Words by Dave, video by Carmen “The rain is coming on Thursday,” the café owner tells us. “Not long now.” Every evening in Hoi An dark clouds rumble up from the horizon and flash with electric friction. The air is charged with the promise of rain. And then nothing. The dry heat of Vietnam’s central coast […]
Words by Dave, video by Carmen Class, may I have your attention for today’s lecture. Vietnam was ruled by the French from the year 1887 to 1954, and in that time, myriad French influences were bestowed on the nation through… BORING. If only there was a more interesting way to show the colonial history of […]
“I’ve fallen off twice,” she tilted her head back and laughed, as if it was a big joke. I looked at her with wide eyes. It was a Wednesday night and we were at Chill Bar in the centre of Saigon. The rooftop bar was heaving. Young Entrepreneurs of Saigon, a crowd made up of […]
Cebu City in the Philippines is a boom town. Back in the early ’90s it had what was nickamed a ‘Ceboom’ and the good times are back – there are plans to expand the city’s airport to four times its present capacity and widen this gateway to the Central and Southern Philippines. And the pace is […]
Each year when I ask my parents what they’d like for their birthdays, they simply ask for a handmade card. Touching as this might be, at the age of 28 I like to think I’m a bit beyond the small gift of homemade card, and so I always buy a present as well. This year, […]
