Jezebel: Vietnam

Mom With Crying Baby Unwisely Uses the Emergency Exit to Get Off the Plane Faster

Cassie Murdoch — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:15:00 EST

There is nothing that makes you more desperate to escape the claustrophobic confines of an airplane than a screaming child. It can certainly feel like an emergency when one is in the vicinity, but one woman in Vietnam got a little carried away with the urgency of the situation. Her child was screaming and she wanted out, so she asked the man next to her to open the emergency exit door, and he did! Luckily, the plane was on the tarmac, not in mid-flight. Instead of making a sassy exit via the inflatable slide—a la that Jet Blue flight attendant a few years back—the mother and her child didn't leave the plane, either because she had second thoughts or because the cabin crew stopped them. It's not clear which. Either way, that must have been a very awkward scene, not to mention it probably took her far longer to deplane than it ever would have to start with. Now the guy who opened the door is the one getting fined $950, and it's going to cost $10,000 to refit the slide. It's true he should have known better, but she'd better chip in since she was the one that asked to make a quick escape in the first place. More »

Mark Zuckerberg's Amazing Race Luxury Vacation Revealed

Sam Biddle — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:00:00 EST

What do you when you have more money than Christ and an appetite for fried foods? You head to Red Vietnam for a getaway replete with lavish meals, private yachts, helicopters, and goat-catching. We have Mark Zuckerberg's exclusive holiday itinerary. More »

Why Don't Asian Women Want To Get Married?

Erin Gloria Ryan — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 12:31:00 EDT

Long have advocates of the traditional family unit bemoaned the death of marriage and long have internet smart alecks made fun of their ridiculous claims that it's being destroyed by gays, divorce, or the Kardashians. While the institution of marriage is changing in America, in Asia, it's sharply growing more and more unpopular, and much of that is due to the choices of women. This has some experts alarmed. More »

Pioneering Photographer's Work Discovered By Lucky Auction-Goer

Jenna Sauers — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:30:00 EST

What we know of the story of Vivian Maier's life and work, and of how 30,000 of her negatives came to be acquired at a Chicago estate auction by a 26-year-old real estate agent and amateur historian, is breathtaking. More »

Mice Made Gay By Genetic Modification

Katy Kelleher — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:44:00 EDT

• Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claim that they have made genetic modifications in female mice that cause them to "reject the advances of their male counterparts and attempt to mate with fellow females." More »

Basket Cases

Anna Holmes — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:10:00 EST

[Hanoi, March 11. Image via Getty]

Just Folks

Anna Holmes — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:15:00 EST

[Bac Ninh, Vietnam; February 26. Image via Getty]

Up In The Air

Anna Holmes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:10:00 EST

[Vientiane, Laos; December 14. Image via Getty]

Seeing Stars

Anna Holmes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:10:00 EST

[Vientiane, Laos; December 2. Image via Getty]

Bicycle Built For Two

Anna Holmes — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:10:00 EDT

[Le Thuy, Vietnam; October 2. Image via Getty]

Dugard Says Daughters Weren't Molested • What Megan Fox & Barack Obama Have In Common

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:30:00 EDT

• Jaycee Dugard says her alleged captor and rapist, Phillip Garrido, didn't touch their two daughters and "hadn't touched her in years," according to law enforcement sources. More »

Burn Survivor Kim Phuc Speaks About Ordeal

Katy Kelleher — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:30:00 EDT

This photograph, of a young, screaming girl running through the streets, her skin burning from napalm, has become one of the most iconic images from the Vietnam War. Recently, the subject of the photo spoke out about her long recovery. More »

Gag-Worthy Guitar Hero Ad Features Hefner • Semenya To Keep Her Gold

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:40:00 EDT

• Ugh. Could someone please explain why Hugh Hefner is appearing in ads for Guitar Hero 5? Does seeing him in his bathrobe, surrounded by pants-less playmates playing air-guitar actually make anyone want to buy the game? • More »

Good Morning, Vietnam

Anna Holmes — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:10:00 EDT

[Hanoi, July 27. Image via Getty]

Roxana Saberi Released From Iran • Transgender Woman's Marriage To Man Nullified

Margaret Hartmann — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:30:00 EDT

• American journalist Roxana Saberi arrived in Austria today and reunited with her parents after being released from prison in Iran. Her jail term was reduced to a two-year suspended sentence. • More »

The Togs Of War

Anna Holmes — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:50:00 EDT

[Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam; May 5. Image via Getty]

Many Egyptian Men Think Women Deserve To Be Harassed

Megan Carpentier — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT

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In a recent survey that could hurt Egypt's tourism industry, two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to harassing women and most of them blame women for wearing tight clothes and not being home by 8 pm. Of course, harassment is defined as everything from hollering at and ogling women to whipping it out and groping (more commonly referred to here as "crimes for which one can be jailed") but, regardless, foreign women and Egyptian women have one thing in common — they don't like it. More »

America has proved once again that its citizens...

Maria — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:45:00 EDT

America has proved once again that its citizens cannot sashay: At yesterday's Miss Universe 2008 pageant, Miss USA, Crystle Stewart, became the second Miss USA contestant in as many years to take a tumble during the eveningwear competition. Stewart, 26, is a motivational speaker from Texas who is currently writing a book and plans to open a character-development school for young children. The pageant's top title went to Miss Venezuela, Dayana Mendoza, who says she is going to use the experience of a recent kidnapping to promote world peace. [CBS News] More »

The U.S. Embassy is accusing Vietnam of...

Jessica G. — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:45:00 EDT

The U.S. Embassy is accusing Vietnam of allowing adoption fraud to thrive, according to a new nine-page report. This document "describes brokers scouring villages for babies, hospitals selling infants whose mothers cannot pay their bills, and a grandmother giving away her grandchild — without telling the child's mother," the AP reports. (Ever since China tightened its adoption laws, there has been a sharp increase in foreign adoptions of Vietnamese babies.) Vietnamese officials deny the allegations, and many American adoption agencies say that they have had mainly good experiences with Vietnamese adoptions. "We are concerned about any unethical practices, but I would not agree that these cases are indicative of adoptions in Vietnam," Susan Cox of Holt International Children's Services told the AP. The U.S. banned Vietnamese adoptions from 2003 to 2006 because of this sort of corruption, and for now, the future of American/Vietnamese adoption is in limbo. [AP via MSNBC] More »

Marie Claire's Vietnam Photo Shoot: Apocalypse Wow

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:00:00 EDT

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Ah, to be a fashion editor at Marie Claire! The photo shoots! So global! Recently, they've been in Bhutan, Italy, and, um, a trailer park. For the April issue, the magazine booked a trip to Vietnam, to shoot spring neutrals. The photographs, by Richard Mazzucco, are absolutely gorgeous, but just a wee bit somber. Well, it is Vietnam, right? On the one hand, arranging a photo shoot there means bringing money into the economy. On the other hand, the average yearly per capita income (around $726) is less than a Donna Karan skirt. Why did the editors pick this location for a shoot? "The simple grandeur of Vietnam's Ha Long Bay seems a fitting backdrop to fashion's elegant minimalism: soft-edge architectural shapes in textured silks and barely there colors. Very zen." Dreamy images of rocks, water and a $1,900 skirt, after the jump. More »

Ratatouille!

Moe — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:45:00 EST

Here are a few recipes you won't find in Martha Stewart Living! Sauteed rat with spring onion and herbs, steamed rat with lemon leaves, and ground rat meat chili! In the wake of bird flu epidemic, the Vietnamese have gotten inventive. Rat costs a third less than pork and tastes "delicious," according to somebody who tried it. The widening income gap is another trend to blame for this: rat's natural predators, cats and snakes, are increasingly being eaten up by the nation's fancy classes. [WSJ] More »

Note to actress Hoang Thuy Linh: next time,...

Jessica G. — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:30:00 EDT

Note to actress Hoang Thuy Linh: next time, you should keep the sex tape. The popular VietnameseTV star has been nationally reviled ever since a 16-minute tape featuring her getting randy with her ex-boyfriend hit the internet. Her show, Vang Anh's Diaries, in which Linh "portrayed an earnest high school girl, modern and stylish but determined to uphold the traditional [chaste] virtues," has been canceled. But unlike Rick Salomon, who made millions off of his 1 Night in Paris, the college students who distributed the video could face charges of "spreading depraved cultural items." [NY Times ] More »

Paris Hilton: The Kim Phuc Of 2007

Anna Holmes — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:04:32 EDT

You just can't make this shit up. (Well, if we could make this shit up, maybe bloggers would still be getting book deals!) Anyway we have just learned that the photographer responsible for what may well turn out to be one of the most iconic images of 2007 (above).**UPDATE BELOW
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