OXFORD UNIVERSITY | COLLEGE TO RENAME AFTER VIETJET FOUNDER Linacre College will be called Thao College thanks to a donation from Vietnam's wealthiest woman. s.nikkei.com/3CQE41E

Photos (via Zing) of Hanoians using Vietnam’s first metro line, which opened this morning. zingnews.vn/hanh-khach-hao…

Journalistutbildningen vid Lunds universitet flyttar till Malmö. Ser mycket fram emot att fortsätta utveckla detta tillsammans med kollegor och samarbetspartners. Media Evolution

What is worse? Nuclear bombing or spraying toxic chemicals on 1/4 of all land that will take ~300 years to cleanse away and countless generations of children born effectively defect and instantly taken away the right to normal life (prolonged and slow suffering)?

Back from parental leave and now starting my university job(s) again. 7,5 months being a full-time father have been amazing but now looking forward to a new academic year.

First article in my doctoral project at the University of Helsinki is published in Journalism Studies. In this paper I explore the role of the trainer by looking into the case of the Swedish media aid program to Vietnam from 1993 to 2007. Read here (open source): doi.org/10.1080/146167…

New publication! One more article from my ongoing doctoral project is now published in the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies. In this article, I explore how the Swedish media aid intervened in Vietnamese journalism in various ways. doi.org/10.1386/ajms_0…

”Southeast Vietnam will become a developed region with strong economic potential and a modern economic structure; one of the top technology and innovation centers”

I talked with Andreas Mattsson about Swedish Media Aid Projects in Vietnam. Listen to our conversation at Nordic Asia Podcast: newbooksnetwork.com/transforming-j… Thanks NIAS - The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies & New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) for the platform #journalism #journalismstudy #Vietnam #Sweden #digitalization #mediaethics

On this episode of NIAS - The Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted by New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social), Andreas Mattsson (Lund University) and Joanne Kuai (Karlstads universitet) discuss how #Sweden helped shape modern media in #Vietnam, providing new insights into the history of Vietnamese journalism. buff.ly/3WdF5u8

“Men like Phuc, Minh and Dam, and others before them who also lost their jobs, were pragmatic technocrats determined to put #Vietnam on a stable macroeconomic trajectory. […T]he ongoing purge is bound to rattle foreign investors”. -⁦Zachary Abuza⁩ asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Vietna…

Big (huge) political news coming out in Vietnam. Right before the start of the Vietnamese new year.

“Madam Tran Thi Nguyet Thu, the spouse of Mr Phuc, and their relatives were allegedly part of a US$170 million scandal involving fraud over COVID-19 test kits.” channelnewsasia.com/asia/vietnam-p…

"The National Assembly passed a resolution on Thursday morning to elect Vo Van Thuong, Standing Member of the Communist Party's Secretariat, Vietnam's new president." e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vo-v…

Har tillbringat tre inspirerande dagar på Media City Bergen tillsammans med Carl-Gustav Lindén, Ketil Moland Olsen mfl. Hemresan försinkades dock av att rullebanan stängdes ner. nrk.no/vestland/rulle…

Record high temperature set in Vietnam e.vnexpress.net/news/news/reco…

#Vietnam PM meets Ukraine President Zelensky on G7 summit sidelines tuoitrenews.vn/news/politics/…

Russia's Dmitry Medvedev attends a meeting with Vietnam's President Vo Van Thuong in Hanoi, Vietnam, May 22, 2023.

The New York Times to open permanent office in Vietnam e.vnexpress.net/news/news/the-…

Very interesting development of higher education and research in Vietnam.