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The Song Hong Half Marathon

Raising funds for conservation

Portraits of the Past

Vietnam has 54 ethnic minorities. French photographer Réhahn is documenting all of them

Amelie Lens

Heart Beat Turns four on Dec. 16 and they’re bringing in not one but two Belgian DJs to celebrate

Inside Phong Nha

This month marks the start of the tourist season in Phong Nha, the home to Vietnam’s best-known caves. However, a trip to the national park is more than just an opportunity to explore underground caverns. Words and photos by Nick Ross ...

Shoko Ishikawa

Shoko Ishikawa is the country representative for UN Women in Vietnam. Here she gives her thoughts on gender equality and the lot of the Vietnamese woman ...

The City Marathon

Next month, Saigon hosts its first full marathon in 25 years

Spiral Dynamics

Trump, Vietnam and looking ahead

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Crosstown Traffic

  One cost of development is the traffic gets worse. So what’s the solution?

Skype Me

Intimacy and meaning. Jesse Meadows muses on the wonders of Skype and other communications mediums used to help us keep in touch

Dead Tired

A recent VnExpress article reported a young teenage Vietnamese girl sending a message to her parents across the internet: “Back off, or I’ll kill myself!” The pressure to succeed is taking its toll. Words by Paul Rowe

The Insider Story of the Guerrilla War - Ch…

This piece is the final excerpt from Wilfred Burchett’s seminal account of the American War. A close friend of Ho Chi Minh, Burchett was the only westerner to be embedded with the Viet Cong frontlines in the early 1960s. This work was written in 1964

The Cider Market

From craft cider through to producers ramping out the good stuff, thousands of bottles at a go, cider is finally making inroads into the Vietnamese market. Here’s the lowdown. Words by Owen Salisbury and Jesse Meadows

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The Cartoonist

A cartoonist and a teacher, But Chi’s raison d’etre is to use the creation and...

A Brief History of Bia Hoi

Considered the ultimate people’s beer, bia hoi started off as a concession to the shortages...

Falling Off the Wagon

It’s a common New Year’s resolution — go a month or so without drinking. Jon...

In Search of the Super Cave

Or, how Ed Weinberg went looking for Southeast Asia’s largest volcanic cave and got scraped...

A Brief History of Beer Mythology

Through its history, beer has inspired many people to tell lies — including some about...

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