Roundabout on Pham Ngu Lao, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
by Stefan Geens
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Saigon is overwhelmed by motorcycles — on weekdays, waves of them swarm through city streets, navigating past one another in a perilous choreography that never quite manages to end in tragedy. I took this panorama on a Sunday, when the traffic was relatively quiet. Saigon has perhaps 4 million motorcycles and mopeds for a population of 6 million — far more than the number of mobile phones owned by residents.
Ho Chi Minh City boast far more markets than the ones in the guidebooks. I stumbled onto this one whi...
Tao Đàn là công viên trung tâm của Sài Gòn, vào dịp Tết ở đây người ta tổ chức Hội Hoa Xuân, trưng bà...
Chợ Bến Thành nằm ở trung tâm thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, thuộc quận 1. Chợ có bốn cửa thông ra các đường ...
Trụ sở Ủy ban Nhân dân Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh được xây dựng từ năm 1898 đến 1909 do kiến trúc sư Gardè...
Square with Ho Chi Minh's statue in front of Ho Chi Minh City Hall. At night the trees, flags and bui...
Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.
Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?
China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.
Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.
Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.
I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.
The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.
China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.
Text by Steve Smith.
