Việt Nam News

A fresh theatre graduate of the University of New Hampshire, Vietnamese director Nguyễn Phi Phi Anh, returned to his home country in April to prepare for his latest Broadway musical-inspired project entitled Hope.

Tamoya Udon serves homemade udon and soup dishes that originate from Sanuki in Japan’s Kagawa Prefecture. Phương Mai samples the fare in downtown HCM City.

A free-of-charge clinic in the Mekong Delta province of Cần Thơ’s Hưng Lợi Ward, has been much praised by local people, particularly the poor.

Lê Trường Giang lost his chance to become an artist due to his disabled condition, which was a result of American bombs left in a rural district in central Quảng Bình Province. But today Giang stands strong for his art works made from rice.

Nguyễn Thanh Tú, 54, a former commanding officer of the Cà Roòng border post in the central province of Quảng Bình’s Tuyên Hóa District, is known far and wide as a discoverer and protector of langurs. He talks with Toàn Vũ about his passion.

Its location notwithstanding, Mountain Retreat is a world away from the pretension of big-city restaurants downtown. Mỹ Duyên reports on its rural, traditional dishes that attract a steady stream of diners.

The Relight project turns used plastic items into beautiful and useful lamps. The initiative is run by nearly 50 students to raise local awareness about environmental issues. 

For six years, artist Tran Vu Hai has brought his talents to Ha Noi, turning disused sites into communal art spaces with a distinctly vintage aesthetic.

Chàng Sơn Village, on the outskirts of Hà Nội, has produced traditional fans for centuries. As the pace of modern life gets ever more hectic, it's refreshing to see a time-honoured craft maintained by skilled and passionate villagers.

Cheng Teng (Cheng Tng) is one of the most favoured dessert in Hawker Centre in Singapore, combines an array of healthy dried ingredients as longan, dates, snow fungus, lotus seed, malva nut, persimmon and pandan leaves.

Việt Nam has become Israeli doctor Rafi Kot's second home. He has lived and worked here for 26 years. Dr Kot, who is founder and general director of Family Medical Practice Vietnam, talks to Vương Bạch Liên about his work and life. 

Gỏi lá is a dish featuring green leaves, pork, shrimp, sauce, chili and pepper.

Every year, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature launches a marine Turtle Conservation programme in cooperation with Côn Đảo National Park, calling for the participation of volunteers nationwide in preserving sea turtles, which is on the list of endangered marine species. Trần Thị Thu Hương, a volunteer of the programme, talks about her experience after returning from the Côn Đảo Islands.

with chef Trịnh Tuấn Cường from JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi

Old, but very poetic… the communal buildings (in Vietnamese, nhà tập thể), which have reappeared through the reliefs and sophisticated drawings of Nguyễn Thế Sơn and Trần Hậu Yên Thế, have greatly impressed the public in Hà Nội since their exhibition opened some days ago.

Until now, Phạm Văn Thế has made public more than 50 researches and published a book in Germany, and dozens of scientific reports in the English language.

Photographer Nguyễn Hữu Bảo cannot count how many photos of Hà Nội he has taken, because it is always in his heart and his love of the thousand-year-old capital runs in his veins. He does not want to keep the photos of Hà Nội for himself, but rather express his love of Hà Nội and the photos by showing them to people.