Việt Nam News

Việt Nam is in the final stages of preparing a dossier for re-nomination of World Heritage Site (WHS) Hạ Long Bay to include Cát Bà Archipelago for submission to UNESCO by September this year.

The cajuput tree—tràm in Vietnamese—is known for its spongy bark, white flowers and its oil that is prized for its usefulness in aromatherapy. Now a local man creatively uses it as a medium for producing art.

There’s something incredibly British about Indian food. It is, after all, the United Kingdom’s traditional dish. Paul Kennedy finds more authentic fare at Hanoi's Zaika.

Sixty-year-old nun Phạm Thị Kim Sáng has raised eight orphans and poor children in the past 15 years despite her own difficult life.

The salmon of the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is getting a local update as chef Đức of Hemispheres Steak & Seafood Grill restaurant combines the classic favourite with fresh ingredients from Việt Nam. Cheers!

Twenty-three year old Nguyễn Thị Tâm made history as the first Vietnamese female boxer to win an Asian title in HCM City last year. Thanh Nga spoke with her.

We visited historical relics in a special complex bearing remarks of the once famous area, Phố Hiến, on the right bank of the Hồng (Red) River.

Mã Châu silk craft, mulberry farming and silkworm breeding have roots some five centuries ago in Duy Xuyên District in the central province of Quảng Nam.  But the trade faded by the late 1990s. Recently, however, the last local silk makers have revived the traditional craft while introducing modern techniques and marketing methods. Bùi Hoài Nam reports

Veteran and young actors of private troupes in HCM City are preparing for participation in the National Professional Drama Festival 2018, which will be launched by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Department of Performing Arts in the city next month. 

This cake was created in 1910 by pastry chef Louis Durand, upon request from the organiser of a bicycle race between Paris and Brest.

After years of working hard, three young film actresses of HCM City are making their mark and leading a new generation that is inspiring audiences.

Dr Trần Thị Nguyên Ny is a professor and researcher at the HCM City Medicine and Pharmacy University. Last month she was awarded the noble Youth Award of the Group of Francophone Embassies, Delegations and Institutions in Việt Nam (GADIF) at  the official ceremony of International Francophone Day 2018.

Mây Bốn Phương restaurant has developed a wide reputation for finely prepared traditional dishes at reasonable prices.

A precious variety of fish, which, according to locals, exist only within the Hoàng Liên Sơn mountain range, dubbed the “Roof of Indochina”, is considered to possess beneficial medicinal properties due to its peculiar bitter taste.

From a little girl who was clueless about sports for 21 years, Lê Phương Vy has come a long way. She is the first Vietnamese female athlete in the 18-24 age group to complete Ironman 140.6, one of the most difficult triathlons in the world.

The lifestyle and culture of the ethnic Dao have an aura of mystique, but authorities are now keen on developing and preserving them.

Professor Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Phượng, 74, former director of Từ Dũ Obstetrics Hospital in HCM City, was the first person in Việt Nam to offer a fertility treatment in which embryos are introduced directly into the uterus, called in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Raising pigs in a three-storey building equipped with an elevator sounds more eccentric than scientific. Pig farmer Nguyễn Trọng Long, however, has proven the benefits of raising pigs in clean, modern and environmentally friendly conditions, and is helping other farmers learn his techniques.