Troi Oi August ’18

The Country in Numbers 148,000 SKILLED WORKERS ARE NEEDED IN KEY SECTORS in Ho Chi Minh City this year, according to Tran Anh Tuan, deputy director of the HCM City Human Resources Forecast and Labour Market Information (Falmi) Centre. Trained and professional workers are necessary to meet their human resources needs and expand, and for the city to attract foreign … Read more

It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s a Small Plane!

Watch your head, radio-controlled airplanes are flying overhead in the outskirts of district 7 Behind what appears to be an abandoned construction site near the intersection of Nguyen Van Linh and Trinh Quang Nghi, with banana trees and marshes in the backdrop, a group of Vietnamese men belonging to the Hoa Hong Radio Control (HHRC) club congregate. They show up every Sunday, depending on … Read more

A Better Way to see Halong Bay

There’s something undeniably magical about Halong Bay. Despite the sometimes off-putting news of trash in the water, long lines of boats doing exactly the same itinerary, and new rules seemingly enacted at whim suddenly closing off the top decks of boats and governing where you can and cannot swim (currently there’s just one approved swimming spot in all of Halong Bay, on Titov Island), many … Read more