

A not-so-oblique reference to photos of campaign workers flashing gang signs.

These errors have been showing up only in mailers to Viets, which suggests that the candidates may not have had as many people proofing the Vietnamese materials, as they do the English ones.

In another sign that the protests in front of Nguoi Viet Daily News may soon end, the protesters have been asked to clear their materials off the ground where they’re located.

The protests have been ongoing continuously day-and-night since late January. The protesters have been laying out their paraphernalia all over the ground across the parking lot from Nguoi Viet. That location is the property of Dong Loi, a seafood wholesaler and distributor.

Until now, Dong Loi has been tolerant of the protesters, because Dong Loi has been using only their back door.

However, as told to the Bolsavik, Dong Loi has recently asked Ky Ngo to move his altar, flags and enlarged photographs of various democracy activists and Nguoi Viet personnel. The materials used to be on the ground and on the building’s wall (both of which belong to Dong Loi). Some of them are now moved and are placed on a truck (see photo), and others have been cleared away altogether.

Apparently, Dong Loi is remodeling their building and will start using the front side. (Interestingly enough, Dong Loi’s land is the only lot in the neighborhood that’s not zoned M - manufacturing.) Once that happens, it is likely that Ky Ngo and his mob squad will be asked politely to take their stuff somewhere else.