{"id":30253,"date":"2018-05-07T21:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=30253"},"modified":"2018-11-28T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T06:05:09","slug":"diacritics-news-events-may-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2018\/05\/diacritics-news-events-may-7-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"diaCRITICS News & Events: May 7, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
Events<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\nDanh Vo: Take My Breath Away<\/em>, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February 9 to May 9, 2018<\/em>. Danish artist Danh Vo<\/strong> “dissects the public forces and private desires that define individual experience.”<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nVIET STORIES: Recollections and Regenerations<\/em> is an art, history, and oral history exhibition at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California from February 17, 2018 to May 28, 2018<\/em>.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nH\u01b0\u01a1ng Ng\u00f4<\/strong> and H\u1ed3ng-\u00c2n Tr\u01b0\u01a1ng<\/strong>\u2019s work The Opposite of Looking is Not Invisibility will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art<\/em> in New York from March 18 to August 19, 2018<\/em>.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nNews from the Diaspora<\/pre>\nVietnamese-American community gathered \u00a0to remember the fall of Saigon 43 years ago.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nTin Nguyen<\/strong>: “I wanted to end it one way or another, wanted the pain to go away . . . [but] an angel came to rescue me.”<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nUnder the Trump anti-immigrant\u00a0 administration, thousands of Vietnamese immigrants are at risk of being deported.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nA Vietnamese American, a former refugee, who was saved by a Taiwanese fishing vessel <\/a>40 years ago searches for his saviours to thank them.<\/h3>\n
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\nNews from Vi\u1ec7t Nam<\/pre>\nVietnamese immigrants in the United States who have been deported to Vietnam<\/a> find in Vietnam they have “no job, no one to support [them], no house to live in.\u201d<\/h3>\n
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\nThe illegally discharged toxic waste into the sea by a Taiwanese-owned Formosa steel plant<\/a> has destroyed marine life and left hundreds of thousands of people affected or jobless.<\/h3>\n
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\nWith no other option, thousands of families make their living as street vendors, but Hanoi and Saigon\u2019s cleanup campaigns are forcing them off of sidewalks.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nMathilde Tuy\u1ebft Tr\u1ea7n<\/strong> recalls her experience of April 30<\/a> and suggests it be the National Day of Solidarity and Reunification.<\/h3>\n
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\nVietnamese parents and students chose Canada over the United States as their primary overseas study destination<\/a>,making Canada a top-five host country for Vietnamese students.<\/h3>\n
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\nErik<\/strong> releases a new song, Ch\u1ea1m \u0110\u00e1y N\u1ed7i \u0110au<\/em>.<\/h3>\n
\nOther<\/pre>\nThe Korea-Vietnam Peace Foundation and other civic groups organized a hypothetical “People’s Tribunal” to demand official apologies for South Korean atrocities during the war in Vietnam.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nAnh-Minh Do<\/strong> opines about the Vietnamese Americans.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nDue to fear of China’s military and economic powers, Vietnam rarely speaks out against China’s imperialistic acts.<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Socio-cultural, literary, and political news and events relating to Vi\u1ec7t Nam and to the Vietnamese diaspora. An interview with Tin Nguyen, a locked-Up Vietnamese man in California, and more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":32099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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