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Saigon's De Tham Street: International Crossroads and Carnival

Every Asian city on the backpacker circuit has a budget traveler district and over the years I re...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Nang Cafe - Hanoi Vietnam

Hanoi Coffee Culture

Be sure to have a cup or three of coffee when in Hanoi...

Vietnam Allison Dinh

A young man with tattoos sits in the corner of a street in downtown Ho Chi Minh.

Vietnam's MTV generation change image of tattoos

Tattoos, once reviled in Vietnam as the preserve of prisoners, gangsters and common foot soldiers...

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Go to the movies with Celeste...

Celeste Goes to the Movies

Film Reviews by Celeste Heiter

Vietnam / Thailand / Japan Celeste Heiter

The Lover: A Film and Book Review

Very early in my life it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. I aged. This aging wa...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

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Being a model in Vietnam: a girl's dream, a father's nightmare

Ten years ago, there was no fashion industry in Vietnam. Now, teenagers dream of becoming models...

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Pulau Bidong: Vietnamese Boat People in Malaysia

* * * * * "We have heard stories of similarly desperate boat people escaping out of the communist...

Vietnam / Malaysia Ee Lin Wan

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Plastic surgery a dangerous business in Vietnam

Having a more generous cleavage or a slimmer nose is the new dream for many up-and-coming Vietnam...

Vietnam AFP/Sophie Malo

Notre-Dame Cathedral - Saigon, Vietnam

Notre-Dame Cathedral In Saigon, Vietnam

All you need to know about Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Vietnam Allison Dinh

A masked woman wearing long gloves rides a motorcycle in Hanoi. Beauty in the minds of most Vietnamese women means white skin-a symbol of feminity, pureness, sophistication and high social class.

White is beautiful in Vietnam

White is beautiful. Or at least it is in Vietnam where skin-whitening creams sell like hot cakes ...

Vietnam AFP/Ben Rowse

Film Review: The Scent of Green Papaya

Eating, sleeping, and staying clean...Life's most basic concerns. Yet they take on a transcendent...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

Designer Dang Thi Minh Hanh checks one of her creations with a model at her studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Vietnamese Fashion

* * * HO CHI MINH CITY, Aug 1, 2005 - When Anh Thu, a tall woman with black-rimmed glasses, walks...

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Noon service at the Cao Dai Temple, Tay Ninh, Vietnam.

Saigon may well be an alluring city. But if you need a break - physically, mentally and spiritual...

Vietnam Samantha Coomber

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Xe Do to Sai Gon

It's late morning in Ha Noi, and I find myself at the southbound ben xe looking at a forty-eight ...

Vietnam Ben Bangs

Film Review: Indochine

Catherine Deneuve, in perhaps the defining role of her career, stars in Indochine, one of the bes...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

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Xe Do to Sai Gon

It's late morning in Ha Noi, and I find myself at the southbound ben xe looking at a forty-eight ...

Vietnam Ben Bangs

The wedding procession to the bride's house. Vietnamese weddings are far more participatory than traditional western weddings.

Wedding in the Countryside

It's 7:30 in the morning and my friend, Huong, and I are slumped in the back seat of a taxi on ou...

Vietnam Kim Fay

Edward Lansdale: The Unquiet American. By Cecil B. Currey.

Colonel Cassandra

Review of the biography of Edward Lansdale, model of The Ugly American and The Quiet American.

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

'The Lover' Vietnamese Recipes & Photos

This suite of Vietnamese-inspired dishes is sure to be the perfect aphrodisiac. The menu includes...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

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Private Schools in Vietnam

In Vietnam, as in many countries across Asia, academic excellence is an obsession for parents, wh...

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