With the biggest public health crisis we’ve confronted this century playing out, it's forced us indoors for the foreseeable future. Governments a
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Lonely Planet guidebooks have been a staple for world travellers since the 1970s. For curious travellers plotting their first trip to Vietnam, bu
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Bureau Bites is a regular “pod-bite” bringing you the latest news from Vietnam and the region. Episode Background When you think of Italy, you
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In our COVID-19 world of social-distancing and uncertainty, here's one thing you can be absolutely certain about – this quality list of Saigon delive
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In this episode of The Bureau Podcast, we're celebrating the first 10 Bureau Bites episodes, our new shortened "pod-bite" series in which we intervie
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Bureau Bites is a regular “pod-bite” bringing you the latest news from Vietnam and the region. Episode Background Vietnam can be quite a perilo
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For now, restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City remain closed due to the government's response to COVID-19. They are, however, permitted to offer pick-up
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Bureau Bites is a regular “pod-bite” bringing you news and stories from Vietnam and the region. Episode Background As of March 25, the Vietname
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Bureau Bites is a regular “pod-bite” bringing you the latest news from Vietnam and the region. Episode Background Singapore has been widely pra
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Bureau Bites is a regular "pod-bite" bringing you the latest news from Vietnam and the region. Episode Background The Australian Government has
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Bureau Bites is a regular "pod-bite" bringing you the latest news from Vietnam and the region. Episode Background Walter Mason is an Australian
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Bureau Bites is a regular "pod-bite" bringing you the latest news from Vietnam and the region. Episode Background The outbreak of COVID-19 worl
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Bureau Bites is a regular "pod-bite" bringing you the latest news from Vietnam and the region. Episode Background The Vietnamese Government has
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In this "sporty" episode on location at much-loved Saigon pub Coolabah, we celebrate International Women's Day with special guest Naomi Skinner
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It’s a dish that probably won’t show up on your feed when you do a search for Vietnamese food. But cơm gà, or chicken rice, is a popular dis
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We don’t pay much respect to tortoises in the West. Besides being smelly and wrinkly, they’re damn slow. In fact, they're the antithesis of what w
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In the 2020 return of The Bureau Podcast, Matt, Mike & Mel get straight into Bureau Bites, a segment in which they tell each other what they've g
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Back in November of 2019, I posted about the much-anticipated opening of Summer Experiment in Ho Chi Minh City, a new garden craft cocktail bar by Ja
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Pop-ups have been a thing for a while now. Last year in Saigon there were plenty. It seemed everyone was “doing a pop-up”. There were Mexican-
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