Việt Nam News

This week, indulge yourself in a sweet, yet easy-to-make dessert - salted egg custard buns. The dish is brought to you by chef Zhang.

A young man's passion and resolve inspires a team of dancers to put on a show that dazzles judges and audiences while lighting up the Asia Got Talent stage in Singapore, An Vũ reports.

Lê Minh Vương, 25, has been studying worms for the past five years, helping farmers apply new methods for sustainable agriculture, reducing the use of chemicals, utilising discarded farm produce, and increasing productivity at the same time.

At the age of 15, HCM City’s native swimmer Nguyễn Hữu Kim Sơn won an individual medley gold at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games held in Malaysia this year, setting a new Games record.

Forty three year old Lê Ngọc Khanh from Đăk Hrinh Commune in the central highlands province of Kon Tum. Khanh quit his stable job as a teacher at a vocational school and started growing mushrooms and fungi in 2014. 

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, a PhD scholar in Creative Writing from Lancaster University, will publish her second book in  English, Searching for Earth Cakes and Sky Cakes, in 2018 with Benchmark Education while her debut novel in English, The Mountains Sing, is due for release in spring 2019 by prestigious publisher Algonquin. She spoke to Lê Hương about her work.

Drama clubs run by young artists and theatre students in HCM City are struggling because of financial difficulties. Anh Thư reports.

Craft workers in the southern province of Bến Tre, the "land of coconuts", have created a variety of unique souvenirs for tourists from the fibre surrounding the fruit. Their latest creation are fibre hats, the idea of Nguyễn Phúc Sang, a student at the HCM City University of Economics and Finance.

At Dì Năm Sadec Restaurant, a 30-year-old secret family recipe gets a new twist, attracting customers looking for a taste of the Mekong Delta. Mỹ Duyên reports.

Đào Thị Hằng, known as the “Queen of Sauce”, is a prominent name on the domestic market with her brand of the product. But she has also become known for her revolutionary teaching methods - banning the use of mobile phones and the internet six days a week while students study her English courses in the isolation of the northern mountains.

Green papaya salad (Som Tam in Thai and gỏi đu đủ in Việt Nam) is a spicy salad made from shredded unripe papaya.

In recent years, provincial authorities have paid attention to reducing poverty among the southern Khmer people, while preserving and upholding the diversity of their traditional culture. Ngọc Diệp writes.

Endless effort and passion has enabled Lại Xuân Huy to succeed at a deadly form of martial arts. He even quit university to learn more about the ancient art from Okinawa, the home of nunchaku, two sticks joined by a short chain. Trung Hiếu reports.

Andrea Nguyễn has authored many English books featuring Vietnamese cuisine that are more than cook books, offering glimpses into national history, culture and traditional customs.  She speaks to Minh Thu about the motivation and inspiration for her culinary stories.

Folk art not only provides a modest income for many Vietnamese, it has often been considered a national treasure. However, as modern art styles become popular, the old paintings are starting to fade away.

Nomad Quynh wanders into the Citadel and finds out why a new Vietnamese restaurant can make its mark in a crowded market.