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At the counter near the entrance of a shop called "Hồng Ngọc Fine Art" at 110B Ngoc Ha Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi, hangs a lacquer work spanning more than 15 meters in total length, made up of 21 joined panels. It depicts the old quarter as it appeared around 1850 — the so-called "Hanoi 36 Streets." The artist is Nguyen The...

The Nguyen citadel's Tinh Tam Lake becomes a blanket of white lotus. Last year's floods enriched the lake, making it a bumper year. We introduce Hue's lotus season, savoring the palace's royal lotus, with experiences like dawn ao dai photography and lotus-tea making.

Trinh Thi Kim Oanh (33), who earned an MBA in Ho Chi Minh City, took over the only remaining sugarcane-sugar workshop in Thien Do hamlet, Binh Son commune, Quang Ngai province. Refining it through 3–4 hours of filtering into an “amber-colored clear syrup,” she won OCOP three stars.

Dinh Van Kien, a young man from Son Tay Thuong commune in Quang Ngai province, turned the vocal technique he learned at the Hue Conservatory into “a storyteller of cuisine.” At three stilt-house restaurants built from bamboo and natural materials, he's turning gong music and the Co Tu people's mountain table into a tourism resource.

A French couple in their 60s post on social media their daily life spending two months at their son’s wife’s family home in Dong Thap Province, going viral with 300 million views. Watermelon fields, bathing in the Hau River, making banh xeo. The “sense of unity in the village community” that surprised the French, and the potential of a Mekong Delta homestay.

Ho Chi Minh City will launch fireworks simultaneously at eight locations, the most ever, for 15 minutes from 9 p.m. on April 30, celebrating the 51st anniversary of Vietnam's reunification. Divided into three high-altitude and five low-altitude sites, it covers a wide area, including the Saigon River tunnel entrance, the Thu Thiem new urban area, and Can Gio marine city. On Nguyen Hue street, a large-scale art performance is also planned from 7:30 p.m.

On Hung Kings' Commemoration Day today, April 25, visiting the "other Hung Kings' temple" in Saigon. Hung Kings' Commemoration Day, which falls on the 10th day of the 3rd lunar month each year, is a national holiday honoring the 18 generations of the Hung dynasty, the founders of Vietnam. In 2026 it falls on April 25. Many Vietnamese in Phu Tho Province...

Walking the sidewalks of Ho Chi Minh City, you'll see stainless-steel containers and colorful insulated buckets placed by the roadside. Handwritten signs reading "Nước uống miễn phí (free drinking water)" and "Nước mát cho người đi đường (cool water for passersby)." This is Saigo...

Yasushi Ogura is a Japanese national who has worked alongside residents to preserve old earthen-walled houses while improving livelihoods in Lo Lo Chai village in northern Vietnam. Local reporting from March 2026 gave his age as 69. Over roughly 30 years since his first visit to Vietnam, he has built ongoing ties with the community and taught himself Vietnamese...

The Hoi An Lantern Festival in April 2026 is only on April 1. It's not held on April 30 (due to Southern Liberation Day). We give a thorough explanation of the full schedule for the next dates, May 30 and June 29, and a practical guide to avoiding the crowd peaks.