Ripped from the Headlines

August 16, 2018
This is Suyeon Lee. Please call her by Suyeon, Su, or Sue, but don’t call her Suyong or Suyoung. She might get a little bit upset. She was born and raised in South...
August 16, 2018
Lim Ze Xian Ryan Dennis was born to a Peranakan father and a Eurasian mother in 1994. He has always been addressed as “Ryan”, except in Chinese language classes where he was...
August 16, 2018
Carlotta Rudolph, having recently arrived in Singapore, now participates in the course “Modern Southeast Asia”. Being in exchange student, she is foreign to the region in an...
November 28, 2017
Visit the following Google Doc for a live blog of the presentations: https://docs.google.com/a/yale.edu/document/d/1xLLLEVOunP9x6kn3rrB5cu87C… Modern Problems,...
October 12, 2017
This article from The Guardian is about Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, one of Vietnam’s most influential bloggers. Also known by her online pseudonym, Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom), 38-...
October 12, 2017
Vietnam’s capital city, Hanoi, is struggling with air pollution exasperated by the abundance of scooters and motorbikes stalling in heavily trafficked roads. Traffic is at...
October 10, 2017
Dotted with small islands and reefs, the South China Sea (called the East Sea in Vietnam) has been the center of a string of territorial disputes that have involved Brunei,...

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