[Vnbiz] Building the American-Vietnamese friendship andunderstanding

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear CACC,

I sense that there is a lot of interest among the Vietnamese and the
American for this idea of building national friendship through a
people-to-people network.  Let give this issue our attention and work to get
something going.  And someone will have to push it.  OK?  (I hope sister
Huong DC can devote more time on this).

Here are some of my major considerations, thrown out here to brainstorm and
generate interest.  The following points have lots of my personal
preferences. They may not mean much to someone with different preferences:

1.   We have a lot of people (Vietnamese students overseas, Vietnamese
alumni of US universities,  Vietkieu, American expats in Vietnam, Americans
here who are interested in Vietnam).  Let get everyone together into a
network.

2. We rely on large number of people, so that each of us doesn't have to do
a lot of work.  We all are busy, but if each of us chips in just a tiny bit
of effort, the sum may be huge.

3.  We need to start telling everyone about this idea.  One way to do is to
forward some of our emails on this issue to your friends.  Please do so.
Another way is for us (some of us in a "committee") to draft a message to
the public to generate interest. Then each of us will forward that message
to our friends.

4.  The easy us place of keep everyone together is an Internet forum.  Can
anyone in Vietnam volunteer to handle a website.  A website with some form
of forum should be good for information coordination.  (If there is cost
involved, let's talk about it.  I don't think the cost will be big.  We can
handle that).

5. From there we can start talking and doing all kinds of thing we want.  It
can be student exchange, scholar exchange, internship, cultural events,
leadership visit (we can get some business and political leaders to go visit
once in awhile).  Tons of interesting things to do.  We just need to act as
an information clearing house.

Please chip in.  And please generate interest to friends outside this forum.

Have a great day!

Hoanh

On 6/13/07, Tran Ba Thien <tranbathien at gmail.com> wrote:
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> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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>  dear CACC,
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> I have ever joined some cultural exchange activities among Vietnamese
> young people and young people from various countries like Japanese,
> American, European  etc. Those cultural exchanges are organized by the
> Vietnam YMCA. Vietnam YMCA has ever invited me to assist foreign students
> for their inturnship studying. Vietnam YMCA is based at Thu Duc, HCMC.
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> There are a lot of young Vietnamese join Vietnam YMCA. *You* should
> contact your national YMCA then they will give you information about Vietnam
> YMCA.  Or you might contact Vietnam YMCA directly.
> best wishes,
>
> Tran Ba Thien
> tranbathien at gmail.com.
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-- 
Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Washington DC
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