'I want you home, dad': Searching for the missing 50 years after Vietnam War's end Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, one Seattle man embarks on a journey to a remote mountain in Laos where his father was last seen during a secret mission in the war.

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago this week, and it still reverberates loudly for many.

I traveled to Laos with a man who wanted to visit the site of a secret radar station on a remote hill where is dad was last seen. #VietnamWar #DPAA #Laos #Vietnam

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"...các món ăn Việt Nam như phở đã thu hút nhiều người dân Trung Quốc thưởng thức." -- Tập Cận Bình (aka Xi Jinping)

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5 years after Fang Fang recorded Wuhan lockdown, 2 of her books are being translated Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us about two more of her books now coming to English readers.

A rare interview by @npr.org @jruwitch.bsky.social with Fang Fang, the renowned Chinese writer.

Soft Burial, she says, is about "how people tend to bury painful memories and refuse to confront past traumas…"
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Baidu didn't get the memo

I can't recall it ever happening, but does anyone know if the Chinese government has blocked media from an event over language -- b/c they didn't refer to Taiwan as "Taiwan, China", or Second Thomas Shoal as "Ren ai jiao", or Tibet as "Xizang", etc?

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Booking stays in America these days:
Excluded:15.72 % TAX, US$ 29.00 Property service charge per night, US$ 327.00 Cleaning fee per stay

In Beijing…

$3.68 for 20 eggs

🔊 Listen Now: October Israeli strike in Gaza was much deadlier than reported, according to testimony All Things Considered on NPR One | 7:35

Important work by my colleague Daniel Estrin, who found one of the most catastrophic Israeli strikes in Gaza killed more people than reported - and it’s been up to families themselves to record the dead. 9 nuclear families killed. one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5227...

Me: Yay there are 21 empty seats in business class for upgrades!

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22. RUW, J.

Huangpu

Home sweet home

We lost an absolute legend today, a one-of-a-kind journalist, colleague and friend. My thoughts are with his family in Hanoi, where I am confident someone soon will raise a frosty glass of bia hoi in his honor. (Like the ones in this photo, from the last time we were together.)

太棒了！

Group sax in a public park

Whistlestop smoke break on a ‘gaotie’ platform somewhere in Hubei

Haircut day for the London plane trees on Shanghai’s Huashan Rd

New bar near the office in Shanghai giving off mid-2000s vibes

Tap…tap…tap. Hello? Is this thing on?