In his U.S. jail cell, Minh Beo can feel reassured that his problems with the law has not made artists in his namesake theater back home turn their back on him....

Down the Mekong delta, one can see the rivers wind through the peaceful villages surrounded by bamboo. Year after year, these forever-young rivers carry the alluvium to nourish the paddy fields that produce fat rice crops. The people here for many generations have put in long and hard work to......