What happened in August 2014: news and events relating to Vietnamese at home and in the diaspora.
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Events
• German Film Festival in Vietnam 2014. September 4th to 21st. The Goethe-Institut shows new German films in Hanoi, Hai Phong, Hue, Da Nang, HCMC and Thai Nguyen. More
• The Archaeological Institute of America’s Art & Architecture of Vietnam & Cambodia (land tour) starts in November 2014.
Viet Kieu in the news
• Orange County’s highest-profile murder trial of Kim Pham “became just another case—and that’s a good thing.”
• Nick Ut’s Napalm Girl is a “picture that doesn’t rest.”
• Col. Viet Xuan Luong becomes the first Vietnamese American to be made a general in U.S. history. More
News about Viet Nam
• The government’s ‘online army’ harrasses pro-democracy and human rights campaigners.
• A devoted octogenarian son still cares for his 113-year-old mother.
• Vietnam’s cultural evolution strives to emulate America, but the impact may wash out Vietnam’s unique culture and traditions.
• Navigating Vietnamese kinship terms may seem puzzling at times.
• In an open letter, former senior government officials and scholars, newspaper editors, and artists urge the Communist Party to change the country’s political structure to one of democracy.
Other News
• Photographer tries to bring attention back to the American War in Vietnam through photographs of “bomb ponds.”
• Recently released documents confirm Richard M. Nixon interfered with a cease-fire being brokered by President Lyndon Johnson.
• “The U.S. government set out to create global institutions and rules for how the world should work.”
Special thanks to Viet Thanh Nguyen for providing many of the news items.
Peace!
RP