The Vietnam Weekly Podcast

Jan 12 2025 45 ep. 35 mins 24
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Every week, Ho Chi Minh City-based journalist Mike Tatarski sits down with a guest doing unique, important work in - or about - Vietnam to get a panoramic view of this dynamic, increasingly important country.

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Vietnam and Trump's Tariffs

Jan 12 2025 31 mins  
Today’s guest is Kyle Freeman, a Partner at Dezan Shira & Associates who leads the International Business Advisory team and the firm's North American client services desk in Asia.We discussed the latest tariff threats coming from President-Elect Donald Trump, how Vietnam benefited from U.S. trade policy during his first administration, Vietnam’s exposure to potential trade reme

Exploring Vietnamese Cinema

Jan 05 2025 43 mins  
Today’s guest is Nguyên Lê, an entertainment writer, copy editor, translator, and occasional screenwriter. He’s written for publications including /Film, The Houston Chronicle, Film Threat, and Paste Magazine. He’s also a member of both the Houston Film Critics Society and the Hollywood Critics Association - one of the few Asian members in their ranks.We discussed how Nguy�

Vietnam's 'Productive Frictions'

Dec 29 2024 38 mins  
Today’s guest is Huê-Tâm Jamme, an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.Huê-Tâm explores the effects of new technologies on space and society, especially on how people move, work, shop, and socialize in cities - and she has extensive research experience in Vietnam.We discussed her theory of ‘productive fricti

The Year in Vietnamese Politics

Dec 15 2024 47 mins  
Today’s returning guest is Nguyen Khac Giang, a Visiting Fellow at the Vietnam Studies Programme under the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. He was on the show in March for a conversation about the anti-corruption campaign, and he’s one of my go-to voices for insight into Vietnamese politics.We discussed the legacy of arguably the most consequential political year i

Community Development, Forest Preservation, and Vietnamese Gin

Dec 08 2024 31 mins  
Today’s guest is Daniel Nguyen, the founder of Sông Cái Distillery.We discussed his background in community development in the United States and rural Vietnam; Sông Cái’s mission as a case study for adding value to agriculture unique to Vietnam; the relationship between ethnobotany, land value, and forest preservation; creating value for smallholder farmers through grains a

Rice's Role in Vietnam's Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Dec 01 2024 29 mins  
Today’s guest is Katie Nelson, a climate change researcher at the International Rice Research Institute - or IRRI - in Hanoi.We discussed the role of agriculture - and particularly rice farming - in Vietnam’s greenhouse gas emissions, the importance of reducing methane emissions to reach international climate change goals, efforts to mitigate methane production in the country�

China's Influence on Fashion-Making in Southeast Asia

Nov 03 2024 34 mins  
Today’s guest is Wessie Ling, a Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design at London Metropolitan University and Director of The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement, or CREATURE.We discussed China’s influence on fashion-making in Southeast Asia, from the fabric supply chain through design and sales; how fashion designers in the region feel about this influence and

Vietnam's Climate Tech Ecosystem

Oct 06 2024 24 mins  
Today’s guest is Jason Lusk, Managing Partner at Clickable Impact and co-author of the recently released Vietnam Climate Tech Funding Ecosystem Report 2024.We discussed why Clickable Impact and New Energy Nexus created this first-of-its-kind report, what ‘climate tech’ means in the Vietnam context and why funding for it has lagged behind the country’s other tech sectors, ar

What's Going on in the East Sea?

Sep 29 2024 34 mins  
Today’s guest is Greg Poling, director of the Southeast Asia Program and the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. He’s also the author of the 2022 book ‘On Dangerous Ground: America's Century in the South China Sea.’We discussed the current situation in the East Sea, which tensions between China and t

Making Vietnamese History Accessible

Sep 22 2024 50 mins  
Today’s guests are Yen Vu, Assistant Professor and Major Coordinator in Literature at Fulbright University Vietnam, and Kevin Pham, Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. Yen and Kevin also host the excellent Nam Phong Dialogues, “a podcast with the purpose of making history (especially about Vietnam) accessible.”We discussed the creation of N