Several thousand people celebrate the arrival of the Dragon's year in The Saigon river Harbour. Ho Chi Min, Vietnam. 22nd January 2012

File images: Tao Dan Park flowers, bonsai, artistic rocks and the Le Van Tam Park Flower Market are prepared and presented to bring out color in preparation for the Tet Vietnamese New Year. Vietnam. Images taken 19th - 21st January 2012

Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Cornelia Pieper, and Vietnamese Ambassador to Germany, Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh, sign agreement to the 'Intergovernmental agreement on design, construction and operation of the German House in Ho Chi Minh City'.

Photographs taken in the streets of the Old City and Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi City, Vietnam. 09/04/2008

Vietnamese fishermen and their wives sort through the day's catch in a fishing port on the South China Sea. 15/05/2007.

Images made at the Phu My Orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The grounds are home to several hundred children, all with medical disabilities. I spent a lot of time here, both helping the children

In South to North Vietnam there is still evidence of a war that ended 40 years ago, the Vietname War, as one visits the various hospitals. Hospital wards are filled with children and youths still affected by Agent Orange.

Images from a three-week journey in Vietnam. From North, Northeast, Central, and South parts of the country I found a people rich in culture and compassion who have moved on from its war image to embrace a promising future. Hanoi, Vietnam. 30/03/2010

DMTX. A walking tour through Hanoi showing street life and still life, together with French and Chinese influences in Vietnam's capital and Hanoi's own identity. Hanoi, Vietnam. 01/03/2009.

The Sun Princess cruise liner departs Sydney, Australia, on its 25-night voyage to Yokohama, via Darwin, Bali, Benoa, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Xiamen, Kochi, Osaka and Tokyo.