Tourism in Quảng Ninh Province is showing signs of recovery after a long period of closure to control the Covid-19 pandemic. The creativity of businesses in renewing tourism services as well as the effective disease control of local authorities are “levers” to help the province revive in the new normal situation.
The distinguished architecture of the Quảng Ninh Museum and Library complex has proved a popular draw for visitors of all ages in the northern province. Now that Quảng Ninh has reopened to tourists it is among the places most worth exploring.
Fashion designer Nguyễn Minh Công has turned different kinds of traditional cakes in the Mekong Delta region into fashion designs out of his love for his hometown cuisine.
Children in many provinces and cities are going through lonely days due to studying online and not being able to hang out with friends for a long time. To create fun while at home, many parents have hatched duck eggs so that their children have special pets to keep them company.
Young artists in HCM City are being encouraged to take part in courses in performance skills offered by private drama troupes and traditional theatres to meet industry needs.
Born and raised in Hà Nội, Lương Thanh Hạnh, 34, started her career as an interior decoration designer, but a love of nature-based traditional silk lured her into an adventure to revive an obscure almost defunct silk village in the northern province of Thái Bình.
Sedge bags made in Tống Vũ Village in the northern province of Thái Bình have been favoured among Vietnamese with a green lifestyle in recent years.
The small road leading to Đa Sỹ forging village is winding. From afar, the sound of anvils and hammers can be heard.
Newly built replicas of relic sites and landscapes at the Trần Mai Ninh Secondary School are making history and geography classes more vivid for junior students in the central province of Thanh Hoá.
Đồng Tháp Mười (Plain of Reeds) region in the Mekong Delta is just hitting the peak of flooding season, a time for the southern province of Long An to show off the charming natural beauty of its vast wetland areas.
After spending hours teaching online, due to the pandemic, Ngô Minh Khôi uses his free time for creating pictures on small stones and glass bottles. He now has a particularly deep passion for mandala painting, which surprises many.
In a small house in the port city of Hải Phòng, a middle-aged woman is meticulously creating petals from a recycled plastic bag to gradually create a flower painting made entirely from recycled materials.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic and lengthy lockdowns putting a huge strain on access to many of the capital’s key cultural sites, the use of advanced online technologies has enabled many of them to flourish.
The classical Vietnamese theatre form tuồng has faced difficulties in broadening its appeal to the general public, particularly the young, but this could be changing thanks to a series of programmes created by the Việt Nam Tuồng Theatre.
Faced by the tests of time and the import of other martial arts such as taekwondo, karate and MMA, Võ Bình Định is still growing, not only as a sport, but as an art form and a valuable aspect of Bình Định and Việt Nam's culture
The coronavirus pandemic has caused much trouble for co-operatives in the northern province of Lào Cai. Among a total of 431 local co-operatives, 310 are still in operation while 121 have ceased their operation and await dissolution.
In the context of globalisation and increasing economic development, Viêt Nam is looking to develop its cultural industries as a strategic asset for diplomatic and international cooperation, which help showcase the country's identity.
Đỗ Đức Hải, 29, manipulates the cubes to create famous faces and even landscapes as works of art. One picture alone contains more than 500 Rubik's cubes.
Quảng Ninh Province is one of the localities that have well-controlled the pandemic, with almost no cases of COVID-19 infection in the past 3 months. With many solutions to catch up with the “new normal”, it is gradually recovering its tourism industry by domestic travellers a focus.
For many Vietnamese, autumn is the most beautiful season of the year because of its weather and views. And it is even more so in Bình Liêu, Quảng Ninh Province, which is well known for its hills of ravishing white reeds.
