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A portrait of the artist, Do Huan, by his son

A Vietnamese Photographer

Do Huan started taking photographs in 1936 when his father gave him a camera for his birthday. Wh...

Vietnam Sarah Tilton

Platoon (1986) Directed by Oliver Stone.

From Hanoi to Hollywood

* * * * * BAMcinématek Presents From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War on Film Featuring Works...

Vietnam ThingsAsian

Recipe: Try Cai - Fruits In Syrup

Serves 6 to 8 4 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons water 2 tablespoons pineapple juice 2 tablespoons...

Vietnam Habeeb Salloum

Lan Phuong Nguyen

A story told with photos.

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

Water Puppet Performance: The Stage

The stage for a water puppet theatre show is actually a pool filled with water. Traditionally, th...

Vietnam Lisa Spivey/Albert Wen

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Resolve and Other Adoption Groups

Resolve Resolve is an organization that provides timely, compassionate, and informed help to peop...

Vietnam Global Directions, Inc.

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Interplast: The Rewards of Humanitarianism

Interplast received some very special recognition at this year's Academy Awards when an Oscar was...

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

Book Review: The House on Dream Street by Dana Sachs

A frog that sits at the bottom of a well thinks that the whole sky is only as big as the lid of a...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

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Strife from Without and Within: Two Novels by Duong Thu Huong

Those American bastards! Rarely does one come across an exclamation like this, especially in so r...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

The Pearl in Danang, contrasted against an old temple erected to the Goddess of the Sea.

Cruising Vietnam

* * * A two week vacation in exotic locations with all the comforts of home and none of the hassl...

Vietnam Lisa Spivey / Albert Wen

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Arts and Handicrafts of Vietnam

Wandering through outdoor markets and shopping arcades has always been one of my favorite pastime...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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A Review of Susan Brownmiller's Seeing Vietnam

Susan Brownmiller's desire to get beyond the standard media images of Vietnam and to see "the cou...

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Hoang An

Hoang An is a self-taught amateur in oil painting who produces outstanding pieces impregnated wit...

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Scene from the Countryside by Thanh Hai, detail, gouache on paper.

Painters in Hanoi

Title: Painters in Hanoi. An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art. Author: Nora Annesley Taylor. Publish...

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The Tran Family Home

The Tran Family Home, 21 Le Loi Street, Hoi An One hundred ninety-five years ago, in 1802, the Tr...

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The Roofs Of Hanoi

It's like a scene from a Walt Disney movie: a wedding-cake skyscape of turrets, cones, and pagoda...

Vietnam Graham Simmons

Dao Hai Phong

Radiant Paintings of Dao Hai Phong

When Fine Art descends onto the streets with appeals, it presents a love of beauty, voiced suffer...

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Your Own Private Tutor: The Ancient Civilization of Vietnam

Do you find certain Vietnamese concepts a bit hard to grasp? Do you feel confused by such non-wes...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Van Mieu or the Temple of Literature, was founded in 1070 by Emperor Ly and dedicated to Confucius in order to honor scholars. Vietnam's first university was established here in Hanoi in 1076.

Driving Highway One: Hanoi

Return to Driving Highway One by Lisa Spivey

Vietnam Lisa Spivey

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My Ba Dinh Community

Ba Dinh is best known by tourists as the resting place of Uncle Ho in the Mausoleum, yet a short ...

Vietnam Simone Samuels

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