Nothing shows the depth of your respect, admiration, or love than the act of having a person’s life written and commemorated in everlasting text through the publication of a special book. To have a book written about someone important to you is to give them a legacy and a story that can last forever—it is […]
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The advertising industry is in a chaotic state of change as the world has shifted online faster than ever before. Broad changes in consumer behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic has forced most industries into a burst of digital transformation, crowding the online space. This movement has placed enormous pressure on old-school advertising and marketing strategies
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I wanted to drop English teaching from the moment I started. I first read about these glamorous posts abroad while working at my first office job. As a would-be writer with no real prospects in my home country, I couldn’t think of any better way to use the literature skills I’d studied at university. It
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Vietnamese professionals who’ve become successful in Vietnam can’t easily enjoy their prestige outside of the country. Exporting their reputation can be a frustrating challenge. By having a book written about their story in English, they have something to present, talk about, and focus on while promoting their careers—an instrument that can land them on television
When my father died, all I had left of him was a book. His story survives him, it’s his measure of immortality. That book also changed my life. The fact is that his book was only half written. The parts of his life that he didn’t write down are gone, the parts he did write
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When I switched on social media this morning and checked my messages, I must have seen 20 ads. Someone got paid to expose me to that advertising. When those ads were displayed on my screen, the impressions counted towards someone’s KPIs for that month. I didn’t read them. I didn’t pay any attention to them
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Metro Writers was responsible for creating the international edition of Letters in Love and War, and we feel greatly honoured to have had the opportunity to bring this important book to the attention of English language speakers around the world. The authors of this book are quite well known in Vietnamese literary society; Vu Tu
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It was an intimate event in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh district last weekend where celebrated writers Vu Tu Nam and Thanh Huong launched their new book, an English language publication entitled Letters in Love and War, translated and edited by Metro Writers. The work is a translated collection of the love letters that the two writers
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I first interviewed Ha Anh for Oi Vietnam magazine back in 2015, before going on to collaborate with her on her grandparents’ book Letters in Love and War. During our interview, Ha Anh offered many fascinating opinions and insights into the modeling industry in Vietnam and her experiences both here and abroad. While the limitations
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