One American’s endorsement of the War Remnants Museum It never ceases to amaze me how many foreigners deride the War Remnants Museum as “one-sided.” When I first visited the museum in 1999, I was shocked by the skill of its curators who managed to thoroughly chronicle the war in all its gruesomeness without dehumanizing the American troops responsible for so many atrocities. I realize now that the adverse reaction of foreigners to the museum merely [...]

It is true that I have seen problems continue over the years, both as an expat and as just someone trying to live day to day and I ponder what it would take to resolve them. There isn’t a day goes by that someone isn’t dealing with their Visa. The government’s policy seems to have changed so often and the desirable ease that one would like to have for remaining in an adopted country to [...]

On January 30, the Huffington Post sent Vietnam into a spiraling bout of depression by re-publishing a lengthy blog item entitled “Why I’ll Never Return to Vietnam.” “I can’t believe it,” said Lien, a 28 year-old graphic designer in the central historic town of Hoi An, upon reading the bit. Lien could not understand what would inspire a professional journalist to pen a sputtering condemnation of his homeland. Nor could he understand why the Huffington [...]

Two Venezuelan musicians, Maurice Reyna and Yoko Yoshizawa, will perform in Vietnam from December 12-19. The show is part of activities held by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Venezuelan embassy in Hanoi to mark the 200th anniversary of Venezuela’s independence. Maurice Reyna and Yoko Yoshizawa will join Vietnamese artists Lam Nguyen and Bui Manh Dung to perform Latin American music pieces on the guitar and harp.

On Thanksgiving, we cook and, if we’re doing it right, we give sincere thanks for being alive. But we rarely think of how the two really interact. We don’t recognize that in many parts of the world, cooking provides not just nourishment and pleasure but sometimes harm and death. Thankfully, there’s a solution on the way. The consequences of cooking may be the least-known major health problem in the world. According to the World Health [...]

What’s wrong with Ec 10? The dozens of Harvard University undergrads who walked out of the school’s famous introductory economics course this month think they know.The students’ general criticism is that Ec 10, in which some 700 students are enrolled, “espouses a specific — and limited — view of economics.” Their specific criticisms are that economics as taught in this class, formally called Economics 10, failed to prevent the financial crisis and does nothing to [...]