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A friend from Beijing sent this link, describing it as “a hilarious waste of time.”
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/full-list-of-stuff-white-people-like/
I just glanced at it, but items #91, 45, 44, and 11 caught my attention.
Of course, the list goes backwards. 

Welsh photographer Philip Jones Griffiths has died.  Rest in Peace.
He documented the various facets of the war in Viet Nam.   ”I wanted to show the Vietnamese were people the Americans should be emulating rather than destroying,” he once told the BBC.
From the BBC obituary:
He launched his career as a freelance photographer for the Observer newspaper in 1961, covering [...]

A friend in Europe sent the image below a few days ago.
 
The article is about a law allowing people in Holland to have sex in the park.  There are some rules, and hours, you must respect.  One must avoid “doing it” too close to children playgrounds, and one must dispose of condoms and “the eventual [...]

Here’s a story I promised I would offer you about a place called My Lai: 
For many, the name Viet Nam simply means a war – one that killed 58 thousand Americans.  Few in America even know that some three million Vietnamese died.  Many Vietnamese have tried to remind the world that Viet Nam is in [...]

Went for a few days to My Lai, Central Viet Nam, site of the 1968 massacre in which American soldiers murdered 504 villagers, mostly women and children.  More about that later, but here are some snapshots–from a broken camera–taken in the town of Quang Ngai, 15 minutes away from the site of the massacre. 

Something for you here.
And this, totally unrelated, from the photographer Na Son, taken in Sapa recently. Which reminded me of my own photographs, taken at the end of last year, on a trip from Ha Noi to Thai Binh And from Thai Binh to Thai Giang Forgive a [...]