HANOI: Phu Quoc Island, located in An Giang Province, is the birthplace of one of Vietnam’s most treasured cultural legacies – the centuries-old traditional fish sauce craft, known as the “soul of the ...

PHAN THIET and PHU QUOC, Vietnam — In 1910, a little-known nationalist named Nguyen Sinh Cung taught elementary school in Phan Thiet, a coastal town in southeastern Vietnam. The school was combined ...

DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — Bui Van Phong faced a choice when the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago: Stay in his small village, helping his parents carry on the family’s centuries-old tradition of making ...

Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam, Aug. 16, 1966: The An Thoi Nuoc Mam factory. The factory was just a thatch covered hut with a row of four vats for making Nuoc Mam, better known outside of Vietnam as fish ...

Editor’s note: In 2025, as Vietnam celebrates 80 years of independence and nearly four decades of Renovation, the nation faces a new chapter that demands ambition and institutional reform. Resolution ...

When my family escaped the communist takeover of Vietnam and settled in Southern California in 1975, we gained freedom but lost good fish sauce. There wasn’t a trade agreement between the U.S. and ...

It’s rush-hour on Phu Quoc Island’s Duong Dong River as Cuong Pham’s craft navigates diesel-belching fishing boats coming in from the sea with their overnight catch of anchovies piled high on decks.

Vietnam is home to some 2,030 miles of beautiful coastline and hundreds of islands. But one in particular is well on its way to contending with beach giants such as Phuket or Bali. Phu Quoc, a ...

Reporting from Phu Quoc, Vietnam — There are times, as your plane swoops down over someplace you have longed to visit, you wonder: Did we get here just in time, or are we too late? Thus it was that we ...

DA NANG, Vietnam — Bui Van Phong faced a choice when the Vietnam War ended 50 years ago: Stay in his small village, helping his parents carry on the family's centuries-old tradition of making fish ...