International media outlets have highlighted Vietnam’s thriving economy which is among the fastest-growing in Southeast Asia in 2019 amid the global economic slowdown.

In 2010, singer Thanh Bui returned to Vietnamafter living and growing up in Australia. He quickly became a famous singer in Vietnam with many hits.

In a small 20-square-metre workshop, more than 10 disabled people of different ages painstakingly focus on their work – collaging scraps of silk cloth to create paintings and postcards.

Veteran actress Ngo Thanh Van made her big comeback last year with a huge hit seen in the country and abroad, while My Tam caught the attention of fans in her new role as actress.

Hanoi does much better than HCMC on crime and safety perceptions, but corruption and bribery are seen as major problems in both cities.

Tonnes of plastic waste, particularly discarded plastic bags threaten our planet with environmental pollution, and by now almost everybody knows it.

Have you ever been to a traditional Vietnamese wedding and happened to see a couple of small cakes wrapped in an attractive layer of green leaves?

Po Ma Lung in Lai Chau province is among Vietnam’s top 10 tallest mountains, attracting scores of climbers with its challenging route.

When his parents gave him a book that taught him how to fold paper into dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures at the age of seven, Nguyen Hung Cuong found his passion – origami.

The San Diu ethnic minority group, who live in northern mountainous areas with a population of nearly 147,000, celebrate quite a lot of festivals the most important of which is Tet, the lunar New Year festival.

Phuc Sen village in the northern province of Cao Bang is not a place first-time visitors might want to stay long, as the noise may come as a shock.

In Vietnam, management agencies are busy studying pollution caused by ocean plastic waste, but another type of pollution, river plastic waste, has occurred.

Every Saturday, Anna goes to the ice rink early, 15 minutes or so before her lesson with her skating teacher. She gets warmed up by skating around and around the rink and then does some easy spins before the hard work

The beautiful melody of traditional instruments and the charming lyrics of chau van (trance ritual singing) have enchanted Ta Thi Bich Loc since she was a small child.

It's a bright sunny day in Ho Village in the northern province of Bac Ninh, and locals awake to the sound of machines printing votive money for the dead as they set about their daily routines.

The ginger ‘jam’ made in Kim Long Ward, Hue City, in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, stands out for its authenticity and absence of additives. 

The Ministry of Finance has revealed that twelve out of 136 wholly state-owned enterprises had posted losses of $31 million in the first half of last year, and six others faced warnings regarding financial security.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has completed a dossier for the ratification of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) since early January, and will submit it to the Prime Minister for decision.

Vietnamese families often visit their ancestors’ tombs and clean gravesites whenever the Lunar New Year (Tet) comes, normally from the 23rd of the last month of the lunar year to New Year’s Eve.

Start-up activities are growing fast despite the slowdown of the global economy. The gap between Vietnam and the two regional leading countries, Indonesia and Singapore, has narrowed.