1.   ...green-shuttered colonial villas.

2.   Around Dong Khoi and Ly Tu Trong, grand colonial villas of yellow ocher emerge in decayed grandeur like wrecks of a long-lost past.

3.   At the foot of the hill is a French colonial villa by the river, once a royal palace and now the Royal Palace Museum.

4.   He shows me the colonial villa, still being used for community purposes, where he was giving French classes.

5.   The colonial villas are hung with the red banners and slogans of the Communist regime.

6.   And the yellow stucco of French colonial villas blends with the green of palms and tamarind trees.

7.   Cheaply constructed hotels have sprouted among the French colonial villas and tree-shaded streets.

8.   They swam off exclusive beaches and stayed in the tree-cloaked colonial villas built by the foreigners.

9.   Zoning laws, if they existed, were flouted in cities where developers ran roughshod over old Chinatowns, colonial villas and areas of greenery.

10.   The once elegant Dutch colonial villa was trashed during clashes on Saturday when riot police raided the building and forcibly removed supporters of deposed PDI leader Megawati Sukarnoputri.