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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

Deeper into the Delta

Is there anywhere on planet Earth that so teems with life and industry as the Mekong Delta? Anywh...

Vietnam Graham Simmons

Colourful fishing boats line the waterfront, in Duong Ðong town, Phu Quoc, Vietnam.

Rock Around the Quoc

A string of beach resorts with no street vendors? No touts, no hustlers, no cold drink and souven...

Vietnam / Cambodia Graham Simmons

Hollywood's Vietnam

Title: Hollywood's Vietnam. From The Green Berets to Full Metal Jacket . Author: Gilbert Adair Pu...

Vietnam ThingsAsian Booklist

Our Cassandra in Saigon

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused. -from The Quiet American...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

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

Restaurant Pane e Vino Brings a Taste of Italy to Hanoi

Once a war-ravaged culinary wasteland, northern Vietnam is fast becoming a gourmet paradise. This...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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Backseat Driving - Rules of the Road

1. What are you waiting for? You only have two weeks before getting on your motorcycle. Go put yo...

Vietnam Qui Duc Nguyen

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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The Vietnamese have developed the art of mimicry into a shrewd marketing plan. Shrewd, and blatan...

Vietnam Helen Conway

Buffalo Boy

Film Review: Buffalo Boy

For one farmer named Dinh, who is deeply in debt and has taken ill, saving his pair of buffaloes ...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

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Booming Asian casinos draw tourist dollars

The gambler leans back comfortably in his chair at a card table inside Vietnam's new Crown casino...

Vietnam AFP/Ian Timberlake

A mecanic puts the last finishing touch on a Chinese-made electric motorbike before its delivery in front of a bicycle shop in downtown Hanoi.

Electric Bikes? In Hanoi?

HANOI, May 14, 2003 - If it's street cred you're looking for, forget it -- stick to the Harley-Da...

Vietnam AFP/Ben Rowse

Phat Diem: western entrance to cathedral

Two Days in Ha Nam Ninh Province

The British writer Graham Greene witnessed a battle from the bell tower of Phat Diem Cathedral. T...

Vietnam Leslie Nevison

Sapa Vietnam in mist

Sapa Vietnam, the old French Summer Capital of Northern Vietnam in the early decades of the 20th ...

Vietnam Allison Dinh

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The Meaning of Tet

* * * * * Send a "Chuc Mung Nam Moi" card * * * * * Tet is New Year's Day in Vietnam. It falls so...

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

The Metropole: Hanoi's Living History Museum

Queen Noor of Jordan, former U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali and Don Johnson of Miam...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Boats laden with goods make their way down a canal in the Mekong Delta, one of seven such canals that meet near the town of Phung Hiep.

A Portrait of Viet Nam

Lou Dematteis is a regular contributing photographer to Destination:Vietnam. Lou's latest book, A...

Vietnam / Mekong River Lou Dematteis

Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past. By Patricia M. Pelley.

Postcolonial Vietnam: How North Vietnamese Historians Literally Made History

Steven K. Bailey reviews: Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past, by Patricia M...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

La Residence Hotel & Spa - once the residence of French Governor of Central Vietnam

A Tour of Stately Opulence

Where to stay when in Hue...

Vietnam Philip Spencer Drury

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