Việt Nam one of four best countries for treating HIV/AIDS: minister As one of four countries, alongside Germany, Switzerland and the UK, with the best HIV/AIDS treatment in the world, Việt Nam has a rate of HIV-infected people receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment with a viral load below the inhibitory threshold reaching 96 per cent, contributing to reducing HIV infection in the community, a health official has said.

Long live the Rông house

Rông house, a variation of stilt houses unique to the Central Highlands in Việt Nam, is a spacious gathering area of each village. While people still appreciate and use the traditionally built Rông house for its purpose, modernization changes the way it’s been built.

Hà Nội Theatre Festival to begin on Saturday A theatre production entitled Trương Chi – Mị Nương will open the 4th Hà Nội Theatre Festival on Saturday.

Getting around adversity

Diêm Trọng Thách from the northern province of Bắc Ninh has proved that the persistent pain and hardship that come with suffering from AO can never defeat him.

Like a bat out of hell

Nguyễn Đắc Chung of Hà Nội takes fandom to a whole new level. He loves the DC comic book hero Batman so much he built a perfect replica of the “caped crusader’s” Batmobile in the garage of his Hà Nội home.

Keeping NPLs ratio below 3 per cent a challenge: experts The COVID-19 pandemic is weighing on the banking system’s non-performing loans (NPLs), requiring significant effort to keep NPLs ratio below three per cent by the end of this year as targeted by the Government.

Six companies get equitisation plans approved in January-August As the Prime Minister’s SOE equitisation plan has remained stagnant for the last five years, economic specialists have said it is very difficult for the stakeholders to complete the plan on schedule, or it is impossible.

Village in desperate need of new road The 7km road, which stretches down from the mountain to connect Đê Kôn Village with the centre of Hra Commune, becomes muddy and slippery when it rains, making it almost impossible to drive on.    

At the heart of the art

Director PIL Nguyễn (real name Nguyễn Phương Phi), who has found fame from posting free online entertainment for children, has recently attracted the attention of net citizens with a series of more than 100 video clips on pagodas throughout Việt Nam. Lê Hương spoke with him about his pagoda project and his passion for cinema.

ASEAN cooperation more important than ever: Singaporean expert A complicated external situation has made collaboration within the ASEAN bloc more important than ever, a Singaporean expert told the Vietnam News Agency during the 53rd ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and related conference in Hà Nội.