Việt Nam News

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.

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.

People throughout the country are familiar with various charity and educational activities organised by the Hội Quán Các Bà Mẹ (Club of Mothers). Based in HCM City, the club’s events, which range from buying agricultural products to helping needy farmers, to seminars on gender, sex and parenting, they are spread all over the country mainly in major cities of Hồ Chí Minh City, Hà Nội and Cần Thơ.

Kite maker Nguyễn Thanh Vân, of HCM City’s District 8, is known as the father of the longest kite in Việt Nam - a dragon-shaped kite trailing 100 metres.

Trần Thiều Quang has become a 14-year-old teacher teaching English to students who have mental disabilities.

Lộc Yên Village, situated in the midlands of Quảng Nam Province’s Tiên Phước District, is known for its centuries-old houses with stone pathways. In addition to the houses, nature and the lifestyle of the villagers have been preserved for over 200 years. Generations still maintain their ancestors’ priceless treasures over time. 

James Bond famously likes his vodka martini cocktail “shaken, not stirred”.

Unlike other teenagers of their age, Nguyễn Thu Minh Châu and Hoàng Lữ Đức Chính would prefer to spend hours doing experiments on cancer treatment during their free time.

Around 20 years ago, farmers in Long An Province’s Châu Thành District began to grow dragon fruit instead of paddy, which did not yield much profit. The fruit, now grown on almost 90 per cent of the land, has brought about a miraculous economic transformation, Văn Đạt discovers.

A group of farmers in Bảo Hà village in Hải Phòng have worked hard to maintain regular puppetry performances to preserve this century-long art in the village.

Trần Khương has made his daughter, Trần Lê Khả Ái, who suffered from hearing and speech disabilities, into a girl who can hear and speak.

A miniature house - fashioned with a hand-crafted tiled roof, haystack, kitchen, hen house and furniture - creates a lifelike representation of what northern Vietnamese homes looked like in 1945.

Foreign ambassadors in Việt Nam who took a recent exploration trip to Sơn Đoòng Cave have returned to daily life in Hà Nội with overwhelmingly positive impressions.