Tasso Dattenberg-Doyle 
Local filmmakers, actors and writers put their skills to the test in this fast-paced, no sleep film competition The 48 Hour Film Project is a global success. The project was set up in 2001 to promote filmmaking and give an audience to filmmakers, giving them a difficult but inspiring challenge: to write, shoot and edit a … Read more
Oi speaks to Le Thanh Son, director of rom-com Em Chua 18 (Jailbait), Vietnam’s highest grossing film to date Coming-of-Age stories never get old. Like it or not, we all have to grow up somehow, and that sometimes painful process has seen umpteen iterations. A recent addition to the list is Em Chua 18 (English title: Jailbait), a … Read more
Saigon’s thriving graffiti culture may surprise you It’s hard to think of graffiti without the connotations of illegality. Tagging, which rose to prominence in the 90s, has always been seen as an art form for youth and rebellion. However, now that it has surfaced and gained in popularity and prominence, classes and workshops on the matter are freely available even to … Read more
It was 8:15 in the morning when my group, composed of myself, a sun-punished Englishwoman, a very tall Kiwi and two younger daughters set out towards the mangrove forests of Can Gio, a short 45 minutes to an hour boat trip along the many aquatic arteries that surround Ho Chi Minh City. The trip, organized … Read more
How banh khot represents family, comfort and childhood. “Home is where the heart is,” that’s what they say. For most people the aphorism is applied to an actual home but for restauranteur Ms. Dung Pham home can come to you one spoonful (or chopstick-load) at a time. Tucked away in a small street in District … Read more
We catch up with Blair Fowler who gives us an insight into the life of a hotel general manager The Renaissance Riverside Hotel Saigon on Ton Duc Thang has an ecosystem of its own: 336 rooms, a ground floor bar, spa, two restaurants, skybar, lounge, rooftop pool and a fitness center are all compacted within … Read more
An inside look at the ingredients to success As a restaurateur, Tony Fox has worked his way from the bottom to the top of the food chain. His humble beginnings in the business, he recalls, were in the kitchen peeling carrots. From there he graduated to bigger and better things: potatoes, and he didn’t stop … Read more
The function of a building is just one of many things an architect has to think about when designing From a layman’s perspective, the business of architecture resonates with grandeur. The word calls to mind grand designs and an intellectual flair, but as Marek Obtulovič tells it, these are images conjured up by the egomaniac, who … Read more
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