LIFESTYLE

Nguyen Quynh Tram, former head of Google operations in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, has been appointed as managing director of Microsoft Vietnam.

Thu Sy Commune in the northern province of Hung Yen has been famous for fish trap weaving over the past two centuries.

The United Nations on May 26 awarded its medal to three officers of the Vietnam People’s Army who are working at this organization’s headquarters in New York, USA, on Peacekeeper’s Day (May 29).

Nguyễn Thị Thanh Nhã, also known as Céline Nha Nguyen, has become the first Vietnamese woman to conquer the summit of Mount Everest, according to Nepal-based mountaineering company Seven Summit Treks.

Two Vietnamese university professors were honoured with the Kovalevskaya Award 2021 for their outstanding achievements in applied sciences at a May 16 ceremony with Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan in attendance.

Thai Huong, chairwoman of TH Group, is the first and only Vietnamese representative to be listed among the top 10 of Asia’s Top Sustainability Superwomen.

Phung Hieu Anh, the Vietnamese representative at Little Miss United Nations, was announced as the winner of the 2022 version of the pageant on May 8 during the grand finale held in India.

From her youth spent scraping a living on the streets, Nguyen Thi Thu Nhi has battled poverty and sexist prejudice to become Vietnam's first boxing world champion.

The Consulate General of Vietnam in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, recently held a get-together with representatives of the Vietnam-Germany Innovation Network marking the 47th anniversary of Vietnam’s Southern Liberation and National Reunification Day (April 30).

Vietnam’s first remote sensing satellite is back in operation.

This year’s World Intellectual Property Day is an opportunity for young people to learn how patents can support their goals and turn their ideas into reality, Director General Dinh Huu Phi of the National Office of Intellectual Property of

Local photographer Bach Ngoc Tu claimed a number of prizes at Spring Clicks Circuit 2022, an international photography contest held in Montenegro.

Dozens of outstanding inventions in IT, sciences and technologies, medicine and environment were honoured at the Vietnamese Talent Awards 2022 that was held on April 15 in Hanoi.

British news outlet The Guardian has published an article on 14-year-old Vietnamese art prodigy Xeo Chu following comparisons with Jackson Pollock, an influential American painter.

A police officer in the southern province of Dong Nai has just been given a promotion after successfully saving four people from drowning at a beach.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has praised the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital for their successful liver transplantation operation on a nine-month-old child, who is discharged from the facility on April 11.

A farmer in the southern province of Tra Vinh has earned good money after his grape farm became a popular tourist attraction.

A woman in HCM City has organised a market for people to exchange young plants as well as offer plants free of charge.

The 2021 Kovalevskaya Award will be given to two Vietnamese university professors in recognition of their outstanding research achievements and great contribution to the national development, the award committee has announced.