LIFESTYLE

It is a tradition among many Vietnamese families to make trôi and chay cakes to celebrate Tet Han Thuc, which falls today on the lunar calendar.

A student-run organisation based in Hanoi, Hanoikids club, has been providing free city tours around the city for foreign visitors.

It's a shame to watch the most beautiful flower specimens wilt and fade. But for one man this is not a problem. He became a flower embalmer and nurtures the secret of keeping petals fresh for years.

Vietnamese Nguyen Viet Trung is among three junior competitors to win a place at the Piano Academy Eppan, in South Tirol, Italy, known traditionally as the home of famous master classes since the 1950s.

With both beaches and mountains, the country’s biggest Buddha statue and the Phat Diem Cathedral -- immortalized by Graham Green in The Quiet American -- Ninh Binh Province has become a staple on the Vietnam tourist trail.

Cheo (Vietnamese opera) theatre is facing mounting difficulties due to financial deficit and unsettled debts, one official said.

The home of Vietnamese water puppetry, Kim Megson makes the short trip to Chua Thay Pagoda, a 900-year-old shrine to the monk Tu Dao Hanh.

Phung Island is the long strip of green in the Tien River below the arch of Rach Mieu Bridge. Like most of Ben Tre Province, it’s dotted with houses and covered with coconut trees.

Mount Fansipan is only half as tall as Mount Everest. Yet this mountain, perched at the eastern edge of the Himalayan range in Vietnam’s uppermost Lao Cai province, is hardly an easy climb.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and Vietnam Young Talent Support Fund have selected ten most outstanding young people.

It is said that Hoi An’s penchant for street food began centuries ago when hawkers and cart-pushers started selling food to the thousands of small traders and waterside merchants who needed light meals.

During spring the flowers and plants of Sapa glisten with dew in the early morning light.

There are a lot of things that can give a city an undeniable character. Cities can take on an energy so idiosyncratic that it is beyond recognition.

Vinamilk's CEO, Mai Kieu Lien, and Pham Thi Viet Nga, Chairman of DHG Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Co, Ltd have been placed 27th and 31st in the Forbes Asia’s 2013 list of 50 Businesswomen In The Mix.

CEO and vice chairwoman of Vingroup, Le Thi Thu Thuy, who has been named to the Young Global Leaders Class of 2013 by the World Economic Forum.

Can Tho is the largest city in the Mekong Delta, and as such has long been known as Tay Do, which means Capital of the West.

The number of Vietnamese billionaires has been increasing rapidly, especially those who have been recognised not only in Vietnam, but also in the world.

At the International Dog Show held in late December in HCMC, Nguyen Minh Khang’s dog named Mickey won two prizes: the first prize for “Phu Quoc Female Dogs” and the second prize for “Phu Quoc Dogs”.

Stories about a violent past serve as a major source of entertainment on a small island off the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang.