Vietnam

The Governor General’s Award–winning author of the novels ’Ru’, ’Mãn’ and now ’Vi’ is still unpacking her own experience: ’In a refugee camp, you live outside of time.’

Viet Thanh Nguyen writes that survivors are most likely to recall the fate of women and children

The author joins an epic expedition through Laos in search of the saola, an animal that is ‘as rare as the rarest thing on Earth’

Packed with haunting, poetic detail, Kim Thúy’s ’Mãn’ is a beautiful read

A child of the Vietnam War, she survived Operation Babylift. In a search for inner peace she was a nanny, Buddhist and dog walker.

What could have happened if the president lived

Canadian doc ’Unclaimed’, premiering this week at Hot Docs, finds a lost American soldier with almost no memory of his past

The former enemies are big trading partners. Could military co-operation be next?

On Mexican drug cartels, movie violence and whether America is getting more pot-positive

As China’s growth raises wages, Cambodians get more business