August 28, 2011
John Trinh, a Vietnamese American filmmaker whose film about Agent Orange victims in Vietnam has been screened at 20 international film festivals. The Vietnam War raged when John Trinh, then Trinh Long Hoang, was growing up in Vietnam. But he knew nothing about its most insidious impacts until three decades after it ended in 1975. [...]
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August 4, 2011
Vietnamese-American visual artist Le Quang Dinh Vietnamese-American visual artist Le Quang Dinh will be presented with the 2010 Prince Claus Award at the Dutch Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City next week. Â The 43-year-old artist, whose works are informed by the Vietnam War and Cambodia’s experience under the Khmer Rouge, will receive a cash [...]
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July 31, 2011
American instructor found his calling after learning and failing as a producer and director Hollywood film instructor Dov Simens (in black suit), who admits that he is a mean, rude, and direct teacher, gave a lecture on filmmaking in HCMC from July 26-28 Hands on his hips, the grey-haired foreigner in a black suit [...]
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May 17, 2011
Vu Mai Anh (L), a tenth-grader from Austin Texas and her cousin Nguyen Quoc Bao, a twelfth-grade student, won two awards at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Two Vietnamese-American students won a grand award at a major international scientific contest in the US on Friday.  Nguyen Quoc Bao, a twelfth-grade student, and his cousin, [...]
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March 16, 2011
Annie Le (L) and Raymond Clark, who is suspected of killing her days before she got married in September, 2009 A former Yale University laboratory worker will plead guilty to killing 24-year-old graduate student Annie Le days before she was to be married, his lawyer said. Raymond Clark will enter his plea tomorrow before Connecticut [...]
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January 9, 2010
Vietnamâs Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Thanh Son (L) meets US Representative Joseph Cao Quang Anh The first Vietnamese-American elected to the US House of Representatives has returned to Vietnam in what he called a bid to increase understanding between the Vietnamese community in the US and Vietnamese back home. In a meeting with [...]
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December 26, 2009
Vietnamese-American film director and screenwriter Quan Lelan is making a name for himself in Tinsel Town after scooping the prestigious award for best screenplay at the Moondance International Film Festival. Quan Lelan with the producer and actresses from the 2007 remake of Dream of the Red Chamber.LookAtVietnam – Vietnamese-American film director and screenwriter Quan Lelan [...]
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December 25, 2009
The Ministry of Information and Communications plans to submit a proposal to the Government to attract more Viet kieu to work in the information technology industry. “Viet Nam has a large force of successful overseas Vietnamese, and many of them are excellent IT experts and ready to return to the country to make contributions”.Minister of Information and [...]
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December 13, 2009
Vietnamese-American stars return home Often seen on sultry magazine covers and increasingly in Hollywood and Chinese blockbusters, Vietnamese-American Maggie Q (Margaret Denise Quigley) has traveled the globe and back earning her way to stardom in Hong Kong first and then America.In 2005, the long road took her âhomeâ: Vietnam, that is.The land of her foremothers, [...]
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December 10, 2009
One of Vietnam top movie events opened last night at the White Palace, HCM City, gathering around 1,000 delegates, including top actors of Vietnam. The flag of the Vietnam Film Festival. A dance by show host Thanh Bach and actress Minh Thu. Singer Thanh Thuy. Actor Vo Thanh Tam and actress Nguyet Anh playing a scene from a [...]
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