Việt Nam News

For the first time, Việt Nam has six athletes competing in the Asian Winter Games held in Sapporo, Japan. The athletes will compete in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing and snowboarding. Mai Bá Hùng, deputy director of the HCM City Department of Culture and Sport, tells Thanh Nga that training was done mostly with simulation equipment.

With turquoise seas, spectacular sunsets and lush rainforests, Phú Quốc Island provides tourists with an unbeatable combination of silky white sand, great hospitality and tasty cuisine. Bồ Xuân Hiệp reports.

Sheltering under a canopy of wild trees in Sa Pa Town, in the northern province of Lào Cai, Má A Nủ holds a reaping hook, used to collect herbs which are the source of various kinds of essential oils.

Phạm Mai Hương quit a full-time job to travel full time, and is rewarded with a once-in-a-lifetime experience in northernmost Mongolia with the Tsaatan tribe. Hồng Vân reports.

Huyền Trang, in her early twenties now, is already an accomplished artist, familiar to music lovers in Việt Nam. She’s also won some acclaim abroad as one of the first Vietnamese flutists to perform on stage with a combination of flute and electronic music.

Thousands of people across the nation, including professionals, have improved and are improving their English language skills via activities organised by the IZI English Community for more than five years now.

Born and raised in a small village on the bank of Thu Bồn River, potter Lê Đức Hạ started creating items out of clay in the late 1980s, after leaving the army as a volunteer soldier in Cambodia. He now works hard to preserve the craftsmanship of traditional pottery in Viet Nam, with a range of unique designs.

The National Museum of History is showing 18 artefacts which have been recognised as national treasures, some dating as far as the Đông Sơn era (2500-2000BC) . They are on display together for the first time at a special exhibition titled "Việt Nam’s National Treasures" in downtown Hà Nội.

A sleepless potential market like Việt Nam is fertile territory for start-ups in the fashion industry, and few of them are breaking new ground and reaching a lot more wardrobes.

A number of new films will be released to entertain Vietnamese movie buffs on the occasion of Tết (Lunar New Year), one of the two busiest seasons for the Vietnamese film industry.
 

Multiple awards winning Dr Trần Ngọc Lương, Director of the National Hospital of Endocrinology, Head of Surgery Department and Associate Prof. at the Hà Nội Medical University, tells Hà Nguyễn that seeing young women mentally affected by post-surgical scars on their necks motivated him to pioneer a minimally invasive procedure that has since helped thousands in the country.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has taken full advantage of being able to start afresh, unencumbered for the most part by outdated infrastructure, to become the most livable place in the country. Bùi Hoài Nam charts a few milestones of this growth.

Students from 30 HCM City universities are offering house-cleaning services to raise funds for Tết charity.

Midfielder Phạm Thành Lương deserved the honour for his playing during the 2016 season.

Fifth-grader Huỳnh Ngọc Thảo has learned how to grow plants in an unconventional way by watering, tending and harvesting organic vegetables in a greenhouse on her school’s rooftop in HCM City.

A VNĐ 2,000 market (known as E2K) - a local version of "dollar stores" was set up in the capital to help poor people

Would you believe that bonsai trees made from copper wire can be as beautiful as the real thing? Lê Duy Đức, manager of the Handmade Art page on Facebook, can confirm this is the case. Hoàng Trung Hiếu reports.

Under the influence of climate change and overexploitation, the amount of coral reefs worldwide, including in Phú Quốc District in the southern province of Kiên Giang, have reduced significantly. In an effort to preserve and revive nature’s precious gift, Phú Quốc Nature Reserve has been implementing a project of planting a coral reef nursery garden on the seabed. Nguyễn Triều spent a day with conservationists from the reserve.