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Banned books hot property in censored Vietnam

Vietnam's pop culture is attracting the attention of print censors ...

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

Paper Street

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

Vietnam Sarah Tilton

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
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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Perfume Pagoda

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

Vietnam Helen Conway
Town in Fog - Sapa, Vietnam

Sapa Vietnam - The Fanciful Town In Fog

Sapa Vietnam is about 350 km north-west of Hanoi. It is famous for its fine & rugged scenery as w...

Vietnam Allison Dinh

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

Recipe: Cha Gio or Nem Ran - Spring Rolls of Meat and Vegetables

Makes 30 rolls 3 tablespoons Nuoc Cham 3 tablespoons water 1/4 teaspoon cayenne 1 tablespoon sesa...

Vietnam Habeeb Salloum

Dalat Flower Festival

Six months before the Da Lat Flower Festival, Lam Dong Province held a press briefing in Hanoi an...

Vietnam Bobby King
Le Ly Hayslip

From Earth To Hell To A Slice of Heaven

When I first saw Oliver Stone's film Heaven & Earth , I thought: Well, it's about time somebody m...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon
La Residence, Hue, Vietnam. Photo courtesy of La Residence and Spa, used with permission.

Louise Serfontein, Chef Extraordinaire

“What I like about Asian cuisine is that it is fresh and has good flavour without the kilojoule...

Vietnam Robert Tompkins
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SEA-worthy: Some Recent Southeast Asian Literature

When one thinks of famous Southeast Asian writers, one thinks of...nobody. Nada. Not exactly true...

Vietnam / Myanmar / Cambodia Kenneth Champeon
Durians at the Krabi night market in Thailand

Learning from Durian

Developing a taste for this Asian delicacy brings to mind philosophies to more fully appreciate y...

Vietnam / Thailand Adam Bray
Maintaining life on the river

Hoi An Interlude

Day One Wind rushes through the open windows of our taxi. It smells of freshly turned earth and t...

Vietnam Kim Fay

Hollywood's Vietnam

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

Vietnam ThingsAsian Booklist

Le Quang Ha

Le Quang Ha Born in Hanoi, 1963 1986-1989 Student at Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts College 1989-1992...

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

Off the Beaten Path - Minorities in Asia.

Black & white environmental portraits from Cambodia, Vietnam and China by New York photographer M...

Vietnam / Cambodia / China ThingsAsian
Mama cooks our dinner on an open fire in Pac Ngoi, Ba Be National Park, Vietnam

Off the Beaten Track

One of the benefits of spending time annually in Vietnam is that we can get off the beaten touris...

Vietnam Elaine Head

Recipes & Photos for 'Indochine' Vietnamese Dinner

Nuoc Cham Dipping Sauce 1/4 cup granulated sugar 3/4 cup nuoc mam (nam pla) Asian fish sauce 1 cu...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

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