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Travel
Putting an end to cruel elephant rides, Yok Don National Park invites visitors to observe the animals in their natural environment going about their daily lives.
Saigon
If you help save hundreds of thousands of lives via medical breakthroughs and establish one of the country’s first and most advanced research institutes, but also assist in the colonial regime’s brutal oppression of natives via a draconian alcohol monopoly, do you get a street named in your honor? If you’re Albert Calmette, you do.
Branded Content
Alters strewn with bright marigold flowers and photos of loved ones, families dressed in fancy costumes with faces painted to resemble skeletons walking through streets decorated with bright papel picados and graveyards filled with music and humorous poem recitations: Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is one of Mexico’s largest holidays. This year, Jose Cuervo is sponsoring numerous events to bring the celebration to Vietnam.
Vietnam
If the bánh mì dress wins the popular vote, Vietnam might have a legitimate shot at claiming the top prize at this year’s upcoming Miss Universe.
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
Music & Arts
No other composer since Beethoven has written as many as nine sonatas for violin and piano.
![[Photos] Relish this Rare 1894 Edition of 'Truyen Kieu' Through World Digital Library](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2018/10/Oct23/KieuNom_SGRh.jpg)
Culture
The World Digital Library allows people around the world to see high-resolution scans of the 1894 edition of The Tale of Kieu , annotated by Paul Pelliot, the famous French Sinologist, who bought the manuscript in 1929.
![[Photos] An Oddly Shaped Lot Presents a Creative Challenge for Local Architects](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2018/10/Oct23/KhuonStudio_SGRh.jpg)
Architecture
The house, named Hoa House, rests on an irregular parcel of land formed by two square lots unevenly placed next to each other.
Tech
The latest fully Vietnamese ride-hailing service, Aber, launched in Hanoi last Friday, four months after its first appearance in Saigon.
Saigon
While most Saigoneers were sound asleep on Sunday night, a tragic accident occurred near the Hang Xanh Intersection in Binh Thanh District, killing one and injuring others.
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
Vietnam
When finished, the relocation will be the biggest migration in the history of the Hue Imperial City.
Tech
The satellites will help monitor environmental conditions related to climate change and allow for emergency disaster warnings.
Podcast
The Saigoneer Podcast is back after taking a couple of weeks off!
Eat & Drink
A thick plume of wood-succulent smoke engulfs the table as the server removes the lid from a clay pot of hot stone beef. Ensconced in the earthy aroma, the tender slices of marinated steak wrapped around forest vegetables acquire subtle flame and charcoal notes.
Film & TV
Starting from November, filmmakers will need to carefully deliberate over their decision to include smoking in their work or risk the ire of the culture ministry.
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
![[Photos] The Children of Southern Vietnam in 1967](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/TCuNCr5b.jpg)
Vietnam
To see old photos of children is profound because we know, in a way they couldn't when the photos were taken, how their lives have been shaped since.
Music & Arts
The Portland, Oregon-based psychedelic rock band recorded the album entirely in Vietnam.
Vietnam
In-town check-in service allows passengers to drop off their luggage before heading to the airport.
Vietnam
Amateurish tags and scrawlings throughout the ancient tourist town are becoming an eyesore.
Food Culture
More romantic than the season's first snow dusting a trampled field of post-harvest corn husks; more inspiring than stars strewn across a cloudless night sky; more alluring than fragrant pollen drifting off a wind-tickled sunflower: the cheesy, spicy, deliriously delicious coating of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos is a transcendent substance.
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . Each morning, we select some of the most important stories from Saigon, the rest of Vietnam and beyond, and digest them into short, accessible links so you can easily keep up with current affairs.
Travel
In 2017, I worked as a tour guide and social media manager for the same North Korean tour company that brought Otto Warmbier to visit the nation. The period climaxed, tragically, in his death. Back then, as much as now, I was met with a predictable measure of disbelief. “You’re a what?”
