An awesome new volunteering opportunity came our way recently, so I wanted to share it with everyone. For those of you who are fabulous with Vietnamese, here is your chance to show it off and do something good at the same time. The NLSC is readying a pool of bilingual volunteers who can speak, listen and understand English and Vietnamese. In times of national emergencies, … [Read more...] about Volunteer Opportunity: National Language Service Corps
Vietnam’s Ancient Art Comes to Manhattan
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 U.S. exhibition of Vietnamese ancient art. This past Tuesday, the Arts of Ancient Viet Nam exhibit premiered at the Asia Society Museum in New York. The New York Times has already declared the show … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s Ancient Art Comes to Manhattan
Young Vietnamese Doctor Battles Lymphoma
Viet Lam is a 37-year-old doctor from Michigan who is of Vietnamese and Chinese descent. She has B-cell lymphoma and is in urgent need of a bone marrow transplant. She is currently being treated at Stanford Hospital in the Bay Area, and without the transplant she will surely not survive. Here is her story: I would like to introduce myself and ask for help in search of a … [Read more...] about Young Vietnamese Doctor Battles Lymphoma
American Engineers Reunite With Family After 50 Long Years
12.14.09 Guest Authors: Hang Nguyen and David Regenold Hang Nguyen and David Regenold live in Tempe, Arizona where Hang is a Principle Engineer with Intel Corporation and David is a design engineer with Marvell Semiconductor. They have two children, Nathaniel Regenold who is a Junior at Washington University in St. Louis and Jonathan Regenold who is in 7th grade at Aprende … [Read more...] about American Engineers Reunite With Family After 50 Long Years
The Horrors of Human Trafficking
11.23.09 - Finally home in Lang Son, Vietnam and given a chance to start her own family, Nguyen Thi Phuong is exulting with joy while holding her first child. Phuong was a victim of human trafficking to China, where she was kept captive for over two years. Lured to the China and Vietnam border, Phuong was taken against her will to an unknown village in China, sold to become … [Read more...] about The Horrors of Human Trafficking