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.
Responsible tourism is on the rise, connecting tourists to local communities.
Trần Minh Châu, 14, is one of the youngest recipients of Việt Nam's Outstanding Youth Awards for the year 2017. A lover of Franz Liszt, she has already won the top trophy in several international piano competitions, balancing her intense music studies and hours of daily practice with her school work. Thanh Hà reports.
Nun Thích Nữ Quảng Phát has been known for inspiring hundreds of school students in the northern province of Thái Bình to read books at a library she set up at Thiên Phúc Pagoda, where she acts as the head nun.
A biography on the 50-year-long career of Meritorious actress and cải lương (reformed opera) performer Mỹ Châu, who now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA was recently released in HCM City.
Nguyễn Ngọc Hiếu, a blind man, is the director of two massage parlours in HCM City, creating jobs for some 30 people who share his plight.
The ancient rules of Xoan singing state that only a man can hold the position of the head of a xoan singing guild. But Nguyễn Thị Lịch in the northern province of Phú Thọ has become the first female folk artist to lead the provincial xoan guild, the first woman to hold such a position in the thousands-year history of xoan singing.
Glorious jade sceptres, precious terracotta mythical creatures and gigantic bronze drums are few among 300 artefacts being showcased in public for the first time.
Trịnh Công Sơn walking street, some 900m long, is a fitting tribute to its namesake, the late musician Trịnh Công Sơn (1939-2001), a celebrated Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet.
Hà Nội was developed by the French colonialists as the administrative centre of Indochina along the same lines as Haussmann’s Paris. The result is the beautiful city we so much love, a happy mix of native vernacular and French metric logic. Today Hà Nội is undergoing its own Haussmannian transformation, as the old makes way to the new. Let's hope that the city doesn't forget its roots.
The Centre for Mental Illness and National Devotees in northern Hải Dương province has applied a new therapy to treat patients - teaching them skills like making brooms and mats.
Over a history of nearly 100 years in Việt Nam, and Hà Nội in particular, the French left a valuable, unique and advanced heritage of French architecture and structures in Hà Nội.
In recent years, the land along the inter-village roads in the coastal district of Hải Hậu in the northern province of Nam Định has been planted with flowers—indicating that people have not only focused on surviving by building, fishing and raising rice, but also on beautifying their community.
