In depth

Young people who change Vietnam’s art
26/02/2013 10:38
Trang Trinh - who sows the seeds of love for classical music Trinh Mai Trang (stage name Trang Trinh) returned to the country after years of hard training time at the British Royal Academy of Music (outstanding graduation with a master's degree). She wrote the story of her life as a...
A Vietnamese village without using money
25/02/2013 11:07
Tongol Yeng, 55, the patriarch of A Tu Village, which is naturally isolated from the outside world due to its surrounding forests and mountains and limited infrastructure, said while in the deltas people can by many things with money, locals “do not know what to do with...
Legging it through Vietnam
20/02/2013 10:41
I didn't mind that I missed queuing to see Ho Chi Minh in his mausoleum though I would have liked to have seen the palace he never lived in and the simple peasant homes he preferred. Instead, I was sitting on the red and yellow vinyl couch, its exploding filling taped roughly...
Top 10 remarkable Vietnam tourism events 2012
08/01/2013 10:35
The participants in the ceremony included Chairman of Vietnam Society of Travel Agencies Vu The Binh; Editorial Director of Tourist Newspaper Nguyen Dai Bang and leaders VNAT’s departments, representatives of tourism businesses and press agencies. The event is annually...
Filipino teacher’s accusations in Vietnam
06/12/2012 10:42
A Tuoi Tre report Friday quoted the embassy as saying that they will officially bring up the case with Vietnam’s Ministry of Labors, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Education to clarify the situation. The embassy was contacted by the newspaper...
Getting married foreign men for filial duty
03/10/2012 11:26
It is a “fashion” for girls in the Mekong Delta to fulfill their filial duty by marrying foreign men to have money to send back home to their parents. However, the irony of fate is pushing many girls into the hell of prostitution or violence of their abusive husbands. To...
A mine collapsed with 16 death people in Vietnam
09/09/2012 09:42
The accident, which happened at around 10.30 a.m. that day and was first reported as a mine collapse, also left two others injured and an unidentified number of people missing. A report on the Voice of Vietnam news website quoted Le Trong Khang, vice chairman of Mu Cang Chai District, as...