How can Viet Nam realize its ambition of becoming a high-income country by 2045? While one of the greatest beneficiaries of global trade in the last three decades, Viet Nam’s current export-driven ...

“Who won and who lost in the great Tet Offensive against the cities?” Walter Cronkite asked his audience in February 1968. “The Viet Cong did not win by a knockout, but neither did we. The referees of ...

Books are not inert tools of pedagogy. They are mind-changing, world-changing. By Viet Thanh Nguyen For Afghans, the war isn’t over simply because the United States declared it so. The nightmare doesn ...

Western democracy was centuries in the creating. Teaching its fragile forms and subtle exercises to an alien culture would be a difficult experiment in the best of circumstances. To try to transplant ...

The history of Viet Nam is full of heroines. Women often served as gen erals. In the 1st century A.D., the Trung sisters raised an army and started a rebellion against Viet Nam’s Chinese overlords; ...

Inside the modest lobby of the Nguoi Viet Daily News hangs four framed newspaper clippings. The headlines tell of a war’s toll. “100,000 refugees in southeast Asia picked up by U.S. Air Force,” one ...

Ysa Le only planned to volunteer at her father’s nonprofit organization for two years. Her father had co-founded the Vietnamese American Arts and Letters Association in 1991, and Le wanted to pay ...

Hang Vu was getting ready to head to her younger sister's house for a New Year's Eve family dinner when she got the devastating call. "Daughter, daughter," her father, Nguyen Vu, cried in Vietnamese. ...

As long as he can remember, author Viet Thanh Nguyen has been interested in how stories about his home country of Vietnam are told in America. In his own works, including the Pulitzer-winning novel ...