
Russell Kemp, an ex-captain in the South African Police Service and now a private detective, has teamed up with an ex-detective from the HCMC Police Force named Tran Hai Duong. The two men are on the trail of Gerard Prinsloo, a South African serial killer who is operating in Vietnam. They have finally discovered the location of Prinsloo’s secret hideaway in District 2. They know too that he has gone there with a young Vietnamese woman… By Rob Marsh

Justice is headed to Europe after a blip on the Asian radar. Gotye is zigging Tokyo-wards, while some of his Laneway Festival mates are zagging closer to where their festival circuit ends, in New Zealand and Australia. Snoop Dogg is headed straight back to the US, presumably only led so far afield by rumours of Thai sticks, and — oh yeah! — his first Indian tour ever.

Whether you’re being served a steaming bowl of pho at the Copacabana in Rio De Janeiro, or just grabbing a quick banh mi on the streets of New York City, today you can easily get your Vietnamese fix in most of the world’s major cities. But surprisingly, there are still some places (relatively) nearby where its reach hasn’t quite been felt yet.

Russell Kemp, an ex-captain in the South African police service and now a private detective, has teamed up with an ex-detective from the HCMC police force named Tran Hai Duong. The two men are investigating the murder of a Vietnamese woman by the name of Nguyen Hai Hien. All they know about the killer is that he is South African and that his first name is Gerard…

Neil Suarez has relocated to Ho Chi Minh City in an effort to step up the search for his lost uncle. This month he sits down with Jackie Kehoe to tell his story

Russell Kemp, an ex-captain in the South African Police Service and now a private detective, has teamed up with an ex-detective from the HCMC Police Force named Duong. They are investigating the murder of two Vietnamese women. So far they have managed to establish two things about the killer: he is a westerner and his first name is Gerard…

For those seeking status and the all-important ‘face’ in Vietnam, acquiring the latest iPhone 5 is sometimes worth their life. Words by Derek Milroy. Photo by Nam Quan

Russell Kemp, an ex-captain in the South African police service and now a private detective, has reluctantly come to Vietnam. He has teamed up with an ex-detective from the Ho Chi Minh City police force named Tran Hai Duong in order to investigate the murder of Nguyen Hai Hien. But now another young woman’s body has been found on the banks of the Saigon River…

A Vietnamese environmental studies student believes that animal species going extinct is part of the theory behind Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’, while an Australian wildlife conservationist disagrees. He blames extinction on manmade greed. Follow their heated debate

In our third instalment of serialised original crime fiction by English author Rob Marsh, Russell Kemp, an ex-captain in the South African Police Service and now a private detective, has reluctantly come to Vietnam. He is looking for a girl named Nguyen Hai Hien who has gone missing after leaving Johannesburg with her South African boyfriend. To this end he has enrolled the help of an ex-detective named Tran Hai Duong…