A couple of years ago an announcement was made by sources close to the Vietnamese leadership (and publicised here to much scepticism) that same-sex marriage was to be legalised in Vietnam - but it seems that the Govt got cold feet and dropped the proposals from the planned reforms of the Vietnamese marriage laws. I even read somewhere that the reforms which DID go through have actually set back the prospect of same-sex marriage insofar as it will be a very long time before the marriage laws are looked at again.

Obviously Bobsaigon is much closer to the situation than most of us - and it seems he sees no sign of anything changing soon.

BTW in Scotland we designate SSM as "Equal Marriage" - which I think is a far better term