Lam bao nhu biography examples
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(Tiếng Việt)
“I dont think the Vietnamese people in the U.S. get enough credible news. And I dont know how to help them get credible news, except that I do the best I can with my videos.”
By: Bùi Như Mai and Lam Thuy Vo
Meet Bùi Như Mai, a year-old Vietnamese grandmother who is also a YouTube influencer.
“I didn’t think I was going to be a YouTube newscaster at the age of But these days you will often see me at my daughter’s house, holding my grandchild while translating articles from Politico or The Atlantic into Vietnamese that I then broadcast on a news channel on YouTube. Every week I try to work my way through two, if not three articles, which takes one or two full days,” said Bùi standing in her kitchen, laughing to herself.
“This is not how I imagined spending my retirement.”
Bùi had noticed a lot of right wing misinformation being spread online by YouTubers in her community, particularly after Donald Trump was elected president in After she retired from her job
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"In the early s, the market experienced an exodus of painters due to the shift to digital; it was difficult to retain customers otherwise. I didn't want my craft to be forgotten, so I started everything all over,” Nguyễn Hoài Bảo told me in Vietnamese when I visited his studio.
Bảo, born in , is one of the few traditional sign painters who is still practicing his craft in Saigon.
“My father used to run a workshop that made hand-painted signs in Đồng Tháp. I started learning about the trade when I was I would go to school in the morning and help out at the workshop in the afternoon. I got the ropes of the job pretty quickly and my father recognized my potential, so naturally I followed in his footsteps.”
Traditionally, hand-painted signs employed a simpler palette comprising red, blue, green, and yellow — primary shades for grabbing attention easily. In their heydays, these signs were a staple for businesses wishing to advertise their products and services. Such high demands kep
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Summary
In celebration of International Human Rights Day, on the morning of December 6, , the prominent lawyer and human rights activist Nguyen Van Dai delivered a talk at Van Loc parish in Nam Dan district, Nghe An province, about the rights enshrined in Vietnam’s Constitution. That afternoon, he left for Hanoi, accompanied bygd fellow activists Ly Quang Son, Vu Van Minh (also known as Vu Duc Minh), and Le Manh Thang. During the course of the journey, their hyrbil was forcibly stopped bygd a group of roughly a dozen men wearing civilian clothing and disguised by surgical masks. Nguyen Van Dai says the men dragged them out of the taxi, beating them with wooden sticks on their thighs and shoulders, and forced him into their car. The beating continued inside the car:
They slapped me on my face continuously, and hit me on my ears and my ingång. Once the car arrived at Cua Lo beach, they stripped me of my jacket and shoes, pushed me out onto the beach and left.
The three other rights activi