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Gary Polk
PhD in International Relations, University of Cambridge (Graduated 2003)7y
What nation is the most influential in Southeast Asia?
I’ll give you my ranking of all 11 Southeast Asian countries. Continue reading What nation is the most influential in Southeast Asia?
30 years teaching Southeast Asian history at the university level.7y
No. It’s never been easy to invade Vietnam, at least successfully. China has done so numerous times over the millennia. The Chams did it. The French did it. The Americans did it. The Vietnamese fought back, and when the dust had cleared, the Vietnamese are still here, and the invaders are gone.
Why on earth would you (or anyone else) think that invading Vietnam was something to be considered? Just what is your problem?
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Lakan Araw, Studied Filipino Language Arts (Graduated 2025), Updated 4y. QUORA
[ From all the articles I’ve written regarding SE Asian economics, here’s how I will arrange the top 5 SE Asian countries that I think will have the most productivity in the next 20 years ]
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Question: Vietnam and South Korea are both influenced by China. Why has South Korea become a developed country while Vietnam is still a poor country?
Answer: It is true that Vietnam and South Korea or Korea had culturally influenced by China. However, South Korea become developed has nothing to do with China but the US. Vietnam is another story that the US did not want Vietnam to become independent and reunited from 1950–1975. The conflicting interests between both countries lasted from 1950–1995 with the US-Vietnamese normalization of their relationship. After that, Vietnam has started to grow fast and is no longer one of the poorest countries in Asia.
Continue reading Vietnam and South Korea are both influenced by China. Why has South Korea become a developed country while Vietnam is still a poor country?mekoneye.com By Võ Kiều Bảo Uyên 17 November 2025 at 14:50
Four years after it first approved Bitcoin mining projects powered by surplus hydropower, Laos is beginning to rethink whether the energy-hungry industry — now linked to massive transnational cryptocurrency scams — is worth keeping alive
High-rise buildings stand in the Boten Special Economic Zone in northern Laos, near the border with China. The area is suspected to be a hotspot for scam operations, including schemes that store fraudulent money in crypto for later laundering. PHOTO: Thanh Hue
Houaphanh Province, LAOS — Bitcoin is a world far away from 19-year-old Chai, an ethnic Hmong and a college student who has never owned a computer.
But its shadow has already crept into his mountainous village, where power outages are common—often a side effect of the vast energy demands elsewhere, including cryptocurrency mining.
Despite the national grid being connected to his remote community seven years ago, he and his classmate studied by candlelight, oil lamp, or mobile flashlight at night to prepare for university entrance exams. The blackout worsens during the dry seasons when hydropower drops.
Continue reading The lights dim on Laos’ brief Bitcoin dream
nguoidothi – 21:07 | Chủ nhật, 30/11/2025 0
Đã có quan đầu tỉnh nào hỏi dân xem họ có cần sự phát triển của thủy điện nhiều đến mức đó? Có công bộc nào lắng nghe nỗi lo xa gần của những người dân đang hằng ngày sống dưới các “quả bom nước”?
Người con gái bên chiếc xuồng chở thi thể người cha cùng di ảnh, chờ quan tài giữa mênh mông nước lũ ở xã Hòa Xuân Đông, Đông Hòa, Phú Yên cũ (nay thuộc Đắk Lắk), ngày 23.11. Khi lũ dữ bất ngờ tràn xuống, chị không kịp về nhà. Cha mẹ chị quyết ở lại với căn nhà, mảnh vườn bên cánh đồng mà họ đã mưu sinh trọn đời, và hai người bị tử nạn trong lũ lụt. Ảnh: Minh Hòa (Báo Tuổi Trẻ)
Continue reading Công lý cho dân vùng lũ
Đại Nguyên Trần, Dr in Physics & Polictics, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City
Some put China and Vietnam in the same category as communist countries, but actually, they are radically different in many ways.
Continue reading How is the political system of Vietnam different from China?Studied at Washington University in St. Louis7y
Did the north Vietnamese really win 3 wars (French, USA, China) like they claimed to have?
Since 1945, the Vietnamese defeated the French politically and militarily, overcame military setbacks against the United States to win politically and militarily and politically defeated U.S. ally South Vietnam, and fought the Chinese to a draw. It wasn’t a bad showing by Vietnam …
Yes, yes, and no …
With the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, the Viet Minh beat the French and, after a nine-year war (1945–1954), re-established independence (Vietnam was briefly independent at the end of World War II). It was a clear and decisive military and political victory.
Continue reading Did the north Vietnamese really win 3 wars (French, USA, China) like they claimed to have?
In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong Kong public housing estate.
At least 128 people have died, as many as 200 are missing, and thousands are now homeless in a city that is chronically short of space – and where property prices are among the world’s most expensive.
Tuấn Nguyễn – 25/11/2025 13:22
TPO – Nạn nhân Phong được người dân phát hiện tử vong dưới nước trong đợt mưa lũ vừa qua. Trước đó, một số người phát hiện xe taxi của anh Phong đỗ trên quốc lộ 1A khoảng 2 ngày nhưng không thấy người đâu nên chia sẻ trên Facebook.
22-11-2025, 15:15
Hàng trăm tấn nhu yếu phẩm tiếp tục hướng về các xã bờ Đông tỉnh Đắk Lắk.
Chúng mình vẫn đang chạy đua với thời gian, bất kể sớm tối nắng mưa, trong việc huy động hàng hóa, xe vận chuyển, tình nguyện viên, cố giữ bình tĩnh và sức khỏe dù rất nghẹn ngào, thương xót, để kịp thời đến với hàng nghìn nạn nhân vùng lũ các xã bờ Đông tỉnh Đắk Lắk, thuộc địa bàn tỉnh Phú Yên cũ.
Quỹ Từ Tâm Đắk Lắk cũng cố gắng kết nối các nguồn thông tin đúng, trúng, nhanh, chính xác nhất, để kịp chốt danh sách các hộ có người bị thiệt mạng, bị mất nhà hoàn toàn do bão lụt, cung cấp cho Quỹ Thiện Tâm kịp xem xét, duyệt nguồn kinh phí cứu trợ khẩn cấp, mỗi người mất 100 triệu, mỗi nhà mất 60 triệu, mong xoa dịu phần nào nỗi đau, giảm bớt nỗi khổ cùng các nạn nhân trong cơn đại hồng thủy chưa từng có này.
Continue reading Chạy đua với thời gian đến với nạn nhân vùng lũ
Neel Patel · Lives in Vietnam 7 yrs, qoura.com
I’ve been living in Vietnam for a year plus and it’s not a bad place to live if you are middle class or above in the large cities. Lots of foreigners are teaching English and earning $15+ an hour, which is a lot of money in Vietnam. I realize that is way more than the average Vietnamese salary (around $300–500 a month in Saigon I believe). But a lot of these people would be earning a similar wage back in their home country, but the cost of living would be 2–10 times more. For instance, my Vietnam apartment would cost at least 4–5 times more in a large US city like NYC or SF. I spend $4 a month for 3.5 gb of data, in the US that would cost me at least $60 or more. I can get a nice meal for $2 if I wanted, even more expensive restaurants are only $5–12. Even a hole in the wall restaurant in the big US city is $10+ nowadays.
Continue reading Why do foreigners choose to live in Vietnam even though it is a bad place?B.A in International Trade Law, Foreign Trade University of Vietnam (Graduated 2015). Answered December 11, 2024. Quora.com
No. It is not. Vietnam is a one-party socialist state that differs from the Soviet Union’s model. Interestingly, now, Vietnam’s economy is capitalist more than most of the so-called capitalist countries.
The total value of Vietnam’s annual exports and imports is approaching 1,000 billion USD, while Vietnam’s GDP is only around 500 billion USD. This indicates the extremely high openness of Vietnam’s economy. Although 1,000 billion USD may not be a large figure compared to economic powers like the US, China, or Germany when compared to what Vietnam had just 10 years ago, it represents significant growth and openness. This reflects a fundamental shift in economic management thinking from a Soviet-style model to a free market economy in Vietnam.
Continue reading Is Vietnam a communist country now?Mother Jones November 13, 2025
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About a decade ago, I reported on executions around the US. This was a time when states were beginning to encounter problems obtaining the drugs needed to carry out lethal injections. Activists opposed to capital punishment were pressuring pharmaceutical companies to stop the sale of common lethal injection drugs to states. This led to an era of experimentation with different drug combinations and even different methods. Continue reading Executions are rising in the US. This reverend witnesses them.
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