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BLOG: 7 tips for surviving Ho Chi Minh City when you’re not Vietnamese

February 4, 2016 By John Liu

By John Liu Northwest Asian Weekly I recently took a long overdue vacation to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, and it was a really exciting experience, one that I gleaned many lessons from. Here are my 7 tips for surviving Vietnam when you’re not Vietnamese! (The exchange rate on my trip was ₫22,500 Viet […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2010, 2016, Ben Thanh, Disease Control, GSM, Ho Chi Minh City, John Liu, Mai Linh, Northwest Asian Weekly, USD, Universe Central Hotel Saigon, Vietnamese, Vol 35 No 6 | February 6 - February 12, blog

Former US foreign service officer sentenced in visa fraud

August 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former U.S. visa chief in Vietnam has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for accepting more than $3 million in bribes in exchange for visas for entry into the U.S. Michael T. Sestak, a former U.S. foreign service officer, was sentenced Friday in federal court in Washington. He […]

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2015, China, Ho Chi Minh City, Thailand, United States, Vietnam, Vol 34 No 35 | August 22 - August 28

Hong Kong investors to purchase Seattle’s Columbia Center — High-rise and high price: $725 million

June 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly Seattle has the Space Needle and the Smith Tower, the city’s guaranteed architectural treasures. But the building that is hard to overlook? That would be the tallest building in Seattle: Columbia Center, the city’s monolithic building at 76 stories high—and it is also the tallest building in the state of […]

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: 2015, Beacon Capital, China, Columbia Center High-rise, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners, New York, Northwest Asian Weekly, Real Estate Alert, San Francisco, Seattle Columbia Center, Seattle Times, Smith Tower, Space Needle, United States, Vietnam, Vol 34 No 25 | June 13 - June 19

‘Napalm girl’ photographer returns — with iPhone, Instagram

June 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Ted Anthony Associated Press TRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) — He stands in the northbound lane of Vietnam’s Highway 1, traffic swirling around him, horns honking. He is pointing. Right there, he says — that’s where it happened. That’s where the screaming children appeared. That’s where I made the picture that the world couldn’t forget. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, David Campbell, England, Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Van Bon, Huynh Cong Nick Ut, Kim Phuc, South Vietnamese, Sushi World, Ted Anthony, Trang Bang, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 25 | June 13 - June 19, attention, technology

Vietnam meets demands to end strike in Nike, Adidas factory

April 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Tran Van Minh Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Workers at a major Vietnamese footwear factory for Nike and Adidas ended a weeklong strike last Thursday after the government agreed to their demands on retirement payouts. The stoppage by thousands of workers at the Taiwanese-owned Pou Yuen factory in southern Ho Chi Minh City […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Dang Ngoc Tung, HANOI, Ho Chi Minh City, Labor Ministry, National Assembly, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Taiwanese-owned Pou Yuen, Vietnamese, Vol 34 No 16 | April 11 - April 17

VOICES FROM THE YOUTH: An argument for returning to the country of your birth

September 4, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Julie Tolmie SYLP On a hot, smoggy morning last December, I stepped off of a plane and onto Vietnamese soil. My family and I had just arrived in Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City, after a bumpy flight down from Japan and another one before that from Seattle. In total, we had flown over […]

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: 2014, Ho Chi Minh City, Malaysia, Northern Vietnamese, SYLP, Seattle, United States, Vietnam War, Vol 33 No 37 | September 6 - September 12, culture, japan, language

The Village Report — The ins and outs of crossing borders in Southeast Asia

June 13, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Dipika Kohli Northwest Asian Weekly Our brown bus got to Phnom Penh right at 4 p.m. as promised. My son, husband, and I alighted on Monivong long before the official depot in the center of town. This was going to be a different kind of arrival, without the swarming of a thousand and one […]

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: 2014, Cambodia, Dipika Kohli, France, Ho Chi Minh City, India, Laos, Nepal, Northwest Asian Weekly, OK, Phnom Penh, Phonm Penh, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnamese, Vol 33 No 25 | June 14 - June 20

Vietnam allows anti-China protest over oil rig in Paracel Islands

May 17, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Chris Brummitt Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – Vietnam allowed several hundred demonstrators to stage a noisy rally outside the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi on May 11 against Beijing’s deployment of an oil rig in the contested South China Sea that has triggered a tense standoff and raised fears of confrontation.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2014, ASEAN, Associated Press, Beijing, Chinese Embassy, Chinese Foreign Ministry, HANOI, Ho Chi Minh City, Hua Chunying, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nguyen Xuan Hien, South China Sea, South Sea, Vietnamese, Vol 33 No 21 | May 17 - May 23

Critics pile on Vietnam in rare constitutional debate

March 10, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Chris Brummitt THE Associated Press HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s leaders sought to boost their flagging legitimacy by asking the public for suggestions on constitutional reform. What they got instead was rare open criticism of one-party rule, a fired journalist turned poster boy for dissent, and another lesson on how the Internet has changed […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, City University, Communist Party-run, HANOI, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Le Hieu Dang, London, Nguyen Dac Kien, Nguyen Sinh Hung, Vietnam, Vol 32 No 11 | March 9 - March 15

Vietnam deports US activist who was held for 9 months

February 9, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer The Associated Press LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) — A Vietnamese American accused of conspiring to overthrow Vietnam’s communist government smiled broadly as he reunited with his family after he was deported back to the United States. Nguyen Quoc Quan, who had been detained for nine months, was greeted by his wife, […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, 2013, China, Communist Party, Foreign Ministry, Ho Chi Minh City, Huong Mai Ngo, Los Angeles International Airport, Nguyen Quoc Quan, Richard Nguyen, Thailand, US, United States, Victoria Nuland, Viet Tan, Vietnamese American, Vol 32 No 7 | February 9 - February 15

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