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Payment dodgers, beware!

The owner of a tattoo shop on Lê Văn Sỹ Road in HCMC’s District 3 posted on his facebook that a man came to his shop on Saturday and asked for a tattoo on his right arm.

Hà Nội artist debuts exhibition on beauty of ethnic groups

Twelve mixed media paintings by Hà Nội-based artist Nguyễn Thế Hùng that will be on show at the Craig Thomas Gallery in HCM City from March 25 to April 21 come with a fascinating story about how the Dao and H’mông ethnic groups live.

HITS stages newest productions The Hanoi International Theatre Society is back and taking to the stage with its newest productions from veteran and newcomer directors team.

Kaleidoscope (01-12-2013) Just several hundred metres away from the famous My Son Sanctuary in the central province of Quang Nam, many tourists stop at a simple shop displaying delicately carved statues of Apsaras, the celestial dancers.

Poor workers forced to live in squalor Tran Thi Lanh trudges down an alley in the dark to her one-room flat, her slippers squelching in the mud. It's cold and dark, no light spills out from the ramshackle houses lining the narrow alleyway.

Is that true? When I was a little boy, my mother would often ask: "Is that true, son?". Whenever I told mother any stories of school, friends, teachers and fights against school mates and boys in my residential area, mother would take me in her lap and ask, tears streaming down her cheeks: "Is that true, dear?"