The first few days of my assignment in Vietnam was spent in district 1 of Ho Chi Minh City (3 nights at one of the A&EM hotels). The hotel was just a 2 minute walk from city’s main market - Ben Thanh Market.
Two mornings in a row I wandered around amongst the produce and seafood […]

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Part of the work I’m doing in Vietnam for the World Wildlife Fund includes documenting the booming furniture manufacturing industry. In the last two weeks we have toured four very large scale manufacturing plants and I’ve seen more deck chairs than I could have imagined.
All these chairs are made of wood– some of which has […]

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Vietnamese shrimp farmer’s son holding lunch.
Looking at the schedule I have five more days here in Vietnam. If you told me that yesterday as we hiked through a cocoa plantation in the mid-day heat it would have sounded like an unbearable sweat sentence. This morning however, as I sit on the deck of our hotel […]

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