Galerie Quynh is pleased to present The Propeller Group’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Entitled ‘Static Friction’, the exhibition will consist entirely of new works including sculpture, drawing, video, and mixed media collages revolving around motorbike culture.

‘Static Friction’ …

Have you ever wanted to play a game of war against the evil tyranny of colonialism? Well here is your chance. Emobi developer Nguyen Tuan Huy and his team have spent the last two years developing “7554″, a high quality …

From South Africa to Viet Nam… a mythology that rhino horns cure cancer leads to the near extinction of a species……

From yesterday’s article in the BBC:

“It was like a scene from an action movie.

In the morning of 5 January, a team of police and militia was despatched to a farm that belonged to the family of Doan Van Vuon.

Their mission was to force 52-year-old Mr Vuon and his family out and to seize their land, a stretch of marshes along the coast in the northern city of Haiphong.

As they moved in towards the farmhouse, a homemade mine buried in the grass exploded, knocking two policemen off their feet.

From inside, Mr Vuon’s men began firing shotguns at the approaching police, injuring six, including the local district police chief.

Reinforcements were sent in a show of force on a scale that had never been seen before in the city – more than 100 police officers with firearms, sniffer dogs, and minesweepers in bullet-proof gear…”

 
At Water’s Edge // Dau Ngoc – Directed by Do Van Hoang

“Love, history, Viet Nam” doesn’t exactly sum-up this quite complicated little short documentary about a swimming hole along the red river in Hanoi. I’ve heard of this …