Becoming a tourist in the city you call home

My Dad is coming to visit Hà Nội next month, and it got me thinking about all the things I still haven't done in this city. Despite living here for years, there are still so many 'tourist' attractions I haven't been to.

Japanese man gives his love to Hà Giang

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.

Sweden-born Chinese brings AI-driven social apps to Việt Nam's Gen Z

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.

Irish artist exposes her innermost stories in Hà Nội exhibition

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.

Canadian-Vietnamese family travels the world

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.

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