Mark Barnes

With lock down lifted in Vietnam, life is just about back to normal in Hanoi. Public gatherings are once agai…

Editor's note: Mark Barnes is a freelance journalist currently based in Hanoi, Vietnam. In this piece sent to…

In a cinema in Ho Chi Minh City, on a business trip six months ago, Simon James and Ngan Nguyen's romantic re…

Editor's note: Mark Barnes is a freelance journalist currently based in Hanoi, Vietnam. He sent this piece to…

When schools were given the all-clear to reopen at the end of April, it was clear that there would be a suppl…

It's just after 11:00 pm in Hanoi's Old Quarter. The steady rhythm of plastic being stacked on plastic, of ch…

The blue and yellow logo of the Vietnam Post building basks peacefully in the glow of the slowly lowering Sun…

The Hanoitimes - A look into the stand-up comedy space in Hanoi.... Short stools have been scattered haphazar…

It's just after 11:00 pm in Hanoi's Old Quarter. The steady rhythm of plastic being stacked on plastic, of ch…

It's just after 11:00 pm in Hanoi's Old Quarter. The steady rhythm of plastic being stacked on plastic, of ch…

The Hanoitimes - A look into the stand-up comedy space in Hanoi. Short stools have been scattered haphazardly…

AFTER two months of lockdown to contain a surge in coronavirus cases, the Vietnamese capital Hanoi is continu…

Fifty years ago this month, the citizens of Ho Chi Minh City were watching the skies as US military helicopte…

Last week, the Government of Vietnam issued a Decision significantly revising the Power Development Plan 8 (P…