“We’re in the wrong place,” I mutter to myself as I wait nervously for Wowy Nguyen to arrive. Surrounded by fresh flowers, potpourri and black and white portraits of Princess Diana and Angelina Jolie, with an acoustic cover of a Taylor Swift song playing in the background, the overtly quaint She Cafe in downtown Saigon…
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A New Spin on the Circus
For some Vietnamese youth, the challenge to escape poverty can be insurmountable. Simon Stanley meets one organisation offering them a future to be proud of. Photo by Vinh Dao. In February of this year, the Asian Social Circus Association (ASCA) announced a five-year plan to improve the lives of 1.5 million underprivileged children across Asia,…
Simon Stanley, Writer 