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The Tube Houses of Hanoi's Old Quarter

Hanoi's 'tube' dwellers vow to stay in ancient quarter...

Vietnam AFP/Ian Timberlake

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Tam Dao Hill Station

Our guidebook said the Vietnamese regard Tam Dao Hill Station, eighty-five kilometers northwest o...

Vietnam Robert Strauss

Taking a break from the long drive. A French road marker (found all along Highway One) alongside the road to Danang.

Driving Highway One: Danang

Return to Driving Highway One by Lisa Spivey

Vietnam Lisa Spivey

Full Metal Jacket (1987) Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

The Vietnam War on Film

* * * * * Apocalypse Now Redux (1979/2001), 197 min Directed by Francis Ford Coppola With Martin ...

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Motorcycling in Vietnam

Vietnam is probably not the place to learn how to ride a motorcycle. The streets of Hanoi and Ho ...

Vietnam Robert Strauss

Looking out from Khai Dinh Masoleum, Hue, Vietnam.

Along the Perfume River

The author visits the royal mausoleums of Hue, along the broad, aptly named Perfume River which m...

Vietnam Samantha Coomber

A Lolita of the Far East

The setting is colonial Vietnam. A man of thirty-two falls in love with a girl of fifteen-and-a-h...

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam.

They caught my attention returning from the Central Highlands city of Dalat . " What are those ?"...

Vietnam Samantha Coomber

landscape in Mu Cang Chai - Vietnam

Mu Cang Chai: a great destination in the north- vietnam

Visiting Vietnam, do not forget to go to Mucangchai and enjoy the nice landscapes and meeting the...

Vietnam hiep nguyen dinh

Across the bay from Nha Trang City

Lost in Nha Trang

I am almost loath to write about Nha Trang. True, its firmly established on the well-worn tourist...

Vietnam Samantha Coomber

Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side. Tim Page. Edited by Doug Niven and Chris Riley with forward by Henry Allen.

Through Enemy Lenses: North Vietnamese Photojournalists Shoot the War in Another Vietnam

Steven K. Bailey reviews National Geographic’s "Another Vietnam" which profiles the combat phot...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Statue depicting a defiant mother and her family members dying, a tragic symbol of the 1968 My Lai massacre.

At the My Lai Memorial Site

The Vietnam War is still a touchy subject, especially for the people who live in the community of...

Vietnam David Calleja

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The Vietnamese Cinderella story of Tam and Cam has distinctive elements of Vietnamese local color...

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

Vietnamese hot pot

Vietnamese Hot Pot

What is the Vietnamese Lau (hot pot)

Vietnam Cleo Nguyen

Flower Garden - Dalat, Vietnam

Dalat Vietnam - The City Of Flowers

Nature has granted Dalat a graceful beauty with hundreds of flowers making it an ideal destinatio...

Vietnam Allison Dinh

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Vietnam's minority Chams cling to Muslim faith

This small community in an area known as District 8 ... is the largest enclave of Cham Muslims in...

Vietnam Agence-France Presse AFP

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The Giant and the Pissant: A Fairy Tale

Review of Stanley Karnow's Vietnam: A History, Penguin Books, 1997.

Vietnam Kenneth Champeon

Hoa Sua restaurant. Outside on the patio.

Hoa Sua - food for thought

The familiar smell wafts across and hits me straight away: freshly baked pastries and bread. I wa...

Vietnam Samantha Coomber

Café Lam

It was by accident that Nguyen Van Lam became an art collector. Books were his hobby. And when he...

Vietnam Sarah Tilton

Halong Bay activities

Far and away - Halong bay impression

Determined to find her own private paradise Duc Hanh takes a cycling and kayaking tour to the far...

Vietnam Bobby King

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