Phuong Tran
Biographical Info:
Phuong Tran is a Vietnamese woman born in Weatherford, Texas in 1975. While a Soros Fellow at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, she worked on a part-memoir of her family and other's travels to the US from Vietnam. Based in New York City, she currently produces for the Osgood Files on CBS Radio.
Phuong Tran's Recent Contributions
Monastery on the Hill of Lady Penh, and other Cambodian Stories
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Phnom Penh My sister and I were the only non - Khmer passengers on the bus from Vietnam to Cambodia. Operated by Tourist T & T Trading, we were to cross through Moc Bai in the south of Vietnam, the...
Destinations:
Phnom Penh |
Cambodia
Topics:
Culture |
Travel
Hmong Encounter
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I can't remember how I met Co Xay--I remember a mob of Dao women in bright red headdresses, a cacophony of Hmong voices, clothes placed on my body to the chorus of "jolie!" (I later learned this was...
Destinations:
Sapa |
Vietnam
Topics:
Travel |
People
A Viet Kieu Visits Her Homeland for the First Time
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Nam Mo Di Da Phat. Praise to the Buddha and to the Goddess of Compassion . The nuns' chants enveloped me with their rhythmic, almost melancholic tones. The tones didn't seem to vary as much as the...
