Việt Nam News

Phạm Công Thắng, a photographer living in Hà Nội, has amassed a collection of hundreds of cameras, books, and other photographic artefacts at the gallery that he has established in his own house.

A restaurant in the capital that never fails to impress with its classic local dishes and rarefied setting

Hà Nội's recent decision to mobilise vast financial sources to protect its heritage sites is promising to blow a new breath of life into hundreds of historical and cultural monuments after many years of effort without success.

For the first time, Việt Nam has had a representative in the Ironman World Championship. Lâm Túc Ngân, 27, from HCM City, qualified for the biggest event after winning Ironman Philippines 140.6’s 25-29 year-old female group and finishing in the top 8 of the women's ranking. She will join powerful athletes from all over the world at the 2022 event in Hawai in early October.

Returning to the central province of Thừa Thiên Huế after more than two years of lockdown due to the pandemic, Lưu Hoàng Long and his wife, a Vietnamese Australian, chose first to visit Đông Ba Market, the biggest traditional local shopping centre in the ancient royal city of Huế.

with Chef Lê Đức Hải of Ngon Garden Restaurant in Hà Nội

 A few weeks ago, Deputy Prime Minister Lê Văn Thành signed a directive to order immediate measures to protect wild and migrating birds in Việt Nam.

Vũ Như Quỳnh, an artisan in Bát Tràng pottery village, is leading the charge in reviving the spirit of pot making to promote and preserve traditional crafts.

The SEA Games 31 marked a great success for Vietnamese athletics with a record 22 gold medals to lead the team rankings. Athletes of coach Trần Văn Sỹ claimed eight gold medals. Sỹ’ has trained many famous athletes in international tournaments. Thanh Nga talks to him.

Waterway tourism is one of the new products that HCM City is promoting in order to facilitate recovery of its tourism industry. 

With a design taking inspiration from pottery wheels, the Bát Tràng pottery museum is a real head-turner

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh is developing more nature-based tourism products and new-style rural areas to attract tourists and improve local incomes.

With Chef Maneesh Rawat from the Spices of India in Hà Nội.

Director Lương Đình Dũng has wowed audiences and experts with his action thriller 578 – Phát Đạn Của Kẻ Điên (578 Magnum). He talks to Ngô Minh about the strategy to promote the film abroad.

For the past few years, ramie (a flowering plant of the nettle family) has gradually replaced local crops such as corn and cassava in Vân Hồ District, in the northern province of Sơn La, and the multipurpose plant has brought better incomes to residents.

Family Restaurant, about one hundred metres from the local pier, is lauded by travellers for its welcoming staff and reasonable prices.

Vũng Bọt Stream at the junction of the Bắc (North) and Nam (South) rivers that merge the Cu Đê River is home to the 'niên' fish (Onychostoma gerlachi), a natural freshwater fish species that is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.