I am an attorney in the Washington DC area, with a Doctor of Law in the US, attended the master program at the National School of Administration of Việt Nam, and graduated from Sài Gòn University Law School. I aso studied philosophy at the School of Letters in Sài Gòn.
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I have worked as an anti-trust attorney for Federal Trade Commission and a litigator for a fortune-100 telecom company in Washington DC.
I have taught law courses for legal professionals in Việt Nam and still counsel VN government agencies on legal matters.
I have founded and managed businesses for me and my family, both law and non-law.
I have published many articles on national newspapers and radio stations in Việt Nam.
In 1989 I was one of the founding members of US-VN Trade Council, working to re-establish US-VN relationship.
Since the early 90's, I have established and managed VNFORUM and VNBIZ forum on VN-related matters; these forums are the subject of a PhD thesis by Dr. Caroline Valverde at UC-Berkeley and her book Transnationalizing Viet Nam.
I translate poetry and my translation of "A Request at Đồng Lộc Cemetery" is now engraved on a stone memorial at Đồng Lộc National Shrine in VN.
I study and teach the Bible and Buddhism. In 2009 I founded and still manage dotchuoinon.com on positive thinking and two other blogs on Buddhism.
In 2015 a group of friends and I founded website CVD - Conversations on Vietnam Development (cvdvn.net).
I study the art of leadership with many friends who are religious, business and government leaders from many countries.
I have written these books, published by Phu Nu Publishing House in Hanoi:
"Positive Thinking to Change Your Life", in Vietnamese (TƯ DUY TÍCH CỰC Thay Đổi Cuộc Sống) (Oct. 2011)
"10 Core Values for Success" (10 Giá trị cốt lõi của thành công) (Dec. 2013)
"Live a Life Worth Living" (Sống Một Cuộc Đời Đáng Sống) (Oct. 2023)
I practice Jiu Jitsu and Tai Chi for health, and play guitar as a hobby, usually accompanying my wife Trần Lê Túy Phượng, aka singer Linh Phượng.
15 years- so near and yet so far, isn’t it? But some say 20–30 years.
Let’s get real.
Yesterday, all Thai TV viewers were made to see a piece of the news —how Vietnam’s VinFast the first lot of EV vehicles were made to line up waiting for docking on board to ship to the US… the sight that raises everyone’s eye brows.
However, it’s no surprise with Vietnam is one of the few countries to record positive economic growth during the pandemic
Khổng Tử viết: Bạn có ích gồm ba loại: bạn ngay thẳng, bạn thành tín, bạn có kiến thức sâu rộng. Bạn có hại cũng ba loại: Bạn giả vờ trang nghiêm, bạn giả vờ nhún nhường, bạn nịnh hót.
The term Vietnamese understood as “descendants from Vietnam” and Chinese as “citizens of China”, or people who pratice Han Chinese culture are not the same.
Now drink a sip of coffee, fasten your seatbelt and prepare for the ride.
I’m kidding. Prepare to read my story.
To cut it short, my answer is NO. Vietnamese do not descend from China.
The terms China as well as Vietnam as countries didn’t exist until recent centuries. Our dynasties, and civilizations, however date back thousands of years ago.
Mình nói đến teamwork trong công ty do bạn lãnh đạo.
Hãy nghĩ đến một bánh xe đạp như ảnh đầu bài. Đó toàn bộ công ty của bạn. Vòng ngoài nhất – vành bánh xe và và lốp – là mọi khách hàng của bạn. Vòng nhỏ nhất tại trung tâm – trục bánh xe – là bạn và mọi nhân viên của bạn, tức là team công ty của bạn. Các đường tăm nối trục và vành bánh xe là liên hệ giữa team của công ty và khách hàng. Continue reading Team công ty – Team company→
God,
I can’t fathom all the ways You think
‘Cause You are God and I am me.
What bothers me is
People talk about Your words
In greedy, hating, ignorant ways they think;
They turn Your teaching upside down
Using Your teaching as their instrument of
Division, opression, war, and death
Centuries after centuries. Continue reading How do you think, God?→
It is supposed that different cultures lead to different results.
China, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam belong to the Sinosphere cultural circle and are influenced by Confucian culture; India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka belong to the Indosphere and are influenced by Hindu culture.
Mình viết mỗi ngày một bài Trà Đàm, đến nay cũng xấp xỉ 6 nghìn bài, nghĩa là “nói” rất nhiều. Nhưng thực sự nói, nghe và đọc chẳng nghĩa lý gì cả, các bạn. Mình viết nhiều và các bạn đọc nhiều, nhưng trên nguyên tắc mọi thứ đó đều như gió thoảng mây bay, chẳng nghĩa lý gì. Chỉ một điều có nghĩa lý trong đời sống là thực hành. Continue reading Sống là thực hành – Living is practicing→
Consumers are gravitating toward fiber-filled foods this year. FreshSplash/E+/Getty Images
New York — Move over, protein. Fiber is on pace to be the next “it” nutrient of the year.
Consumers — particularly Gen Z — are fixated on stomach health, leading to the “fibermaxxing” trend taking hold on TikTok. As people try to maximize the fiber in their meals, major food companies are capitalizing on the trend with new, fiber-focused products.
“There is a consumer need in terms of digestion and gut health, and that’s something we’ve seen the last few years,” said Sherry Frey, health and wellness thought leader at NIQ. The younger generation, she added, understands that digestive health is linked to better skin and improved cognitive function.
Một cơn bão khổng lồ, dài 3.700 km (2.300 miles) đang càn quét nước Mỹ hôm nay, thứ Bảy ngày 24 tháng 1. Các nhà dự báo thời tiết cho biết nó có thể kéo dài đến hai tuần ở một số nơi. Có vẻ như đây là cơn bão thế kỷ.
Trong cuộc sống của chúng ta, đôi khi một cơn bão một-lần trong-cả-một-đời ập đến và chúng ta hoàn toàn không chuẩn bị cho nó. Đó có thể là cú sốc lớn nhất trong đời cho tâm trí của chúng ta. Chúng ta phải làm gì trong tình huống đó? Continue reading Bão lớn đến – The big storm comes→
In 416 BC, the city-state of Athens was in a prolonged conflict with Sparta, its archrival. For years, Athens had enjoyed comparative advantage over Sparta, particularly alliances and mutual defense pacts with smaller city-states known as the Delian League. By 416 BC, the Delian League had been in place for nearly 70 years, roughly the same as NATO, the modern equivalent of a prolonged and successful mutual defense alliance.
That was also the year that Athens came to view the Mediterranean island of Melos as vital for its strategic position. Melos had no military of its own, but it sat geographically at the intersection of maritime routes that helped both protect and project Athenian power. The island had long claimed neutrality, but for Athens, that would no longer suffice.
When an Athenian delegation demanded that Melos become a part of Athens, the Melians refused and appealed to Athenian traditions of logic and justice to work out a compromise. The Athenians responded with a famous line about power: “You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only a question between equals in power — while the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.”
Anh có thể thức chỉ để nghe em thở
Ngắm em cười trong giấc ngủ
Xa xôi và mơ màng
Anh có thể dùng cả đời anh trong tận hiến ngọt ngào này
Anh có thể lạc trong giây phút này vĩnh viễn
Ôi, mỗi phút sống bên em
Là một quý báu anh gìn giữ
I walk alone in the old-city quarter
French-styled villas with plumeria flowers
White and pink and aromatic
Imagining me as a coolie two hundred years ago
Pulling a ricksaw carrying a French officer.
And I feel sad. Continue reading Reflection on the old days→
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