LIFESTYLE

People in Hanoi have already gone shopping for all kinds of votive offerings including paper Ipads or luxury cars in preparation for the oncoming Vu Lan Festival.

Silkie chickens are becoming a favourite pet for many Vietnamese wealthy families, with a six-month waiting list for the birds.

Nguyen Thanh Duy raked a bronze medal in the IT software solutions for business at the 43rd WorldSkills Competition – the first medal of the Vietnamese team after five times participating in the event.

The World's Largest DJ Directory & Dance Music Resource Thedjlist has named Wang Tran among top 50 best disc jockeys (DJs) across the globe.

Vietnamese student Nguyen Thi Hien Gia has surpassed hundreds of thousands of competitors around the world to win the bronze medal for Microsoft PowerPoint® 2010 category under the MOSWC 2015 contest in the US.

While very popular in HCM City, charitable meal offers for low-income people have only recently started in Hanoi, and they have received great support from the public.

The public has voiced concerns over traffic safety after Hoan Kiem district authorities in Hanoi began to seek approval for a plan to pave 11 streets in the Old Quarter with flagstones.

Vietnam won team and individual prizes at the first International High School Students' Photo Festival Exchange in Higashikawa, Japan, that ran from August 4-10.

A video clip featuring a young man playing violin in Son Doong Cave has garnered major attention on the Internet.

Vu Anh Thai, an eighth grader from the Archimedes Academy Secondary School, Hanoi has won the Grand Champion award at the International Mathematics Contest (IMC) in Singapore with a score of 92/100.

A Vietnamese delegation comprising 14 contestants will take part in the 43rd WorldSkils Competition in Sao Paulo, Bazril on August 5-17.

All four Vietnamese students won medals, including one gold and three silvers, at the freshly-ended International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) 2015 in Kazakhstan.

All the four Vietnamese students participating in the 47th International Chemistry Olympiad won prizes.

Young Vietnamese pianist Luu Hong Quang recently took second place at the 3rd Annual International Piano Competition, Euregio Piano Award 2015.

A skeleton of a whale measuring 22m in length and weighing 65 tonnes, considered to be the largest in Southeast Asia, has gone on display at a temple in Phan Thiet City.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung received Vietnamese American astronomer Luu Le Hang from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has been recognized as one of the world’s most famous astronomers.

An elderly man in the southern province of An Giang has built a nine-storey bamboo house, which he uses as an escape from daily life and a place from which to watch the world around him.

A July 21 press conference in Hanoi announced that the Vietnamese Student Association in the UK (SVUK), the Vietnamese Student Association in the US, and VEOXBRIDGE charitable organisation will launch a series of events themed “Connecting Viet Youth 2015”.

Located on Nguyen Dinh Chieu walking street, along Huong River, Hue night street consists of a wide range of stalls displaying traditional handicrafts, consumer goods, and cuisine.