Vietnam Travel Blog

Travel blogs: A one-way ticket to smugsville?
You've finally booked that trip of your dreams and you're about to embark on an exciting new adventure. How better to let friends and family know you're safe – as well as making them just a teeny bit jealous – than by sharing your exploits via a travel blog? From the gap-year student who wants to appease her worried parents while she's backpacking around Vietnam to the enterprising ex-cubicle ...

Dr. Caroline Cicero: Lessons In Healing: Vietnam Vets Find Solace Through "Soldier's Heart"
The Vietnam War, however, was not only a defining moment in baby boomers' coming-of-age process. Forty years later, the war is still part of many boomers' psyches as they face older age.

Amazon Kindle 3 3G International Coverage – US vs International model
In my article Amazon Kindle 3G-The Perfect Travel Companion, I talked about how useful I found my 3G Kindle while travelling overseas. One of the comments left on that article pointed to a blog that said that Vietnam was one of the only places that the author couldn’t get any 3G signal. This confused the heck [...]

Taste Awards salute the best in food media
A food travel show that follows three chefs who quit their jobs to travel Southeast Asia was named the best food travel series on the web at an awards show that honors the best in food, fashion and home lifestyle programs on TV and online.

George Lewis retires after 42 years with NBC News
What a career! NBC News correspondent George Lewis has covered everything from the Vietnam War to the O.J. Simpson trials. He retires today from NBC News after 42 years.

Earth Station: The Afterlife of Technology at the End of the World
The Jamesburg Earth Station is a massive satellite receiver in a remote valley in California. It played a central role in satellite communications for three decades, but had been forgotten until the current ...

Why the U.S. Government Won't Protect Us From Toxic Chemicals In Our Food Supply
In 1985, “We are the World” won song of the year,  The Goonies  and  Back to the Future  lit up the silver screen, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it would assess the health risks of dioxins . “We are the World” hasn’t hit the airwaves in years, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a child today who is familiar with beloved 1980s flicks. Yet 27 years later, Americans ...

Cigna-TTK JV Details Announced - Analyst Blog
U.S.health insurer, CIGNA Corp. ( CI ) recently announced the details of its joint venture with the TTK Group of India. The formal announcement of the deal was made in November, 2011

Professor documents cancer battle in online videos
At first, David Oliver ignored the bump on his neck that he noticed while shaving. The medical school professor assumed it was calcified scar tissue from a previous surgery.

Defunct Pan Am alive, well in hearts of former employees
Pan Am may have gone belly-up 20 years ago, but it's still soaring high in the hearts – and on the television sets – of its former employees.