Salt water goes into a container, through pipes where it’s processed to remove salt, and finally pure water comes out. That’s how the desalting machine created by a teacher and a group of students from Nguyễn Đình Chiểu High School, Bến Tre Province, works.
The journey of two Vietnamese-born wildlife photographers is on display in Hà Nội at an August 4-7 exhibition titled Wings of the Wild. Through the photos, they call for wildlife protection and respect.
Since its establishment in 1999, the small library of Condo A3 in Hà Nội’s Nghĩa Tân Ward has become an interesting rendezvous for residents, enhancing their sense of community.
Lê Nguyễn Thiên Hương, an alumni of California State University Fullerton, founded the Save Sơn Đoòng organisation that works to get people involved in protecting the pristine beauty of Sơn Đoòng Cave and its surrounding natural environment.
With dressmaking skills Phúc Danh has become more mature, overcoming his deafness to have more confidence in himself. He has also helped three other people with similar disabilities to earn a living.
A new class in central Đà Nẵng City welcomes eight children suffering from autism and Down syndrome. They learn how to paint, go to the market, and do simple housework.
On the bank of the Red River, there is situated a seven-century old pottery village. Bát Tràng, the most famous and long-standing pottery village in Việt Nam is an interesting attraction in the capital that tourists should not miss a chance to visit.
From a beautiful and lively 11th grade teenage girl,Vương Thị Dung, now 25, from Bình Tịnh hamlet, Bình Minh Commune, Thăng Bình District, Quảng Nam Province, became paralyzed overnight, had to leave school and suffered excruciating pain in the hospital.
Three books by veteran author Tô Hoài, winner of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for Literature in 2006, have been reprinted by two leading publishers in HCM City to celebrate the writer’s second death anniversary.
With its exotic markets, French colonial architecture and resplendent temples, it's easy to lose yourself in the UNESCO site of Luang Prabang.
January 19, 2017, will recognise the 43-year anniversary of the date when China occupied and took Hoàng Sa (Paracel) islands from the hands of Vietnamese soldiers, who served the Republic of Việt Nam’s navy, as prisoners.
Part painter and part magician, Phạm Hồng Minh's works are clever and sometimes shocking, taking peformance art to a new level. Minh Thu reports.
Vietnamese-born Tan Nico Düsterfeld from Germany aspires to represent his birth country in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Blind, paralysed, a band of disabled young people have one thing in common: a passion for music and strong will
Despite leading a difficult life, 61-year-old Thạch Ua in Phong Phú Commune in the southern province of Trà Vinh has twice donated land for building a primary school and kindergarten in his hometown, helping hundreds of ethnic students in the area to attend schools.
An idea of using a smartphone with GPS supported to detect water leakage won the first prize at the nationwide Smart Water Innovation Contest 2016, organised by the Swedish Embassy in Hà Nội.
Trịnh Quốc Anh, Nguyễn Trần Quang Khải and Võ Phi Long, who are studying at the HCM City University of Technology, are inventors of the initiative, “Reduce water leaks by a mobile device.”
The sao la, Vũ Quang ox, spindlehorn, or Asian bicorn (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) is one of the world's rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine found only in the Trường Sơn Mountain Range of Việt Nam and Laos.
What do an 11-year-old Ha Noi resident and Danish composer Friedrich Kuhlau have in common? Just one thing. This week, Lu Thuc Nhu Anh played the first movement of a piano sonatina the German-born composer wrote 200 years ago, at the Vietnam National Academy of Music.
Donation campaigns, blood-type clubs help ensure Rh-negative blood supply
Emperors of the Nguyen Dynasty were gifted and passionate poets. In addition to books, they showcased their works on the walls and rooftops of imperial palaces and temples. Phước Bửu reports.
