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Nancy Nguyen rewards her refugee mother by winning a University of Sydney MBA scholarship (The Australian)

15 August 20140 comments

WHEN Nancy Nguyen was growing up she used to ask her mother why she risked her life on a refugee boat from Vietnam to Australia in 1975.

Her mother’s husband had fought in the South Vietnamese army and, after the fall of Saigon, the family faced possible persecution with their children being excluded from the country’s education system.

Read more: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/the-deal-magazine/nancy-nguyen-rewards-her-refugee-mother-by-winning-a-university-of-sydney-mba-scholarship/story-e6frgabx-1227020716777?nk=33b7dfcbeaf49e5c6c81534bdf5693a9