In Vietnam’s most populous city, the Park Hyatt Saigon offers a relaxing place to escape the crowds

Few cities in Asia combine such a heady concoction of influences old and new as Hanoi, an enigmatic and strangely romantic city that charms you with its cultivated chaos and unexpected moments of clarity. Stilted pagodas and 11th century totems sit comfortably in the shadow of French colonial buildings and modern high-rise towers; diminutive locals […]

After decades of colonialism, communism, civil war and now rapidly accelerating globalisation, Vietnam today is an emerging market country where the excesses of capitalism have yet to ruin its glorious natural legacy. Forest-covered mountains and verdant rice fields inland are trumped only by a lavish coastline littered with tropical lagoons, dramatic peninsulas and white beaches […]

After ceding to communist rule by the Vietnamese People’s Army in 1975, the city of Saigon was renamed to honour the late leader Ho Chi Minh. Yet it remains Saigon in the popular imagination, and few but officials will call it that today in a city that has shrugged off the effects of civil turmoil […]