With almost ninety per cent of its population being the ethnic people, Hà Giang’s food is unique and diverse. Among the well known dishes like thắng cố (simmer horse’s meat and offals), thắng dền (boiled glutinous rice dumplings), grilled alga, one should not miss cháo ấu tẩu, a porridge made by rice, pork bone and ấu tẩu root.

The annual Science Film Festival is bringing 19 science films mostly targeting young people in Việt Nam’s big cities, with screenings beginning this month and running until December 7.

Scholar Huỳnh Thúc Kháng Memorial House in Tiên Phước District  in the central province of Quảng Nam will get a new facelift as a its innovation project will receive a total investment of VNĐ50 billion (US$2,2 million) which has been approved by the provincial People’s Committee.

Vietnamese blockbusters will be shown for free for a month at CGV cinemas nationwide.

A psychology student from Belarus, Aleksandra Chichikova, was chosen Miss Wheelchair World in the first-ever edition of the beauty pageant held in Warsaw.

A permanent exhibition house for Indonesian products opened officially on Monday in Hà Nội.

The final poems of Leonard Cohen, completed days before the legendary songwriter died, will be published in an anthology next year, his estate announced.

A first-of-its-kind festival to promote local tourism, traditional crafts and cuisine took place at a festival in the northern province of Hà Nam and ended yesterday.

The welfare of stray cats and dogs roaming Iraq's capital Baghdad is far from a priority for most residents after years of bloodshed and insecurity.