A Mother’s Heart

A short story by Vũ Thị Huyền Trang

Why not girls?

Why is it that fewer girls are born in Việt Nam than boys? Aren’t girls equally a treasure and a joy for Vietnamese families?

HCM City encourages families to have three children as birth rate falls

HCM City is encouraging families to have three children as the birth rate has dropped to 1.33 children per women of reproductive age in the city.

Hà Nội needs effective measures to reduce third child birth rate

 In the first nine months of this year, the sex ratio at birth in Ha Noi stood at 110.5 boys to 100 girls, a decrease from 2018 when it was 113.5:100.

Doctor spends his life helping remote villagers in Quảng Trị

Trịnh Đức Thiện, 51, of A Vao Commune – a remote and underprivileged area in ĐaKrông District, the central province of Quảng Trị – is taking care of medicinal plants in a garden he grows to treat local residents.

Hà Nội to work harder to boost population quality

More measures are set to be taken by Hà Nội authorities to improve local population quality.

The story of an undercover Communist that won Saigon regime's trust Prior to 1968, Mai Hồng Quế was a rich contractor whose knack for furniture design had earned himself the trust of the Saigon regime.

Hà Nội strengthens efforts to stop sex selection

The city will strengthen enforcement efforts against the practice of sex selection in an effort to control the capital’s growing gender imbalance, the Hà Nội Health Department said.  

Tomatito brings Spanish tapas to HCM City

The F&B scene in the biggest city of Vietnam is getting hotter and hotter, with famous international chefs and restaurants eyeing the city to set up their newest establishments. Tomatito is one of them. The Nomad Quynh reports.

Joe Jackson, iron-willed music patriarch, dead at 89

Joe Jackson, the patriarch of music superstars whose iron-fisted guidance both shaped his children's success and traumatised them, died Wednesday, family members said. He was 89.