LIFESTYLE

Located 30 km east of Hanoi, Nom Pagoda in Hung Yen Province has the largest collection of terracotta statues in Vietnam.

An International Union for Conservation of Nature art project has transformed a small village in An Binh Commune, Ly Son Island District with murals to raise awareness about environment protection.

Railway arches in Hanoi running up to Long Bien Bridge that were sealed with concrete for more than a decade will be re-opened.

Vietnamese violinist Tran Le Quang Tien has been awarded Diploma Special Prize for Best Interpretation of a Contemporary Work at the X International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musician in Astana, Kazakhstan.

Hanoi has a very special market which opens only once a week and specialises in selling different kinds of gemstones.

Many Vietnamese people have paid billions of VND to build and buy traditional houses.

Local authorities in Hoi An, Quang Nam Province, have encouraged both local authorities and the private sector to contribute to protect and promote the town during the international conference on Urban Heritage Conservation and Development.

Designer Minh Hanh said she wanted to make daily clothes from silk as many local designers were ignoring the material. She made the comments at the 2017 Vietnam - Asia Silk and Brocade Culture Festival.

Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia has bagged the Arcasia Awards for Architecture 2017 of the Architects Regional Council Asia.

HCM City’s most popular backpacker road of Bui Vien would be turned into a pedestrian street next month.

A trio of Vietnamese sisters recently made headlines after taking the top three spots out of 148 students at their high school graduation in Northern Texas.

14 startups has just been selected from the northern region to the semi-final of the 2017 Ambassador’s Entrepreneurship Challenge which was organised by the U.S. Embassy Hanoi.

Artist Nguyễn Thu Thủy and her partners from New Hanoi Arts Group won a bronze at the 10th International Design Awards in Los Angeles for a mural of Vietnamese trees and flowers at Đà Nẵng International Airport. Thủy also

The Vietnamese Talent Awards 2017 will support tech start-up projects.

The Vietnamese delegation finished third at the Intel International Science and Technology Fair in Los Angeles, the United States.

The three best teams won sponsor packages from Facebook (FbStart) worth 80,000 USD each at the TOPICA AI Edtech Asia Hackathon 2017, the largest artificial intelligence contest in Southeast Asia.

A 11th grader has won third prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2017 held in the US with the robotic arm for the disabled.

Two scientists were presented with the 2017 Ta Quang Buu Awards at a ceremony held in Hanoi on May 18 by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).

Several families in a lane in Hanoi have hired artists to decorate their old walls with a mural.