Be more than an international school, be an internationally-minded school What is the meaning of an “international education”? While it may simply be understood as learning alongside a number of other nationalities, it is something much deeper. It is having a deep understanding of oneself and of the similarities and differences between us and others … Read more
Meet 63-year-old Phu Si Hue, Saigon’s original champion bodybuilder I am sitting on a bench press in a gym that looks more like a motorcycle repair shop. It’s all free weights and no nonsense, bare to the bone and it never was anything else nor did it ever try to be. It’s a little larger … Read more
Celebrated ao dai designer-artist Si Hoang speaks about opening Vietnam’s only museum Dedicated to this traditional long dress One of Vietnam’ s most iconic ao dai designers, Si Hoang is as much a philosopher as he is an artist. That is the one factor that has earned him a prestige for his traditional fashions on … Read more
This is Tai. He’s currently in fifth grade. His mother proudly shows us all the certificates and achievements Tai and his sister have won in school over the years. Tai is proud of his most recent academic awards, however, next year, like all the other kids in his village, he will stop school and start … Read more
No time to read to your kids? Hire someone else to do it for you “The first time I worked as a storyteller, it was for my neighbor’s child. The parents had some errands to run until late and paid me VND100,000 to read three volumes of Doraemon to their six-year-old baby girl,” says Le … Read more
Remembering a bygone time when black lacquered teeth were in vogue It was 1932 and Nguyen Thi Phu was not going to wait any longer. She and her cousins had all discussed it, and they were all going to do it together. They were old enough—the youngest was 10, the oldest 13—and the three of … Read more
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