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...Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise....
...Born in Vietnam and raised in America, Viet Thanh Nguyen interrogates his dual identity and the fallibility of memory in his latest book, A Man of Two Faces....
...He was the latest casualty in a years-long corruption crackdown led by Communist party secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong....
...Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong has resigned due to “violations” and “shortcomings” after only a year in office, the ruling Communist party said on Wednesday, deepening political turmoil that risks undermining...
...As a result, Nguyen Khac Giang, a visiting fellow at Singapore’s Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute, said Vietnam was in “bureaucratic paralysis”....
...Thuong’s predecessor as president, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, resigned in January 2023 amid an overhaul of the government’s top ranks that also saw the departure of two deputy prime ministers....
...terms of scale and because it signals that the [Communist] party is willing to expand its anti-corruption campaign to the private sector despite potential risks that it might have on the economy,” said Nguyen...
...New York-based Nobu Hospitality, known for its eponymous Japanese restaurant, will also establish its first presence in Vietnam in partnership with Viet Capital Real Estate....
...Nguyen Khac Giang, a Vietnamese research fellow at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, said he did not believe Vietnam’s economy would be significantly affected by the canal “given the relatively...
...The national assembly elected Vo Van Thuong, 52, as president on Thursday with 98.38 per cent of the vote, according to the government’s official news portal....
...Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect. Ron Haeberle’s photographs of the My Lai massacre....
...The National Assembly in March named Vo Van Thuong as president, the country’s second-highest position, following his predecessor’s resignation....
...Further north of the country, we head towards the Unesco-protected geopark of Đông Văn....
...Whereas, for instance, Viet Thanh Nguyen, another acclaimed and influential migrant novelist, has dismissed “craft” as a distraction from politics, Hamid revels in the “formal, structural and linguistic...
...Meanwhile “Toyboat”, from the same album, becomes a handsome slow-burner in Sharon Van Etten’s hands....
...With the release of his brainy, brawny second novel, The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen surpasses his most prominent American literary influence: Ralph Ellison never published a successor to his 1952 novel...
...“The prolonged pandemic has seriously hurt the tourism industry,” Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnam’s tourism and culture minister, said....
...For a quick bite after a visit, I love Lua Viet Kitchen, just across from the museum, for excellent “Shaking Beef” – seared steak, watercress, jasmine rice and scallion oil....
...Royal Academy cracks out an important Francis Bacon retrospective for the start of the year while the newly reopened Courtauld Institute — whose revamp has been pretty much universally lauded — exhibits Van...
...Maria Van Kerkhove, senior WHO epidemiologist, tweeted: “The variant detected is B.1.617.2 with an additional mutation(s), but more info soon. Remember: variants are constellations of mutations....
...“From a technical point of view, I haven’t seen anything like this,” says Rachel Terry of Van Oord, a Dutch maritime engineering firm, which supplied two ships for the project....
...Which leads to my question for you, Rana: if Afghanistan collapses — and President Ashraf Ghani becomes Biden’s Nguyen Van Thieu, the former South Vietnam president — will this president pay any price, politically...
...Guitarist Nguyên Lê is the French-born son of Vietnamese parents. He recorded his first genre-crossing reflections on cultural migration and mutation, Tales from Viêt-nam, in 1996....
...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)....
...“Vietnam’s aviation market has a lot of potential and is developing strongly, but it also has large companies already in operation,” Nguyen Viet Quang, Vingroup’s deputy chairman and chief executive, said...
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