I first met Nguyễn Phương Hải in Hà Nội a month ago when he was holding a class to teach people how to make bánh chưng (square sticky rice cake). The free class attracted a lot of people of all ages who were eager to make their very first bánh chưng.
Nguyễn Tú Anh, co-founder of the Chủ Nhật Yêu Thương (Beloved Sunday) volunteer group in HCM City, together with his fellow volunteers, spends every Sunday purchasing children's books, then classifying, packing and sending them to remote areas.
Maybe not many Vietnamese people know Việt Vũ Đạo, a kind of Vietnamese traditional martial arts), but in France, it is the popular martial arts sect and is known widely in Marseille port city.
Drama troupes in HCM City are focusing on attracting audiences and tourists by staging more musical productions.
The Perfume Pagoda Festival, Việt Nam's oldest, biggest and longest-running festival, has officially been opened but due to the Covid-19 epidemic, the number of visitors has dropped sharply.
Their first clip, inspired by Old Man Hạc, received more than 8.3 million views after just two months, causing '1977 Vlog' to become a viral search keyword on the internet.
This year, the province aims to receive 1.6 million tourists, including 220,000 foreigners, while income from tourism is expected to reach VNĐ800 billion (US$34 million).
Hội An has approved an eco-tour and craft project to promote Kim Bồng carpentry village as a destination in the eco-tour chain of the most popular sites among the garden village of Trà Quế, the nipa palms of Cẩm Thanh Village, and Thanh Hà pottery village.
Màu Tím Hoa Sim (The colour of myrtle flowers) is considered one of the most touching poems composed by poet Hữu Loan (1916-2010). It is a lament dedicated to Loan’s first wife Lê Đỗ Thị Ninh, who drowned in her homeland of Thanh Hóa Province in 1949.
Many major contemporary transport and irrigation system of Việt Nam still retain the imprints of the first Minister of Transport and Public Works of Việt Nam, Đào Trọng Kim (1897 - 1984).
The southern city of Cần Thơ is offering new products and services to help meet the increasing demand of tourists.
A market on the western outskirts of Hà Nội holds a surprise. There is nowhere else in the city you can find fish traps and hundreds of other utensils made of bamboo like Hà Đông Market.
A former defense worker of the A32 Factory belonging to the Air Force , Bùi Xuân Thành has made replicas of fighters since the 1970s and has created thousands of various kinds, many of which have become souvenirs for many veterans, politicians, heads of state and collectors.
Vụn Art is a social enterprise specialising in crafting products from silk debris.
In her role as producer and actress, Vân, known as Veronica Ngô, was instrumental to the success of the last year's martial arts film Hai Phượng (Furie), the highest-grossing Vietnamese movie of all time.
The magnificent province of Ninh Bình, home to winding water flows among beautiful karsts, rice fields and lotus swamps, the natural studio for the blockbuster Kong: Skull Island is now back in the national spotlight.
Việt Nam may be one of the world’s top rice exporters, but its exports have not fetched high prices. That might be about to change: Its ST25 fragrant rice has been recognised as the world’s best. Xuân Hương reports.
Young ice skater Anna Ngô Hoàng Ngân knows it isn't how many times you fall that count, but how many times you can get back up
Craft artisans from the Gò Công Altar Cabinet Village in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang are working hard to meet the increasing number of orders before the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.
Phạm Văn Mang, chairman of Ba Trang Commune’s People’s Committee in the central province of Quảng Ngãi, remembers the radiant faces and smiles of local people when a new bridge spanning the Tha Stream was opened thanks to the Central Highlands Poverty Reduction Project.
