Việt Nam News

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

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. 

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.”

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.

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

Nguyễn Đình Trứ of Việt Nam was presented with the ASEAN Award as an outstanding herbalist who had made significant contributions to the community.

Did the same woman create a famous vase in Turkey and an inscribed ceramic corner of a building found 70km east of Ha Noi?  Nguyen My Ha investigates.

Nguyễn Thị Lụa, the No 5 female wrestler in the 48kg category at the 2009 World Wrestling Championships, has made history by becoming the first Vietnamese female wrestler to qualify for the Olympics twice in different categories after she reached the finals of the Asian qualifying event in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Nearly thirty years on, I have neither doubts nor regrets. I have had many trying experiences but have never tired of the profession.

Water puppetry is a special treat for tourists in Hà Nội - a must-see show for all foreign visitors.

Excerpts from memoir Ship With Paper Sails, Story of a Hanoi Newsman* by Nguyễn Khuyến, former Viet Nam News Editor-in-Chief

In 2011, as a budding reporter who had just started a career at the Việt Nam News, I was lucky enough to have a life-changing field trip out to the East Sea.

In early December 2010, Vietnamese tra fish (basa fish) made headlines when the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) placed it on its red list, which names produce that is farmed under unhygienic conditions or traded illegally.

In the late 1980s, when Lê Quang Trực taught literature at a secondary school in HCM City’s rural Hóc Môn District, he was searching for ways to keep his students interested – and awake.