Tết (Lunar New Year) will always be a time for Vietnamese families to get together, pay obeisance to ancestors, the Kitchen Gods and other deities, cook special dishes, wear new clothes, present gifts, visit friends and relatives. But now many families have chosen to travel outward, to other places in the country and beyond, giving the festival a completely different flavour.
Imagination is a good thing till it runs riot in the wrong places.
Women should only focus on things they do best, while not trying to do everything.
I think the Ministry of Education and Training is too ambitious by suggesting that nursery schools receive children who are only three-months' old.
People may disagree with a decision to award a singer, actor or beauty queen. But it is not acceptable that this subjectivity descends into shameful, discriminatory criticism, stained with racist overtones.
Many are too picky in preparation for Tết so they push themselves into hard work and their family members are accidentally swept into tiredness.
In the first days of New Year, many people prepare a wish list and check their futures. What does the future hold for me, my family, my love, my career?
An admittedly eye-catching work of art on a coach of the Cát Linh – Hà Đông elevated railway train has caught the eye for the wrong reasons as well.
Hà Nội and all the big cities are already celebrating Christmas.
A book company in Hà Nội drew a lot of attention last weekend with a marketing ploy that the country was seeing for the first time.
Television channels in the country have met the audience’s craving appetite for celebrity scandals with a number of shows delving into the private lives of famous people.
Over the few past weeks, linguist Bùi Hiền has become an internet sensation, not just in Việt Nam, after his paper suggesting a new way of recording the Vietnamese language rocked the worldwide web, touching the nerves of almost all the people who speak Vietnamese.
The Hà Nội People’s Council yesterday approved a People’s Committee proposal to increase street and pavement use fees as well as parking fees for cars and motorbikes.
As interest in beauty treatments has grown, shoddy spas have cropped up seeking quick profits, resulting in operating table deaths and post-surgery complications that leave scars and deformities.
As a consumer and a mother, I am always willing to pay extra for higher quality goods, particularly when it comes to food, because the health of my family, especially children, is involved.
Developing high-tech agriculture is an important task and also the inevitable trend of Việt Nam’s socio-economic development strategies in the context of deeper international integration
A proposal by a National Assembly deputy that some civil servants and other State cadres be allowed to work from home, saving office overheads, has generated a lively, timely debate.
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While many young people who grow up in a big city are sometimes upset at living in old-style condos, many aged people enjoy their lives there.
Your favourite actress “reveals” that she is using a skincare product or a lipstick that makes her “confident and beautiful anytime”. A famous mother shares on her Facebook page that she finds a mosquito repellent very useful to protect her children, particularly when a dengue fever epidemic is raging in the city. Additionally, they are generous enough to share the links where you can easily buy the products. What would you do?
Việt Nam has had its fair share of beauty contest controversies over the years, but the event’s popularity has never waned. But the latest controversy is different. It has to do with its timing in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster.
