LIFESTYLE

Artists from South Korea have given a village in central Quang Nam Province a new look with colourful murals.

Đào Xuân Hoàng, a Vietnamese entrepreneur, won first prize for an education application at the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech-I competition held in Silicon Valley.

American photographer David Alan Harvey captured images of a changing Vietnam during his visits to the country from 1989 and 2004.

Quang Binh People’s Committee has announced that up to 57 new caves had been found in the locality over the past month.

Nha Trang City has received a surge in both domestic and international tourists for islands tours during the summer holiday.

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on June 13 to honour ten outstanding farmers and four model agricultural co-operatives for their significant achievements in 2015.

Hoang Su Phi's terraced rice fields in Ha Giang are regarded as the most beautiful in the area thanks to the special terrain and fertile soil.

Dan Tri Newspaper announced the launch of the Vietnamese Talent Awards at Ho Chi Minh University of Science on June 10.

As the lotus flower season arrives, many young women in Hanoi are flocking to capture the best moments with the blossoms in lotus ponds near West Lake.

Three Vietnamese students from HCM City University of Technology won the first prize at the nation-wide Smart Water Innovation Contest, organised by the Swedish Embassy in Hà Nội.

Thousands of visitors rushed to attend a festival for monkeys held on an island off Nha Trang City in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

Seven professors who have won Nobel and Field awards will join over 240 foreign and domestic scientists in the 12th “Meet Vietnam”, scheduled to take place from June 26-December 17.

If a city’s fortunes can be judged by the number of cranes dotting its landscape, Ho Chi Minh City has high hopes.

A 150 metre-high pagoda tower which is expected to be one of the world's tallest of its kind, will be built at the Nui Coc Lake tourism site in Thai Nguyen Province according to the investor.

A line-up of voluntary activities including Green Summer and Red Flamboyant campaigns will be included in the 2016 Summer Youth Volunteer Campaign, which was launched in the central province of Nghe An.

Phan Thi Hanh, President of Vietnam’s Midwives Association, has become the first Vietnamese national to win the “Midwives4all Award”, a global initiative by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs to raise awareness about the benefits of midwives and midwifery.

Since 2014, foreign visitors to the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, the Ho Chi Minh Museum and the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi have received free tours from a group of Vietnamese youngsters.

Ambassadors from seven countries concluded their exploration of the world’s largest cave at Son Doong in Quang Binh Province.

The first Vietnamese spacecraft made by a group of Vietnamese engineers was successfully launched into the space from the town of Alice Springs in Australia.