In the Diaspora: November 2019

Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Việt Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora.

■ News from the Diaspora ■

►Vietnam To Repatriate 39 Nationals Found Dead In UK Truck

►Lost & found: Maine mother finds out she is Vietnamese woman’s long-lost child

►Two Tet parades? A group wants to hold a second event in Garden Grove early next year

■ News from Việt Nam ■

►Viet Nam: Activist detained on her return to country

►Vietnam reach 16-year peak in FIFA rankings

►Vietnamese Lawyer Who Offered to Defend Dissident Blogger is Sentenced to Term of House Arrest

►Vietnam Court Rejects Appeal by US Citizen Michael Nguyen, Returns Him to Prison

■ Other ■

►Poverty, Ambition Drive Vietnam’s ‘Underground Labor’ Movement to West, Scholars Say

►New Study: 300 Million Face Severe Risk of Climate-Fueled Coastal Flooding by 2050

►LAND (Vietnam) PROJECTED TO BE BELOW ANNUAL FLOOD LEVEL IN 2050

■ More ■

►Brussels man jailed for human smuggling of Vietnamese nationals

►‘Traumatised’ Vietnamese man detained in UK for two years despite evidence he was trafficking victim

►Vietnam Needs to ‘Struggle’ More in the South China Sea

►Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 46/2019 – Week of November 11-17

►Ibaraki to invite more Vietnamese workers

►Vietnam Keeps Producing Its Own Smartphones, So Why Don’t They Sell?

►South China Sea crisis: How the US could help Vietnam stop Beijing

►Latinized Vietnamese Writing System Celebrates 400 Years