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Current AffairsYoung Vietnamese equally at home in Hanoi and Prague
Prague’s sizeable Vietnamese community recently held its first ever day
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mixed crowd of Vietnamese and Czechs. What has been a rather closed society
appears to be slowly opening up to outsiders, as Czech-born Vietnamese
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is more to Vietnamese people than an army of convenience store proprietors. More
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