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(Vietnam Tourism Review) - Red or white?” is normally the question when it comes to wine. But for Nguyen Van Moi, there was only one choice - a hybrid green called NH01-48. Neither a famous vintage nor a label to impress, Mr Van Moi was not ordering a bottle in a restaurant: he was choosing a grape to grow in 1,000 square meters of family land. Even so, not everyone approved.

(Vietnam Tourism Review) - Chocolate soothes, comforts, tantalizes. It can maintain well-being, reduce stress, calm children, and counteract depression. Mountaineers save their last piece of chocolate to celebrate reaching new heights; suitors give it to show the depth of their devotion. It has even been used as a currency. All of which makes Lam The Cuong very glad he looked after the...

(Vietnam Tourism Review) - Better late than never” might be a mantra for Huynh Ngoc An. Now 64, this Phu Yen farmer has spent his entire life working the emerald fields of Ngoc Lang, a village just outside the eastern city of Tuy Hoa. He’s still there, but three years ago he was one of six vegetable growers in the area selected to take part in a pilot community tourism project. In...

(Vietnam Tourism Review) - Never has the phrase “Out of disaster comes opportunity” seemed more appropriate. Nguyen Chau A was sitting on the roof of his family home in Phong Nha in Quang Binh province, surrounded by a vast expanse of water. An historic flood had swept away most of the houses and property of the neighbourhood. It left an indelible mark on him as he recalls:...