Tuesday , November 5 2024

Life & Love

Newlyweds bemoan pressure to have children

Newlyweds bemoan pressure to have children

Hong Hoa says that she and her husband were “terrorized” by their parents into having children before they were ready. When she got married 4 years ago, the now 30-year-old Hanoian in Cau Giay District was in an “unstable” financial situation, and both she and her husband had just changed …

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Netflix love story shot in Vietnam to stream from April

In the Netflix-distributed movie “A Tourist’s Guide To Love,” an American woman falls in love with a Vietnamese man while visiting his country as a tourist. Its trailer, appearing on Tuesday evening, showed snippets of its plot. After breaking up with her boyfriend, Amanda (played by Rachael Leigh Cook), a …

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Office workers ‘stuck’ in 9-to-5 doldrums

Every morning before work, Chu Hang considers not showing up. “Shall I take leave today?” she muses before tiredly stepping into her bathroom to get ready. The first step towards getting out the door and into her work world is smiling in the mirror and whispering words of encouragement to …

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French food festival to hit Hanoi

French food festival to hit Hanoi

The largest French gastronomic festival in Vietnam, “Balade en France”, will take place in Hanoi from April 14-16, the French Embassy in Vietnam announced Tuesday. The festival, succeeding its previous two editions in 2018 and 2020, will take place at the Ly Thai To Square and the pedestrian zone around …

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Game of Thrones star rides motorbike in Vietnam

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, star of the world-renowned TV series “Game of Thrones,” was seen riding an electric motorbike through Ho Chi Minh City last weekend. A photo of Coster-Waldau in HCMC that went viral on social networks in Vietnam shows the Danish actor was wearing a green T-shirt, shorts and helmet …

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