Câu chuyện Chị đang kể, là những mẩu đời có thật của muôn một em bé Việt Nam tội nghiệp, trôi dạt nơi xứ lạ, lẩn khuất ở những góc tối giữa đời sống văn minh thế giới(?). Những em bé… Read More ›
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Dễ mấy có thêm một Bùi Giáng“điên điên khùng khùng thứ thiệt” khác, song lắm người lại thích “điên điên” theo cốt cách Bùi Giáng ở cái phố Bolsa này. Tôi biết tên lão nhờ nét chữ viết trên mặt… Read More ›
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Chẳng là, tôi sẽ không bao giờ chủ tâm đi tìm, nếu một hôm lòng chợt nhận rằng có điều gì thiếu vắng ở cái góc phố Bolsa quen thuộc, nườm nượp khách thập phương qua lại. Từ hơn một… Read More ›
ANGELS IN HELL (Part 9): Wandering souls
‘There are things you could not recognize, It’s love’. – Hayao Miyazaki, ‘Spirited Away’ In 13 million Cambodians, Vietnamese are 5-10% of this population, the most numerous one among ethnic groups present on this country. Everywhere you could still hear… Read More ›
ANGELS IN HELL: The Price of Sacrifice
To give to suffer with- it’s to sacrifice -it is called love in action Mother Theresa ‘Closer to the country, farther off the nation…’ it must be sarcasm ready on lips of any Vietnamese, inhabitant on the border strip between… Read More ›
ANGELS IN HELL: Life At Its Turn
“I want to help street people” Diana Phnom Penh, capital of Royal Cambodia is a very ancient and old as well as a modern city. Over there, it’s a mixture of a little bit of Saigon, Hanoi and Bangkok… depending… Read More ›
ANGELS IN HELL: Let A Child’s Fingers Comb Your Hair
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ANGELS IN HELL: A Happy Exposure
(Quote Dalai Lama, NTY): In order to begin the journey of approaching headless statues at Angkor Wat temple in Siam Reap, for interrogating gods, I have to start at “Back Pack Westerners Street”, i.e. I have to be a real… Read More ›
ANGELS IN HELL: Give This To The Children*
At the turn of the 20th Century, when it’s nearer and nearer toward a tumultuous world, we fortunately have two persons (I don’t want to call them great man and woman, although they really are) whose names whenever referred to,… Read More ›
ANGELS IN HELL: Introduction
Introduction “God knows what this child would be guilty of, that she were enclosed in this lamentable situation and suffered”…I still vividly remember of the terrible story in Austria on an inhuman act of a father who had hidden his… Read More ›
ANGELS IN HELL: They stay alive for each other
That is what we do. That is what people do. They stay alive for each other. The Hours Due to its sharing borderline with Thailand, human trafficking in Siem Reap is highly developed. Many Vietnamese girls sold into Cambodia, after… Read More ›
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