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Zippo: American icon that reflects GI sentiments on Vietnam War |
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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Talisman, tool, keepsake, weapon -- the Zippo lighter was a daily
companion for US soldiers fighting in Vietnam, who used it for
everything from lighting up marijuana joints to burning down
villages. |
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The calm before the next big thing |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
John Borthwick enjoys the delights of an unspoilt Vietnamese
treasure before the developers move in.
Unspoiled charm ... Phu Quoc island, off
the south coast of Vietnam, offers the beauty of white-sand beaches
and tropical jungles, without the doof-doof music and booze bars of
the more popular coastal resorts. |
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Unique Vietnam: Riding the northern border with Laos and China |
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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Myths and Mountains takes to the road in Vietnam on two wheels to explore the best of the country’s colorful culture and landscapes. This distinctive adventure begins and ends in Hanoi.
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Saturday, 21 April 2007 |
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Craters, knocked out tanks and tunnels still litter southern
Vietnam's countryside. The young American woman weighs the
machine-gun lightly in her arms. "Try it," she enthuses in a
southern drawl. "It makes you feel so powerful." We politely demur.
Somehow it doesn't seem right. After all, we are just a short
distance from Cu Chi, where an estimated 18,000 Vietcong spent most
of the 1960s living in 250 kilometres of tunnels, rising only to
strike against United States soldiers and their allies. |
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Saturday, 21 April 2007 |
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The young American woman weighs the machine-gun lightly in her arms. "Try it," she enthuses in a southern drawl. "It makes you feel so powerful." |
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Vietnam to organise Miss Vietnam International |
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Saturday, 21 April 2007 |
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Vietnam's Tien Phong and Thanh Nien newspapers, VTV, and Vinpearl Stock Company will jointly organise Miss Vietnam International to commemorate Vietnam joining the WTO in 2007. |
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How do you say 'Bubble' in Vietnamese? |
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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All over the world, the tide of easy money is pushing up asset prices. Democracy and capitalism are supposed to be the big victors of the post-Cold War period, but the hottest markets are neither democratic nor really capitalistic. China is soaring, of course. But so is the nation that kicked out U.S. troops 35 years ago so it could enjoy its own miserable system of misgovernment - Vietnam. |
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Want to get married - be ready for the red tape |
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Wednesday, 14 February 2007 |
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Vietnam offers many exotic splendors for the visitors of the Southeast Asian country. However, for a foreigner wanting to marry a Vietnamese citizen in Vietnam , the procedure can be very bureaucratic and demanding. |
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Dirty, smelly, stupid & cheap |
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Saturday, 15 January 2005 |
We see them every day taking up valuable space, hugging a cheap beer and making it last hours. How do they do it? Why do they do it? Why do they look so strange? Are they not human? We take time out among the hippies and launch a tirade aimed in their general direction. Why? Because we can. |
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Friday, 12 March 2004 |
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Let's face it - we all indulge to a greater or lesser degree in some form of alcoholism from time to time. Many of us perhaps spend too much time chugging the suds, but then again, there's not that much else to do. So I decided to investigate the various outlets that tempt us and the most popular beer brands we all enjoy. It was a tough assignment, but hey, someone had to do it. |
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