LIFESTYLE

The Hans Christian Andersen Award Committee has announced three winners of this year’s global Hans Christian Andersen Award, including Vietnam’s renowned children’s book translator Tran Thi Minh Tam.

A doctor in Dak Lak Province is fighting a desperate battle to not only keep overworked elephants alive, but to provide the right conditions for them to mate so that they do not die out.

Thousands of pilgrims and tourists are flocking to visit Huong (Perfume) Pagoda after the Lunar New Year or Tet Holiday, wishing for peace, good weather, happiness and prosperity.

A rising number of pet dogs dressed in colourful costumes are being walked in the pedestrian streets around the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi in the first days of the Year of the dog.

Many telephone booths in Hanoi have been decorated with colourful paintings carried out by young volunteers.

Watermelon carving service attracts many customers in the run-up to the lunar new year.

Nguyen Hue Flower Street will be officially opened at 7 pm today, February 13, to welcome the Lunar New Year.

Hang Luoc Street in the Old Quarter of Hanoi is famous for its Tet market with various types of peach branches and trees, kumquat trees and other flowers from Hanoi’s famous flower villages.

Many ceramic workshops in the southern province of Binh Duong have focused on producing dog-shaped savings containers to welcome the Lunar Year of the Dog.

Many people have flocked to Hanoi's Hang Ma Street to buy offerings for the coming Kitchen Gods' Day.

For the past 30 years, a Pho vendor in Hanoi has been serving customers between 3-6 am.

Sa Dec Flower Village in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap is attracting thousands of visitors as the Lunar New Year approaches.

Authorities of Danang City have approved a USD2 million project to develop tourism services at local beaches during the 2018-2020 period.

Forbes Vietnam magazine announced the “30 Under 30” list earlier this week, featuring some of the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers in the country.

An automatic guiding system will be launched for visitors of the Thang Long Imperial Citadel site.

Young artist Nguyen Xuan Lam has started a project reinterpreting Dong Ho and Hang Trong folk prints using modern techniques.

Hanoi has piloted tours to bring visitors to its museums and theatres as a way to diversify the capital’s tourism products.

HCM City's District 1 authorities have proposed to expand the pedestrian zone on Bui Vien Street in order to increase revenue from tourism activities.

The northern province of Lao Cai is proving popular with visitors as its Japanese cherry blossoms at Sapa near Mount Fansipan are blooming.