If age and experience is anything to go by, these 'pupils' in Hanoi really are top of the class. Once a week the elderly learners meet up to have English lessons. The silver-haired 'students' are living proof that it is never too old to learn.

By raising eels in mud-free tanks and exposing them to music every day, a farmer in Nghe An Province earn tens of thousands of USD a year.

Today, Gia Dinh People's Hospital announced that surgeons just successfully performed an operation to remove a tumor weighing about 22kg for an 18-year-old female patient.

Many people in the northern central province of Ha Tinh’s Duc Tho District are flocking to hunt sandworms.

The 90-year-old guava tree in Thanh Hoa attracts travelers from everywhere as it has a strange energy: if someone scratches the root or the trunk, the foliage will vibrate as if it is laughing.

A number of young people have spent tens of millions of dong to buy or raise imported insects who have become their pets.

Lightning struck a Vietnam Airlines plane parked at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on the evening of October 10, blasting a hole in its fuselage.

Associate Prof Dr Phan Thanh Thao, head of the Institute of Textiles and Garments, Footwear and Fashion has affirmed that the doctoral dissertation about women’s bras is a research work with scientific and practical value.

Hien Vy, a 36-year-old, is well known in local backpacking groups after recently finishing a 700km tour with her 68-year-old mother.

Dogs as pets, sure. Cats, absolutely. Birds and rabbits, of course. But crabs? Really? It turns out that one man in Hanoi is so crazy for crabs he has dozens upon dozens of them as pets.

Red-whiskered bulbs (Pycnonotus jocosus) with original colors are priced at VND500 million and tiny chickens with original colors sell for thousands of USD.

The travel site Culture Trip has listed a number of Vietnamese customs that often surprise foreign tourists:

While regular bananas need time to become ripe, a particular type in Vietnam requires boiling or grilling to reach its maximum taste. In Vietnam, there is also a unique citrus fruit, not sour but sweet.

The hobby of wearing gold all over the body has attracted the attention of the public, even foreign news sites.

A total of 1,700 cars will be used to make up a map of Vietnam at Doi Rong international tourist area in Do Son district of Hai Phong city on July 9.

Rice crickets look unappetizing but in Long Khanh, Dong Nai they are raw ingredients used for famous dishes that attract tourists from all over the world.

Mr. Chau Soc Thon, 31, is a monk at Ta Pa pagoda in Tri Ton District in the southern province of An Giang, who stands at only 1m45 tall and weighs 28kg.

An old farmer in Gia Lai Province turns bamboo into a micro communal house while a teacher in Quang Nam Province creates unique works of art from discarded leaves.

A woman has been rescued after falling off a cliff and spending a week in the wilderness.

When the pair decided to get together, the girl's family was vehemently opposed for fear that the man of short stature would be unable to offer happiness to their daughter.