Started on June 9th, 2019, protests in Hong Kong had sustained over 110 days. It is going strong well into the 70th National Day of Communist China. Shockingly, what started as a protest against an extradition bill continued well into weeks after the bill was canceled. The involvement of triads in Hong Kong in the protest has also attracted international news.
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Pre-colonized Vietnam was split into three states, Cochinchina, Annam, and Tonkin. Cochinchina covered the most southern part of Vietnam in which its primary city was Saigon. Annam was the central state of Vietnam where the ancient capital of Vietnam, Hue, was located. Tonkin was the most northern region where its main city was Hanoi.
by Sommer Phan Marie Kondo has garnered mass mainstream attention through her book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2011) and the corresponding Netflix show “Tidying Up With Marie Kondo” (2019). In media, Kondo is known for the phrase “spark joy”. As Kondo helps her clients tidy up their houses, she encourages them to think about if the item “sparks joy”.
by Peter Lassalle-Klein
Trade has often been ascribed as one of the core building blocks of a successful and healthy society. This remains true today, as there are a plethora of trade relations branching all around different parts of the world. However, many of these relations connect to a country that has a scarring history of trade deals: China. The most notorious of which is known as the Opium Wars.
by Luke Diep-Nguyen
On August 15, 2019, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the 73rd India Independence Day speech. During his speech, Modi announced revoking the Indian Constitution’s Article 370 which gave Indian states such as Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh their special status. The previous week, on August 4, India had already put Kashmiris under lockdown.
by Luke Diep-Nguyen
1857 - Establishment of the Indian Independence Movement of 1857 which would last until the eventual Indian independence in 1947. It started with the Indian Mutiny of 1857 which was a revolt led Indian soldiers against the British.
by Luke Diep-Nguyen
Since the presidential election in 2016, trade agreements, particularly with China, has been an important issue with President Donald Trump. President Trump, during and following the election, was heavily critical of previous trade agreements, including NAFTA and the TPP as well as intergovernmental organizations such as the WTO, NATO, and the UN.
On April 30th, 1975, the Fall of Saigon occurred and left more than 1.6 million Vietnamese immigrants, to be resettled around the world. Vietnamese immigrants fled in two distinct waves. The first wave of immigrants left in 1975, directly after the Fall of Saigon. This wave of immigrants was mainly made up of the elite and highly educated. by Hanna Bobrowicz It was what we had first bonded over, my boss, co-worker, and I. It was my first day at Pacific Atrocities Education and after nervously making small talk we began listing our favorite Asian American authors. It is unclear who first mentioned Thi Bui’s Memoir, The Best We Could Do, but the second the title was uttered we simultaneously began to gush about the story and how it impacted us.
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