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Hoi An's Tam-Tam Café

With characteristic entrepreneurial spirit, the residents of Hoi An are taking the foreign touris...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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

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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

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

Vietnam Helen Conway

Hollywood's Vietnam

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

Vietnam ThingsAsian Booklist

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

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

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

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

Club De L'Oriental Hanoi (Former Emperior Restaurant)

Luxury Travel Advisors Recommend You Club De L'Oriental

After the closure of the once well-known Emperor restaurant, the owner now sets up the new restau...

Vietnam Ha pham

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

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Portrait of an Anti-hero

Review of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato , Broadway Books, 1999.

Vietnam / Myanmar / Laos Kenneth Champeon

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

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

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

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

This could be your office.

The Challenges of Being a Writer in Vietnam

Living in a developing country, let alone a communist country, presents a unique set of challenge...

Vietnam Adam Bray

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

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

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