LIFESTYLE

Hundreds of farmers in HCM City's District 12 are busy at their flower farms preparing for the lunar new year.

The Kho Mu practice many rituals and ceremonies each year: worship of the hamlet’s genie and ancestors and festivals to welcome new crops and the Rice Mother.

A make-shift market along Highway 4D, from O Quy Ho Mountain Pass to Mong Sen Bridge, can be seen bustling with activities in Sapa, Lao Cai Province.

The Temple of Literature in Hanoi has recently looked brighter with new white walls, which was done in an attempt to clean and preserve the centuries-old relic.

Hanoi's Old Quarter management board has just opened Dong Lac Communal House to tourists after restoration.

Hanoi’s streets are becoming increasingly colourful as traders start transporting and displaying peach flower trees for sale in the run-up to the lunar new year.

Ho Chi Minh City’s communist youth union held a ceremony to honour the city’s 10 outstanding young citizens of 2016 in recognition of their significant contributions to local development over the past year.

Ten outstanding young individuals were given the Vietnam Golden Globe Award by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee in Hanoi.

Secondary School pupil To Huynh Phuc was selected among Ho Chi Minh City’s Top 10 outstanding citizens.

A photo of a young Vietnamese woman posing for photos in a peach garden has just been selected by Reuters to its One Photo, One Country, One Year column.

People in a village in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa have contributed money to build a temple to worship a whale skeleton.

Dr Ta Thi Tuyet Mai from Gia Dinh People's Hospital in HCM City has created a cheap formula milk for poor patients.

Circus artist Giang Quoc Co talked with Dan Tri/DTiNews about his and his brother's Guinness performance when they climbed the stairs of the Cathedral of Girona in Spain with one sibling balanced atop the other using head-to-head contact.

Prof. Dr. Pham Van Thuc, Rector of the Hai Phong University of Medicine and Pharmacy, has become the first Vietnamese people to receive the “academician” title at the French National Academy of Medicine.

Twenty-eight-year-old backpacker Hoàng Lê Giang will be the first Vietnamese to join a 300km winter adventure to the Artic circle next April hosted by the Fjällräven Polar website.

A technique for freezing to preserve red blood cells and a milk with high protein which is the first product made by a Vietnamese nutritionist are the two outstanding scientific research works awarded the KOVA Prize.

VietnVietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia won a prize at the Prince Claus Awards Ceremony held on December 15 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

Hanoi has officially named Street 19 Thang 12 (December 19) to celebrate the 70th anniversary of National Resistance Day.

Christmas is two weeks away, and Hanoi's streets are beginning to display some festive cheer.