Vietnamese women at a wet market in Hanoi. Photo by VnExpress/Valentina Aru
An ‘other’ reflects on the ways in which he and many others feel they belong, why Vietnam is home.
I have spent over 40 percent of my adult life outside of my home country, never content with having my soul controlled by geography, to paraphrase George Santayana. I carry a U.S. passport but it doesn’t define me. I am a U.S. ex-patriot and global citizen who calls Vietnam home.
It was during my first visit to Hanoi 23 years ago this month that this country – with its tragic yet inspirational millennia-long history – cast its spell on me. After moving here in 2005, I joined a select group of expats – an estimated 100,000 of them, according to official sources – who live in the midst of 97 million Vietnamese.
Em nguyện trở thành khí cụ bình an của Giêsu.
Đây là cách em hỗ trợ giấc mơ của Giêsu.
Cũng là cách em tỏ lòng hiếu thảo với ba, mẹ, ông, bà và tổ tiên.
I’ve started considering myself not a youngster anymore but a young-at-heart mature adult. Nonetheless, starting my adulthood, I’ve realized there are so many youngsters who keep wondering that they don’t really know what they want to do with their life. So many questions like: What major should I study in college? What kind of career I should follow in the future? What skills I need to equip myself with in order to survive in this crazy world?…
Foreign women are seen in a karaoke bar in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat during a police raid as part of a campaign against prostitution and human trafficking involving women and minors, Nov. 9, 2018.GETTY
United Nations — A new U.N. report warns “the number of human trafficking victims is on the rise” as criminal gangs and terror groups prey increasingly on women and children to make money and bolster their numbers. The 90-page Global Trafficking in Persons report says that children, who account for 30 percent of all trafficking victims, include “far more” girls than boys.
I think
I can translate English texts into Vietnamese
because I can read the Holy Bible a little.
The Holy Bible is the root of the Western culture.
Knowing the Holy Bible is to know somewhat the Western heart.
So good for working. Continue reading Prayer 599→
I have heard many times the Vietnamese expression of the modern day: “Đi tắt đón đầu” – Taking the shortcut to gain a head start. It sounds similar to a very common guerrilla warfare tactic: taking the shortcut to lie in wait upfront. My problem is that in business, more often than not, this expression appears to work in a contorted way into the unethical get-rich-quick minds of the crime-oriented individuals. Continue reading The shortcut?→
BEIJING (Reuters) – A U.S. guided-missile destroyer sailed near disputed islands in the South China Sea in what China called a “provocation” as U.S. officials joined talks in Beijing during a truce in a bitter trade war.
The USS McCampbell carried out a “freedom of navigation” operation, sailing within 12 nautical miles of the Paracel Island chain, “to challenge excessive maritime claims”, Pacific Fleet spokeswoman Rachel McMarr said in an emailed statement.