Ho Chi Minh City

Saigon's De Tham Street: International Crossroads and Carnival

Anonymous — Fri, 01 May 1998 07:00:00 +0000

Every Asian city on the backpacker circuit has a budget traveler district and over the years I reckon I've been to them all. Jakarta has Jalan Jaksa; Hong Kong has the length of Nathan Road centered...

Hanoi Coffee Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 01:52:29 +0000

Be sure to have a cup or three of coffee when in Hanoi...

Vietnam's MTV generation change image of tattoos

Anonymous — Thu, 25 Sep 2003 08:04:40 +0000

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...

The Lover: A Film and Book Review

Anonymous — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 06:26:43 +0000

Very early in my life it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. I aged. This aging was brutal. It spread over my features, one by one. I saw this aging of my face with the same sort of...

Celeste Goes to the Movies

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:23:13 +0000

Film Reviews by Celeste Heiter

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

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:00:53 +0000

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

Pulau Bidong: Vietnamese Boat People in Malaysia

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:40:39 +0000

* * * * * "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...

Notre-Dame Cathedral In Saigon, Vietnam

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 04:33:28 +0000

All you need to know about Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Plastic surgery a dangerous business in Vietnam

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:36:50 +0000

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...

White is beautiful in Vietnam

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:41:49 +0000

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...

Film Review: The Scent of Green Papaya

Anonymous — Tue, 25 May 2004 02:38:38 +0000

Eating, sleeping, and staying clean...Life's most basic concerns. Yet they take on a transcendent quality in this visually delicious film, known in French as L'odeur de la Papaye Verte , and in...

Vietnamese Fashion

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:07:03 +0000

* * * HO CHI MINH CITY, Aug 1, 2005 - When Anh Thu, a tall woman with black-rimmed glasses, walks into a designer boutique to choose a wedding outfit she knows exactly what she wants -- something...

Cao Dai Temple

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jul 2001 05:38:44 +0000

Saigon may well be an alluring city. But if you need a break - physically, mentally and spiritually - from this city's frenetic pace during your stay, there are plenty of day trip options out of the...

Xe Do to Sai Gon

Anonymous — Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:55:33 +0000

It's late morning in Ha Noi, and I find myself at the southbound ben xe looking at a forty-eight hour marathon ride to Sai Gon on the Vietnamese Greyhound, a xe do which, to be honest, looks more like...

Film Review: Indochine

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:17:00 +0000

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