Việt Nam News

Brexit not only damages our wallets. It draws a line on friendships, on relationships, on families and bonds that make us stronger, Ollie Arci warns.

On a beautiful morning, if you get a sales call, don’t be grumpy and gently refuse because who knows who’s on the line? It could be a hard-working student who is trying to earn every penny to pay for rent, food and their studies.

More and more Christmas traditions are creeping into Vietnamese life.

Teachers with foreign language proficiency will help improve the quality of training.

Some Vietnamese artists have suggested adding traditional theatre arts into the curriculum of Việt Nam’s general education from primary school to high school as a compulsory subject after seeing public, particularly young people, losing interest in the theatrical art forms.

Amid the football frenzy that captured Việt Nam last Saturday, I had a question no one was able to answer solidly: How many people actually went out onto the street to celebrate the AFF Suzuki Cup victory of the Việt Nam team?

A spray-can vandal invades Hà Nội's empty walls and irks the eyes of the on-lookers.

Two days ago, a baby girl was found abandoned in a cemetery in Bình Thuận Province. She would have died if the people who found her hadn’t brought her to hospital.

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.