A doctor kidnapped from a besieged hospital, tortured and held without charge for over 500 days, would surely be called a HOSTAGE.
Unless he’s Palestinian.
It’s Vietnam’s national high school exam season. One essay question in literature praised Elon Musk, Steven & Mark Zuckerberg as ‘technological innovators’ and asked students to respond how a ‘Vietnamese Steve Jobs’ can be made. Such primitive worship for oligarchy & capitalism.