Việt Nam News

Việt Nam has one of the most diverse and appealing cuisines in the world. However, due to changes in lifestyle and culture, or the influence of foreign cuisines, numerous dishes have changed from the original flavours that made them famous.

Companies, universities and clubs, are getting ready to party. It is not only an event to wrap up old work and start new, but also a chance for people to meet each other and share their lives. However, not every party brings joy as there can also be complications.

Field trips are not new to Việt Nam. These kinds of lessons have been organised at secondary schools in HCM City and Hà Nội over the past few years. But the effectiveness of these lessons is still being questioned.

In a rather sudden and widely applauded move, the HCM City authorities a few days ago issued regulations forcing the city folks to start separating their solid waste at source.

One day a friend of mine received a wedding invitation from a colleague. The invitation was sent to every one in his 400-employee company including colleagues having close relationships with the groom and those only meeting him for one or two times, even never before.

Over the last week, Quách Gia Linh and her classmates from Lý Thường Kiệt secondary school have been eagerly preparing for November 20, Vietnamese Teachers’ Day.

Elephants, they say, never forget.

And it seems one such animal at a sanctuary in New York is longing to return home to Việt Nam.

Social networks have become a mirror of Việt Nam’s mordern society.

In today’s age of youthfulness and good looks, it is such a strong peer pressure for teeage girls and boys to put out their best looks, best clothing or accessories. Teenage has become a very volatile time of growing up, where one can swing both way: becoming confident and getting through puberty successfully, or becoming intimidated and shy away, and bear in their heart the deep scars of self-confidence.

We have all had something derogatory to say about teachers in the past. Many of us as students would have returned home from class and had a right go at our teacher safe in the knowledge they would not hear what was said.

Vietnamese crossovers have attempted to rake in some of the huge viewership, even if they don’t aspire to the same high cinematic standards.

The unofficial foreign currency exchange market has long operated in Việt Nam. But it is in the public eye this week after a shocking case in which a man was heavily fined for trying to exchange US$100. The 38-year-old electrician from the southern city of Cần Thơ faces a hefty fine of up to VNĐ90 million (US$3,846) after exchanging a $100 note for VNĐ2.26 million in a gold shop which was not licensed by the State Bank of Việt Nam to exchange foreign currency.

A painting by a well-known Vietnamese artist was sold for VNĐ200 million (roughly US$8,600) at a recent auction to raise money for sick artists.

The clip is only three minutes long, but it has Vietnamese parents up in arms: it depicts young Vietnamese children who started studying English at a very early age, even before they fluently spoke their mother tongue, struggling to express themselves in either language.

As many locals may already know, HCM City has unveiled a plan to build a new performing arts centre in District 2 on the Thủ Thiêm Peninsula.

Tour guides are known as cultural ambassadors for their country and community in the eyes of foreign visitors. Whether guides can deliver quality service to tourists is not only essential to the success of their company — and themselves — but also to the image of the tourism industry in Việt Nam.

Never before have game shows and reality shows been more popular on TV and in the media.

Lê Thu Trà, a woman living in Hà Nội’s Hà Đông District, lived in anxiety for days because she did not know what happened to the contract she had signed to buy an apartment from a new real estate project.