As Arsenal players recover from their season's nailbiting finale, the club's shareholders find themselves embroiled in a burgeoning scandal over their links to one of Asia's most notorious companies.
This video gives the phrase “living on the edge” new meaning – as a train squeaks tightly through a Vietnamese neighbourhood. The footage of...
Today the illegal wildlife trade is worth in excess of $10 billion annually and the surging demand for ivory from the rapidly growing economies of China, Vietnam and Thailand resulted in over 40,000 elephants being killed in Africa in 2012, or one every 15 minutes.
Press coverage and debate leading up to the funeral of Baroness Thatcher led me to reflect on a recent journey through Vietnam. When you travel you can't help but compare. I spent many hours talking with Vietnamese from all walks of life and quickly realised that in this emerging nation is a pride and strength in being Vietnamese.
Here's a question for you... Would you spend 17.5 hourrs on an overnight train? There are couple of other things you might want to factor in.
Flashback to sitting on a cheap plastic stool no more than a foot high, next to a dusty main road, being handed a portion of unidentifiable food in a bowl that had probably never before seen washing up liquid. And fondly remembering this as one of the most memorable moments of my recent trip to Vietnam.
The statistics on the human trafficking in Vietnam vary hugely and official information is limited. The Vietnam Ministry of Public Security offer the official figure of 2,935 Vietnamese victims of human trafficking between 2004 and 2009, while Hagar International claim the considerably larger total of over 400,000 victims since 1990.
A mortar shell left from the Vietnam War has exploded in a southern village, killing four children and seriously injuring five other people. Hieu N...
A new boutique hotel brand, which aims to offer travellers the best of authentic Asian accommodation, launched this month. Called Secret Retreats, ...
Art throughout history has proven itself to be thought-provoking and beautiful but how far can we go in trusting and ingesting it as a source of truth?
A respectful tip of the hat and polite round of applause to this Vietnamese Dark Knight superfan, who's just finished building his own Batpod. Tung...
It's a Saturday afternoon and, having told me that my wardrobe is a little "tired", my girlfriend decides to take me shopping in Shoreditch. We go to a store called A.P.C. It's French, which is apparently justification for charging £75 for a t-shirt.
A Vietnamese traffic warden was so enraged after a bus driver tried to drive away before he could give him a fixed penalty notice, that he leapt onto ...
Had I known the duck's feet were raw before I put them in my mouth, perhaps I would have been better prepared. These de-boned and de-cartilaged ducks ...
Adrienne Rich, the award-winning poet and champion of women’s right, has died aged 82. The American died in her home in California from complicat...
Since the 1960s we have known that pesticides when used without care and attention will cause insect pest outbreaks. But we never seem to learn.
The Khmer Rouge were not “bad people”, according to regime’s former second in command. Speaking at the historic war crimes trial in Phnom Pe...
Gary Glitter can leave the UK again after the three-and-a-half year travel ban imposed on him following his conviction for paedophilia came to an end....
In a sentence exceeding some those handed down for murder and rape in the country, Thailand yesterday jailed a grandfather for 20 years, for no more than sending 4 text messages allegedly insulting the country's Queen.
As Pipilotti Rist's must-see 'Eyeball Massage' exhibition continues at the Hayward Gallery in London, it's got us here at Black Tomato thinking about ...
I first visited Vietnam around 20 years ago - at a time when almost everyone travelled by bicycle, and the whole country operated in a somewhat austere style. Having been back regularly since then, I've seen the bicycles transforming into motorbikes, and more recently the motorbikes into cars.
The Javan rhinoceros is perilously close to extinction a wildlife charity has warned after a dead rhino was confirmed to be the last in Vietnam. Th...
Autumn has arrived. It was announced with a rather loud gong in the shape of some big black clouds and with it, a realisation dawned that the nights a...
It sounded a bit weird to me at first. Iced coffee? I'd had a mouthful of forgotten coffee a few times before, each time more disturbing than the last...
Actress Jane Fonda has accused QVC of cancelling her appearance on the TV shopping channel because of her Vietnam war activism. ...
