Vietnam
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.
Wondering what JFK would have done on Vietnam: Galbraith’s impression
What could have happened if the president lived
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
Why Vietnam is becoming America’s new BFF
The former enemies are big trading partners. Could military co-operation be next?
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