Hundreds of women from ethnic minority groups benefit from a project entitled Developing the Value Chain for Ramie by Women in Văn Bàn District, carried out in ten communes by the local women’s union, the An Phước Textile Company, and the GREAT (Gender Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism) Program supported by the Australian Government.
Along with a passion for teaching and a love of children, an ethnic Ba Na teacher in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has another enduring interest: fashion design.
Among 10 people praised as outstanding young exemplars in Việt Nam in 2020, the youngest face belonged to a high school student in Hà Nội.
In an effort to proactively present Vietnamese literature to foreign readers, Hà Nội Publishing House has recently released a bilingual Vietnamese-English anthology of short stories: A Rainy Night in the City (Một đêm mưa trong thành phố).
At the age of 16 Nguyễn Thiên Ngân has championed the national chess tournament after winning two world gold medals. The rising star wants to grab more success in the future
Domestic tourism will continue to be the “lifesaver” of the green economy in 2021, experts have said.
Under the skilled hands of artist Nguyễn Thị Hương Thủy, balls of clay became beautiful flowers right before your eyes. Beyond her clay flowers and flower pots, she also creates 3D flower paintings that are sophisticated and impressively realistic.
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.
