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Mr Tan's Hoi An bonsai garden 7 Jun 2012 | 11:42 am
Mr Tan, whose family has lived in Hoi An for 3 centuries, takes us through his courtyard home and his bonsai garden.
Remembering a massacre - revisiting My Lai 28 May 2012 | 08:39 pm
We return to My Lai, the site of the infamous 1968 massacre of unarmed villagers by US troops.
Getting personal in Vietnam 26 Mar 2012 | 08:18 pm
Expect to get plenty of personal questions from the locals when travelling in Vietnam. Try not to be too coy, the conversations that the questions spawn can be a highlight of your travels.
Erasure - an exhibition by Dinh Q. Le 24 Jul 2011 | 12:38 am
Australia’s Vietnamese community is so firmly integrated into life here that it’s easy to forget the traumatic circumstances in which so many of them arrived. They also seem to prefer not to make a bi...
Bookends to a war: Ap Bac and that Saigon rooftop 15 Jun 2011 | 04:17 pm
The 1963 Battle of Ap Bac in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta should have been a warning to the US of the perils ahead in their campaign against Ho Chi Minh’s communists. Instead it presaged an escalation of a ...
Berlin in 7 days 29 Sep 2010 | 10:47 am
On my first visit to Berlin in late 1988, the city was at the epicentre of the Cold War. West Berlin was a US sponsored island of capitalist prosperity in a sea of failing Soviet states. East Berliner...
Hanoi's Old Quarter 16 Mar 2010 | 02:53 pm
Don't expect Hanoi's Old Quarter to feel like the ancient streets of Middle Eastern or European cities. There's plenty that's new about the Old Quarter. And while newness increasingly engulfs the old,...
Hoa Lo, Hanoi Hilton prison 15 Mar 2010 | 01:29 pm
Hanoi's Hoa Lo prison achieved international infamy when captured American pilots sarcastically dubbed it the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War. Presidential candidate and veteran US Senator John Mc...
Kep - Cambodia's other ruins 8 Mar 2010 | 09:30 pm
In the early 1960s, Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk presided over a kingdom at peace. Its elites travelled to the seaside town of Kep for weekends of high living and gambling at the town's casino. Kep was...
Hanoi's museums and sights 5 Feb 2010 | 03:57 pm
Hanoi could make a strong claim to being Asia's most beautiful city. Most of its charms have managed to survive the ravages of French troops and American B52s. It's too early to say whether developer...
