RKS 2024 Film: “New Wave”: Vietnamese Escape Artists Groove to the New Wave

Filmmaker Elizabeth Ai weaves an interesting documentary on California’s Vietnamese New Wave craze and the disaffection of many Vietnamese “refugees” that fled to California after the fall of South Vietnam. Ai prefers to call Vietnamese fleeing the communist regime as “escape artists”. Ai was abandoned by her mother being raised by an aunt and her… Read More RKS 2024 Film: “New Wave”: Vietnamese Escape Artists Groove to the New Wave

14 June 2024 Robert K Stephen (CSW)Leave a comment

Eyes Opened At The War Remnants Museum

(HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM) – There is one facet about being a journalist and that is the fact you never quite know what your story might be. In this case my story was a brief article about Ho Chi Minh City’s War Remnants Museum. However, an interesting spin-off fact was generated based on conversations… Read More Eyes Opened At The War Remnants Museum

5 September 2018 Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Vietnam’s Reunification Palace

(HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM) – Boomers familiar with the Vietnam War will certainly get that down-memory-lane feeling when they visit the Reunification Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon. It was where the South Vietnamese war effort was centred. Ho Chi Minh was the leader of North Vietnam who died in… Read More Vietnam’s Reunification Palace

30 August 2017 Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Vietnam On The Move

(HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM) – Did the Americans Win the War in Vietnam? After visiting the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City I was reminded most unpleasantly of the terrible toll taken on French, American, Korean, Pilipino, Australian, New Zealand, and Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. In a sense, one side was fighting… Read More Vietnam On The Move

25 July 2017 Robert K Stephen (CSW)