Many people in the central province of Quảng Trị may know Trương Đình Dung as a charitable man, but they may not know he's also an accomplished artist.

The Vietnamese film industry is currently enjoying a boom of development, but the industry faces a serious shortage of versatile actors as many casting candidates are young and inexperienced and lack the skills for film.

While the COVID-19 pandemic may mean the Hùng Kings Festival is reduced in scale, important ceremonies will still be carried out.

The two new national treasures – a pair of stone lion statues and a red-lacquered altar trimmed with gold – are expected to help turn the thousand-year-old pagoda into a top tourism destination in the capital.

For nearly a year, whenever Lê Văn Đinh, a motorbike mechanic in the central province of Quảng Trị, receives a report about someone in need of help, he has been dropping everything to rush to the incident to help out as an emergency worker.

Bùi Hồng Ngọc takes a fairytale trip in search of the Aurora in Teriberka, a town poised on the shores of the Barents Sea in the Arctic, which is literally on the edge of the mainland from where it's only water all the way to the North Pole.

Over the past five years, thousands of fishing boats in central Việt Nam have returned to shore safe and sound thanks to weather updates broadcast live from a small radio station.

If you spend the morning exercising in Tao Đàn Park in the centre of HCM City, you may come across an unusual yet inspiring sight: a fit Vietnamese man with one leg practising martial arts. 

On March 18, more than 7,000 people holding Vietnamese passports landed at airports across the country to be quarantined at designated centres amid the COVID-19 outbreak.