Stories about People in Ho Chi Minh City
Plastic surgery a dangerous business in VietnamAgence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579] Having a more generous cleavage or a slimmer nose is the new dream for many up-and-coming Vietnamese women, but demand has far exceeded supply, leaving women in the hands of unqualified surgeons often working in unsafe conditions...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Being a model in Vietnam: a girl's dream, a father's nightmareAgence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579] Ten years ago, there was no fashion industry in Vietnam. Now, teenagers dream of becoming models...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Order of the DayNatnapha Thanatharakit - the_orient [430] In Cambodia, Thailand or Vietnam, try these restaurants which are dishing up opportunities for the local community with their socially responsible policies and vocational training programs, as well as good food...
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Halong Bay |
Hue |
Hanoi |
Vietnam |
Ho Chi Minh City |
Hoi An
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Ben Trejoe smith - luminous_grin [17] Ben Tre Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Bien Hoa |
Phan Thiet |
Nha Trang |
Vietnam |
Ben Tre
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Film Review: IndochineCeleste Heiter - cheiter [29,099] Catherine Deneuve, in perhaps the defining role of her career, stars in Indochine, one of the best Asian epics ever made...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Pulau Bidong: Vietnamese Boat People in MalaysiaEe Lin Wan - eelin [4,107] * * * * * "We have heard stories of similarly desperate boat people escaping out of the communist Vietnam. Out in the sea, our main fears were the pirates - who will not hesitate to rob, rape, beat...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Malaysia |
Terengganu |
Vietnam
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Vietnam's MTV generation change image of tattoosAgence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579] Tattoos, once reviled in Vietnam as the preserve of prisoners, gangsters and common foot soldiers, are becoming increasingly popular among the country's emerging 'MTV generation'. In step with the...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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White is beautiful in VietnamAgence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579] White is beautiful. Or at least it is in Vietnam where skin-whitening creams sell like hot cakes and women wrap themselves up like mummies whenever they venture outside. Arm-length gloves made of a...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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A Lolita of the Far EastKenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,644] The setting is colonial Vietnam. A man of thirty-two falls in love with a girl of fifteen-and-a-half, who lies and says that she's seventeen. He's rich; she's poor. Her father is dead and her elder...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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Coming into Sai GonMalcolm Arthur - cafengocmy [709] July 2003 It was night as the 747 approached Tan Son Nhat airport in Sai Gon. I thought to look for the lights and surmised it would be like any other city seen from the air at night, pretty but...
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Vietnam
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