Việt Nam News

Việt Nam has with the Covid-19 response shown an impressive determination to proactively protect community health through early detection and testing, contact tracing, quarantine, closure of schools and social distancing. What if this determination could also be applied for other public health challenges in Việt Nam?

A TV show featuring famous theatre actors and their daily activities during Covid-19 has been released on the HCM City Television.  

Kà Tum, in Khmer language means “pomegranate” or "wrapped inside", is a kind of dumpling wrapped by leaves of thốt nốt (Asian palmyra palm) that looks like pomegranate fruit.

Singer Đặng Mai Phương has become the second Vietnamese singer to be named in Billboard chart with her performance of the original sound track for Trưng Vương (She-Kings) cinematic project. The US prestigious music magazine magazine has also featured a story about Việt Nam’s viral handwashing song, Washing Hand Song, by Vietnamese composer Khắc Hưng.

Egg is a nutritious kind of food that is popular in daily diets. Yet, not many people know that egg is also a useful material for nurturing skin, which helps bring along bright, smooth and shiny skin.

Tourists can now visit many tourist destinations which have re-opened since last weekend after the social distancing regulations have been eased.

Mai came to Việt Nam in October 2018 under a two-year volunteer programme carried out by the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) since 1995.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ’s People’s Committee has developed a project to promote a reading culture in the community. 

There have been 26 antiques stolen in four communal houses and pagodas in Hà Nội during the past one month.

Popular tourist destinations across the country have reopened following the relaxation of the social distancing period and are expected to receive a large number of domestic tourists for the Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day (May 1) holidays.

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế’s Department of Tourism is implementing a variety of measures to overcome the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for the recovery of tourism in the province.

A four-volume series titled Nhật Ký Thời Chiến Việt Nam (Wartime Diaries) has been released by the Writers' Association Publishing House and Quỹ Mãi Mãi Tuổi 20 (Forever Twenty Fund) to mark the 45th Liberation and Reunification Day on April 30.

As social distancing has kept people at home, many have discovered long-forgotten cooking skills.

No matter where you are, now you can understand clearly about the national resistance against the US in 1975, the liberation of the South and the national unification thanks to a virtual exhibition provided by the Thăng Long – Hà Nội Heritage Conservation Centre.

HCM City this week will re-open Book Street and launch an exhibition on the Great Spring Victory of 1975.

Pick up a copy of Sunday Việt Nam News double issue April 26 and May 3 for your own flag.