What happened in April 2014: news and events relating to Vietnamese at home and in the
diaspora.
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Viet Kieu in the news
• Poet Vaan Nguyen, a child of Vietnamese refugees, is one of Israel’s rising poets.
• Irvine’s City Council suspends its Friendship City program due to conflicts between Vietnamese Americans and Chinese Americans. [April 9][April 7]
• Despite differences on political issues,some overseas Vietnamese (OVs) and the Vietnamese government share the same view on the protection of the country’s sovereignty –Truong Sa (Spartly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagos.
News about Vietnam
• Female executives’ success in Vietnam may stem from skills honed during decades of war when women took over running businesses and managing family finances.
•Farm-to-table pizzas thrive in Vietnam due to enterpreneur’s holistic approach.
• Communism and capitalism makeawkward cultural bedfellows.
• Competition among Vietnam’s airlines intensify due to plans for initial public offerings this year. Vietnam Airlines Corp. expects to get approval for its IPO..
• An approved national conservation program will establish plans for tiger conservation.
• A Vietnamese government poll of the Vietnamese people reveals that one in three support marriage equality.
• Vietnam’s plans to uproot 95 milliongeriatric coffee trees will cut output and future years’ exports.
• Chinese contractors’ modus operandi in Vietnam of demanding “increase in funding” angers many Vietnamese.
• With over 7,000 affected children and at least 127 deaths, the deadly measles outbreak could have been prevented by a more effective vaccination program.
• A project aimed to clean up contaminated soil by cooking it at high temperatures was iniated. The “U.S. didn’t ignore this problem.” That’s why after fifty plus years later, the U.S. is finally taking action.
Other News
• A news post from 1980 by a Columbian journalist details his impression of “the holocaust the Yankees had left unfinished.”
• Anti-Vietnamese sentiment in cambodia may affect FDI from Vietnam.
• This is not news, but there are some nice photos of a house in Vietnam.
• The Executive Director of the War Legacies Project talks about agent orange victims in Vietnam.
• An editorial director opines about the “Western foam on a sea with a deep Eastern current.”
•The Pew Research Journalism Project lists eight key points about social media and news.
Special thanks to Viet Thanh Nguyen for providing many of the news items.
Peace!
RP
