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Biden: U.S.-Vietnam Relations Has Evolved From ‘Bitter Past’
10Sep By adminNo Comments
Politics

Biden: U.S.-Vietnam Relations Has Evolved From ‘Bitter Past’

HANOI (AP) — President Joe Biden opened his first visit to Vietnam on Sunday saying the two nations have a chance to shape the Indo-Pacific for decades to come — evidence of how far the relationship has evolved from what Biden referred to as the “bitter past” of the Vietnam War that ended almost a half-century ago.Vietnam is elevating relations with the U.S. to the level of a comprehensive strategic partner, Vietnam’s highest tier of international partnership.Biden, meeting with the country’s leaders, welcomed the move and said he hoped progress could be made on climate, the economy and other issues during his 24-hour visit to Hanoi.“We can trace a 50-year arc of progress between our nations from conflict to normalization to this new elevated status,” Biden said as he and Nguyễn Phú Trọng...
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A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
9Sep By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

A Departure from Reality, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

If a quiet library with towering walls of books and hushed patrons and my own leather armchair is my vision of eternal bliss, this refrigerator is, if not Hell, then a purgatory with tiled floors, brightly lit hallways, bland meals under plastic covers, incapacitated patients, the constant bustle of nurses, therapists, visitors, the buzz of televisions.I have never seen anyonereading a book inthis purgatory.Most of the staff, clad in nursing scrubs or polo shirts and chinos, are Filipinas. American colonization in the Philippines created this route for nurses to come to the United States, while draining the Philippines of its own medical professionals and depriving the children left behind of their mothers, exported to take care of others around the world.Where is the televised dramatic c...
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A Departure from Reality | The New Yorker
9Sep By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

A Departure from Reality | The New Yorker

If a quiet library with towering walls of books and hushed patrons and my own leather armchair is my vision of eternal bliss, this refrigerator is, if not Hell, then a purgatory with tiled floors, brightly lit hallways, bland meals under plastic covers, incapacitated patients, the constant bustle of nurses, therapists, visitors, the buzz of televisions.I have never seen anyonereading a book inthis purgatory.Most of the staff, clad in nursing scrubs or polo shirts and chinos, are Filipinas. American colonization in the Philippines created this route for nurses to come to the United States, while draining the Philippines of its own medical professionals and depriving the children left behind of their mothers, exported to take care of others around the world.Where is the televised dramatic c...
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First lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19 amid a nationwide rise in cases
5Sep By adminNo Comments
Health

First lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19 amid a nationwide rise in cases

First lady Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19 amid a nationwide rise in cases - CBS News Watch CBS News First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday and will remain in Delaware as a precaution. The President tested negative and will be tested regularly ahead of his trip to India and Vietnam later this week. CDC data shows a rise in COVID cases and hospitalizations this summer. Nancy Cordes reports from the White House. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On ...
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India’s restrictive trade policy is working great, but for Vietnam
21Aug By adminNo Comments
Business

India’s restrictive trade policy is working great, but for Vietnam

By Andy Mukherjee   The printed circuit board assembly, the camera module, the touch-screen display and the glass cover.   Together, they account for three-fourths of the bill-of-materials cost of a smartphone. Vietnam, the world’s second-biggest exporter of handsets after China, sources these and most other components at zero tariffs from free-trade partners. But India, which has few such accords of its own but is still keen to emulate the manufacturing powerhouse in its neighborhood, has customs duties as high as 22 per cent.    The result? Making mobile phones in the world’s most-populous nation now comes embedded with a cost disadvantage of 4 per cent, says the 2023 edition of a comparative study of tariffs by India Cellular & Electronics As...
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Why Thailand’s legal weed is luring droves of curious but cautious Asian tourists
13Jul By adminNo Comments
Money

Why Thailand’s legal weed is luring droves of curious but cautious Asian tourists

Bangkok — A Japanese tourist reaches into a baggie of cannabis he's just bought in a central Bangkok weed shop, pulling out a gram of buds to chop down in a small black grinder, before rolling them neatly into a joint. Only the slight spillage onto the smoking lounge's table — and his cough as he lights up and inhales deeply — betray the fact that until two weeks ago, he'd never tried marijuana. Most Asian nations have strict drug laws with harsh penalties, and Thailand's de facto legalization of marijuana last year has brought a wave of tourists from the region like the visitor from Japan, intrigued by the lure of the forbidden leaf."I was curious about how I would feel after smoking," said the 42-year-old tourist who spoke on condition that his name not be used, for fear his exp...
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Vietnam banned the “Barbie” movie — and this map is why
6Jul By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Vietnam banned the “Barbie” movie — and this map is why

Donald Rothwell is a professor of international law at Australian National University.The new "Barbie" film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is set for imminent release. But according to Vietnam's state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper, the film's release has been barred. The head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films, said:We do not grant license for the American movie 'Barbie' to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash lineVietnam's response to the "Barbie" movie's depiction of the South China Sea shows how sensitive these matters are in South East Asia, and especially in Vietnam. What is the nine-dash line?The South China Sea has a long history of be...
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