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The Mekong, Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future, by Milton Osborne

Une Monomanie du Mekong

Review of Milton Osborne's "The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future"

Vietnam / Cambodia / Laos Kenneth Champeon

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New Year in Mui Ne

After nearly four weeks on the road in Vietnam, my husband put his foot down. For at least two da...

Vietnam Helen Conway

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Vung Tau and Con Lon

Review of The Province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau: A Guidebook to Saigon's Beach Resort If you spend any ...

Vietnam Steven K. Bailey

Len Dong Dance Ceremony

Mother's Worship of Vietnamese People

Located on the Indochina peninsula, a bridge links mainland to off shore Southeast Asia countries...

Vietnam Ha pham

The Vietnamese host family organized a small party to welcome me and my friend to their home. This makes me so happy.

2 wonderful days living in a Vietnam family

I would like to share my amazing experience with the best Vietnamese host family in Hanoi. I was ...

Vietnam Phuong Kim

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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

At forty, Le Thanh Minh is already an accomplished painter. After three years of training at the ...

Vietnam Qui Duc Nguyen

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Hoi An Hoard, Part Three - The Theories

When 244,000 pieces of porcelain were finally excavated from a shipwreck off the Hoi An coast of ...

Vietnam Kim Fay

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Mention Haiphong and most people think of an industrial city known for its woolen mills, shipyard...

Vietnam Lou Dematteis / Sarah Tilton

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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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Legendary Vietnam

“Vietnam is one country; the Vietnamese are one people. Rivers may dry up, and mountains may er...

Vietnam / Indochina Tony Pham

Artist Tran Tuyet-Mai

Tran Tuyet-Mai must be one of the most self-effacing artists in Hanoi. While many cannot stop boa...

Vietnam Qui Duc Nguyen

Images of Vietnam: Ethnic Minorities

A story told with photos.

Vietnam Kraig Lieb

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

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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

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

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

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

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

Vietnam Sarah Tilton

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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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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

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