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Mention Haiphong and most people think of an industrial city known for its woolen mills, shipyard...

Vietnam Lou Dematteis / Sarah Tilton

Scene from Hanoi's Paper Street, where paper versions of all modern conveniences are available to send on to the next life.

Hang Ma is different from most of the other streets in Hanoi's Old Quarter. Among the thirty-six ...

Vietnam Sarah Tilton

Recipe: Cha Ca - Fish and Noodles

Serves 4 1/2 pound thin noodles 2 tablespoons Nuoc Mam 1/2 teaspoons turmeric 2 teaspoon ground g...

Vietnam Habeeb Salloum

Under the gate to Hue's Imperial City

Where are you heading? I asked a couple of backpackers in Hanoi. "We're off to see Hugh", they re...

Vietnam Graham Simmons

Approaching the watchtower, Tra Su Forest Reserve

Six-fifty in the morning, the coach reverses over a prostrate rat outside Saigon's smart Caravell...

Vietnam Philip Game

A roadside bookstand

The Write Stuff: Bookstores of Saigon

Everyone who's anyone, or at least every foreigner who reads in Saigon, has been talking about it...

Vietnam Kim Fay

The Mekong, Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future, by Milton Osborne

Une Monomanie du Mekong

Review of Milton Osborne's "The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future"

Vietnam / Cambodia / Laos Kenneth Champeon

At forty, Le Thanh Minh is already an accomplished painter. After three years of training at the ...

Vietnam Qui Duc Nguyen

Artist Tran Tuyet-Mai

Tran Tuyet-Mai must be one of the most self-effacing artists in Hanoi. While many cannot stop boa...

Vietnam Qui Duc Nguyen

Cinequest 2016 - Night Song

Love is in the Air at Cinequest 2016

In its 26th year, the Cinequest Film Festival, held annually in San Jose, Calif., once again has ...

Vietnam / China / India Celeste Heiter

The Vietnamese host family organized a small party to welcome me and my friend to their home. This makes me so happy.

2 wonderful days living in a Vietnam family

I would like to share my amazing experience with the best Vietnamese host family in Hanoi. I was ...

Vietnam Phuong Kim

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One cold, wintry afternoon, my husband, Sean, and I were sitting in Sapa's Bamboo Bar with two tr...

Vietnam Helen Conway

Len Dong Dance Ceremony

Mother's Worship of Vietnamese People

Located on the Indochina peninsula, a bridge links mainland to off shore Southeast Asia countries...

Vietnam Ha pham

Apocalypse Now

Film Review: Apocalypse Now (Redux)

A Special Forces officer is sent up the Nang River on a mission to find and assassinate Colonel W...

Vietnam / Cambodia / Philippines Celeste Heiter

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Vietnam's minority Chams cling to Muslim faith

This small community in an area known as District 8 ... is the largest enclave of Cham Muslims in...

Vietnam Agence-France Presse AFP

Front gate of the Friendship Village

War Not Over for Children of Agent Orange

Brainchild of American vet George Minzo, the Vietnam Friendship Village Project outside Hanoi off...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Travelers Hop on Down to Hanoi's Kangaroo Café

Kangaroos and Zombies The proprietor of the Kangaroo Café in Hanoi used to be a zombie. I wouldn...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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Legendary Vietnam

“Vietnam is one country; the Vietnamese are one people. Rivers may dry up, and mountains may er...

Vietnam / Indochina Tony Pham

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New Year in Mui Ne

After nearly four weeks on the road in Vietnam, my husband put his foot down. For at least two da...

Vietnam Helen Conway

To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origins of the Pacific War

No Blood For Rubber

Review of Jonathan Marshall's To Have and Have Not: Southeast Asian Raw Materials and the Origin...

Vietnam / Singapore / Japan Kenneth Champeon

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