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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

A Cook's Tour: Anthony Bourdain's Love Affair With Vietnam

Adam Bray - kanzis_slave [2,430]

Best known for his book "Kitchen Confidential" and his current series "No Reservations" on the Travel Channel, chef and author Anthony Bourdain travels the world looking for the perfect meal for his...

Destinations: Tokyo | Vietnam | Can Tho | Ho Chi Minh City | Cambodia | Nha Trang | Japan | Pailin
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Literature | Food | People

Plastic surgery a dangerous business in Vietnam

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

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...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: People

Being a model in Vietnam: a girl's dream, a father's nightmare

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

Ten years ago, there was no fashion industry in Vietnam. Now, teenagers dream of becoming models...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: Economy | People
Dining with a Conscience in Southeast Asia

Order of the Day

Natnapha 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...

Destinations: Halong Bay | Hue | Hanoi | Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh City | Hoi An
Topics: Travel | Adventure | Women & Travel | Traditions | Culture | Food | People
Ben Tre River

Ben Tre

joe smith - luminous_grin [17]

Ben Tre Vietnam

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Bien Hoa | Nha Trang | Phan Thiet | Vietnam | Ben Tre
Topics: People | Women & Travel

Film Review: Indochine

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [28,911]

Catherine Deneuve, in perhaps the defining role of her career, stars in Indochine, one of the best Asian epics ever made...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: People | Performing Arts | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
A young man with tattoos sits in the corner of a street in downtown Ho Chi Minh.

Vietnam's MTV generation change image of tattoos

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

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...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: People

Pulau Bidong: Vietnamese Boat People in Malaysia

Ee Lin Wan - eelin [4,079]

* * * * * "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...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Malaysia | Terengganu | Vietnam
Topics: People | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
A masked woman wearing long gloves rides a motorcycle in Hanoi. Beauty in the minds of most Vietnamese women means white skin-a symbol of feminity, pureness, sophistication and high social class.

White is beautiful in Vietnam

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

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...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: People

A Lolita of the Far East

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

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...

Destinations: Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam
Topics: People | Literature | Performing Arts
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