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Ho Chi Minh City

At The Tips Of Your Fingers

Ho Chi Minh City: customised nails
Today her finger nail is a means of expression, decoration, drawing attention. Finger nail decoration machines already exist to allow a customer to choose a design, …



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04 Mar 2010

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Shall We Overcome

14 Apr 2008

In: Cultural Norms
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Want to know to what extent your multi-cultural colleagues really get on with one another? Consider for a moment whom they hang out with over …
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Signing Off

31 Dec 2005

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Sitting on the flight back home, the lights are off in the cabin and like most of the passengers K is dozing in the seat …
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A Driver Refuels

30 Dec 2005

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Bottle on a Brick

30 Dec 2005

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One of the purest forms of stripped down design I’ve come across. A petrol station is: a container of liquid, ideally at a height that …
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Roof Tales

30 Dec 2005

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Take a look over Ho Chi Minh City – the raised bridges make for a particularly fine viewing platform, and you’ll see row after row …
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Clues To What Goes On Inside

30 Dec 2005

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Start the day at 6am and cruise the city with motorbike driver looking trying to understand how the city wakes up. Yes, it is little …
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What You See, When You’re Looking Up

24 Dec 2005

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I’m standing in a doorway and looking out on the street – this neighbourhood is getting a side-swipe from a typhoon that’s seriously ravaging more …
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