The Vietnamese Mekong Delta boasts a rich diversity of fish species, including over 300 types in its freshwater, brackish, and saltwater environments. The Mekong River plays a crucial role in supporting these fish populations, particularly the Butidae, Gobiidae and Eleotridae fish families, which have economic significance. Although research has been conducted on these fish species in recent years, it has been fragmented, making it challenging to assess and conserve these resources effectively. This monograph addresses this issue, offering a comprehensive perspective on the fish family in this region. The monograph is the culmination of a decade of research, featuring in-depth investigations, covering genetic characteristics, morphology, reproduction, feeding habits, and population dynamics. The goal is to provide a holistic understanding of these species and their ecosystems, aiding their conservation. The research contributes to the broader sense of aquatic ecosystems and the intricacies of fish survival in this region.
The Vietnamese Mekong Delta boasts a rich diversity of fish species, including over 300 types in its freshwater, brackish, and saltwater environments. The Mekong River plays a crucial role in supporting these fish populations, particularly the Butidae, Gobiidae and Eleotridae fish families, which have economic significance. Although research has been conducted on these fish species in recent years, it has been fragmented, making it challenging to assess and conserve these resources effectively. This monograph addresses this issue, offering a comprehensive perspective on the fish family in this region. The monograph is the culmination of a decade of research, featuring in-depth investigations, covering genetic characteristics, morphology, reproduction, feeding habits, and population dynamics. The goal is to provide a holistic understanding of these species and their ecosystems, aiding their conservation. The research contributes to the broader sense of aquatic ecosystems and the intricacies of fish survival in this region.
This book addresses the issue of graduate employability (GE) within the changing context of contemporary Vietnam. GE has become a highly topical and contested issue in Vietnam. Employers report that university students are not suitably prepared for work, and universities are often criticised for their poor commitment to developing student employability assets. However, it is suggested that enhancing GE in Vietnam involves many factors that are often underplayed in the general literature. In the Vietnamese context, both the education system and the economy remain relatively underdeveloped; students are schooled to be passive learners; and corrupt employment practices remain rife. Moreover, Confucian cultural features of face saving, hierarchical order in decision making, and the role of rumour and hearsay in a collectivist culture each play an important part in the different ways university graduates negotiate their transition to employment. Thus, in order to enhance the development of GE in Vietnam, all related stakeholders need opportunities to collaborate so that a mutual understanding of the problem is arrived at and feasible solutions are developed and implemented.
A great story can lead a reader on a cultural and linguistic journey--especially if it's in two languages! Vietnamese Stories for Language Learners introduces 40 traditional Vietnamese folktales with bilingual Vietnamese and English versions presented on facing pages. Each story is followed by cultural notes, vocabulary lists, and a set of discussion questions and exercises for further comprehension. Online audio recordings by native speakers help readers improve their pronunciation and inflection, while a Vietnamese-English glossary provides an easy way to reference unfamiliar terms. Illustrations by award-winning Vietnamese illustrators Nguyen Thi Hop and Nguyen Dong help to bring these traditional tales to life. This book is a great supplementary reader for self-study learners or in Vietnamese language courses, but will be enjoyed by anyone who wishes to learn about Vietnamese folktales and culture. Learn Vietnamese the fun way--through the country's rich literary history! Audio recordings can be accessed at tuttlepublishing.com/downloadable-content.
Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Adult Education, grade: Pass, La Trobe University Melbourne, course: Doctor of Education, language: English, abstract: Graduate employability has become a highly topical and contested issue in Vietnam. Many employers report that university students are not suitably prepared for work, and universities are often criticised for their poor commitment to developing student employability assets. Much of the criticism identifies the causes to be an outdated higher education curriculum coupled with too much reliance on traditional teaching approaches, and a general poor capacity of universities to support students to develop the skills that the market requires. This study challenges this ‘common sense’ (Gramsci, 1999) criticism that places the responsibility of student transition to the employment market squarely on the shoulders of universities. By analysing qualitative data, that includes the voices of students, recent graduates and employers, on issues related to employability, this study locates the criticisms of the Vietnamese higher education system within the wider social and cultural contexts related to the difficulties of student transition. It adopts Hillage and Pollard’s (1998) employability conceptual framework where the interplay between student employability assets, the ways students translate or deploy their university achievements in employment (Knight & York, 2004) and the internal and external contexts under which students seek work (Beckett & Mulcahy, 2006), interact to contribute a complex picture of employability. The findings of this study reveal that enhancing graduate employability in Vietnam involves many factors that are often underplayed in the general literature. In the Vietnamese context, both the education system and the economy remain relatively underdeveloped; students are schooled to be passive learners and workers; and corrupt employment practices remain rife. Moreover, Confucian cultural features of face saving, hierarchical order in decision making, and the role of rumour and hearsay in a collectivist culture each play an important part in the different ways university graduates negotiate their transition to employment. The study suggests that universities, students, employers and other related stakeholders (including students’ families, government and educational policy makers) all need to acknowledge the rapid changes taking place in Vietnamese society. [...]
Trong Hòai Niệm is Novel Love Story This story telling about a young girl and her family who were boat people, fled Vietnam after North Vietnamese communist took over the South Vietnam in 1975, at that time she was 11 years old. In 1987 her family fled the country for seeking freedom by fishing boat. Her boat was floating in Pacific Ocean for almost two weeks, finally her boat that has arrived Philippine refugee camp on PULAU Island. Her parent was a wealthy business man. They have lived under Communist regime for 3 years. They knew that they can’t survive any more under communist regime. Her parent decided to escape from Vietnam with any cost even though they die in ocean. They tempted fate to across the Pacific Ocean by fishing boat that caused 80% of escapees were killing by gale and 20% of survival, but they thought that a fate worse than death to live with the communist. Otherwise, the boat people were also raped and killed by Sea pirates in Thailand’s water. Her parent has had accepted any catastrophe to his family on the way to escape Vietnam. They were very lucky not to be killed in the ocean by gale or sea pirates, finally, her boat to arrive Philippine Island. They were resided temporarily in refugee camp from 3 years in a very bad situation in materially and spiritually such as food was not supplied enough to eat, they didn’t know what their fate will be? Their future was very far from their hands, they didn’t know where and when they will go to, for making their new life for themselves.1982 her family was sponsored to the United States. Her family was settled down in Texas, she has had an opportunity to go to school again at the age of 17. She had enrolled for s high school class in a High School at Southwest Houston area. After graduated from high school she has worked in banking, she continued to work for her college degree at night. She has worked in banking for 14 years as a senior vice president position. She went to the park that closes to her resident quarter to jog every morning. One day she met a man whose name Vu, was a college teacher. They felt in love with each other and her wedding will be taken in a near future. But they could not predict what was happen to them. Suddenly, in a day she had been hospitalized because she suffered from terminal cancer. She asked her young sister to notify immediately to her fiancé about her serious health situation, and she wanted to meet him as soon as possible. Vu was shocked at the news from his fiancé’s sister. His heart broken and he was going to faint. He hurried to ask his administrator for 4 weeks off from work. He booked an emergency air ticket and left his home right away to Texas. When he’s arrived Houston airport, he took a taxi to hospital. At hospital he has guided by nurse to his fiancée room then the nurse walked back to her office. Walking into his fiancée room in the fluorescent light, he looked at her face she was very pale. When Vu looked at his fiancé face thoughtfully, he could not hold his tears. He bent his face down close to his fiancé chest he busted into a convulsive sob. Her Doctor was walking in coming close to Vu. The doctor slightly put his hand on Vu’s shoulder and spoke in a low voice to bring Vu back to reality. Vu turned back to the doctor and shook hand with him. Vu showed his deep gratitude to the doctor. Doctor told Vu that his fiancé who was in a worse situation. So the doctor has tried to keep her with oxygen breathing equipment to expect Vu came back to see her in a last moment on time. Before she has hospitalized, she wrote a long letter to Vu. She asked her young sister to hand over her letter to Vu when he came back to see her. She told her fiancé everything from first minute she met him till to present moment. Finally, she told Vu she has loved him forever...ever...and ever and her last words to her fiancé: I have given you my life, but my life is no longer any more I have given you a dream, but the dream wo
This intermediate textbook continues to develop students’ skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing Vietnamese at the second-year language learning level. The book is presented as a linguistic and cultural journey of a family through twelve selected cities in Vietnam. Each chapter is organized into sections on dialogue, grammar, reading, practice exercises, and vocabulary.
Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ngọc Trần concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hrê, Khmer, and Chãm ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working in Malaysia, Trần looks at how they carve out a third space that allows them a socially accepted means of resistance to survive and even thrive at times. She also shows how the Vietnamese state uses Malaysia as a place to send poor workers, especially from ethnic minorities; how it manipulates its rural poor into accepting work in Malaysia; and the ways in which both countries benefit from the arrangement. A rare study of labor migration in the Global South, Ethnic Dissent and Empowerment answers essential questions about why nations export and import migrant workers and how the workers protect themselves not only within the system, but by circumventing it altogether.
This book compares the nature and practice of internationalisation of the curriculum at the policy, institutional, and classroom levels in Vietnam and Australia: the former an Asian, developing, and sending country of international students, and the latter an Anglophone, developed country, and a major education export provider. By examining curriculum internationalisation practices in these two vastly different socio-cultural contexts, the book contributes to the understanding of the magnitude and the range of differences regarding national and institutional responses to the common call for curriculum internationalisation. It addresses the impacts of the latest technological, political, economic, and sociocultural developments and COVID-19 on higher education internationalisation, as well as the digitalisation of international education. Crucially, it responds to a critical gap in the literature by not only investigating curriculum internationalisation policies and their implementation, but how faculty staff and students experience and engage with internationalisation of the curriculum in their home context, and how they position themselves and are positioned by the structural conditions with regard to curriculum internationalisation. The authors utilise document analysis, in-depth interviews, and focus groups from a four-year research project. The research employs a unique conceptual framework combining practice architectures theory and Barnett and Coate’s conceptualisation of curriculum as knowing-acting-being. Providing rich inputs for new ways of thinking and doing to enhance educational quality and the learning experiences of all students, the book is a valuable resource for researchers, academic staff, practitioners, leaders, and students in higher education and international and comparative education.
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