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A barbershop on the streets of Hanoi

The Streets of Hanoi

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,443]

Crossing the street in Hanoi is an act of faith and an experience you won't ever forget.

Destinations: Hanoi | Vietnam
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Shop Til You Drop - Hanoi, Vietnam

Samantha Coomber - scoomber [2,671]

When friends visit my apartment back home, they've admired the exquisite lacquerware bowls, ceramic tea sets and hand-embroidered wall hangings, or my beautiful flowing silks. Enquiring "Where did you...

Destinations: Hanoi | Vietnam
Topics: Shopping

The Bookworm: Hanoi's First and Only English-language Bookshop

Steven K. Bailey - sbailey [7,770]

Trips to Hanoi used to be strictly BYOB-Bring Your Own Books. Whatever you wanted to read you had to lug from home, because once you got to Hanoi, you knew that you wouldn't be able to buy books for...

Destinations: Hanoi | Vietnam
Topics: Shopping
Shanghai Old Street, Shanghai, China.

Shopping Asia

ThingsAsian - ta [3,710]

Afghanistan Kabul shopping * * * China Death of a Beijing Flea Market A Geek's Guide to China * * * Hong Kong Hong Kong: Shop til you drop * * * India Bangalore Shopping The Bombay Bazaar A Guide to...

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Topics: Shopping
An employee pushes handcarts in front of the first Metro Cash and Carry wholesale center in Hanoi. Germany's Metro Group plans to open eight wholesale centers in Vietnam.

Metro opens third Cash and Carry store in Vietnam in Asia roll-out

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,579]

HANOI, July 31, 2003 - Germany's Metro Group, the world's fifth-largest trading company, opened its third wholesale "Cash and Carry" store in Vietnam Thursday as part of its ambitious roll-out...

Destinations: Hanoi | Vietnam
Topics: Food | Shopping

Vietnam: Shop til you drop

Samantha Coomber - scoomber [2,671]

Vietnam has always trailed far behind the Singapore and Hong Kong shopping scenes. But the times "they are a changing". With Government restrictions lifted, Western influences and tourists and ex-pats...

Destinations: Hanoi | Vietnam
Topics: Shopping

Grand Opening at METRO Hanoi

Brenda Paik Sunoo - bsunoo [148]

A story told with photos.

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

Paper Street

Sarah Tilton - stilton [1,727]

Hang Ma is different from most of the other streets in Hanoi's Old Quarter. Among the thirty-six streets that make up the area and were originally named for the craftsmen that worked there, few remain...

Destinations: Hanoi | Vietnam
Topics: Culture | Travel | Shopping
A portrait of the artist, Do Huan, by his son

A Vietnamese Photographer

Sarah Tilton - stilton [1,727]

Do Huan started taking photographs in 1936 when his father gave him a camera for his birthday. What started out as a hobby soon became a profession as Do Huan developed into one of the most celebrated...

Destinations: Hanoi | Vietnam
Topics: Literature | Art | Shopping

That Perfect Gift

Lady Borton - lborton [84]

That perfect gift from Vietnam, what would it be? For twenty-five years, I've been coming and going in Vietnam in a restless pattern that creates havoc in my relationships with family and friends in...

Destinations: Hanoi | Vietnam
Topics: Culture | People | Literature | Art | Shopping
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