Stories by Andrew Lam

Andrew Lam is an editor with New America Media and the author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" (Heyday Books, 2005) and “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres.” His next book, “Birds of Paradise Lost,” is due out in 2013. subscribe to Andrew Lam's feed

Big Mac Won't Satisfy Vietnamese Desire for Human Rights

Posted on: Jul 24, 2013, Source: New America Media

In the last few years Hanoi has stepped up arrests of dissidents with no fear of international criticism or U.S. rebuke. Now they want our weapons.

Hoping for a Meteor to Strike Because Life is Hard? You're Probably Out of Luck

Posted on: Feb 17, 2013, Source: New America Media

Humanity has a better chance than the dinosaurs...

Vietnam, Afghanistan: War, Karma, and Peace

Posted on: Oct 30, 2012, Source: New America Media

Trying to Google news of my homeland, Vietnam, over the last few weeks has not been easy because the headlines that often showed up were about Afghanistan.

In Buddhist Myanmar, Monks Gone Wild

Posted on: Jul 31, 2012, Source: New America Media

The Rohingya, a largely Muslim minority, remain caught between a hostile populace in Myanmar and a neighboring Muslim nation in Bangladesh that refuses to open its borders.