Hints and tips:
...Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise....
...Nguyen admits he can “only write about Má’s voyage into surreality now that she has died”....
...In exchange for permission to photograph these events, Lê agreed to play the role of a South Vietnamese Viet Cong fighter....
...Since Vietnam, which was Asia’s fastest-growing economy last year, has transitioned from centralised economic control to a more open model, the US has become its largest export market....
...Suicides by hanging are regular; hatred and scorn has led to desertions that swell the ranks of the Viet Minh. The inspectors draw up a report but there were no reforms or indictments....
...Jewish rebels used them in a famed revolt against Roman rule 2,000 years ago, as did the Viet Cong fighters who ultimately beat US forces in the Vietnam war....
...Activists have learnt from each other for decades: anti-shah organisers in the 1970s studied Viet Cong tactics and read the urban guerrilla manual by Brazilian Marxist revolutionary Carlos Marighella....
...When Étienne’s lover, a foreign legionnaire who is fighting the Viet Minh, disappears on a mission, it brings into focus a gruesome tit for tat of torture between coloniser and colonised....
...Judge Colm Connolly in Delaware has yet to rule on the motion. Jankowicz is seeking damages in an amount to be determined at trial....
...Job moves Fox Corporation has hired Adam Ciongoli, general counsel at Campbell Soup, to replace its top lawyer Viet Dinh, who resigned from the company following its $787.5mn settlement of defamation claims...
...Since the Dominion settlement, Fox has split with Tucker Carlson, the star Fox News anchor, and senior legal executive Viet Dinh, godfather to one of Lachlan’s children....
...Job moves Fox Corporation’s top lawyer Viet Dinh, a close confidant of chief executive Lachlan Murdoch, will exit the company this year following the media group’s $787.5mn settlement of defamation claims...
...Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect. Ron Haeberle’s photographs of the My Lai massacre....
...Viet, who was born in Hội An, takes pride in making the group fresh coffee every morning, while Nam is the on-hand mechanic....
...Fox’s own reporters found no truth in them and Viet Dinh, Fox’s top lawyer, warned executives including Murdoch’s son Lachlan that Hannity was “awfully close to the [legal] line” on his show....
...But it is still less of an Isis than it is a Viet Cong, for instance, movement. It does operate in fundamentally different ways from this jihadi monster that we saw....
...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...
...But this ownership-first approach has squeezed social housing affordability, lumping pressure on rentals....
...“The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says. “I can imagine them hiding behind a camouflage net in the parallel aisles.”...
...“Industrial parks in the area were sealed off in Viet Yen and Viet Dung districts,” Bac Giang provincial authorities said in a statement....
...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....
...The problem with systems analysis in the west has been the inability of analysts to model soft factors, for example the willingness of the Viet Cong to keep fighting....
...While Nick Stagliano’s film has understandably made the most of his involvement, Hopkins is in fact strictly a cameo proposition....
...His team’s AI work ranges from facial recognition, used by Viet Capital Bank to verify clients, to Kiki’s playlist, which was trained via the huge song library of another VNG business, Zing Music....
...You might recall that the Office of Strategic Services (later CIA) had been friendly to the Viet Minh (in the second world war), and then later its sworn adversary....
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