When Vietnam’s national Under-23 football team went on its fairytale run, reaching the finals of the Asian Under-23 football championships for the first time in history in 2018, ...
In 2018, we covered topics that shot straight into the heart of Saigon. Our writers dug deep into the city’s food culture, the country’s plastic problems, women’s roles ...
In District 2, just a few kilometers from Saigon’s city center, a small nucleus of women gather to address a local issue with far-reaching, global implications. They are ...
We’ve all seen the images online of people attempting to ride their scooters through city streets flooded in waist-deep water, drenched, miserable but determined. In some ways, the ...
This year two of Southeast Asia’s most infamous beach resorts—Boracay in The Philippines and Phi Phi in Thailand—have been closed to tourists in order to clean up their ...
As technology progresses and brick-and-mortar shops make way for online stores and market platforms, the concept of service providers is quickly changing from the traditional structure where service ...
Twelve years ago, when I landed in Vietnam, my professional aim was to continue as a tourism consultant for an agency. Before then, my focus in the industry ...
The development of MICE Tourism (meetings, incentives, conferencing and exhibitions) is expanding quickly in Vietnam as businesses look to the country as a viable destination where they can ...
Indigo Images and Minority Tribes Réhahn isn’t here yet but his work precedes him. The photographer’s Saigon gallery is located at the top of the same narrow staircase ...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the chart below says everything you need to know about the state of international tourism in Vietnam. The number ...
Rochelle Nguyen, a 25-year-old Vietnamese-Canadian woman who teaches at a prominent English centre in Ho Chi Minh City, explained how she went to get a health check in ...
Ho Chi Minh City is known for boasting a thriving expat community. Upon perusing Facebook you can find dozens of groups designated for expats to communicate and give ...
At least once a month, a growing number of expats and locals volunteer to "Clean Up Mui Ne”. This week, on 12 July, they’ll be at it again. ...
Saigon’s lengthy commutes and the inevitable downtime in a taxi provide a handsome nugget of free time. What to do with it? You could pick up that knitting ...
When US-headquartered music streaming giant Spotify entered Vietnam in March and brought its 35 million songs to the Vietnamese market, the move took place after a series of serious ...
As information technology has taken over and replaced traditional brick-and-mortar establishments with mobile phone apps, it was only a matter of time before this evolution started to creep ...
Airfares have been on the rise since last year when the Ministry of Transportation enacted a four-phase plan to increase ground service fees, starting from 1 October 2017. ...
The Mekong river is one of the worlds longest rivers and traverses six Southeast Asian countries, acting as a natural boundary between territories. Its estimated length of 4,350 ...
As Vietnam comes to terms with being one of the world’s worst plastic polluters, #iAMHCMC asks the question: Are campaigns like the #NoPlasticStrawChallenge an example of the public ...
From May until about November, our part of the world’s monsoon season, the almost daily afternoon rains are a regular event you can almost set your clock to. ...