The HCM City People’s Committee has approved a project to build a new children’s cultural centre in District 5.

Authorities in the former imperial capital city of Huế have banned the construction of high buildings in the territory of its garden houses.

Bái Tử Long National Park in the northern province of Quảng Ninh has been recognised as the 38th ASEAN Heritage Park.

Twenty three artists from the State Dance Ensemble of Belarus will perform in Hà Nội and Lào Cai Province on May 25 & 27.

Vietnamese people have long taken pride in their bánh mì, a dish named as one of the best street foods in the world by CNN (American Cable News Network), and listed in the Oxford English dictionary as ‘a Vietnamese snack consisting of a baguette (traditionally baked with both rice and wheat flour) filled with a variety of ingredients, typically including meat, pickled vegetables and chili sauce’.

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Couleurs d’Asie by Réhahn – Saigon, a new gallery by Hội An-based photographer Réhahn, will open in HCM City on June 1.