· January, 2006

Stories about Vietnam from January, 2006

China, Vietnam: Character-less

Pinyin News translates comments by a Chinese writer who claims that the foundation for Vietnamese culture is “extremely superficial” since Vietnam gave up writing Vietnamese in Chinese characters.

16 January 2006

Vietnam: Noodlepie's Podcast

Vietnam-based foodblogger and freelance journalist Noodlepie takes a breather from his usual offerings to expound on blogs and journalism on his blog and in a podcast interview. “Rethink newspapers. Give...

16 January 2006

Vietnam: Recalled Translations

Several books translated into Vietnamese, including The Da Vinci Code, have been recalled by the publisher because of gross translation errors. diacritic and Down And Out in Sài Gòn discuss.

4 January 2006