I was reunited with the lovely bright fruit here in Saigon, and my daily dragonfruit is one of the many things I will miss when I leave. People often ask me why I come back, or what it is about the city that draws me in, and it truly isn’t one thing. It’s a confluence of ...
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States war machine unleashed a secret weapon it had been developing for years when a B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay dropped a single, oddly shaped bomb called Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan. Little Boy was a 9,700-pound uranium bomb, the first of its ...
Many Vietnamese still refer to Ho Chi Minh City as Saigon, and many Indians still call Mumbai Bombay. Writer Leeya Mehta is among them. "For me and my generation, we really pushed back against the name change," she said. "...
This is one of the most obvious reasons to take a river cruise.If you were hopping from city to city on land (be it on a bus tour or by train or car), you’d be constantly packing and unpacking, lugging bags around and dealing with the hassle of hotel check-ins and check-outs ...
They are real and all their damning sentences written in the series are words they uttered sometime during their lives. My books might be called works of fiction, but it is thinly disguised historical fiction. And so, I am driven, but I’ve had help. ...
In 1984, 99 Ranch Market opened its first store in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, California, an Orange County town. It is family owned and now the largest Asian supermarket chain in the country, with more than 50 stores, mostly in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and...
(then called Saigon) for a government press conference when a fellow reporter claimed he got a tip that the Viet Cong were nearby. According toreports, Sean and photographer Dana Stone walked on foot near the forestline where the checkpoint was to check it out and were never seen again. ...
“And it just adds to the affordability problem and the number of homeless, because this veteran has a voucher, they’re low income, but they can’t find a property that will take it.” When the economy is bad, landlords are more likely to take the vouchers, Taylor said, but that do...
Would I Do It Again? Others are welcome to disagree, but on this I have no doubt. Like almost every Marine I have ever met, my strongest regret is that perhaps I could have done more. But no other experience in my life has been more important than the challenge of leading Marines dur...
In 1984, 99 Ranch Market opened its first store in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, California, an Orange County town. It is family owned and now the largest Asian supermarket chain in the country, with more than 50 stores, mostly in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and...