As for foreign visitors to Vietnam, a few key phrases in Vietnamese should be on your "must-learn" list with which you will find it very useful to get on well with the locals.

Tourists often overlook the beautiful scenery in the Northern provinces, that lie between Sapa to the west, and China to the north and west.   

Working as an English language teacher is becoming an inviting prospect for foreigners who would like to live in Vietnam.

It is getting cooler. Some days are rainy and icy winds make life even chillier. This signals the arrival of autumn in Hanoi and elsewhere in northern Vietnam.

Lê Công Kiều Street, very close to Bến Thành market in downtown Ho Chi Minh City, is where history meets the modern world…

I'm sitting outside a local cafe in Hanoi's bustling street drinking my sugary watermelon juice. As the young chap out front slices open a coconut with his short machete, the clouds open up - sprayed with coconut mist and giant rain glob-lets I feel instantly refreshed.   

John Balaban has long held a fervent love for Vietnamese folk culture. A poet, a professor of English at North Carolina State University, and the former President of the American Literary Translators Association, he also authors many books about Vietnam.

Football is a pretty big deal in England. Being home to one of the biggest domestic leagues in the world, one of the most storied histories of the game and laying claim to inventing the entire notion of the sport, this is hardly surprising.

Tracey Lister, the Australian chef and co-director of the Hanoi Cooking Centre, has co-authored a new book offering insights and recipes for Vietnamese street food, which will delight both foodies and home cooks.

Good morning vacationers!