Việt Nam News

The summer sun adds to the heat on Lò Rèn (Blacksmith) Street in Hà Nội’s Old Quarter, which is home to dozens of shops selling steel frames. The pace of life is as it is most days.

Many young Vietnamese abroad have decided to leave developed countries and their high-salaried jobs to return to Việt Nam to start their career. Vũ Thị Thanh Vân, with her desire to preserve traditional values, returned to develop theMay brand. Việt Nam News reporter Thu Ngân talks with Vân about her dreams and her company. 

HCM City’s Trần Hữu Trang Cải Lương Theatre, one of the region’s leading traditional art troupes, will open its exhibit hall featuring information and images about cải lương (reformed opera) to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19, 1945) and National Day (September 2, 1945).

Noted for the sacred Bà Đen (Black Lady) Mountain and the headquarters of the Cao Đài religion, the southeastern province of Tây Ninh has transformed from its once-fierce battleground status to an alluring tourist destination awaiting pilgrims and lovers of culture and nature.

French Grill in Hà Nội offers quality food and luxurious, elegant atmosphere.

Having revived Pháp Lam art, a kind of enamel painting and carving on copper, in early 2000, local artisan Đỗ Hữu Triết refreshed the art on silver and gold for making fashionable jewelries, interior decoration and paintings.

Blanketing 110 hectares of one of the longest and most beautiful stretches of coastline in central Việt Nam, the Sa Huỳnh salt fields -- 60 kilometres south of Quảng Ngãi City in the province of the same name -- was as a source of salty food centuries ago.

Chinese chess has become a passion for many elderly people in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam News reporter Hoàng Hồ spoke with Lê Công Vinh, a superstar of Vietnamese football, about his academy, his many experiences in life, and his future plans

with Chef Francesco Conzattu @La Casa restaurant at The Alma Resort

Nguyễn Thanh Hùng from Hồng Ngự District in the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp is famed locally as the “inventor” of a whole host of unique farming machinery.

Nguyễn Phước Quý Thành is breathing new life into discarded shirt buttons and plastic items by using them to make colourful works of art.

Delicious food can sometimes remedy a tired soul, in the most enjoyable and happy of ways. Bùi Quỳnh Hoa tries some seafood saviours.

Painter Mai Đắc Linh has established a reputation for how he uses traditional materials in his works

Phùng Quang Thắng, director of Hanoitourist Company, vice chairman of the Việt Nam Society of Travel Agents (VISTA), talks to Minh Thu about hard time of Vietnamese tourism.

The lower leagues in Viet Nam can give you the thrills of proper football.

Lê Thu Quỳnh enjoys the beauty of Cát Bà National Park, one of the best protected areas in the country in terms of biodiversity, with the tropical and sub-tropical ecologies common to Asia.

with Chef Francessco Conzattu from La Casa Restaurant, The Alma Resort in Long Beach, Cam Ranh Bay