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May.17.2010
Exit Saigon, Enter Little Saigon: The Vietnamese American Diaspora Posted in Academic, Event, General APA, Lecture, Literary, Vietnamese American by anielkr on April 8, 2010 LIVE webcast available! The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in...
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May.17.2010
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May.12.2010
“In East EatsWest Andrew Lam devours the American experience with fresh eyes, keen insight,and a lyrical voice. He is a natural storyteller on a journey of discoveryacross continents and cultures, and we're lucky to be along for the ride.”
-Scott James,New York Times columnist and author of the...
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Apr.27.2010
HANOI - A headline in a local paper here seems to say it all: “The Main Method is to Use Love.” The story: Women and Children trafficking activities along the Vietnam- China border.
One of these “love methods” went something like this: A man from the city seduced a young woman from a village, then...
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Apr.17.2010
If George Orwell were alive today, he might find the battle for democracy now playing out in Bangkok reminiscent of his masterpiece, “Animal Farm.”
In a parody of Stalinism, “Animal Farm”’s famous commandment was “All Animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others. It could...
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Apr.11.2010
New America Media, Commentary, Lan Pham as told to Andrew Lam, Posted: Apr 12, 2010
Lan Pham, 21, works in a massage parlour in District I of Ho Chi Minh City, better known as Saigon. It’s where most tourists stay when they visit Vietnam. Like millions of young people from the rural, Saigon is a...
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Apr.05.2010
Editor’s Note: Human trafficking has become a scourge in Vietnam. It is estimated that each year several thousands of women and children are trafficked from Vietnam to other countries, mainly through Cambodia and China, for commercial sexual exploitation. Some 50 percent of them come from An...
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Mar.11.2010
What's Next for Asian Film?
New America Media, Interview, Andrew Lam, Posted: Mar 11, 2010
The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival begins today in San Francisco. Chi-hui Yang is its director and the founder of the Stanford Asian American Performing Arts Series. He has written...
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Feb.17.2010
New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam
After the devastating earthquake that killed more than 200,000 people in Haiti, the island nation has been more or less adopted by the world community. While the hundreds of thousands who subsist on hand outs and live in tents cannot depend on their...
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Jan.27.2010
Haitians living in the United States are deeply impacted by the devastating earthquake that hit their island homeland earlier this month, according to a poll sponsored by New America Media.
A shocking three out of five respondents said they had lost some of their “loved ones.” Two-thirds felt the...
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Jan.19.2010
President Obama recently granted temporary protected status (TPS) to undocumented Haitians living in the United States, and this is surely a step in the right direction for human rights. After all, repatriating them back to a living hell would be immoral at best, and at worst, a crime against...
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Jan.10.2010
I’ve written short stories, poems, and news analyses. But the personal essay remains my preferred medium. The writer’s voice, when honest and frank, provides an emotional intimacy with the reader no other genres can. In my case—a refugee who fled from a war-torn country at 11 and became an...
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Dec.25.2009
Anime: Tragedy Replaces Happy Ending in Fairy Tales
New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Lam, Posted: Dec 27, 2009
Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time in a village full of ninjas there lived an orphan named Naruto. When he was born, the chief of the village sealed a powerful and malevolent...
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Dec.17.2009
Christmas in Dalat, Christmas in San Francisco
New America Media, Commentary,
Wild orchids and colored, painted pine cones – these things I remember of Christmas in Vietnam. It was in Dalat, the mountain city with its persistent fog and whispering pine forests, that I first celebrated Christmas. My...
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Dec.01.2009
Trying to Google news of my homeland, Vietnam, over the last few weeks has not been easy. The headlines that showed were anything but Vietnam. Leading up to President Obama’s speech on why we need to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, Vietnam has been once again reduced to America’s boogeyman...
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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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