When Gabriel García Márquez visited Hanoi to see how the capital of Vietnam was faring after the decades-long Vietnam War, he discovered a city that sank into a provincial peace around 6 p.m. every ...

Marek was startled and thought something serious had happened when a Vietnamese colleague asked him out for coffee at 11 p.m. The 33-year-old Briton says: "My colleague explained that coffee was just ...