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UH extends pact with Vietnam U.

A delegation from Vietnam National University in Hanoi will visit the University of Hawai'i in January to explore expanding the academic partnership between the two institutions, according to UH President Evan Dobelle.

This week Dobelle and VNU President Thi signed an agreement in Hanoi extending for five years the partnership between the two institutions that was launched a year ago with a Masters of Business Administration program at VNU. It's operated by the UH-Manoa College of Business Administration through the Hanoi School of Business.

But further expansion is envisioned.

"This agreement builds upon our groundbreaking academic relationship in Vietnam," said Dobelle. "President Thi has committed to expanding our partnership well beyond the MBA program."

Currently 40 Vietnamese and international students are enrolled in the program at VNU.

Dobelle is leading a delegation of senior UH officials on a two-week visit to five Asian and Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Japan, firming up academic agreements between institutions in each. They are expected to return Tuesday.

Haynes Johnson to lecture Tuesday

Haynes Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of the 2001 best-seller "The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years," will give a lecture at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Hawai'i Imin International Conference Center at the East-West Center.

Johnson, who is the East-West Center's George Chaplin Fellow in Distinguished Journalism this year, will speak about "America and the Crisis of Change."

The lecture is free and open to the public.

An author, columnist and commentator, Johnson has written five books and spent 40 years chronicling a changing America, from the civil rights struggles of the 1960s through the boom and bust years of the 1990s. He appears as a permanent member of the historians' panel for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.