This week, I had the option of reflecting on that 11-page novel “Paper Tigers” by Wesley Yang that was recently featured in New York Magazine, but seeing as how the topic of Tiger-anything nowadays is simply tiresome, I opted for a dose of something more inspiring instead. If you didn’t catch it last month, the founder of Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, Michael Brosowski, … [Read more...] about Michael Brosowski & the Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation: Hero to Vietnam’s street kids
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Video Mondays: Re-connecting to the Motherland, Banh Mi becomes a Star
Video Mondays [vid-ee-oh muhn-deyz] noun; – a weekly blog series in which VTP attempts to save readers from the Monday doldrums by offering a selection of informative/insightful/interesting online videos. Videos may be Vietnam-related, current event-inspired, or just whatever VTP’ers are into at the moment. For the inaugural installation, we bring you two videos. The first is … [Read more...] about Video Mondays: Re-connecting to the Motherland, Banh Mi becomes a Star
The Conscientious Traveler: Enjoy Southeast Asia While Doing Your Part to End Child Abuse
With the apocalypse tentatively out of the way, luckier earth-dwellers among us may soon be planning for a rapture of different sorts--you know, summer vacation and the ecstasy of being away from the office/classroom for a few weeks. On the unlikely chance that my pretentious post crowning Southeast Asia the next tourist hotspot left an impression on anyone, some of you may … [Read more...] about The Conscientious Traveler: Enjoy Southeast Asia While Doing Your Part to End Child Abuse
Why Vietnam’s Government Shouldn’t Fear Facebook and Social Media
These are precarious times for governments around the world: Social media has led to an explosion of information sharing. Text, pictures, and videos flow freely over the information highway; trying to contain it has proven impossible. Technology will only get faster and internet access will be ubiquitous: within this year, many of us will have internet access faster than … [Read more...] about Why Vietnam’s Government Shouldn’t Fear Facebook and Social Media
Anger Grows in South Korea over U.S. Dumping of Agent Orange
The following post is a commentary by Peter Schurmann and Jin Kim that orignally appeared in New American Media. View the original post here. In 2006, a film about U.S. military scientists dumping chemicals into Seoul’s waterways took South Korea by storm. Based on actual events, “The Host” broke box office records across the country, a slapstick horror about an oversized … [Read more...] about Anger Grows in South Korea over U.S. Dumping of Agent Orange