Yearly Archives: 2022

►Vietnam hydropower company takes investment from Japan's TEPCO ►Vietnam makes a model recovery from COVID-19 ►Vietnam and Indonesia Reach Agreement on EEZ Boundaries ►After 12 Years, Indonesia...

Reflections on the year.

Anna Nguyen generously shares a recipe for đồ chua, straight from her mother's mouth, then lovingly prepared by her hands, before the flavours and...

News from the Vietnamese Diaspora ►To Philly from Vietnam: ‘Immigrants should not be used as scapegoats’ News from Việt Nam ►18 Dogs Saved from Vietnam Slaughterhouse —...

Pop Song is a beautiful work of criticism as it is a memoir, with Pham’s articulation of doubt, fear, and her attempts at love so raw and poignant.

But there was a story there—one I didn’t know, and one that others didn’t want to talk about. 

Will you ever hear tiếng Việt and feel like it welcomes you in a soft embrace, a home entering your heart through your ears?

Alison Hồng Nguyễn Lihalakha’s Salted Plums holds up a mirror to the experience of Vietnamese people whose diaspora took a detour away from the common direct route to California. 

Reading Dream of Me as Water by David Ly is like falling down a rabbit hole and discovering vibrant color and vivid imagination in the depths. An almost Alice in Wonderland-like experience, the book opens the way a drop of ink blooms in water: centered, before it spreads out. From there, Ly takes us from dreamscape to dreamscape, each poem subtly suspending reality at the same time it is very much grounded in it.

News from Việt Nam ►Hundreds of Vietnamese workers return home from Cambodia More / Other ►Vietnam is not facing fuel shortages, minister says ►Immigrant-owned coffee roasting company brings...