Việt Nam News

A sleepless potential market like Việt Nam is fertile territory for start-ups in the fashion industry, and few of them are breaking new ground and reaching a lot more wardrobes.

A number of new films will be released to entertain Vietnamese movie buffs on the occasion of Tết (Lunar New Year), one of the two busiest seasons for the Vietnamese film industry.
 

Students from 30 HCM City universities are offering house-cleaning services to raise funds for Tết charity.

Ask any visitors to Việt Nam about a place to sit down and can cater to any dining cravings, they would possible utter the word Ngon without hesitation.

Midfielder Phạm Thành Lương deserved the honour for his playing during the 2016 season.

Multiple awards winning Dr Trần Ngọc Lương, Director of the National Hospital of Endocrinology, Head of Surgery Department and Associate Prof. at the Hà Nội Medical University, tells Hà Nguyễn that seeing young women mentally affected by post-surgical scars on their necks motivated him to pioneer a minimally invasive procedure that has since helped thousands in the country.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has taken full advantage of being able to start afresh, unencumbered for the most part by outdated infrastructure, to become the most livable place in the country. Bùi Hoài Nam charts a few milestones of this growth.

The first round of the Western New Year kinda tells you what type of year will follow and, as usual, I got a few rounds in during the first week. This might be a good time for me to go hide in a cave somewhere until 2018 rolls around. It really wasn't funny and shows me that it will be a year of successes, but they won't come easily.

 A group of young women brave the mostly male atmosphere of a beer garden restaurant inspired by Chinese wuxia novels and films. An Phương reports.

Fifth-grader Huỳnh Ngọc Thảo has learned how to grow plants in an unconventional way by watering, tending and harvesting organic vegetables in a greenhouse on her school’s rooftop in HCM City.

A VNĐ 2,000 market (known as E2K) - a local version of "dollar stores" was set up in the capital to help poor people

Would you believe that bonsai trees made from copper wire can be as beautiful as the real thing? Lê Duy Đức, manager of the Handmade Art page on Facebook, can confirm this is the case. Hoàng Trung Hiếu reports.

New Zealand-based poet Huyền Thư has become popular among readers recently. She was the first runner-up at the 2016 National Schools Poetry Award, organised by the International Institute of Modern Letters, under the Victoria University of Wellington. She talks with Minh Thu about the inspiration behind her writing.

Among all kinds of Chinese traditional dim sum, shrimp dumpling is claimed to be the most favorite jiaozi (a kind of Chinese dumpling).

Under the influence of climate change and overexploitation, the amount of coral reefs worldwide, including in Phú Quốc District in the southern province of Kiên Giang, have reduced significantly. In an effort to preserve and revive nature’s precious gift, Phú Quốc Nature Reserve has been implementing a project of planting a coral reef nursery garden on the seabed. Nguyễn Triều spent a day with conservationists from the reserve.

Having succeeded at printing photography on stones and leaves, Lê Nguyên Vỹ started working with sea shells – a tough material for photo printing – and pioneered the art of printing photographs on shells in Việt Nam.

After visiting almost all Korean restaurants in a certain part of Ha Noi, one that has a flower-sounding name catches the attention of Tu Le and her friend. A few hours later, they walk out, singing its praises and recommending the place highly to others.

Amateur singers who share a desire to help others have formed the Charity Singing Group in Hà Nội, and their work is making a real difference in the lives of many poor patients, Lương Thu Hương reports.