Việt Nam News

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.

Filling Thành Công Lake's proposal: city must say no

The author has seen more and more young Vietnamese filmmakers, in particular those who are independent, telling stories filled with violence and prostitution.

“Man bites dog,” is an old journalistic aphorism that remarks on how the unusual is more newsworthy (than a dog biting a man).

Many independent cafes and shops in old, atmospheric apartment buildings in downtown Hồ Chí Minh City are now being asked by the municipal authorities to find new locations.

Ceiling prices on dairy products for children under six will be removed on April 1. With just three days left until that date, enterprises making and selling the formula products are happy, but mothers with under-six children are anxious.

The film Kong: Skull Island, shot in Quảng Bình, Ninh Bình, and Quảng Ninh Provinces last year, has been drawing a lot of attention from Vietnamese authorities, media outlets, and citizens.

From the happiest to among the unhappiest? It is a sobering thought that Vietnam has been ranked 94^th of 155 countries in the UN’s World Happiness Report 2017.

Over the past fortnight district authorities have worked hard to free up pavements to return them to whom they belong – pedestrians — as well as improve the city’s beauty.

If a travel agent offered you a tour where you would pay him for picking up trash, you’d be excused for thinking he’d lost his marbles. In fact, the mastermind behind such an offer was told by many that his idea was crazy.

As modern society tends to recognize intellectual values, money making abilities, sports and artistic aptitudes for personal development rather than housework or cooking skills, it has almost become an emerging trend that young women do not know how to use a kitchen properly.

Awareness of gender inequality has been around for some time, but the problem itself has been around for so long that the subtle ways in which it persists is not often recognised.

A Walk of Fame, Hollywood-style, along the Hoàn Kiếm (Returned Sword) Lake in Hà Nội.

No, I am not imagining things. Someone else has, and it is one of the proposals that the city is apparently considering as part of improving the environment and scenery around the historic, iconic lake, also known as the Lake of the Returned Sword.

The news that HCM City intends to build housing estates for low-income workers means my commute to office is set to get longer and more difficult.