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1 month ago | 
threemagazine.com | Katherine Singh |Noritoshi Ichikawa |Aleah Balas |Jennifer Nguyen
Listen to this article: Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... After I graduated high school in 2006, I went to Tokyo to study and learn about sushi. Every student needs to buy a good knife. This was the first knife that I purchased after graduating the first level, and I’ve continued using it as my primary knife for over 15 years. It was made by a Japanese samurai sword maker and forged with the highest-grade steel, so it cuts the fish on a beautiful angle.
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1 month ago | 
threemagazine.com | Katherine Singh |Jennifer Nguyen |Noushin Ziafati |Shireen Ahmed
Culture March 24, 2025These Desi Musicians Are Defining Indo-Canadian Music March 24, 2025These Desi Musicians Are Defining Indo-Canadian Music LEAD IMAGE: Musicians Karan Aujla and AP Dhillon. Photo: Courtesy of Instagram. Musicians Karan Aujla and AP Dhillon. Photo: Courtesy of Instagram. Listen to this article: Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Desi music is surging around the world, and especially in North America.
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1 month ago | 
threemagazine.com | Noushin Ziafati |Tsjisse Talsma |Katherine Singh |Jennifer Nguyen
In 2018, Vartika Manasvi packed two bags and her entrepreneurial spirit, ready to start a new life in Canada. She would go on to launch StackRaft, a startup designed for hiring software engineers; secure permanent residency (PR) through the start-up visa (SUV) program to grow the company and contribute to the country’s economy; and eventually sell StackRaft due to difficulty scaling it.
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2 months ago | 
threemagazine.com | Noel Ransome |Marilisa Racco |Sadiya Dendar |Jennifer Nguyen
Every year during Black History Month, there’s an increased focus on acknowledging the importance of Black history, celebrating Black people and imagining Black futures. And it’s not just through the work of historians and researchers, who are now working to place Black history in its rightful place within academia. Visual artists are also using their work to relay truths in ways that textbooks can’t, providing room for nuance and complexity.
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2 months ago | 
threemagazine.com | Sadiya Dendar |Jennifer Nguyen |Sarah Laing |Shetu Modi
For founder Amal Soliman and her daughter Gina El Kattan, food and agriculture are woven so intricately into their lives that they believe it is passed through their bloodline. The family, including Soliman’s husband and son, moved to Canada from Egypt in 2011. They left behind a successful family-run business, as well as countless loved ones and the community they had grown up with in pursuit of new opportunities. Was it difficult? Incredibly.
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2 months ago | 
threemagazine.com | Jennifer Nguyen |Sadiya Dendar |Sarah Laing |Shetu Modi
They say that nothing is certain in life except for death and taxes—and perhaps those seasonal trend forecasts. But these reports don’t just fall out of the sky, and there’s a reason why magazines, influencers and media in all respects are predicting what’s going to be popular in the coming months. But what are those trends and why are we gravitating towards them right now?
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
newsecuritybeat.org | Jennifer Nguyen
While standing on the banks of the Mahakam River in Samarinda on the island of Borneo, I watched an unending parade of coal barges sail slowly down the river. I was here in East Kalimantan to give a presentation at the Vulnerable Deltas Workshop—a joint project of the East-West Center and the Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum. An Indonesian colleague said the barges were —or to Chinese-owned nickel smelters in Sulawesi.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
newsecuritybeat.org | Jennifer Nguyen
During a visit to Vietnam in November 2023, I cringed as my aunt tossed our now empty bánh mì plastic bag onto the sidewalk. “It doesn’t really matter,” she shrugged, “there aren’t any nearby trash cans anyway.” Finding a trash can wouldn’t have helped much, as two-thirds of Vietnam’s plastic waste ends up burnt, landfilled, or leaked. Vietnam is responsible for 60% of ocean plastic pollution.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
wondermind.com | Jennifer Nguyen |Jessica Schiffer
Highly Recommend Link Copied It’s a typical weekday morning in the office. Your work bestie is across from you, hunched over their laptop and clutching the strongest cup of coffee available, fighting the repercussions of a bad night’s sleep at their desk. As you watch their head slowly drop into their hands, their eyes struggling to stay open for the third time in an hour, you can't help but feel for them. I mean, who hasn’t been there? Although nothing can truly replace actual sleep, there...
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
representasianproject.com | Jennifer Nguyen
Features The Asian Canadian author highlights the everyday resilience racialized communities embark on. The Asian Canadian author highlights the everyday resilience racialized communities embark on. Share this Article When it comes to advocating for inclusive and diverse storytelling, some may pin acts of progress towards big wins, like law changes or firsts.
