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Saigon Lockdown Tests Patients – and Patience

Home, NewsBy Mark Beales29th August 2021Leave a comment

Yesterday, a box of eggs arrived. In normal circumstances, this would go unnoticed in our household, but there are only a few remaining scraps of normal left around these parts. Admittedly, two of the eggs were smashed and the pork that accompanied them had turned a strange shade of green, but this was, undeniably, still…

Coronavirus: what makes Vietnam’s response so different?

Home, NewsBy Mark Beales5th April 2020Leave a comment

Walk outside my apartment in central Saigon and it looks like a scene from 28 Days Later. The streets are empty, the shutters are rolled down in the shopping malls and it’s eerily quiet. The only thing missing are a few zombies. A few weeks ago, the same street buzzed with life. Street-side hawkers sold…

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