Nam Ky Khoi Nghia - Asialife HCMC

editorial
tom dichristopher
Happy birthday to us. It’s
been two years since AsiaLIFE
relaunched in April 2008, and to
mark this milestone, we’ve taken
the next step in our evolution.
Some of the book will remain
familiar. Our front section still
contains Street Smart and
other regulars, but we’ve cleared
room for photo essays, which
appeared for many months in
the back of the book. Our focus
on strong, research-intensive
features remains, and Getaways
and City Bites remain where
they’ve always been.
You’ll find the biggest change
in the following pages. Gone is
the Culture section (The entire
shebang is a lifestyle and culture
publication, right?), and so too have the Sports & Leisure, Health
& Beauty and Family sections given up the ghost. Rest assured
that you’ll continue to see stories that fall under these categories in
AsiaLIFE, but the new format allows us to bring you a more diverse
range of stories.
The Fashion and Living sections have also been replaced by Style
& Design, again, to allow us to cover a wider spectrum of subjects.
Look for expansion in these pages in the coming months. We think
you’ll be excited about what we’ve got on tap.
Looking back for a moment, we’d like to acknowledge the
tremendous amount of feedback we received on Brendan Wenzel’s
illustrations that appeared on last month’s cover and in the feature
section. We’ve literally been inundated with praise for the work.
If you’d like to see more from Brendan, check out his website at
www.brendanwenzel.com.
Back to the present. We hope you enjoy the new format, and we
look forward to bringing you a better publication month after month.
See you in 30 days.
Correction: The credits for last month’s fashion shoot, “Colour
Contrast” were mistakenly omitted. The credits should have read
as follows: Sean Martin, photographer; Nathan Lee, art director;
Trang Tan, model; Crazy Nhok, hair and makeup. Our apologies to
Nathan, Trang and Nhok for the omission.
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john
thornton
John Thornton is a freelance music writer from Nottingham,
U.K. Before moving to HCM City five months
ago, John spent time working in London as a press
officer for Oasis and Muse and regularly volunteered
at Glastonbury Music & Performing Arts Festival as a
correspondent for onsite radio station Worthy FM. John
also freelances as an editor/proofreader at CBRE and
regularly contributes to The Word HCMC, supporting
the city’s live music scene.
fred
wissink
Starting with AsiaLIFE in 2006, Fred Wissink has
worked with the publication from very early on. His
presence at events around town, camera in hand, has
become a staple of the HCMC scene. Fred is always
trying to develop and adopt new styles of photography
in order to help push the creative envelope at AsiaLIFE.