Anna Challet: Birds of Paradise Lost is your first book of fiction - how did you come to publish a fiction collection after so many years of working as a journalist? Andrew Lam: I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University. Though I later found a career as a journalist and … [Read more...] about ‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam
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Want to Save a Life? Build a Toilet
This Season of Giving, you can double your impact by helping some of the great NGOs on OneVietnam Network with their matching grant challenges. As part of a holiday special, the NGOs are sharing their thoughts and reasons for dedicating themselves to Vietnam’s poor with you. The article comes from Children of Vietnam (COV), who recently successfully completed a challenge grant … [Read more...] about Want to Save a Life? Build a Toilet
Toilets Save Lives in Vietnam
This Season of Giving, you can double your impact by helping some of the great NGOs on OneVietnam Network with their matching grant challenges. As part of a holiday special, the NGOs are sharing their thoughts and reasons for dedicating themselves to Vietnam's poor with you. The first article comes from Children of Vietnam. Check it out and chip in to their matching grant … [Read more...] about Toilets Save Lives in Vietnam
Bay Area-based Chef Khai Duong Is On Mission To Elevate Vietnamese Cooking
NHA TRANG, Vietnam -- The street-side seafood restaurant -- long metal tables, plastic chairs, beer girls in short skirts -- is the last place one would expect a classically trained French chef to give a cooking lesson. But there was the unassuming Bay Area-based Khai Duong, one of America's most acclaimed Asian chefs, giving intricate instructions. For one dish, … [Read more...] about Bay Area-based Chef Khai Duong Is On Mission To Elevate Vietnamese Cooking
Computer Class Gives Vietnamese Orphans a Window to the World
The children sat at their desks, bare feet dangling next to power cords, as the instructors unpacked the small, plastic laptops. As they waited, they kept their eyes fixed on the tiny machines that transport them beyond the high walls of the neat but sparse orphanage — if only for a few hours. “It allows me to know about the outside world,” Thu Thao, a shy and … [Read more...] about Computer Class Gives Vietnamese Orphans a Window to the World