Việt Nam News

With the return of COVID-19 community infections up and down the country, health authorities have once again stepped up messaging to encourage everyone in society to keep each other safe by wearing masks and other measures. 

After working as a mechanic for 30 years, Đặng Văn Cường, 51, began collecting and restoring vintage French Citroen cars that had been dumped in landfill sites or left for scrap in Việt Nam.

Painter, scientist, sculptor and inventor. Leonardo da Vinci was a giant of the Italian Renaissance. Now the great polymath’s legacy is being kept alive in a recent addition to Hà Nội’s culinary scene.

Director Lê Quý Dương is known as the “wizard of festivals” as he has created many memorable programmes including Huế Festival, Coconut Festival (Bến Tre), International Fireworks Festival (Đà Nẵng) and Nha Trang Sea Festival.

Swimmer Võ Thanh Tùng, 35, has been one of Việt Nam's top disabled athletes for the last 10 years, and he has no plans to slow down.

Vietnamese people often visit pagodas, temples or cultural relics in spring. During my trip to Phú Quốc Island over Tết (Lunar New Year), I followed a local friend to a temple dedicated to national hero Nguyễn Trung Trực.

Forty kilometres west of Đà Nẵng along the Cu Đê River, Nam Yên Village in Hòa Bắc Commune has emerged as a popular destination for community-based tourism and education among city day-trippers eager for tranquillity at the weekend.

with Executive Chef Angela Brown from Hotel des Arts - MGallery Collection

HCM City's Department of Health  is continuing its focus on developing the application of state-of-the-art healthcare techniques at general and specialised hospitals that its counterparts in Asia have also been pursuing.

The Việt Nam Theatre Artists Association has recently been carrying out a project to build and develop a new generation of audience for the theatre.

Along with bánh canh, a thick rice-noodle soup, hủ tiếu (thin rice-noodle soup) is a popular dish in southern Viet Nam, and it also happens to be my favourite.

All of the delta’s 12 provinces and its major city, Cần Thơ, have been able to turn more unproductive rice fields into fruit tree and other crop growing areas, or for aquaculture.

Recent music activities like the Veston Concert held by singer Hà Anh Tuấn have demonstrated how local tourism preferences have changed in Da Lat in central Viet Nam.

Thạch Thất District on the outskirts of Hà Nội is known for many original ancient architectures, one of which is Khum Bridge. Located in Yên Village in Thạch Xá Commune, Thạch Thất District, it is one of three ancient bridges of the former Hà Tây Province that has existed until today.

An ambassador for Global Wellness Day Vietnam since 2018, Henri Hubert, director of Le Nom Group, a visual communication agency, believes that good health and a good spirit can help convey the true beauty of life. 

With Thai chef Suriyan Boon-Oi, executive sous chef of Windsor Plaza Hotel

It’s unfortunately quite common for children in Việt Nam’s remote mountainous areas to drop out of school because they simply don’t have anything for lunch. In response, one young man launched a project offering them free meals so they could stay in class, and he hopes such help won’t only be limited to disadvantaged children in the country in the future.

With Chef Nguyễn Ngọc Quyên from Movenpick Hotel Hanoi