Vietnam – California Globe

U.S. Energy Shift Offers Economic Hope to Global South

October 17, 2025 7:38 amOctober 17, 2025 7:38 am

For decades growth strategies in poorer countries of the Global South – Asia, Africa and South America – leaned heavily on energy-intensive industries powered by fossil fuels and, in a handful of cases, by nuclear power. Cities grew, factories rose,...

Hanoi’s ‘Green’ Path to Poverty and Blackouts

September 2, 2025 2:33 pmSeptember 2, 2025 2:33 pm

Vietnam’s decision to prohibit gasoline-powered motorcycles in central Hanoi beginning July 1, 2026, is a textbook example of climate dogma disrupting developing economies with potentially devastating consequences. The policy will take effect in Hanoi’s downtown districts, then expand to outer...

Vietnam’s Bustling Economy Requires Fossil Fuels

December 2, 2024 4:07 pmDecember 2, 2024 4:07 pm

From my residential perch overlooking Ho Chi Minh City, I embrace the tranquillity of daybreak. Quickly, the idyllic morning transforms into a pulsing canvas of vitality as middle-class ambitions surge through the arteries of this burgeoning metropolis – Vietnam’s largest...

Vietnamese People Admire Capitalist Economic Systems

February 26, 2024 10:34 amFebruary 26, 2024 11:25 am

Vietnam officially calls itself “socialist,” but ever since the Doi Moi reforms at the end of the 1980s the country has been steadily moving toward a market economy. Vietnam has opened up to the outside world more than China, it...

Rep. Harley Rouda’s College Fraternity Held Vietnam-Themed ‘Mekong Delta’ Frat Parties  

June 22, 2020 4:43 pmJune 22, 2020 9:07 pm

Rep. Harley Rouda’s calls to end systemic racism in the United States, and his aggressive push to court veterans and Orange County’s Vietnamese community might appear disingenuous after photos surfaced of Rouda’s college fraternity hosting “Mekong Delta” parties during Rouda’s...