Well now, this isn't fair

You know E-HAO is anything but an exclusive club for English-speakers. In fact, as far as I can tell, the major part of HAO's English site
does mirror the Vietnamese version. The thing is, like Thuy said, while our News and Activities sections are supposed to follow the main site, the Writing section is completely independent. You want this to change. And maybe you're right, maybe it
would be unfair to non-English-speakers that they are unable to appreciate good writing (and believe me, our stuff is good

) simply because it is in English. Well, supposing we follow through with your suggestion and have our editors post only translations of writing on the main site. In my opinion, this is why it won't work:
1) We don't have, and will probably never find enough editors of that caliber. Translating writing is not like translating news articles and documents. Writing is (can I just say it?)
art, and a lot of it is so subjective that it would just be impossible to convey ideas into another language if you don't have a certain amount of skill. Believe me, I have tried translating English novels into Vietnamese and vice versa, and the reason why the majority of those translations will never see the light of day is because they more often then not turn out to be crap. The Vietnamese materials on the main page are great, and they probably deserve to be translated, but they also need to be translated
properly, and this is something that is currently beyond our resource.
2) We will lose our E-HAO Writing contributors. That's right: zip, there they go. This is because by turning E-HAO into a translating group, we pretty much eliminate the duty of contributors. If you think it's hard to make members send in their stuff now, try telling them that if they want to contibute to E-HAO, they'll have to either shape up their translating skill or get something posted on the main page. Exodus in the making, if you ask me

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To Diệu Hương: I dunno if I can help you herd the contributors (they sound like a tough crowd 8-} ), but if stuff goes into the to-be-edited box, I'll get to them from now on :x