Monday Blogcrawl

It must have been the phase of the moon, but for some reason all of my friends in Vietnam decided to contact me last week, and I was overcome with nostalgia and longing. Especially exciting was to hear that Kien has welcomed his baby son into the world - welcome to the Universe baby Khang! So now, let's look at some of the more interesting news from Vietnam, or about things Vietnamese, this past week:

A view of Saigon's Bitexco Tower from the blog SaigonNezumi.com

• Jenni Young has created a beautiful poster using the words of Vietnamese Zen Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh. On further matters Buddhist, the University of Hawaii Press has released a new book on Buddhism and gender in Vietnam. And the Supreme Patriarch of Cambodia visited Vietnam last week.
• Hanoi is angry at Lonely Planet again - over the naming of a sea! In that same vein, Vietnam seems to be wanting to play off India against China to gain a little bit of leverage.Continuing matters nautical, there was a mutiny on a Vietnamese ship anchored off India
• The Phnom Penh Post says that all is not going so well economically in Vietnam
• A group of Vietnamese tourists experienced a horror bus smash while touring Cambodia - many injured, one died
• I missed this riot by parents at a primary school in Hanoi last month
• Voice of Vietnam tells us that Serbia has given some previously unseen photographs of Ho Chi Minh to the Vietnamese people