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Hanoi is host to a most unusual market in Vietnam: open only once a week, on Saturday, and then for only a few hours, 9:00 to 12:30. It’s known as much for its discriminating buyers and sellers as it is for its fresh products. Fresh and unique impression The Tay Ho Weekend market, located at [...]
Vietnamese families offered feasts, burnt votive paper and released carps to see the Kitchen God off to the heaven in the morning of January 23. Purchasing votive products for the Kitchen God. Votive products are indispensable. People also purchase chicken for the feast. This family, in Long Bien district, Hanoi, is preparing the feast for [...]
The days near the lunar New Year (Tet holiday), the drum-making village of Doi Tam in the northern province of Ha Nam is very busy making drums of all kinds for spring festivals throughout the country. Doi Tam village is very famous for its drum-making techniques. The village is located at the foot of Doi [...]
Brocade weaving retains the traditional characteristics of the Co Tu ethnic group of Quang Nam Province. Long ago, local people wove brocade products to serve their own family’s needs. With the development of a market economy, the Co Tu began to buy clothes from elsewhere and their brocade weaving almost faded out. A few years [...]
Sao Beach draws visitors seeking a place to reflect on the beauty of Phu Quoc. The beach, on the opposite coast from the rapidly developing Long Beach, is prized for its relative inaccessibility. IT was my first time operating a motorcycle, but I handled the Honda with the confidence of a veteran, zipping alongside my [...]
US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear has presented a grant for US$30,000 to officials of the Thai Binh Province Museum to restore and preserve a valuable collection of wooden devotional objects. This grant was provided through the US Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation. This restoration project will allow Nam Dinh Provincial Museum to preserve 29 [...]
A 27-year-old man survived after falling twice from the Yen Tu Mountain during his visit to the Yen Tu relic site in Quang Ninh Province on December 13. The lucky man is Nguyen Tai Quyen from Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi. He was hospitalized at Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi in the morning of the [...]
A Mercedes E300 sedan suddenly started burning and was then completely destroyed Sunday afternoon when it was carrying four people on Nguyen Xien Street in Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi. Ngo Van Nam, one of the four, told local newswire VnExpressthat they had noticed a burning smell shortly before seeing smoke rise from the front. They immediately [...]
It was cold during the days of the 11th month of winter on the lunar calendar. Rows of graves in the cemetery on the campus of Hanoi’s Cau Nga firing range would have looked more solitary were it not for the burning incense and flowers. In the far corner sits a covered altar featuring not [...]
Scientists have proposed the construction of a sluice to regulate tidal flow in and out of the Soai Rap estuary in HCM City, in an effort to reduce salination and flooding in the city as well as Dong Nai and Long An provinces. Tidal flooding on Phan Dinh Phung Street in HCM City. A [...]