Vietnam Talking Points

Vietnam’s Global Cause

2/07/10 •

02 /07/10 – On Thursday, Vietnam officially announced their participation  in World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF)  2010 Earth Hour Campaign for the second time. WWF’s Earth Hour Campaign raises awareness and addresses the global warming issues. Earth Campaign urges participants to  simply switching off a bulb for one hour on March 27th  for energy conservation. [...]

Vietnam’s Ancient Art Comes to Manhattan

2/05/10 •

A twenty year project has finally come alive! Nancy Tingley, art historian and curator of the Asia Society Museum, has been working since 1988 to create the first major US exhibition of Vietnamese ancient art. The exhibit, called Arts of Ancient Viet Nam, premiered at the Asia Society Museum in New York this past Tuesday. The New York Times today declared the show definitely worth seeing.

Seeing the Facts about Blindness in Vietnam

2/04/10 •

Image acquired from ORBIS

Eye problems and blindness can be debilitating disorders for all those suffering.  In Vietnam, even though ophthalmologists and groups focused on preventing eye diseases are dedicating all efforts to provide care for communities, the percentage of people suffering from blindness and eye diseases still remain high.
The Numbers
According to a survey conducted by [...]

Understanding Agent Orange

2/03/10 •

Few people in generation Y and Z understand Agent Orange and its effects. Here, we delve into Agent Orange 101 to understand what it is, the effect it has on health, and what is currently being done about it. Please be advised, the pictures can be upsetting.

A Foreigner’s Guide to New Year’s in Saigon

2/03/10 •

I ride my Honda 67 through the empty streets of Saigon in the week before Tet in 2009. Most foreigners expect the lead-up to the Vietnamese New Year to be full of excitement and energy. They expect the streets to be bustling with people and vendors hawking their wares—like some sort of giant country-wide version [...]

Influential Vietnamese: Ngo Bao Chau and the Fundamental Lemma

2/02/10 •

In 2009, Vietnamese-born Ngô Bao Châu found himself in Times magazine as the man responsible for one of the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2009. So great is Ngo’s discovery that Robert Fefferman deems Ngo “one of the great mathematicians of our time.”