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Love in the Time of Colonies

Review of Marguerite Duras' Indochina novel The Lover.

Vietnam / Indochina Kenneth Champeon

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It's hard to find the Venerable Vien Thuc sometimes. He is a reclusive monk. He has lived alone i...

Vietnam Qui Duc Nguyen

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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

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

Lang Biang Mountain - Da Lat, Vietnam

Lang Biang Mountains - Dalat City, Vietnam

Lang Biang is one of the highest mounts in Dalat City, Vietnam with a romantic legend behind its ...

Vietnam Allison Dinh

Bananas for sale, Cai Rang market near Can Tho, Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

Three go mad in Can Tho

The author visits Can Tho, the center of Southern Vietnam's Mekong Delta, with its river markets ...

Vietnam Samantha Coomber

Wooden boats are the best way to transport things on the river. I'm carrying palm leaves to help build a house down the river

I've Got My Eyes on You (photo-essay)

Boats on the Mekong River in Vietnam...

Vietnam Elizabeth Briel

Nha Trang Bay - Nha Trang, Vietnam

Islands In Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam

There are many islands at Nha Trang Bay - Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, the most well-known ones being Mieu...

Vietnam Allison Dinh

Traditional Medicine

The Oriental Express

It was a dark and stormy night, and we were going to the gynecologist.

Vietnam Robert Cambridge

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

Echoes of the Air War Fading Over Hanoi

Thirty years after the last B-52 dropped its bombs on Hanoi, I found few reminders of the America...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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“Tò he” – traditional toys in Vietnam

Tò he toys are Vietnamese sculptured figurines fashioned from colored rice dough...

Vietnam jenny bui

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Reform and Tradition in Early Vietnamese Popular Song

Among young, urban Vietnamese of the 1930s, the clarion call was for reform and renovatio...

Vietnam Jason Gibbs

Woman and Buffalo

Truong Dinh Hao

Hao was born in Hanoi in 1937 and currently lives and works in the province of Ha Bac in the nort...

Vietnam Global Directions Inc.

Basket lady carrying her mobile tea stand

A Photo Essay: An Afternoon in the Alley

A little snapshot into the action in the Ngo (alley) outside my house. These were all taken from ...

Vietnam Simone Samuels

Cu Lao Cham Beach, Vietnam

Vietnam's Offshore Paradise

Cu Lao Cham islands, off the coast of Hoi An and Da Nang, Vietnam...

Vietnam Pham Ha

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

Ann, Virginia, 1996

An Enduring Classic: Ann Caddell Crawford's Customs and Culture of Vietnam

If you poke around any book shop in Vietnam that sells foreign language books, one of the first t...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

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

Communion by Kim Fay

Book Review: Communion: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam

A native of the Pacific Northwest, Kim Fay spent four years in her early adulthood living and wor...

Vietnam Celeste Heiter

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