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Anatomy of an Obsession:

Why and How One American Came to Love SE Asia ********** Maybe it happened one grey April morning...

Vietnam Ben Bangs

Honeymooning in Vietnam

According to scholarly journals such as Brides, Modern Bride and Cosmo , a honeymoon should be fi...

Vietnam Robert Strauss

In Retrospect In Retrospect

A review of In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara, who was secretary of defense during part of the ...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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Traveling on Business

John Schwartz's job is to sell wine for Wente Bros., the oldest family-owned winery in California...

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

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Coming into Sai Gon

July 2003 It was night as the 747 approached Tan Son Nhat airport in Sai Gon. I thought to look f...

Vietnam Malcolm Arthur

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A Fish Returning to Water: Learning Vietnamese

Think of the expressions we so often use to mean uncomfortable: "In over your head", "Out of your...

Vietnam Ben Bangs

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Stepping into a new world (First time in Viet Nam)

11:30AM May 22nd, 1992 -- In the air above Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam Sometime in late morning of...

Vietnam Ben Bangs

Ben Nghe...is a wholesale market. It's where boats from the Mekong Delta come to unload their produce for the markets around the city.

A Morning on the Banana Boat Canal

I thought I'd been everywhere, covered all the city's major attractions-the Ben Thanh Market (and...

Vietnam Tom Cockrem

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A Hot Bowl of Pho

HO CHI MINH CITY, Jan 15, 2006 - Round the clock for over a century, millions of Vietnamese have ...

Vietnam AFP

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Demining experts turn to Internet to tackle Vietnam's deadly legacy

Decades of war have left one legacy in Vietnam that continues to kill and maim long after battlef...

Vietnam AFP/Ben Rowse

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The old people on the bus.

May 2003. My wife and I are going to Vietnam for thirty days. This will be my wife's first time t...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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Life in the alley.

May 2003. Saigon (HCMC). I have been to this city twice before. I had stayed near the Rex Hotel i...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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All That Glitters

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. - H.L. Mencken Chances are you would be fo...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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A last night in Saigon (HCMC)

May, 2003. After a long thirty day trip in Vietnam we come to our last night in Saigon. I must th...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

Review of The River's Tale, a travelogue of a journey down the Mekong.

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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The Heart of Vietnam

Culture and language are both walls that divide people. These walls are not really high if you ta...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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It is May 2003. As always Saigon (HCMC) is a very hot place to be. A cold drink is needed and vie...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

Pain and Grace: A Journey Through Vietnam, by Jim Gensheimer

Photojournalist Portrays Two Faces of Vietnam in "Pain and Grace: A Journey through Vietnam"

A one-legged war veteran crabbing his way across a Pleiku street. A quintet of young women sweepi...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Cam Duc is a Catholic village a little north of Nha Trang and a little south of Cam Ranh on Highw...

Vietnam Malcolm Arthur

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Talking English

I have come to enjoy Saigon(HCMC) very much. Each day as I walk around the city someone will stop...

Vietnam James Murtaugh

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