This article was published in The Business Times. AFTER two months of lockdown to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, the Vietnamese capital Hanoi is continuing its cautious reopening and easing more restrictions. In a flurry of government announcements earlier this week, travel permits were done away with… Read More (Paywall)
This article first appeared in the Earth Island Journal. In Vietnam’s Red River, navigating the space between environmental conservation and cultural preservation can be trickier than it first appears. On a chilly, gray January morning in Hanoi, Vietnam, a local development worker named Anh Ngoc Thi Nguyen volunteered at a river clean-up at the Red … Read more
This article was first published in Tricycle Magazine Thich Tinh Giac wants to educate his Vietnamese neighbors about the ecological impact of religious rites. Not far from Hanoi, Vietnam, off a long road that winds through plush green rice fields and banana plantations, sits Chua Phuc Son, a small pagoda in a quaint district called Gia … Read more
This article was published in Tuoi Tre When schools were given the all-clear to reopen at the end of April, it was clear that there would be a supply problem when it came to qualified English teachers. Borders had been closed since the end of March to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and would not … Read more