The Múa lân (kylin dance) is often performed by the ethnic Hoa (Chinese-Vietnamese) who account for around 4 per cent of HCM City’s population. Many of them live in Chợ Lớn (Big Market) in District 5. The dance is usually performed to bring luck and happiness during Tết (Lunar New Year), Mid-Autumn Festival, and at ceremonies to open a new business or build a new house. Anh Thu reports. 

A number of declassified documents relating to the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, stored by the United States National Archives, are now showcased to the public for the first time in Việt Nam.

Now all of us have new stories to tell our children when they ask about superheroes, but not Spiderman, Captain America or Iron Man.

Marine and Antoine, a French couple, who decided to make a trip around the world over the course of 12 months, visited Vietnam on the second leg of the trip. They tell about their meetings and wonderful memories of the country.

New Zealand leader Jacinda Ardern will spend a second night in hospital with her "very alert and hungry" newborn daughter who Twitter wags have dubbed the "prime miniature".

A resident of Hà Nội’s outer district of Chương Mỹ has been providing ambulance services for his neighbours and strangers in the past 20 years.

People call Tăng A Pẩu a man of the forest. He especially loves the birds in the forests of Việt Nam.

Only four months after returning from flight training in the Soviet Union, Capt Đinh Tôn had downed his fourth US aircraft on 16 June 1968.

Comparing herself to a sponge, French artist Marianne Smolska’s inspiration is derived from all that's around her. She has travelled all over world but decided to settle in Việt Nam where she discovered the endless motivation to create using the materials that fascinate her.

The circle of professional photographers in Việt Nam have nicknamed him “a man of forest”. Tăng A Pẩu spends two to three days a week in forests, photographing the trees and the animals who make them their home.