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When Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets by antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who'd been following Ngo's reporting in outlets like the New York Post and Quillette knew that the attack was only the latest in a long line of crimes perpetrated by antifa. In Unmasked, Andy Ngo tells the story of this violent extremist movement from the very beginning. He includes interviews with former followers of the group and people who've been attacked by them and incorporates stories from his own life. This book contains a trove of documents obtained by the author, published for the first time ever.

Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) interact with the public sphere, showing how faith-based actors are themselves shaped by wider processes and global forces such as globalisation, migration, foreign policy and neoliberal markets. Focusing on a case study of an FBO in Morocco which gives aid to sub-Saharan African irregular migrants, the book reveals some of the challenges the organisation faces as it tries to negotiate at once local, national and international contexts through their particular Christian values. This book contends that the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities that arise are primarily a result of the organisation having to negotiate a normative global secular liberalism which requires a strict demarcation between religion and politics, and religion and the secular. Faith-based actors, particularly within humanitarianism, have to constantly navigate this divide and in examining the question of how religious values translate into humanitarian and development practices, categories such as religion, the secular and politics and the boundaries between them will need to be interrogated. This book explores the diversity and complexity of the work of FBOs and will be of great interest to students and researchers working at the intersections of humanitarianism and development studies, politics and religion.

The Habits of Racism examines some of the complex questions raised by the phenomenon and experience of racism. Helen Ngo argues that the conceptual reworking of habit as bodily orientation helps to identify the more subtle but fundamental workings of racism, exploring what the lived experience of racism and racialization teaches about the nature of the embodied and socially-situated being.

For more than a decade, with the massive development of technology and the trend of e-government, national governments have been able to interact with their citizens through innovative initiatives such as the Internet and web. It is considered a revolution in enhancing and strengthen the relationship between the government and its citizens. Also, the e-government application has been proved to be part of the smart city deployment. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the transformation of the governments through the implementation of e-government and smart city, as well as the interrelationship between these reforming projects. The author takes the case of the People's Committee of District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, as the practical context. This research employs the qualitative approach to examine the current opportunities and challenges of e-government application and smart-city deployment. Although e-government and smart city have been gaining massive attention for a long time in Ho Chi Minh City as the instrument for public sector renovation, the adoption and implementation of these phenomena in the whole area is still ambiguous and uncomprehensive. Moreover, very few research in Vietnam have been conducted about the e-government and smart-city utilizations, and even none has been done about the combined linkage of these approaches in this country. Therefore, there is a need to assess the effectiveness of the current implementation as well as the execution of the District's authority regarding this area of examination.

The project of establishing Phu Quoc special economic zone was proposed by the People's Committee of Kien Giang province to the Government in late 2012 with the desire to develop Phu Quoc island into a special economic-administrative zone directly under the Central Government. In August 2018, the Prime Minister agreed on the policy to allow Kien Giang province to organize the implementation of the Master Plan on socio-economic development of Phu Quoc island under the orientation of Special Administrative - Economic Units. The province has implemented a number of procedures to implement the planning, but the draft of the Law on Special Administrative - Economic Units has not been approved by the National Assembly until now, so the process of planning implementation Phu Quoc island according to the orientation The special administrative - economic unit faces many difficulties and obstacles when it has not determined the legal basis, the order of procedures, the content of the planning and the evaluation council . In August 2019, Kien Giang Provincial People's Committee submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister on the implementation of Phu Quoc island planning in the direction of suspending the formulation of Phu Quoc island's socio-economic development master plan. The direction is to be a special administrative - economic unit until the Law on special administrative - economic unit is passed by the National Assembly.

AbstractThis article examines a prevailing 'enchanted humanitarianism' discourse within a faith‐based organisation working with migrants in Morocco that encompassed tensions, contestations and ambiguity, revealing a fundamental 'identity ambiguity' in the organisation between evangelism and humanitarianism. This was the source of much tension in the organisation's operations and is indicative of entangling constructions of the sacred and the secular in faith‐based organisations, going against an essentialised or monolithic conception of the role of 'religion' in humanitarianism. These entanglements are illustrated through an examination of two organisational issues—the identity of staff and the flexibility of criteria for its beneficiaries. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.