My son, who is five, asked where I’d bought a bottle of nail polish. “In a shop across the street from Ben Thanh Market,” I
It’s finally happened: a Hanoi cab driver has been sentenced to five years in jail for ripping off his customers. Not only did Pham Van
Even though I’ve lived overseas for going on twenty years, I like to read the Canadian news. Invariably, my husband (who’s Australian, and therefore has
This morning, Canadian photographer Fred Wissink of 6 & 1/2 Floors (www.6andahalffloors.com) stopped by my house to shoot a portrait of me to accompany an
The Saigon neighborhood in which I live – An Phu – has an expat Googlegroup message board called “An Phu Neighbours”. People post notices about
The other day, my family was driving towards District 1 when, just before the Saigon Bridge, a terrible smell invaded our car. The smell was
On a recent visit to Hanoi I snapped a photo of a shop owned by my favorite Vietnamese State-owned enterprise: HAFASCO. In Vietnam, a lot
My day job involves editing an airline magazine. Most of the articles are written in Vietnamese and translated into English, and some of the translations
Since Vietnam’s mandatory motorbike helmet law came into effect in December 2007, most adult riders are wearing helmets. Here’s one lady who’s going all out for traffic safety…and
While I regard fortune telling with a healthy dose of skepticism, getting your fortune told can be fun. Check out this guy I met in
