mekong merchant

skipping across the mekong

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

If Vietnam is to remain on the path to socialism, it must objectively scrutinize its own contradictions; not manufacture new classes/generations of pseudo-enemies that distract us from the resolving our material and institutional contradictions.

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

In Vietnam, the politicization of Gen Z is already producing its own antithesis. What begins as a demand for accountability around an unresolved death is increasingly recoded as a problem of Gen Z itself: a potential threat to order and legacy.

[Chelsea Ngoc Minh Nguyen @ngcmn26]

Today marks the end of Saigon Economic Times (1975-2026), Vietnam’s premier economics magazine. Before being shut down, Pham The Anh, an economist, warned of Vietnam’s chronic real estate-credit driven growth model, whose problems are no less severe than China’s.

[Chelsea Ngoc Minh Nguyen @ngcmn26]

“Silk Road Manufacturing: An Alternative Path to Globalisation: Vietnam as a Case Study” by Prof Feng Chao https://t.co/wd3Dc8AlKC

[mahdi @_mahdichowdhury]

Tagore's 1917 lectures on Nationalism, one of the great works of political philosophy borne from the Great War

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

A 20-year-old student from Hanoi ran into a burning building to save seven people who were trapped.

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@phnompenhpost No thanks

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

One of my favorite places in Phnom Penh

[Khmer Times @KhmerTimes]

Second-generation owner keeps Russian culinary tradition alive in Phnom Penh

#Features #KhmerTimes #Russianculinary #AlisaSok

https://t.co/VFahqTCKiE

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@tweetcambodia This is a mess…

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@Trinhnomics Me!

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

Chúc mừng năm mới! 🥳

[Harvard's Growth Lab @HarvardGrwthLab]

🚨NEW: Economic Complexity Rankings find Vietnam 🇻🇳 will lead the WORLD in per capita growth over the next decade.

China 🇨🇳—despite being the 2nd-largest economy—follows closely behind. 

What's driving this? Productive capabilities.

Our new growth projections reveal which countries are poised to lead global growth. And the results will surprise you - @ricardo_hausman. (1/7)

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@HeroBlackKnight @kage_urufu @DzLe77 I think this is also true of families in VN. I have seen children of VK families in Vietnam contribute to the country & understand the aims of revolution; I have also seen children of revolutionary families disregard revolutionary commitments and engage in corruption.

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@HeroBlackKnight @kage_urufu @DzLe77 All VN families are complicated & full of contradictions. Our house was split by war with political commitments either revolutionary or reactionary/liberal or nonexistent. This is not uncommon.

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@kage_urufu @DzLe77 My parents are supportive but the guidelines from Ministry of Justice are still not accurate or clear.

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@DzLe77 @kage_urufu Not that simple. They require your parents or grandparents to acquire or recover Vietnamese citizenship before you receive your passport, despite showing original birth certificates.

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@CNMNguyen I recommend reading Susan Buck Morris’s HEGEL AND HAITI in relation to this matter. France was the site where the contradiction of universalism and empire became most visible. US and Japan seemed to be sites of ideological exceptionalism and technocratic modernity.

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@tweetcambodia Yes, I agree but joining it is a requirement to continue trade talks with the U.S.

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

I guess this is where we are heading

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

This is who you’re competing against,

Chinese fruit seller and chip designer.

Yea, you’re cooked:

[mekong merchant @toiladzon]

@ngahpham Seems like women leadership is declining