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Elon Musk's mother Maye, 76, sparks fury with 'racist' tweet amid presidential election
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Elon Musk's mother Maye, 76, sparks fury with 'racist' tweet amid presidential election

Daily Mail  

Elon Musk's mother has sparked fury over an ugly comment she made criticizing a reporter's ethnicity as the race for the White House heats up. Elon Musk's mother has sparked fury for an ugly comment she made criticizing a reporter's ethnicity as the race for the White House heats up Maye defended her remarks after she was publicly slammed, reposting …

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Review: A Man of Two Faces by Viet Tanh Nguyen
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Review: A Man of Two Faces by Viet Tanh Nguyen

Hindustan Times  

The West, often lauded for its generosity, had largely turned a blind eye to the plight of refugees until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 made it impossible to ignore. Yet, even as some Westerners lament their supposedly ‘overburdened’ states, author Viet Tanh Nguyen peels back the layers of this so-called magnanimity through his latest memoir – A Man …

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Nam Le published The Boat to great acclaim in 2008. Now he's back with his debut poetry collection
8 months, 1 week ago

Nam Le published The Boat to great acclaim in 2008. Now he's back with his debut poetry collection

ABC  

In 2004, when Australian writer Nam Le moved to Iowa City, he took up an unusual hobby: poker. Poker was a popular pastime among Iowa City's many "writers and poets and ruffians" who would get together to drink, "talk shit and bluff and lose their money", Le tells ABC RN's The Book Show. "I don't read Vietnamese, I don't write …

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Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - “Writing about the Vietnam war took a toll on me”
1 year, 4 months ago

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai - “Writing about the Vietnam war took a toll on me”

Hindustan Times  

Dust Child, award-winning Vietnamese poet and novelist Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai’s powerful second novel, is set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. Author Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai Phan Quế Mai drew inspiration for Dust Child — which has been labelled best book of the year by Reader’s Digest, Cosmopolitan and Book Riot — from her childhood …

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Why Melbourne writer André Dao chose fiction, not memoir, to tell his family history
1 year, 6 months ago

Why Melbourne writer André Dao chose fiction, not memoir, to tell his family history

ABC  

André Dao can pinpoint the precise moment he decided he wanted to be a writer. In his long conversations with his grandson, Dao's grandfather talked about his youth under French colonial rule and "his yearning for a free and independent Vietnam". "They had left him behind, essentially, without knowing whether or not they'd ever see him again," Dao tells ABC …

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Vietnamese Food Blogger Tries Pani Puri For First Time and He Cannot Stop
2 years, 2 months ago

Vietnamese Food Blogger Tries Pani Puri For First Time and He Cannot Stop

News 18  

Gol gappa, puchka, or pani puri, whatever you may call the Indian street food, everyone seems to truly love it. The same was the case with this Vietnamese food blogger who tried it for the first time and couldn’t get enough of it. Meanwhile, earlier, a food blogger based in Thailand ate some South Indian food in Bangkok and was …

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The Limits of Vietnam’s Labor Reforms
2 years, 11 months ago

The Limits of Vietnam’s Labor Reforms

The Diplomat  

Vietnam is a one-party state with a single, state-led union federation, the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor. In 2019, just after the National Assembly approved a new Labor Code, Viet Nam News, the main English language newspaper of the state’s Vietnam News Agency, published an article announcing that the country was “allowing independent unions.” In May 2021, IndustriALL, a Global …

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