The Viet Media Monthly - January 2026
Sponsor-exclusive monthly digest, Issue 1: Five in-depth features — Vietnam fraud, Saigon's currency history, teacher pay reform, campus space crunch, and Hanoi's motorcycle ban. 51 pages.
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Vietnam's First Pho Museum Opens: A Century of History in One Bowl
Japan has its ramen museum. Vietnam finally has one for pho.
The Bar You Enter Through a Wardrobe: Tu Bar in Ho Chi Minh City
In a Binh Thanh alley, a wardrobe hides one of Saigon's best speakeasies. No menu, no signage -- just bespoke cocktails and a stuffed bear for solo drinkers.
When a Comedian Picked Up a Camera: One Viet Kieu's Search for Identity
Fred Le grew up in the Bay Area to refugee parents. In 2017, he moved to Vietnam with one question -- why wouldn't his mother go back? His documentary follows 20-plus Viet Kieu seeking answers.
Leaving the West, Returning to Where Their Parents Left: The Viet Kieu Reverse Migration
Every year, 500,000 Vietnamese return from overseas. Some 25,000 choose to stay. Raised in the West, they are going back to the country their parents fled.