Việt Nam News

With Executive Chef Zack Trương from Pan Pacific Hanoi

Despite many historical ups and downs, local residents still make efforts to preserve the water puppetry art and craft amidst their modern and rapid-paced life, transferring their cultural heritages to younger generations.

Born into a family steeped in chèo (traditional opera) tradition, Ngô Hồng Quang has spent nearly a decade reimagining ethnic minority melodies for international audiences, fusing Mông mouth harp, northern mountain singing styles and Western contemporary music into a soundscape that is unmistakably Vietnamese – and resolutely modern.

It’s a little slice of Armenia, Hà Nội’s first, and only Armenian restaurant.

Once confined to pagodas and religious rituals, the traditional Southern ethnic Khmer pentatonic music is now increasingly finding new spaces for expression, carrying forward a living heritage rooted in spiritual life, communal memory and cultural identity.

Watch tuồng live just once, and your life may never be the same. It captures hearts quietly, then never let go.

With Executive Sous Chef Tống Đăng Khoái from Movenpick Hotel Hanoi Centre

Set against the calm of West Lake, Matsuki Izakaya is made for lingering nights, when one drink leads to another and time slips easily toward 2am.

Trương Thị Ngọc Bích, head of the Dance Performer Department at the Việt Nam Academy of Dance, talks about how ethnic folk dance can be preserved and renewed today.

Spread over more than 1,050 hectares in An Giang Province, the Trà Sư cajuput forest plays a crucial role in safeguarding wetland biodiversity and regulating the ecological balance of the upper Mekong Delta.

Ngũ Hành Sơn, one of Đà Nẵng’s most beloved landscapes, quietly preserves a precious collection of ma nhai (cliff inscriptions) spanning nearly four centuries.

With Bar Manager Vũ Thị Hồng at Pan Pacific Hanoi

Vin Hơi serves chaotic brilliance: seasonal plates, natural wine, and Michelin discipline without the stiffness.

Đắk Lắk Province is strengthening community-based tourism by embracing the distinctive cultural identity of the Central Highlands, with 10 community tourism villages now taking shape as attractive destinations.

Nobuko Otsuki, chief representative of the Japanese Foundation for International Development/Relief (FIDR) in Việt Nam, shares with Việt Nam News her course of giving hands to ethnic communities in the region.

Shaped by rivers, rice fields and communal life, the wet-rice civilisation of the Mekong Delta is facing mounting pressures from climate change and shifting livelihoods, prompting renewed efforts to preserve its distinctive cultural identity while pursuing sustainable development.

With Executive Sous Chef Tống Đăng Khoái from Movenpick Hotel Hanoi Centre.

Việt Nam’s tourism industry surpassed pre-pandemic highs in 2025, welcoming a record 21.5 million international visitors and generating more than $38 billion in revenue, as visa reforms and domestic travel fuelled a broad-based rebound.