Vietnam

Refugees

Kim Thúy on how ‘refugee literature’ differs from immigrant literature

The Governor General’s Award–winning author of the novels ‘Ru’, ‘Mãn’ and now ‘Vi’ is still unpacking her own experience: ‘In a refugee camp, you live outside of time.’

In Vietnam, forgetting the ‘American war’

Viet Thanh Nguyen writes that survivors are most likely to recall the fate of women and children

A real-life unicorn: Book review

The author joins an epic expedition through Laos in search of the saola, an animal that is ‘as rare as the rarest thing on Earth’

Mãn alive: A novel of food, fulfillment and family in Vietnam

Packed with haunting, poetic detail, Kim Thúy’s ‘Mãn’ is a beautiful read

Mai Thi Ngoc Tran Cashion, 1974-2014

A child of the Vietnam War, she survived Operation Babylift. In a search for inner peace she was a nanny, Buddhist and dog walker.

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Wondering what JFK would have done on Vietnam: Galbraith’s impression

What could have happened if the president lived

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Forty years later in a village in Vietnam

Canadian doc ‘Unclaimed’, premiering this week at Hot Docs, finds a lost American soldier with almost no memory of his past

America’s new BFF

Why Vietnam is becoming America’s new BFF

The former enemies are big trading partners. Could military co-operation be next?

Film on Mexican drug cartels, movie violence, and whether America is getting more pot-positive

In conversation: Oliver Stone

On Mexican drug cartels, movie violence and whether America is getting more pot-positive

Cambodia: enjoying China’s long shadow

As China’s growth raises wages, Cambodians get more business

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Standing up for asbestos

The Canadian delegation interjected yesterday to object to the inclusion of asbestos in the Rotterdam Convention.

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The crisis over cabbage

The main ingredient in the national dish has been hit by blight