View YouTube video/music/narrative version (tap image below). (Approx. 3 min.) Video Fitzroy Mountain, seen in the first...

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTRd5f9Q2g&t=80s My path courses along the edges of the battle(s), like that of a war correspondent. I...

I hope to present my blogs in a more personal way going forward, so as to make it a little more interactive and entertaining. Links will...

I expected the Mekong River jungle to be relatively silent. But it is not. In a humid, green undergrowth, I stride to the sound of...

"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never...

Ho Chi Minh City used to be Saigon. Gone is Saigon, but welcome to Uncle Ho’s acquired real estate. French and American flavors of...

(Hue, Vietnam, part 2) Emperors and gods are sometimes (usually!) indistinguishable. In Asia, and especially looming China, central...

The Perfume River (Sông Hương or Hương Giang; 香江) crosses the city of Huế, in the central Vietnamese province of Thừa Thiên-Huế Province....

I’ve spent a night on Halong Bay, on the coast of North Vietnam, twice. Both times, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience — (1) hauling...

It is finally time to leave Hanoi, the city, for a gambit in the countryside. But it takes time, as the metropolis is far-flung, hanging...

Vietnam today is, of course, a different place than in the previous century. Changes have been significant in government,...

At one time, in the last century, Americans dabbed charcoal-tinted war paint on their faces and attempted to subdue a combined imperial...

I have always wanted to ask a puppet, in private, what it is like to be enslaved and forced to do its master’s bidding, subject to being...

Hanoi (Ha Noi, “river’s inner”) is a large sprawling beehive(s) of activity, spotted with large construction projects and relentless...

Edgar Boshart - Yesterday the National Press Club (Washington DC) invited staff and journalists to a moment of silence and contemplation...

I visited North Vietnam the first time roughly 10 years ago. The country then had already moved on from the previous century of...

“The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks seaward.” James Lee’s Wife (1864, pt 3 st.1), Robert Browning Before Autumn...

I have returned from an enlightening journey to Vietnam and Cambodia. Neither country is free from the taint of political and corporate...

Tomorrow I leave for another visit to Vietnam and Cambodia for a couple of weeks. It has been 10 years since I was in these two...

The occasional Capitol Scooper by Ed Boshart The Hudson Institute (Washington DC) in August scheduled a series of panel discussions...