The HCM City metropolitan area, which lies downstream of the Đồng Nai- Sài Gòn river system, is surrounded and traversed by nearly 1,000 kilometres of rivers and canals, which offer enormous potential for waterway tourism.

With daytime temperatures almost always above 30 degrees, and lows never below 20, the site of ice in the middle of Ho Chi Minh City is an understandable draw.

Porridge and soup are popular dishes of Asian and Southeast Asian people and for Vietnamese, it is a daily meal apart from rice.

Việt Nam News introduces you  cháo trai (oyster porridge ), canh atiso hầm giò lợn (atiso- artichoke-- stewed with pig’s trotter) and cháo chay thập cẩm ( plain miscellaneous porridge) from the country’s three regions.

The artichoke is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as a food. The edible portion of the plant consists of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom.

The central city’s education and training department will launch open-air libraries at 102 primary schools for all students and local residents and kids reading free from next month.

British – Norwegian DJ and record producer Alan Walker, producer of mega hit track Faded, will dazzle HCM City’s audiences with a performance at the Revolution Music Festival 2016 next month.

Đà Nẵng’s tourism department will introduce the Sơn Trà Sunset Tour next March, the newest tourism service on top of Sơn Trà Mountain.

Việt Nam National Music, Song and Dance Theatre received a first class labour order at its 65th anniversary ceremony two days ago.

Around the end of November when the rice is ripe for harvest children in the Mekong Delta took to the field to hunt for mice. Sworn enemy of farmers since old age, field mice were nicked name “Mr. Longtail” in some regions of the country.

German singer-composer-producer Thomas Anders, part of the duo Modern Talking, an 80s European pop band, was surprised with the friendliness of Vietnamese people when he arrived in Việt Nam yesterday morning.

German singer-composer-producer Thomas Anders, part of the duo Modern Talking, an 80s European pop band, was surprised with the friendliness of Vietnamese people when he arrived in Việt Nam yesterday morning.

German singer-composer-producer Thomas Anders, part of the duo Modern Talking, an 80s European pop band, was surprised with the friendliness of Vietnamese people when he arrived in Việt Nam yesterday morning.