Việt Nam News

The local ethnic Mông in Hang Kia and Pà Cò Communes have made substantial contributions to protecting the environment and preserving the natural surroundings, maintaining resources associated with the development of sustainable eco-tourism.

Visitors to the northern province of Điện Biên might be impressed by the colourful traditional costumes of Xạ Phang ethnic people, particularly their sophisticated embroidery shoes.

Due to a long period of closure for pandemic prevention and anti-contamination, tourism industry’s corporates’ financial resources have run low, and more than ever, they need assistance from different sources to recover and revive to become the spearhead economic sector once again.

Karate fighter Nguyễn Thị Ngoan won her fight against depression and stress to return to national team. She will vie for a gold medal at the coming SEA Games on hometurf

Young artists in traditional music and theatre are working to develop and promote their art among young audiences in HCM City. 

There is no limit for creativity and no disadvantage could prevent you from being creative - Triệu Hồng Hồ Em from Chợ Mới District in the southern province of An Giang is the typical example of that saying.

Excellent Singer Lê Đại Năm, a Sán Dìu man in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc’s Tam Đảo District, has vowed to “light a fire” among the young in his homeland to study, preserve, and promote the values of the minority’s origins.

Aficionados of Hà Nội who love and care about Việt Nam’s age-old architecture have been enthralled over the last week after hearing of a beautifully-preserved mansion in the capital’s Ngọc Hà Village.

Hội An local Võ Tấn Tân and his craftsmen created the Taboo Bamboo Workshop in the middle of the Cẩm Thanh nipa palm forest as a sustainable bamboo craft and preservation centre in the ancient town in central Việt Nam.

With colours as words and patterns as symbols, Chăm artisans in the Mekong Delta province have been passionately creating stories through weaving.

Hà My Yoga was founded by Lê Hà My, a yoga teacher that specialises in beginners. Currently, despite being based in Sweden, she continues to teach Vietnamese students yoga with her archive of videos. She also writes and shares a lot on using props to assist in yoga, and plans to publish a book soon. 

HCM City has a great deal of historical value related to the wars of resistance against the French and Americans to offer interest to tourists as well as locals. One of the most fascinating destinations is Củ Chi guerrilla warfare tunnels, located about 70km from downtown HCM City.

The Huỳnh Long Tuồng Troupe, one of HCM City’s private theatres, is working to introduce young people to tuồng or hát bội (classical drama), a Vietnamese traditional theatre genre that originated in the 12th century. 

Hưng Học traditional craft village of making fishing gear in Nam Hòa Ward, Quảng Yên Town, Quảng Ninh Province is hundreds of years old with famous durable and beautiful products made from bamboo, neohouzeaua from the old forests in the province.

At any number of social and cultural events around Việt Nam, especially traditional festivals, drums feature as the centrepiece of almost all activities.

The idea of giving seashells a second life first came to Trần Thị Ngọc Hiếu after she had a bloody experience one day on a beach, when a rather sharp shell pierced the skin on the sole of her foot.

Vietnamese lacquer painting, or sơn mài, has become a precious and unique artistic craft over the course of thousands of years. Its global reputation is to be fostered now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has officially approved a project on building and publicising a national brand for Vietnamese lacquer art by 2030.

Most people in their 80s are retired and enjoying days of leisure with their family or pursuing interests and hobbies, but Huỳnh Thị Phương Liên, a professor and researcher at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology (NIHE),ý is still deeply involved in researching and recording materials for vaccinations.