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Monthly Archives: September, 2024
In the Diaspora: September 2024
►ADB keeps Vietnam's growth outlook unchanged at 6 per cent this year, 6.2 per cent next year►Vietnam estimates damages of $3.31 bln from Typhoon...
Refugee Critique: The Next Generation, in Linh Thủy Nguyễn’s Displacing Kinship
Writing against the trope of the traumatised refugee family, Nguyễn argues that “[t]he apparent pervasiveness of the Vietnam War as the source of trauma in second-generation and diasporic cultural production elides the overwhelming presence of assimilation as a source of violence and trauma.”
Eulogies of the Unknown
The image of you painfully exhaling your last breath still haunts every fragile fiber of my memory.
Poetry: Ho Chi Minh Meanders
His black pajamas creaseless
and slung across his protruding
collarbones
Brow slightly singed with sweat
Uncle Ho leisurely strolls
along Garden Grove with clasped
hands behind his back
He makes a...
Book Review: Lunar New Year Love Story
Yang and Pham resist the narrative of shame for not inherently knowing one’s culture, and instead embrace the exciting and healing process of learning all about it.
In the Diaspora: August 2024
►Fmovies, a Massive Internet Piracy Ring, Is Shut Down by Police in Vietnam►Vietnam’s New Leadership: Old Path, New Expectations►Philippines, Vietnam set to sign defense...