In the Diaspora

In the Diaspora: December 2020

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

Dec 21, 2020

News from the Diaspora

►Beloved Comedian Chí Tài Passes Away From Stroke

►South Bay Vietnamese Americans wrestle with COVID-19, lack of information

News from Việt Nam

►Record Flooding In Vietnam Leaves 2.5 Million Children At Risk

►Vietnam starts human trial of coronavirus vaccine

►‘All English Teachers In Vietnam Should Be Certified’: YOLA’s Nam Nguyen Advocates More Regulation

►The student who carried friend to school offers a lesson in kindness

►Vietnam economy is Asia’s shining star during Covid

More / Other

►Strong virus response helps Vietnam’s economy weather pandemic

►Vietnam says Taiwan’s Foxconn starts factory to make displays

►Why China and a Bloc of Nations Led by Vietnam Met but Ignored Asia’s Biggest Maritime Dispute

►Trump Aide Tells Vietnam to Curb China Shipments to Avoid Duties

►Group Applauds Taiwan Supreme Court Ruling in Favor of Vietnam Victims of Toxic Spill

►Branding Vietnam a “currency manipulator” epitomizes what’s wrong with the concept

►Chinese drone flying app includes 9-dash line, angering Vietnamese

►Amazon has over 100,000 Vietnamese sellers

►Facebook, Google Complicit in Vietnam’s Repression of Online Freedom – Amnesty Report

►Vietnam eyes launch of homemade COVID vaccine in 2nd half of 2021

►Vietnam Moves Blogger From Prison to Psychiatric Hospital

►US green-lights more direct flights from Vietnam

►Vietnam Tells Facebook: Yield to Censors or We’ll Shut You Down, Source Says

►Pandemic, trade wars accelerate Vietnam’s rise as world factory

►Vietnam Reiterates It Does Not Use Currency for Unfair Trade

►Foxconn to shift some Apple production to Vietnam to minimise China risk

►Understanding Vietnam’s Military Modernization Efforts

►Vietnam proposes students learn Korean at earlier stage of education

►Vietnam leadership wrangling heats up as Communist Party meets

►Vietnam court sentences former Hanoi official to jail for price gouging COVID-19 testing kits

►For Vietnamese filmmakers, scripting a remake is easier said than written

►Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 48/2020 – Week of December 7-13

►India assures Vietnam of all help in military modernisation

►Facebook’s self-defeating censorship in Vietnam

►An Analysis on Vietnam Wars

►Cuba, Vietnam, 60 years of sisterhood

►Apple AirPods Max are made in Vietnam, but still by Chinese firms

►UK and Viet Nam sign Free Trade Agreement

►Vietnamese road project underway

►How scientists are using declassified military photographs to analyse historical ecological change

►Vietnam Party Conclave Readies Key Personnel Appointments

►Honey bees fend off giant hornets with animal feces

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