Vietnamese friends who could remember the end of World War II have all said that Việt Nam's August Revolution in 1945 and re-unification in April 1975 could never have succeeded without Hồ Chí Minh. Details they shared lead me to thoughts about President Hồ as a military strategist.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the Việt Nam League for Independence or the Việt Minh Front (May 19, 1941-2021).
Thousands of people in HCM City and the Cửu Long (Mekong) River Delta region have been captivated by new productions of theatre shows and TV programmes featuring cải lương (reformed opera), a 100-year-old traditional music genre of the south. Despite the challenges of revenue growth in the industry, young producers are making their mark and leading a new generation of theatre artists who are inspiring audiences. Thu Anh reports
with Chef Lê Đức Hải of Ngon Garden Restaurant in Hà Nội
A team of heroic female drivers who faced danger on the roads during the American War are still fast friends and comrades to this day.
Young man Nam Thi, who fell in love with poetry when he was a child, is a poet who is famous for his performance poetry. Việt Nam News talks with Thi about his works and his love for poetry.
Bạch Thùy Linh, an English teacher in Hà Nội, has given Vietnamese children's songs a breath of fresh air by recording dual Vietnamese and English-language versions.
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.
