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

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 ...

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 ...

A car can keep you dry when it rains in Saigon, but it can hardly escape the flooding. It was raining cats and dogs while I was still at work the other day. One of my colleagues decided to leave his ...