LIFESTYLE

The 19th ASEAN Youth Day opened in Hanoi on November 12 with the participation of leaders from ASEAN organisations and outstanding youth from ASEAN countries.

A man in central Quang Nam Province has spent the last 20 years collecting and preserving old houses from across the country, gathering them on his land.

Vietnamese Talents Awards 2013 will add environmental protection and applications of mobile devices into the existing categories, according to the organising board.

A group of 20 young people trekked three days and two nights into the lush forest home of some fabulous wildlife in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

For many years, people in many suburban areas in Hanoi have hunted rats at harvest time for sales and special dishes.

A woman in Dak Lak Province has spent many years collecting antiquities in the region and she wishes to open a private museum to exhibit nearly 3,000 items.

When Huynh Thanh Thao was a child, she had to stay at home while other kids in her village went to school every day.

Thirteen student teams of different grades will represent Vietnam at the International Robothon Competition to be held in the Philippines on November 23.

A cable car system, set to be the longest and highest in the world, is planned to be built in Sapa Town to transport people to the Fansipan Mountain.

HCM City has around 2 million residents who are residing overseas or developing cooperative ties with their compatriots in the city.

Vung Tau municipal government has decided to name one of its most beautiful roads after late General Vo Nguyen Giap.

The Moc Chau prairie in the late fall days are immersed in a fairy space with immense white mustard flowers in floating morning mist.

20-year-old Vu Thanh Long has been announced as the Vietnamese winner of a contest recruiting people for a trip to space.

Immersed in the quiet spaces are the remaining vestiges of French in Ba Vi, such as the colonel mansion, the collapsed church and the political prison.

Lying at the bottom of towelling Tay Con Linh mountains, Hoang Su Phi is famous not only for its most beautiful terraced fields but also its traditional market where people from the ethnic minority groups of Tay, Nung, Dao

Fifteen young and promising Vietnamese high-school students from different parts of Vietnam have won their entrance tickets for premium education in Singapore.

France’s Ecole normale superieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan), a prestigious public institution of higher education and research, presented Vietnamese professor Nguyen Van Hieu with an honorary doctorate degree at a ceremony on October 18.

During wartime a field hospital was built and put into use inside a mountain in Cat Ba National Park.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has become the first Vietnamese to receive the title of Visiting Professor of Epidemiology conferred by England’s Oxford University.