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2025 & Vietnam's 'Era of National Rise'
Dec 14, 2025
47m 24s
Responding to Vietnam's Historic Floods
Nov 23, 2025
32m 57s
Crafting 'Vietnam: The Cookbook'
Oct 19, 2025
30m 29s
Documenting Vietnamese New Wave
Oct 5, 2025
35m 02s
Ensuring Education for Disadvantaged Girls
Sep 7, 2025
30m 28s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 12/14/25 | ![]() 2025 & Vietnam's 'Era of National Rise'✨ | Vietnam's economyforeign policy+3 | Nguyen Khac Giang | ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute | — | Vietnameconomy+5 | — | 47m 24s | |
| 11/23/25 | ![]() Responding to Vietnam's Historic Floods✨ | storm relieffundraising+3 | Chris Tran | The Ba Lô ProjectVietnam Weekly+1 | — | Vietnamfloods+5 | — | 32m 57s | |
| 10/19/25 | ![]() Crafting 'Vietnam: The Cookbook'✨ | Vietnamese cuisinecookbook+3 | Anaïs Ca Dao van Manen | PhaidonYeshi+1 | HCMC | Vietnamcookbook+5 | — | 30m 29s | |
| 10/5/25 | ![]() Documenting Vietnamese New Wave✨ | Vietnamese New Wavedocumentary+3 | Elizabeth Ai | SaigoneerVietnam Weekly+2 | — | Vietnamese New Wavedocumentary+5 | — | 35m 02s | |
| 9/7/25 | ![]() Ensuring Education for Disadvantaged Girls✨ | educationfundraising+5 | Vân Vương | Saigon ChildrenU-GO+1 | VietnamCambodia | educationfundraising+7 | — | 30m 28s | |
| 8/17/25 | ![]() The Art of Vietnam Guidebook Writing✨ | travel writingguidebooks+4 | Joshua Zukas | Bradt GuidesThe Economist+3 | VietnamHoi An+1 | Vietnam guidebooktravel writing+5 | — | 48m 03s | |
| 8/10/25 | ![]() The Ties That Bind Vietnam & The Netherlands✨ | economic relationshipwater-related challenges+3 | Daniël Stork | Netherlands | Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam+1 | VietnamNetherlands+5 | — | 37m 32s | |
| 6/29/25 | ![]() Improving Women's Health in Manufacturing✨ | women's healthmenstrual underwear+4 | Celine Ventalon | Émer | Ho Chi Minh City | menstrual underwearwomen's health+3 | — | 23m 29s | |
| 6/8/25 | ![]() Vietnam's Big Bet On Its Future✨ | public policyinvestment+4 | Rich McClellan | RMAC AdvisoryTony Blair Institute for Global Change+1 | Vietnam | Vietnampublic policy+4 | — | 39m 20s | |
| 6/1/25 | ![]() Crafting Vietnam's First Independent Whisky Distillery✨ | whisky distilleryVietnamese brands+4 | Michael Rosen | Về Để ĐiWorld Whiskies Awards | VietnamTaiwan | whiskydistillery+5 | — | 31m 42s | |
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| 5/25/25 | ![]() A Revised Look at Energy | Today’s guests are Thomas Jakobsen, Managing Director at Indochina Energy Partners; and Angus McEwin, Managing Director at Monsoon Carbon. We discussed the key points of revised PDP; progress on transmission and the national grid; LNG development; current issues and opportunities around solar and onshore wind; Renewable Energy Certificates and voluntary carbon credits and their place in Vietnam’s energy market; Vietnam’s efforts to launch a domestic carbon trading system; the revival and formalization of nuclear energy plans; and what to look out for in the coming years. Related link:Vietnam’s Energy Plans & RealitySubscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 36m 12s | ||||||
| 4/27/25 | ![]() Reflection, Reconciliation, and Reunification | Today’s guests are Dr. Nguyễn Thùy An, Historian and Labor Education Professional at the University of Maine, specializing in the history of U.S. foreign relations and Vietnamese history; and Dr. Sean Fear, Lecturer in International History at the University of Leeds, whose research focuses on the Republic of Vietnam. We discussed progress on reconciliation between Vietnam and the U.S., which took something of a hit following reporting that American diplomats have been told to avoid events related to reunification; how the teaching of the war in Vietnam has evolved; perspectives on the Republic of Vietnam over time; the role of reunification in modern Vietnam; the state of reconciliation within Vietnam and between Vietnam and the overseas diaspora; and what is missing from international perspectives on reunification and the war more broadly. Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 56m 36s | ||||||
| 4/23/25 | ![]() Socialist Realism & Dogma Collection | Today’s guest is Minh Nguyễn, curator at Dogma Collection in Ho Chi Minh City. We discussed what Dogma Collection is, the socioeconomic context of socialist realism propaganda created from 1945 to the mid-1980s, the use of digitally rendered versions of this art for the upcoming reunification anniversary, the state of the contemporary art scene in HCMC and Vietnam more broadly, the exhibition ‘A Radial System’ and its presentation of war imagery from different viewpoints, and more. Follow Dogma Collection on InstagramReframing War Memories via the Western-Vietnamese Photographic Perspectives (Saigoneer)Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 37m 24s | ||||||
| 4/13/25 | ![]() Partnering for Climate Solutions | Today’s guest is Robyn McGuckin, Executive Director of P4G, who joined from Hanoi, where the 2025 P4G Vietnam Summit begins this morning.We discussed P4G’s goals and approach, the hurdles faced by many climate tech startups and the so-called ‘valley of death,’ the interface between climate tech startups and government, P4G’s national platforms, their nine partner countries, P4G’s success stories in Vietnam such as Stride and Alterno, how P4G connects with and assesses startups, climate tech funding challenges unique to Vietnam, the significant of the 2025 P4G Vietnam Summit, and more.Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee.Related link:Vietnam's Climate Tech Ecosystem (Vietnam Weekly Podcast) Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 30m 59s | ||||||
| 4/3/25 | ![]() Emergency Pod: The Trump Tariffs | Following the announcement of President Donald Trump’s shocking 46% reciprocal tariff rate on Vietnam, I wanted to get a quick initial reaction from return guest Kyle Freeman, a Partner at Dezan Shira & Associates who leads the International Business Advisory team and the firm's North American client services desk in Asia.Kyle was on the show in January when the trade situation between Vietnam and the U.S. appeared to be much warmer. With the caveat that this is a very fluid situation, we discussed the tariff announcement, why Vietnam got hit so hard, and what we might expect moving forward.Editor’s note: In the episode, there’s a mention that the tariff rate imposed on Vietnam is the second-highest of any country. It is the fourth-highest.Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 14m 14s | ||||||
| 3/30/25 | ![]() Vietnam's Foreign Policy Amid Global Uncertainty | Today’s guest is Khang Vu, a visiting scholar at Boston College with a Ph.D. in International Relations with a focus on East Asian Security from Boston College. Vietnamese foreign policy is one of his key areas of expertise.We discussed Vietnam’s success in avoiding Trump tariffs thus far, the planned China-backed Lao Cai-Hai Phong railway, Vietnam’s history of dealing with territorial disputes with China and potential lessons for other Southeast Asian countries, the government’s ongoing spree of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership upgrades, the importance of Cambodia and Laos to Vietnam’s strategic security, the ‘era of national rise’ and its foreign policy impact, and more.Recent articles by Khang: What Southeast Asian Countries Can Learn from Vietnam’s History of Negotiating Territorial Disputes with China (The Diplomat)Vietnam’s ‘Era of National Rise’ and the Risk of Imperial Overreach: Lessons from 1975 (The Diplomat)Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 39m 19s | ||||||
| 3/23/25 | ![]() Supporting Disadvantaged Youths Through Social Enterprise | Neal Bermas is founder and chairperson of STREETS International, a social enterprise based in Hoi An that offers a fully-supported 14-month culinary and hospitality training program to disadvantaged and vulnerable youth living in povertyWe discussed STREET’s focus on the hospitality sector, its functioning as a social enterprise, the demographics of the young people who receive support and the challenges they face, how the pandemic somewhat diminished the appeal of working in the hospitality sector, STREET’s success in placing program graduates in a job, and a digression into Vietnam’s tourism sector more broadly.Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 30m 01s | ||||||
| 1/12/25 | ![]() Vietnam and Trump's Tariffs | Today’s guest is Kyle Freeman, a Partner at Dezan Shira & Associates who leads the International Business Advisory team and the firm's North American client services desk in Asia.We discussed the latest tariff threats coming from President-Elect Donald Trump, how Vietnam benefited from U.S. trade policy during his first administration, Vietnam’s exposure to potential trade remedies given its huge surplus and growing Chinese manufacturing investment, how export-focused companies are preparing for another Trump presidency, and more.Related Links:US trade deficit with Vietnam soars beyond $110 billion, as weak dong boosts exports (Reuters)The Fiction of Western Unity on China De-Risking (Foreign Policy)Trump’s Tariffs Helped Northern Vietnam Boom Like Never Before. What Now? (The New York Times)Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 17s | ||||||
| 1/5/25 | ![]() Exploring Vietnamese Cinema | Today’s guest is Nguyên Lê, an entertainment writer, copy editor, translator, and occasional screenwriter. He’s written for publications including /Film, The Houston Chronicle, Film Threat, and Paste Magazine. He’s also a member of both the Houston Film Critics Society and the Hollywood Critics Association - one of the few Asian members in their ranks.We discussed how Nguyên got into movies, the evolution of Vietnamese cinema over time, censorship, steps the industry could take to improve its standing both here and internationally, and his current screenplay work.Nguyên’s recommendations for essential contemporary Vietnamese movies:* The Rebel (Dòng máu anh hùng - 2007)* Song Lang (2018)* The Moon at the Bottom of the Well (Trang noi day gieng - 2008)* Three Seasons (Ba mùa - 1999)Related Links:Vietnam’s box office sets new record at $184mn (Tuoi Tre News)Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 43m 50s | ||||||
| 12/29/24 | ![]() Vietnam's 'Productive Frictions' | Today’s guest is Huê-Tâm Jamme, an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning.Huê-Tâm explores the effects of new technologies on space and society, especially on how people move, work, shop, and socialize in cities - and she has extensive research experience in Vietnam.We discussed her theory of ‘productive frictions’ in urban areas; the impact of mass transit on daily life; misguided discussions of motorbike bans in urban centers; and how Ho Chi Minh City should harness its unique nature to present itself as a new model for urban development, rather than pursuing the same strategies used by other cities.Related Links:Productive Frictions: A Theory of Mobility and Street Commerce Grounded in Vietnam's Motorbike-Centric Urbanism (PDF)‘Historic achievement’: Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City’s first metro line opensSubscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 38m 35s | ||||||
| 12/15/24 | ![]() The Year in Vietnamese Politics | Today’s returning guest is Nguyen Khac Giang, a Visiting Fellow at the Vietnam Studies Programme under the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. He was on the show in March for a conversation about the anti-corruption campaign, and he’s one of my go-to voices for insight into Vietnamese politics.We discussed the legacy of arguably the most consequential political year in modern Vietnamese history, Tô Lâm ’s strong performance as General Secretary so far, the dramatic streamlining of both government and Party being planned for 2025, what this could mean for the National Congress in early 2026, and what to look out for in the coming months.Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 47m 56s | ||||||
| 12/8/24 | ![]() Community Development, Forest Preservation, and Vietnamese Gin | Today’s guest is Daniel Nguyen, the founder of Sông Cái Distillery.We discussed his background in community development in the United States and rural Vietnam; Sông Cái’s mission as a case study for adding value to agriculture unique to Vietnam; the relationship between ethnobotany, land value, and forest preservation; creating value for smallholder farmers through grains and botanicals not previously desired on the market; Sông Cái’s focus on averting land degradation and biodiversity loss; building relationships with ethnic minority communities, and more.Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here.Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee.Get in touch with comments, feedback, or guest ideas: matatarski@gmail.com. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 31m 26s | ||||||
| 12/1/24 | ![]() Rice's Role in Vietnam's Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Today’s guest is Katie Nelson, a climate change researcher at the International Rice Research Institute - or IRRI - in Hanoi.We discussed the role of agriculture - and particularly rice farming - in Vietnam’s greenhouse gas emissions, the importance of reducing methane emissions to reach international climate change goals, efforts to mitigate methane production in the country’s rice sector, the alternate wetting and drying farming method, and more.Related Links:In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow riceHow to stop rice fields producing so much methaneSubscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here. Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee.Get in touch with comments, feedback, or guest ideas: matatarski@gmail.com. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 29m 42s | ||||||
| 11/3/24 | ![]() China's Influence on Fashion-Making in Southeast Asia | Today’s guest is Wessie Ling, a Professor of Transcultural Arts and Design at London Metropolitan University and Director of The Centre for Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement, or CREATURE.We discussed China’s influence on fashion-making in Southeast Asia, from the fabric supply chain through design and sales; how fashion designers in the region feel about this influence and how these sentiments vary by country; steps Vietnamese designers are taking to highlight Vietnamese characteristics in fashion; and much more.Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here. Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee.Get in touch with comments, feedback, or guest ideas: matatarski@gmail.com. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 34m 39s | ||||||
| 10/6/24 | ![]() Vietnam's Climate Tech Ecosystem | Today’s guest is Jason Lusk, Managing Partner at Clickable Impact and co-author of the recently released Vietnam Climate Tech Funding Ecosystem Report 2024.We discussed why Clickable Impact and New Energy Nexus created this first-of-its-kind report, what ‘climate tech’ means in the Vietnam context and why funding for it has lagged behind the country’s other tech sectors, areas of climate tech poised for expansion, and what stakeholders in this space can do to ensure further growth. Download the Vietnam Climate Tech Funding Ecosystem Report 2024 here.Subscribe to the Vietnam Weekly here. Support the podcast by Buying Me a Coffee.Get in touch with comments, feedback, or guest ideas: matatarski@gmail.com. Get full access to Vietnam Weekly at thevietnamweekly.substack.com/subscribe | 24m 25s | ||||||
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