Fresh eggs. Hula hoops. The large skin of a sand shark. In Saigon, there’s little limit to what locals will balance on the back of a motorbike. In Saigon, where few people own cars or trucks and there ...

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — This was going to be fun! Up and down Le Duan Street, where the U.S. Embassy once stood, laughing teenagers in denim and silk were racing their motorbikes, eating ice cream ...

From bustling Ho Chi Minh City to the magnificent Mekong Delta, Chris Schalkx explores this country of contrasts.

Four decades ago, the rooftop bar at the Rex Hotel in Saigon was the site of the U.S. military’s daily war briefings, dubbed the “five o’clock follies” by press skeptics. Generals and journalists that ...

Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon, has become an Asian mega-city. And it’s surrounded and defined by water. Districts here are often separated by bridges, crossing one of the many ...