I get regular emails from our readers asking questions about Vietnam Visa. So I thought I should write a post hoping to help. I must state upfront that I’m not writing from experience. I’m a Singaporean and by default we get 30 days free entry into Vietnam. Still, I did a little research and these are some general information about getting a Vietnam Visa…

A rough guide on the general patterns of the weather in Vietnam. Do not take this as a bible. With all the global warming, if anyone says he can give you a definitive weather forecast, he is pulling a fast one…

If you are wondering about the big deal with the Vietnamese New Year, or Tet, it is the most important and biggest holiday and festival in Vietnam. You see, for us Asian, many of our culture and customs are based on the Lunar Calendar. And Tet, aka Lunar New Year, falls on the very first day of that calendar…

2 useful Vietnam websites to recommend…

Vietnam720: Jon from Connections Vietnam gives us a break down on how to apply for a Vietnam work permit. As you’ll learn later from Jon, for a long time, staying in Vietnam was never an issue. One just needs to pay to get a tourist visa for up to 6 months at a time. But thanks to those foreigners conducting vices here (drugs, prostitution, counterfeiting…), the Vietnamese government recently got serious cracking downing on issuing visa on the go. Instead, one will need a proper work permit in order to work in Vietnam. And for those looking to live for long in Vietnam, there’s the temporary and permanent residence card which I’ll cover later on…

Vietnam pictures of Vietnam sleeping beauties One culture of Vietnam is that the Vietnamese can almost sleep anywhere…

Thought for quite some time about what I should write for the 1st post of 2010 and then came out with this idea of sharing about Vietnam720 and the ‘boy’ behind it…

Photo slideshow of Vietnam race queen taken at the Vietnam Motor Show 2009 at the Saigon Exhibition Convention Centre. Many pictures of beautiful and hot Vietnamese girls here…

Christmas, although not a public holiday in Vietnam, is widely celebrated in the major cities particularly in Saigon. Vietnam is predominantly a Buddhist country but come Christmas, its young Vietnamese population paints the town red and green (Christmas theme ). Christmas in Vietnam is a major festival and the Vietnamese people celebrate it with equal enthusiasm as of the New Year.

There are at least more than 10 websites on Vietnam news that you can find online. The 3 below are the ones I’ve counted on over the years to get my dose on the happenings in Vietnam and thought I’d share with you guys. When I googled ‘Vietnam news’ for fun just before writing this article, to my delight, the 3 websites I’m about to share are on the top 5 search list. This shows that they are the most popular and thus means that we are on the right track…