Việt Nam News

Bon Niêng Ha Sào is known as an artisan who can carve almost any traditional patterns onto the nêu pole – an important ceremonial item of the Cil ethnic minority group.

The islands of Cù Lao Chàm have a special place in my mind as a pristine paradise. The reality is a little more complex.

Only four months after returning from flight training in the Soviet Union, Capt Đinh Tôn had downed his fourth US aircraft on 16 June 1968.

Nguyễn Quốc Huy from the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng invented a device, which enables farmers to operate their irrigation system with just a message sent from their mobile phone.

Located 30km from Hà Nội, Bắc Ninh Province is renowned not only for its melodious quan họ (love duet) singing, but also for another romantic local hobby: raising homing pigeons.

Painter Lưu Tuyền uses epoxy paint to create amazing pieces of resin art after many years experimenting with this paint.

A few years ago, Cơ Tu villagers in Nam Giang District could not imagine that their community's daily activities could bring them a significant income source. By sharing their rice preparation, rattan knitting, cooking, singing and dancing with tourists, they make money while preserving traditions. Hồng Minh reports.

The circle of professional photographers in Việt Nam have nicknamed him “a man of forest”. Tăng A Pẩu spends two to three days a week in forests, photographing the trees and the animals who make them their home.

Hidden away just short moped ride from downtown Hà Nội is a place of peace. Bắc Cầu Street just across Long Biên Bridge is where artists meet, paint and in some cases live.

It is easy to “get lost” in the many attractions that the largest city in the Philippines offers, discovers Xuân Hương.

24-year-old Trần Thế Tuấn is cycling across Việt Nam calling for donation to the Wheel of Love charity programme, which will offer scholarships to disadvantaged students in the provinces he cycles through.

In the last few years, more Sarus cranes, a threatened species, have been spotted returning to the wetlands in Kiên Giang Province. The restoration of the wetlands, the last extensive remnant of a lepironia grass ecosystem in the Mekong River Delta, has been ongoing for decades. The Phú Mỹ Conservation project, begun in 2006, has played a major part in preserving the local habitat for Sarus cranes, and has helped locals earn a living by making handicrafts from lepironia. Văn Châu reports.

There are certain words, phrases, gestures and occasions that can be understood the world over—like a universal language that translates in all corners of the globe.

When New Yorker Neal Bermas was planning a trip around Asia in 1999, he chose HCM City as one destination among several. He did not expect that his encounters with homeless and street children here would become the first chapter in the story of his attachment to Việt Nam.

In the spring of 1948, the country was struggling through its resistance war against the French. To encourage the entire nation to contribute to the revolution, on June 11, 1948, President Hồ Chí Minh made an appeal for patriotic emulation. Hà Nguyễn reports

First recognised in 1969, the Vườn  Chuối archaeological relic in Hoài Đức District on the outskirts of Hà Nội languished for decades. When scientists began excavations in 2002, they discovered that the site contains the oldest evidence of human settlement in the capital. Now, the onward march of history threatens to destroy the remaining relics to make way for apartments. Minh Thu reports.

Lê Hương explores a doll collection owned by architect Ngô Thị Hương Ly, who is based in HCM City. Apart from designing award-winning buildings, Ly enjoys adding to her large number of stylish figures.

Pet and book cafes have been popular in various cities across the country. Yet a cafe run by a group of young people in the central province of Quảng Nam has lured customers with vegetables grown using hydroponic methods. Lê Hương explores.