Hints and tips:
...Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise....
...In 2021, Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy jumped at an offer by Vietnam’s Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) to invest in a new savings product offering high interest rates....
...Some 150km away at the Thanh Oai industrial complex in Hanoi, where B....
...But it came at a cost: “I lost my Urdu.”...
...Was my reluctance to continue subscribing to Césaire and Fanon’s vision of violence as being inevitable in the struggle against colonisation a sign of theoretical revision on my part, based on my revolutionary...
...When Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li asked Huynh Thanh Phong in 2013 to build a new kind of insurance platform across Asia, Phong had one request in return: patience....
...An emergency care physician, Dr Du Le Thanh Xuan, was the first to be jabbed....
...The following month, Francis Spufford, best known for his award-winning 2016 novel Golden Hill, returns with Light Perpetual (Faber, February) and Viet Thanh Nguyen publishes The Committed (Corsair)....
...Ms Ngan said in August that she thought the merged market should be “located in the place where there is the most vibrant and active market”....
...Pham Thi Tra My’s family told reporters they had paid smugglers £30,000 and that she was planning to work in a nail bar....
...But while the over-65s were more likely to drink every day, with a small glass of table wine, the younger French generation also tended to drink less often but more when they did, Viet Nguyen Thanh, head...
...(My own lunches in Hanoi, at the FT’s expense, rarely cost more than $10.)...
...not going to my country home”, she said, near the central coastal city of Da Nang....
...His latest book, ‘The Refugees’, is published this month Photographs: AFP/Getty Images; Viet Thanh Nguyen...
...Photographs: PA; Nati Harnik/AP Photo; Chris Jackson/Getty Images; Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Letter in response to this article: Personal comfort is my first rule of ball cap wear / From Ted Gaffney...
...No one understands why, but I do; it makes me feel sharp and audacious, on my toes.”...
...It is this strange context that makes the appearance of The Sympathizer — a novel by the young Vietnamese-American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen — so interesting....
...Between Them: Remembering My Parents, by Richard Ford, Bloomsbury, RRP£12.99/Ecco, RRP$25.99 A memoir by the author of The Sportswriter....
...“I have faced my past squarely and honestly,” said Mr Kerrey, who lost part of his right leg during the war. “I did something terrible and will live with it all my life. But I do not live in the past....
...Alec Russell Editor of FT Weekend I will shamelessly abuse my position and plump for two outstanding novels....
...I booked my trip through Remote Lands, a leading operator of luxury bespoke trips into Vietnam, and when I spoke to my travel planner there, he asked me how “Vietnamese” I wanted my experience to be....
...“Much to my regret, and even shame, when I first got back to Vietnam it made it very difficult, because my language skills were almost non-existent.”...
...I’ll write another post about my great experience at 1stDibs (as well as at Index Ventures!)...
...“I feel hopeless, not only for my life but also for my next generation.”...
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