News from the Diaspora
Prize-winning poet Ocean Vuong wins the TS Eliot prize.
Family members of murdered victim Tommy Le filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against county officials.
Danny Chau reflects about life and foods.
[WARNING: Do NOT view this page on an empty stomach.]
Vance McElhinney reunited with his birth mother more than 40 years later.
A child victim of trafficking has been ordered for deportation from England back to Vietnam.
Virginia’s first Vietnamese-American elected official, Kathy Tran becomes the 42nd District’s representative in Virginia’s House of Delegates. [From a refugee camp to public office]
Bich Minh Nguyen: 1) “[It] would be easier to list what doesn’t make me angry.” 2) “The racism and xenophobia I experienced and witnessed in my childhood has not changed.”
News from Việt Nam
Vietnamese midfielder Nguyen Quang Hai tops AFC U23 top list in two matches.
VIE vs UZB: Quang Hai received 64% (139,704) of the votes.
VIE vs QAT: Quang Hai received 25% (53,970) of the votes.
Quang Hai received 88% (193,674) out of 100% of the votes.
Excited Vietnamese fans must have been the majority of voters.
Formed in the early 1960s, the CBC band was popular with the U.S. troops.
Vietnam and Cambodia open border market to facilitate trading.
Is the Communist Party reasserting central command in a reversal of the đổi mới reforms that began in 1986 which allowed free markets and limited local democracy?
Vietnamese rapper Karik and singer Orange release their new collaboration, Người Lạ Ơi! Nice!
Other
“We need to stop any attempt to divide Americans to ‘Real Americans’ and ‘Less Real Americans’.”
Mai Elliott: “The act of pacification is violent.”
A contributor opines that the U.S. is ignoring the lessons of Vietnam. [Is it “ignoring” or “denying”?]
Frances FitzGerald’s 1972 Fire in the Lake was “a prime example of Edward Said’s Orientalism . . . a work of pseudoscholarship.”
A new documentary reveals how Dupont hid the dangers of chemical C8 found in Teflon, which has now been linked to six diseases, including testicular and kidney cancers.
Obituaries
Hiep Thi Le’s life could have been a movie but instead she tumbled into a career as an actress.
The first Vietnamese-born Roman Catholic bishop in the U.S., Bishop Dominic Luong dies at 77.
Peace!
RP