Việt Nam News

For the past 21 years, each month a Japanese man spends some two weeks in Lô Lô Chải, a remote village in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang, becoming a familiar friend to many members of the Lô Lô ethnic minority group.

Maybe what you like is not really all that you need. It’s an intuition that makes perfect sense in almost any context: candy and alcohol are great, but too much of either is sure to lead to ruin. But in the digital space, it seems like an inviolable rule: give the user whatever they like.

A foreign man in a traditional Vietnamese long dress drawing calligraphy at a recent Spring Calligraphy Festival in the Literature Temple in downtown Hà Nội attracted many visitors.

The incorporation of voice technology would further enhance this experience, allowing for real-time translations during phone conversations.

Lunar New Year, or Tết, is Việt Nam's biggest holiday and an integral part of Vietnamese culture. It is a time of joy and celebration when people come together with their loved ones to celebrate the start of a new year.

Working and living in Việt Nam for 3 years, he may be the same expat as thousands of others.

This is a letter Việt Nam News received from a reader regarding MobiFone's service outage in HCM City on January 4. MobiFone services were resumed later that day. 

The 36-year-old is very tall and thin with a friendly smile. He has been a wild animal rescuer in Việt Nam for nearly eight years.

Many of these dishes can be hard to find in Việt Nam, but none amount to the biggest thing missing from Christmas dinner – family.

Tomkins has been renting the top floor of an old villa on Hà Nội's Đội Cấn Street for the past few years, and she probably never expected that her Vietnamese landlord's bàn thờ (altar for ancestor worship) would become an unexpected source of inspiration.

When Việt Nam began cautiously reopening before the deadly fourth wave of COVID-19 had completely subsided around a year ago, many met the news with scepticism and worry.

Embarking on their journey since Tết (Lunar New Year), Maxime Godin-Murphy’s family have set foot in nearly 30 localities of Việt Nam, 10 countries in Europe and just finished a short visit to his family in Canada.

Days ahead of Thanksgiving, Hà Nội will see its first-ever international flag football tournament this weekend, as the Hanoi Turkey Bowl kicks off.

Dunks, three-point shots and blocks, these will be the things that basketball fans remember most about Alonzo Stafford of the Saigon Heat after his first impressive season in the VBA in 2022.

In 2020, just 5.7 per cent of Vietnamese households owned a car. Asia Perspective predicts that the number will reach 9 per cent by 2025, and a whopping 30 per cent by 2030, equivalent to the current level of India and the Philippines.

Alex Ward and Geneva Marcelino are running cafes that work with local animal rescue shelters to help stray dogs and cats find their new homes.

'Digital nomads' are people with jobs that are entirely remote and can be done from anywhere in the world.

Many foreigners have enjoyed diverse landscapes, authentic local food, endless love, eternal friendship, and favourable investment environment in Việt Nam.