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A culinary collaboration with a difference
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 18/02/2024
» If you ever needed a reason to visit Hanoi in Vietnam for food, I’m giving you one.
“ICONSIAM Thais Help Thais” aims to unite Thai hearts for economic and social recovery
Published on 19/02/2020
» The outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is the latest global crisis. This public health threat has affected the global economy and impacted on Thailand.
A right to know?
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 25/09/2017
» In Bangkok, a form recently surfaced at a hotel in Nana, and it has gone viral. It tells guests to be aware that "the person" -- an allusion to a prostitute -- they are bringing to the room could be a "ladyboy".
The changing face of education
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/08/2016
» Nong Max was born into a rural Thai family 15 years ago in the far northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom.
40 years after Vietnam War, north-south wounds fester
Associated Press, Published on 30/04/2015
» HO CHI MINH CITY – When Luu Dinh Trieu was drafted into the South Vietnamese army, he literally went to war against his father.
Hanging on until the end
Spectrum, Alan Dawson, Published on 26/04/2015
» Tuesday, April 29, 3pm. We’re 19 hours from communist victory, the fall of Saigon, the actual end of the Vietnam war, and photographer Hugh Van Es is gazing, lazily at first, out the front window of the United Press International bureau.
Parades and wedding parties as Vietnam gay taboo eases
AFP, Published on 05/08/2014
» HANOI - From flamboyant parades to symbolic same-sex weddings, taboos surrounding homosexuality -- once viewed as a "social evil" -- are slowly crumbling in Vietnam, but activists say only freedom to marry will bring true equality.
The Vietnamese teenager who captured a French general
AFP, Published on 04/05/2014
» One of Vietnam's last surviving veterans of the battle of Dien Bien Phu recounts with pride the day in May 1954 when, aged just 19, he captured the commander of the French colonial forces.
Activists parade for gay rights in Vietnam
AFP, Published on 04/08/2013
» Some two hundred activists waving rainbow flags and carrying hand-painted banners biked in a colourful convoy through central Hanoi on Sunday as part of the communist country's second gay pride parade.
Viet minister backs same-sex unions
Online Reporters, Published on 19/04/2013
» The Vietnamese Health Ministry has called for same-sex marriage to be legalised, warning that research shows stigma against lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) people can damage their physical and mental health.