Mr Phan also signed agreements on computer technology with Bill Gates and toured Harvard.
"You're already predicting 68 teams, " said Brian Phan, a financial analyst who oversees The Bracket Project Blog.
Talking to reporters this month, the prime minister, Phan Van Khai, dismissed suggestions that the party was riven by disputes.
Reform-minded members of the government who have travelled widely such as the prime minister, Phan Van Khai appreciate that the stakes are high.
At a sleepover last month, they followed a Michelle Phan beauty tutorial on YouTube, showing how to curl hair with paper bags.
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Phan relies as much as he can on a smartphone (he uses the Samsung Galaxy S) to avoid bringing along a laptop on personal trips.
This week, when Phan Van Khai became the first Vietnamese prime minister to visit America in three decades, liberal protesters claimed Mr Bush was ignoring human rights.
Huang Phan of the BBC's Vietnamese Service describes its impact.
The newspaper said that Phan Thanh Hai and Nguyen Van Hai are also suspected of attending a training course in 2008 organised by a Vietnamese overseas political party, Viet Tan.
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Phan, along with my friend and commenter Marq Hwang, suggested ditching expensive and bulky noise-cancelling headphones in favor of smaller earphones that block noise by sealing off the ear canal.
But Wednesday's event focused largely on those who had succeeded on YouTube before the channel-funding strategy was in place, such as Michelle Phan, a YouTuber who has been giving viewers makeup tips since 2006.
Thuan Phan, who spends about half the year as a sales engineer, points out that the advantage in space and cost goes to small earphones that block noise by sealing off the ear canal.
Correspondents say that Phan Thanh Hai's blog covered various sensitive issues in Vietnam, including a dispute with China over maritime boundaries, controversial bauxite projects, a scandal around a debt-laden state-owned shipbuilder and case studies of famous dissidents.
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"I don't think there is any other composer who set the English language better to music, " says tenor Nicholas Phan, who has recorded two albums of Britten, and will perform in the "War Requiem" next November with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony.
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At the end of December, concerns rose about the fate of bloggers and peaceful dissidents when authorities detained human-rights lawyer Le Quoc Quan as he was taking his daughter to school on Dec. 27, and upheld earlier prison sentences handed to other prominent political bloggers, including Nguyen Van Hai, Ta Phong Tan and Phan Than Hai.
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