Tag: Hanoi
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A Joyous Return to Vietnam
After teaching in Vietnam for nearly ten years, I left in 2003 to very mixed emotions, not knowing if and when I would be able to return. This past week, I had the extreme fortune of returning to Hanoi for the first time since 2009. A lot has changed since then, both in the heart…
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Thirty Years from Tienanmen Square
June 4, 2019 marks the thirty year anniversary of a dark day in Chinese history – what is known in the west as The Tienanmen Square Massacre. I remember this day very well. I had just graduated from college a month before. I had just gotten married a week after college graduation. We were in…
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Re-release: BEAUTY RISING
My first novel, published at the tale-end of 2012, has a new polish, a new cover, and a new price for the new year. I’m very pleased to announce a re-released edition of this story which is near and dear to me. The re-edits make the story flow in a more natural way, which will,…
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Great Hanoi (& Haiphong) Rat Massacre
I ran across this fascinating article a while back which I wanted to share. It’s about the great Hanoi rat massacre during the time of French colonialism. I don’t want to spoil the entire article because it’s a great read, but the crux of it gets to the amazing entrepreneurial spirit of the Vietnamese people.…
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The Return of the Vietnamese Bean Cake
It’s funny how a simple treat from the past can download a whole heap of memories into your consciousness. Have you ever eaten Vietnamese green bean cake? This stuff takes me back. A friend, stopping by Malaysia coming from Vietnam, picked this up for my family. When we lived in Haiphong from 1994-1997, we…
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My Top 10 Favorite Places in Asia: #1 northern Vietnam (Part II)
In Part I of my post about my favorite place in Asia Part I HERE, I took the time to talk about the Vietnamese people who, indeed, make northern Vietnam a special place. But I felt I needed another post to round things out and highlight some of the other special aspects about this incredible…
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Burger King in Hanoi: The End is Near
A friend posted a selfie outside the newly opened BK at Hanoi Noi Bai Airport. Globalization is complete. My Vietnam is dead. I arrived at Noi Bai Airport for the first time on a dark, stormy night in August 1994. My wife, 15 month old daughter, and I were picked up at the airport by…
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The Amazing Race and that B52 in Hanoi
Much has been said recently about The Amazing Race using the downed wreckage of a B52 in a Hanoi lake as a prop for their TV scavenger hunt. CBS just came out with an apology for the producers lack of taste in choosing a scenario which was offensive to veterans and others alike. They were…
Author Mark W Sasse 