A rare 850 gramme white truffle was auctioned for 85,000 euros (US$96,000) in the Italian region of Alba on Sunday, with the anonymous Hong Kong buyer paying nearly 30 times this year's market price for smaller nuggets.

Have you ever wondered why your seemingly robust child suddenly gets frequently ill upon starting school? This is because the classroom is a perfect breeding ground for infective organism to flourish.

Vietnamese-American director Victor Vũ is working on his latest film on love, Mắt Biếc (Blue Eyes), together with his staff in HCM City.

Robert Lehrbaumer, one of the most important Austrian musician in the international concert scene, will perform in Hà Nội and HCM City on November 13 and 15, respectively.

Researchers and agencies are planning to restore two bomb shelters in Hà Nội’s Thăng Long Imperial Complex. The sites, used during the American war, will then be open to the public.

Many stakeholders, enterprises and managers gathered at a conference on building culture for enterprises held in Hà Nội on Friday by Người Hà Nội (Hanoians) Newspaper.

With a new cable car to open at its most famous tourist site, the riverside city of Châu Đốc is poised to become an important spiritual and cultural destination in the Mekong Delta. Ngọc Diệp reports.

 First prize of the Young Francophones Reporters – Việt Nam 2018—a writing contest in French language held by Le Courrier du Vietnam (CVN) a weekly French language newspaper under Vietnam News Agency, was awarded yesterday to Đào Phương Loan, a student from the Hà Nội University.