Việt Nam News

The country's famed bay is undergoing another bout of development but its true beauty will always remain.

Located right in the city centre, Veggie Castle is much loved by locals in Hà Nội, especially young people or office workers, due to the cheap price and cosy space.

With Foodstylist Hoàng Long

Phạm Đức Hoà is the first Vietnamese futsal player invited to compete in the Spanish National Futsal League. Despite remarkable results, Việt Nam and Hòa have never won a Southeast Asian (SEA) Games title. He talks with Nguyên Khang about his determination at the coming Games on home turf.

Though 2021 posed a year of challenges due to the pandemic, the nation’s animation industry went from strength to strength, receiving an abundance of awards and millions of hits on YouTube.

During the last few months of 2021, pilates emerged as a new fitness trend in HCM City.  The exercise is a form of low-impact work-out that aims to strengthen muscles while improving posture and flexibility. 

Quỳnh Sơn Village in Bắc Sơn District of the northern province of Lạng Sơn is not only famous for its historical sites but also for making "double tiles".

Artisan Đặng Văn Hậu has always had a passion for the traditional craft of tò he -- toy figurines that are made of rice dough.

With an ambition to promote and preserve national traditions, a young artist in Hà Nội is redesigning and giving traditional Hàng Trống folk paintings a new life in her own style.

An innovative creation by Miss Hoa of the Slavic Tea House in Hà Nội

South Korean Lee Chang-kun, a descendant of the Vietnamese Lý Royal family, has just been re-appointed as the ambassador for Vietnamese tourism in South Korea between 2021 and 2024. This is his second term in this role.

As a form to connect people’s aspirations with the divine world, xòe dance has long been an indispensable part of the Thái ethnicity's spiritual life in the four northern mountainous provinces of Yên Bái, Lai Châu, Sơn La and Điện Biên.

When you need to get away from daily routine but cannot travel far, a day or two escape to some of the city’s widely available hotels can be a good choice.

Tea has been a central cultural feature of East Asia for millennia, and Việt Nam is one of the earliest tea-drinking nations in the world. The art of tea drinking in Việt Nam is simple but elegant, with features that are hard to find anywhere else in the world.

Fans of water puppetry can now explore one of Việt Nam’s oldest folk art forms through the new book Kể Chuyện Trên Mặt Nước (Telling Stories above Water).

In a resolution on the socio-economic tasks to be accomplished in 2022 and financial outlays, the Government has designated it as a year of economic recovery. Efforts made by both foreign and domestic enterprises will play a key role in achieving the goals.

The year 2021 was full of difficulties and challenges for Việt Nam, but the country overcame them with resilience.

The genomes of over 1,000 people have been analysed to form a gene database that will serve medical research and practices for the first time in Việt Nam