A dental group from Seattle will be arriving to Saigon later this week to spend a couple weeks providing dental education to orphanages, schools, and local people in Bien Hoa and Saigon. My University of Washingon Alumni Mentor is a patient of theirs back in Seattle. You can read about their volunteer work and visit to Vietnam on their blog, Enjoyz It!. I will meet them … [Read more...] about Seattle Dental Group Visiting Vietnam
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Saigon Cho Ray Hospital
Last weekend I visited Cho Ray Hospital in District 5. Cho Ray Hospital is the largest hospital in Vietnam catering to both Vietnemase and Expats. It is also considered one of the best hospitals in Vietnam today. That said, it is also one of the most crowded, possibly overcrowded, hospitals I ever visited in my life. Below are my last photos from my now sold HTC Touch … [Read more...] about Saigon Cho Ray Hospital
Vietnamese Twitter-clone Saigonica violates AGPL
Saigonica is no longer in compliance with AGPL for failing to to provide a Download Link to their modified source code. There is a new Twitter-clone in Vietnam called Saigonica. It is based on the open source micro-blogging tool called Laconica, currently one of the most popular Twitter-clones. It is nice to see the Vietnamese technology community embracing open source … [Read more...] about Vietnamese Twitter-clone Saigonica violates AGPL
WordPress 2.7 Release Delayed – Good move
Wordpress announced that they we be delaying the release of 2.7 which I consider a good move. From the Wordpress Blog: There comes a time in every WordPress release when it’s ready for the world , to come out of its cocoon and feel the light of the world on its wings for the first time. Wordpress 2.7 RC1 was a bit buggy. The popular plug-ins have not been successfully … [Read more...] about WordPress 2.7 Release Delayed – Good move
Vietnam joins Asianux
Vietnam joined the Asianux open source alliance last week. This is definitely good news if you are a fan of open source software in Vietnam such as myself. From TMCnet: During the past four years, Vietnam has adopted policies designed to encourage the development and application of OSS, resulting in a total of between 14,000 and 20,000 personal computers using OpenOffice, … [Read more...] about Vietnam joins Asianux