“In May, I visited Vietnam and met with university students. After a week of being love-bombed by Vietnamese, who told me how much they admire America, want to work or study there and have friends and family living there, I couldn’t help but ask myself: “How did we get this country so wrong? How did …
ISIS and Vietnam – Tom Friedman, 10/28/14, The New York Times Read More »
What I missed in this academic piece, is an appreciation that the Vietnamese are used to floods and rebuilding. That is a part of their environment in Vietnam. Post-Katrina, Vietnamese Success Why did one community recover so well? nytimes.com|By Mark J. Vanlandingham
“Within the last two years, Vietnam has become the United States’ largest trading partner in Southeast Asia, with two-way trade totaling $35 billion last year. That trade is projected to grow to $57 billion by 2020.” via Common Ground for Vietnam and the U.S. – The New York Times. This writer thinks that the US …
Common Ground for Vietnam and the U.S. – The New York Times Read More »
Last night, I watched again the movie, Last Days in Vietnam, which I’d just seen two weeks earlier at a Yale South East Asia Association viewing. Great documentary film, very painful, and yet uplifting. The North Vietnamese communists won, but as this piece below reflects, now they have to govern, and keep the hearts and minds …
“Last Days in Vietnam,” Great documentary film, very painful, and yet uplifting. Read More »
The Order in Saigon’s Chaos – NYTimes.com.
Graves in the life-giving rice paddies along the Mekong Delta suggest the Asian gift for acceptance. nytimes.com By Roger Cohen March 26, 2015 80 “THANH BINH, Vietnam — I drove out through a watery landscape, the rice paddies shimmering, watermelon being planted in muddy fields. There were ducks on the canals, graves and shrines in …
On the success of farming fish in Vietnam, Roger Cohen, NYT Read More »
Eco tourism, or Ecologically focused tourism, is coming. Necessity is mother of invention. Going Local in Vietnam’s Villages The owner of a lodge in an ethnic-minority area says it is meant to blend tourism, ecologically minded agriculture and employee education. nytimes.com|By Mike Ives
This young lady is a bit silly, but what interests me is her gumption, and the fact that she can produce and broadcast herself, on whatever comes to her mind. How to Pronounce ❝HOANG❞ Annchirisu 121,115 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWcC2DrQ10E http://youtu.be/MWcC2DrQ10E
Back in the late 1970’s, I researched and wrote The Tay Son Rebellion, a historical fiction of 18th century Vietnam, which covered a great civil war from 1770 to 1802. After working on the book over 10 years, I failed to find a publisher, so put it away, went to business school for an MBA, …
Trip to Vietnam, November 2010, Week One, by David Lindsay Read More »
Week 2 in Vietnam, November 11, 2010 Week 2 started today, but I stayed in HCMC to get more information about the severe flooding in Binh Dinh Province, where Qui Nhon is located. I woke early at 6, even though I went to bed at 1am, and got up. I did some exercises and took …