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...