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  My Journey Home . Andrew Lam . Video Diary | PBS
Andrew decides that he is more comfortable doing his video diary entries as conversations rather than talking directly to the camera.
Andrew talks about entering his family's old house in Da Lat for the first time in thirty years, and seeing his best friend from childhood again.
Andrew talks about visiting his uncle, To Hai, who fought with the Viet Cong during the war and was a respected musician, and who now lives in poverty in Nha Trang.
www.pbs.org /weta/myjourneyhome/andrew/andrew_video.html   (250 words)

  
 AsianWeek.com: A&E: Making Good in the Land of Milk and Honey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Lam’s father changed from an army uniform into a pair of jeans and T-shirt, and tossed his gun into the Pacific Ocean.
Lam worked at the UC Berkeley Cancer Research Lab when he heard the muses calling him.
Comparing his ancestral home with the United States, Lam said the people in Vietnam are “bound to the land, to the country, for generations.” In contrast, Americans are “individualistic.
www.asianweek.com /2000_06_22/ae2a_andrewlambio.html   (672 words)

  
 NPR Journalist Andrew Lam Talks to Book Club Group at Pacific Asia Museum — May 4, 2006 — PCC-CourierOnline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam discussed and signed his newly-released, critically acclaimed first collection of essays, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," for the Authors on Asia program at the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena on Friday April 28.
Lam was a pre-med., biochemistry major at UC Berkley when a teacher came to him and told him to go into the creative writing program.
Lam's book of essay's focuses on his life as a refugee, general's son and an immigrant's struggle in the United States.
www.pcc-courieronline.com /050406/arts/lam.html   (448 words)

  
 01/10/03 - One Of Those Grateful Refugees — Pacific News Service’s Andrew Lam
To begin, a little background on Lam: as the child of a lieutenant general in the South Vietnamese army Lam, then 11, was among the first refugees to come to America.
If the Lams were like most other Southeast Asian families I know, upon arrival in the U.S. it immediately received the full spectrum of comprehensive and costly social services.
Eventually, Lam was able to parlay his K-12 education (no doubt receiving special language instruction along the way) into a 4-year ride at the California taxpayer subsidized University of California at Berkeley where he studied biochemistry.
www.vdare.com /guzzardi/lam.htm   (988 words)

  
 NPR : Andrew Lam
Lam’s awards include the Society of Professional Journalists’ Outstanding Young Journalist Award (1993), The Media Alliance Meritorious award (1994), The World Affairs Council's Excellence in International Journalism Award (1992), the Rockefeller Fellowship at UCLA (1992), and the Asian American Journalists Association National Award (1993; 1995).
Lam was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University during the 2001-2002 academic year, studying journalism.
Lam was born in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1975 when he was 11 years old.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486830   (386 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Local News: Victims of bridge accident all were teenagers
Puttanapoong "Ball" Srisuthisuriya and Andrew Lam, both 17, of Seattle, and Dararith Sok, 18, of Portland, were killed in a fiery crash early Thursday when Srisuthisuriya's Toyota Scion slammed into a concrete barrier, rolled and burst into flames.
Andrew Lam had a passion for basketball and loved playing in the high-school league run by the Seattle Chinese Athletic Association.
Though Lam spent much of this season on the bench because of an injury, he was determined to play again soon, he said.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2003082497_crashfolo24m.html   (1031 words)

  
 NPR --> Search --> Criterion: ANDREW LAM
Commentator Andrew Lam recalls his childhood in Vietnam, his life along the Perfume River, and his longing for America.
Commentator Andrew Lam's remembers his uncle's warnings: "Get rid of your foreign accent!" The uncle was speaking from experience.
Commentator Andrew Lam has wanted to travel his whole life, but his first journey overseas was as a refugee from his native Viet Nam.
vny2k.net /VN2020/VNY2K_AndrewLam.htm   (406 words)

  
 The Artists' War | Panelists | Andrew Lam
Andrew Lam is a writer for Pacific News Service, and is a regular commentator for National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." His real love, however, is writing fiction.
Lam studied biochemistry at UC Berkeley and then decided to take a creative writing course.
Lam's stories and his characters have lives of their own.
www.kqed.org /w/baywindow/artistswar/panelists/lam.html   (329 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: HONG KONG: It's a vendetta, says tearful lawyer
Andrew Lam Ping-cheung also said the ICAC's Operations Review Committee, which has demanded a report into the case, could do little to stop the graft-busters abusing their power.
Mr Lam was released on a non-prejudicial basis by the ICAC early on Monday after being detained for 41 hours.
One man who lent his support to Mr Lam yesterday was his ex-colleague Alex Tsui Ka-kit, the former ICAC deputy director of operations sacked in 1993 over his friendship with a man who was the subject of ICAC investigations.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=13137   (422 words)

  
 Pacific News Service > Search Results > "Andrew Lam"
Andrew Lam takes a look at the history of kung fu movies and their influence in America.
Andrew Lam recalls his Christmas in Dalat, Vietnam, when he was a child.
Andrew Lam, author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, talks about falling in love at UC Berkeley and how his broken romance led him to a career as a writer.
news.pacificnews.org /news/search.html?search_word=Andrew+Lam   (1076 words)

  
 Divine Word College - News Releases
Andrew Lam writes of the life-long struggle for identity of a Vietnamese immigrant in America.
In his book, Perfume Dreams, Lam reflects on the meanings of the Vietnam War to the Vietnamese people themselves—particularly to those in exile—and picks with searing honesty at the roots of his doubleness and his parents’ longing for a homeland that no longer exists.
Andrew Lam is a syndicated writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.
www2.dwci.edu /news/news.cfm   (1154 words)

  
 Forever Tigers - Drinking Tiger Soup by Andrew Lam
Andrew Lam is an associate editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and and a regular commentator on NPR.
Lam was born in Saigon, Vietnam and came to the U.S. when he was eleven years old.
Lam is currently working on his first short story collection.
www.forevertigers.com /tigersoup.htm   (997 words)

  
 Andrew Lam
Andrew Lam is an editor at New America Media and author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora (2005, Heyday Books), which recently won a PEN/Beyond Margins Award.
The Iraq War has replaced Vietnam as the emblem of America's worst impulses.
The 3 million refugees fleeing the Iraq war and insurgency will find no welcome mat here.
www.thenation.com /directory/bios/andrew_lam   (74 words)

  
 Andrew Lam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew Lam (born 1964) is a Vietnamese American writer.
In April 1975, Lam left Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon with his family.
Lam has written many factual stories about the United States' involvement in Vietnam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Lam   (134 words)

  
 AVSS . Association of Vietnamese Scholars & Students
Andrew Lam is a journalist and writer who chronicles the immigrant experiences of others while struggling to come to terms with his own.
Lam discovers he is Vietnamese but no longer at home in Vietnam, American but never completely at home in America.
Andrew Lam is an award-winning syndicated writer, an editor with the Pacific News Service, and a regular commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
www.msu.edu /~avss   (626 words)

  
 The Asian Reporter - BOOK REVIEW
Lam tells seventeen true immigrant tales from that, at once, painful and promising place only newcomers can honestly occupy.
Lam reports as if there is in fact no elevated news bureau to write from.
Andrew Lam is an editor for the Pacific News Service, and an award-winning syndicated writer.
www.asianreporter.com /reviews/2006/16-06perfumedreams.htm   (609 words)

  
 Lam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lam and its various forms has several meanings.
Mor lam, an ancient Lao form of song in Laos
Lam is a common Cantonese (Hong Kong) surname.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lam   (150 words)

  
 Iraq Massacre Can't Shake Vietnamese- American Support for U.S. Troops   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Andrew Lam is a New America Media editor and the author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" (Heyday Books, 2005).
On the other hand, General Lam, author of a Vietnam war memoir called "The 25 Year Century," says that while his support for the war is unwavering, he's angry at the U.S. military's indiscriminate killings in Iraq.
Andrew Lam\'s article is interesting, but its basic premise - Viet Am community is the most pro-war and conservative U.S. ethnic group - is arguably untrue.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1653509/posts   (4372 words)

  
 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival - Guestlist
Vietnamese American journalist and author, Andrew Lam, writes for the Pacific News Service and is a frequent commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.
Andrew’s essays have appeared in dozens of newspapers in the US and his short stories and essays are also anthologized.
Andrew is author of Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora, which recently won the Pen American ‘Beyond the Margins’ Award.
www.ubudwritersfestival.com /list.php?id=A   (805 words)

  
 The Politics Of Climate Change By Andrew Lam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Politics Of Climate Change By Andrew Lam
The sea rises to swallow islands and low-lying nations.
Andrew Lam is an editor with New America Media and the author of "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora" (Heyday Books, 2005).
www.countercurrents.org /cc-lam161105.htm   (685 words)

  
 Andrew Lloyd Webber-Masterpiece: The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber (2001)
Given that the concert was held in 27 September 2001, there is no mention of Bombay Dreams which opened recently in London (however, this musical is only produced by Andrew and does not feature his songwriting or lyrics).
Sandy Lam is a Chinese pop singer and Tony Vincent does have some Broadway experience.
Whether I am biased or not - perhaps because of patriotism (after all, many of the cast and crew were Australians) or because of hormones (I can't help it if I find Kris Phillips extremely handsome and appealing!) - I found the concert very enjoyable and worth watching.
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=1503   (1365 words)

  
 Nhung+Congdan+Thegioi+Dautien+-+Andrew+Lam
Pacific News Service editor and short-story writer Andrew Lam spoke with the celebrated cosmopolite in Bangkok and found out why she can't stop moving on.
She's the Vietnamese woman with high cheekbones and a beauty mark on her chin on the cover of the New York Times Magazine some three years ago for a story about the "Viet Kieus" -- Vietnamese returning to Vietnam.
Andrew Lam, chủbút của Pacific News Service và là câyviết chuyên về truyệnngắn, đã nóichuyện với vị côngdân thếgiới nầy tại Bangkok và thấyđược vìsao nàng khôngbaogiờ ngừng bước.
www.vny2k.net /vny2k/141299CongdanThegioi.htm   (2098 words)

  
 New America Media Blogs
Andrew Lam's Short story will be read by David Straithairn
I happened by two young men in Fez talking at a mosque in the fall of 2004.
Andrew Lam is the author of Perfume Dreams
blogs.newamericamedia.org /andrew-lam   (2436 words)

  
 AsiaSource: AsiaEVENTS - A resource of the Asia Society
Both Lam and Pham were sons of the Vietnamese War with fathers in active service in the Southern Vietnamese forces.
In his first collection of essays, Perfume Dreams, journalist and NPR commentator Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad.
Pham’s A Sense of Duty, is an affecting memoir about fate, hope and the aftermath of the Vietnamese War, including details about Pham’s father, a South Vietnamese pilot who survived more than a decade in communist prison camps after the fall of Saigon.
www.asiasource.org /events/ae_mp_03.cfm?EventID=15426   (231 words)

  
 Schedule of Events April 17-22   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Andrew is a syndicated writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and a regular commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered.” He co-founded New America Media, the country’s first and largest national collaboration of ethnic news organizations.
Lam’s awards include the Society of Professional Journalist Outstanding Young Journalist Award, The World Affairs Council's Excellence in International Journalism Award, the Asian American Journalist Association National Award and many others.
Lam is author of “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora.” 
www.humboldt.edu /~aphweek/index_files/page0001.html   (354 words)

  
 Odeo: Audio tagged with andrew
And their names are Jimmy Fang, Sky Eckstrom, and Andrew Ward....
Other tags: lost andrew gregory year gregory lost year
Every week the best unsigned music is hand-picked by Andrew Beale delivered to your computer.
odeo.com /tag/andrew   (352 words)

  
 PEN American Center - Andrew Lam
Andrew is a syndicated writer and an editor with the Pacific News Service, a short story writer, and a regular commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.
Andrew Lam: From Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
Listen to Russell Banks reading Andrew Lam (9:45)
pen.org /page.php/prmID/1334   (225 words)

  
 Friendster - Andrew Lam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Access to Andrew's full profile is limited to Friendster members to whom Andrew is closely connected.
Andrew has chosen to only receive messages from Friendster members to whom Andrew is closely connected.
If you find this profile offensive, please report it to us and we will take appropriate action
www.friendster.com /user.php?uid=7224734   (57 words)

  
 Salon News | What did we learn from Vietnam? Part 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Bobbie Ann Mason, Michael Lind, Philip Caputo, Jonathan Schell and others talk about how the war changed the U.S., and the world.
Author Todd Gitlin, filmmaker Freida Lee Mock and journalist Andrew Lam on the lasting effects of the war.
Editor's note: Twenty-five years after Saigon fell to the communist forces of North Vietnam, the battle still rages over why American intervention failed to win the war -- and whether the United States should even have tried.
archive.salon.com /news/feature/2000/04/25/vietnam/index.html   (1188 words)

  
 Textbooks by Andrew Lam - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Authors: Debra P. Williamson, Dale G. Pease, John P. Gaa, Andrew S. Jackson, Eddie T.C. Lam
For Catholic church, Vietnamese are the new Irish.(NATION)(Divine Word College in Iowa): An article from: National Catholic Reporter by Andrew Lam
Andrews McMeel Pub Paperback 184 pages, 1995 More Editions of This Book
www.directtextbook.com /author/andrew-lam   (512 words)

  
 Andrew Lam - Research Home Page [Cancer Genetics and Developmental Biology : BC Cancer Research Centre]
Andrew Lam - Research Home Page [Cancer Genetics and Developmental Biology : BC Cancer Research Centre]
Home » Departments » Cancer Genetics and Developmental Biology » Personnel » Andrew Lam
We subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation
www.bccrc.ca /cg/people_andrewlam.html   (93 words)

  
 AlterNet: Movie Mix: Thai Cinema Ready to Roll
And with the Cannes Jury Prize in Apichatpong's pocket, his film has not only traveled well, but also officially announced the Thai film industry's coming of age.
Andrew Lam is an editor for the Pacific News Service.
America has always welcomed and used cheap labor.
www.alternet.org /movies/18882   (953 words)

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