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Waiting for Obama

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May 26, 2016
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I've been a freelance writer and journalist living in Ho Chi Minh City for six years, totally without license or permission.

Prior to the visit this week of President Barack Obama, the folks at the US Consulate urged me to notify the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this fact and I did. But I never received any invitations to anything.

Yesterday, I got wind…

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