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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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Everything a Business Traveler Always Wanted to Know About Saigon

The 1990s were a great decade for Vietnam. The United States loosened its stranglehold on trade, ...

Vietnam Kim Fay

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

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

Braised fish sautéed with fresh herbs at the Cha Ca La Vong Restaurant, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Fishy Business In Chucker Street

The author ventures into the 135 year old Cha Ca La Vong Restaurant, in Hanoi's Cha Ca Street, fi...

Vietnam 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

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

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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

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

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

Vietnam Helen Conway

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Mr. Chi calls his yogurt Deneuve, after the French actress who ate it nearly every day while she ...

Vietnam Sarah Tilton

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

Chef Huong's Dalat Ragu

Recipe: Chef Huong's Dalat Ragu

Recipe for Dalat Ragu, from Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam by Kim Fay.

Vietnam 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

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

Sapa Vietnam in mist

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

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

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Driving Highway One

So often we find travelers only fly to the major cities in Vietnam. We were the same way on our f...

Vietnam Lisa Spivey / Albert Wen

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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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