“Last Days in Vietnam,” Great documentary film, very painful, and yet uplifting.

April 29, 2015 / An Nam to Vietnam

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 …

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On the success of farming fish in Vietnam, Roger Cohen, NYT

September 16, 2020 / An Nam to Vietnam

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 …

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Eco tourism comes to Vu Linh, Vietnam

March 21, 2015 / Travel in Vietnam

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

How to Pronounce ❝HOANG❞

December 9, 2014 / Vietnamese Language

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

Trip to Vietnam, November 2010, Week One, by David Lindsay

August 30, 2017 / David Lindsay, Trip to Vietnam # 1 week 1

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, …

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