Director turns to song to record COVID woes

When HCM City was locked down during the pandemic, director Xuân Phước volunteered to help people in need, and was moved witnessing how people helped each other to overcome the outbreak. Phước composed Sài Gòn Mùa Thương (Sài Gòn – Season of Love) and has recently released three versions of the music video of the song with the participation of many actors, singers, musicians, workers and doctors. Phước talks with Inner Sanctum about the song and his future film.

Replica history complex inspires young students

Newly built replicas of relic sites and landscapes at the Trần Mai Ninh Secondary School are making history and geography classes more vivid for junior students in the central province of Thanh Hoá.

Southern water wonderland pivots to eco-tourism

Đồng Tháp Mười (Plain of Reeds) region in the Mekong Delta is just hitting the peak of flooding season, a time for the southern province of Long An to show off the charming natural beauty of its vast wetland areas.

Vietnamese YouTuber makes sensation of slow cooking

As a Vietnamese pioneer of ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) YouTube cooking videos, Frank Phạm (Phạm Thế Phương) inspires people around the world to stay calm and enjoy their meals through his wonderful cooking skill, creative camera angles and stunningly realistic cooking sounds.

Art teacher brings pebbles to life

After spending hours teaching online, due to the pandemic, Ngô Minh Khôi uses his free time for creating pictures on small stones and glass bottles. He now has a particularly deep passion for mandala painting, which surprises many.

DIY enthusiast's fantastic plastic creations

In a small house in the port city of Hải Phòng, a middle-aged woman is meticulously creating petals from a recycled plastic bag to gradually create a flower painting made entirely from recycled materials.

Vietnamese beauty queen set for Miss World 2021

Miss Việt Nam 2020 Đỗ Thị Hà has been selected to represent Việt Nam at the Miss World 2021 beauty pageant in Puerto Rico in December. Hà talks to Vân Nguyễn about her plans for the competition and her charitable projects during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Folktales inspire new look Korean dishes

It is not difficult to see the influence of Korean culture in the daily life in Việt Nam. Korean BBQ restaurants and Korean-style grocery stores packed with young customers are visible evidence of that influence.

Tuồng theatre set for centre stage

The classical Vietnamese theatre form tuồng has faced difficulties in broadening its appeal to the general public, particularly the young, but this could be changing thanks to a series of programmes created by the Việt Nam Tuồng Theatre.

The timeless martial art of Bình Định

Faced by the tests of time and the import of other martial arts such as taekwondo, karate and MMA, Võ Bình Định is still growing, not only as a sport, but as an art form and a valuable aspect of Bình Định and Việt Nam's culture

Hidden gem in the middle of bustling Hà Nội

Located in a small dark alley on Hàng Gai street, Cà Phê Phố Cổ is a hidden cafe in the middle of the capital. Visitors come here for the famous egg coffee and the exotic architecture preserved from a century ago.

Co-operatives struggle to beat pandemic blue

The coronavirus pandemic has caused much trouble for co-operatives in the northern province of Lào Cai. Among a total of 431 local co-operatives, 310 are still in operation while 121 have ceased their operation and await dissolution.

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