The only female artisan to have pursued Đông Hồ folk painting in the northern province of Bắc Ninh, Nguyễn Thị Oanh was recently honoured with the title of “Meritorious Artisan” by President Nguyễn Phú Trọng.

Every year, after the harvest is completed or around the end of the Lunar New Year, the Rơ Ngao ethnic minority in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum’s Đăk Hà District celebrate a festival called Nước Giọt (Water Drops).

Đào Huy Hoàng, 28, a graduate of Hà Nội Foreign Trade University, is known as a pioneer in Western calligraphy in Việt Nam. Reporter Thu Ngân talks with Hoàng to find out what inspired him to pursue calligraphy and about the difficulties he faced, as well as his plans for the future.

Belonging to the South Central Coast, Ninh Thuận is known to be the land of “little rain and too much sun and wind”. Long coastal lines with mountain ranges pointing towards the sea make bays with white sands, golden sunlight and jade green sea.

For the first time, renowned poet Nguyễn Quang Thiều hosted a solo exhibition in Hà Nội showing 53 paintings with some metaphors for people’s lives and Vietnamese countryside.

There are plenty of popular dishes on the menu at Ba Mùa, with its talented chefs using fine ingredients and creating decorative presentations that will linger long in the mind.

Never has Trần Lê Hùng imagined that one day he would be recognised as the first Vietnamese riding a motorbike crossing 39 countries and territories around the world in six consecutive months.

Visual mappings are traditionally thought of as large video displays on buildings at major events with huge crowds. Belgium-based company Skullmapping, however, has demonstrated that small scale visual mappings for a smaller group of people can be equally impressive, when unveiling Le Petit Chef an entertaining 3D “mini-mapping” projection concept.

Kira Nguyen, otherwise known as The Hanoi Chamomile, only started blogging two years ago and has been making YouTube videos for just over a year but has amassed a large fanbase who enjoy his inspirational content.