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Aug.03.2012
New America Media, Question & Answer, Andrew Lam, Posted: Aug 03, 2012
Photo: Currently hot on movie screens in Asia is "Hot Boy Noi Loan," one of the first sympathetic film about the gay life in Vietnam.
Recent news that Vietnam might consider legalizing same-sex...
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Jul.30.2012
For a country steeped in Buddhism, Myanmar is accruing terrible karmic debts.
Alarming news and images of attacks and killings by the Buddhist majority in Rakhine Province against a Muslim minority there have been slowly trickling out onto the Internet and the wider world. Pictures of charred...
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Jul.17.2012
The headline from Bloomberg was a bleep in last month’s news cycle: “Cam Ranh Bay Lures Panetta Seeking Return To Vietnam Port.” But that bleep has become something of a Yellow Alert in Southeast Asia, with this new headline—“Clinton Landmark Visit to Laos.”
If Secretary of...
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May.12.2012
East and West far apart when it comes to egosCreated: 2012-5-9Author:Andrew Lam
IN the age of Twitter, Skype, YouTube and Google, the space between East and West seems to compress and shrink.
But in the area of self-perception, there remains a psyche gap that can often be as wide as the...
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May.01.2012
A General Remembers - Setting the Record Straight on South Vietnam
Editor's Note: Born in the Mekong Delta in 1932 to a wealthy land-owning family, Thi Quang Lam spent 25 years in the army and rose to the rank of lieutenant general by the time the Vietnam war ended. In Vietnam...
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Apr.22.2012
When Did Immigrants Become the Enemy?
New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Apr 20, 2012
Photo of Condoleeza Rice urging passage of immigration reform earlier this month provided coutesy of Duke University.
SAN FRANCISCO—Recently, in front a packed crowd at Duke...
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Apr.03.2012
The Tongue-tied Misfit and the Language of ViolenceStory tools
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New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Apr 03, 2012
Editor’s Note: NAM editor Andrew Lam wrote a slightly different version of this piece in 2009 after...
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Mar.21.2012
Published on ShanghaiDaily.com (http://www.shanghaidaily.com/)http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article//Opinion/2012/03/20/Giving+up+a+car+is+a+new+American+responsibility
Illustration by Zhou TaoGiving up a car is a new American responsibilityCreated: 2012-3-20Author:Andrew Lam
FOR the...
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Feb.22.2012
On the 900-mile trek of mostly desert that stretches between Eritrea and Egypt, hunting for humans has become routine.
Eritrean refugees who have fled their homeland fall prey to Bedouin or Egyptian traffickers. The refugees are held for ransom. Those with relatives abroad who can pay for their...
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Jan.20.2012
Once in a while tigers make international news, like the white tiger in Las Vegas that mauled illusionist Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, or the one that killed a teenager at the San Francisco Zoo. Most of the time, though, the news is about tigers being eaten by man.
The latest involves a...
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Jan.05.2012
Unfinished Business in IraqUnfinished Business in Iraq
Each time Uncle Sam ventures abroad he leaves an unfinished story, and nowhere is it most unfinished than the story of Iraq, where despite flowery speeches regarding freedom and sovereignty by the Obama administration, despite...
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Dec.22.2011
Forgetting the Iraq War
American Wars used to end decisively. When Americans came back from defeating the Germans after World War II, there were ticker-tape parades. When the last U.S. helicopter lifted off from Saigon, Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the image seared deep into the American...
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Dec.07.2011
A Literary Harvest: featuring “New California” writers Andrew Lam, J. Tony Serra, STEPHEN MEADOWS, and WINNER of the James D. Houston Award, Mariah K. YoungFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Natalie Mulford Tel: (510) 549-3564, ext. 309 Fax: (510) 549-1889 ...
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Oct.26.2011
SAN FRANCISCO -- Numerologists and The History Channel, known for its occult versions of world events, will have their heyday with two digits that, when arranged in certain sequence, foretold the fortunes of America. They are 9/11, of course, and now, 99:1.
The former entered American psyche like a...
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Sep.23.2011
New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Sep 23, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO -- “If you are going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” So goes the hit song from 1967 that painted the city as a mecca of openness and freedom. Today, however, the lyrics might...
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About Andrew
Andrew is a syndicated writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He co-founded New America Media, an association of over 2000 ethnic media in...
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