Hưng Yên - a sleeping beauty waiting to awaken

Tourism creates thousands of jobs and helps drive the economic and social development of the country. For some provinces like Hưng Yên, leaders are focusing on forming policies to boost the sector's growth. An Vũ reports. 

Follow the charm of delightful tea

Despites having won nine international awards for his tea, Nguyễn Cao Sơn still wants to work harder to preserve the Vietnamese tea culture and tell the world about the tradition. Bùi Quỳnh Hoa reports

Traditional theatres hunt for new talent

Traditional art theatres in HCM City are facing a shortage of artists and musicians, which has made it tough for the members of each theatre to keep up with their performance schedules.  

Vietnamese woman fights HIV and stigma

More than 16 years have passed since Trần Thị Chuẩn, a mother of three from the southern Long An Province, got the horrible news. Doctors told her that she had been infected with HIV.

Clearing the country of bombs, bit by bit

There are an estimated 800,000 tonnes of unexploded bombs in Việt Nam, with 9,200 communes contaminated by ordnance, accounting for 21 per cent the country's area

Roots of modern writing system emerge

The defunct Thanh Chiêm Palace (1602-1883) is seen as a cradle of romanised Vietnamese script, and the place was linked with Portuguese missionary Francisco de Pina (1585-1625) – the founder of the modern writing system of the Vietnamese language – and then his student French missionary Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660).

Get down and groove to the Third Dimension!

The holiday season is all about gatherings with friends and family. To have fun and make the best of the festive season, many residents in HCM City are increasingly taking part in Virtual Reality (VR) gaming. 

Singers skyrocket to fame with creative mix of styles

Vietnamese singers are proving you don't have to be a well-established top act to take a generation by storm. One hit song performed in a new style like rap combined with contemporary folk can propel virtual unknowns to stardom.

The one who makes the world a better place

On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Viet Nam People’s Army on December 22, Bui Quynh Hoa goes to experience a hard working day at the Central Military Hospital 108’s Centre for Craniofacial and Plastic Surgery to understand more about the army doctors’ intelligence and devotion.

Epizode offers a party with a conscience

Running from December 27 this year until January 7, 2020, the music and arts festival is returning for its fourth consecutive year to Phu Quoc Island in southern Viet Nam’s Kien Giang Province.

Palaeontology museum unearths Central Highlands history

Hoàng Thành, a man from Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk's Buôn Ma Thuột City, has spent decades collecting fossils and is known among archaeologists nationwide as the owner of the largest private museum of palaeontology.

Bronze casting village strikes the right note

The ancient Catholic village of Kiên Lao in Nam Định Province is well known for its bronze casting. Nowadays, it also produces machinery for construction projects across the country.

Striker Yến breaks the mould

At the 2019 AFF Women's Championship, Phạm Hải Yến contributed six goals to help Việt Nam clinch their third AFF title.

Preserving folk singing with drums

The art of folk singing alongside drums, hát trống quân in Vietnamese, started in Bùi Xá Village, in today’s Thuận Thành District, the northern province of Bắc Ninh, in the 13th century, but locals still practise the art.

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