Việt Nam News

Blood sports like buffalo fighting should be consigned to the history books.

In an attempt to get more exposure to customers, a hair salon, a restaurant and a nail salon in Hà Nội recently hired some buff male staff to, well, expose themselves to customers by strutting around topless, save for a tie.

What to eat and drink has become a major topic of conversations these days, and very often, this turns out to be controversial. A trend has emerged over the last few years of people in major cities preferring to buy imported fruit.

Remakes of movies or series have been in full swing, with many hit titles.

Perharps the most often asked question among parents during this time of the year is where to take their kids to play or to learn something now that they are off from school. It’s no easy task to find a suitable place for kids to enjoy themselves during summer time, many parents had to admit.

Up to 1,300 trees, planted in the 1980s along Phạm Văn Đồng Street in Hà Nội’s western area, will be chopped down to broaden the street and build a bridge on Belt Road No 3, connecting areas of Mai Dịch and Nam Thăng Long.

While the number of smokers has slowly declined in recent years thanks to awareness-raising campaigns that have publicised the harmful effects of cigarettes, not much has been done to change smokers’ behavior, especially when it comes to exposing their children to second- hand smoke at home or in public.

Summer is the season that children can rest after nine months of hard work at school. Summer is also when various children’s game shows are broadcast on television to entertain adults.

Most parents agreed that there are advantages and disadvantages to children using the Internet to help with their studies. However, reality shows that the trend is inevitable and increasingly popular.

A new drama-comedy film has been taking young Vietnamese audiences by storm, achieving dramatic commercial success since its premiere on April 28.

A video spreading via Facebook that shows a woman, appearing too hurt to cry, sitting next to a pile of pork covered in black liquid quickly shocked many people over the past few days.

Tourism experts have long identified “zero dollar tours” as a serious threat to a country’s tourism industry, even as a form of fraud that must be stopped to protect Chinese tourists and local companies.

The story of a family that took its two boys out of school to teach them at home in HCM City has been generating public interest after newspapers and social networks reported on it as a successful model.

A new book street opened last weekend in Hà Nội to the warm welcome of many, if not most city residents.

While the case of the Vietnamese-American passenger dragged off a United Airlines flight in the US last month resonated around the world, another incident of physical violence at an airport, this time in Việt Nam, highlighted the sometimes complex relationships between air passengers and crew.

Parents should understand that children need sleep as much as they need food to function and stay healthy.

The debate will never end, but that is the nature of the topic: should we get involved or intervene in a mugging or a theft, especially in giving chase on a vehicle, or in cutting off a thief by knocking him off a vehicle?

Urban specialists have been suggestinf since 2015 that Hà Nội number its streets, rather than name them. Currently, most streets are named after people who contributed to the cause of national development.