LIFESTYLE

Many bird lovers in the foggy town of Sapa spend tens of millions of VND on luxury bird cages.

At the end of November, Nguyen Viet Hai and his friends drove 200km from Hanoi to Moc Chau District in the northern province of Son La to hike through the white blumea flower fields.

Quyen Do, a final year student from Ho Chi Minh City University of Architecture, Vietnam just won a design competition co-organised by Autodesk in cooperation with ASEANPrenuers - an ASEAN based student body.

A HCM City high-school student has won a quiz and essay contest about Canada organised by that country's embassy in Hanoi.

More than 1,500 archaeological objects have been discovered and excavated My Son Sanctuary during a 10-year restoration project.

Hanoi authorities has announced that they will spend VND18.5 billion to upgrade the One-Pillar Pagoda.

A motorbike repairman based in Hanoi has fascinated many people by building a small helicopter on his own.

Six 10th graders of Hanoi-based gifted schools recently won a gold and five silver medals at the 10th International Junior Science Olympiad held in India.

Thousands of people flocked to a field in Hanoi to see and pay their respects to a recently discovered tomb which may be from the Le Dynasty.

Tracey Tran, a Vietnamese-American student of Kentridge School in Washington DC, US, has achieved the highest result possible on the AP Calculus AB exam.

Vietnam’s national currency, Vietnamese dong, features special cultural destinations in the country, including Hoi An bridge pagoda, the Constellation of Literature pavilion in Hanoi, Ha Long Bay and the cottage of President Ho Chi Minh in central Nghe An province.

During his trans-Viet tour in 1992, talented French journalist and director Raymond Depardon captured the essence of Vietnamese people and their environment in a series of evocative images.

Many farmers in An Giang province have found a new way to make income by catching hylidae, of the frog family, and making dry products for sales.

Kieu Ky Village in Hanoi is well-known for its gold-leaf making and it is also the only village in Vietnam adept at this craft.

Several old pieces of pottery dated to around seven centuries ago were recently found in the central province of Ha Tinh.

A group of three students from HCM City have created a model of an intelligent anti-flood house design for An Giang Province.

Tran Thi Quynh, who represents Vietnam in Mrs World 2013, faced public criticism because she wore a ribbon misspelling the name of her country as "VietNem" in the final round.

A G10 team from the Nguyen Binh Khiem primary school in Ho Chi Minh City won the championship title at the 2013 International Robothon Competition in Manila, the Philippines on November 24.

A display of wooden funerary sculptures made by local people from the Central Highlands was opened during the on-going Vietnam Cultural Heritage Week.