Singer Ánh Tuyết made her professional stage musical directorial debut with Trại Hoa Vàng (Yellow Flower Farm) last month in Hà Nội.  Ánh Tuyết performs in the Việt Nam Youth Theatre's sing and dance troupe.  Lao Động (Labour) newspaper reporter Nội Hà interviews her about her new work as a director. 

In April, the movie received a licence to be screened in Việt Nam and was due to premiere on July 31. However, the outbreak of the COVID-19 second wave postponed the schedule.

The Viet Nam premiere of the film Ròm on July 31 was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, the production company behind the film was fined VNĐ40 million (US$1,700) for participating in the Busan International Film Festival without a screening license from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.  It is the first film by young director Trần Thanh Huy and the first Vietnamese film to win the top award in the 'New Currents' section in the regional film festival.  The ministry's online newspaper Điện Tử Tổ Quốc (Fatherland Online) interviews director Huy about Ròm and filmmaking. 

Having suffered from depression and pondered the lack of empathy that often surrounds mental health issues, Quang Thục Hảo, who is in her final year of earning a PhD in Psychology at Australia’s University of New South Wales, has turned her “ailment” into the subject of her doctoral thesis.

Chảo Thị Yến grew up poor. Her community was one in which people were not expected to do great things. However, she wanted to do well and not be poor. She ended up studying overseas.

Chảo Thị Yến, a young woman from the Dao Tuyển ethnic minority in northwest Việt Nam has defied challenges to become the first woman from her community to earn a master’s degree abroad through a full-degree scholarship awarded by the European Union.

Vietnamese universities have devised flexible plans to ensure final-year students can graduate despite the extended school closure due to COVID-19.

Architect Đoàn Thanh Hà, based in Hà Nội, has just received the Turgut Cansever International Award 2020 for his project titled Friendly Space in Suffocating Urban Areas.

Việt Nam has made extraordinary efforts to contain the COVID-19 disease. While the epicentres have spread from China to South Korea, Iran, Italy and now the rest of Europe, with other Southeast Asian countries reporting new cases. This success of infection control has been accomplished through the mobilsation of the whole healthcare system and civil society with an ambitious programme for early detection, contact tracing and implementing early isolation and quarantine of suspected and confirmed cases.