From street-food dining to travelling by motorbike — here’s what first-time visitors to Vietnam need to know when trip planning.

Offroad Vietnam (84-9-1304-7509; offroadvietnam.com) has eight-day custom motorbike trips around the northern highlands, including Ha Giang, from $880 to $1,120 depending on the quality of ...

But the fact that it’s only a fine, I think, tells you what you need to know about Vietnam’s situation in regards to having a license. In terms of actually driving the Loop, it’s not easy to do, but ...

In terms of when to visit Hanoi, guidance is similar for most of Northern Vietnam. You’ll want to target between April to June or September to December. That way, you'll avoid the overbearing summer ...

Northern Vietnam was already growing then, in a country that lifted 40 million people out of poverty from 1993 to 2014. But American tariffs became an economic accelerant — lighter fluid poured ...